Exciting Ride and Visit!

I had another great Birthday experience in the Jungle. Tuesday night we took the 3 hour bus ride to Yurimaguas. What a beautiful ride it is!!! Yurimaguas is on the other side of the mountains of Tarapoto so we had to take the windy, muddy mountain roads in order to arrive. That highway really got me scared though, it was an awful long ways to fall if we were to go over the edge but what a great experience. Thick Thick Jungle and Narrow Narrow Roads, good stuff. The Elders in Yurimaguas didn’t exactly give us the best of sleeping conditions so Elder Sanchez and I got stuck sleeping on the floor which was quite an experience in itself. Lets just say that the cockroaches we up and active, lol. But the next morning the Missionaries gave me a Peruvian Birthday greeting with a bunch of eggs smashed on my head. But luckily I was already in the shower so it was easy to get cleaned up. Being Yurimguas was like a big flash back of my time in Iquitos. The people to the houses were so similar but it was great to be back in that kind of atmosphere. Even though Tarapoto is also jungle it’s really different from the jungle of Iquitos and Yurimaguas. Tarapoto is mountainous and a little bit more modern when it comes to housing and technology, while Iquitos and Yurimaguas still have wooden houses and leaf roofs. What a blessing it is to have been able to serve those people there and to have been able to love and learn from them.