Happy Birthday John! (tomorrow)

O peru… it is an interesting country. Its actually really weird because they are a little better off here money wise. I thought that here was way poor but getting use to Bolivia this is like an upgrade. I do not like the pollution because you never get to see the sun during the day its just a big cloud over the day alllll day. Its kinda like a foggy day back in the states. It also gets cold here and I left all my winter stuff back in santa cruz so I will have to buy some here. But I have been fine so far. Me and Elder Taylor are kind of starting over an area so we have been doing a ton of contacts and door knocking. We have learned that the people here are actually really hard to talk to. But the members are amazing a lot are return missionaries and they like to help us out. Im not going to lie but some points in my patriarch blessing are coming true. I have been learning a lot of pacience with a guy we live with. But we are adapting and figuring out how to get along with him. He just didn’t like the fact that we had to storm in and live with them. But I will be fine. Me and elder taylor have a good time but we also have a lot of success. I even sat down to tie my shoe for a second and someone came up to us just to talk about the church.(that was cool) we both stick out like sore thumbs as well. He is about 6´3 red head, white as a ghost and me a goliath walking down the street. So everyone just has to stair at us. My Spanish isn’t going to get worse I think its gotten better here. Because there is full concentration for the both of us when we are teaching. Because we have to understand everything they say there is no back up latin anymore. And so far….we have been almost fine with everyone nothing that we have been confused. I lead out the conversations and they can finally understand me! Haha And if I thought the girls annoyed us in Bolivia here it’s a lil worse with an American companion. Its kinda crazy that my birthday is tomorrow… I did get to cook some of the cookies just the bad news that the lady that did them burnt them because she didn’t know they hardened after you take them out. But I still ate a couple. Speaking of which im going to get fat here. We have a meal planned every breakfast lunch and dinner every day. We have a pension for breakfast and dinner and the members have to feed us for lunch. So ya we eat quite a bit. Ummm what else there are a ton of new rules that we are getting use to. But I think we will be fine. We are in a room with 2 other missionaries… Elder Rojas from Columbia and Elder Lima from Lima Peru. But I really like talking to the Columbian because he is new and always excited. But we got stuck on sleeping on bunk beds that they just stuck in this room. So its kinda crouded with 4 missionaries and 1 bathroom. O ya funny story…I AM TALLER THAN THE SHOWER. Its ridiculously small. My neck is about where the water comes out. So that’s been an experience.. also about the bathroom…. You always gotta keep on your toes. Apparently everything is on one breaker and so when there is someone showering and a light is on in the other room the power randomly cuts off and you cant see anything and it turns to cold water. So that was an experience. It would happen like 3 or 4 times every shower. And its really fun to see the lights go out and elder taylor yell O MAaaaN! But other than that lifes pretty normal. im starting to feel older and older. Im in a district with a guy from santa cruz who I saw when he had 5 months and now he has 14! Time is flying by. The number of Americans that came from santa cruz were like 60 I think. Pretty much doubled the number of Americans that were here I think. Also about going back to Bolivia we are not sure of anything yet but I did say 3 weeks cause I heard that but it can also could be like a year or till I finish my mission no one knows. But someone said the things are starting to calm down a little so that’s good. Dad that sounds like a good idea for your book. I might want a copy of that. And that you are still working with aflac…so does this mean we have money now? And I want to hear how spencer did in all of his training. Umm I don’t think there is really much goin on I think we are going to be having a good time tomorrow for my birthday and everything. We have a supermall in our area that has mcdonalds and pizza hut and a bunch of nice stuff. So im happy still just at times it gets kinda hard. But I can handle it I think. But it was nice to hear from all of you and I hope you all have a good week. Just pray a lot for me and I love you all.
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