Well, this week was my companion´s birthday, so we went to get pizza from Arregano´s and we celebrated it a little in the branch missionary night. Every Friday we do a missionary activity in which branch members can invite their friends and also less actives can have the opportunity to get to know the members in a comfortable environment. The week before, we did karaoke, and this week I really wanted to do an iron rod-style lesson and somehow talked the other Elders into it, as well. We had a pretty good attendance of about 30, whom we blindfolded and had them follow a suspended string throughout the chapel, through varying halls and rooms. Also, there were many points in which there was another sting tied to that string which lead to a dead end, and the job of us misssionaries was to convince them to take the wrong paths or turn back. We had a LOT of fun with this. I got one kid to get almost to the finish (the tree of life) and then turn back and go all the way back to the start, taking all the dead end paths again. haha! Everyone who came also had a great time and at the finish we gave them a snack-pack of oreos and explained to them how the Love of God is sweeter than any other thing on earth.
P-day! Us with an investigator!
Waiting for people to get to the activity. This is Miche, the llama (very much alive btw). It means kitten in Quetchua.
W. is set to get baptized this Thursday. He wants to get baptized in the river, and he wants me to do it. Do you know how cold that is??? At least we should get some good pictures, because the rivers are quite beautiful here. I had every intent of going to the river to wash my clothes this morning, like everyone else does (for the experience), but I´ve just been told I have to find a way to weigh my luggage, instead.
About my room still being a preschool, you might want to leave those alphabet and math things up, because I feel my skills regarding those topics are somewhere around a preschool level at this point, if not worse. Especially math. Meh. I intend to have a great last week, here in Perú, doing all that I can until I can´t do no more! I love you all so very much and am also constantly praying for you gringos! :)
Much love,
Elder Alexander
