Hey mom!
It is 4pm here so I just got done taking a nap. The keyboards here are really weird so i cant really use capitals because it is too hard. So monday we flew from slc to atlanta, which was cool. Then we went from there to ecuador which took 5 hours and i thought i was going to die because it was so long of a flight. everybody on the plane spoke spanish so I had no idea what was going on. I still cant speak spanish so it is really hard to talk to anybody or understand them. So we got here around 12 at night and got to the apartment and went to sleep.
We woke up at 6:30 and started doing stuff really boring. I hung out with the other missionaries until the other elderes showed up. They got to Quito around noon so we went and saw them. After that we ate and then that day was over and we went to sleep again.
Wednesday morning we had to get up and drag our luggage all around the streets of Quito until we got to the church. Then we went to do some visa stuff which took 3 hours and we met a lot of people and got their numbers and now they are being taught I think.
Anyways so we went back to the church to receive our training companions. My companions name is Elder Anderson and he is a gringo. I thought i would get a native companion but I am glad I got a trainer who speaks English.
Elder Anderson is from Utah. I will try and send you a picture of me with my companion.
Anyways so after we got our companions for the next 6 or 12 weeks then we went back to our house with my luggage and went to sleep. The next morning we woke up at 6 and got ready to leave for Riobamba which is my first area that I will be serving in. We had to take our luggage on public buses and the buses only stop for about 1 second then they are gone again. So we had to watch all of my stuff because the people here are really good at pickpocketing. So I watched my stuff and we rode that bus for an hour and then we got to the other bus terminal and took my stuff and put it under the bus so nobody would steal it.
Then we rode that bus for 5 hours until we got to Riobamba. So far I like Riobamba so much better than Quito because it is so small and the people are nice. There is so much trash and poverty here and the people we teach live in alleys and stuff. It kinda sucks and everybody laughs at my spanish. The little kids laugh at me and run away when I tell them I am from Los Estados Unidos. The people are awesome.
I am too tall for this country. Everything I ride in is too small and all the shops I have to duck under. Anyways so i got here and we started to pass by some non active people. I guess everybody here is inactive. We stopped by their houses and visited some investigators. We contacted like 20 people the other day but none of them called us or answered their phones so that kind of sucks. We have a cooking family that makes us lunch everyday. We have four people in our district, my companion and me and two hermanas.
The food is good I just don't know what it is. The juice here is awesome. It is soo good. The kids are so cute and
funny here but they don't understand me most of the time.
There is no snow here and It just seems like it is August here. It is really hot despite what everybody else said hahaha
The people here breastfeed and pee wherever they want. I have seen so many people doing both of those things wherever. I also saw a few robberies in the middle of the day. We were walking one day and saw some men whispering while shutting a car trunk so I don't know what happened there but it was scary and then we saw some guy sprinting to his friends car from an alley and start yelling at him to drive. So that was new. We don´t have any progressing investigators , we are trying though so thats all that matters I guess. Church yesterday was fun I had to stand up and introduce myself and everybody is super nice in church and a lot of them understand some english so that is cool. I guess around 2 I will always email you. Love you guys
Love Elder Rogers
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