Travels

I have a couple days to sum up. On Friday we made our trip down to Lake Atitlan, but it sure was an adventure getting there. We got on an overcrowded but to get to an exchange point and then got on another bus to Solala. We got off at the market there and Eric got pick pocketed. Sad. He had Q300 and all his cards and things. While I was using the restroom, the others think they saw Elder Reeder. Hopefully I will get to see him while I'm here. So from Solala we went down to Panajachel. It's a little tourist town on Lake Atitlan. They've nicked named it "Gringotenanga." When we got there we got on a little boat and went out to a little pueblito called Tzunana. They mostly just speak Katchekquel there and a little Spanish. We are going to go out there every other week and teach nutrition to the school children. There are about 350 kids enrolled in school. It should be neat to work with them.

After we got back to Panajachel we got dinner and looked around. We were going to get a hotel room and spend the night so we could hike a volcano the next Saturday, but it started to pour and we really weren't prepared to do an 8 hour hike. So we hired a van driver to drive us back to Chimaltenango. So yesterday we decided to do something fun for our day off. We got Luis to take us a couple hours away to Monte Rico to go to the black sand beach there. It was Beautiful! The town reminded me a lot of Bella Vista-like a little beach town. It was really hot and humid at the beach. We had a lot of fun laying out and playing in the ocean. IT was so supper salty though. When you gt pounded by the waves, your eyes would burn so bad. But it was a ton of fun. There where a lot of crazy drunk guys on the beach though. One of them passed out and people thought that he had drowned so they 


















started pumping his legs like on the cartoons. It was pretty funny. Then someone was going to do chest compressions until someone realized the guy was still breathing. About a half an hour later he woke up, stumbled off with his friends, got another beer, and went back down to the ocean. What an idiot. Some other drunk guy pushed Annie down in the water and pulled on her suit. Then he kept asking us to go out and swim with him. Ya right. On our way home we stopped in Antigua and got dinner for Jenny's birthday. She turned 19 today. We went to church this morning. It was fun to be back in a Spanish ward. It made me miss Argentina a lot. But the people are great and I'm excited to be able to work a little with the missionaries. I would love to see Preach My Gospel in action. That way I can help the missionaries at the MTC better.