Segundo

1 kilo (about 2 pounds) of blueberrys costs 5 soles (about 1 dollar) in this town. There must be blueberry fields here or something because in chiclayo they were 20 times as expensive. I have been aprovecharing heavily. 

I watched a dude sell a 9 year old kid two beers. Teaching them young. 

We got a blender and I have been whipping up all sorts of smoothies. Papaya+banana+water is such a good combination. 

I have also found myself chewing on sugar cane a lot. It has worn on me a ton. I'm not sure if it's just because it feels cool and because thats just what you do in this town or if it is actually good.  

Go bengals. I heard they made it to turf. 

Hermano Segundo was baptized this week. He is a really cool guy. He quite drinking coffee and tea and it has been a process that has taken over a year. But he has successfully dropped it and was baptized yesterday. It was a beautiful baptism. 

We got water back to the shower this week. So that is great. But water doesnt make it to the toilet yet, so we made a hose that carries the shower water to the toilet. It is pretty genius and works well. 

I finished the D and C this week. I think for some reason sometimes we as members are almost scared of the d and c. Reading it was one of the best things I have ever done for my personal testimony. I encourage all to truly do come follow me this next year and find the gems that are scattered throughout it. 

This week I started the New Testiment. There are three things that are really interesting to me in chapter 26 of matthew. All three are examples of people taking for insignificance who Christ was and what he is. 

Verse 4-5: "4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people" 

Verse 15-16: "15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him." 

Verse 40/43: "40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy."

I think it is easy for us to look at these three examples of people betraying or taking the Lord for not and almost laugh at the fact that these people dumbed down the supreme being that was Christ in such a manner. But I also think that we are all just as guilty, in our own way, of having our Lord for naught sometimes. Maybe our ways of having him for naught are different, but I know for me personally, there are tons of little things that I can work on.