Jan 19, 2015

Well it happened I was split from Elder Woolf.  He got sent down to Bermejo, the southern tip of our mission, on the border of Argentina.  My new comp is Elder Evenson. He is from Idaho. He is 20 years old and is going home this year in November.

This is also the flag of Santa Cruz. They are called Departmentos here.  Each department is like a state. Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Tarija, all the big cities. Each has a Gobierno or Governor.

Elder Woolf did not want to go to Bermejo. The one place he didn’t want to go he told me. I kept saying, yeah if I go to Bermejo I’d be good cause I have friends there, and he would respond with no way.  Haha Karma.  It is the hottest area in our entire mission.  The Branch president in Bermejo is the guy we met in Utah before I left.   Yes he took a plane to Tarija and then a three hour trufi ride. Basically a trufi is a taxi but with a set route like a bus. The road that he took to Bermejo was like riding a roller coaster with a full stomach.   I just don’t like walking around in the humidity.   Yes we are still walk everywhere in our area. We only take the bus to get to our zone meetings and internet. And Hipermaxi which is the super market.   Cafe is the internet.  I still eat shakes in the morning and lunch at the pension.  I have heard from Peruvians that the missionaries in Peru get a pension for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!!!!  Wow I am down here starving and sweating off everything. I am so hungry.  Makes me appreciate my food back home and how easy it is to get a lot of food.  We are eating In-n-Out my first day back.   We have money to buy food but there really is not enough time in the day.   Maybe I am supposed to learn something from this but I will work through it. 

Yes please Come and pick me up. I have already told the members here that I am going to bring you guys to visit them. They would love that. Then after we can go to La Paz and see the old temple that dad wants to see. Then the new temple in Cochabamba to do a day of temple work. I will guide you guys through it ok?

I was sick for three days in a row about 5 weeks ago. I think that it was all the mangos I ate in two days. We don’t have mango's in the States like this so my body was just adjusting.  After every lesson that week we ran back home to poop.  lesson, bathroom, lesson, bathroom.  It was so funny. Both me and Elder Woolf had it. But since then I have been good.

I don’t have to do my own wash either there is a sister here that washes for us. We just never have time in the day to do it. She is awesome though.

This is a forro, or case for my scriptures I will be getting my own soon.

4 am saying good bye

new comp