Well this week was a really long week and there was a lot to do. First of all the farewell in Ventanilla was a little hard. I had to say goodbye to all the converts and members and pension. I really miss that area and the people and everyone was sad that we left. Elder Montellanos went to the jungle. Wednesday we went to the change meeting that we always do in one of the churches. We got the whole zone together and sent them to their new areas.
We got to our area late like at 9 at night, we walked in and the room was a mess!!! Thursday we had the meeting in the offices with all the zone leaders. Friday we had to clean the room, it took all day!!! We organized everything.
Saturday we left to go work, we found a girl named Susi and she is 16 and she has attended the church several times and her friend is a member. We challenged her to baptism and so she is getting baptized this Saturday. She is a way smart girl. We are starting of good with a baptism.
The members here are way nice and they have accepted us way good, we have a ward, its really little and a branch. The branch is tiny. We meet in a house, its the first time I have ever seen this, its a little house and we meet there. We got to bless the sacrament it was a neat experience, I think like 30 people came, our pensionista is alright, she only gives us dinner, we eat our own breakfast in the room, we have an allowance to buy breakfast that the church gives us, of course we buy milk and cereal, but the pensionista isn’t one of those sweet pensionista that gives you American style food or cooks whatever you want and baby you. She kind of just gives you what she cooked that day, rice with chicken or rice with potatoes, it kind of stinks. I’m just hoping to tell her to give me fruit at night so I can eat more healthy. She is a nice lady but she aint no chef like the other ones I have had.
It’s kind of weird being in our pensionista’s house because she is 50 and she just got married to a returned missionary from Bolivia that served here three years ago. Yes he came back and got married to her. He is 25 and she is 50 and she is not a hot 50 year old. She looks like she is 50, but they are good people and are strong in the church.
The area has its poor parts and rich parts but there is nothing commercial here. There aren’t any stores or anything cool, its just houses so when we buy food and stuff we have to go to another zone. It’s not too dangerous here but there still are some parts that are a little.
Sunday we ate with a member that is way awesome. He is a English translator and has a lot of money. His English is amazing, he talks so fluent, he doesn’t pause to think and ask how do you say, he really knows it. Sunday we ate with him and he got pizza Hut Pizza with KFC and Inka cola. It was so good.
My companion is Elder Quintana and he is from Santiago Chile, he is a nice guy and we get along just fine. Our room here is really small and there isn’t hot water, which mean if I finish here I will have 8 months showering with cold water in a row plus the six months in Iquitos. That’s 14 months of my mission showering with cold water. I’m not going to lie, I’m kind of excited to get home and shower with hot water.
The zone that I’m in I a huge zone, there are 16 missionaries, 8 companionships, Elder Hyde is here and Elder Morton, I think we will finish together here, I am way excited!!
Love elder ridge
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