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I don't really remember what happened last week; it all went by super fast. 

Well for p-day... our ward mission leader Alejandro, who acts like a teenage boy, lol, is going to Mexico for his mission. We got permission from President Amato to go to Surco, the rich part of our area, to eat at this Mexican Restaurant, Tacon Madres and flip it was good! Elder Gonzalez is from Mexico as well, so he was freaking out when we went.  I got this chimichanga that was so good. 

Tacon Madres con Un Mexicano

Last Tuesday was Gino's birthday so we had a family night with him and his mom. We bought a huge 3 leches cake and went got pizza. 

On Thursday we had a branch activity and we watched Ephraim's Rescue. It was nice to watch that movie here in the mission. So the thing is, doing activities down here is a little difficult. A lot of the times the missionaries are the ones that have to do everything and set everything up and yeah, it's a little frustrating. So in the branch council yesterday, we had a good talk with everyone about how everybody needs to help us and we shouldn't be doing it all on our own. Hopefully we can start changing things. 

Yesterday we were able to get Gino's mom, Olga, to Sacrament Meeting, so she has 2 attendances. We are going to have her baptism on the 15th of this month. Miguel found new work and he is working on Sundays now. He was already struggling with keeping his commitments so this makes it worse. The thing is, his spouse Michele always keeps her commitments and comes to church. We are going to work something out so that we can baptize them both, haha. We are still waiting for their papers so we'll see what happens. 

Un Perro Muerto

Emilio didn't come yesterday because he was sick but he already has 3 attendances and he always does his stuff. Our goal is to have his baptism this week on Saturday, so pray that we can baptize him this week! 

We also had a reference from a member, named Sheyla. We had a lesson with her and she accepted to be baptized for the 29th. We still need to get the baptismal permission from her parents so we're going to work on that this week. 

Full size chancho

On Saturday we had this service project for the World Christmas Day of Service and there were so many mosquitos. It was insane and my legs got destroyed, holy cow. I have never been bitten so bad in my life. I just hope I don't get some disease form the weird Peruvian mosquitos, lol. Hope y'all have a good week! 

Servicio

Elder Shockley