So this was an amazing week! I don't know how much I've told you about the area I'm in right now but I'll explain a little bit. It's honestly a harder area in the mission just with it's past history and I'm finally starting to see why this week. So in Puerto Armuelles about 30 or so years ago there use to be a huge American banana factory or plant that was centered right here. At the time almost everyone worked there and the company was the center of everything. They built the workers houses out of wood, paid for people to go clean them, paid their bills and even sometimes their food. It was a very prosperous time here. From many biblical stories and from the Book of Mormon also we remember that when groups of people prospered in the land they started to forget about God and his commandments leading to iniquity. Well Puerto is a modern day example of that. The people had multiple wives, adultery and party's ect... Valuing anything else but Heavenly things. So after, I don't know how many years this company ended up falling into debt and closed down. So many people went without jobs, almost more than half the population left. This leads to percent day. It has gotten so much better than what it once was but you can tell the history by being here. So this is why it was such a great week, because we found so many family's that are actually bonded by matrimony. So that's where the, Do you have 5 minutes?, come in. The people are super nice so we just would ask that and so many people let us in!
Internet is closing so i'll finish tomorrow or tonight sorry!
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