Week 9

Next week i should have all the pics

So pretty decent week.

Last tuesday we made pizza after our district meeting so that was sick to finally have pizza.

I read one of the talks by joseph smith that was in the folder that bryce gave me and it blew my mind lol. i cant remember the name of it.

I found a way to get a cold drink every now and then. the pensionista has a fridge so whenever i can i will buy a cold Inca Cola or Sprite out of there if there are any. so that is super nice.

Everyday i realize that Elder Lozano is more and more like Blake (dad). he will chill in his garments when we get back to the apartment. and there are elections going on and this one guy has this theme song that is always blaring everywhere that says la espiga which is like a wheat spike or something. and E. Lozano figured out that it means that, so all the time he will randomly just staring saying spike just like how Blake does with certain words and phrases. he does it with tons of other stuff too hahaha.

So i am like the most popular guy down in la joya cause im basically the only gringo and i have blonde hair and blue eyes.

We are in Arequipa right now. it is soooo much better than la joya. its so lit here. we went to this massive 3 story mall and they had everything, and an H&M. we went to mcdonalds in this other huge mall so that was the best thing every tbh. they have everything here in Arequipa; pizza hut, papa johns (papa bless), and tgi fridays, chilis, burger king, and whatever else. there's nothing in la joya haha. they also have mtn dew here. but not in the mall that we were in, maybe next time i can get some mtn dewsky!

Its pretty sick in la joya cause there's not a ton of pollution so you can see the stars super well.

Also, we had two earthquakes hahaha so that was sick. I woke up in the middle of the night and my bed was shaking and I was like what the fetch?? hahahaha. Then i woke up in the morning and thought that it had been a dream but immediately after that we had another one, exactly the same hahhahaa.

Another good things is that im gonna have super good posture from my backpack always pulling me up lol.

Also, I'm 2 for 3 on number of breast feedings to number of weeks hahahhaa. the first week i was here some lady started breastfeeding during a lesson, and like 4 days ago we were teaching this woman in her shop and then she started breastfeeding her baby, so that was super weird, like 4 feet away.

E. Lozano had a nice bible bash with this one guy that thought he was super smart haha. it was for a fetching hour and the guy kept asking all these questions that he thought were smart and quoting scriptures but Lozano just kept owning him and finally pulled out a scripture from the Book of Mormon and destroyed him. afterwards the guy didn't know what to say so he said he had to go hahha.

lol I finally realized how important it is to have the spirit with us always hahaha cause we usually teach lesson 1 which is the Restoration. And if you think about it it sounds pretty weird. like some kid said a prayer and God and Christ appeared to him then he got some golden plates and whatnot. Definitely need the spirit to testify to them about it!

I'ts super gross, people here LOVE salt. they literally put the most insane amount of salt on everything including salad. Actually no... especially salad hahahaa its so gross i cant even eat it!

Also, everyone here is so bad at singing and they all love to sing. like I'm not good at singing, but they are awful, it makes my ears bleed. and its even worse in sacrament meeting cause no one can play the piano so everyone is off tune and it is so bad.

We did splits yesterday. i went with the pensionista's son who is an RM and Lozano went with this other guy, so that was chill. we found this guy that loved the idea of preaching the gospel and stuff. then we talked about the Book of Mormon and how it's about the ancient Americas and all that. then he asked where i was from so i told him the United States. then he started talking about how the U.S. is the chosen land and stuff and said all this stuff about how good America is and i was like yeah, you are 100% right the U.S. is the best!!!

I had to give a talk yesterday in church so that was pretty awful hahahaha.

Also, i finally realized what cafe rio and cafe sabor actually mean hahahaha so that's cool.

That's really about it. the weeks are getting better! After we finish writing we are going to the Plaza de Almas or something. I'm not sure exactly what its called. but its supposed to be super sick and E. Lozano said that there are usually other gringos there so that will be exciting. Oh, also at the mall we ran into some other missionaries and one of them was Elder Nichols that was in my district in the MTC so that was sick hahaha.

Anyways, peace.

Love, Elder Mortenson