Tuesday I found out I was going to the Parika area in Guyana, Guyana is an English speaking country by the way, I don't know if I have said that already yet, but I am not even speaking my mission language here haha, but I still have an hour of Language Study every day. My new companion is ELDER VANCE, He is from Idaho Falls and has been in the field for 21 months, and he is AWESOME. He and I have a lot in common so we have gotten along very well and we are teaching very well together. I should have already taken some pictures with him, but I haven't yet so I will send some next week.
Parika is really sweet, it is not like extremely poor but people don't have a whole lot. Probably about half of the people are Hindus so that has been a struggle. They are basically 0% receptive to anything we say to them. The church is brand new here, the area opened up like 9 months ago and we only have a group, which is right below a branch. We get about 20 members to church for sacrament meeting and this week we had 13 investigators at church. We have 10 investigators on date to be baptized in the next 3 weeks currently, we are expecting probably like 5 or 6 of them to follow through on it. So the work is going great!!! The drivers are exponentially more crazy here. Public transportation is horrendous and we have to ride it occasionally to get around everywere. They play the most vulgar music I have ever witnessed and at indescribable volume levels. Normally we are on our bikes though.
Well I don't have any time left, but everything is going good, we are teaching lessons and having a lot of spiritual lessons everyday. So all is good.
Elder Porritt
This is supposedly the largest all wooden building on earth or something. It is ENORMOUS
The largest floating bridge on earth, and its got to be like 3 miles, it is crazy
Here is what my companion made me eat the day I got here hahaha
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