Cochabamba, Bolivia

Lots and lots of pictures for you… and pictures are worth 1,000 words… so it’s like you got the LONGEST e-mail ever.   Love you all!!   Things I love:   I love how comfortable people are here with their weight. We were in church and the teacher called her husband “gordo” – like fatty. She used it as some sort of cute nickname. WHAT?? Hahaha it made me laugh so hard because it was in front of the entire class!! Maybe this is one of the cultural things I’ll try to take home with me   J   I love how kind everyone is. We had a family that wanted to celebrate thanksgiving with us! They told us they’d cook the main dish and we could bring sides. How great are they for knowing that it was an American holiday and wanting to celebrate with us! OUR TRIO IS BACK. Dude, being in a trio IS SO FUN. I don’t why people ever said it was hard. I love it. Woop woop. Things I’m learning to love: CAUTION. Don’t read this if you get sick easily. We were just ...

Things I love: It poured SO HARD. I was walking around knocking on doors, talking with random people and out of nowhere it started POURING!! I love the rain! It made me so happy. By the time we got to a members house I was SOAKED so they made me change my clothes. I looked REAL CUTE ;) OH MY GOODNESS. We had a noche de hogar  ( FHE – or family night) with a family in our ward. We asked everyone to draw a picture of their family and the grandpa, who hardly talks, drew a DUCK and said it was his family. Oh man I wish I had a picture of this strange looking duck. WHAT. HAhaha his daughter was laughing to hard his wife was just trying to figure it out. I love Grandpa. The neighborhood COW. We have seen  it FOUR different times in different parts of town. I  don’t think this random cow has an owner but it sure loves exploring the town. This week we finally got a picture with it :) Things I’m learning to love: I caved. I couldn’t stand the sun anymore and I...

Things I love: Back to talking about food problems. Sorry this is in basically EVERY email.  But HEY we came up with another solution to not being able to finish our food, we feed the little boy that lives in our pensionistas house – her kid  :)   Little boys are like trash cans anyways so we just shovel the food right on into his house. AND he loves us! There is a house made of mud across the street from house. I don’t know why I have never written about this house but it’s INSANE. It’s two stories (don’t know how that’s possible). They always have dogs walking on the roof, clothes hanging, they have a tire tower. I’ve attached a picture but just know that it does not do the house justice.   GUYS. Another dog accident happened. And again it happened to my comp, NOT ME. I’m gonna get it so bad one of these days. BUT this time my comp put her jacket on a chair. We walked out of the room and when we got back in the room her jacket was on the floor with a pudd...

Super short this week!!! But enjoy the pics. AND if you want a letter for Christmas SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS and I will send you one. Love you all!!! Things I love: We had an activity in the church and PEOPLE CAME! Normally we can expect maybe 20 people BUT this time we had 90 people come!!!! WAHOOO. We had a “Noche de Cine” – a movie night in the church. I spent ALLLLLL night cooking popcorn. I made over 30 batches of popcorn. WOOP. So you can add that to my new list of talents.   FRESH FRUIT. Alright I may have already wrote about this BUT there is a fruit truck that drives around here and they have SO MUCH FRESH FRUIT. This morning we chased down the fruit truck (because for some reason it couldn’t see two white giants running down the road) and for less than THREE DOLLARS $3$ I got 25 bananas, a papaya, and 8 mangos. WHAT!? Sorry mom, I’m never coming home. I’m staying just for the fruit ;) Things I’m learning to love: OH MY GOSH. The animal drama in the home...