From Cochabamba to Sucre

This morning we received this email from Isabel. Please pray for her...for her success and for her safety.

Good Morning so i was only in cochabamba for two nights and now i am in sucre bolivia its kinda nuts i havent been in south america for so long and bolivia is poorer than costa rica and colombia so i wasnt expecting this... its all i ever wanted! the only thing is that here it gets cold and i didnt expect that either but right now luckly its spring right now. here there are tons on dogs on the street and just as much sheep and pigs eating the garbage on the street and some donkeys here and there. some places smell like egg because of the water and the trash it produces this gas like smell, regardless the view is amazing most people have unfinished houses and no glass windows so its a great view. the first night i was in jaihaico and had to move my bags 5 flights of stairs and i thought that was bad then i get to sucre and everything is up and down a hill... pretty legs here we come! my companion is bolivian!! hna choque yay i am so glad and she speaks quechua and i am learning just some basic things. and people here are short like at my shoulders and speak spanish very different so i find myself lowering myself and peering into their face really trying to understand what they are saying its funny no matter how much a am trying i stand out i can only imagine what this must be like for the north american elders that came the same day. the food is great well i really like it. it has more veggies and feels good in my stomach even when i am stuffed i dont feel like am going to die. so the first afternoon here i met valeria she is uneducated really poor sweet as can be but ultra shy we taught her like we would a 5 year old about prayers she still wouldnt do it on her own without our help. she has a fig tree and underneath it two sheep and yesterday when we stopped by there was only one and what was left of the other was the soaking skin and four little feet from the other sheep (my comp grabed them and started to play with them i laughed really hard and she said i grew up like this so these are toys to me which made me laugh harder) they killed it in the morning for the day of saints what in mexico is the day of the dead they prepare food that their dead would like to eat a nd they expect them every 31 of oct. and they make little porcelain faces and they make little bodies for them they call them thhanta wawas meaning bread children they make stair of bread to help them make their way up to heaven again and they pray specific prayers. here the little women with the braids and the colorful skirts and little hats are called cholitas which in san jose and mexico means gang member. it is kinda dangerous here first off there are no stop signs and hardly any traffic lights you ja walk every street and hope that everyone saw you. and then some men drink alot and well they give you the creeps one kid probably 13 walked close to us and i wanted to say hi how are you? instead there was something different about him and i just stared and but i didnt know what before i know it he reaches over to grab me.. there. i turned my body quickly and he only grabed my thigh but i got so heated in just a second i thought i´ll kill you (meaning i would grab him by the hair and punch him a couple of times) and then i thought you are wearing a missionary plaque and people didnt see him grab you and will think that you are beating a bolivian boy so i didnt. i did however yell who do you think you are you idiot. my comp says that that sadly has happened to her as well. the interesting thing is that president has sent us here because its safer than other places. and people have told me do carry two wallets and never my camera unless we are on prep day on mondays with elders which i will follow for sure. the other thing that was cool was that before leaving the states i got some crayons and some a Christmas coloring book and when i go to the tiny houses when i let the children pick one page to color and keep they think that im a teacher and they color it with such carefulness to be able to put it on their wall. and they take really good care of the crayons and i gave away the little mustang that you had sent me in my package and the little boys name is also david which i thought was perfect. luckily there is plenty of service you can do here because people have alot of chores, but even though the president tenorio says that we are to be successful here because there people have blood of belivers (like in the book of mormon) im finding some of the same things as in san jose california and on top of that there are always dogs right infront of out contacts! anyways i need to go. i love you all. familia no me han escrito pero janice si entonces por eso estoy ecribiendo en ingles
 
janice, david please fwrd this to the emails below.  love you!