Week 24: Do the Cakey Dance

 ¡Hola! I hope you had a great week!

Last pday we had a mission wide pday where we all met at a park and played sorts all day. The latinos had never played kickball before so I crushed them at that. I also played a lot of volleyball. By the end of the day I don't think I was that bad at it. Everyone also got a t shirt with their name and the mission on it.

The next day we had our final mission conference with Presidente Hinostroza. Elder Palhua packed up all his stuff since he got the news he was going to be transferred. But he cut it very close and we were only late by 30 minutes. I told him it started at 9 but he insisted it started at 9:30. It got to the point where there was no way we weren't going to make it before 9:30, so I gave up trying to push him. Presidente expressed his testimony in both Spanish and English, which is "Yo sé que Jesús vive," or 'I know Jesus lives." It was a powerful final talk and testimony from this man I didn't spend very much time with, but I could tell he was a mountain of a man who loved the Lord. 6 more Americans arrived that day, including Hermana Ellis from the CCM, who finally got her Visa. Now all Americans who were with me in the CCM are in their missions! (I think). We had lunch and I was able to talk with Elders Barrantes and Yanqui from the CCM for a while. Around 5 everyone who was getting transfered shuffled into the chapel and the APs announced each transfer with lots of applause. Elder Palhua was transferred to Florencía en zona esté and my new companion is Elder Vilca, who was already in zona central so I knew him a little bit. Let's go with companion #8! (Granted I was in 3 trios but still neither me nor my comp has survived a transfer yet)

There's a bakery right across the street from our apartment that I've been eying for a while, but this week we decided to go in. One thing I love about Perú is how cheap everything is, atleast for me. My comp got a donut and I got a slice of chocolate cake that was really good and only cost 4 soles, which is barely over 1 dollar. A cake that size in the US would have easily cost 4 or 5 dollars. Now that we know the stuff there is good, you can guarantee both of us are going to get fat. It's already become a joke between us that we love desserts and cakes too much, that we've memorized all the bakery locations that display cakes just on our way to the chapel, (there are 4), and how we both stare in at the cakes and say, "tal vez mañana." (Because we know we shouldn't everyday.)

We were invited by a ward member along with the hermanas in our area to try picarones, which is just fried dough you dip in a honey sauce, so you know it was good. That night we were also fed some orange cake by another ward member. I thought I was eating too much, and then of course our pensionista brings us one of the best dinners, french fries with sausage, an egg, and rice, and an Inca Kola. We also returned to the family that gave us picarones for FHE yesterday, and they fed us two full slices of the orange cake that's pretty common down here. There's also this coffee drink that we were given that we also get from our pensionista a lot. I don't like it very much since it's so bitter. Well, it is coffee. It's different from normal coffee, (I don't know how), so it doesn't break the word of wisdom, but I still don't like it very much. For that FHE Elder Vilca and I shared a lesson on the Holy Ghost which we had prepared earlier.

Just before the FHE we visited with a family who has a son who's 10 and not yet baptized. Their dog was crazy! He was crashing into stuff eating the sofa, and trying to eat my comp! I don't know why he wasn't interested in me, maybe because I'm not sweet. Anyways we're teaching a lot of families that have children who haven't made the commitment to be baptized yet. I know with the spirit we'll be able to help them make the commitment!

From the Grados family, the ones who fed us picarones, I was finally able to find and buy a book cover for my Spanish bible. It only cost me 3 soles, which is extremely cheap compared to the temple price for them, which is 15. All my Spanish scriptures have covers at last! (Now they won't keep bending in my backpack since they're all paperback)

We were able to attend the seminary class again, which is currently covering 1 and 2 Samuel in the Old Testament. I'm really hoping this transfer we can really pick up the pace and start having progressing investigators, especially for the "Noche de Blanca," which is a mission wide event where we're trying to get 80 baptisms. I'm hoping we'll be able to contribute!

On friday our lights went out for a bit. I made shadow puppets on the wall while we waited for dinner. Our pensionistas husband was somehow able to fix the lights. We also got hamburguesas that night for dinner.

Other than that nothing much else happened this week. I hope you have a fantastic week!

See you in the next one,
Elder Jensen

1. Seminary
2. Elder Vilca y Yo
3. Lunch at the super pday
4. Cake!!!
5. Most of the Americans
6. A Wii fit I saw. Along with a High School Musical 3 video game
7. Picarones









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