"Life is sweet here."

I don"t know what maca is called in English, but people keep asking me if we have it in my country. I don't believe so. Its very popular here. This week, after a lesson, a lady gave us something she called maca-water. It was the nastiest thing I have drank in all my life, I believe. And with it, she fed us potato-bread and it smelled like a porta-potty. And she told us we have to eat us and if we don't, God will punish us. That was my worst experience this week. Aside from that, we were contacting one house, but they shut the door in our face, but the problem is I had leaned against the doorway and the lady had shut my sleeve in the door. So we knocked, but she wouldn't open the door, so we just stood there for like five more minutes until, thank goodness, somebody opened the door, but they weren't expecting to find me there and I frightened the poor old lady half to death, because I was just leaning in her doorway, smiling because I didn't wish to cause her alarm. And aside from that, I stubbed my toe and lost half my nail. (photos to come) But life is sweet here, and its looking like were going to baptize a lot this June. I just hope I get to stick around one more transfer to see the fruits of our work.

Chicken foot, anyone?    

Everything is going great here! Ill be sure to snap a picture on my birthday! So crazy! One more year, and I can drink! hahahahaha just kidding!

Much love,

Elder Alexander

Lepidium meyenii, known commonly as maca, is an herbaceous biennial plant of the crucifer family native to the high Andes of Peru around Lake Junin.^[1] It is grown for its fleshyhypocotyl (a fused hypocotyl and taproot), which is used as a root vegetable, a medicinal herb, and a supposed aphrodisiac. Its Spanish and Quechua names include maca-maca,maino, ayak chichira, and ayak willku