More playa and the coble stone roads. :)
More playa and the coble stone roads. :)
This is classic..... Many uruguayans take a broken car, pull out the cars transmission and attach a box to it... then pull it around with a horse. haha.
There are signs on many roads "Prohibited: Horse drawn carts!" haha...
Walking though a short cut... really just for fresh air. :)
The Uruguayans are short... walking in the street is easier than on the side
walks because their trees are cut about the highth of my chest...
Car for sale, can you see it? :)
Advertisements BLARING in my ears!!!
I found the Rotary Club
Hey there family! :)
I was thinking a little about what dad asked me when we
skyped, "If we went to Uruguay,
what would be some of the big cultural shocks?" SO this week, I
looked for them! When dad asked me I really couldn’t think of anything,
because all the customs have become "Normal" to me. That is
what I have lived with for a year and a half... it is no longer normal to see a
"For sale" sign on a car or motorcycle, because I haven’t seen one
for a year and a half, here in Uruguay, instead of placing a sign on your car,
they place a jug of water on top and park it where ever they want. Every
Uruguayan knows that when a car has a jug of water on top, that means it is for
sale and you just knock (Clap) the door of the house in front of it. Ha-ha.
There are SO many things that you would find weird about Uruguay,
there is an "Almacen" every half a block, that’s where someone has
taken their living room and turned it into a Mini-Market. Where they sell
the basics for the neighborhood, TP, Alfajores, Bread, Cleaning supplies,
Sodas, etc. The only time that I go to a legit Super Market is on pday
when we go to stock up on stuff. :) They also have SO many motorcycles
here that almost nobody listens to the radio, so radio ads are basically
pointless, so many businesses advertize by paying someone to attach a trailer
to their car or moto and drive around everywhere with big stadium speakers on
the back, playing their advertisements. Things like that are now common
to me and yet would be so foreign to you. There are lots of things, like
every house having bars on their windows, Everyone (Except missionaries) saying
hello and goodbye with a kiss on the cheek, Everyone jay-walking because its
easier and not enforced, The majority of their mailboxes are just a two liter
cut in half and taped to a tree in front of the house or the fence, or the fact
that there are SO many old cars here, all running on diesel and missing half
their parts. Ha-ha so many things to explain. :)
Yesterday was such an amazing day! I was blown away at
the guidance that I felt... At three, we had a charla with a new
investigator named Karina that we had found on Friday. We set it up with
a married member couple because karina knew them. The charka went AMAZING
and the members helped us in EVERY aspect that they could have. They made
Karina feel secure and important, asking questions and testifying so well.
We ended up inviting her to be baptized and she accepted! We were
so blessed. After that charla, we went to one of our recent converts
named Sandra. That was a HUGE downer... We showed up and she wasn’t home,
the only one home was her son eziquiel who was just watching over the house
because his mom wasn’t home, We started to talk to him and i noticed that
he was REALLY different. After talking a while, I asked him how he really
felt and he broke down in tears as he told me that his mom (Sandra) had
overdosed Saturday night and was currently in the hospital... She almost
KILLED herself. She suffers from depression and just about abandoned her
kids two weeks ago. We helped him feel better and acted like the two big
brothers that he needed at that time, along with teaching him about the gospel
(He was baptized about 6 months ago) and finished with a prayer, after that, we
went to a less active member that gave me some good news, she pulled out her
tablet and showed me some photos of Elder wilson. He was in the offices
when I left, and he was married on Saturday! It was so funny to see him
kissing a girl and in normal clothes! He is a lot like Travis roskie,
haha, reminds me allot of him. Buy it was great to see him doing well
after the mission... it kind of sucker punched me in the gut too, because I thought
"Man, he got hitched QUICK!" but the less active member reminded me
that he left a whole YEAR ago!!!! Way to make me feel old in the mission!
Ha-ha. After a short charla with her, we went to one of our old
investigators Roxana. She wasn’t baptized two weeks ago because she didn’t
feel ready. But yesterday, there was such an amazing spirit as we stood
in her doorway and talked about baptism. We helped her understand the
fact that she REALLY HAD received an answer from God. That she really
could do it! It was amazing to see the change on her face when we helped
her see the big picture. She will be baptized on the 14th of June.
:) Super excited. :)
I love this work and I love the results that we are seeing.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Reay
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