Monday, June 15, 2015
Hi!!! So I guess I’m going to quickly write and tell you how
my week has been! To start it all off I’m going to tell you a story about two
hunters. The hunters are named, Elder McKee and Elder Avila! These two hunters
are young men of 19 and 21 years of age and they spend their time preaching the
restored gospel to all who they encounter. Also those two young men live and
serve their missions in what could easily be found on TV channels like animal
planet. The area is a tropical desert and so since it falls in two extreme
categories of climate, the weather and the animals one runs into are always
very interesting!!
This Tuesday I and my jay were walking around contacting and
as we were walking around we found a lizard called a garobo. These lizards are
a lot like iguanas but they don’t have a beard of spikes. Besides that, they
are pretty much the same with one difference, here in Choluteca you are allowed
to kill garobos whenever you want and killing iguanas is highly illegal! Soo,
its super important that if you’re going to kill a lizard you know the
difference before you kill it!
So, to continue, my comp and I were walking and we spotted a
garobo! We also happened to be walking around with a slingshot and a couple of
marbles in our pockets. My comp slowly pulled out his slingshot and let a
marble loose! The marble pegged the lizard in the head and it jumped like 3
feet into the air and then died. We ran and collected our kill knowing we had
completed one of our weekly goals of one garobo!!! We then began walking
through the streets with a big, dead lizard thinking, “Hmm, who could teach us
how to cook this?” We went over to a friend’s house named Javier and we learned
how to skin, clean, and cook garobo!!! The way we chose to cook it was fry it
like KFC chicken!! We waited and prepped our meat and then ate it all and to my
grand surprise it was soo good!! I loved it! It was sweet and really soft! We
ate the entire lizard and then called our other friend and asked him if he
could make a wallet out of the skin for us! We currently are waiting for our
wallet to be finished and it’s going to be soo cool!!!
Oh and also this week I got sick.... It rains every day from
about 5 in the evening to 3 in the morning. This Thursday we were just so lucky
to get caught on the wrong side of a river that splits our area in half and
trapped us away from our house. We
thought we would be stuck there at the house of a member for the night but we
just went to our cook’s house and hoped that the rain would pass so we could
get home and sleep. After about 3 hours the rain started to recede and the water
level of the river began to fall again so we could cross! We made it home and
were safe for the night but as a result of running and teaching in the rain I
and my comp both got sick and are slowly but surely recovering! So, as for now,
I think that is all of the notable things I have done so I will write again next
week!
Love you all!!!Elder Jonah McKee
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