Letters From Peru

  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...

 It's been a good and bad week. Half the district was skipping out on class with the cold haha. One of the Elders in my district had to get quarantined in some special MTC dorm. He tried exaggerating the sickness by saying how it was some crazy strain of the rhino virus. And I was like, oh dang! A rhino virus? And then I asked Meta AI what a rhino virus was, and it spit out how it was just the common cold. It's crazy how missionaries get Facebook Messenger on the mission phone. Especially since it has Meta AI on it, which is huge. I feared leaving AI behind, so it's great that I still get to have that. Even if the AI model is the worst I've ever seen. In the App Store, there's basically just gospel and language apps. The funny thing is that on Duolingo there's a chess course, and these kids are getting crazy at chess. Little disappointed in the lack of Christmas decor here, and that the BYU Creamery's nog is a poor excuse for a holiday drink. Overall, it...

Finished week one of the MTC and dang it was good, and I knew it would be. Imma start out by saying that everyone has been crapping on this food. But in reality, it’s quite enjoyable for now. Even though it may get the stomach begging for dear life, but that’s alright. If I don’t put on weight here, I’m a lost cause. The Grand Canyon BYU Creamery ice cream is fire, aka gram slam for those with ball knowledge. Spanish is coming fine. Starting full immersion tomorrow. Not being able to speak English in class is gonna be a real challenge but also a huge learning opportunity. By far the best thing of all is my district. I’m blessed to have the best district of all time. Where all so different, it’s like we’re the Avengers. Teachers are chillers. They’re patient and knowledgeable, unlike how it is in school. The MTC is constant laughing with my district; nobody can ever keep a straight face. My companion and district leader, Elder Felix, is cool. He kinda keeps us in line. I got Elder Lowth...