Some pics from ensenada. FISH TACOS!

Ensenada Mexico!

A view from a brothers house in Ensenada. It is beautiful here, not to hot, not to cool! :) about the perfect temperature. Its interesting being the foreigner who doesn't speak the language, yesterday in service, we went around asking Habla Inglese, or however you spell it, and then got the remark, "In Mexico we speak spanish." haha well dur.. :)

Orealla

We went to orealla last weekend! It was an amazing and super encouraging trip. Ten need greaters went up on friday night, and we stayed on top of the boat talking the whole 5 hour trip there. After that, the local friends, parted us up and opened their homes to us! It was a great experience. Cai and myself stayed with brother Lennox, the only MS up there, who runs the whole congregation by himself! On saterday, brother Tom Sanchez led us in a boating expidition up the river another few hours! We took the houses on the river between Orealla and Siporuta (not sure how its spelled.) and then we worked the town of Siporuta. Its about a 3 hour walk from the closest Kindgdom hall, which is the Orealla congregation, and doesnt get worked on a regular basis. We had a super long day, starting out in the weeee morning hours and then working until past dark. In siporuta, sage and I only got to talk in 5 houses... this doesnt seem like much, but when every one of those houses, we started a study in! I think our shortest stay at a house was 45 minutes! The truth is deffinetly needed up there! The first house we stopped at in town, the man told us that he would love to learn more about the bible, but no one ever came by him. So we were like, well here we are, and started right in to chapter 3! Another house we took, the man did not seem interested, then his wife yells "are you Jehovah's Witnesses?" She immediatly invited us up into the house, and the man was like, I didnt know you were witnesses! He then sat down with us and we had a nice discussion about armegeddon! Their choice. The lady was like, Ive always wondered what armegedon was, can you explain it to me... ha ha. Thank goodness for reasoning books! We were able to give a good witness. All in all it was an amazing trip!

Suriname Bethel

Visited the suriname bethel today! Its kinda out of town, but it was a neat visit. Much larger than the guyana branch, but we had a super quick tour. Here is this, ok, her ya go. Time to leave. Ha ha. But it was nice, and they arranged a car ride back into town for us, so that was also awesome. We also found out that we cant go to an english congregation here, which they have two of, because their meetings are on thursday and we will be gone! EAK! ha ha. Well, until next time...

Sweet Suriname!

So we are in suriname now! we got here sunday, and its really quite the city. It has some neat older architecture, 1 liter bottles of pargo bier (beer), and most people here are amazing with languages. The official language is dutch, then a lot of people also speak their native tounge, like hindi, javanese, chinese, and also a lot of people speak english on top of all that! Quite amazing people actually. You can tell we arn't in guyana anymore, the people hear are... a little more rounded... ah ha. and almost everyone has a car. The city has many little monuments, small parks, and a really neat waterfront where you can hang out and eat food of the semi-permanent street vendors. The conversion ration hear is 3 srd to $1 usd. so you would think it would be in our favor, but things seem to be a little pricy. A cheeseburger from burger king (yes they have a burger king, mcdonalds, kfc, AND a pizza hut!) would cost you about 6 srd (aka $2 us.) Yesterday we tried to moneygram me some money, and that was a nightmare, first we got sent away telling us we had a number for western union, then 4 hours of walking and directions later, we finally found a western union only to have them tell us that in fact we had a money gram number, (it started raining during the walk.) so we walked and were soaked to another money gram place, and they were like, yes it is in fact a money gram! YES RIGHT! WRONG! ha ha, they didnt have enough money to give me my money... sigh, so we had to trudge all the way back to the place we were in the first place, and they told us oops, yes thats a money gram, o and by the way, if you get it in srd, you will loose $100 usd in the conversion! Thats most of the money im getting sent! EAK! so then i had to call mom and have her tell them to send it in USD, so we will see how that works out.... anywho, despite that nitemare, I do love paramaribo, tis a neat city.

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Day at the beach

We had a day at the beach, where the congregation went swimming and ate, and had a good time all around! you can see here we are playing a game called dog and bone. People are divided on each side and given a number, when your number is called, you must rush forward and try to get the bone before your opposite gets it. But when you grab the bone, if they tag you your out! This is cai and sarita circling the bone!