Week 8

Yo whaddup?

This week was a lot better than the first week hahaha, still don't understand anything though.

I got a new camera but the sim cards that I brought with me don't work in it. We can only go to Arequipa every other Monday for stuff like that. So next Monday I'm gonna go back to the guy and switch it for the camera that is exactly like the one that I had before lol, idk why I didn't just buy that one in the first place haha but oh well. We put my sim card in E. Lozanos camera to take some b-day pics so don't worry.

Let's see...so in the van last week, like 3 Macklemore songs came on so that was lit hahaha.

Also, one of the sons of our pensionista was telling me that he has a classmate named something Garate.  I remember Bryce telling me that he had a companion named Garate, from this area who was "the man" or whatever so that is cool. Hopefully, one day I will meet him.

During breakfast one day E. Lozano plugged in a speaker with the pensionistas son's USB and it had normal decently good English songs on it, so that was sick hahaha music is amazing!!!

So, they have this thing here called queso helado (cheese ice-cream???). idk if
Bryce ever had it or if it's just an Arequipa thing, but it is freaking good!

lol So all the kids here have to wear uniforms and there are a few different schools so there're a bunch of different uniforms. I asked E. Lozano why they had to wear uniforms and he said to tell the school apart or something. Then he asked why American schools don't have to wear uniforms and the first thing that came to mind was FREEDOM!!! lol so I told him,"cause the United States is free" hahaha he just laughed. Also last week in Arequipa I saw some guy on the street wearing American flag shorts so that was sick.

Also it is super dumb because the pensionista, who cooks our meals, owns like 97 cats. jk but like 4 and they run around the little house, so every time we go eat I sneeze a bunch, so that's kind of annoying.

It is super well-irrigated here in La Joya so it's greener than most places. They have endless fields of these plants called "Tunas"(Prickly Pear Cactus) that make this stuff called Cochinilla (a wood larva used for dying fabric). Also, there is this Main Plaza that is pretty nice with trees and lots of shade and stuff to see.

Okay, so my water bottle somehow started leaking and idk how. Maybe in the next package you could send me a new super good water bottle? Also, if you do you could like put my ipod in it with some good mission music haha for reals though, I need that ipod with like as many songs as possible!

Also, could you send me a mini hymn book and a mini Book Of Mormon in English? That would be sweet!

But yeah, that's about it. Peace yo,

Elder Mortenson