Hello!!
As you can assume, I now know that my p-day is on thursday, and It has been officially a full week since I have gotten here at the CCM, and I am already sick of it!! We are behind 2 locked fences that we can´t see over until we are on a third floor of a building. So we didn´t even know if we were in Peru. As far as we knew we could have just flew in circles over Georgia for 7 hours and then just stuck us in a prison! However we were able to leave today, and we went down to the Lima temple. It was a really fun spiritual experience for us all. Until the time came when we were going through the vail, and we realized that we have to do all of it in spanish, which we don´t know!! This Saturday everyone in the CCM is going to be going out and prostelyting! Which is going to be horribly awesome, because we don´t know spanish, but yet we will be able to leave these walls again.
As far as Peru, it is a wonderful place. Every night and morning there is something called the Lima mist, where it just looks like fog, but yet it like rains...but it is really just a light mist. They people here are very very nice...until they are driving a car. I hear more people honking there horns here in one hour, then in my whole entire life in Utah!! They also don´t really stop for anything or anyone. Even if your in a crosswalk. It isn´t a law for them to stop for walkers, plus they just don´t care!
The CCM- I don´t really know how to explain it completely. It isn´t really in Lima, in is in a area called La Molina and it is considered one of the richest places in Lima. It isn´t the prettiest place in the world, but it is still nice area. 2 of my roomies moved out, so now there is just me and Elder Henry, and 4 other latinos. Every Latino here is so FUNNY!!! We all get a long and have a good time, until we get on the soccer field. It is going to suck when all of them leave next tuesday. Of the 120 of us misionarys here. There is about 60 latinos and 60 white peeps, and about 30-40 of them are hermanas. That will change next tuesday when pretty much all of them leave except the 20 of us white peeps that flew down last week. They are very strict on rules here. For example, we are only to take pictures on our p-day, with that we can´t take any inside any building here, only outside. The food her is much different (this might be a little gross fyi), I have had rice for every lunch and dinner since we got here, the grossest thing I have had so far has been octopuss and its tenicules thingys. Turns out that they really do have there cereal with yogurt instead of milk, which is good but very weird indeed!! And if you feel like you have to fart... make sure that you are over the toilet because you never know if it really is a fart, or if something else is goin to be flying out!! There has been a lot of sicknessess here. The only time that I have shaken someones hand since I got off the plane in Peru, has been at the Temple this morning. I gave my first blessing also, one elder was feeling really sick, and asked for a blessing so...check that off the bucket list! I am pretty sure that by the time I leave the CCM I am going to need a double knee replacement because of how many prayers we have been saying on our knees.
It might sound like it is terrible here but I actually isn´t as bad as it sounds, and the people here and in my district just make this place fell awesome!!
I am a little short on time because I have to go and meet with interpool for something, plus it is my companions birthday today so we are going to have a party. Feel free to ask more questions for next week though!
Elder Tyrone Mufasa Chanchino Olsen!!
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