The rains came down...

And the floods came up! Phewie! This week was.. kinda crazy. I was sick for a good chunk of it, so we lost a lot of appointments and stuff, so that was a bummer. Just gotta hope that this week will be better.

So, it was raining like crazy this week. Tuesday, we went and did a service for Pueblo Viejo, a part of Puerto close to the river Tambopata. It was crazy. Peoples houses were flooded up to my waist. We were moving out their possesions and putting them in the chapel here. But, it was super sketchy, cuz it was water that was like, slightly mixed with waste water, so that was super super sketchy. To top her off, I was sick that day a little, and by the time we were done, I was like, dying. Really not the smartest idea, but my Zone Leader doesn't really understand sicknesses. Oh well. Threw in a few pictures from the service.

Oh, but Monday, we went to the zoo! I'm sending a picture of me with a snake. It was pretty sweet. Unfortunately, my camera died in like, 10 minutes... so. I'll have to take pictures another day. Haha. That night we did a family home evening with a family, and they gave us "carne de la selva". Basically, jungle meat! It's some big old wild pig that lives in the jungle that this guy hunted for us. It was DELICIOUS. 

Okay, but... Wednesday, and most of Thursday, I was lying in bed with a fever, feeling sick to my stomach, and, yeah. It wasn't a lot of fun. But, we were able to go teach Guillermo and Yenny. We found Yenny's records this week... turns out, she's already a member... but, yeah. Still gotta work with Guillermo, and her too haha. But they've been good this week. I had to laughyesterday at church, because the deacons were passing out tithing envelopes yesterday during church, and they gave Guillermo one. He came over and was asking us, "Okay, if I put money in this slot, do they give it to you?" "...uh... no." "Oh... here?" "Nope." "Here?" "Nope. We don't get paid, but if you're determined to give us money, we're not gonna tell ya no." (We said that jokingly of course.) But, he's awesome. Love teaching that guy.

Carmen is doing well this week too. She is still thinking hard about leaving on the mission, and this week she introduced us to a few friends, so we maybe me teaching them in the coming weeks. We'll see. 

Basically, the end of the week we were just doing service projects for people, cleaning up houses, trying to harden up the ground where it's flooded and their motocycles get stuck, pouring water out of houses, digging ditches to reroute water.. but it's been good. I like working like that actually, so it's been fun. I like hacking up the jungle with machetes.

Um. I think that's about it. Hoping we are gonna be able to have a week a little more.. normal this week haha. All is well here. Hope all of you can say the same! Love and miss you all, until next week!

Elder Richman