Hello!
 
People have asked me how to send packages. I don´t think there should be a problem with things getting stolen. just tape it up good. And if you want to you can tape on a picture of Jesus or the virgen mary. Smaller packages are probably better. I would love to get some!! I would love to recieve easter candy, or any american candy, and something I would really love to get is pictures and stickers, like church related pictures or flowers, designs, etc. to decorate my planners and to use in people´s memory books, just any sort of stuff like that, especially mission related would be great, stationary type stuff. Also I could really use a nice umbrella. I am on my 2nd umbrella here. My companion has one from land´s end that is really nice. If it´s not nice quality then it will break here, there is wind and the rain is a lot. Oh, and definitely I want one that is compact. Right now i am using one that is not collapsible and it drives me nuts. Also I would love to get pictures of my family, and gel insole things for my shoes.

No pictures to send this week, sorry. but we´re going to el centro to mail letters and print pictures, and then later we´re going bowling as a zone!! so we should have pictures for that. 

It was father´s day here in bolivia on saturday. So lots of parties and drunk people. Happy fathers day dad! You get to hear that twice this year. Also FYI mother´s day here is may 27, i think in the US it is may 8?? I don´t remember but it is a different day. I don´t know which day I will be able to call, but can you please send me your phone numbers? I need to update your information in the mission office, I need your address (do you have a physical address?? or po box in the uae?) and can you send your cell phone numbers and VOIP number?? thanks. 

So with father´s day a lot of people had forgotten that it was father´s day when we made appointments with them, so we went to their house and they were gone, or they told us to come back another time. One lady felt bad because she was having family over and getting ready for that, but she gave us a piece of cake! hahah. 

Sunday was stake conference!! So we got to go to church at 10 instead of 8 (yes, this ward has 8 a.m. church- yuck). Elder Rafael Pino of the 70 was there as well as President Craig of the temple in cochabamba. They spoke as well as some of the stake presidency and president calderon and hermana calderon. it was a really great meeting!! We have a mission conference on wednesday so that should be great, and tomorrow we have interviews with president calderon! my first one, haha, don´t know how i got away so long without having one, 

We walked sooo much this week! I thought I was gonna die! not really, ut the mission is WAY more physically demanding than I thought it wouold be. Also emotionally demanding. You come to care so much about the people. Now i think i understand what people say about missions, that it is the hardest thing you can do, but most rewarding. It is sooo hot and sometimes we don´t have any lessons until the evening. But when you have a lesson and you are able to teach something of value to that person, really helping them with their needs and it´s worth it. 

In other news, this week we saw 3 dead rats in the street, and 2 dead cats.One of the cats was completely flattened by cars. I almost stepped on it. I don´t even know how to explain that one Plus we have seen lots of dead, flattened frogs, but that´s not out of the ordinary.

I wrote more but it got erased! sorry! out of time. Love you all. until next week. Hna. Tibbitts