Mom,
To be honest the thing that excites me the most from what you
wrote this week is that I can see Kaitlyn's plays when I get back. It's
funny how much that excites me too, I didn't realize I missed that stuff
so much. All I know is that first thing I go do with Kaitlyn, we're
going to go see a musical.
I realized this morning that
Thanksgiving was coming up. I was looking at the calendar in our
pensionista's house and it just hit me all of a sudden "We're in November! Thanksgiving's next week!" My comp just looks at me and says
"Oh yeah. Cool" Peruvians just don't understand the magic of a day full
of food. I'm more excited for Christmas though. I started counting down
the days, and the other day I told my pension "There's only 44 days
until Christmas!" She turns and says "43 elder. I'm counting down too"
She's the funniest little lady. My pension's like your stereotypical
grandma, she's just always happy, she does little crafts, she even made
cookies the other day.
I didn't hear anything about Paris. What's happened? Sometimes it shocks me how disconnected I am to the rest of the world.
So
today for Pday we got together with a bunch of elders from Cusco and
the hermanas from Urubamba and went to some ruins that are about an hour
and a half from Calca. We got up there, took a lot of photos, then
Elder Ard says that there was more higher up on the mountain. So
basically we all started bushwacking up this mountain, and it was
ridiculous. There were cacti everywhere and there was literally no path
we were just climbing straight up. We got to this one part where
Hermana David cut herself pretty good on a rock and started bleeding.
She was a bit ahead of me, but I still saw it happen and soon enough I
could feel my blood pressure dropping. I tried just telling myself that I
wasn't sick, sometimes I can talk myself out of it like that, but it
was no use. Elder Salazar saw me and he says "Thacker you're sick. Sit
down right now." I laid down on a rock right off the path (still on the
side of the mountain), actually ended up puking, and then I was fine. It
was pretty embarrassing though. I really hate that I do that, I wish it
didn't happen.
When I was with Ard we just talked about
Quillabamba the whole time. He was there when I first got there and we
lived together for about 3 months. I miss those times. It also made me
miss Mama Chana. I love that even here in another country, far away from
all you guys, I have family here in the members. I'm so grateful for
those guys and everything they do for us.
I love you Mom. In about 6 weeks we'll be talking! Can't wait :)
Jeremy
Dad,
It is in the Sacred Valley. It's weird to see that name in English, it's always been Valle Sagrado. I'm actually DL over all of the
Valle so in the little amount of time that I'm here I've gotten to know
most of it already. It's gorgeous here, if I ever get the chance to
take you guys to Peru we're visiting Valle Sagrado and Quillabamba for
sure, they're two of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
To
get to Machu Picchu you usually get on a bus in a town called Pisac,
which is also part of my area. I actually remember a Spanish assignment I
had where we had to plan a trip to Machu Picchu and I talked about
Calca and Pisac. Now I'm living there which is weird to think about. I'm
not going anytime soon though. We're planning a trip in August with all
of the elders from my group and I want to go then with those guys. If
we actually get to do it then it's gonna be sweet, there's nobody else
I'd rather go with.
I actually feel a little troubled with my
change. I don't know if I'm here so much because it's where the Lord
needed me or if I'm here simply because they had to send a wicked elder
to Choquehuanca. Because that's how the assisstants made it sound. Elder
Martin was supposed to come here and be dl but they found out he had a
couple problems and sent him to Choquehuanca. To me that makes it seem
like Choquehuanca's a punishment, and I'm just here to fill in a gap. We
actually have interviews with President tomorrow and I'm hoping to talk with him about all of that. Maybe he can help clarify the situation.
My
week here was really boring too. Pday today was fun, I wrote Mom about
everything that we did. If you haven't read her email yet you should.
That's easier than explaining it again. I'm just hoping to work really
hard this week, honestly our numbers from this last week were downright
embarrassing. I've gotta make up for that.
Love you dad. A little less than 6 weeks until Christmas!
No comments:
Post a Comment