John 9/29/08

well thanks everyone for the birthday wishes... i did have a good one. i ended up buying a huge chocolate cake for myself that lasted for almost a week. but the guys in my room sang me happy birthday and made me take the cherry off the top of the cake with my mouth and of course i got shoved into my cake. so got some good pictures of that. i havent sent many pictures lately because i kinda dont like bringing my camera around here. its famous for the robbers here. but me and my companion are huge so we dont have many problems. there is a new american in our room now. Elder ridge from utah we are helping him a lot with his spanish. he is so lucky because anything he doesnt understand he just asks us. but dont worry we dont make it too easy on him. haha its fun to live the flashbacks through him with the food and worried about bugs and stuff. umm well my area is callled ..lets see if i can spell this right...Tahuantinsuyo i think thats how its spelt. everything is named here after inca names so it makes it a little harder. ya i have heard that this mission was praying for more missionaries and even though we really didnt want to leave we are making the best of it. me and elder taylor are leading the area in street contacts we are doing so many. we talk with every person that walks by and knock every door. so its really challenging our spanish but we are doing fine so far. ummm i have no clue when we will get our stuff from santa cruz. because they havent gave us any update on over there so we really dont know. we dont receive a lot of communication from missionaries that think we already know what to do but there are a lot of new rules here that we had no clue about. haha elder taylor just told me his mom is talking with you. but we are doing fine a lot of times it gets really hard on us when we knock doors alllllll day and we dont have like any success at the end of the day but we wake up and do it again the next day. we bought a guitar last week as well. you know why? cause elder taylor can play really really well. so he is teaching me a couple things here and there. he was a hardcore rocker before the mission so he can play some pretty cool stuff. we are writing a song actually in spanish that we are almost done with. it talks about the girls that bother us in the street. its pretty funny. umm nothing much is really going on here. o ya the polution here is discussing. we went exploring in the huge hills in our area to look at all of lima-.which is huge has like 10 million people. and it was just a smoke fog over the whole city. but we could also see the beach from some of the hills. but the air is discusting and it never rains here it drizzles a while and thats what they call there rain. its also really cold here every night. im not use to that going from like 130 degrees to about 70. but its all good. umm the pictures of spencer were really cool. he looks really different i want to hear some more experiences that he had there. he looks like he is back in really good shape... even though i didnt think he ever left his really good shape. umm but i dont have much time left... they kind of cut us short here on our time(which they cant do) but we obey with a smile. anyways i love you guys and thanks for everything and i will be fine here for a while i think.