First experience in El Campo

So this past week was our last week to visit the temple because
they're closing it for a few weeks. This week we went beyond the walls
and took a 2 hour bus ride through some of the worst and craziest
traffic I’ve ever beheld. We weren’t allowed to bring our cameras but i
didn’t realize how packed Lima is. Someone was telling me it has
somewhere around 13 million people (someone should fact check that).
The mountains are also really cool, they’re super barren and in some
places are densely populated with hundreds of houses. We also saw just
randomly a few little ruins with signs that said it was some
archeological sight, so I guess there are just lots of old ruins
everywhere. We got to our proselyting area which was Lima east mission
and met the missionary that we get to proselyte with. Mine was from
Columbia and he didn’t speak any English but he was super cool and hard
to understand. Then half of the missionaries spit and they took us
about just over a half mile through some markets and over this sketchy
bridge to another ward building and we met up and split again with a
member. Our plan was to give some liahonas to some less actives but
ended up just making some street contacts. I guess a lot of the time
you don't shake hands it's more of shaking someone's wrist. Then we
talked with these cousins that were walking down the street, and all I
got from what they were saying was their names and if they could stop
by later. They then stopped and looked at me and gestured for me to
say something and I honestly had no idea what point in this
conversation they were at and so I thought for a long 5 or 6 seconds
and asked how they felt. They kind of just smiled and we said goodbye
after that. After we talked to a few more people we split with our
member and me and my companion got in this taxi, which was really a
motorcycle within metal box, and we were making our way down this
steep dirt hill when we hit a bad traffic jam because someone got hit
or something. We waited for maybe ten minutes and decided we should
just start walking. After weaving through this traffic jam for a while
and once it cleared up we saw some other missionaries who I guess were
looking for us and told us to hurry. We got in another taxi thing and
arrived safely, and i brought 5 soles just in case i wanted to get
something but it turns out we needed that for the taxi. Anyway we made
it safely back and only made everyone wait on the bus for an hour. The
people here are really nice though and are really open about religion.
The only thing that got me a little nervous is when we passed some
sort of town central that literally was like times square lima. Every
square inch was taken up by a person or vehicle. Lima’s cool though,
lots of people, cars and a good amount of dogs. 
TWO more weeks until Trujillo!


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