Monday, March 26, 2007

It’s taking two or three weeks to get a letter out of Peru. Here are the most recent letters from Andrew;

03-01-07
I made it! Everything went smooth at the airport. As soon as I walked out of the airport in Lima to get into our van I felt so happy. I’m so excited to be in Peru. The Lord has blessed me and continues to bless me, with so much, so I will be okay. My four other roommates don’t speak any English so that will be good, except it will be hard to communicate at first. My district leader is Elder Leavitt, he lives in Nevada. I asked him if he knew any Pulsiphers’ or if he knew any Leavitt’s in San Diego. He said he didn’t know any Leavitt’s’ in San Diego, but he knew Pulsiphers’ in Logandale. The food here is a little different but it’s good. Today 03-01-07 we updated and met with President Crayk, he is great. He is from Sandy, Utah. We had lunch; it was a beef in a sauce like stroganoff with rice potatoes in like a cream form with soup and a cream and Jell-O dessert. On the flight down here the plane was nice and we ate chicken and potatoes. The ride to the CCM was so amazing. I can’t accurately describe it but everyone drives taxi vans and they drive inches from each other. They merge and turn when they want. They call the MTC a CCM here. It is very nice, they have synthetic turf field. I will look at it tonight. For dinner we had this chicken with rice and yams, it was so good. The chicken was like a sweet curry flavor. The President just told us to sleep all day so that was nice. After dinner I was in the courtyard watching one of the Elders do impressions, it was funny. No e-mail, sorry. I’m not sure how it is going to work with “Dear Elder,” but I’m sure you will figure it out.

03-04-07
My first day in the CCM, I taught one of the teachers the third lesson in Spanish, or tried to. I did not really know that I was saying, I just opened my mouth. No one really speaks English here, except the North American Elders. When I tried to teach the first lesson it did not go so well. My Spanish comes and goes. It’s going to be hard here but I need it. The Lord knows me and knows what I can handle so I just need to put all my trust in him. Don’t plan on hearing from me a lot in the CCM because one of the elders got a “Dear Elder” from his parents and they said they had not heard from him and he has been here for three weeks. Just know that I love it here and that I love you all so much!

Love, Elder Little