Anda Peru

HOLA FAMILIA!!!

Well it´s Monday, and yes that´s right it´s Pday!! Wow it feels like it´s been forever since I have written... probably because it has!! Goodness gracious so much to tell you and so little time to do it. Ok first off I´m in the field in case ya´ll didn´t know, but I´m sure you did. Wow it´s the best I absolutely love it here! I´m in the zone Comas in the area La Pascana.

Tuesday we left the CCM and came to the mission offices, we had a little training, had Papa Johns (yes they have that here) for lunch and then after we got assigned to our areas. My new companion is....Hermana Flores! She is 23, from here in Lima.. her mission was supposed to be Cochabamba Bolivia but her Visa is going to take another 8 months and she has been here for 6 so she talked to the President and looks like she is going to stay here for the whole time! Hallelujah! She is so much fun! She speaks hardly any English which is perfect for me because I need to learn and I need to learn fast! So for me it´s Spanish all day every day, but surprisingly it doesn´t bother me much! Mom, you will be happy to know that I have a pensionista.. haha ok only for breakfast but hey she´s the greatest. I barely understand anything she says because she talks so fast, but most of the time I catch ´´Oh hermanita!´´ not much more. For lunch we eat at members houses, so far it hasn´t been too bad, but I am required to eat everything on my plate. Which Saturday that included the stomach of a chicken... yeah... ok I can´t lie I didn´t eat it. That´s another reason why I am grateful for my companion... she took it while the ward member was in the kitchen. Haha oh and one another thing, the Hermana´s brother ate with us... definitely ate a whole chicken foot in front of me, super disturbing! But the sweet stuff here... wow it´s fantastic, they also have a drink here that is called Pulp and it´s seriously the best, I don´t know how I lived without it.

This week has been pretty awesome, we have a lot of new investigators. On my first day we contacted a reference we had. Consuelo is a 23 year old and has the cutest son, Americo. The first lesson we taught her she committed to a baptismal date, the only problem is she isn´t married to Daniel (her significant other). So many people aren´t married here... like tons, it is probably going to be one of the biggest problems we have. Every month or so we have a mass marriage for those who are getting baptized. So Consuelo and her husband will need to get married.. our next visit she said that she really wanted to be married so that´s all good! She also came to all 3 hours of church yesterday which was wonderful. Speaking of church, the pianist didn´t show up so I played, it was great, except for the fact that there were maybe 30 or 40 members there max. We supposedly have 600 members in our ward, but so many of them are inactive, so we try to visit them a lot. The 1st counselor in the ward is Hermano Pedro (Pedrito, or my Abuelito). Pedrito is my abuelito because he too is white.. haha it´s awesome. He struggles with my name though, most people here do.

One of my favorite things to end this letter: people stare at me, and by people I mean literally everyone. Being blonde and blue-eyed in Peru is seriously the funniest thing ever. People will just stare and stare, then I say buenas dias or whatever and they are all like: ´´Woah, she speaks Spanish??´´ it´s hilarious. The other day a cute Hermana in the ward told me that I had celestial eyes. It´s kind of fun being the different one here.  Whelp out of time, I´ll do my best to send a picture of my area!! Adios everyone!!

Hermana Imbler