I received all the dear elders up until Aug 27th today! Thanks so much mom and aunt phyl! I don´t know when they exactly got here cause I am only allowed to get the mail every pday...but I got them! So thanks! I attached a couple of pictures on here I took today at the temple and I think one of them is at night when I arrived here. i hope it worked.
Mom, dad said you are thinking of sending me a package? I can´t get any packages while I am here, but I can get them in cusco I think--which is only like 4 weeks away can you believe it?! I would like my other coat, but I can also buy stuff there too.
Dad also said he wanted to know my schedule here at the CCM. (mtc in spanish) I wake up at 6.30, eat breakfast. and do personal study for an hour. Then I usually have class for a couple hours. I learn spanihs grammar and usually some sort of teaching principle. then I teach with my north american companion. next I have companionship study with my latino companion. and then lunch! I am getting used to eating 3 huge meals a day instead of little meals throughout the whole day. here, it is very simple to tell you what we eat because it is the same every day. A huge plate of white rice and a big chunk of some sort of meat. I have only had one meat I really didn´t like. It is usually quite delicious. I am sometimes glad I don´t ask what it is, because I know it is a meat I have never eaten before. But it is always good. I am glad i have vitamins, because I don´t get very many vegetables here. Every once in a while i will get an apple. And the desserts here are way good--tell clark we have flan like every other day. :) The desserts are never as sweet as in america. today we went to the grocery store after the temple and we baught a candy bar for each of us--neither of us could finish it in one sitting it was so sweet to us. It was just a hershey´s bar! I think food is all the elders in my district baught. haha.
Oh yeah so after lunch we come back and a we have what is called TRC where we teach one of our teachers with our latino companion and we only get maybe 5 mins to prepare the lesson. My latino companion...well, she is quite a dramatic teacher. the other day we went proselyting and she was like poking people with her pen telling them that our church was true....I almost took the pen from her.
proselyting--that was a really humbling experience. It was so exciting to actually go up to people and talk to them about the gospel. These people literally have nothing, but they are so humble. I was able to teach a mother and her three really young children about the book of mormon and as the little boy was looking at the pictures in the book of mormon he suddenly jumped up and ran into his house and got a little figurine of Jesus and said "this is Jesus too! you have Jesus in your book!" It was really cute. It made me want to know spanish better because all i could do right then was bear my testimony which was really good but that was such a perfect moment to teach more and my companion didn´t recognize it at all. They say the north american companions are here to learn spanish, but also teach the latinos about the gospel. I know my companion will learn a lot about the gospel on her mission. She has a really big heart, but she is really difficult sometimes to get along with. I am working on patience patience patience...
Thanks for all your support family! Español is coming I think! i am understanding people better.
Love you all!
I have just arrived in Peru!
At the Lima Temple with my companions!
Just me at the temple!
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