Ok everyone, I did some research on Langue. Langue is in the district of San Lorenzo. It is in the north part of his area with Valle, Nacaome, and San Lorenzo in is area also. There are 25,000 people that live in the surrounding areas. It is on the border of El Salvador and is a regional Hammock making center. The town is made up of sharecroppers and day laborers. Wikipedia says there are usually Mormon missionaries and Peace Corps volunteers in the city. There are a lot of cattle. The town has been in a drought for quite some time. The main town has a large sized market that gets bigger on Sundays when the villagers come to town to sell their crops and goods. It's a hub for many cities so the transportation around the area is good. You can get to Tegucigalpa, Choluteca, and El Savador very easily from there. Here is his letter from this week. The last question I asked his that he refers to at the end is if he knew that it is Hammock Capital of the world. Enjoy
Hey mom and everyone
Well my week didn’t go
that great. We really only had like 3 days of work. So what had happened was
that I’m in a town that is not as developed as Monjaras. But that not to say
that Monjaras is even that developed haha. So we didn’t have energy for like 3
days this week and when the sun goes down and there is no light we have to be
in the house cuz it just gets unbelievably dark. And then on Thursday we had
interviews with President and he showed up like 4 hours late and when he got
here he had to do temple recommend interviews for some of the district members
of the county. So we didn’t get interviews started till like 630 at night, so
we lost that day of work. But they understood why all our numbers just really
sucked. But this week we got some good plans to get some new people to teach.
The area is the south of the mission. It’s hot and humid. The big majority of the people can’t read or
write. So you know the people are a little simpler then Danli. So I have to
adapt to that again. But I love the south it’s so much more fun then Danli. My
comp is cool. But like everyone he has his things that bug me but nothing that doesn’t
try my patience too much so it should be a good time with my comp.
So with Dani and Lani...
so I talked with the place that holds our records for Langue to see if
everything got done with. So I asked and they told me that they knew Lani and
that we needed a paper from the lawyer that said that she was divorced. So on Thursday
I talked with the lawyer that we were using in Monjaras and what he told me was
that Lani had lied about not having a kid with her 1st husband. Apparently when
the judge asked her about it she lied and when it got discovered that she did
have a little son with the guy the judge got mad and threw her case out, and so
if we want to get her divorced we have to start it all over and we can’t do it
in Choluteca because they won’t accept her case. So I have to do it in a place
called Nacaome which is the city right next to where I live. But the thing
about it is that we have to find a new lawyer. And the thing about it is that
we got a huge discount when we did it in Choluteca with only the lawyer charged
us 3000 limps but the average that I have heard is about 8000 limps. So I
talked to Sis Hernandez the wife of my president and she said that I should
start over and just ask the office for the money to get this all started. So
right now I’m looking for a lawyer that will help us out and try to get him for
as cheap as possible.
The hotel room is an
oven, really small concrete box with one window that almost doesn’t open up
haha. But its ok it not the worst house I have seen in the mission. Were trying
to convince the land lady to put ac in the room right now. We will see how that
works out haha. And no there is no maid service but there is a little worker
lady that makes us lunch every day. No we don’t have a kitchen we have a fridge
a table and a little 2 side hot plates to cook on, it’s sad hahah. No the land
lady she only cooks us lunch. What I do for dinner is this. I buy an egg and
you can buy already cooked beans in places called pulparias. They are little convenient
stores that sell drinks chips and all kinds of stuff. So I warm up some beans
an egg with a few tortillas and that’s dinner and breakfast hahah. Ok for laundry.
I have to do it by hand. So there are these things called pilas that are little
water tanks and next to them built out of concrete is a wash board. So I have
to wash my clothes by hand like twice a week so that I always have clothes. And
I also have to iron my own clothes. And the crappy part about this whole thing
is the land lady has a washing machine but she won’t let us use it. So when I
have a little more trust with her I’m going to see if we can raise the rent
because I imagine that’s the reason she doesn’t want us to use up the
electricity by using it all the time. So I figure we raise the rent a little
bit that should compensate for the money she will lose by letting us use the
machine.
The shirt burning was
fun. It went by really quick like 2 minutes but it was a good feeling to know
that this date next year I will be in the house. The area is in the middle of nowhere
it has nothing as in the words of food. And if it does it’s always going to be
really expensive. We start to talk expensive when something cost more than 80
limps. So if you do the math on that that is only a 4 dollar meal. Life here is
a lot different like when things cost about 5 dollars 100 limps those things
for me start to get expensive. Life here is really, really, really different.
Ya in my mission I think
I have only written in the church building twice and we aren’t allowed to write
on members computers when they have them so we always have to use internet
cafes or cybers as they are called down here.
And to you last
question yes I did. It’s unreal how they
make them. There is a family in my branch that makes them for a living. And
while we are on the subject... I was wondering if you could round up some money
so that I can but one or two of them while I’m down here. A cheap good one cost
like 500 limps like 25 bucks. And I have talked with some people and started
looking how I can get the best deal so I’ll let you know.
But the big thing is
that my area is big and I don’t know where to start but I’m trying
to listen to the spirit, and I think I have found where im going to start
working
So this is my wish
list for Christmas cause if you want to get it to me on time you need to
send it by like November mid November
Arizona Flag
New hat but it hast to
be a new era fitted something to do with Arizona
a new back pack,
jansport simple the one I would like it the one that has the leather on the
bottom of it and what I would like you to do to the back pack is put an Arizona
flag patch one it
Caramels
Puppy chow
Ties
Oh what I forgot to
tell you so if you can somehow pull this off I also want a Santa Cruz
t shirt large
And if you can somehow
get me something from each of the sports teams dbacks suns and cards
That is what I want
and if you want to throw in a few surprises that would be awesome
I love you guys I’m
doing great. The weeks go faster and faster each week. I’m doing my
best
Love you all
Elder Spencer Olsen
Camera just died. Swear
I will send pics next week hahaha
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