John's email from Peru

thats cool that we were in the church news. well i am in peru now... its sooo much different. but i am in the Lima- North Mission with Elder Taylor! he is the big red head im not sure i havent sent a picture of him but he is one of my best friends in the mission. and they gave us an area to start working. we live with 2 other latins this time and they are going to kind of teach usthe area for today and tommorrow we are on our own. but the past week has been full of crazy stuff. a bunch of missionaries didnt have passports and the american embassy was with us getting passports ready from la paz in like 3 days. thats really fast. then we stayed in the CCM again(the prison) actually i got to sleep in a hotel one night. but it was really fun to see the old teachers i had and i could have fun conversations with them and understand everything they say. so i really enjoyed that. i also went to the temple again which i havent done in a while but i heard that we get to go every six weeks now if we are here for that long. but i am thinking we are going back in 3 weeks. they are saying things are already calming down over there. the culture here is so much different its actually a little better. just that i dont like the fact the sky is always smoke. sometimes you cant even see the sun throughout the day. but i will make it fun and we will work hard. me and elder taylor have alot of goals to work hard here to see what we got together. i hear also that they baptize a ton here even more than back in santa cruz. also whats different is they way they talk. so there is a whole new vocabulary that i am learning but it wont be that hard. but the thing is we are suppose to write you and tell you how to write us and everything but they didnt give us any directions yet so i might have to write that monday. Our mission president is from uraguay President Perez and he looks american but he doesnt know much engish. i thought he was for a while then he tried saying somethin in english and it was a strong accent. but i will be fine now that i can understand him. if i didnt know spanish at this point i dont know how i would live. but anyway i am just fine and i am excited to be here and to have my first american companion we both have the same time and i think im still senior comp but it doesnt really matter to me. umm but if you guys have any questions ask away. and i hope all of your are fine. i think i am going to have a good time here.