Day 2

Hello everyone!

I´m sorry if I type random symbols, the keyboards are different here haha. We arrived into Santa Cruz yesterday, Jan 15 at 5 a.m. after traveling for roughly 24 hours! So the little sleep we did get on the plane, was not nearly enough, we were exhausted, but not done traveling. A brother from Santa Cruz who drives taxi picked us up and drove us to the bus station and was very helpful. From there, we took a shared taxi to the town of Vallegrande. The roads were full of potholes and the ride was extremely bumpy, but we were so tired we managed to drift in and out of sleep. The ride was about 5 hours long, and it was beautiful! We drove up into the green lush mountains, which is where Vallegrande is located. We were dropped off at the house of a Witness couple from the States, where they helped us find our hostel and the Kingdom Hall and a few other things around town. We then slept all afternoon, woke up for dinner and a shower (much needed) and then went back to sleep for the night, a good ten hours.

Today we are just finding our way around and getting some things we need. They don´t have wifi anywhere so we are using an internet cafe. Hopefully I will be able to take some pictures and post them in a few days.

The weather is great! It feels like in the 70s and sunny, I love it!

Also, we are the only white people in town pretty much, it feels strange, but everyone is very friendly and helpful. No one speaks English, only Spanish, so we are doing our best at speaking and understanding, but it´s not perfect.

The cost of living here is very cheap, we had lunch yesterday for about $1.50 American dollars.

We are hoping to meet for service tomorrow through sunday, and go to meeting saturday night. Then they work on their new Kingdom Hall Monday through Thursday, so hopefully we will be able to do that next week.

That is all for now, I hope to put pictures up soon for you all to see, it´s beautiful here :)