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Another great way of contacting Quinn is through Dearelder.com Where it says Select a Mission click the drop box and highlight the Colombia Barranquilla mission and then click Write a Letter. Fill in the informaion about your name and address and where it says Select Title chose Elder and then write in Quinn Larson. These letters get sent like emails to Quinn so they are much faster than writing a letter. He still however, needs to respond to you via "snail mail" so make sure you leave an address in your letter so he can write you back!

Quinn has waited for this time to serve for a very long time, and he is excited to be in Colombia serving the Lord. He sends his love and thanks to all his friends and family.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

Alive!

So this past week hasent been too bad at all. My second day in lockdown went well because i got to go serve in Santa Marta for two days. Santa Marta is a city about 2 hours south of Barr. along the coast. It has REALLY big and steep mountains that are utah foothill dry right now, but have alot of cacti. REally really windy and dry. It was really great to be able to work. It was an exchange of sorts and so an Elder came to Barranquilla to be with my companion and i worked with his in Santa Marta. When i left carnival hadnt started in full swing but when i came back to Barr. it was going strong. Lots of wickedness. November is the month with the most births here in the coast for a reason (carnival). The little latino kids paint their skin black with carbon and make fake guns out of wood (the black kids just make guns) and try to hold up cars along the freeway that runs through their towns. They do this after speed bumps like unto the ones in Mexico that Dad knows so well. Pretty fun. Also Elder Carrasco and I got to go back to puerto to gather our investigators for chruch for 4 hours sunday. The bus to puerto in the morning was full of borrachos and also the same slightly less drunk in the afternoon heading back for more.
But us 8 missionaries just sit in our house and study and i really feel like that city on a hill. All night of course is music music music but our house is quite at 10-30. Living a moderate righteous life is strange anywhere but here now it´s especially strange. i could tell you alot more about carnival but it´s not needed now, after the mission is better. But we´re all safe and living and us missionaries are learing really well how to be patient with eachother, but really all in all there havent been any problems with being cooped up. They´re all good missionaires and all of us are putting in effort not to be annoyed. We´ve learned alot from eachother and its been a good week. Tommorrow is the last day and we also find out whos leaving and whos staying. Wednesday we´re FREE and we travel. Well thats that, thanks for your prayers, love, examples, and support.
Love,
Elder Larson
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