12/23/2019

Feliz Natal!

 This week was wild! zone conference in Porto Velho which means 14-hour bus ride there and back. would have been de boas except for the morning of when my tiny little ecuadorian companion started spewing throwup:( she powered through that busride though. she~s a trooper for sure. I am very proud of her:) most of the time here I really have no idea what´s going on because everyone and everything is so wild. SO i have started to try and give myself a little direction by asking ´what can we learn from this experience?´ so the lesson i learned from this one is do not eat ramen with mayo and salami:) I think Sister Murillo will testify to that. Anyway we missed christmas church to go to the hospital. Another adventure in and of itself! anyway that´s pretty much been my week. We still have weekly dessert every sunday so I am happy :) love you all and send me emails!
The Rio Negro

Tiago + his life companion the turtle

Murillo the trooper and a rainbow 
Manaus

Pepito the Cat

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