Hello family,
How is everything going? Well
right now it’s the last night of change and my companion is leaving. So I’m getting a new companion; his name is
Elder Holguin. He is from Columbia and
has been in the mission field for just over a year. It’ll be a lot of fun; he seems very
energetic and ready to work. We are
excited. Hopefully we can do a bunch of
cool stuff in this area and help out the ward.
Elder Beales and I at Yura |
On Monday we went to a place called Yura. It’s a tiny town and has an awesome
waterfall. It reminded me of a slot
canyon just like down in southern Utah.
It was fun and around 30 of us went to another Zone. We had a fun time and it was a great
experience.
Then we had some sweet family home evenings. We tried to visit more families this week to
try and change things up and help out the ward more. We were able to teach this one family and get
a reference for their mom who is a nonmember.
So we are going to go back and teach her some more. Their family is really good. They came from Lima and you can tell that
they have a bunch of struggles. We are
trying to help them out and keep them excited.
Then we were on divisions and I was back with Elder Rosano, my
companion in Moquegua. We had a fun
day. We were able to teach some
people. We walked to this one part of
the area super far away. We walked there
and the only family there was not home so we walked higher and higher by
Misti. We sat there and talked for a
while and then came back down and taught the family. We taught another family
that night and we had a good division.
It was good to just talk with him and see how he was feeling about the
mission and everything.
So it is holy week to just remember Easter (Spanish version) and the
Resurrection (Spanish version). It is not great I guess
you could say. They just have a bunch of
traditions from the Catholics. They go
to twelve different churches for each of the apostles, they eat a whole bunch
of different kind of food, they don’t eat meat, and it is the one time of year
that they fast here. They fast for only
five hours. Everybody climbs the hills
and mountains and carries a rock with them. The rock represents their sins. If they carry the rock with them to the top
without dropping it then their sins are forgiven. It is really interesting. Also some people believe that Christ died on
Friday and went up to heaven so there is no sin on those couple days and they
do some really wild stuff.
Our Pensionista went to Puno, which is really far from Arequipa on
Thursday and Friday so we didn’t have anywhere to eat for lunch. We were on our own to find a place to eat. On Thursday we found a member and helped him
cook this soup for Holy Friday. It was
really good; it was all just seafood and it’s just a really good soup. We also made fried squid. It was fun to learn how to cook some more
things and be with their family. It was
a great experience. Friday we ate
another soup, which was fish because they don’t eat meat. It was fun; we were with them a while.
Fire: Cooked marshmallows and hot dogs for around 60 people. |
We also did a service project.
We painted a person’s house and it took one and a half hours. That night we had an activity so we had to go
get everything ready. It turned out
really well. It was a fire with s’mores
and hot dogs at a member’s house. There
were around 50 people there; it was a good turnout and I was really happy.
On Saturday we went and cleaned up in the morning. In the afternoon we went to go buy the tickets
for the missionaries that are leaving our zone. My companion is leaving so he went and said
goodbye to some families. We had pizza
that night and it was a good night.
On Sunday we went and had adobo with a family. It’s a type of soup that you eat in them
morning. Then we came back and helped
cook and then went to church. After
church we came back and had a goodbye party for my companion. It was really fun and a good experience and
I’m super happy to be here.
This week it was a good week and now we have a whole bunch of stuff
to do coming week. We have to clean out
some rooms for missionaries that won’t be here and we have to reorganize the Zone.
It’s going to be very interesting but
I’m excited and I just need to keep working hard and keep doing everything
right and it’ll all turn out good.
I love you all so much.
Hopefully everything goes well with you guys tomorrow and you have a
great day.
CHOU
Elder Cooley
Central y Paucarpata |
Pauracapata Zone |
Pauracapata Zone |
Pauracapata Zone |
Yara |
Yara |
The Leon Family |
Yet another ugly dog! Haha |
Semana santa for chupe de viernes |
Jose & Abraham wanted to say goodbye; so we had pizza. |
Pastel de tallarin y rocoto relleno Made by Mama Cali |
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