This week I passed the 3 month mark,
For pday we went to downtown Trujillo to
do some shopping and eating. It was super hot and really crowded as it usually
is but i got a backpack and felt really special because there were so many
people wanting me to purchase their backpacks and were trying to convince me
that their identical backpacks were better. I also ate this giant Trujillano
sandwhich called a king kong, sorry I don’t have a picture of that maybe I’ll
get it again. My companion bought his 3rd camera of his mission. Another cool
part about downtown is that there a ton of music shops and is why a lot of
people here have one 6 or 7 foot tall speakers for their home sound system.
This week we got a call from our zone
leaders and said we need a new apartment by the end of this week, and with the
division of our barrio they also took away a huge portion of our area, which
was in the nicer part of town, which kinda stinks. So now our options for the
location of our new home are this really poor area, virgen de socorro, or this
small secluded development called los cuatro suyos. We weren’t allowed in v.
socorro because everyone gets robbed there so we took a morning in 4 suyos and
started knocking on doors and asking if they’re renting their house. This Friday
we found a house that´s pretty cool and cheap, so if we get it approved we´ll
be moving out in the next few weeks.
We got to hear from one of the area
authorities, Godoy, and had a lunch afterwards with 3 or 4 zones which was cool.
Also this week since we have to travel a
lot and more than the other elders, we ran out of money and had to walk about a
mile and a half to our area of proselyting and would stay there all day and
would come back at 8:30 for dinner, but once we have our new house we wont have
to.
We have this recent convert named Walter
who´s in a wheelchair and is in bed all day. For service we were going to bath
him but ended up only washing his feet and head since he didn´t have diapers.
He also has a job even though he´s in a wheelchair which is cool. He lives with
this less active member mechanic who gets him into his little moto taxi that
has all these makeshift levers and things so that he can drive it.
Other things that happened this week:
-I saw a truck which was actually just a
wooden plywood box on wheels
-I accidently had ceviche
-I watched as the people of 4suyos
gathered to tear down the walls of this other neighboring development
-I regret that I didn´t give money
to the homeless man in the wheelchair with incense, playing really depressing
music and asking for money.
-Some guy in our ward drew a picture of
me during church.
-Some taxi driver with a van full of
people stopped his car on the street and got out to relieve himself.
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