June 1, 2015

 

Well, sorry about the lack of a group email last week.. Ive been busy busy busy. Too much stuff to do. Well, as you all know I was  tranfered, Im in Puno now... Puno is the city that has the floating city out on the lake. The people are called the Uros. We cant go out there unless we have a service project to do, but we're setting one up for the whole zone to go. I'll make sure to take some good picutres of it! They are literally reed islands!!

Anyway, my zone is on the hillside of Puno, In my picutres from a while ago there are picutres of a big bird statue, the Condor, that is my sector, ON the hill side.. we walk up and down that same hill every 10 minuets.. its burns the buns, but my comp suffers worse than i do... hes from lima, so hes not used to altitude, at all. 

Not much to report yet, next week I hope I have a funny story to tell, but we'll see i guess. Puno has a lot of potential, we'll get some work done here for sure. 

A few days ago they had a protest here... about the mines and all the bad stuff they are doing.. anyway... The protesters, werent all that many of them, moved a garbage bin to the middle of the road, and wrote Viva el Paro!! On the street with chalk... Thats about it... i guess someone burned a tire as well, but supposedly the same group put the fire out after a little bit... so yeah, these peruvians are riotous! Theres a picutre in my drop box of the extent of the damage they did with the garbage... :P

Love you all lots, stay safe and keep on keeping on!

-Elder Wright

Riots

PUNO