Love My New Area!

Hello Family!

Yeah I love this area! Oh my gosh, I think this is the same area that Bro. Tryon came through when he was in Central America. THAT IS SO AWESOME! Yeah, I’m learning a little bit of Miskito it’s really hard because a lot of the people here can only speak in Miskito but no Español ha-ha. I have like a vocabulary of 15 words that I can kind of communicate with. It’s so cool it’s like almost Africa here except tropical.

My clothes and items I couldn’t bring with me to this location will stay in the Mission President assistants house. That kind of stinks cuz all of the missionaries, that are new, stay there and they just leave the suitcases on the floor so anyone can go through my stuff because I don’t have a lock on my suitcase. No that cannot send any of my extra clothes because it’s to far away and it cost to much so I’m going to have to wear a lot of the same clothes again. Which is nasty!!! But everyone here smells anyway ha-ha.

I’ve got to say its pretty cool living with four other Elders I don’t really know them very good except Elder Augustin from Utah. One of the Elder’s is pretty much opposite of what a missionary should be and we try to help him but he doesn’t care so we just let him do whatever. We actually don’t have that much time to study let alone study with our own companions. There’s only one shower and sometimes there’s no water so we have to use buckets of freezing ice cold water.

No we don’t track together, all four of us split up into our companions and we have different areas that we work so we don’t track in the same area. This area is huge and where we live is like the four corners of the states. One road goes to one area and the other road to another so it’s pretty cool. We all eat breakfast in the house and buy are own food for that. We eat lunch and dinner at member’s houses and its always different cuz we don’t pay for a cook like we did in Managua, so the member’s invite us to eat with them. Sometimes the food is interesting ha-ha.

There’s a lot of sea food like lobster, crab, and fish and then there’s beans and rice always. But I had turtle and that was pretty dang good but I feel bad eating it cuz turtles are cool! Their the huge ones here too so its actually a tortoise we eat and sometimes the people sell them after they kill them. They take off the head and shell and throw out the shell, but put the head and body meat in a wheel barrow and sell them. Whoever wants whatever part to eat, they cut off that part with a machete, weigh and sell it ha-ha.

Riding a bike is so AWESOME!!! I love it. It was cool to be able to see the Rizo Family be baptized, they are doing well too. In our branch there is like 130 people and right now only 80 are coming to church and we hardly have leaders so it’s pretty hard keeping everything in order.
Yeah Algebra 2 good luck Carly with that! (but I know you will do good your smarter them me :/) Glad to hear you got to go the cinders and it sounds like a completely different group of kids went this time. Tyler Lamb, I miss that kid, hope everything is good for him and everyone is inviting him to do fun stuff with them.

YEAH TELL GRANDMA I’M SO SORRY I DON’T GET TO WRITE BACK TO HER AND I LOVE HER!!!! The mail here is really screwed up and it costs a ton to mail anything but I will see what I can do. But I have all her letters! I have not got the package with contacts yet, supposedly I will get it this Thursday but we will see. I thank you all for everything and love you all very much I hope the rest of the family is good and you guys get along so we wont be fighting and we can be able to live in heaven for eternity. But mom and dad thank you really for everything.

Love your Missionary
Elder Buck