Ice cream Gratis

This week went by fast, but it was nice and hot still.

MONDAY after writing you we went downtown and got some burgers with our district and then went to this store that had some ties for less than $2 and we found 8 ties that were the same so we bought them as our district. Then my companion and I messed around in some music stores. Then to end it we played some soccer. Then had a FHE and they fed us lots of cake and Inka kola.

TUESDAY was the first day we tried out our district tie as a district for the first time for our meeting. Then the rest of the day taught people and knocked on doors. In the night we helped plan an activity for Friday.

WEDNESDAY we asked our district to help us with a service project back on the mountain building a fence for this lady in our ward. Afterwards we dumped buckets of water on ourselves and dried in a few minutes. Then when we were taking the van off the mountain, we were the only ones in it. Then that night we were helping our ward clerk by updating the directory because our attendance is like in the 70s and there are over 700 in the ward so we´ve been trying to fix this.

THURSDAY we had a day full of set appointments but everything fell and so we resorted to contacting, but everyone seemed to be in a bad mood. So we contacted in the sketchier part near the market La Hermalinda and people were nicer. We also found somebody selling pomegranates the size of melons and they gave us 3 huge ones for a dollar. We had one appointment though that we were able to salvage and reschedule in the night and it was this girl who her brother is the only member in her family and she told us she wanted to be baptized and she´ has already been attending for the past 4 weeks so all we have to do really is teach the lessons.

FRIDAY is the day we found an ice cream shop that is also an aquarium but has cones for basically a quarter. This was also the day of our ward activity, which we got there when people were supposed to start to register so we could be looking for investigators but nobody was there. Everyone has always told me that Peru time is different but I guess they´re right, it didn´t start until 2 hours after it was originally planned when people started showing up. We then tried to make it to some other appointments and I was really hungry for another ice cream so we started looking for people in the direction of the shop. Then the lady who was selling the ice cream was actually one of the inactive youth we´ve been looking for and she gave us free ice cream. We then returned at night to see the end of the party which ended with a dance that quickly turned into a water balloon fight.

SATURDAY was pretty normal, but we found some less actives who were baptized 3 years ago by apostate missionaries who basically never interviewed them or taught them the lessons. So they were pretty much investigators who didn´t think the church was true. We also got more free ice cream from the aquarium.

SUNDAY we found some good people for teaching but other than that it was another usual Sunday.