June 13, 2011

Here!

Dogs! I´ve never seen so many dogs in my entire life! they´re everywhere! which means alot of barking and trying to bite you. It also means dog crap everywhere. your just walking through a land mind out here! yup we walk all day. we contact for most of the day and teach about three lessons in the night. When we´re headed to a meeting we take the micros "buses". I think this is where JK Rowling got the idea for the night bus. no joke they drive just like that. slamming on their brakes to let someone pass, then punching it bak to top speed. there´s really no such thing as speed limits its crazy. I´m in the sector farthest north at a place called Centinela. It´s almost an island. so i got ocean on both sides of me. It´s a hill too and they seem to have just cramed as many houses as they can on this thing. every house is gated off and pretty small. because of the gates we stand outside of them and shout "¡ALO!" I really took the MTC for granted. our apartment is tiny and you have to wear your flip flops everywhere you go. It is alot like Mexico with a few differences. when we contact the older ladies always kiss us and my comp says when we get teaching them in their houses is when we explain we can´t do that. haha its great. yeah so the people are so kind. Lunch is the big thing and someone´s always feeding us that. It´s rude to leave anything on your plate. and they feed us alot! I´ve never had to pray for help to finish eating something but i´ve done it three times here! I seriously feel like i can´t eat anymore about half way through the second course. they always have bread with the meal so that you can actually sponge up the remaining juices on your plate. yeah so we sometimes have breakfast and investigators feed us snacks in the night. yeah i´ll fix my diet but i´m still just tryng to figure it all out. man i´m just throwing up on this email. lots of imfo i hope it makes some sens. o yeah with the night snak. they always give us this drink called ecco. looks like, smells like, and tastes like coffee. but its not. it´s really weird and we have it all the time. yeah this week is  just explaining everything so you guys can picture it and next weeek will be more stories. but yeah its awesome. freezing though. they don´t get snow like we thought. but the wind is always blowing and we have mist storms. its like your standing under one of those mists mechanies at a grocery store. We couldn´t get in any houses yesterday because it was the soccer finals. it was awesome. your just walking then all of the sudden the entire town starts screaming and you know someone just scored. Love you all and miss you. this is just a set up for my wonderful stories that will come.
 
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