Hola, friends and fam!
You should know that you are officially reading an email for a real
live Peruvian. That's right, I'M LEGAL. I finally have all the right
paperwork to be a citizen of Peru. Yeah, it only took like eight months.
Anyway, before I talk about anything else, here are the answers to last week's questions.
1.
The language is coming along fine and dandy. I can write, speak,
understand and read in Spanish. I still have a long list of things I'm
missing, but I have Spanish at about 80%ish.
2. Yes, we are still having English classes.
However, I won't be teaching them anymore because... (Drumroll) I have
transfers this week! (Probably. I still haven't received the call about
where I'm going, because they always call the night before the change,
but all things are pointing to a transfer and I'm going to be leaving
this area.)
3. It is very hot here and it is veeeeeery humid. In
the afternoon, when I step out of the shower, I immediately start
sweating again. (Pleasant, right?)
4. And no,
the buildings are not air conditioned. However, cardboard walls do
provide for really good ventilation. Our apartment is concrete, so it
usually is pretty cool in the mornings. 5. But the afternoon and at night, it's always pretty hot. We sleep with a fan on at night because it gets so hot.
6. For proselyting, I try and always wear a short sleeve shirt if I can, because the sun is relentlessly hot.
7.
We had a really good experience in a family home evening with a family
in our ward who are only partially members. We had two return
missionaries with us, one who served in Mexico, the other in Utah (Salt
Lake City). We all expressed our testimonies of the church. It was
really spiritually potent, and a little hard to explain.
8. Wow, my faith has increased tenfold. One of the
biggest things about a mission is that your own personal testimony is
one of the first things that changes. With all the experiences I've had,
and all of the miracles I've seen, my testimony has grown more than I
could have imagined.
That's all the questions from last week. Now, Vamos a explicar un poco mas acerca de la tema de este e-mail.
On
Tuesday, I had to wake up a five in the morning to go to La Molina,
because I had to go to Migraciones (Immigrations). We waited at La
Molina for about 45 minutes for the van to get there.
Then we went on a 2
hour ride to the immigrations office.
At the office, we did a lot of
sitting, waiting, some fingerprinting, and some document signing, but
after about three hours, the process was complete, And I got my little
card that says that I'm allowed to live in the country. I also got my
passport stamped with my visa, so everything's official. After that, we
headed over to a Burger King, and had (almost) American Hamburgers.
After that, we had a two hour ride back to La Molina, then we headed
back to our area. So, that was the big adventure this week.
Well, that's all I have time to write this week, but I love you all! Stay safe and watch out for chipmunks.
With lots of love,
-Elder Dañel Jacob Smith
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