Monday, May 28, 2012

May 7, 2012


Hey,
It has been raining like crazy the past few days. The rain is nice because it means there's no sun, but it just makes it hotter because it gets humid. For some reason people here are really afraid of the rain, and everyone who sees us outside in the rain says we're going to get sick, but we've stayed healthy. We're still on bikes a lot whenever we're in Juncos but if we go to Las Piedras or San Lorenzo or Gurabo, we go in the car with the bikes mounted and ride the bikes when we get there. Two days ago there was a huge rainstorm and a lot of the streets were flooded, it was pretty crazy but we were in the car, and on our way up into the mountains so we didn't get washed away.
Dad asked about what we eat here. We eat a lot of beans and rice. Whenever we eat with anyone else, that's what we have. They eat a lot of pork chops too and a lot of plantains. One of my favorite Puerto Rican foods are tostones, they're the fried plantains and they're so good. We buy them frozen and make them at home a lot, and we even made some from fresh plantains the other day. When we cook at home we eat a lot of rice and beans too, a member in Caguas told me how to make them together and it works out pretty well. Sometimes we make rice and gandules too. I never saw gandules before I got here but I think they're called pigeon peas in english. I didn't like them a lot at first but I love them now. We make tacos a lot too, with taco seasoning, it's not very Puerto Rican but it's easy and good.
But things have been going really well. We have been working a lot with the ward and trying to get the members excited about helping out in the missionary work. We have been doing great and I am really excited about how things are going. 
Elder Duclos

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