The Good, Bad and the Vomit

Me and Elder Tomo from Mozambique!

GRAM AND GRANDAD! that sounds fun! My parents are coming to visit us in Oklahoma! We are super excited...

I´m happy to hear about that! 

And it really does help to hear that you guys want me here. The past two weeks have been really rough. Often times I want to come home cause I feel like I´m not progressing. But really, I am! It just feels like I´m not because time moves in slow motion here. It feels like I've been here for a very long time. But I´m doing better now.

The members feed us like crazy down here. Too much if I´m honest. Lunch here is the big meal and dinner is just as small if not smaller than breakfast. So that´s a weird transition. (excerpt from Ian's letter that Justin's Pleasant Hills YM group will find familiar- weak stomachs need not read: 

So funny story. read this to mom and dad. We were eating lunch at a member's
house and I had just finished eating a ton of fried chicken and potatoes
and pineapple juice when the 19 year old son brings me this giant bowl of
chicken soup. So to be polite, I start eating it. Well, I start to feel
sicker and sicker until I finish the bowl and I feel like I´m dying. So I
go into the bathroom to splash some cold water on my face and with like a
.5 second warning, I barf ALL of the soup into the sink. The entire bowl.
In the sink. Which then decides to clog. So I´m standing horrified in the
bathroom of a member's house with a sink full of vomit. So I had to explain
to my comp what happened and then I cleaned it up hahaha.)
We have two more baptism dates!! For some parents of a recent convert. And I´m stoked!

We went on exchanges on Thursday which was very cool. We taught some cool lessons.

We live in a pretty decently sized apartment with the zone leaders. That´s fun!
My shoes are absolutely wonderful. No blisters and my feet are normally never sore. It rains cats and dogs here and it helps that they´re water proof. Sleeping is a nightmare (or not, because you can´t have nightmares when you wake up five times a night). But it´s slowly getting better. Melatonin helps but I have horrible dreams every time I use it. So I don´t usually take it.

The bugs don´t bother me anymore! It´s magical!! (Or maybe all our prayers for him...)

I´ve been trying to work hard and Spanish is coming along!!

Also, I´m teaching an English class every Tuesday now so that´s really cool! Elder Garcia pretty much started that. The problem is that the only English a lot of these people know are the names of bands or swear words. So they´ll write that on the board and I´ll have to explain that it´s bad and they shouldn´t say it haha.

I love you!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
Love,
Elder Skinner

In the MTC with his new favorite fruit- Passion Fruit which he says looks like Alien embryos or brains or something. They do! Ew! (But I know the taste yummy.)

 The cool statues are at the bottom of the mountain we toured in Bogota 

and the one of me is at the top of the mountains.

 And the tiger blanket is my room here.

My friend Elder Dalton in the same mission. This is a kid who was in Justin's seminary class in Layton last year who go the exact same call-word for word -except their names.
 (I think that 's who this is....)

I don´t have any new pics cause I´m not really allowed to carry around my camera. It´s dangerous to pull it out here 'cause someone could steal it. :(