Week 60

It was a good week this week. To start it off on Wednesday Elder Nelson and I went to Miraflores. It was super dope!! It took like 2 hours to get there and we were there at the foot doctor lady for a while. She was super funny and lived in such a rich part of the city. It was hard to believe it was Peru for real, because of what I am used to seeing. Afterward, we went to McDonald's and bought quadruple big macs which was pretty sweet. There were clean streets and fast food places and big apartment buildings and it was weird!  We ended up just doing exchanges that day and it was fun. We helped all of our converts out with family history and whatnot. 

Thursday was a hard day, all we did was contact all day. Literally all day. It was super cold and so there were few people in the streets and no one wanted to let us in! 

Nothing else really cool has happened but on Saturday we had to go to Cieneguilla which is the sister`s area and it's pretty far away to help them out. They are in a trio right now and having problems because one of them wants to go home.  We gave them blessings and talked about their issues and things seem to be going a little better. Let me just say that I do not understand women haha. 

Sunday was a super good day! We are teaching a family of 5. It's the mom, dad, 11 year old daughter, 10 year old son that is special needs, and a 1 year old daughter. The dad is a drunk and they have lots of family problems. I found them with Elder Ponce we we went on exchanges a couple of weeks ago by accident. We were looking for a guy that we had contacted and his address was super messed up so we just ended up knocking on their door and they said they had been waiting for us. Anyway, we have taken the bishop to their house clear up on a hill and he gave him a 12 steps book and whatnot. But then he disappeared for like 2 days because he was drinking and they didn't know where he was but he came back and went to church! When we visited him he was like crying saying how he wanted to change and all and we shared Alma the Younger's conversion story from the Book of Mormon and it was super powerful. We will see how it goes but he came to church with his daughter and his dog was with him the whole time as well hahahah and his dog is huge and was just chilling in the church and in the classes. 

Today we didn't do anything. We just slept-in in the morning and then went to Pizza Hut like always because there is nothing else to do. Something crazy that happened is that I received a package and I opened it up and it was some tennis shoes! A note inside from Sister Ämato said that someone had brought them from Mexico. Haha they are the shoes that Jake Stewart sent me a full year ago to the Mexico MTC!!!! hahahah they are pretty sweet I honestly don't know who brought them to me here in Peru. 

But ya that is my week. We will know about the transfers next week. Elias and his wife might get married this week...there are still some problems but we are working on it! I'm doing great, just dreading the summer. There have been like 11 small earthquakes in the last week idk why, kinda weird but we will be fine! Love you guys.

PS. here are the pics of Franciscos baptism and me with a white and a latino redhead. 

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Much Love,

Elder Mortenson