• odios perros‏

• HI HI!! so I haven't read your letters yet because I want to write first in case I don't have enough time and I am going to print them all off cuz i have lots.

  so yes I am in Reu, yes its really poor, yes its really hot and yes it rains a lot. I am convinced that this is where they filmed Tarzan, its so green here it is nuts, its gorgeous!

   so my comp. rocks! she is from Bolivia, she is like 6 feet tall and she is so nice! she reminds me of Sandy so that pulls on my heart strings everyday. She speaks quite a bit of English, we came to the conclusion that she knows just about as much english as i know spanish so we communicate quite well until it comes to compound sentences, complicated words, or anything deep. she says the word freak like every five seconds. its hilarious. I love it! she said she picked it up from one of the Elders. 

   So Reu is nothing like the city whatsoever. I thought the city was poor, no. here in Reu they have Tuk Tuks everywhere. Tuk tuks are Guatemalans version of a taxi, it is basically a gokart with a roof. you pay 5 quets, which is equal to about 60 cents in dollars, and they take you anywhere you want to go. there are no sidewalks here so there are always people walking in the streets and tuk tuks just zoom in and out of people. 

   So we do have a cook, she makes us lunch every day. Her name is Hermana Mima but I accidentally called her mamma mia and she laughed her head off so now we call her mamma mia. its super hot here all the time and we eat hot soup like everyday with weird meat floating around. yesterday she threw a dead fish on my plate with bones, scales, skin, eyeballs, tail, the whole deal! so its a good thing I really love fish, oh wait... so I closed my eyes and ate it and it was actually really good! minus the fact that I didn't know how to eat it so I was pulling little fish ribs out of my mouth the whole meal and I looked like an idiot. and we have tortillas and beans for every meal every day. but her and her family are great! I love them! even though they talk a million miles an hour and I understand them like 40 percent of the time. 

  so on Saturday it rained like you would not believe! the streets were rivers and I was walking in water half way up my leg from 3 00 so 8 00. the lightning was brighter than I have ever seen and the thunder shook the whole earth i’m pretty sure. we were with the ward mission leader, lester, and my jaw dropped when I heard the thunder and he laughed and told me that was nothing!

    so yeah guat is great! I have no idea where we are going, where we are, what we are doing, or what we are talking about like 100 percent of the time but its okay because I like observing and wrapping my head around the fact that I am actually here! well I hope you have an excellent week, I love you so much!