Cuy

Transfers were this week. Should be a good transfer. I'm staying in Pomalca and recived two new comps. One is elder Rice from Alaska. We have about the same amount of time in the mission. We were together out in the jungle and did a bunch of exchanges out there so we knew each other well. We are also training an absolute stud named elder Martin from Idaho Falls. Hes an absolute unit and such a cool guy. Prodigy of the MPCH. He will be carrying my torch for 17 months after I leave, so thats kinda cool. I couldn't say enough good things about this guy. The bishop asked one of us to speak in sacrament meeting so we had him do it. He did it like an absolute champ. First sunday in peru and he absolutely nailed it. I think the Lord hears me every time I say I don't like trio training because he keeps having me do it. I am actually pretty excited this time though. Pretty cool oportunity to help a new guy learn and grow with two experienced missionaries. 

My trainer, my last companion, and the sisters that got here with me all went home this week. That one stung a bit. 

Ate cuy (guinea pig) this week. I hate that stuff. Its so nasty. We sat down to eat it and I really struggled to find any meat whatsoever on it. The whole family just went at it whole, crunching the bones super loud. Absolutely sick. People here kill for that stuff. You can get two whole chickens for the price of one tiny little meatless piece of garbage guinea pig. So nasty

I love christmas in the mission. Boy is it getting toasty though. We had an hour long car ride the other day to go help some sisters way out in the boonies move houses. The taxi driver would not role the windows down or turn on the ac because "mucho aire hace daño". It was probably 95 in that car for an hour straight. I had a headache the rest of the day. 

Some guy showed up at church on sunday saying he wants to get baptized asap. The problem is that his is currently living with some lady but she is legally married to another guy, so its a whole vaina trying to figure that out. The lady will have to find a way to divorce and then they will have to get married. 

Is it posible to be completely confident in spanish for over a year and then wake up one day and feel like you forgot it? Yeah. Still struggling with trying to figure out what happened there.

I have almost collected all of the coins in perú. I have a pretty cool looking set. I bought a book for them and I think its pretty cool. I'll throw a picture in. 

"Whats the best way to fulfill your missionary pourpose? Baptize people." -President Giuria. 

I think we often overlook the gift of the Holy Ghost. Sometimes as missionaries and miembers of the church we focus so much on baptism and not on this Gift. The Holy Ghost is truly whay purifies us and helps us to live better lives. It has been interesting to see how it works in me. I wish I had a bunch of crazy mission experiences when the Holy Ghost told me exactly what door to know or who to talk to, but in reality that almost never happens. In fact most of the time those miracles that come from him just feel like coincidences. But it is always cool to see how he influences us and the miracles that come from him.