Wow! I can’t believe that I’ve been here for
almost a week! The people are amazing!
It is so different, but really great! There are street vendors everywhere you
look, along every road- selling everything from clothes to fruit to toilet
paper--it’s crazy! The people here are
crazy drivers and just cross the road wherever as soon as there is an opening.
Our apartment is on the third floor and is quite roomy, all the homes here are
behind gates of some sort- you have to have them open it and then there is anywhere
from one to a bunch of apartment- type homes.
It has been kind of interesting to be here and feel like I know
absolutely zero Spanish…I felt okay when I left the MTC, but now I realize I
didn´t know much of anything.
We
have done a lot of walking and the sidewalks are not very even; the streets are
not paved, they are all like brick or cobblestone. Whenever we are going
somewhere far, such as a lunch at a member’s home or to a conference or the
chapel from our apartment, we take either a bus or a taxi- which has been a new
experience, but a good one so far!
My
companion is Hermana Colvin, from Las Vegas, and she goes home in February!
We
have a great branch- yesterday we had 5 confirmations!
The
food...has been pretty good so far, a lot of rice, the only thing I haven’t
liked so far is the verde, it is like green banana smashed and it tastes nasty
and has a weird texture...but I have been told it will be given to us a lot, so
I have to learn to like it :( usually it
is half a plate of rice, with a piece of meat, not very big, and we´ve had corn
and fries---it has been pretty good.
We
have been teaching lessons and visiting people since Thursday night, when we
got here. We have visited MarÃbel, Nidia,
Eduardo, Josephina and a few others, but it has been a challenge to try and
understand everything they are saying, they talk faster than I am used to.
On Saturday,
after we had visited everyone we had planned for the day, it was like 8:00ish,
we were trying to find someone to teach, so we stopped and said a prayer and I
had the thought we should go visit a member at her work...one of the little
shops, that Hermana Colvin had been trying to introduce me to-- but she was
never there when we stopped by.
Anyway,
we stopped by and that is where we met Eduardo, who is her brother, so we were
able to talk to him and taught him about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith--
we got a baptismal date set for him!!! AND we are going back to teach him
tonight!!
It
is so amazing to see the Lord work miracles each and everyday and to be the
instruments that He works through a lot of the time!
Anyway,
love you all!! These next 15 1/2 months
will fly by!!
Love,
Hermana
Karlee Carter
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