Week Dos!

Hello Family!!!!!

What a week!! It feels kind of like it was just yesterday I emailed, but so much has happened that it couldn´t have been just yesterday.... bahaha...

Well well.... What to tell....? Haha

On Thursday [the day after p-day last week] We went to Interpol!! Interpol is this magical, scary place where you not only have to get your teeth checked, but you also have random people come up to you and tell you that Jesus is an extraterrestrial! Hahahaha... Luckily, he said it to one of our Elders, not me, so that´s good, but it DID happen! Haha... We had to get up super duper early to make our bus... But then it ended up it was late.. So we waiting 40 more minutes for our bus and then.. it was a van. So some of them went in the minivan and the rest of us had to wait until the bigger bus came. Once we were finally on our way, we realized we left our passports [AKA the most important things we needed] so we drove back to the CCM and picked up our passports and then went to interpol! It was crazy! Haha... The real world is so dang cool here in Perú! So many interesting people! But most of them are nice!! We had to fill out a bunch of paperwork, and the Missionary who was helping direct all of us had me go around and make sure everyone got their paperwork, and he said I´d be a good missionary! Haha.. That made me feel pumped!

On a bit of a sadder note... our district of 18 people was split this week frown emoticon Everyone is a little sad-- it feels kinda like a divorce! Haha... However, it´ll be nice to have smaller classes... I feel like i´ll learn a lot more! I´m now in District 108-- Abinidi! So cool!
Sunday was a cool day here in the CCM.. It was 1 groups last Sunday, so we got to watch 17 Miracles AND Meet the Mormons while they did some goodbye stuff! Haha..

There are so many things that have happened this wek, like my white hair was mistaken for floss! Hahahaha... That was so funny... Also, becuase Me and Hermana Flake like to quote Nacho Libre, there´s a funny story involving the bathroom... But I´ll have to tell you that in person... hehe...

Sometime this week... I can´t rememebr which day, I saw Nicolina and Heidi BALDEREE!! They were visiting with HEFY and so we took a picture! she said she would sent it to you, mom!

This week is a celebration for Perú´s independance!! On monday, our cooks made us an authentic peruvian lunch with these really yummy dessert donut-y type things! SO YUMMY!!! They also decorated the Cafeteria with Peruvian flags and they dressed up! they´re so cute!
I´m still eating rice by the bucket load, but I definitely haven´t grown tired of it!! Haha... I told Linnie this, but when we have chicken cooked this certain way, you never really know what piece of the chicken you´re eating and you have to chew it a bunch or you´ll end up eating chicken bones... hehe.. I like almost all the food here though... The bread is AMAZING (You were right Uncle Ward!!!). The only kinda weird things are the desserts.... We get to eat all the ice cream we want (When they have it) and it is SO good!! I´m not sure what it is.. but It´s richer or somethign here! Bahahaha.. The weird part is this thing called Fruit Compote.... It´s like a mix between juice and gelatin and there´s floating pieces of different fruits in it with cinnamon on top (They put cinnamon on EVERY dessert here! bahaha). I aven´t ever had the guts to try it, but some of the other girls have... bagaga.. I´m attaching some pictures of those weird fish-egg fruits also... Hehe...

Something really cool about this week was that our District (well, the large one before we are splitting) started to sing a lot... One day while we were waiting for our teacher (I feel like I say that a lot... but they say Latinos run on their own time-- LST-- Latino Standard Time.. hehe) and some of the Elders just started to sing... and everyone kept adding on... and it sounded suprisingly GOOD!! Hahaha... SO... We decided to start singing at night at 10pm by the doors that seperate the girls dorms with the boys and so we did and all the Elders on that whole floor sang!! We´re still recruiting the sisters for our side... Haha... So... If years from now, they are still singing every night before bed in the Peru CCM, just know it was started by Distric 115! haha..

Last night, the new group of Norte Americanos came in (at 2 am...) haha.. Luckily, we don't have to share our room so we weren´t waken up... Woops... woken up.. man.. My grammer is dying! haha...
BUT NOW I´M AN INTERMEDIO!! It´s funny because when I first got here, I thought the Intermedios were so cool and knew everything even though they told us they didn´t and now that I´m an intermedio... I still know nothing!! baha... But it´s kind of nice not to be the "newbies" anymore.. hehe... Since the Latinos only stay for 2 weeks, our batch of Latinos that came with us are now gone, which was kind of sad... They are SO NICE!! we love them and they loved us!!

So... We have to teach and "investigator" every few days, and we were teaching this guys named José Viscente... His wife is a member and he is intersted, but they´re also having marital problems... anyways... we were teaching him and to be honest.. it was´t going so great... Last night, however, was our last time taeching him since we´re splitting and our teacher-- Hermano Lozano-- brought his wife in to act as our investigators wife... So cool! Anyhwo.. we were teaching him ad his wife and I could feel the spirit SO strong!! so Cool!! we asked him if he would be baptized in August and he said YES!! So awesome!!

The weather here in Perú is so nice!! i usually just wear a sweater with my outfit and it´s perfect... Kinda nice coming from the California heat!!

Unfortunately we only get to take pictures on P-day here, so sorry for the lack of pictures... we didn´t get to go out yet.. (It´s about 9am here)

One thing super cool thing I learned this week was about all the cool hidden treasures in Preach My Gospel (Predicad Mi Evangelio in Español!!).. We had a whole lesson on it on Sunday! Our teacher said he heard before... "If you want to know how the Apostle´s study... follow preach my gospel!!!" So cool!! Haha...

Love you guys lots! Until next week!!

Love,
Hermana Andrus