ADAPTATION

Before we talk about getting adapted to our area, we want to tell a you about a young missionary we talked to at the mission quarterly conferences. He came from a broken home in Arizona
and as a child he suffered much abuse from his step father. Broken arm and broken leg. So, he lived with his great grandmother for a while and really loved her but she got too old to take care of him. So, he lived with his father, a bad environment, however he met the sister missionaries. He was 14. He listened to the sisters mainly because he liked the sister, but, they were replaced by elders, however, he was baptized. About mission age, he wanted to go but had no financial means and no support From his father. He got a call from his aunt. She asked if he wanted to serve a Mission. He said yes, but had no money for the dentist, doctor, or anything. She said she had lined up a dentist and doctor that would do the work for him for no cost. He was amazed. But, he said no one would support me and I could never live here while waiting to leave. She said, her ward members had agreed to pay for his mission and he could come and live with her now! So, here he is, almost done with a great mission and doing wonderfully!
Now, how we are adapting:
Well, Gary has an ant family living in his laptop computer. These ants are about as big as a printed period on the screen. They are tiny and very fast. For some time, Gary either thought his mouse was going wild now and the, or, he was just seeing old people eye floaties. Than, he discover his live-in ants. No they have an agreement, the run around on his screen and he squashes them!
Then there are the tuktuks: We are ok stopped up against a bus with its full exhaust in our face, (there are no emission controls here at all) but, when one went down a little road and pulled over, and pointed to a flat tire, Kathy went white in the face and said this is it: this stop is on purpose to rob and kill us, and, I am going to die without my kitchen being done! Well, he was a nice guy and indicated we should get another tuktuks.
Now, there are no traffic laws, I think the drivers have agreed to do the following: if there is a space fill it! However, they are very polite with each other. Our driver tried a U turn in front of a speeding motor cycle and car, (we were ready to die again) he could not complete the turn, the cycle and car just stopped and waited, no honking or anger. We were speeding along a two lane road and we had a truck in front of us an were going up a hill on a curve, our driver started to pass!! And there was a car coming head on, he just moved over and now we have a three lane road. The way speed is controlled is with speed bumps. These are not normal speed bumps. They are used anywhere including highways (two lane) , and, they are a large hunk of concrete across the road. So high, that in the Toyota carolla we were in, all the passengers had to get out so the car would not high center!!
We have our windows open, no screens, day and night, a few nights ago we were awakened by a strange animal noise, we stayed in bed shaking and terrified that a monkey was going to jump through the window!! Nothing happened. We don't know what it was.

Here we are working in the office. Gary got up in Sacrament meeting and gave a little talk in Spanish (his testimony). But, We still can not understand spanish speakers very well.
We love our mission and are getting more involved with missionary work every day.