Loving life here!

Jay-Z was wrong. There is much church in the wild. And many of them meet every night and they bang drums and chant and clap and yell a lot. Perhaps part of the reason behind the great amount of baptisms here is because people are a little afraid of the other churches. The church is a little different here. Kind of relaxed. Ex: Someone brought their dogs to church yesterday. Two medium-sized, rather dirty, dogs. And I was the only one to point out that it was a little strange. But we filled the chapel yesterday, whihc is a big deal because a few weeks ago, only about half the the chapel would be occupied. Weve been visiting quite a few less active members, and a lot of them actually came this week. I really love the people here. We always offer service to everyone, and the other day some people accepted. One family asked us to go look for their two chickens that ran off that morning. We spent a little while searching for the chickens before realizing that there are chickens everywhere and were kind of wasting our time.

 So then the next house we visited invited us to kill spiders. Her home was one smallish room, and there were spiders decorating every corner and space in between. On Thursday we're going to help build a roof for a family. So, yeah. We stay busy. Although I have traveled far from home, I seem to have not traveled far enough to escape the mercilessly mind-numbing reach of North American pop-music. I dont go oa day without hearing at least one song by One-Direction, Carly Rae Jebson, or Madonna. They do love Madonna here. They are into a lot of 80s pop here. And reggaetone. Reggaetone is a genre..... or a song. The genre is one song, basically. And not necesarily a good song, either. Oh no, this is how music rants begin. lets talk about something else.

                                                     P-day relaxation!

 We met a girl named Kay, which is an unfortunate name because it means "what" in Spanish. This is our conversation translated into English:

Whats your name?

What.

Whats your name?

What.

What?

What. Thats my name.

What.

Thats my name. What.

Yeah. Nice to meet you What.

And her sisters name is Yay, like the exclamation. Im starting to understand more Spanish, and speak a little better. So thats nice. Anyways, Loving life here. This place is beautiful. Were going on a hike to a nearby waterfall today. Oh, and Im sending the package today, along with the SD card. Yeah. You should send more pictures like last time. I liked that!

I love you all and miss you so much!

Much love,

Elder Alexander