Family!!
Oh man, this
week has been great.. just like every week here at the CCM. I’m feeling
better.. I was only sick for a couple days but once everyone stopped shaking hands,
the sickness went away. Yeah my foots better and I wear the ankle brace
when we play soccer and it isn’t too bad anymore. No doctor haha.
Sounds like
you guys had an awesome week! I can just picture Treyson playing football and I
started laughing.. haha that’s a good thing. Danggg Kenzie’s birthday is this
week?? Have I really been gone for that long??
Well this
week was an adventure. Last p day when we were on the bus, I got scammed
and paid 4x the amount I was supposed to. The guys that work on the bus
are good at what they do... the buses are ridiculous. 1. I can’t even stand up
straight. I have to bend my head in because they’re so small. 2. They
pack us in like sardines and it smells horrible because no one showers here.
And 3. It’s the craziest thing - people hang out of the buses here like no big
deal and then they just jump off whenever. Haha! Welcome to Lima.
Also last p
day.. funny story. This man was banging pots outside this store and I had
like 40 centimos in my hand which is like 15 cents and I didn’t want it so I
figured I would be nice and give it to him. He wasn’t begging for
money....... he was trying to sell the pots. I was so embarassed and I just
kept walking. haha
We got a new
drink at the CCM. It’s called
maracuya. We don’t know what it is but we love it. We only get it
every once in a while but when we do its glorious. haha Our new thing that we do here is tea.
We all drink it after breakfast and dinner and just visit. It doesn’t
taste good but we do it anyways...
We do some other
weird things here at the CCM, like we have competitions who can make the best
farm animal noises like a cow, pig, horse, goat. Whatever we can think
of. Elder Humble wins everytime because
he was raised on a farm. Speaking of elder humble, yesterday he told us
he wants to grow up and have a goat farm in the desert with his family. He
was serious.
We make Book
of Mormon jokes. Like what? And then our RAP BATTLES.. oh man. best part
about this place. We all come into one room and make the person stand in
the middle and they just rap. It’s hilarious. Mine was killer last night. I
wish I could send it to you.
Elder
Beidleman and I stay up late every night talking about our raps and our lives.
He;s one of my favorites and I just love Elder Ayala because has to use the
bathroom 18 times a day haha #smallblatterprobs
I miss my bed
back at home... I think about it every night. The beds here aren’t great.. but
the Latinos sure love them. All of them are hilarious and also very blunt
though. Like they’ll tell you straight up that you’re fat, short, etc. They have no filter. My favorite Latino elder
is Arias. He’s from Argentina and he’s hilarious. He’s so animated
and every time we talk it’s like were playing charades because it’s so
hard to communicate with him. haha. But we share some personal
stuff with each other. He and his
companion have had some hard lives. Both of their dads are dead. One was
murdered and the other killed himself. Their families are all torn up and
I feel so bad for them every time they tell me stories. That’s how I feel like
it is for a lot of the Latinos. It’s so sad. They’re all from Columbia,
Ecuador, Bolivia, or Chile. The Chileans and Ecuadorians are SOO hard to
understand but the other 2 not so much. It’s funny, all of them
think it’s hilarious when they call me "Martin Harris". My
favorties are Elder Guzman, Peres, Hurtado, and Quispe. They’re all great
guys. BTW, I changed my hair. There’s nowhere to get it cut here so
I just let it grow and its LONG. I let some hair straggle down my face
like superman sometimes. I’m just here to shake it up. Haha We do a lot of that here.
The milk here
is warm so we don’t drink it. There’s corn puffs though so we just mix it
with our yogurt. It’s the best thing here. We also have a thing called
party toast. We eat it almost every night. It’s bread with butter
and sugar. It’s not super special but hey, we like it. Elder Beidleman
and I came up with it and now everyone does it. #trendsetters.
My Spanish is
coming.. slowly. but it’s coming. I get
frustrated and overwhelmed a lot of the time but that’s expected. My
mission is so tough in ways that I never would have expected it to be. It’s
weird, but I love it here. I can’t believe I’ve already been out for 3 weeks!!
I wish you guys could come down to Peru for a little bit so you could see
everything here. The city is breathtaking in more ways than one. I miss
home a lot and Alpine, but I know what I’m doing right now is where I am
supposed to be. Doing the Lords work! It’s funny, I always look at
my watch and try and think of what you guys are doing back at home. It’s
fun sometimes :)
I’ve had some
awesome experiences this week. We had the opportunity to fast and it was
hard but it was good. A powerful experience. I got to bear my
testimony and it was good. After that when we went to class, we had some
free time to read the scriptures and I literally started crying in class just
because I love the Book of Mormon so much. It was super cool. I’m
learning to recognize Gods hand in my life more and more every day.
A couple days ago I was super frustrated and then a kid in my district started
singing "Come thou fount" - my favorite song and instantly was
calm. I love feeling the spirit here all the time.
How’s the
neighborhood without me, Ster, Jared and Seth? Pretty quiet? :)
Has Ty taken
all the stuff out of my closet yet??
What’s the
craziest thing you guys did this week?
Oh btw, I loved the pictures. You guys haven’t changed a bit. Can’t
wait to send you all my pics!!
Things are
good here, nothing really to worry about. I’m having an awesome time and
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Thank you for everything! For all the love
and support. It’s humbling because a lot of the guys here don’t have that
support from back at home. So thanks again.
I love and
miss you guys.
Keep it real.
exact obedience.
- Elder Harris 4
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