"In your country??"

Mother, you know I love you, and I know your a little confused about technology since I left, but you cannot email letters. Emma will have to send it through the postal service. I did get another package, though! It had Ensign and lollipops and coins and love. Ive enjoyed reading the english and spanish Liahona side by side. And I love those lollipops but I fear Ive given quite a few away to children who think theyre the coolest thing on earth. One kid told me hes coming to the US to find more of them. The peppermint bark is a great idea. Me and the pentionista are going to make it and we can give some to investigator families. I think that"s a great idea for YW. Did you see the adress last night? It was great. I cant believe its so cold there and Im sweating buckets right now! haha. peruvians celebrate christmas basically the same. Not so many decorations, but lots of houses have plastic pine trees with ornaments, etc. For missionary night last week, we made christmas cards. But to help the kids, we made some outlines to color in on the cards. One outline I drew for a card was of santa clause making a snow angel. It was a fantastic drawing. Except I didnt realize that people dont know what snow angels are here. The child who used it colored the angel part orange and red, and it just looked really weird. But he was proud of it, so its all good.

 My health is doing much better. I figure people must be praying for me. Also, the language is much better from when I started. Im beginning to have conversations. But I can only understand specific people. Some people speak way too lazy. And its very easy to use the wrong word, because they all kind of sound the same. Last night, I was helping a member with her english homework, and I told her that next time, Im going to charge. But I used the wrong word for charge, and used a very formal way of saying that I am going to poop. I havent tried cui yet. The best cui is at the end of the month, the locals say, so we shall wait. But we get chifa a lot, which is chinese food. Lots of chinese and native american culture here. Apparently the oringinal inhabitants here were a native american tribe, and then the spanish, who brought chinese slaves. Thus, the funky culture. But I love it. I keep trying to convert english jokes to spanish, but it doesnt work. I asked one kid where you find a turtle with no arms and no legs. With a very fascinated look on his face he asked "In your country??". The answer was "where you left it." But I still try. Monday, Im going to command the letter to you. I havent had a lot of time to write, lo siento, so it took a while. How did your finals go? Hows the fam? Hows the dog? Hows the fish?

I love you much,

Elder Alexander