letter for week 54646541657641684634198

of the pictures you got: the classic gonzo, some wild flowers,  the beach huts and the boat (that's for dad). it was freaking awesome. and the me sailing. i hope you like my cavels, the pants, they cost a lot but they look sweet. every body down here wears them. i love it. they dress super cool

so somethings about peru that i learned new: their beaches have white people in them. its crazy. haha and they like journey to livin on a prayer, hotel cali by the eagles, black eyed peas, ace of base, moves like jagger. yeah that's a blast like everyday and on top of the world by imagine dragons. yeah pretty much they got it all.

the bus service is fun you just stand on the side of the road flag somebody down to take you where you want to go weird but fun. and darn convenient if you only have two or three people. but with a crowd of missionaries it's tough.

 peruvians think they speak castillano which is an accent of spanish that they use in argentina. It is really funny because a little kid ones told me habla español (you speak spanish) and i was like estamos hablando español (we speak spanish) and the parents are always saying learning castillano was really hard. right no learning español was pretty tough um 

they have these coconut balls which are sweet.they a carmely coconutty awesome

most of their sweets aren´t too good, but i try them anyway. i haven´t found a cook book yet, but you should try arroz amarillo con pollo or carne de rez yellow rice is weird. also they have a sauce called tari, that's good. i have no idea how to make it but its from some famous chef in lima

the dogs here are so ugly. no joke they don´t have hair and are black naked. nasties uhgh make me shudder. 

you guys need to make ciffles. look it up on the internet cause they be dang good with salsa de aji 

 

also peru is the country with the animals drawings that can be seen from the sky. i didn´t know that. freaking cool.

they have things that look like cheetos but are not like cheetos. its quite depressing. they taste like a chili pepper. yeah its rough, and they don´t have sour patch kids or swedish fish. but they have lemon drop like candy. and their chocolate isn´t bad

also i don´t think you will ever get a package from me cause it costs 25 dollars for a half kilo and that's like nothing any way. 

they eat cancho which is like popcorn but just the kernel and bigger. i don´t know how to make it yet. but i'm going to learn. 

so this week is the last week of the transfer, and i got the match maker song stuck in my head. i won´t lie elder castillo is great, but i need to move on. cause we aren´t the most effective together. its been tough cause he is super serious. 

oh i was watching the news as we were teaching a lesson (i will repent for that tonight promise) and the guys phone goes off and he picks it up. and they cut to commercial. let me tell you they do things differently down south. hahaha

in the church they have jovenes adultos soteros and adultos solteros, and they call it jas y as and its sounds like they are swearing all the time. i get so confused. haha

i decided as missionaries our day of rest got jacked, but i have to get back to work.

chau

elder preece

may the force be with you

The Beard is Gone!

so no pictures today. mostly because i left the memory card at the apartment and also cause there just wasn´t anything really good to take pictures of. i´m always on the look out, but hey the only thing i had to show you was my new pants and my super man socks. they're legit! and i had some voice recordings, but you will get three next week for the three weeks i didn´t send one. we are super busy here and really aren´t doing a lot. but we had 4 investigatores attend church and 4 or 5 less active families come. it was a small miracle. we haven´t had so many people go to church in this whole transfer. but there is always something to improve, and one of the things that we really haven´t had much of is new investigators. we have been knocking doors, but that's about as effective as peeing into the wind. perhaps not that bad but pretty much.

So the best worst thing of my life: we were teaching an older lady named calixta the first lesson and just as we were talking about the book of mormon in walks her husband, who we hadn´t met before, and he was super nice. He sits down asks us which church are you're from. i managed to say ¨the church of jesus cristo. . . 

him: no all are from christ but what are you? evangelicals . ..  

me: sí  . . we´re form 

him: so your evangelicals 

me:  no we´re from the church of jesus christ of latter day saints 

him: so evangelicals 

elder castillo some people know us as mormons 

him: (with a face that looks like the devil himself has just entered his house.) MORMONS you mormons don´t believe in god 

me: We believe in God 

him no you don´t. your church is full of satan worshipers 

me no we believe in God just as much as you do 

him don´t lie to me like that you don´t believe in God. you're just here to build your churches and gather riches for the devil

me brother we believe in God the eternal father his son jesus. . .

him no you don´t. i have my catholic bible and my church and you don´t know anything 

me i believe in the bible 

him no you don´t. where was the first church established? 

me with adam and eve

him you don´t know nothing. it was established in canaan by moses (although moses never made it to canaan but who needs to be biblically correct or anything)

me huh. . . 

me will you let me share a scripture with you from the book of mormon. 

him book of the devil 

me in nephi 25 we preach of christ rejoice in christ. . .

him i won´t have these satanic lies in my house get out! 

elder castillo hermano we believe in God and jesus christ and we know that our message is true and we know that you will know too. and we will be judged by our work by God 

and as we left we shook hands and that was that. 

hahaha

he was so mad and so convinced that we were lying that we believed in God

whew that was bad. me and elder castillo just laughed it off. especially cause we left a book of mormon with calixta hahahaha 

I love this gospel, and I know its true. and ain´t nobody got the right to tell me i don´t believe in God. 

I love you my famidamly and I am so glad that we have this gospel. i know my letters don´t usually have a huge religious tone, and that's probably because it still is weird to me that i am a preacher of sorts.

pero en realidad sé que esta iglesia es verdadero sé que jesucristo es el Cristo y que está es su iglesia. sé que he llamado por un profeta y he sido llamado a esta obra sé que tenemos un profeta verdedero y que el tiene el sacerdocio para guiar la iglesia. (but in reality I know that this church is true. I know that Jesus Christ is the Christ and this is His church. I know I've been called by a prophet, and I have been called to this work. I know that we have a living prophet, and he has the priesthood to lead the church.)

I love you guys and miss you its true. but this is where i need to be for the next 20ish months of my life. in this very short time i have learn so much about who i am and what i stand for. 

and like every good missionary i have something for you to do: read your patriarchal blessing. this is the thing i love most about my study time is that i can read my personal scriptures

perú is awesome and i can´t wait to see more

oh and president is making the transfers, so we´ll see what happens. 

may the force be with you

elder preece

8.5.13

this is peru mas o menos. (more or less) i actually didn´t mean to capture this sign. its for the election in 9 months. they're everywhere.

so this is pizza. we went to one of the other missionaries peinsionistas houses in corrales and made pizzas. they have a giant orno or oven. its pretty cool you can see it in the other pictures. i love the pan or bread as we call it in the US. it was good, but the sauce was a bit thin and way too salty. but the bread was so airy, it was ridiculous.

so my absolute favorite thing about peru right now is the banana farms. noooooo the market. noooooo the house painted neon colors inside and out. noooooooooooooooooooooooo i really don´t know its all so freaking awesome! i love the way that the people here salud one another all the time. i mean all the time. 

but at the same time peru has its faults. there isn´t peanut butter and chocolate is dang hard to find. i have a secret stash. don't tell elder castillo.  tons of elders are super trunky. they have 3 weeks left and are freaking out. and i get asked is this too hipster? sadly i just wanted to say why yes yes it is. 

the quick stories of the day:

*i don´t have a picture but google granerio. they're not so good. don´t know why they cost so much.

*one of the missionaries was trying to describe papaya to me, and he innocently asked como se llama papaya en ingles? (how do you say papaya in english?)

*we knocked a door and a woman answered or was it a man?????? or both????? we still don´t know.

*my agenda is freaking sweet. don´t have a picture, but i´ll send one next time. 

*the sunday shirts here are super thin, like you can see through them, but they are also a lot cooler. so that's pretty good

for cailie: i don´t know if i have told you this before, but they say yo lo a lot here. but it doesn´t mean the same thing. it´s like yo lo tengo or i have it 

we encountered tres borrachos (3 drunks) this week. it was super weird. one of them grabbed elder castillos leg and was crying and ohhh my family ... . .sob sob. and then we told him we had to go, and he stood up and showed us where he lived. so we could come visit him .yeah it was super weird

send me the address for elder eatough por favor

oh we can't eat lettuce, pork, or cebiche. i think this is the mission for you cailie.

can´t say more cause time is up.

 

hope you love the pics.

be strong

and i didn´t get the vid of g dell sad

may the force be with you

elder preece