So we had conference yesterday in San Rafael therefore today i´m writing your email today! We had a cool week, we reactivated another family and their 9 year old girl is taking the lessons and is going to get baptised on the 28th! We´re teaching another family as well that are progressing. We´ve had to start going out far into the country and find people. Our area is so so so so small, this tiney little town of 1000 people all know us. So we´ve started going out and finding those people that have never heard the gospel. We got into 4 houses and the people told us that missionaries had never ever in the 30 years they had lived there gotten to the house. It´s neat to think we´re trailblazing, the FIRST missionaries ever in some of these remote areas. Really neat and at the same time a big responsiblity. Because whose to know if these people will have another opportunity. You´ll have to print the picture of Paolas baptism and take to elder knights homecoming. Thanks so much for the pictures they were great!!!!!! I can´t believe how different Scott looks with that long hair and nasty beard!! Haha, i was laughin at the beard. I love that kid, i miss him alot. Send him a text telling him i told you that. He´s got a good heart, that kid. Anyways, we don´t live with any other elders. We basically live in the middle of nowhere, 30 minutes to the nearest city or missionaries. We take ALOT of buses to do divisions and meetings with our elders. In Cordon it´s really safe, really relaxed place. Everyone works in the fields so most of the day the place is a ghost town, till 7 o clock when all the trucks show up with the whole town in the back. The majority are illegal Bolivians immagrants. They´re a lot like the mexicans you see that come fresh from mexico, yet they´re a lot more of a rejected people here. All of the racism seems to hang on these poor people. The other day i saw a headline that said ``Big storm in San Luis kills 6 people, and 2 Bolivans.`` Sad right?? They´re very easy to pick out with their Lamanite blood. All very short, Dark skin, dark eyes, dark hair. Admittedly very uneducated people, and speak horrible spanish yet the women for the most part are very humble amazingly nice people. The men on the other hand are a bit of a problem for us. The most of them come back from work, demand food and then sleep till the morning, and we´ve had 3 casas already of women that want to follow christ and be baptised but their husbands won´t permit them to. Then saturday and sunday the men usually spend the whole day drinking themselves to oblivion. It´s not to be said for the whole race, it´s just how it is in this little pueblo. It´s sad, but among all of these people that Satan has trapped there are a lot of good, humble, good seeking people. We´re just searching for them every day! ! ! In our little apartment we pay 400 pesos a month, and that includes our power, gas, and light bills. Imagine living for 100 dollars a month all bills paid. And we live in one of the most expensive places in Cordon. The majority of the Bolivans that don´t live in their own man made huts pay around 25-50 pesos a month for their rent. 3-12 dollars. Pretty humble!!! But thats a little about the area. Tell Knight hi for me at his farewell, you´ll have to tell me how it went! Love ya!
Carson
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