Marituba 1

You Already Love Marituba

Dear people,

Marituba is awesome!  Sorry I didn't take too many photos; I will for next week.  Marituba is huge and we walk everywhere and I got another huge blister this week.  Our house is a house this time not an apartment. My first day there was a giant brown wasp thing, I think called a caba, that I had to kill while I was showering so that was fun.  I also had to adjust to killing cockroaches in the bathroom before I showered; which I wasn't sure if I would get used to, but I did.  It's convenient because you can push the cockroaches into a corner and the ants will clean them up.  Also I included some pictures of a large spider I tried to kill, but missed though, and it is still roaming our house.  

In Marituba we have a mom that is called the missionary mom and I love her so much because we can always go there and eat food when we are hungry and she has food for us.  The ward is amazing too, they are all so nice.  

The area is huge so my companion taught me how to hitch hike the public bus system so that should come in handy.  

One fun thing is that we are a part of the mom squad with their babies. Like every other afternoon we go to the park and chill with the moms and their babies and teach them so that is fun.  

I also tried takaka (I think I spelled it right) but its basically a soup that had weird boogers in it.  It tasted good though.  

At church we had 4 college students studying religion visit so that was kind of fun to help them with their homework and answer questions.  

I saw a trailer for Incredibles 2 on TV, so I will have to watch that when I get home too.  Everyone in Brasil has their TV blasting while you are walking by or when you walk into there house (it was only part of the trailer not all of it).

Marituba is fun. It seems like people have a bit more money here than in Augusto Monte Negro so it's interesting and a bit of a change; but overall nice because of the abundance of food.  We have one person that feeds 3 pairs of missionaries every month and Sunday one of the pairs didn't show up and we had to eat their share of food, and I literally could barely walk out of their house.  

I will write more about the people I am teaching when I get to know them better. This week was kind of just a blast of new information and new things.  Its kind of funny, because of my companion we have lots of girls around the age of 20 that want to "learn about the church" so that's kind of funny, but we don't have trouble finding people to teach.  (My companion is kind of like Collin Clark, jacked and good looking.)

I love you guys!  Remember to stay safe. I will try to take more pictures for next week!