Week 5

What's up hahaha this week was decent. It was literally the same as every other week except this time there was more sun! It's awesome cause its basically Spring here, so the sun has actually been coming out!

Let's see...so last Saturday we had our proselyting activity. It was super fun. sooo much better than class. hahaha So we all got on a bus and they bused us over to this super poor area that was in the Lima East Mission (Bryce's mission). then we stopped at the church building and met in there and talked for a while. Most of the elders that were there to welcome us recognized me as Bryce's brother lol. So we were sitting there and each of the seasoned elders got to choose what elders they wanted, and this one guy told everyone that he "calls Mortenson" lol. So me, my comp, and two other elders went with him. His name is Elder Madruga and he was one of Bryce's comps like back in February. Apparently, he and Bryce were tight hahaha he was so dope. He told me his side of the story about when he and Bryce killed a dog idk if you guys remember that hahaha but it was so funny. He was so happy that I was there, he said it was like deja vu cause me and Bryce are the same person basically. Also, I told him that Bryce got hurt by the big boys lol and he was like "I told him to take it easy when he got back!" Anyway, so all we did was basic contacting and stuff. They gave us all a Book of Mormon that we had to hand out. So we were just walking around and mElder Madruga and two of the other elders went and started talking to these people. So me and another Elder decided to go talk to these two guys just chilling. So we went and talked to them in my best Spanish lolol. Then they saw the BoM that we had and they asked what it was so we just gave a brief explanation about it and bore our testimonies and gave it to them. They seemed genuinely interested unlike every other person that we talked to.

Also, I had my first experience with the wild dogs here hahaha. Elder Madruga showed me how to handle all the different dog scenarios. We almost had to throw rocks at some dogs cause they started to chase us a little bit hahaha it was sick.

lol so "dank" in Spanish is "frío y húmedo" hahaha so we started saying that in class and our hermana teacher was wondering why we were saying that. So then we told her that it meant "dank" in English and that dank means like cool in the United States. hahaha so then we got her to say dank, it was so funny!

So we leave next Tuesday (Aug.28th) at like 2ish in the morning, not exactly sure.  I'm pretty sure Mondays are prep-days for Arequipa so idk when I'll be able to email next. So we will see how it goes... haha I'm sooo excited to get there. The only bad thing there is that we are with our trainer for 12 weeks, no one ever told me that until like 2 weeks ago. So that's gonna fetching hurt if I get a dumb trainer.

That's about it!

Love Elder Mortenson