first is a picture of a coconut farm here in my area. beautiful right? right next to it was a nursury (for plants) they had all the furit trees there really samll and forsale. and the average fruit tree was less than $2!! crazy hu? i wanted to get on sooo bad! but we dont have any dirt at our house. no yard at all. almost no houses have a yard here becasue its just sand or dry dirt. no grass.
the next picture is ofme at a phone booth. they dont all look like that, but they all have the same general shape as this one.. whithout the ears haha and they are normally blueish. they have the normal blue ones that the people call "big ear" and they also have a few of these cool ones. haha so i wanted to get a picture of it
you can see in the next picture that this "big ear" attacted me and i just barrley escaped! luckily my companion had his camera ;)
the next 2 pictures look weird too. we have two toilets in our appartment, they both have problems. one of them is always running, so it uses tons of our water that we have very little of. the other does not flush because a part was broken inside. so i have to say thanks to my dad, he taught me how toilets work and how to fix them. so when i got to the area i went to the hardwear store and got the parts i needed and was able to fix both toilets this week. the cool thing is now we have not run out of water since the toilet was fixed, and before we would run out almost every day. woot woot!
so this sunday we took one of our invertigators to church with us. her name is Pamela, she is 15. we found her by tracking. apparently her mom was baptised like 16 years ago and only went to church for a year. so we started teaching Pamela and after two weeks we got her to go to church with us. one sad thing is that she is missing her left arm, just below the elbow :( whats even more sad is that my companion and i never noticed that untill 2 weeks after we had been teaching her.. it was a pretty big shock. i guess i need to be more observant.
this tuesday was transfer day, my companion and i are staying in Petrolina West but the other two elders in our appartment got transferred. which was a good thing. haha so we got two new elders who seem pretty cool. an american and a brazilain who is brand new in the mission. they seem pretty cool :)
this week besides fixing the toilets, my comp and i cleaned and scrubed the floors of the appartment. it is so much better having a clean house!
oh, so that family we are teaching, they wanted us to make dinner for them (we have only known them for a week, they're amazing) so we dicided to make french toast. becasuse its somthing then have never had, and its in our budget haha my companion braught a bottle of Mapeline from home, so i was able to make maple suyrup too! it was soooo good! but im not sure they liked it all that much. its so different from what they have here. they eat the same things every day. rice, beans and some spegetti. and some kind of meat. (almost always chiken) they think its so weird when we tell them we eat different things everyday in the US. they dont understand. they cant imagine their luch or dinner without rice and beans.. haha
my feet are getting more acustumed to walking all day and im not getting anymore blisters, but im still waiting for the skin to grow back. i have lots of holes in my very white feet haha.
now that it is getting colder where you all are, its getting hotter here. these last few months we have been having about the same weather (your summer, my winter) but now you will have cold and i will have... death. haha i cant imagine it getting hotter, but bring it on! haha we will see how white i can make my body look compared to my arms and face haha
by the way, thank you to Cheyenne who has been keeping a blog for me with all my past "mass emails" so they are there if you want to see them.
i hope everyone is well, im doing amazing and loving every second! im honestly loving it, i'm always happy and trying to do my best.
one more thing, the mission president of my mission who left right before i got here said something that i like a lot.
"what happens when you get to heaven and God says to you, 'the Mormon church is not true' what do you do?" then he said "Elders, its simpel. You bare your testimony!"
its so ture, even if that did happen, i would get to heaven and say, i did my best, i tried my hardest to do what was right and what you wanted, and when i asked you if this was the right church, if Joseph Smith really was a prophet, you testified to me that it is true.
thats all for this week, keep me updated on whats new!
Com Amo
Elder Cluff
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