I'm In Guyana, South America!

Wow, I don’t even know where to start. It's so sweet here. I love it so much. I honestly don’t even know where to begin. Missionary life is pretty sweet but it has its hard times. When I first got off the plane it was just like a wave of water hit me. It was bad! But now I love it. It's so awesome. I’ve seen a couple monkeys and that was sweet. My comp is named Elder Sorber. He is a stud. He is from Salt Lake I think. He went to Mountain View High. I love him lots. All the elders here are just sweet dudes. My first area is a place called Skeldon. That’s in Guyana. It’s a brand new area that Elder Sorber and I opened. People are golden there. In one week we found over 50 new investigators. So it's just sick there. I LOVE the lemonade here. It's to die for. I'm going to try and send one home for you to all try. The best thing about them is that they are like 40 cents US. Money here is weird. We have to get our money exchanged for Guyana money and their biggest bill is 1000 dollars, which is 5 dollars US. So it goes 1000, 500, 100, 20. The area that I'm in is very poor. We aren’t allowed to eat at members houses because they don’t have good food preparations. The cars are just crazy. Everyone drives like papa, and the honking here is insane. They honk all the time. But they don’t use it like how it is in America. They honk to let people know where they are on the road and whatnot. We always ride in a thing called a tapear (pronounced tap ear) they are these little van type things that are really small. They are only supposed to have like 5 people in at once but they don’t. I've been in one that has had over 9 people. And its really small. People sit on your lap everything. When we come here in 2 years I don’t think you would like this place. Dogs just roam all the West Indies. I have seen over 500 dogs since I arrived. No one really has dogs as pets they are all just kind of strays. And cows, pigs, donkeys and goats just roam the streets. There isn’t any hot water in Guyana so we have to take cold showers every day. That sucks. I love the food here though. It's so good. I really can't believe how much I have to tell you and won't be able to. It's really dirty here. Lots of garbage all over the place. People live in just little huts here. Instead of knocking you just call “inside.” People here talk horribly fast and use bad grammar. They don’t make the “TH” sound. So for instance when you say let's meet tomorrow at three, they say let's meet tomorrow at tree. They just string all their words together. It was hard the first couple days for me to understand them but now for the most part I can hear them. One thing that’s crazy is the other day we were robbed by a little girl!!!! She came up to me and Elder Sorber and asked if we had change for 1000 and so we split it. I gave her 400 and he did 600. Later that day when we tried paying with that 1000 bill, it was a fake! I was so mad! haha. But oh well. How is everything at home? Good? We have a dog that lives in our backyard who when he was a puppy the elders before us just fed him so he is kinda like our dog. We feed him and stuff like that. But he is even more of a pig then Ernie. All the dogs here are. I saw a dog eat poo the other day! It made me sick. It rains almost everyday here, but only for like 10 minutes but it’s the dry season. Wet season is from May to January. I'm so happy to be here, though at times it's hard. I love you all.

Elder Lundberg