Building, Rebuilding, and more spiders.....

It was great to hear from Pierce as usual!  Am I the only Missionary Mom out there that leaves my Monday's open so I won't miss his email?  (It would be GREAT if I knew what time he would email each week.)  We are able to communicate a few times back and forth that way..., so it's almost like talking!

He sounds good, but he's hoping he will get a nice gringo comp one of these days.  The culture thing has never been too difficult until this transfer.  He's had 4 Latin companions, all great..., but he and his current comp don't seem to quite "get" each other.  It's all good though!

Here are some excerpts from today's email:  No pictures! :(

" It’s starting to get cold here.  It seems that EVERYONE is sick.  I was sick really bad this week."

Excerpt from Jackson's email:  " I like this place more than my last area,  it’s prettier ."

Excerpt from Aiden's email.  (He asked about animals)   "My city is cold, and green.  We have fish in the stream by our house.  The rest of our animals are only dogs and cats.  There aren’t that many birds here either." 

"We finished helping one of our investigator's build his house. Today we took apart someone else’s house!  We’re going to go and rebuild it a little later after lunch.   While taking apart this house today, it was like spider city.  SO many huge spiders everywhere running around and a few poisonous.  It was sketchy!"

"We did get a guy reactivated.  His name is "M". Basically we just went to his house and started to read scriptures with him.  He got really interested because he loves history.  Then he saw that the church has so many great programs and other stuff, like the 72 hour kit and food storage.  That  really interested him.  He’s probably one of the coolest guys here I've met!  He likes the outdoors and wood carving and stuff.  We were going to go on a day trip with him out to some river or something. He likes to learn.  He's always reading random history stuff and tells us about it.   He researches and reads stuff in the book of Mormon,  then tells us legends down here in South America that are basically the same story. Pretty cool!"