:) A famous little restaurant that has fun statues outside
Saying goodbye to Chiky! She was always scared of me, so we made a nice scared face together.
Saying goodbye to Vinicio :(
Goodbye, fluffball!
Picture with Negra (a dog who would walk around with us all over the area) didn't work out too well...
Goodbye, familia Oporta!
Right outside the house
This is the view for the 30 minute busride to the farms (they're palm tree farms)
A little study shot with Elder Morales my new comp (he loves to work hard too!)
Javier, Elder Guirola's convert, who helps us a ton (so far I've spent more time on divisions with him than I have spent with my companion! haha)
A baby egg haha
Wow. My world just turned upside down this week!
I
had transfers to Zona Sur. The farthest south part of the country, and
the only part of the country which doesn't pertain to a stake. So I went
from a 120 attendance ward to a 30 attendance branch haha. It's just so
different here. Where do I begin.
#1. In my old area, it took 15 minutes to get to central San Jose. Here, it takes 7 hours.
#2.
It was fairly cold. It's not here haha. I sleep with a sheet and a
blanket, with a fan on full blast (And it's not just a little fan, it
looks like a semi-industrial fan) on my bed with me to sleep nice and
cool. At
8 AM it's already warm enough to want the fan on cooling you down while you study. We went
on Saturday
to play soccer with some youth, and after like 5 minutes I was just
pouring down sweating. And I wasn't even playing hard! It's pretty
awesome but way different.
#3. Rice and beans! I was pretty
pampered in San Jose, because members always gave us different things to
eat. Here, a real treat is rice, beans, and a piece of sausage. But,
it's tasty anyways :)
#4. Rain. RAIN!
On Thursday
we went on divisions with some members, and my companion went to the
farms (las fincas). So he was out there when it started POURING down
rain. All the rivers raised up (they didn't flood but they were going
nice and rapid), and the streets seemed like little rivers, too. So at
like
8:30
he lets us know (because it had been raining like that for like 3 or
more hours), that the street to come back was flooded and that they were
looking for an alternate route to get back. because the car couldn't
pass thanks to all the water. Luckily, they were able to find it, but
it's just ridiculous how much rain come down here haha.
What
else? The areas are like an hour away from each other, ours extends
till the Panama border, my comp says there's iguanas here, OH and
there's these frogs (I'm gonna record it one of these days) that in the
night croak and make a laser beam sound. Like, X-wing action shot laser
sounds. It's pretty darn awesome haha. Bug bites are normal, it's really
humbling to meet people who have so little. We have a pretty nice house,
the only new thing for me is the cold shower (a sink fossit <
faucet> coming out of the wall but it is up high), which is surprisingly
cold water for living in a place that's so warm haha. I went from being a District Leader to a Zone Leader which is also an interesting change.
Oh, and the place is called city Neily, but there's no city here haha." Downtown" lasts about 2 blocks. I don't even think there's a 3 story
building here... haha. We live like 200 feet behind the bus station, and
we've got nice trees and a river outside. Oh, and horse is a common
form of transportation here. And we see natives walking around like it
were nothing (members of the Guayami people).
Long story short, my world just turned upside down.
But
it's awesome! I love change and I love being able to learn new things
from new challenges & experiences. I know I'm going to leave this
place being a better person.
My comp is a really hard
worker and we have a lot of good things in store for us in this area.
Lots of people who seem like good possibilities to become members of the
church :)
I love this work. It's interesting all the
changes and everything but the best part really always is getting to
know the people and see them change their lives and really become
disciples of Christ.
Have a great week everyone! Enjoy your personal adventures that the Lord has prepared for all of you!
-Elder Henry
