The weather near the coast is quite different than in Oaxaca
City. It’s even more humid, if that’s even possible!! If you look at a map of
the State of Oaxaca, Santa Maria Huatulco is on the Pacific Coast directly
South of Oaxaca. It is very dry on the coast too but it rains more than in
Oaxaca with a lot of thunder and lightning. The climate looks ‘just like
Ireland’ but in an extremely hot and humid sort of way haha! I am still looking
forward to eating Iguana and is constantly being chased by huge black bees. I
live with tarantulas too! The mosquitoes are enormous and they have a horrible
bit. Even with all the sorts of repellents I put on, they never leave me alone!
The bites on my legs over the past 7 months will scar, but luckily I haven’t
gotten “denge”, a disease contracted by mosquitoes—there are 2 types of denge,
the one that kills and the one that doesn’t…you get fevers and your bones ache
like crazy. The locals drink fresh grape juice and they say that drinking it
helps a lot with the symptoms. I heard that one of the Elders contracted it a
while back but after a blessing from Presidente Leyva he recovered well.
Spanish is coming very well now, after having 2 native
companions who don’t speak much English at all. I actually now start my prayers
in English and end in Spanish :P!
The work is going slow but well, there’s potential with
“Mary”, the golden investigator!
Hello to everyone and would love a letter from all of you
for Christmas! Packages are slow to not getting here at all so I recommend no
packages, unless you use “Global Mission Shipping”. They are fantastic, go
through DHL and have tracking and confirmation through Customs to the mission
home. It takes 4 days to get to the mission home but takes weeks to get to the
coast where I’m at as the leaders only go to and from Oaxaca every few weeks!
Please write!
Hermana Annekke Walker
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