June 12th, 2017

Well, I'm now in La Concordia.  It is hot and very humid, feels like I just got done swimming and can't dry off.  Our house has 3 fans, two for the beds and one for our studying area, I'm very grateful.  Our house is on the main street.  The city is the farthest west in our mission, and the whole city is one sector, so every Thursday we have to take an hour bus to Santo Domingo.  It is really cool here, I feel like I'm in a jungle well, that's because I am.  I found a huge grasshopper, it was dead, but it was like the size of my hand, I got a picture.  It is weird, I can't see any mountains, it is just flat, but cool.  I feel like I'm in a different world; no mountains, weird car-bike things, the women are American hungry (I need to watch out), and the people are just nicer.

It is just hard to think here, I have not had to deal with heat like this for like my whole life and there is barely any wind, but I'm grateful for the fan in this room.  It's just [too bad] it only hits me about every three seconds.  I just looked at google, and it said it is only 81 degrees right now!  I don't believe it, I cant believe it, it feels like 400.

But life is good, we get our new president this week.  My companion is a Latino from Ecuador, I don't have his name yet.  I hope the work here will be good, everyone says it is great, but we will see.  It looks like it might rain, I'm hoping it will.  Everyone says it rains hot water.  I want to feel for myself.  The pictures are all of Quito, with elder Zavala, except for the grasshopper.

I love you all and hope you have a great week, and until next week, if I don't die (of the heat).