i am going to try and keep this email as organized as possible, but forgive me when that doesn´t work out to great.
TRAVEL
we left the CCM at 11:30 monday morning. after an hour drive to the airport, a 6 hour flight to Panama, an hour layover, a 5 hour flight to Santa Cruz Bolivia, and another one hour bus ride we arrived at a hotelito(basically a room with 12 beds and a toilet) our plane landed in bolivia at 4:00 in the AM. thankfully the presidente let us sleep till 11 and then we went out to lunch at an italien restaurant.
we spent all tuesday with the president and then on wednsday in the after noon we met our companions. my companion is named elder Archer, super cool guy, my area is Tarija. normally you take a hour plane ride and then a three hour bus ride to get here, but there were no flights scheduled till friday so we spent another day in Santa cruz halfway on splits with the secretaries and the president´s assistantscontacting and running errands.
thankfully thursday in the afernoon they found a flota (basically a tour bus) that was leaving for Tarija and so we spent 15 hours thursday night and friday morning on a flota and we arrived in Tarija at 8:00 in the morning.
TARIJA
our apartment is pretty nice, it would probably be condemned if it was in the states, but here it is perfectly fine.we have beds, three sinks, a toilet you can flush toilet paper down, and electricity. the hygiene here in bolivia has obviously improved a little since... actually i think it is just a lot better than i thought it would be. the water from the tap is a little sketch. you "can" drink it, i dont but some other missionaries do and they dont have any noticable problems... that being said i am going to stick to juice and bottled water for now.
side note juice here comes in a bag... and so does milk...
FOOD
maybe i should have just put the side note about juie asnd milk here... ... oh well too late. the food here is pretty good. a lot of fried chicken and rice, and chopped vegetables. lunch is the biggest (and kinda the only) meal here. we usualy get soup; a plate of rice,veggies, and a meat thing; and a fruit dessert thing. over all pretty good stuff.
here in Tarija it isnt as hot as in santa cruz. in santa cruz it was like 8:30 at night and i was sticky, that is kinda the best way o describe it, but here in tarija it isnt too bad. in the sun and around the middle f the day it is nie to stop at a tienda (a little store that are every where around here) and grab a cold bag of juice. but other than that it is a lot like home, weather speaking.
we have a lot of investigators, i havent met all of them yet, but everyone here is super oben about religion. we will knock on a door, and they will open and say i´m catholic or i´m pentecostal, but then we talk about jesus and how he established a church while he was here and they are super receptive and we set a return appointment.
DOGS
friday we were walking down this street, and we were passing all of these dogs. when all of a suden they all just started barking and growling at us. i was freaking out a little bit, and elder Archer was freaking out signficantly less than me, but still a little nervous, when this big dog named boyka came up to us and chased all the other dogs away. it was awesome!! the church is definitely true!!
then sunday we were walkng past these dogs and they didnt move until after we passed them, but right after we passed them they feaked out and ran up to us and tried to bite us. one bit my knee (i am fine it didnt break skin). it was crazy. elder archer pretended to pick up a rock to throw at them and they ran away. definitely scared the crap out of me though.
then today we played soccer and i got a sunburn... thats all
elder arkoudas
outside our window...
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