Moving Day

Hey Familia,

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!! It's a huge holiday down here,
haha. Just kidding, its not. So it seems like just five minutes ago I
was writing all of you even though it's been a whole week. This week
was pretty crazy though, tons of stuff has happened. First off, after

I emailed last week we had to go to the main shopping market in the

central of Arequipa to get a knee brace for my comp Elder Usseglio
because his knee had been hurting for a while. It's not even in our
zone but we got permission. While we were there I bought ties for 10
soles a piece (that's like 3.50 dollars) so I had to limit myself to
just two. After that we went to the church and the gringos played some
basketball, it was pretty fun and a change from soccer. We played some
soccer after that but I'm so bad that it's not even funny. Then that
night we had Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) at that same
family's house that we had church in. It was fun and we shared some
spiritual messages with them and taught them about Noche de Hogar. The
member family we were staying with came with us so it was good to have
an actual member family with us. The mom, Aurelia, told us of her
experience with us. She said after we taught her that first lesson,
she couldn't sleep that night until she got on her knees and asked God
if our message was true. She said she felt peace and comfort and could
go back to sleep after that. She wants to get baptized and so do her
kids but the dad, Rolando, isn't too comfortable with everything. He's
a good guy and he likes our messages but he just doesn't want to act
on our committments. We'll see this week if he lets his kids get
baptized on Saturday, that will be 3.
So Tuesday was sad because we went to the doctor for Elder Usseglio.
His knee and back were hurting him and so we went to find out what's
up. The doctor said that he has a disk out of place in his back, and
there's not much they can do for some reason. Also his knee has no
fluid and his miniscus is strained. So it was difficult for him
because the best way to cure it is to rest a lot and he doesn't want
to do that. We'll see how it all turns out, there will probably be
some days that we won't work.
Friday we had a zone conference with the four assistants and the
President and his wife. Everybody was uptight for some reason but I
was blissfully ignorant. The President talked alot about obedience and
following the rules and stuff. And how we can be a good instrument in
the Lord's hands. He also talked about the Atonement and that the more
we understand the Atonement the more power we can teach with. We were
also shown how much we are working and how much we actually should be
working in the form of numbers. Everybody's numbers in our zone we
down quite a bit so we were humbled by it all. The Conference was from
1:30 till 8:30 at night so it was way long. I was super tired and a
little frustrated because it was all in Spanish. Let me introduce you
to my President a little bit. He's like 42 years old, has three kids,
is from Lima, and is super out going and in charge. I'm pretty sure
he's like a huge business man, he definately acts like it. He wants
every companionship to baptize every single week and for every
companionship to contact 90 people a day. These are really lofty goals
but it actually is possible if you work hard and find the people that
are prepared.
So Saturday was very interesting. Like I said before, we live like
half an hour away from Characato, so we were waiting for a house to
open up in Characato so we can live there. We got a house there
finally, but we had to move in there on Saturday. The Assistants were
going to call us to give us the green light on Saturday, but they
never did, and they didn't pick up their phones untill like 2:00 in
the afternoon. So finally were started to move at two, and finally we
got moved in at like 9:30 because we had to move all our desks, beds,
dressers, and clothes. The house is pretty big. Well at least the lot
is. There's two floors and we live on the top. There's three rooms up
there and nothing else. Then downstairs there's a room for a kitchen,
a living room, and a bathrroom. But there's nothing in the kitchen (no
appliances or anyhthing). And we have to go downstairs everytime we
need to use the bathroom. Then there's a huge courtyard and an even
bigger overhang garage in the back. This is where we're going to have
church from now on. The house is all in all nice, and it's good to
have church in that big space, but I miss the member family we lived
with. They were so loving and fed us well. I have a feeling that
there's going to be a scarcity of food from now on. We have to go buy
all our food today, and maybe something to cook it with, I'm not sure.
Sunday was a very busy, tiring day. We had to go get all the stuff for
church (chairs and a whiteboard) so that took up some hours. Then we
had to go round up people to go to church. While we were doing that,
the Mission President, his assistants, and the Stake President showed
up so we were all nervous because we didn't have anybody to got to
church. Finally we got nine people to go to church with us. We made it
happen, even though we were an hour late. Then after church we went
tracting for 6 hours. Just walking, and walking, and walking. We
taught like five lessons, but a ton of walking. I was starving and
tired, so I was kind of in a bad mood but ya. We had some cereal and
some bananas for dinner, so i was still starving, but it all worked
out. I'm going to have to get some walking muscles built up becuase I
was sore. I think we walked like 10 miles yesterday.
Even though it's been tough, I still feel the spirit every time we
teach. The Lord definately puts people in our path to find and teach.
I know that it is His work, because we wouldn't be able to do anything
if it wasn't for Him. I still know that what I'm doing is right, even
when I can't say anything in Spanish or I don't understand. If we put
in our effort, we will be blessed. That's about it for this week, I
have to go.

Love you all, and miss you some times but just know I'm okay.

Sincerely

Elder Child.