It has been very hard adjusting because I forgot how long the days can be when you wake up at 6:30. After the first day I was called to be the district leader so I got to add more responsibilities to my already busy schedule. It has been a blessing though because I love my district and we all get along really well. My companion is Elder Randall who is from Utah and he is a great guy. He works very hard and is from Utah and we are very similar because we both played basketball and football in high school. We also both struggle with not being allowed to keep score or compete to hard.
The work days are long but the spirit is very strong here especially on Sundays. Sundays are mostly in English so it is my favorite day by far. Most of the teachers speak in Spanish most of the class but I am starting to be able to understand them pretty clearly it just frustrates me sometimes because I know what I want to say back I just don't have enough Spanish skills to do so. We had to teach an "investigator" on the second day in Spanish which went terribly and it was humbling. We tried to teach him how to pray in Spanish and we had not learned how to pray in Spanish yet. The next few lessons definitely went better though.
The CCM has been a lot of fun so far though. We have Latinos on our floor that love us so we get to practice a lot of our Spanish with them and they help us a lot.
Other things that happened this week were that I experienced my first earthquake. We were singing Savior, Redeemer of My Soul and the Spirit was so strong the earth trembled for like 10 seconds. Also, we went and applied for our visas on Monday was an exciting experience. The cops around interpol were walking around with AK 47s and there were cats everywhere. On the way back to the CCM we hit a car because the driving is so scary here because nobody obeys any laws and they definitely do not drive for themselves and everybody else. We also got to tour Lima today because there the temple is closed. I will try to send pictures. The food is typically good but we do eat rice for 2 meals a day.
Love you guys!
Elder Smith
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| We decided they wrote no dunking in English because no Peruvians are tall enough to get up there |
