Week 72

last week was chill. same as all the others hahaha.

so i finally got moved out of Ilo. I've been transferred to Tacna. the weather here is basically just like Ilo except there isn't an ocean. The bus ride here was only like 2 1/2 hours so not too bad. Last night had a big fam ham and said goodbye to all the converts and cool members. Then we stayed up till like 3 packing and getting everything organized cause they transferred both of us. Naturally my comp went to Arequipa, where I have yet to serve. so ya didn't get much sleep at all last night so I'm pretty freakin tired. my new comp is Elder Aslan. He's from Argentina so that's chill. He has 3 changes less than me. I was really hoping to not get put with another American so I can keep speaking Spanish so ya its chill.

6 months left here in Peru. I'm thinking this could be my last area if I stay here for 4 changes like I did in Ilo. I really wouldn't mind cause I don't wanna pack my suitcases again cause its the freaking worst. and if I do end here I can load up on amazingly cheap legit stuff from la cachina (basically just a massive market full of stuff from the US that never got sold and is sold here for like 98% off lol. but ya. its weird to finally have 6 months left after so much time here haha.

anyways ya not much else.

peace

elder mortenson

Week 71

I basically only write these emails for the subjects cause there isn't really anything to write about hahaha.

Normal week. Nothing happened. Saturday the stake went to Arequipa to tour the temple.

We found out that on the 14th the entire mission is going to Arequipa for a meeting with pres Neosporin  which is cool. But no we don't get to stay overnight and go to the temple dedication. That will be broadcasted to each stake center.

Besides that ya nothing else

Still haven't downloaded the pics lol

Peace 

Elder mortenson

Week 70

So ya chill week. We were able to baptize the 3 kids on Saturday even though everything didn't go according to plan. The ward was supposed to prepare everything but they didn't prepare anything so we had to delay it by 2 hours for their incompetence.

I'll try and remember to transfer over the pics this week from it

Nothing else really happened besides that. Kinda gotta hurry this email cause I forgot to write it lolol. 

In other news, today is the big 16. We're getting close-ish now lol

Anyways ya peace hahaha

Elder mortenson

Week 69

Normal week. Nothing really happened lol and I forgot to write until right now and it's late haha

We had interviews last Tuesday and them went to tacna on Thursday. Had to wake up super early. The conference was tiring but it was cool to see a lot of my causas.

Nothing else happened in the week. This week we are probs gonna baptize the 3 kids of the Venezuelan couple cause they won't be getting married for a while haha. 

But ya that's it.

Peace

Elder mortenson

Week 68

Not really anything cool happened this week. Super normal. 

We are still trying to get the Venezuelan couple to get married. Pres contacted the mission pres in Venezuela to see if we could get one of the documents that they need so we are waiting for an answer.

We also got news that we will NOT be participating nor going to the temple open house. All missionaries outside of Arequipa won't go. But all of the sister missionaries in the entire mission are invited

This week we have to go down to Tacna for like a quadruple zone conference.

But ya nothing really happened. 

Peace

Elder mortenson

Week 67

Super normal week besides the fact that I hit 15 months lol.

Umm let's see. So we had changes today and I'm staying here for my 4th change with the same companion haha so that's cool. I don't mind. So I definitely thought I was gonna leave so Saturday I took all my converts out to eat which was cool. They were all super sad but then we got changes and ya I'm staying so it's chill.

Umm ya I can't think of anything else that happened. Hahaha. There's a super cool chick we are teaching that will prob get baptized this week or the next. We will see.

That's literally it though haha

Peace

Elder mortenson

Week 65

This email is coming in a little late lol. But ya

Little different this week. Tuesday one of the secretaries called and said that Wednesday me and the 2 other elders from my group here in ilo had to go to arequipa for migraciones. So we went lol. Like a 4 hour bus ride. They didn't put any movies on which was sad. We got there at night and stayed with some zone leaders there which also happened to be from my group. So it was pretty sick that night with 5 of us. We ordered pizza hut. First real pizza I had in over a year.....then in the morning w ate the leftover pizza for breakfast. Then we went to migraciones. I ended up having to wait in line twice cause they spelled my name wrong. Them after, we were gonna go to Chili's but it was closed cause it was only 11 in the morning. The only thing open was pizza hut in the mall lol so we got it for lunch and ate it on the way back. Then we got back to ilo in the afternoon. Also we had a family home evening that might and we ate pizza. So I had 4 consecutive meals of pizza. Although I was completely fine with all the ones with pizza hut.

Man I described that a lot. But ya not a ton else besides conference. We watched it in English which was nice. It's funny here basically everyone only watched the Sunday morning session and no other one. But ya that was my 3rd conference of the Mish. Only one more...

Still don't have the pics, but we did find a thing so that my comp can download them. So hopefully next week

Peace

Elder mortenson