Week Twelve!
Well
this week was a rough one, it seemed like every appointment we had canceled and it was rough,
but things happen.
It’s voting season here
in Huancayo, so people are showing their support through t shirts and parades. Fun fact, the flag for
the region of Junin is a rainbow flag. So
you can imagine my surprise when half the city of Huancayo paraded down the
street waving rainbow flags. It was
pretty funny.
So whenever we are
street contacting there are two kinds of people the people that really love me
and want me to speak English and the ones who look really terrified of me. You’re probably wondering why people are
scared of me like really I don’t bite well there is a thing people really
love having at birthday parties here they are clowns scary right? Well yeah, while at a birthday party of a
ward member we were watching this clown entertain like 50 kids. Then he told every one of them to stay away
from gringos because they are pishtacos.
Yeah, I thought he said fish tacos and I’m just like yum, I wish I had
some but no, pishtaco. A pishtaco is a
person who steals organs.
...
.
..
Right!
So half the people in
Peru think I’m going to steal their organs and eat them or something, I don’t
know. But like adults are scared of me
because of this and I’m just like Jesus said Thou Shalt not Kill so here come
to church.
Yeah, anyway since it
was a really slow week, we didn't teach many people but the people we did teach
could not understand my accent and it made me upset so we got pizza, and it was
good real pizza, and it was nice
Yeah. I wish I had something spiritual to share
this week but I don’t really. Easter was
a big deal. Like how we get half a week off for Thanksgiving, they get off for
Easter and they make huge murals out of flowers and drink a lot like too much (Like
there is a beer company that can only produce enough for the city of Huancayo
these weeks when usually they produce for the whole South American
continent). So yeah, they make a paper
mache Jesus and parade him around in a glass coffin like snow white and its
really interesting because it is really Catholic based so there is a lot of
crosses and Jesus death which makes me appreciate the church because what was
really important is what is really beautiful Christ lived again and so can we and
that is why the resurrection is so beautiful.
Anyway that is really
it.
Love you
Hermana Peters
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