My area is called Independencia y Cuidad Vieja, and it is right on the coast line! It has been a super change of surroundings! it is pure sky scrapers and apartments! Everyone here lives in things called pensiones or apartments in buildings of about 25 floors! The pensiones are buildings that have about 10 different familes living in the same house. It gets pretty cramped, but they are pretty cool. There are also a ton of huge estatuas and huge plazas where we see a bunch of tourists. I have heard pretty much about every different kind of language there. English, spanish, german, french, portuguez, and japonese! Haha also the people here move at about 100 miles an hour!! It seems like everyone it running back and forth from work! I feel like I am in the middle of a horse race! I have been having to get used to looking before crossing the street, because in all my other areas, there wasnt hardly any traffic. I already owe my life to Elder Delgado for telling me to stop, right before a bus would have pile drived me in the concrete. Ha the city is pretty crazy!
The short little not so funny story of the week would go to my new comp, Elder Delgado, from peru! He is dying this change! Soy su asesino! But something that has given him new life, is the combination of peanut butter and jelly! Thanks to my wonderful mother, that sent some good ol' peanut butter, we have been eating peanut butter jelly everynight! And my comp has been trying to buy it off from me all week! haha.
I also had the chance to present myself to the ward by giving a talk! On Saturday I was told I would have to give a talk, so I put something real nice together and it went well. I got the people laughing a lil bit while at the same time getting them pumped up to unite in the work of salvation!
The church here is like an apartment building of 6 floors, the bottom floor has the sacrament room, and the other have the classes, and the bishopric, and the insitute, its a pretty church, right in the middle of the city. Also the ward has a bunch of youngsters, because they all move to work and study here, so its full of return missionaries to help us in the work too! We also have an awesome investigator named Alex! He is about 45 and he already has a super strong testimony of the church, he is going to get baptized the 12th of April!
To finish, I just want to leave you with a quote that I like, that says, "He that reads, forgets, he that watches, remembers, but he that does, learns." I know that hoy es el dis! And that there doesn't exist such a time as the right time to begin something. I know our Savior doesn't wait for us at the finish line, rather he starts with us at the starting line and is with us until the end. I love you fam!
muchos saludos!
elder watts
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