I had a phone in my apartment, had a car for part of the time and used a bike for the other part. And there was no interwebz so no one would have known what I meant by "online access" even if I had asked for it. ;-)
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I had a phone in my apartment, had a car for part of the time and used a bike for the other part. And there was no interwebz so no one would have known what I meant by "online access" even if I had asked for it. ;-)
Oh yeah! Well my companion and I lived in a house with barred windows and doors. In that house we lived with scorpions, spiders, termites and bats. In the over grown backyard lived chickens and snakes.
To this day I check my bed and shoes before I use them.
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Where was this haunted house?
You forgot the part about the flying cockroaches the size of dollar bills that would nibble on your finger in the middle of the night. And having to **** in an outhouse and shower using a bucket and a bowl. Good hell, now you've made me baggy.
Stoked and I went to different missions in the same country: Honduras. It's about as third world as it gets.
well, perhaps. . . . . I was trying to be funny. . . . .
I still have some anti-Mormon tracts with my name on them, run off by a very concerned Jesuit priest who used to follow us around and scold anyone who talked to us. Something about Solo mon being one bad dude with a lot of wives, and how the plague of the Earth today was Mor mons. Substance, I tell ya. Substantive issues.
Aside from the cockroaches that is literally how it was once you were outside a major city (where I spent half my time). Never had problems with roaches though. They didnt need to hide in your house. Plenty of trash and food everywhere.
In one area they filled your "pila" one a week with water directly from the river. You always left the faucet on full because water only ever came for that one hour once a week and you could not afford to lose out on that water. It was muddy water directly from the river. No filter. We showered with a 5 gallon bucket and a bowl in an outside stall.
Oh I know. The topic just turned me to a reflective mood is all.
Plenty of those. Ahh, the good ole days right bigb?
I guess he answered these, but to reiterate, for the most part--
* Mmissionaries get to email home once a week. I think that's their only internet access, i.e. no web surfing or jazzfanz-ing. (Or TV watching, for that matter.) Also, they can receive email from anyone, but can only email their own family. As far as I know, as far as regular mail goes anything is fine--the missionary can receive as many letters as people will write him, and can write letters back (as far as time permits).
* Many missionaries are issued cell phones these days, undoubtedly to be used for local missionary-related calls only.
* Writing a missionary to give him game/team updates is perfectly fine, and would likely result in much rejoicing on the missionary's part.
Oh yeah? Well, for two months I lived in an apartment over a bakery (in Germany). Tiny, tiny apartment--less than 200 sq ft, I think. But man, I loved the smell when I woke up in the morning.