How was your guys' week? Things were good here this week. A little hectic but we survived. Just a bunch of random stuff that got in the way of real missionary work. The biggest thing was what is called Karneval. It is a giant parade where everybody dresses up and basically they all get drunk and trash the whole city. It's whacked! It is impossible to do missionary work during the whole thing (which lasts about 2 days). I'm glad that I didn't even try. We had a service project on Saturday, which was the day of the main event. As we walked to the bus station the main street outside of our apartment was PACKED with people! As we walked down the street, everybody was just shouting and music was blaring ridiculously loud! Everybody was dressed up in ridiculous things. The girls just looked like sluts and the guys did a lot of cross dressing. It was all really just disgusting if you ask me. As we walked, people were throwing water balloons with beer in them out windows and squirting each other with beer filled water guns. Needless to say, I was glad to be busy the rest of the day. Everybody started drinking at around 830am. By the time we came home that day, the city was a mess!!!!! The entire center was just filled with trash! All of the bars were exploding full of people. So yeah that was pretty exciting to say the least.
Other than that, it was pretty quiet last week. For some reason the past couple weeks, it's been really hard to get motivated and get out the door. So I'm hoping that this week will be better. Love and miss ya'll tons.
MKH, William
