Aaron

Hey everyone.  Hope you are having the best of times.  As for me, I am freezing my butt off.  Going from the Jungle to over 11,000 ft. is a little dramatic.  And it´s only going to get colder here.  June and July are the coldest months here so yay me!  

Sicuani is pretty cool.  It´s completely different than the jungle.  Most of the houses here are made of adobe and all the doors are super small.  I actually feel kind of tall here.  I think I´m the tallest person in my district which is a change.

We haven´t had a lot of work to do here.  It seems like nobody wants to hear us.  Even the members sometimes.  I also saw the list of recent converts and the last baptism this sector had was 6 months ago.  Hopefully we can change that.

Maybe this guy will listen to us

My new companion is from Lima.  He is pretty cool.  His name is Elder Sosa.  He is a convert and got baptized at 24 or something like that.  So right now he is 26.  He is the only member of his family that is a member of the church.  But he is cool!

My new pension is pretty cool.  She owns a restaurant so we get to eat what we want and how much we want.  So that means no chuño or rice!  I´m pretty excited about that.  We also had a birthday party thing for her son this past week.  He turned 25 I think.   He is pretty cool as well.  His name is Elisvan and he helps us out sometimes.

So now that I´m in the mountain, I don´t only hear Spanish anymore.  Almost all the old people here speak Quechua.  I only know very few frases like Where are you from and I am.... and What´s your name.  It´s an interesting language.  They say it´s more like English than Spanish.  Also when people don´t understand Quechua or English, they think Quechua is English sometimes.

That´s about it this week besides the 13 hour bus ride from Puerto to Cusco.  Not much there because I just slept.  Have a good week everyone.  Love you all!

Elder Augat