Agriio

April 11, 2011

Hello family.

Well not much to say this week. It's just been the same old stuff, actually this week I've been so tired, I haven't been this tired since I first got to my last bike area. I've been falling asleep during studies, at church (I've almost mastered how to sleep sitting up), at meetings, in the car (not while driving), and even during lessons with people. They mostly just think it's funny.

Other than that not much to report, we're mostly just making sure all of the recent converts keep coming to church. And the other day we fixed someones computer. It occurred to us that it's amazing how far a high-school education will get you. Most of the people we associate with dropped out of school as a child so they could help their families work, then they move here to the US and struggle in school, they usually make it to high school but then their interest in such things wanes dramatically and they drop of out of high school and work the rest of their lives as mechanics, construction workers, cooks, housewives, janitors, and yard workers. They don't read or write very well and many of them simple can't (not at all helpful to us when we try to leave them with homework of reading the archaic scriptures). Reading is just something not very fun for them. So we translate their mail, tell them about how to read a bus map, instruct them in traffic laws, help them pay taxes, help their kids with their homework, use dictionaries, fix their computers, show them how to use the Internet, end e-mails, and just all sorts of stuff like that. We've been doing so much of that for the last couple weeks and they think we're so smart for knowing all of this and all we did was just graduate high school.

Yeah, so that's pretty much all we've been doing. No pictures this week, nothing really amazing has happened. I love you all.

-- Elder Rice