Hi Everyone!
Greetings from South America!!! Man
this place is cool! It is kinda like the DR but the culture is way different! I
like it and there are TONS of people!! Maybe
it’s cause I am used to tiny rocks in the ocean but I feel overwhelmed when we
go to the town center and I see the entire population of Bonaire walking about!
Pretty weird!
My companion is a big Somoan dude
from Australia and he is way cool! I am a district leader because President
says he needs my help down here but the zone leaders need to know the area to
drive around and stuff so he told me he wasn't able to keep me as a zone
leader, which I had NO problem with! Less responsibility :) haha anyways I got to Guyana and the airline
lost my bag with all my clothes and underwear and I just barely got that today
so that was fun.
On my first day somebody was burning trash on
the other side of the house that we were teaching at and it lit this entire
field on fire and we had to go and dump buckets of water on it to try and
control it. It ended up getting way out of control but we were able to help
enough so that the house didn't burn down and then the fire department came and
did the rest. Pretty great first day! Also funny thing, Elder Atkinson (my
companion from Bonaire) lives in the branch I am serving in! So that was cool
to see him and everything. You can't drink the water but we always have running
water and power so its better than the DR! The accents are hard and they speak
broken english so just when I thought I could get transferred without having to
learn another language/dialect I was wrong! But it’s pretty humble here and the
people are nice.
To end I want to tell a story from
my last Monday in Aruba. We had a family night planned with one of my favorite
Venezuelan families and I was really excited! It was my birthday but they
didn't say anything about it so I assumed they didn't know. They came out with
a big cake and surprised me and sang happy birthday and I was really touched
because they are really poor and to buy a cake must have been tough on them. So
we cut it up and I thought it had sprinkles in the middle of it but AFTER I had
finished my piece I noticed that the inside was MOLDY. I thought meh, what is a little mold gonna
do? So we said goodbye and as we were biking home my stomach exploded and I
puked up all of the cake and dinner right there on the side of the road! Happy
Birthday. The best part was E. Nance didn't want to be sick and so after seeing
me puke he forced himself to puke so we were puking together on the side of the
road! We bonded that night. Anyways, hope you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Harsh
No comments:
Post a Comment