March 7, 2011

This is the most recent letter I have gotten. He wrote a couple times and accidentally deleted what he wrote. Here is this weeks!

Hello everybody,

Well this week was a little on the difficult side.  I got pretty sick on Tuesday and im just starting to get better.  I was a pretty nasty stomach infection that had me down and out most of the week.  But no worries im doing better now and im taking some magical pills that are helping me out a lot.  In the little time that i was able to proselite this weeks some crazy things happened.  

The big news here in Lima is there was a rainbow.  And concidering that it never ever ever rains here that was a little wierd.  The next day we were in a middle of the lesson and there was a small earthquake.  then the guy that we are teaching said,  I knew that something crazy was going to happen today because i saw a rainbow yesterday.  That goes to show you exactly how superstitious the peruvian people are.  They are super superstitous. Every body was talking about how the rainbow was a sign of something thats to come.  Its all a little entertaining to say the least.  

But yeah other than that we have one baptism that is almost 100 percent for sure this coming saturday.  Im really excited for it because we have worked really hard with him for a real long time to be able to get to this point.  We also have three more maybes for this saturday so im looking forward to this week a lot should be real great. 

Yesterday was the last day of carnaval so we dont have to run around trying to avoid all the kids with squirt guns and waterballoons anymore because that ended yesterday.  they have a tradition here that every carnaval they pick a tree and hang a bunch of shirts pans and tons of random stuff from it.  Then a group of neighbors all take turns whacking the tree with an ax.  One at a time.  Then when it falls its a mad mass of people running to pick up all the stuff that they want.  Its like a piñata but its a tree.  And the person that makes the tree fall with their hit have to plant  the next years tree and put all the stuff in it.  Its funny because nobody can tell me where these ideas started or came from they just know that this is what they do here.  

anyways tahts whats going on with me.  Its still super hot and it will stay hot until sometime in may from what i hear.  But thats allright im getting used to it.  Miss you all tons hope everything is going well.