Last week in Patalup
After 3 transfers, 4 1/2 months, I am leaving Patalup. After leaving my first area Panca, I thought I wouldn't get an experience like that again. Until I got here, and now I might be going to another remote area next transfer. But Patalup has been amazing. I know that the hard work and effort that I have put in this very remote and tough area have blessed myself, but more importantly the people of this Aldea. It is not easy waking up at 5 am, 3 days a week, to get to meetings almost 2 hours away on a horrible chicken bus. Or walking up and down one long dirt road for everyone to tell us they're busy or not even tell us their names. But I'm thankful for these types of experiences that I have had to grow myself into who I am today.
This week we had Zone Conf which went well. Towards the end, it was so hard so stay awake because of the 5 am chicken bus ride. But we got through it. The rest of the week has been saying goodbye to the people and offering anything else that we can do. We have had some fun service projects that we did, like cutting down a tree and then pulling it off the stump away from the house. And then taking an axe and cutting all the stumps into pieces so they have firewood to cook with. Everybody cooks over fires. But it has also been sad. I keep telling my comp every time we walk our dirt road, how we're gonna miss this place in a couple days. It's been crazy.
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