From Jett 2-13-12 Pre-Carnival week

Well the rioting finished. It all started because the government wanted to mine on the land of one of the indigineous tribes here. The tribes here have their own lands here and it is usually pretty good, but the indians got mad and blocked off the pan american highway. They burned out some police stations and other stuff like that. THe police killed like 2, including a teenager and that made it even worse. But the government finally signed something so the indians chilled out. so the unblocked the highway, but it still isnt over. And while the tribes were protesting, lots of other groups joined the cause and it got crazy. But things are more or less back to normal. My Jr. Comp. is afraid of lot of things, and as we found out yesterday, a tied up iguana and a parrot. He would not even touch them. Everyone was amazed that me, the gringo was fearless with them, and he, the latin was scared. It was funny. I got a pic with the iguana that the family was going to eat, hope you enjoy it.
Things here are pretty good. We had a little tough time with finding new investigators. We have to push back our bap dates with Victor, Ligia, and her daughters because of various problems with the Word of Wisdom for both. We are still working with them. We want them to be baptized this month. I have faith that they will. Carnavales start this week on Friday. So the whole world here is going to turn into a crazy place where sin does not exist. It will really be a place that that scripture in 2nd Nephi describes perfectly: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for tomorrow we die. The people think that they will be beat with a ´´few stripes´´ like the scripture says, but then they will just go to confession after the week ends and all will be good. The other day we had a funny experience but a sobering one. We were in a lesson with this familly out on their porch. One of their neighbors arrived at his home and the family was telling him to come over to listen to us. He was busy collecting ´´provisions´´ for a party. He said, ´´I´ll wait until im 60, and then I will look for God.´´ We all laughed about it at the time and said that he doesnt know if he will make it to 60 years. It was funny, but now that I think about it, its sad that that is the mentality of most of the people here. Do what they want and then when they are old, go and change. But enough of that for you.
Things with Elder Aguare are good. He is a good missionary, just is a little timid. I am timid too but he is pretty timid at times. But when he breaks out of that, he teaches well and boldly. Thanks for everything and I love you! Have a great week!

Elder Jett Scrimsher