Jan 2, 2012

Hey how are you guys!?

Im doing great, you know just enjoying the holidays :) haha yeeaa well it was a pretty fun week for me :) you know just trying to teach the gospel to the whole little pueblo de las matas. though

here when it comes time for holidays, its just one GIant excuse to drink and drink some

more.and las matas, everyone as they grow up leaves las matas becuase theres not really much here, but EVERYONE ocomes back for the holidays, so the populations been like double or triple the past week or two. and they all just come down here to drink and party.

new years eve was just crazy, they started newyears eve morning and ended 48 hours laterish, midnight of the 1st they ended. it was just crazyness they tore the town APART!

and because everyone was wasted we had no one to talk too. so we were forced to just visit members the whole day, we contacted for like 1 hour and talked to 3 people its better to just

wait for after.

so for new years we made a traditional haitian soup

becuase elder Cilus said he wasnt about to leave that traditio. so it was supe rfun i had to peel everyything. but wow... that man knows how to cook!

oh and he made me peel some demon vegitibal, its like som eroot thingy, but you can hold it in tyour hand right but when you peel it the sticky stuck on the other side of the, you know how a root is it doesnt have bark but its has a harder thing there kind of like a carrot but harder, on the other side of that is some sticky gooy stuff and that stuff ITCHES like crazy its like a stingy itch, it hurts. so you have to were plastic baggies on your hands when peeliong and cleaning it, i thought he was just joking that i had to were plastic bags, but as ai was peeling it a little bit got on my ring finger and dang!!! that stuff hurts... haha demon root! haha

but that soup was SUPER good ! and he made a lasanga he always makes for the first day of the year and WOW ! I just cant get enough of that lasanga, hes going to teach me and whenhe finaly makes it states side hell make that for us and this haitian dumpling thing he makes and a few others.

also exciting news for this week , deborah and DAvi got baptisted!!

deborah is the cousin of richard and davi his next door nieghbor, now richard is bring two other cousins of his to churhc... richards jsut studly. just bringing in people left and right!

yea theyre cvool... but were having alittle trouble finding more people now, but life goes on. oh my visa... hah so Hma ford called me a couple weeks back to send in my visa photos so they can renue my visa, so i sent them in a couple days after at the zone confernce, gave them to the ZLS them i the browns came and i saw the ZL give it to them, so they should have been there with in a couple days. but she called me up a couple days ago and said hey ELder Z I need youre photos

still, i told her what happened and she said oh well they havnt givin me anything yet, so she said shed talk to them, and today i talked to her and she told me still hasnt recevied them. so im

going to have to take some photos soon but if we dont get them in soon imma have to finish my mission somewhere else;) maybe puerto rico ;D or florida;) but na im sure i wont get kicked out of the country.:D

but yea everythings going good here,

Love you all

ELder ZElasko

oh yes i got the package from the relief socity and From Oma and Opa,

Im writing THem back with a thanks you letter, the YOung women also sent a letter, THats super cool that ones native language is spanish, where she from that he 1st language is that? im pretty sure her spnaish is WAY better then mine.... makes sense though right.

but yea it was sweet getting those packages, feeling the love:)

yea some more photos, of cooking,

and one of the baptismal font, thats why you dont drink the water here... its nasty: )