crazy week

This week we baptized Andrea Pimentel. She was crazy prepared, has read to 2 Nephi and has been wonderfully accepted into the ward. We will start teaching her cousin this week... awesome! To be honest my comp practically taught her everything because I was always in meetings and other crap but hey that's all good.

Just so you know the states needs to start advertising better, down here we have stickers and lots of fun crap that comes on juice bottles and pretty much everything that we buy. I have started collecting them jaja. 

I love panaderías. They are bread stores that you find all over in Peru, which is really awesome because I like pan (bread), and it makes me fat and happy. 

This week I got to go to the temple in Lima because I went to see my carnet de extranjeria. Then we jumped over to the temple. It is tiny and lets just say it was awesome, I loved it!  

Oh and I have a best friend in the mission Elder Dax Rich, that kid be awesome! He is from Connecticut but studies at BYU... so we going to hang out after the mish. Also, it hit me that in 3 months my first compañera is going home.  Sister Boone and I have always joked that we were comps because we came together to Piura, but it's crazy how fast time flies.

Oh and I decided as I was looking at myself in the mirror I've done gotten old! I don't know when, but it happened. It's crazy.  I now have a man's face with a nasty beard and everything is great. Jaja, but it makes me feel even more inadequate but hey that's good.

I have been feeling lately, that I really don't like being a leader... but on account of my character... I know that I will be a leader for the rest of my life. So, I better grow up and start liking it. I have learned that leaders don't have to be perfect. They need to make good choices though, as the group will follow them for good and bad. This bothers me, but I'm learning to live with it. I will forever rejoice that I was taught to be a good kid and not to make exceptions to my standards. This I owe to my papi and my mami and to my siblings. One of the things I have learned about being a leader is that you need to take people the way they are and leave them changed for the better. This reminds me of a conference talk that was all about friends, it was the best you should look it up. 

I wish you all a happy week and que la fuerza les acompañe,

Elder Preece

PS  I will have been out 15 months this week...oh my goodness gracious me!