Jett's First Week in the Jungle

HOLA FROM THE JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!

So I made it to the jungle! And I mean JUNGLE WHOO!!! So sweet!! So I had to take a plane for an hour to get here, I know rough, and then arrived and BOOM the heat hit me! WOW its HOT HOT HOT bueno mas que todo is the humidity sorry I do not know how to express that phrase in English :) ha ha anyway it is SO GORGEOUS here! Wow, I love it! The people here are awesome and my new companion is hilarious! It was way sad to leave my family and converts in Independencia but I have an even stronger testimony that this is the Lord´s work, I do not feel homesick and am just working. I am loving it here in the jungle and in reality it is nicer than Lima I would say, or the majority. Everyone drives motorcycles and there are no combis or taxis only motocars. Pucallpa is a city not too huge but it’s alright. It reminds me of Brigham City and Logan. But in the jungle and less advanced. So the city is like normal like Lima but smaller.
Where I love however is the jungle. It is SO SO SWEET!! We really live like in the jungle jungle and we have water all day long!! Whoo!! The room is really small but we have water all day not hot water but here you do not want hot water. It is amazing our area is HUGE and I feel so lost but I am so happy to be here in the jungle and working this great work of the Lord. Thank You all for all the love and support and keep the emails circulating please. :) I Love You all VERY VERY MUCH!!! CUIDANSE BASTANTE LOS AMO!!! Mom you got practice your Spanish! ;) haha tu phrase es ,necesito practicar mi espanol para hablar contigo. ;) haha Love You!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

PS My companion is named Elder Choc he is from Guatemala and had to learn Spanish as well he speaks an ancient language called Que´chi

PSS MarÍa de Los Angeles, cuidate bastante gracias por todo siga asistiendo leyendo y orando, estas en la verdad! Saluda el barrio Pioneros and Hermana Reyna!!! :)

Pucallpa

Pucallpa (Quechua: puka hallpa, "red earth") is a city in eastern Peru located on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. It is the capital of the Ucayali region, the Coronel Portillo Province and the Calleria District.

Pucallpa was founded in the 1840s by Franciscan missionaries who settled several families of the Shipibo-Conibo ethnic group. For several decades it remained a small settlement as it was isolated from the rest of the country by the Amazon Rainforest and the Andes mountain range. From the 1880s through the 1920s a railway project to connect Pucallpa with the rest of the country v

ia the Ferrocarril Central Andino was started and dropped several time until it was finally abandoned. Pucallpa's isolation finally ended in 1945 with the completion of a highway to Lima through Tingo Maria. The highway allowed the commercialization of regional products to the rest of the country, thus improving the economic outlook of the region and its capital, Pucallpa. However, the heavy rainfalls of the Amazon Rainforest remain a problem as they erode the highway and can even cut it by causing flash floods.

Pucallpa is the only one of the low jungle cities that is easily accessibly by road, which probably explains why it has become the fastest growing city in Peru. Many people have moved to the city from the highlands, taking advantage of what they perceive to be a highly fertile area, although this mass migration has generally resulted in many shantytowns growing up on the edge of Pucallpa. The city is incredibly noisy, with mototaxis zooming around. However, activity completely stops at lunchtime, and everybody takes a siesta. The city is probably the most commercial of all the jungle towns in Peru, and there is much logging activity, some illegal.

Pucallpa receives far fewer visitors than Iquitos or Puerto Maldonado, and there are far fewer jungle tours offered here than from either of the other cities. However, the area around Pucallpa offers a good opportunity to visit native Indian communities, which are generally far more authentic than those on show in Iquitos, and nearby Yarinacocha is one of the most beautiful lakes in the Peruvian jungle. It is also possible to see wildlife in the area, including river dolphins in Yarinacocha, as well as monkeys and sloths.

June 15, 2009 Off to the Jungle

Hello Everyone!!!!

Hope you are all doing well at home and that evrything is going better for you all. Well I am off to the city Pucallpa in the jungle! I am going from cold misty damp weather to hot hot hot WET weather. Whoo! que Chevere!!!

Well I love you all and last week I sent a package home to you all with pictures and letters! Enjoy!! :)

So I now have 5 mos and 1 wk in the mission... but do not worry I am not counting the time. Solo know because I counted today. So I love you all SOOOO MUCH and am so thanbkful for all the love and support from all of you. I am sad a little bit about the transfer because we have 4 families to baptize here... and I am learning sign language here and have deaf investigators :) Sweet!!But yeah so long Lima and hello adventurous Selva. We knock doors quite a bit and I have never met and seen so many JWs in my life !!! And the catholics too whoo! This area the people are duro!! We talk to all the people in the street and all the taxi drivers and people in the combis. We are working so well with all the members here in the ward it is amazing and just as i leave!!

When we switched areas we had nothing and now we hyave a ton of people :( But hey its all good!!! I am going to learn this sign language todavia and I am going to learn an ancient language de guatemala from my new comp Elder Choc. 4 languages!! Whoo! I am excited for this new adventure and am loving the time in the mission! I love you!!!

Take care!!!

Love Elder Jett Hudson

PS Love you Nate Feller Ben Jord keep up the work and cuidanse bastante!

Keep the emails circulating! chaufa!

June 8, 2009

Hey Family!!

I love you all and want to thank everyone for all the love and support. Keep on writing it helps so much!! Our appts keep falling through if anyone has any suggestions let me know! So i wrote an email and the web page lost it and now i do not have a lot of time... But i love you all and thank you all for all the support. :) U have letters coming and i am still working on the pictures. Keep the faith I love you all u finish my second transfer next week! I am feeling Jungle... :) ha ha

Vamos a Ver!! I love you all!!

Elder Jett Hudson

June 3

Hey Everyone!

Hello all you! How is everything going for you? I’m sorry to all for not writing letters but there really is no time here. I cannot begin to tell how frustrated I have been lately. So I am sorry for not getting you all letters but sincerely and truthfully love you ALL. I’m still trying to find a place to get pictures and send some stuff all your way. Sorry I don’t live in a technology advanced place. :)

So this last week we had a baptism! Her name is Daisy and she is awesome!! A good convert that won’t go inactive! WHOO!! There 300 members that are inactive in the two wards I have or had. So it’s good to have buenos conversos. [good converts] :)

So in the last two weeks I have also eaten cau cau, which is pronounced COW COW and rightfully so; it is cow stomach... which is not all that bad but it’s super chewy and it has like hair like things on it... ha ha but yeh its all good here you wouldn’t believe what they eat or what is like here WOW are we blessed!!!

So every three weeks I seem to have something new or exciting happen. I have changed companions every three weeks until now but this week I received two new missionaries in our apartment. Now there are four of us. Three Latinos and me. Should be interesting. Went to the temple today, still trying to get that down in Spanish! WHOO.

Thank you all so much for all the love and support for everything.... I love you ALL! Please keep writing and emailing. I am working on the letters todavia [still] and the pictures. I LOVE YOU ALL!! LOS AMO BASTANTE!!! CUIDASE MUCHO!! [not sure what this translates to. Something about love a lot :) ]

Elder JETT Hudson