Africa Week 3

well first you were right, the village i live in is about 45 min drive or more to the city of Beira so we have to get on a shopa, it's a minivan and you pay 15 meticas to ride it from balanca to beira its about 26 meticas for a dollar right now so we ride it. There are four rows of seats, all can seat four people in them but the more people you can get in the more money you can get so most the time a low number is 17 and a high number is 36 people just crammed in there, so it's a long nasty ride but so is all of africa! we don't have a house address, no one in are village does your just marked by GPS coordinate. so you cant send a package you just send it to the mission house and we get it on the next transfer. You can email photos here i just got some of jakes magic farm! and i can send a few back to you but the internet is so slow i can only send a few pics at a time and i have to buy a card reader first so i have to find one! then i can! so one day you can get pictures. im doing great the jet lag in gone now im just trying to get use to the country! the weather channel is right its freezing here! its not really that cold but for africa its like in the all time lows ever its cold! the people just sit in there house with a little fire all day trying to warm up! so yea its the warm dry season right now then come december like it gets the hot wet season and thats the only two we have here! and as for the people there just a lost, cause i've been trying to teach them just that but there just to lazy and stuck in the traditions of their fathers to change but still trying one of them will get the hint some time! but that's all the questions here a normal day in the life of me so we get up at 6:30 eat breakfast then have 3 hours of study personal then language then companion, so for that i'm just using all my time to read the book of Mormon in Portuguese. Both language and personal trying to get that under my belt then for companion. My comp wanted to learn the bible better so were reading that. Were in exodus 22 right now NO FUN! haha then we got out and teach we can most the time get in 2 lessons then lunch then 2 more some days 3 lessons then we teach piano then seminary then we can get one lesson in then its dark and since we live in the middle of no were they don't have electricity in 95 percent of the houses so we have to go in at about 1700 or 5 ish then we just do what every we want until bed time its a good life! somethings about it get old like when ever i want water i have to go to the back yard and fetch it out of a well not just turn a nozzle! so that not so fun but for the most part i love it's just a giant camp-out! the people are crazy, the other day we were walking home from a lesson and some drunk guy was calling us little men little men so we just thought he was on the phone then he grabs me so i whip around and he tells me look i'm a little drunk right now but i want to change my life i want to be a Jesus man help me, so me and my comp decided to see if he really wanted to change we would have him take us to his house and he would pour out the beer in front of us which by the way is 10 meticas cheaper than water so everyone is drunk. So when we get to his house he looks and looks and can't find any, so my comp tells him so go get us some water so we can wash our hands, so as he is doing that i steal an empty bottle from the ground and fill it with dirty soap water i found outside, when he comes back out i was like look i found it. So he grabs it from me smells it and was like yep, then we open it and before i can say anything else he chugs it! then after that he stops drops the bottle gets the funniest face ever then with all the strength he could find screeches NNNAAAA then runs to the corner and throws up! i couldn't hold it in so i was laughing my head off, he asked what was so funny i just said it didn't translate well to Portuguese then i told him if he really wanted to change come to church then we left. He didn't come but i know he wouldn't but that was just another normal day. All the girls have kids and they just breast feed right there in front of you just take there shirt off and start feeding, it was supper awkward at first but i'm getting used to it now. It happens like 6 times a day! but thats just crazy old Africa for you. Any other questions just send them my way! love you have a great week!