fotos

Audio Recording

Audio Recording

dear. family i hate freaking and disobedient misionaries.

so  all the missionaries down here that are latin say freaking all the freaking time, and it really is starting to work on me cause i say it now. urrgggg but with time i will kick that habit too. they also say crapear which is supposedly crap. anyway that's just some mish jergas for ya.

something interesting is people actually read my blog. the other day hermana roper said her mother read the story about the scorpian in the bath room. yeah needless to say i was a tad bit . . . . . not imbaressead ahahahahahahahaha 

star wars quote of the day 

as han solo once said 

good against a remote is one thing. . . good against the living that's something else.

so elder julcapoma {a mouthful i know} is rather well like a typical kid whose mom never let him buy his own clothes, but i'll let y'all guess how old he is. hahaha it will shock you to death. 

also so far with my companions, all of them have started with a really awkward hug. don't know what that symbolizes, but i know it's probably a bad omen.

any way he has a spirit and enthusiasm like a 5 year old on a sugar high. but that's not the problem. the problem is he is new and doesn't know the secrets of the work yet {in other words how to bs like crazy hem hem use the spirit smiley face}, and all he wants to do is practice practice and more practice. and he takes forever during planing. we planned one night for almost 2 hours needless to say i need to repent for being cross and impatient. (it's a work in progress) that i call repentance 

but all's well. apparently he likes to cook a lot, so i hope he teaches me how to cook peruvian food, but i doubt it. speaking of food our pensionista is awesome. she makes tacos that are the bomb. also i have gained like 6 kilos its scary. i have fat. 

as for the dentist he said a lot of words in spanish that i didn't really understand,and the theme of the office was of course finding nemo. 

as for my teeth i quote with translation "your dental work is very bakan (gravy or cool)" haha he had tons of questions about my  permanent retainer, which i didn't have the answers. haaha tell bart gardner that a peruvian dentist has a dentist crush.

we got in a wreck the other day. a little fender bender, but we just rolled on. so i think they don't have insurance. haah the streets down here be crazy.

La Carta

so i have so news i´m going to be training . . . whaaaaat! it's really no big deal cause the elder i am going to train has already served for 6 weeks, and my comp is going to be leader of my old district. so i get to ride in a bus for 6 hours, and if i am really lucky i am going get a hamburger at the office. but i don´t count chickens before they hatch. 

 

to tell the truth i am relieved to move onto a different ward's problems. our ward right now is really inactive, which is sad because all of the menos activos were my favorites. . . but that's life.

any way two big stories 

the first in the pictures you get to see my second tarjeta de crédito (credit card for those that don´t speak it). because as a good dyslexic always does, i forgot my password, and the atm ate my old one. hahaha so classic but it gets better. my comp elder castillo forgot his password as well. and the machine ate his too. so we both had to wait a month to get our new cards. hahaahahah he only has 3 months left, and he had to get a new card. any way lesson learned. 2 strikes and then return to the apartment or call the office cause the president doesn´t like to pay fines. 

the second 

we have been teaching an aged less active recent convert whose true name is maria martinez. and whom i have deemed maria la loca. reason being she always had dreams about virgins and jesus and well more then that my elementary spanish skill cannot understand. in addition to that she was ancient and her wrinkles had wrinkles, but that is not all. she also loves animals dogs cats birds. and all of them live in her house. which for me is awful. not to mention her son acts a little flamboyant if you catch my drift. he also is less active. i should note that the animals of peru are not like those of the states  they are uglier and dirtier and have bugs like nasty. i don´t touch any of them. even the pets. for an example one time we were teaching them and as her flamboyant son was petting one of there cats i watched the fleas crawl out of the hair over the nose and disappear in the neck. eew just an example. anyway this is pretty bad, but wait there's more. her house smells like cat pee. to put it kindly i held my breath. but to my comp she fell well with him or in other words he liked her and her house cause he tries to pet everything that's short has fur and four legs and sometimes with feathers and two. anyway about 7 days ago we tried to visit her, and she wasn´t there. no big surprise, however, later that night while talking to hermana mariela we learned that she no longer is with it, is to say she died. she had been sick with an infection so not only do i feel bad about calling her maria la loca, but also she´s dead. the saddest part is we didn´t reactivate her before she died. :´( anyway i´m going to let elder castillo deal with it because i got transfer. . . . the lesson learned here is nicknames aren´t a good thing because she knows now . . . 

question for all When you think of Jesus what do you think of. . . . . . . ? down here i have really learned a lot about Jesus. really it's the  crazy catholic culture down here. i realized that i don´t think much about jesus in comparision and that perhaps because we carry his name on our chest i ought to augment my faith in him just a little. which is to say i was thinking a lot about how is it that i could grow my faith a little during conference and lets just say i know now. My savior. that is a beautiful phrase because i know that he will help me whenever i need it. it's funny that it took seeing his name every day on cars and signs and stickers and every form of communication known to the christian world for me to realize my own lack of faith. but with assurity that he will bless me. I love the comparison of him becoming our father, when we are baptized. it gives me hope and fills me with love. (sounds really weird for me to say, but it's true. also i cried a little at the conference. but that is secret. got it) I love my salvador and want to serve him humbly with all my might. and you should too haha i know you are. also i have noticed the primary songs talk about jesus and his love a ton. . .  you think i would have paid attention

anyways i love yall especially my parents viejitos 

que la fuerza te acompañe 

elder preece