Monday, April 8, 2019

Screenshot from our Skype call!

We had a Skype call today for p-day!  He arrived in Quito and stayed there for a day.  After that, he traveled by bus for 6 hours to a place called Quininde, it's in the Esmeraldas Province.  On the way, he passed a volcano, it was a mountainous ride, he took pictures on the way but will have to wait until next week when he goes to an internet cafe to upload them.  Quininde is near the coast but he can't see the ocean from where he is.  

Life there is very different!  He said he will be eating rat on Tuesday!!!  No one can drink the water there, not even the people who are from there.  He says people have a lot of parasite problems!  

His new companion doesn't speak any English, his name is Elder Puma, he is from Peru!  They are helping each other with language studies. He is living in an apartment with his companion.  There isn't any such thing as warm water and don't ask about the bathroom situation:)

They are doing a lot of teaching, they walk everywhere they go, it's really hot there!  He doesn't think he has been dry since he arrived!

He was talking to us from a families home so that was really neat, the internet connection wasn't the greatest and we agreed that they must have Frontier too! :)

This is the phone they share, it's a Nokia!  He said we don't even have a flip phone, we have this thing!  I said we had one!  It was blue! lol