Hey, So I don´t have much time again so I'll just try to answer your questions. It is so awesome here in Dolores! We are doing awesome! We had 18 people in church yesterday! And we are helping all of them out so much! This branch is going to boom here in the next little while! We are reactivating a bunch of young kids that are at the age that they should be going on their missions and we are going to try and start teaching a mission prep class! It is so awesome! But the living quarters really aren´t bad. We are still just using rain water but that is totally fine! Like it has been raining a ton so we have all that we need and more. We have cleaned everything else pretty much by now so it is really not bad at all. The only thing is we have a rat or two! Ha ha ha! But we are going to take care of that today! Also, you asked about Elder H. He is way cool! We get along really well and we are really working hard. We´re going to change this place! I am doing really well, and yeah we can get all the food we need. It is really awesome. And it is SO beautiful! We have a part of our area that is basically Polochik! Ha ha! Except most everybody can speak Spanish!
Ok, so these are still from our activity last Monday, but these are the hilarious pictures I told you not to let me forget to send. We are all in the back of a truck on our way back home from our activity. This is how we usually travel so we don´t have to pay. We hitch hike! Ha ha! They are called ¨jalónes¨ here and they are the best. But here's the story. We were on the side of the highway trying to hitch a ride and then this guy pulls over. I let everybody get on first and then I went to get in. I stepped up on the bumber and put my other leg over into the bed of the truck. Then my other foot slipped off the bumper to the road. It was a short truck so the fall was just fine, but then I guess he thought we were all in so he started to take off. So I had one leg in the bed of the truck and one leg on the road and they quickly started moving farther away from each other untill I was completely in the splits and, as you can see, so were my pants. It gave us quite the laugh! But luckily we had all our clothes from the trip so I just jumped into the bushes off the side of the highway while we were waiting for our next jalón and changed into my sweats! But they were the only pants I brought, so you´ll get to see the new shorts I bought from a paca for ten quets in the other pictures I send from today!
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Ok, so for today's P-day we went to a place called Ixcun. It is an archeological site of Mayan ruins like an hour walk from my area. The first picture is just a picture I took on the way there.
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We were like right in the jungle! It looked like I was right in a Tarzan movie or something! It was super cool.
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| The next is just the sign of the place. |
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| Oh yeah, and there is a picture of one of the monkeys we saw there! They were way up in the tree but I got some alright pictures of them. I hope you can see it OK. |
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Then there is one of me by one of the Mayan tablets. And it has Mayan numbers on it and I know how to read them now! It's so cool! Elder Mitchell taught me —last change— cuz they still use them in some Q´eqchi areas!
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At Ixcun, there were these caves. This was like one of the littlest ones but we didn't have much time so we just went to it. The guy with elder H is the guy that works at the place. He was way cool.
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| These are just a few pictures inside the cave. It was pretty cool! |
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| The cave was used as an ancient Mayan tomb at one time and in the last picture I am in like the part where the body was. It´s kinda been distroyed but you can kinda see behind me where there were and still are some adobe bricks layed up for the tomb. |
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| ...and then there is one with me and H A. He is an investigator and he is the one that took us to see Ixcun. He is awesome! There are seriously trees everywhere that are just like the ones from Tarzan! |
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| ...then there is one of Elder H. playing Tarzan. |
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| ....then the next one is just of this giant pig we saw on the way to where we went for Pday today. You can't even really see how big it was in the picture but it was enormous!!! |
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| I thought the next one was pretty darn hilarious. I was going to send it to L. and say "Hey, don´t worry. God knows I didn´t deserve for you to give my turtle away so he sent me a new one!" Ha ha ha! We found this on the church grounds after our district training meeting and interviews with President Watts! Ha ha! |
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Alright so here is the last picture I took with Elder Davis. He goes home in three weeks. Idk when his welcome home is going to be but you should find out and go! He is amazing!
K —I better go. Love you! And it was so good to hear from you! And grandma too! and yes, I could definitely tell you were asleep! I was going to say something about it before I even read the other message! (Note from Carol Anne: I sent a letter way early this morning and later in the day I checked it to see how it sounded and realized I had written half of it while still mostly asleep and it showed....it was kind of funny with a lot of spelling errors....whew I will use the excuse that it was a long busy weekend!:)
Ha ha— love you!
Love,
Elder Welch |
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