I'm going to have a blast out there, growing my beard too because it's off on an island, everyone does. I'm gonna have fun coming back after 6 weeks and sending you millions of pictures, and it's gorgeous out there. Still in the Panama zone, and I'm going to have my birthday out there and pass a year in the mission out there, so weird. Goodson is also coming out to Blas with me too, oh yeah! Different island called Narganá, and the one I'm going to is called Ustupu, which is the same island as the lady who cooks our dinner every day in Veracruz. Fun thing is that she's going to be heading out to Blas this week, haha, so I'll be seeing her again soon :P
We have to buy all of our food before we leave because there are no stores out there, and I'll be sleeping in my hammock also because there are no beds, glad I bought one already :) More bucket showers and all, but apparently there's AC? Not sure yet, haha. We will have our flight out to the island on Saturday. Then once we get to the main island, (a bit more industrious or more people at least), which is where Goodson is going, then we take canoes or some boat off to my island.
I'm gonna lose even more weight, haha. I am going to try to learn as much Kuna as I can though, even though it's a useless language I'll never use after the mission, it will be important for at least 3 months
I'll describe a bit more details
so people don't wonder what happened to me, or why I fell off the face of the
earth, haha. We have to buy all or the majority of our food right here now before we leave, and then
package it all up with us for when we get on the plane on Saturday morning. We
bought lots of junk food, haha, and good stuff like lots of pasta and PB and J
stuff to make sandwiches. There are some things that we can still get on the
island, apparently quite a bit, but it's cheaper here in the city.
What else...oh I bought a big like cowboy
type hat today to wear out there and sunglasses, because it's all cool out
there, I'm allowed to and encouraged to protect myself from the sun. Being out
on Blas apparently is going to be mostly doing service, cutting stuff with
machetes and things like that, I'll be sure to include a ridiculous amount of
details when I come home. I'm quite excited, it's going to be a different world.
I will take like
hundreds of pictures out there and videos, it's gonna be an adventure. I
encourage you all to look up San Blas, Panamá, the island of Ustupu is where I
will be. We will live in the chapel there, which has tiny luxuries, I believe
AC, but I will be sleeping in the hammock that I bought everyday, no beds out
there for anyone, no way of getting them there. Glad I already bought one.
The
other 2 companionships, Goodson and Arnell (ending his mission out in Blas),
and Whiting (also ending) and Rose will be leaving tomorrow. Arbon, the redhead
and I will be sticking around, going to get more little necessities before
leaving the day after. I can't bring much, so I need to think wisely about what
I will need for the next 6 weeks. I'll get a pocket knife probably sometime
soon, and a machete to protect myself at night, haha. No refrigerator or
anything out there I believe, bucket showers, not really clean water, isn't
recommended to drink without some form of purification, and we have electricity
sometimes but I guess the chapel where we live is solar powered! Cool.
I want
you all to know that I love you and that you should all be grateful for the
small luxuries and blessings in life: beds, electricity, clean water to drink,
etc. It reminds me of Max's mission in Honduras, saying that like 90% of the houses
in the mission don't have clean water to drink, when we all know that every
place in the U.S. has nice water and luxuries like that. It is a very humbling
experience I must say, and it's gonna be really fun. I will come back with so
many experiences and stories that really can't be had unless serving a mission,
and a mission like this specifically.
Please continue to write me, I won't get
mail or anything till next change, but it will be wonderful to come into the
city with all kinds of surprises like that :) Ambea bege (I love you). Cuídense
a todos
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