Well it has been an interesting week. Elder and Hermana Goede left this Wednesday, and we went to the airport to see them off. They were really excited to get home and see the family, but they were crying because we surprised them by going to the airport. We are really going to miss having them around. They were a lot of fun. I had a meeting with President the other day just going over all of the finances, and we have found that we are looking great for the end of the year. He gave me quite a few assignments to verify a bunch of different things, so this week has been the busiest I have been since I got in here. We got my bank account set up, and things are just going great right now, busy but great.
So my new area is where all of the ‘Gringos’ that live here in Lima assist. It was pretty interesting going to this ward. The first person we ran into was the President of the Lima South mission, and the rest of his family. Then we went in and there was President of Lima Central! It was crazy, and then there up on the stand was President Nash of the presidency of the 70! Man is there some priesthood power in that ward or what. They are all way nice though, and just talk like normal people. It makes me a little less nervous thinking of them as normal people too :) Oh and the other day it was crazy, I don’t know if I told you this already, but Elder Myler and I had an area 70 invite us to eat lunch with him!
I had to go to this meeting for all of the stake presidents in our mission to reimburse them for their travel and hotel. So while we were sitting there waiting for them to come up to get their reimbursements the area 70, Elder Pino, told us to eat with them. I told him we were just there for reimbursements, but he said eat, and I sure wasn’t going to turn down that buffet lunch! It was awesome, and what made it even better is they had a ton of beans and rice, and that is definitely my favorite plate here now. It was awesome!So in proselyting it was like starting from zero last week because they split the area and Elder Ebert kept there investigators. We have been working hard to get new ones though, and we have a few awesome references that are progressing great. I think this area is more like a mission in the states, where
the people have more money and aren’t as willing to listen. I miss the people in the street who would just accept an appointment only talking to them for like 30 seconds, but it’s a whole different experience. The members are helping a lot to present their neighbors, and we are seeing a lot more success that way. My companion has a disease called chrom or something where he has tons of ulcers in his intestines, and he had to have part of his intestine removed. Every two months he has a medical treatment that just drains him, so we aren’t able to work as hard as I would like, but we’re working with what we got. He is such a good kid though, and he loves the work, his body just can’t go sometimes.
So everything is going awesome here, and couldn’t be happier. Its great to hear everyone is doing so well at home too. I met a family here that lived in Utah, and the son came out with a shirt that said, “It’s a BYU thing, to BEAT UTAH”. It was awesome!! It was cool to talk a little about good old life back in Utah. Lets hope BYU can keep this streak up too. Let me know how todays game goes next week Thanks for everything, and I love you all!!
Elder Lee
The pictures are: the office elderes, Elder and Sister Goede, Elder Goede giving me the keys to the safe, My new office, and my companion Elder Mera
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