I traveled all the way
to Cusco alone Monday morning, flew out to Lima at 7:00pm, ate
McDonalds in the Lima airport, slept in a pretty nice hotel. The next day we
sat for like 4 hours for our visas and after went to the mall in Lima central
for lunch and ate pizza. After that we flew back to Cusco and I spent the night
there with the office workers (who have a really nice apartment). In the
morning, I took a bus back to my sector but the bus didn’t stop till we got to
Juliaca, which is like an hour drive from my sector so I had to take a bus back
to Choquehuanca. It was pretty cool though because in the group I went with to
Lima in my mission were all Latinas and 1 Latino and none of them knew English.
There was one gringa and she knew less Spanish than I did. So the whole trip I
was just talking to them which was pretty fun. I didn’t think I knew that much Spanish
until I started talking to them. I still have a lot to learn. But yea I’m officially
a Peruvian now. XD It was pretty cool though cuz I also met a guy from the same
zone as Elder Meaker in Trujillo but he goes home today from his mission but he
was canceling his visa as we were getting ours.
As far as this week
goes it was pretty short because we only worked for 3 days. The first day I got
back we had an activity where we watched The Testaments with the branch and it
was super cool because it was a really spiritual activity and we had some
investigators there as well. Also on Thursday I was in the biggest
lightning/rainstorm in my life. We were hiding out in a little tienda in the
plaza and the lightning was striking in the plaza as well. It was so insanely
loud and crazy. You could feel the shockwave of the lightning and I could
actually hear the lightning hit the ground before I could hear the thunder. But
other than that nothing really happened on Friday or Saturday.
Sunday Elder Nicholls
had just like a one day sickness so we were stuck inside the whole day. We
probably won’t move into our pensionista’s house while I’m here though because
they need to save up more money before they can start building it again. Plus
our transfer is in 2 weeks. Elder Nicholls thinks he'll leave and I’ll stay in
Choquehuanca for one more change and then go to Cusco and work in the office,
which I think would be fun but we have no idea what’s going to happen. For
Easter though everyone eats 12 different plates and then they just get drunk so
it was hard to teach people. But yeah we are getting along really well and
still working hard. Anyway that’s all for this week. Love you guys.
Elder Halverson
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