Hello everybody!
Wow this week was amazing I loved it so
much. There's only 5 days left here at the CCM. As much as I'll miss it, I'm so
excited for the field. This week we had some pretty whack food. They made us pea
omelettes, literally one egg and a cup of peas, I took one bite and almost
threw up, it was so gross. Then they made us peach pizza, its a small
personalized pizza about the size of my hand, and under the cheese they put
peach slices. So it looked like a regular cheese pizza, but then you took a bite
and it was a peach. It was nasty. There was a bunch of other just bad food that I cant really remember.
Thursday and Friday were just regular days not a lot
happened but then Saturday was super awesome! After lunch we got bused out to
the Lima East Mission (about 30 minute bus ride) and went proselyting for about
2.5 hours. I got paired up with an Elder from Chile who spoke very little
English, so it was mostly in Spanish. We started by knocking on doors but had
little success so we started walking through parks, we had a few small convos
then met James a father of 5, and taught him about Jesus Christ and gave him a Book of Mormon, he seemed really interested so we set up a follow up
appointment (unfortunately I'll never see the outcome). Then we started knocking on
more doors and found Virginia (but they say it really weird down here, so I couldn't even understand her name). She opened a little slit in her door so we
started talking through that, but she was so quiet and mumbled that I couldn't
understand it, my comp did most of the work. But then she opened up the door
and we taught a full lesson on her door step, it was really cool. Overall the
experience was so much fun, I was able to understand about 90 percent of what
was being said, and could speak what I wanted to say, but I had a hard time
just coming up with what I needed to say.
I did notice that the CCM is in
the best part of Lima, outside is pretty bad. There a lot of destroyed building,
and its not very clean, but its weird because there are thousands of car shops,
to buy mods, fix cars, and even a lot of car washes. It surprised me how many
there were.
Sunday was fast Sunday here, it was a pretty normal day except when
dinner came around we all went at the same time (normally there are 2 separate
times) so there was a super long line, and I was stuck at the back. So it took
me 30 minutes to even get food but I ate that food so fast! Then I got asked to
teach priesthood next Sunday and I'll be playing the opening hymn for priesthood
opening exercises, its a song I've never played before so we´ll see how it
goes.
Last night there was a huge soccer game, Peru vs Columbia, there was so
much hype around the game. If Peru won they would have gone to the world cup
for the first time in 30 something years. We walked outside just when they
scored the tying goal with 15 minutes left and all we heard was madness,
fireworks and a whole bunch of screaming/celebrating, unfortunately they tied 1-1
so they wont be going through :( That is all for this week. on Tuesday I leave at
2:30 am to Piura so that should be an interesting experience. I love you all, I'm having the best day ever.
Love,
Elder Luke Gruber
Ugly tie day, we
found the ugliest ties in the CCM and wore them.
Floral Friday, we all
wore floral ties, I had to borrow one since I don't have one.
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