Surquillo

Hope Everyone at home is doing well and enjoying Christmas time. 

This past week was pretty chill. My new area is Surquillo, and it is just weird. The zone leaders were in Surco but they moved areas to Surquillo to help them out because there hasn't been a baptism there for awhile. There are weird people, weird dogs, weird stores and just weird everything. We also have part of Miraflores in our area and this part looks like the states and feels like the states, but we do most of our contacting in Surquillo. 

The first day there was this Peruvian, handicapped man that ran up to me and was trying to steal my backpack and my water bottle and then he just started hugging me and he wouldn't stop. Another day we found this dude that was drunk out of his mind and he kept telling me that he knew 5 different languages and he was trying to teach us about the Holy Ghost. He followed us around for like an hour, and he would just talk to everyone that passed him, haha. It was pretty fun. We finally lost him until we were taking the bus home and he somehow got on the same bus as us. He was mad at us because we told him we had to leave him because we had a lesson, but he told us that we were lying and then told us how we needed to go to Rome and preach the gospel there, haha. Hopefully we don't find him there. 

Last Wednesday was the mission Christmas activity and we all went to Chosica which is the green part of the mission. We played a bunch of games and then some soccer and other sports. We all got these really cool floral ties with a picture of President Amato and his wife on the back. It was A GREAT DAY. 

Christmas Activity in Chosica

Well Elder Topham is my new comp and he's pretty great. He's really funny and man he's a dang good zone leader. He's teaching me how to be a great zone leader and I am grateful for him as my companion. 

Elder Topham

I just want to say that I am super grateful to be out here serving the Lord. There is no other place I would rather be right now in my life. Yeah a lot of days are tough but those days I just remember how there are people that honestly have a harder life than me and whose situation is probably a lot worse than mine. I have also found that when I can turn my self over to the Lord and do as He did and act as He did, that's when I really enjoy the work. I want people to be as happy as I am, and I want to spread this happiness to them. 

I hope everyone has a great week.