October 22

Meat Truck

Supermarket

Justin's companion making fries.




 


Chapel where they attend church.




Justin, his companion, and a couple of Peruvian members.

 Family,

Thank you for the uplifting words.I know I´m in the right place, its just that it stinks when everyone else is having success and you are just sitting there working your butt off and not seeing results. Transfers are one week from today, so we´ll have to see what changes are made and if anything new comes out of it. The good news is, that on the 28th, we do have a set baptism. The only worry now is that his mom is in Peru, and his dad wants her to be here for it.... ughhh. But we talked to our leaders and we got permission to have her on skype to see the baptism, so tonight we have an appointment with the family, and we are going to talk to him about that. Also it´s his cousins birthday, so we are going to cook french toast for him. So that should be super fun. They don´t have maple syrup here, but Elder Stockings family sent him maple extract, so we are going to attempt to make our own. If not, I´m going to be more than happy to eat french toast with or without it.

So sounds like the weather is pretty weird over there right now, but apparently spring started about 6 weeks ago here, the only thing is that its rained or been cold for 95% of the time. Yesterday, it rained a ton and we had 2 appointments fall through so we did a lot of walking in it, and we didn´t have are jackets with us. I was pretty excited because I love the rain, (then usually the members give us hot chocolate too haha) but it turned out no one was home haha. I also decided that for sure for sure for sure peruvians have the best food in south america. We ate this thing called loma soltado and its rice, meat peppers and french fries, all together. I FINALLY GOT TO EAT SOMETHING SPICY!!!! It was so delicious and it was from a restaraunt so it was made almost perfectly. It was definitely the best meal I have had here on my mission.

I believe I told you about the girl we were teaching english too. It turns out that she is super weird. We´ve gone to her house 3 times to teach her and then at the end of one of the lessons she told my companion that one day they were going to get married. It was super funny and we started laughing cuz we all felt like she was being a little weird. Then my companion was super direct and was like, "Sorry, but thats not going to happen." and stuff like that. We had a member with us too who was super direct with her. We were pretty bold on the rules and everything, so pretty sure she won´t be a problem anymore, especially because she told us that she would be going to church si o si with out a doubt and then we called her and she said she had an emergency and would be there for only sacrament meeting (sacrament is last in our ward) and sacrament came around we called her again and she was still busy haha.

So its been raining a ton, we might finally have success, and things are starting to look better. There is a Chilean in my ward, and he helps us out a super ton and he told me the other day that he would by me a soccer jersey from chile or colo-colo, I thought that would be something that matt would like to hear. It´s fun to work with him too because he teaches us a lot of chilean slang. It´s super weird to think that in every country spanish is different. Like what I spoke in Fresno, doesn´t work here haha and then there is a word in Argentine spanish that means cry baby, but its one of the most offensive swear words in Chile. I definitely feel like my spanish is improving pretty quickly.

Yesterday I had to give a talk in church, and I prepared a ton, and I was super excited to speak, and my companion even gave a shorter talk cuz I wanted to speak for a long time. But turns out that Argentina has to be different than everyone else, so yesterday was mothersday in Argentina, so there was a lot of speakers and I only got to speak for 5 minutes and I was super ticked. I hope I got my point across though. I can´t remember who it is in our ward, I think its brother farnsworth, but I talked about how he always talks about the gospel to people when he flies places. A lot of people said they liked my talk but I didn´t feel like I said what I wanted to in only 5 minutes.