Hey Everyone!
I don't have much time to email anymore because i have to send a letter to
the mission president but ill try to explain everything and there probably wont
be pictures this week, sorry.
Okay so well start with the worst and then get better. The worst thing that
happened this week is that i ended up getting food poisoning on Friday night at
like 1 30 in the morning and it was just down hill from there. So i rested until
like 12 30 on Saturday and then we had to go somewhere. My stomach still feels a
little funky but i think i just need to get accustomed to the food. Then a day
and a half later my comp ( Elder Isaac Bunker) started feeling funny and now hes
sick too so it had to be something that we both ate.
My Spanish has got a long way to go.. I got out here and could understand so
much less than i thought i was going to be able to understand, But my comp says
i know a lot more than he did when he came out here and hes been out here for 17
months and hes fluent so its cool to think that im going to be like that in a
couple of months. Whats hard for me now with the Spanish is that i hear the
words in Spanish and translate it into English in my head which takes a lot of
time and so i miss the next couple of words so when i start to think in Spanish
then ill be doing a lot better. Plus i need to learn all the slang and different
words in their dialect of Spanish which they call casteano.
Now were getting to the better stuff. The flight to chiclayo wasn't bad but
we had to get up at like three in the morning to get on the plane so the next
day i was super tired. We got to chiclayo and then met our mission president and
our mission presidents wife who are really cool. Then we had a couple of
meetings and we heard the changes and then finally we got our areas and our
comps. So right now I am in the Chiclayo Central zone and my area of proselyting
is called La Pradera. Its a small place outside of the city so everythings
really small and poor and there's trash everywhere and it smell all the time. We
live in a chapel house so we have our tiny little room up stairs where me and my
companion sleep and study and then all throughout the house is a couple other
rooms for church and downstairs is their version of a chapel. Ill try to send
pics next week cause i dont have time this week. Apparently there are some scary
stories about our chapel house which is kind of creepy but i try not to think
about that. There is this spot in the house where the tile is cracked and its
hollow underneath there so thats a little creepy and all throughout the night it
sounds like somebody is opening the door to our room because of the wind. Oh and
the bathroom is tiny and the shower is heated by electricity but its not really
heated so we take cold showers every morning. The CCM was luxury compared to
here Other than that my area is awesome and our pension is super cool and very
understanding too. We haven't had too many weird things yet, the weirdest thing
was probably a full fish without the head.I got one of the bones stuck in my
throat which was a little scary but i got it out. The one thing that i don't like
very much is that we give our laundry to her once a week but then get it back
three days later so its like our laundry gets done once every ten days so im
going to need to buy some more socks somewhere. Me and Elder Peabody are in the same dstrict so we see each other like once a week. My comp is the district
leader so im going to have to go on day changes with other people which will be
pretty cool.
We finally had P-Day today after a super long time and we had a zone activity and played games and then ate a really good meal of steak and beans and
rice and fried bananas.
Santa came exactly two months early with three packages!!! Thanks!
But now for the best part of the week! We had a baptism!! I didn't really
help much with teaching them because i just got to the area but me and my
companion baptized and 11 and an 8 year old. My first baptism was Pedro
Alexander and it was in Spanish!
Hopefully there will be some more baptisms soon! Hope you are all doing
well. Sorry again for the lack of pictures and sorry if i don't get to responding
to your emails.
Love and miss you all!
Love,
Elder Jarman
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