Letters From Peru

  Last day of the transfers. I'm staying in my area with Elder Turcsanski. That was expected. Had intercambios on Friday so I was with the zone leader Elder Hillman he's super cool. I got to lead my area for the second times which is fun. He's leaving this transfer which I'm sad about. A member bought us a snow cone probably one of the best things I've had during my time here. Almost made me tear up. It reminded me of the good ol days when I'd have a nice refreshing Eegee or slurpy. Had 3 friends come to church which is good but we can do better.  For P day we finally cleaned up the house. And that really invited the spirit because it was disgusting. Still is a little dirty but we still passed the zone leader inspection so that's chill. Its  really not our fault that there's dirt being blown into our house all day haha. I had ceviche with the district. It was delicious and the first healthy thing I've had since the night I left home haha. Love you al...

 Hope everyone is doing well. There's a friend we have right now that's chill and she always brings us doughnuts. But this week she brought us some weird oat water too.  Unfortunately, the water wasn't clean so I was feeling it for a couple of days after. Her story is funny though. We found her after some trunk pastor was talking to us for like 30 minutes. He then introduced us to her and said she was interested.  Meanwhile Elder Turk and I were preparing for her to be a snake but she turned out to be nice. She's been to church with us three times now.  Lately though she's been texting us a lot and asking for photos of us which is sus haha.  There's a member down the street nicknamed the mad scientist, he got the name from his sinister smile.  We go out on visits with him a lot, mostly because he's obsessed with us. His mom always makes us jello and chicha morada, probably the best Peruvian drink, its made from purple corn. Anyways we visited him on valent...

  Its been a fun week. Did comp exchanges on friday that was fun. Finally got to eat at a members house last night. The food made me a tiny bit sick. First time I've had a bad reaction to the food here. I saw a chica moto driver...that's the craziest part of the week. I've just been living off hard boiled eggs since they're only like $2.50 for 30 eggs. There's tons of mosquitos in my house. They like to hide in the closets and if you move your clothes they come swarming out...I'm not joking about this at all.  We're getting hot water installed which will attract more of them. They never attack until you're asleep. Super annoying because you don't get a fighting chance. Apparently there's a crazy disease from mosquitoes here called dengue fever. And the rainy season is around the corner so there's gonna even be more of them. I talk about these mosquitos a lot because its like the only bad thing happening.    For P day the zone went to Huacach...

 Week 2 In Ica Peru has been good. I love how down here the biggest meal of the day is lunch.  Everyone in the mission gets a pinchanista aka a member who makes us food. Mine is great. But some of the time her food has like no seasoning and no sauce. Which would be chill if I could just add a little sauce myself but they only have weird sauces and mayo in these stores, no hot sauce or anything.  Its great we have a feast made everyday just for us. And she makes crazy good fish. Her house is like a 10 minute walk away. So its a little hassle to retrieve the food, and I swear the walk just keeps getting longer each day. We get an hour to eat so my comp takes advantage and pounds the food and takes a fat nap. I don't blame him, the heat here sucks away all of your energy. He's pretty good at playing the guitar and its always fun listening to some calming tunes. Food is crazy cheap. 30 eggs is like 6 Peruvian sols and its like 3.33 sols to a dollar. But for some reason energy...

  After a sad day of leaving the gold old missionary training center I had my first over night flight. It was 8 and a half hours. It sucked until I finally fell asleep at 4 am. My group of like 8 missionaries arrived in Lima at 8 am.  We went ahead and had breakfast at the mission home. The home is on the 22nd floor so its got a dope view of lima. President Byers is super Christ like. He took us on a tour to a park with a bunch of beautiful olive trees. He yapped about the symbolic meaning of the trees and all of that. I had know idea how cool lima was but now I kinda wanna live there after the mission. We went to a church building and had the companion draft. I was the first one called up which is kinda lame because it ended the anticipation early so the draft dragged on. My comp Elder Turcsanski is from West Valley Utah. He's the goat. He's obedient and super chill. Got good luck with comps thus far.  Had my first Peruvian food at a members house that night.  Ate P...

 Dear Family of Elder Call,  We have met Elder Call and are so thankful for his preparation to serve in the Peru Lima South mission. He is excited about his mission and enthusiastic to begin serving the Lord in Peru. Our mission has a culture of love and conversion. It is our prayer that your missionary will experience a higher level of conversion as he prepares, teaches, and testifies. We make the missionary purpose to “Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, so they can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end” the focus of every interaction a missionary has with a new friend. Our desire is that your son will soon come to have this missionary purpose written in his own heart as he shares the gospel with others and invites each of them to “Come unto Christ.” With your missionary we were able to visit a centuries-old olive grove near the missi...