"carnival" say it like this, car-knee-vall

so this monday we arent allowed to leave our house. down here in south america they have this crazy holiday... well holidays... it is like 4 days of mayhem where everyone gets drunk and has a water/shaving cream fight. so we voted as a mission and decided that we didnt want to go outside those days. no thats a joke the president told us not to go out. pretty normal occurance down here in souh america.

so if anyone has a cross word puzzle they want to send me for these next 4 days it is probably too late. and if you do send something it might make it in time for my birthday. 

this week was a good week. had some good talks with people, ate some good food. (i know i know, i always talk about food. but it is a big part of life. i´m not sure if you all know this but if you dont eat food you will die. not like right away. but after a few weeks of not eating! you will die! i was pretty scared when i found that out.)

so this week, well today actually i found out that i am leaving my area 4 de julio. i am going to stay in the city of tarija, but i will be moving to the other side.an area named rosedal. so i am pretty excited tohave a new are, but also really excited to stay in tarija. i love the people of tarija and i am am super excited to see more of the city.

but  enough about me. how are all you doing? i hope you all are benefiting somewhat from my emails, but i havent heard from a lot of you in a long time. i dont even know if a lot of you read my emails. 

please if you have time, send me an email, let me know how you are doing, tell me a story about something fun from this last week, or from the week before, or even the week before that.

please!! i am bored! i have two hours to talk to my family and friends and like half of that time i spend looking up church/ disney songs to upload to a flashdrive.(totally not illegally)

so please for the sake of my sanity, and the sake of the musical economy send me an email if you have time. it doesnt have to be a thirteen page thesis on the evolution of the formicidae. just a "hi, how are you? last week i washed my clothes by hand because i live in bolivia and i dont have a washing machine. i really enjoy hearing from you and your awesome stories about utah/idaho. it sounds like a really cool place. have a good week, elder arkoudas."

look at that not even hard. took me like 6 minutes! and i am really bad at typing, so it will probably take even less time for you.

i love you all, sorry i havent eaten anything crazier than cow stomach, i will try harder to eat... crazier... food...

wait why would i promise that?

i take it back i am going to keep eatig the food they give me and if it so happens that i find out something weird about my food i will keep you all updated.

this is now a really long email so i will send it and stop writing.

elder arkoudas