Those earthquakes sound huge. I felt another earthquake yesterday in my house. It wasn't too big. It just felt like a really big truck was driving by the house for 30 seconds or so.
Yep, that is my church. There is one other companionship in the ward with us. We are pretty close to the other missionaries. We all meet up for P-day. The building is really nice. Everything here is a little beat up and covered in dust. The ground here is so dry. I have to polish my shoes everyday or they look like I have had them for almost a year. The area around the church is part of my area. If you go up the mountain that is also my area. I climb up that hill almost everyday. The area up there is really poor. We had to teach a lesson on tithing up there. It was really hard to teach about giving up money when you are teaching on a dirt floor and all their possesions are beat up and they don't have a lot. It is a good thing the people are very humble.
My apartment is pretty nice. We are on the third floor of one of the buildings. It is one of the nicest houses I have seen here. We have a mini fridge and a few utinsels. We don't have a stove or something to heat food with. I might buy a small electric stove and pan to cook stuff for breakfast. Other missionaries have done this and it sounds like a good idea.
We got to a place where you pay one sol and get to use the internet. The speed is pretty good. If I get a ton of letters it might push me a little bit on time but I enjoy reading them so it is ok. We have an hour and fifteen minutes to email. The first fifteen minutes are used to write the president though.
I forgot to tell you last week that the package you sent me last week was here when I arrived.
For my first p-day, we went and played soccer at the stake center. Afterwards we went to Plaza Norte to eat. It is just like an American mall. It was really weird to see all of the stuff there. Outside Plaza Norte is a market that reminds me the Alley in LA. It is a bunch of faked goods. Some elders bought ties for 15 soles or about 5 American dollars. They have a lot of shoes there, especially soccer shoes. They are faked but are really cheap. Some elders told me that you buy shoes there and then take them to a shoe maker in the street and they are as good as brand name shoes.
We teach a lot of lessons everyday. We are supposed to babtize Juan Carlos on September sixth. He reads so much. When I got here he was in first Nephi. Now he is reading in Mosiah. The people here are very nice. Every meal I have usually starts with a huge bowl of soup and then we get chicken. I had some lomo saltado and it is amazing. The restaurant we went to in SLC is authentic. Also with every meal we get fresh juice that has just been squeezed. It is usually warm but is really good. The only cold drink I get is Inca Kola. They always give us a lot of warm drinks.
Good luck starting school and tell me how it goes.
Love,
Elder Karter Isaacson
Everything here is really dusty. This is a picture of my shoes before and after a polish. Also the houses on the hill are just wooden shacks made of whatevery they could get there hands on. The houses there all have dirt floors and are usually pretty small. The houses in the picture are pretty far apart. Usually the houses are crammed in together. There sometimes are random stairs in the middle of the hill to help people get to the top.
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