Welcome 2015. holy smokes that one rolled around fast.
hey how is everyone doing?? great from what i hear and from the pictures
that i saw.
For our new years, end of december week we actually had some time to work
in our area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH BABY!! it is something that i love doing. we got to visit some very
great families in the ward and help others out with some service projects and it
just turned out really great! New years eve and new years were defiantely a
little bit slower due to the emptiness of the streets and to all the drunks
hanging around. But we still managed to find some people to teach and have some
noches de hogar with some other families pretty much every night of this week!
haha funny story: so on the 1st for dinner this member envites us to come over
to her house to eat some grubb. so we show up. she had made a HUGE TURKEY for us
and tried to put about half of it on each of our plates, then puts on the other
half of our plates chorizos (arequipa sausages) and then puts stuffing on top of
all of that....AND THEN...goes and opens up a papa johns pizza box and places
some pizza slices on our plates too!!!!!! talk about full leaving that house!
and she still tried to give us more food! :) so much for trying to keep off the
weight.
For our new years eve...we were confined to the rooms this year. we could
still go up to our roof and watch the fireworks that do not let you sleep at
all!! and especially with people shooting some great big ones right over our
heads. a great sight to see! sad that it is my last huge firework show here in
peru. :(
However, president did invite us over to the house earlier in the evening
to have a new years eve dinner celebration (just the office elders) and did we
eat good. We had some american steaks that president found in this random market
which were fantastic! especially with that A1 sauce you guys sent me! thank you
so much. you were really in tune with the spirit in sending me that one. We also
had bake potatoes with presidents homemade sour cream (wonderful!!) and corn and
homemade rolls. everything a gringo could dream of here in peru! :) then we had
some pecan pie with vanilla icecream.
so all in all...a great start to the new year! so HAPPY NEW YEARS 2015 TO
ALL OF YOU!! hope you guys celebrated it well. When does school start up again
for everyone?? good luck with all that starting up as well.
gald the holidays went well for all of you and that all the family was
together once again.
lets see this week starts off busy as ever. we started the zone conferences
yesterday and that is what we will be doing this next week. Zone leader and
hermana leader training monday and tuesday, wednesday we go to moquegua,
thursday we go to ilo, friday we go to tacna and depending on if we can catch a
flight out of tacna friday, then we return to arequipa that night or come back
saturday. so say goodbye to next week. then its the same stuff going on the next
week after that. i will let you know on the changes.
i am happy and healthy and loving the arequipa weather right now. it is
starting to cool off quite a bit (unusual)...but hey i am not complaining!
:)
well got to run. got some stuff to do this pday.
love you all.
se cuidan
Weston
1-4-3
Elder Birtcher
Asistente
Misión Perú-Arequipa
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