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Friday, April 23, 2010

1st Letter in the field...

Hey everyone!!!
So I just finished my 1st week here in the field.. so wierd.
We have 2 areas ,PalMar and Pueblo Nuevo..both are pretty cool its what I'd imagine Italy to look like if it were really run down...lol! Alot of the people that we "teach" only have like 3-4 cinderblock walls and tin roof for a house so the fact that I have an actually roof is cool and at least a tile floor. Most of the houses here look like old used garages with busted up cement floor and this one house had a rug so he must be making a lot of money lol!!!
For breakfast its usually powdered milk which isnt so bad if you can get the water cold 1st. At 1st the people were a little cold shoulderish but now its like we are so nice to them that they don't really have a choice but to be nice lol. I haven't even been flipped off in 3 days so thats cool!!! Its so wierd the people that do let us in listen for a little bit and they agree that what were teaching is true and then when we´re done they completely deny it...I'm not sure if they are stubborn or just really retarded!?
But anyways i haven't had a warm shower yet and pretty sure I won't for 2 years lol but at least I have a shower. And for clothes washing we have a little woman do it and she does litterally wash them on a rock. It takes about 4 days to get them back here. And we're going to try to move back to the house where the elders used to live its a lot nicer. Just a little more pricey but the members have a schedule where were fed like everyday so we dont really buy food. And since we have 2 branches to watch over, me and Burton have to split up with the members on Sunday so both can have an elder. We're the only ones here in our area. One church is held in a members home and the other is in a little shack but even still the spirits strong. I'd say the thing that I'm most grateful for down here are fans when you can find one lol!!! We´ve had 2 little earthquakes but that happens when youre surrounded by volcanos lol... The coast is like 2 hours away so we can't really see it.
The spanish is super hard ..like its a lot harder to make it out here. Like it feels like the spanish I did have got lost lol. I'm not really sure how to study for it. Everyone says the best way to learn is to speak it but its hard to speak what you dont know lol. But its awesome that I got Burton as a companion. If I didn't have someone that spoke english I honestly don't know what I'd do. English missions would be so nice right now lol but it will be nice to have spanish when I do get it down. So yeah the mission is really hot but I'm getting a foothold on it lol. I hope you all are doing ok and keep me updated with everything. Im going to go play some FĂștbal now.

Love you guys alot, Elder Marquis

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