OK hello everybody!! Love it here in the CCM. Life is pretty crazy though, spanish all the time, crazy new foods and today we left the compound for the first time!! We got to ride a tiny little bus (12 of us elders got into an 18 person bus that had 15 people in it already. awesome.) then we drove down the street with the money collector guy hanging out the door holding on as we cruised at like 40 mph down the street as he yelled at us all for money. But then we went TO EL TEMPLO!! The temple was so awesome as it always is. got to wear the english headset and listen through those, but the spirit was still strong as ever.
After the temple, we went to this little store owned by a church member and I bought a sick grey alpaca corbata (tie). Way cool. Then we went to Tottus, which is pretty much a super walmart, with food court and eyeglasses store and everything written in what seems like another language, and ... REAL PEOPLE! Real people from the outside world. It was so awesome. Didn´t talk to anybody because as ´Principios,´ or elders that are still in their first 3 weeks here, we can{t do much and we had to hurry back. but they played real music and i have to be honest, i may have listened a bit in the store when they played keane´s somewhere only we know. Great song.
but teaching and learning is pretty fun too. All our teachers understand minimal english, so we get a ton of practice. one of my teachers said i speak like a latino! and i think i pretty much have the pronunciación down to an art, so i guess i just gotta spend a lot of time memorizing a few hundred more words and i should be good.
And our gym time rocks here. when i play basketball with the latinos, im flipping huge, and i look really good, and they tell me that i´m amazing at it, and it makes me feel really good haha. But when i need humbling, I just go down to the campo del fútbol and play soccer with the latinos, and they make me feel like a small child. un hijito. but it´s still a blast anyway!!
I have been gaining a wonderful new testimony of the book of mormon lately, as i am reading it in the first three weeks here. i´m on page 187ish, mosiah 27ish and it´s so awesome. never comprehended so much of it thus far en mi vida. I love the work but it´s kicking my butt, so i gotta call on the lord for more help and strength; just like we all need to do every day!!!!
my companion is elder Jacob Mangum from montana, whose father is a landscape architect who designs parks and recreational areas up there!! awesome, right??
Dearelder still works here, and is the best way for you to get to me, as i have limited time to read these emails and hurredly write back. and mail doesn't come. at least it hasn't yet for any of the elders in the district. we´re just thinking it takes a really really long time to get here. But don´t really send any packages anyway, because they tell us to tell you not to because it is very expensive and who knows if i can get it.
ALTHOUGH if mom you would mail me a letter with american stamps (or brother Greer if that works... that would actually be awesome!!) because the only way i can write back is with american stamps with they did not tell us until we arrived in peru. also i´m trying to figure out how to get more money, because lots of elders have credit cards, which i don{t know why we didn't do that. also pardon the typos--spanish keyboard. maybe with the money thing, it might just be ok for you guys to deposit it into my church account and i can somehow get it out. for now i should be ok-my money converts into 2.6ish of their soles, so that´s very nice.
Love you all so much!!
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