March 2, 2015

Feliz Dia,

I figured you would like to see some photos of me since I haven't sent any since I got here. I hope I am not getting fat. I will have to start doing more excercise than just walking up a hill all day long. I will have to do a little more to keep my perfect form it looks like. It sounds like you are more trunky than me (one third of your mission complete), but I already knew. I actually knew about Anne and Harrison. I write them almost every week. It is crazy what happened in his mission. That is great how Tyler was able to baptize Alex. Just a little preperation for his mission. I can't believe Kenzie is going to Prom. She's not old enough to do that. And Kyle's wedding, what is he thinking doing it in May? First his anniversary, then Mother's day, and then his birthday. That will be a crazy month for him. You might be able to use a cardboard cut out of Obama and put my face on it. I am in the sun so much here I might just be that dark by the time I get home. Although I do have a horrible farmers tan.

This week was great. We got the baptismal permission for Estify. She will be baptized this Saturday at 11 in the morning. She is starting to invite all her family and friends. She can hardly wait. We are teaching a couple of her cousins with her right now and maybe they will want to get baptized after they see her baptism. I will just have to wait and see. Actually I don't think I will be able to see. Transfers are March 10. I am almost 100 percent sure I am going. Everyone keeps telling me that I am going to go this change and I think they are right. I am kind of excited to see different areas and meet new people. I will start saying goodbyes this week and taking lots of photos with the people.

I was able to work really hard this week doing service with the hermanas in Belaunde. We put in a staircase in the side of a hill with old tires. We dug a stair into the side of the hill, and then we would put a tire there and fill the tire with dirt to make it stable. It was an older couple who needed it. We did it because the wife had fallen a few weeks ago. I was really glad we could help. We worked really hard. Afterwards, when I got home I really didn't want to go work because I was tired. I then thought of this: I will never say after my mission that I worked too hard in my mission. I might say that I didn't work hard enough. I don't want to say that. It made me realize that I will work my hardest every day for my entire mission. I hope I can do it. Oh, also while we dug, I saw a small scorpion. It kind of scared me when I first saw it. I wonder if there are a lot here.

Today is the next soccer tournament. We made jerseys as a zone. They are pretty cool. I also bought new shoes last week. I wanted to have new ones for the tournament. I also needed new ones because the ones I brought have no tread and have two giant holes on top. They needed to be replaced. I ended up buying Umbros for 80 soles. Thats about 27 dollars. I really like how everything is really cheap here.

Well I think that is about all. I love you and take care,
Elder Karter