Dear Family,
I don't know how but I have always forgotten to mention two major things that will take place in the month of October. As everyone knows this week is general conference, so I am going to have to ask that you don't send any spoilers because it just so happens this weekend are the Peruvian Elections and since there are rumors of those getting kind of crazy we are not allowed to leave our apartments at all on Sunday, neither will they have meetings on Saturday or Sunday to watch General Conference.
Also, I was just kidding about the spoilers, our president told us to "buckle up" for more changes.
The other news is that on the 20th of this month the prophet is going to come to Peru!! AND all the missionaries in Lima are invited... as of 2 weeks ago I am no longer in Lima. So that is kind of a bummer.
We had a cool experience on my first week here. So the transfers were crazy and in order to make sure everyone gets where they need to be on time they sometimes get phones to be able to communicate. While all that was going down one of my programs in my district was left without a phone. And we didn't know what day we were going to have district meeting and they only way to tell them was by going over and knocking on their door. So the zone leaders call us like a half hour before the meeting to tell us to go and find where they live and bring them to the meeting, but we had no clue where they lived. We had to leave immediately, said a prayer to somehow get us there and started heading in the right direction. Made some phone calls to see if anyone knew where they lived but they only told us street names that we didn't know and things like "3 blocks to the left 2 blocks up cross the street there's a black dog in front of a white house with 2 stories and half a block up" and by some miracle we actually got there, A TRUE MIRACLE, only to realize they had assumed that the district meeting was that day and they were already on their way out.
We had our multi zone conference on Thursday and it was good like always. We watched that one "Life vest" video that explains what goes around comes around as all these people do random acts of kindness in the street. I really like that video. We also talked about really being grateful for the small blessings we receive. Then on Friday some members had bought us breakfast and we stopped by a gas station where one of our investigators works and she gave us a free drink and snacks. I said to Elder Jennings "wow everyone has been so nice today" and I realized that it was now our turn to go out and do something nice. I imagined a secret camera that was filming us waiting for us to do an act of kindness like "hey when these white guys gonna do their part?"
Yes, we met another pet monkey.
We also had interviews on Friday with President Richey which was also the same old same old, he is really calm and fun to talk to. He makes you feel like no matter what the numbers say that you are doing a good job.
Like I said before, I cannot wait for general conference!! We are so blessed to live with prophets. I hope you all tune in this weekend.
Love you all,
Elder Craythorne
Pictures from La Huacachina
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