soooo its almost like living in the jungle here! the
technology is super old. you don't see a single person with an i phone or
ipad. people never wash there hands and are always wiping there face
and cooking at the same time. that's something i had to get used to
watching before i ate. but i'm not gunna lie i LOVE THE FOOD! its just so
yummy. i always eat so much and they laugh at me and can't believe i can
eat that much haha. one lady tried feeding me liver and i couldn't do
it. hahaha she didn't care tho.because i ate two helpings of the other
stuff she fed me. i wanna eat this country! did i mention that our water
shuts off at night so i haven't had a shower in two weeks? lollll we fill
up a garbage bin full of water and i use that everynight. crazyyyyy. we
also don't have a mirror which sucked at first but now i really don't
care. its weird when we are at someone's house teaching and i see myself
in the mirror! HAHA. i also wash my clothes by hand. i can't believe my
life is like this! lol its awesome though because i learn to appreciate
everything i have in canada. we do have a mamasita that washed our
clothes but she takes long to do it and i only have so much clothes...
so i wash it myself.
thanks for the talk you gave me on the spirit!!! its all
marked up and underlined with my thoughts. i read it all the time. i
also print out your emails and use that alot during personal study. its
helped me so much dad! you better never miss a week writing me! mom didn't write me this week and i'm sad!!!! hahah.so my comp is awesome.
super patient and a good teacher and strict with rules and i love that. i don't want to break any of the rules. i feel safer that way and more in
tune with the spirit.she is from Mexico and her name is hna
rodriguez.she got an ear ache on friday and its still hurting her. the doctor prescribed her ibuprofen! i was
like what the heck! you can buy that stuff at the store!!! so he kinda
sucked. apparently the doctors here aren't great. she was in ALOT of
pain. i felt so bad for her. we went to a members home and she was
awesome because her son gets these ear aches and she did this thing
where you roll up newspaper thin enough for it to go in your ear and
then she stuck it in her ear, lit it on fire on the top and let it burn
down.. then all of a sudden this gust of air came out from the top! the
smoke pushed the air out of her ear and hermana rodriguez was like WOW I
CAN HEAR! haha and she is feeling a lot better now but it still hurts a
bit. then all this pus came out! it was crazy. i'm glad she is feeling
better. and i'm glad i haven't gotten sick... yet. no diarhea or anything!
yay.
so the bugs here.... i haven't been bitten once. honestly
there are a million trillion more mosquitoes in bc than there is here!
maybe when i fly to a new area it will be different but there aren't
nearly as many here. lots of people have nets but i don't feel like i
need one. maybe to keep the cochroaches away! lol. so there was this one
family we went to visit and there house was totally a jungle house! i
was teaching the lesson and someone was walking on the top floor and all
of a sudden i felt dirt fall on my head and my body cause of the steps
they were taking. lol and its hard to get off because i'm all sticky and
gross from the humidity. they have dirt floors. its crazy. i wish i
could just buy everyone a new house. but after the lesson we walked to
the back and she had a pet monkey!! i realllly wanted to touch it. so i
let it grab my finger from a distance that it couldn't bite me. when the
lady was carrying it she fed it food from her own mouth! i was like
woahhhh...dangerous... lol when we walked home that night it started
POURING! we booked it home.. like we ran and by the time we got home it
was like we had fully immersed ourselves in a lake. haha it was so fun.
we were laughing about it.
my favorite thing to eat is called chifle. its like
platano (fried plantain slices) chips!! MY FAV! haha thought you might wanna know :) so the
biggest grocery store in all of iquitos is smaller than overwaitea!!!!
crazy ehhh. i thought that was insane considering we live in a small
town with a bigger grocery store than this so called city. i really am
developing a love for the people here
ill explain the members a little bit and the ward. soooo
its really sad because seriously mom and dad there are sooooo many
members here but the seats at church are never filled. there are tons
and tons and tons and TONS of inactive members here. we are really
focusing on bringing them back. we are focusing on investigators too but
we really are focusing on trying to bring people back to church. and
nobody likes to have a calling either. like there isn't a young women's
president! it makes me realize how lucky i was to have all the women in
our ward as an example to me. our ward is AWESOME! i love them so much
more because of my experience here. so i really want the members here to
have that. i really want to help them develop a testimony of going to
church and renewing covenants with the lord. its SO important to do
that. when we are baptized we promise to strive to keep the commandments
of the lord and that's something we are trying to help the members
realize. they are amazing people but they have crazy trials and i know
they need the lord but they are slow to heed the word of god and to be
obedient. it makes me want to cry and when i'm teaching and bearing my
testimony i can feel the spirit so strong and i know they can too and i
can feel a small portion of love that the lord has for these people. and
i tell them that. and i tell them that heavenly father loves them so
much and wants them to return to him and is so sad when we aren't
obedient.but my love and testimony for the book of mormon has increased
so much. seriously i cant believe how much more i love it.thank you for
doing scripture study as a family.i was reading about captain moroni
this week. i want to try and be as courageous and faithful as him. its
amazing how much faith he had and how loyal he was to the lord. but
because of that the lord preserved him and his people as long as they
were righteous and moroni had great trust in the lord. i want to become
like that.
story: so we were walking around finding less actives
and on the way we contacted this lady and her husband came out and was
like come in! so we were like OK! and we couldn't tell at first but he
was SUPER drunk (almost every man is drunk in iquitos on a sunday)
and we were like ohhh man.... and he looked at me like i was completely
foreign and was like "wow god sent me an angel i cant believe it!!!"
and he started crying... and i was like ummm actually i'm a missionary
for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. and he was like
"NOO!! you're an angel! i'm so happy!" and i was like uh huh... then his
teeth fell out and landed on his dirt floor and he grabbed it and was
pointing at me with it saying "how can i make my eyes look like yours?"
.. hahah then he stuck his teeth back into his mouth! and they fell out
like ten times!. then he reached over and grabbed my hand with the same
hand he used to wipe his snot and tears and was pouring his heart out to
me and i was like CAN I PLEASE HAVE MY HAND BACK! and he was like NO
and i pulled away and he wouldn't let go and i was getting mad and i
pulled away hard and then he tried kissing me!!!!! i was like ya ok
goodbye! and my comp and i left but he really didn't want us to leave and
was standing in the way not letting us pass but we just scooted by. but
i scrubbed my hands 4 times that day. hahah anyways!!! hows work
dad? :) i hope all is well for you guys. is ten liking work? whats it
like for him getting up early everyday haha. i'm glad that vix is in
young women's. i remember going into young women's. it feels like
yesterday. hows my car? i hope that my subs are still in there when i
get home. heheh i'm nervous for when tennyson drives that car in the
winter because its so small and it slides EVERYWHERE and its dangerous
going as fast as the other cars can go in the winter.but i just hope hes
smart with it. is brendan getting excited to move away? i still find it
pretty cool that me and lanny are on missions :) it'll be awesome when
the whole family reunites for christmas and me and lana can share all our
stories! what else is new with you guys? i would love if you sent me
pictures through email. please? haha well this email is crazy longgg. i
better go! i love you TONS! i pray for you always and hope you all
strive to endure to the end. the lord is waiting with open arms. LOVE
YOU ALL!!! XOXOXOXO
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