A bathroom he found on his trek.
His trek through the field!
Hope you all had a great new year and all went well. New year here was pretty crazy. We didnt really experience it becuase we just went to bed at 10. but well before we went to bed everyone was out in the streets with music blaring and drinking and having tons of fun. But we went to bed and then were waken up by all of the fireworks at midnight but just went back to bed lol. For new years here they have this weird tradition where they make big dolls that are basically like scarecrows, filled with straw and hay and then at midnight they lay them in the street and light em on fire.lol classic i know. So the next morning we left our room and first of all, there was NOONE in the streets. usually there are motos driving by and honking and such but there was no one. it was like a ghost town. everybody was inside still hung over from the night before.lol but yeah so no one was in the streets but then we were walking down the street and we would see big piles of burnt ash in the outline of the dolls that they make and then at the bottom there would be a pair of burnt shoes lol. it was great. we would just see em everywhere. And then we had church at 8 now becuase of the change and so there were only like 20 people there but it was by far the best sacrament meeting ive ever had. usually there are tons of cars driving by and making tons of noise as we have the sacrament but since everyone was still hung over we had the first silent sacrament ive witnessed here. I could actually feel the spirit! it was amazing. thats one thing that has ALWAYS been hard for me here. you just dont really get the chance to feel the spirit here. there is always some music playing or a loud motorcycle driving by. cant stand it. But all that being said...im definitely glad that the holidays are over. Not only is it sad but the work is terrible! everyone is either busy or gone traveling. we couldnt find ANYONE to talk to yesterday becuase i guess everyone here goes to the playa (beach) im definitely excited to get back to the norm.
Also transfers are coming up here pretty soon so im kinda excited to see how that goes. I have a feeling im gonna get shipped out but in reality i have no idea. Today for Pday we did what we always do and go play soccer at the stake center with all of the elders from the zone tumbes (about 24 or so) but ive gotten really tired of that so i got a bunch of other elders to go out into the campo (field) where they grow a bunch of wheat and mangos and stuff and where its actually green so i sent some pics of that. Its basically like walking through the woods but we were with elder rice from Cedar City and he just got torn apart by mosquitos while we were out there haha. lucily i had put on sun repellant so they stayed away from me for the most part. but i feel bad for him. hopefully hes okay.
So I think ive collected most of the names that i go by down here. So far i have Elder Goodburn, Elder Wilford, Elder Goodmorning, Elder Voldemort, and Elder Woodberto. I personally like the last one. one of the 15 year old members calls me it. hes a pretty funny kid (pierto) But yeah basically its never Woodburn. they just cant do it. and from what i hear they cant handle Elder Siddoways name either so he feels my pain. haha. Oh and BTW, someone get a hold of Bubbles and wish him luck for me. he should be heading out to brazil soon right? Hope all is well!
Oh and one more funny story, so like i said, there is ALWAYS music blaring or something from the houses around where were teaching and most of the time its loud latino music which all sounds the same to me to be honest. Im not good enough to understand what they are saying for the most part yet. But this one time we were teaching Hermano David a 14 year old kid and his neighbor was blaring the final countdown in english which was pretty cool but not all that weird, they play a lot of american music here that they dont understand. but theyre favorites are definielty LMFAO, Usher and Pitbull (becuase pitbull speaks spanish lol) and J Biebs. but yeah they were playing that and we were teaching on the plan of salvation and then it changed to....Rah Rah Rasputin!!!! hahaha I couldnt help but start cracking up! what are the chances of that happening? you know that family didnt understand a word of the song they just liked the beat lol. But yeah i had a good laugh during the lesson.
Glad to hear you all had fun this week though with Alli and her family. I really wish I could have been there to party it up too. But thats all right. As of right now im just hoping that i can finally get all of my letters this thursday when we have meetings! Vamos a ver.
Love you all and hope everyone had a happy holidays! Keep working hard and most importantly keep working in the gospel. Mosiah 2:41
Elder Woodburn
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