My time in La Junta has been going by so fast! It is such an encouraging group! The preaching in this area is still so new...only in the last 3-4 years has there been a group here. The territory is really spread out and includes 4 separate towns, including the town of La Junta.
To give you an idea of the typical schedule of the special pioneer couple here, they drive over 2 hours away every Saturday to an island called Marin and even have to take a little ferry to get there. Mondays they drive 2 hours away to a town called Lago Verde where there are many great studies. Wednesdays are the big meeting in La Junta. Thursday they drive 1 hour away to Puyuhuapi where one sister lives and they hold a condensed version of the same big meeting. Since not everyone can fit in their car, different ones from the group are assigned to go to specific towns with them. Yaici and I get to go with them each week to Lago Verde and Puyuhuapi. Puyuhaupi is filled with German influence since a group of Germans immigrated there to set up factories many years ago.
The group includes a precious newlywed couple. They were only married a couple of months ago and decided to forego a honeymoon to be able to return right back here to his MTS assignment as soon as possible. They are so illicitly happy :)
Also I should mention it has been pretty freezing here...the forcast for tonight in La Junta is 5* Fahrenheit! But nothing that several layers of clothes can't fix.
I can't tell you how up building my time here has been. I feel like I'm learning so much from the friends and their great examples. Only a couple of more weeks left here and then I head up north....will be sad to leave!
