COW HEART= DELICIOUS

What's up everyone!! So we did some apartment shopping and we found one that we liked. We came back the next day to tell the lady that we want it and there was literally already a family living in it. Somehow within 24 hours, a family had already literally completely moved in.

Ya so I was given cow heart for dinner on Father's day. It's a meal in Peru called anticucho and they put it on a skewer like a shish kebab and I swear it was actually pretty dang good. A little chewy, but once you forget what you're actually eating, it's good stuff.

I did some exchanges with the zone leaders and their area is even poorer than mine and it was really sad. Like my area is super poor but we went to one part of their area and the people don't even have walls. Their house is just held up by like 8 wooden beams with a half straw and half wooden roof. They had dug out a little hole in the ground in the middle of their house so when it rains, it fills up with water and then they boil it and that's their drinking water. It's so sad but they still are literally so happy still!!

I'm still here without a fan which is pretty brutal. At nights are TOUGH!! I lay there on my bed with no clothes and no blanket, and if I spread my legs and arms all the way out, I'm a little bit colder cause there's not as much body heat and most nights it's just enough that I'm able to fall asleep after a couple hours lol. Then I look over at my como who's zonked with a sweater on and two blankets. I don't understand it.

Oh wait I got another story to share. This is one of my prouder moments. So there's a bakery that we go to every once in a while and I usually buy this bread that they have and it's like a banana and cinnamon bread. It's so good. Anyways, everytime I've bought it, my comp has ordered it for me so I didn't do the talking. (My comp is brown and I'm white BTW.) Everytime my comp has ordered it it's costed, in American money, 12 cents. This week I went and ordered it (I'm white) and she charged me 25 cents!!! I paid it but I realized she had just robbed me cause I'm white. I'm not kidding, for the next 24 hours it was just eating away at me and I was heated, so the next day I made a special trip over there and walked up and asked the price of the same bread. She said 25 cents and I said, "nahhh I've bought that bread from you 4 times in the past for 12 cents." She denied, I walked away. I felt so much better after that. I gotta stick up for myself, can't let people walk all over the white guy.

Anyways I'll actually talk about the work lol. So we baptized Mauricio last week and now we're working a lot with hus family!! We went to his house before to church to walk them to church, and his niece Danika who's like 10 came with us!!! And then their grandma who is their neighbor and we baptized her son like a month ago, saw us and said "well you baptized my son, grandson, and you're about to baptize my granddaughter, I want to go to your church too!!" Sooo sick!! She met us there and loved it! Danika will be baptized next weeks and we hope the grandma too!! Also sad news, Diego, the kid I baptized 3 weeks ago, HE MOVED!! He's out of the boundaries too! I miss him. This week at church I missed him scratching my back and resting his head on my shoulder:((( Gone but never forgotten.

Spiritual thought: I was just thinking this week about what it means to represent Jesus Christ. It's a pretty amazing and overwhelming title to have not only as a missionary m, but for every single member of the church!! When you were baptized, you took upon yourself the name of christ, and everytime you take the sacrament, it's like you're signing a paper saying you'll continue to represent Christ. It's not something that ahold be taken lightly. We all have friends and people around us who aren't members, and for them, we represent the church. When they think of the church, they think of the way we act. Its important to act in a way that we want the church of Jesus Christ to be represented!!

Dang that was a longer email than I thought. Have a good week:))) also shoutout my boy Parker he got his mission call to San Antonio legs gooooo bro!!!!!