A little bit of Random

Hey there!

This week has been pretty nice.  I have a bunch of random photos to help make up for the lack of photos last week:

We went to the zoo a couple weeks ago, but the zoo is closed on Mondays, which is nice because P-Day is only on Mondays...  We didn't see many animals, but we did see monkeys and this guy.

Luckly, the in beautiful little sector of Arbolito where we work (minor sarcasm intended) has a little tree by the river where we discovered a that ton of iguanas hang out.  This is just one but the tree was full of them.  Natural nature won over the zoo in this case.

We had the baptism of Adonis Vera last week, his family attended the service which is a big leap for them.  He's been coming to church and playing soccer with us on Thursdays for awhile now.  We've been teaching him little by little and we finally reached his baptism day!

Since this day he's been going to semanary and mutual on his own.  We're also getting to the point where we don't have to get up early to knock on his door on Sundays.  I have good hopes for this chico.

The picture didn't turn out too good because the flash died on my old black camera -BUT I'm sure the new one will come soon... he he.   .....We'll keep praying about the package.

I used a little home money to get my shoes fixed again.  I found a maestro zapatero (master shoemaker) to change my soles the right way.  The guy I paid to do it last time put $2 soles on my shoes and charged me $15 a pair.  He basically robbed me and did a terrible repare job.

My shoes are MUCH better now and my feet are slowly healing from the damage that the soles that the Zapatero Borracho (Drunk shoemaker) put on my feet.

As seen above, the bad shoe soles made my right shoe fill up with dirt and rocks.

...-I'm sure the package will get here soon.  :D

I thought dad would get a kick out of this one.  This is normal here, they build 20 story buildings using bamboo. In this picture they're restoring an old hotel using bamboo scaffolding.  I remember back when I was working in Alta Paints a guy came in boasting that he's been on jobs all around the world and that he's seen places where they use bamboo scaffolding.

Back then I told him that's crazy stuff, but now I just say "meh, that's normal."

"Its-a me, Mario!"

We ALMOST have water in our house.  We're getting there... I'll probably get to take one nice shower before I get changed to another sector.

Things here have been good, the normal actually.  The stake presidency is getting changed out here in the Duran North Stake, which means a general authority is going to come.  They say that its going to be Elder Waddell.  We also just recently got a message from the zone leaders saying that we need to have our houses clean and our Area books updated because it's possible that he's going to inspect our houses. =O

Now I have to go home and hide all the oreos...

Everything here has been good.  I hope back home things are good too.  I'll be praying for Grandpa and looking for mom in General Conference when it comes.

I love you all!  Keep moving forward.

Cameron