Oh I can´t believe you guys are going to Disneyland! Without me! ;) Haha just kidding. I was trying to remember when you guys had planned the trip for this month. Man, I can´t believe it´s already October! Time is flying so fast!
Well, I´ll just start with this about the mission field so far... it´s hot. SO HOT! It´s so hot that literally I´m sweating all day. Unless I have a fan blowing directly on my face like I do right now at this store we are using the internet at. So pdays are on Mondays and I will write at 5:00 every week Colombian time. 4:00 Utah time i believe. Anyways, things here are going so well! Elder Brunis is my trainer and he is so awesome! I prayed and fasted in the CCM to get a good trainer and God answered my prayers. He is seriously so awesome! He is from Guayaquil Ecuador and luckily he has been learning english while on the mission so he can help me with my spanish better. He has 13 months in the mission. He is hard working and wants to be obedient which is awesome because that was one thing I was worried about coming into the field because some Latinos are kind of lazy to be honest, but he is awesome! We are still trying to get to know this area in the city Sabana Larga so things are still a bit confusing. We have already taught so many people though which is awesome! I think it was saturday that we had 12 lessons in one day! That is quite a lot. The people here are so humble and so nice, but they have a problem keeping commitments, especially coming to church and being baptized which is like some really big things. So that is a major problem, actually in the entire mission Barranquilla. I really love it here though. It is really a major culture shock compared to where we live haha. Some people literally live in shacks of a sort. Where they have only a concrete floor and then like wood, grass, or tin roofs. It is crazy to see the difference between the houses in just passing one street to the next. The food is quite good. We have a lot of soup, rice, some meat like chicken, pork, fish, or something, and then like a salad of some sort. I´ll send a pic of what we ate today. The other elders working with us in this area are Elders Macias and Cruz. Elder Macias is also from Guayaquil Ecuador and Elder Cruz is from Mexico. Elder Brunis and I are working hard together and it is so great. I´m loving this work and helping these people come closer unto Christ.
I am feeling a lot better. My throat is still a little sore and I still have a cough but my nose head and ears and bodyaches are practically gone. Thank you for sending Mucinex because I just ran out yesterday (i think) and it was helping a lot. I think it was a sinus infection because I remember all of that happening this last winter. I am doing so much better though. I have been sleeping so well since being in the field so that´s a good sign that I´m getting better I think.
I hope you guys have so much fun a Disneyland! Not too much fun without me though k? ;) Haha you guys will have to send me pictures of your adventures there. I love you guys so much and thank you for all you have done. I wrote a letter to the family so I will try to send it. It explains more about my week since I had an hour and a half to write it. Anyways, love you guys. Be safe. Have fun. And Adios!
Love,
Elder Tyguy
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