Pokemon and churros

So to start off this week we went to the mission home with our zone for pday and played some games, drank inka kola, and just kind of did whatever. On the way back, for some reason, our bus was pulled over and some police boarded and everyone on the bus pulled out their identification cards and the police started taking them. Also these police are a little more scary than the ones back home and have ak-47s on their backs and I was talking with some other north Americans because we weren´t really sure what was going on and also our visas had expired about a week earlier but luckily they didn’t bother with all the kids in white shirts and ties. I asked later what that was all about and they just said drugs.

On the way to the mission home my companion left his camera in the taxi again but to make it even worse he had taken my memory card out of my camera for some reason and put it in his camera. So now since my photos are gone I’ve been taking extra pics this week.

This week we had another meeting with all the missionaries from my group in the ccm and the mission president. We just went around and said what we learned. It´s also weird meeting back with the Latinos from the ccm and actually having more of a conversation with them. 

Our area is one of the largest in our zone and includes this more poor area called virgen de socorro which we have been able to have more success in but it is pretty far from our pension and is really hard to find people who are home. Or in other words the people there are a lot cooler and nice but it´s harder to find them when they´re not busy. 

We´ve had a lot of FHE’s with members and less actives this week and those have been pretty good so far. And every time we pass this members home in the virgen de socorro their dog follows us for the whole day until we return it and it just waits outside the homes when we are inside and it caught this lizard the other day which was cool. 

We went out with a member youth the other day and he showed us where we can by packs of pokemon cards which are pretty cool because sometimes kids would rather get a pokemon card than a Jesus card. In turn we showed him where you can buy these awesome churros filled with caramel for S/0.50, which is like $0.15. 

I don´t really know what else to say, this email is pretty weird and all over the place. ---->Here’s some pics


--Elder Thompson






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