"Carnival"

Hello lovelies! So, this has been a great week. It rained a ton, which is cool because it´s less hot when it rains, and the thunder echoes off the hills, and more people are at home. But it always rains in relatively short increments. And it´s really funny, becasue when it´s sunny, all the kids come into the street and throw water balloons and buckets of water. Even sometimes while it´s raining. It´s a month-long holiday they call "carnival", in the which everybody who happens to walk in the streets is a participant by necesity. Kids throw balloons and dump buckets of water from the roofs of three-story buildings, as well. Guess how I found that out. They also throw them from taxis, and motos. We´re more popular amoung the kids than any group of people here. This morning, we contacted a group of about 9. A couple of which had never seen a gringo before. What I like to do in this situation is try to act more fascinated by them than they are by me. I remember a video I saw a while back, of a man of an isolated tribe in Africa, greeting a white man for the first time. The white man tries to act just as astonished, so as not to intimidate the native. Though, I don´t think I´m as good at it, because in my experience, the people only become confused. I´ll keep working on it though.

 I still don´t have packages. I don´t really know where they are at this point. haha. But I´ll let you know when I find them. Or they find me. My glasses? I have two pairs. One are in my bag, next to me, and the others, I lent to an investigator to read with. I´m good on clothings. But we painted the other day, the basement of our pentionista, and now my P day clothes are a little green (like the color when the spring is born), but time will tell if that´s a problem. I kind of miss the basics, you know. The Sees´ and Garidellis as well. Mmmmm. They have some good stuff here too, but it´s different.

 It is a little colder, but I´m still sweating. And it´s raining. My companion´s great! And my health! haha. I´m coming to love the Proverbs a ton. Right now, I really like in Prov. 15:1-4, where it talkes a little about how we sould respond to contention. We receive a bit of that, here. I don´t know what it says in English, but in Spanish it says that the sane tongue is the tree of life. Y asi es, amen. Yesterday, we talked to two different teenage girls who were having issues with their parents. I guess that´s a world-wide thing. But I´ve found that you learn more from teaching than anything else, because, if it´s a good lesson, you say many things that have yet to occur to you. Speaking of teaching, I have to teach an English class Friday I don´t even know where to start, ahhhh. I´ll let you know how that goes. haha.

I love you all so much!

Much love,

Elder Alexander