7/16

This week went by really fast.  Transfers are here and Elder Arpon has finished his mission.  He was a hard worker and liked missionary work but at the same time it is great to have a change.  I will stay here in the area another transfer.  I'm not super area trunky but I have been here a really long time (since the beginning of February).   

     Last P-day we went to a beach in the area called pristine beach.  It was fun and there weren't many people.  We got a lot of cool pictures of us all.  During the week because it was my comanion's last week we had lots of dinner appointments with members and a few members took us out to dinner.  The bill was 1,400 pesos! I can live off less than that for a week.  The food was great though and it was really fun.

     One cool thing that happened this week was while we were out I saw a big spider spinning its web and I asked my companion if those are the kind the kids play with.  It was so he grabbed the spider and I put it in a little cardboard container and took it home. These spiders are big but they aren't venomous.  We were thinking of finding another spider and then having a spider fight, but I kind of got a little sick of having a spider and one of the elders told me I need to feed it and give it water which kind of makes it a pet now which aren't allowed.  I just threw it out the window and it probably now lives on the banana tree below our apartment.  I got some cool pictures.  I have now conquered my spider fear.

     One lesson we had this week was with the Lorenso family.  The father has really bad asthma and often has a hard time catching his breath.  There is also his wife and their 21 year old son.  They are really nice and like listening to us teach.  When we teach the mom says stuff like "oh I get it" and stuff like that.  They are really nice but will have to move along with all the other people that live in the houses under an unstable cliff that I mentioned in another email.

     Thats pretty much all for this week.

Love, Elder Harkness