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Monday, February 1, 2010

dusty dusty Monteria

Here in Monteria things are going just great. My compa is Elder Abanto from Lima, im his 3rd comp and he is all fired up to work hard so we get along great. He was baptized 3 years ago and is the only member in his family which is pretty cool. Our area is called Emundo Lopez and its the outskirts of Monteria so all our roads are dirt roads and we are in the dry season here so its DUSTY. my shoes are alot more brown than black. Also a neat feature of the barrios im in is that they dont really have a sewer system, they have dicthes that run in front of the houses and the dirty water from the house runs into the ditch until they get to a bigger ditch and then who knows where it goes. but it makes things smell interesting when the sun almost boils the murcky black water at 2 in the afternoon. Everyone says here that monteria is the hottest part of the mission but i havent really noticed the difference, it just hot. all in all the area is a little less than a walk in the park but what super makes up for it is the people here are really great. We had 11 in the church yesterday which hasnt happened for me in 2 transfers. we are teaching 3 families and 1 of them is already married (and the other family actually has their birth certificates so we wont haveto search all over colombia to find them)!! Also now that im a DL of a small district i have almost the whole week to teach in my own area with my own comp! In sincelejo i was in intercambios almost everyday (its a mission thing that we do lots of intercambios) so it will be nice not to travel as much which means more time working yayy!
Umm here in monteria they have a cool fruit call guayaba agria which is an a guayaba but more acid... maybe you dont know what a guayaba is. its a fruit the size of a fist and normaly its really sweet and pink and it makes super good juice with milk. guayaba agria is the same fruit but more sour and with water it takes thrist real fast, we drink it alot. well im happy just working away with my compa, he has good ideas and he works hard so the people will understand the gospel. Im excited just to be back in the thick of things and not paying bills and other ZL stuff. Ive learned that if one puts in the hours diligently the Lord always blesses in one way or another and sucess comes in the Lords time, and im happy i can put more hours in!
thanks for your love and prayers
Elder Larson

p.s. they say there are more iguanas and ive seen 2 but both of them were dead in the ditch in front of our house... not to exciting until a pack of buzzards found them and they got in a fight with a stray dog to see who could eat them first... the buzzards here are super ugly ill try to take a picture and sent it next week.

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