THE GREAT TUKTUK ADVENTURE

Well, we believe that we are on the road to becoming missionaries since we both have continual diarrhea and are covered with mesquito bites.   With these issues it seems that Gary has lost some weight.  He can tie his own shoes now!

They are little three wheeled "taxes" running all over the place (picture attached).   And since we have not gotten a car yet, we are dependent on the office missionaries for us to do shopping and so on.   The office missionaries are gone a lot doing things around the mission.   So, we were a bit stranded and afraid to take th TukTuk's.  Watching these things run around town, on the wrong side of the road and on sidewalks, is a little terrifiying.  However, two sister missionaries talked us into going with them, just to "break the ice".   The senior companion sister is a big strong girl, major athlete, and, pretty much not scarred of anything.   She thew us into one of these thing.  We sat in the back seat, three of us crammed in, and, she sat by the driver where there really was not seat.   No seat belts or doors, of course.   And we took off!!  It was an exciting ride.  Kathy and I were both "white" and shaking when we got off, but, alive.  We took another TUKTUK back, and, now, we are frequent riders.  In fact, we kind of like them.  We are nice to the drivers and they seem like good people.

Conference was wonderful.  We went to the stake center and the stake president had set up a computer for the english speaking missionaries  ( we are told to watch conference in our native language).  We had a wonderful time with these missionaries.  They all cheered for the Seventy from Guatemala that spoke.   Kathy and I were encouraged by the talks and reminded that we are here to vertually save lives!!
The turnout for Sunday morning was unbelievable.   The members are all "beautiful people" and we love them!!

Our apartment has "sky lights" over the bathroom and the stair well.  This amounts to a piece of corrigated transparent fiber glass, just tacked down over the hole.  Kathy was taking her cold shower this morning and let out a little "yelp".  Some big birds were jumping around on our skylight and you could see them fine just above her head in the shower.  However, we are getting used to the way of life here and spending lots of time trying to learn spanish!!