Week 79 (Nov. 20th 2017)

Alright, another week down, and it was an alright week. My companion and I are slowly learning the area and we aren't liking it all that much. There's a lot of walking and we live in the back of a huge rich neighborhood so we have to walk out of that every day. We have been trying to find the poor parts of our area but we only have one small neighborhood that is poor, which is a huge change compared to my last area where everybody was poor. I actually really miss the poorer people. They are so much more loving and humble, and even though they don't have much they were always willing to share. 

In my last area there were basically only people who came from the islands and spoke Dulegaya and were just good people. So now that I'm in this richer area it has been super hard to find people to teach because I'm so accustomed to just talking to the natives and I usually tried to do it in their language. So in the last week my comp and I were able to really search out the area and find 4 families of Kunas. And the good thing about these people is that there are always like 30 that live in one little house. So we found a few and have been teaching them and I love it.

Also I attached a video of our house. And a picture of my hammock. I told my comp i would find a place to put it and he said there was nowhere but never the less I did find a place haha, its strung from the hinges of the door to where we hand our clothes. I've been sleeping really well in it though haha!! 

Also a little about my comp, he's from Peru, his names Elder Castillo, he speaks no English, or dule, but at this point my Spanish is as good as his so we can communicate just fine. Its actually nice to be back with a Latino companion again. Makes it easier to learn, and focus on our purpose here. In English we always joke around but when I speak Spanish I usually use more gospel language, although here in colon they use a lot of Ghetto words which I picked up in my first area so I still fit in well here haha. 

Anyway hope all is well!! Happy thanksgiving i guess, we don't have that holiday here but I did write it down in my agenda so that has to count for something!! 

LOve you ALL!

Elder Hamblin 

Video may not work but this is the new apartment