Arica: FINALLY got a picture!

Elders Walker, Aleluya, and Mendez

This week was super crazy! We literally had tons of appointments and taught so many lessons!

Some things that happened this week:

• We had companion exchanges with the District Leader and his companion this week. It was SUPER wierd because it was the first time since arriving in the mission that I was speaking in English. The language is coming along super quick and I feel super blessed with the gift of tongues.
• We have so many appointments in the nights that we often will do splits with different people in the ward. This time I went with Miguel Angel. Miguel is probably the most charasmatic person I have ever met. For his job he does magic at the semaforos, which means he will wait for the cars to stop at a stoplight, do a trick, and then people will give him some money. When we were contacting people in the street and would walk up to the people, he would just start talking to them so casually that they were super friendly with us and talked pretty openly with us. It was a pretty cool experience.
• We have three baptisms this month!

Some other random thoughts:

It's finally cooling off here in Arica. This week school started back up again as well, so we can't take the priests from the ward with us as much. This is a bummer because alot of them are super spiritual and have been helping us out alot.

We're still looking for a mamita for our food. Right now we kind of take turns cooking for the four of us in our pension. I really don't mind though because we can cook what we like and it's not super difficult.

When we were having intercambios Elder Goff (lidèr de distrito) apparently while we were all sleeping planted Ley de Castidad pamphlets all over our apartment. He covered the floor in our living room. It was pretty funny, we walked out and he started saying "Oooooh Santa Claus de Castidad! Feliz Navidad de Castidad!"

I met my Abuelo (grandpa) this week when we were exchanging missionaries. In the photo, I'm on the left (yep, that's me) My companion, Elder Aleluya (mi papito) in the middle, and his papito, Elder Mendez, on the right.

Things are going super well in Arica! Miss all of you and keep it real!

Elder Walker