Well call me Tarzan and throw me in the Peten jungle hahaha.  But I'm not in the jungle I am in San Luis Peten and it is a little tiny dinky town in a valley surrounded by several big hills and well its jungley to me but I guess the real jungle is on the other side so who knows!  My trainer is Elder Parker, it is funny he has red hair as well haha.  He is from Logan, Utah and he is cool I like him.  Our apartment is a one room house, two beds and oh yes don't forget the mosquito nets haha.  The first day I came home and counted 25 bites just on my feet, nowhere else just on my feet but they are small ones so I am good.  This area is challenging.  We have 200 members but only 40 at most show up for church so we have to really work with inactives.  The 14 hour drive here was cool.  I had to stay overnight in Coban at the zone leaders house along with 7 other missionaries going to Peten.  After that we had the 14 hour drive couped up on this little bus.  It was scary, we had to change buses and all of our stuff was on the bus and the bus started to drive off so we had to chase the bus and they stopped and gave us our stuff back.  So all is well now, I made it but I was so stressed and paranoid.  All I do is sweat constantly, like I get in the shower get out sweat ... go out and work come home and my pants and shirt are just soaked to the bone wet so I take a shower get and ...yep you guessed it sweat hahha.  I sweat non stop 24/7.  It is really pretty here but the only bad thing is our apartment is infested with ants, like way tiny ones so I am pretty sure I eat ants every meal but I just don't realize it haha but oh well!  Here is a funny story, we taught this old branch president and we talked about the temple and getting sealed and the spirit was strong then when were done he told us that he was separated from his wife and so it was really awkward.  The Spanish is terrible everyone speaks so fast and uses all these slang words so I struggle with it but I just have to try.  Well that all for this week, love you all.  I miss you all!

 

Love Elder Barker