Week 32- Transfers are right now!

Huasao... yes, I had a LOT of style this day...
Primary colors!!

Dear Friends and Family,

 

Well, I’ll let you all decide if this was the most exciting week or the most boring.

 

Monday we went to our reunion in the morning and then I emailed you all. In the afternoon, we went to go play soccer for a little bit. Then we got bored and left to go downtown. There we walked around some of the shops and then we decided to eat McDonalds… my first time since leaving the airport in Atlanta in July. There, we ran into some of the elders from the other zone in Cusco. Well, then we had a ‘’noche de hogar’’ which is a family night and we visited a family whose daughter is inactive and lives here. The rest of her family lives in Bolivia. It was fun.

 

Tuesday, we worked a normal day. We had the day full of appointments. Only one of them wasn’t home. Unfortunately, it was the one appointment that was super far.

 

Wednesday, you’d think was a normal day…. Well the first half at least. We visited Vianca who got baptized in October, we visited the family from Monday again. In the middle of the appointment, the zone leaders called us like 5 times. We were kind of annoyed. Then when we got out of the  appointment, we called them. They said, ‘’HERMANAS!!! Where are you right now, you NEED to be in your apartment RIGHT now.’’ Without question, we went to our apartment. We weren’t allowed to leave until they called us again. So they called us later that night and said that I had an emergency transfer to Tio which is close by and that I would be there until Friday morning at least. My companion would be Hermana Lindsey (another girl from Utah). And that her companion was coming here. Well… I packed a bag and we left. They finally told us what the deal was. Can anyone confirm this with the news there??? They told me there had been terrorist threats to the US that something like the twin towers was going to happen again. Well…….. the leader of this terrorist group came here to Cusco to  talk to the President here and so all gringos were on lockdown. The rest of the missionaries could go out from 12pm to 7pm and then were in for the night. They couldn’t contact in the streets or knock doors either.

 

Thursday, I woke up. Did p90x. Read almost all of Alma. Read some stuff from the Liahona. SUPER exciting day.

 

Friday, almost the exact same. Stuck inside all day. We couldn’t even leave to eat around the corner, the hermana had to bring us our food. Then in the night, we bought pizza because dinner never came and we were starving.

 

Carnavlaes- they decorate the trees with stuff that
you'd use to soak people and then they dance
around the tree and chop it down... kind of weird.

Saturday, I was able to return to my area, but under the conditions of 12pm to 7pm and no contacting or knocking doors. Yesterday we talked to Yaneth about the law of chastity. She said she didn’t know what she should do. She was going to talk to her husband about getting married or separating. She says that she knows that if she keeps the commandments that God will help her in the direction she should go.

 

Sunday, super long day. We couldn’t find anyone we wanted to see. Luckily some members had given us references, but none of them were home Sunday and so hopefully during the week. And now for… exciting news? I’m not sure if I’m excited yet or not, but I have transfers. I have only had 2 transfers here and this next transfer is 3 weeks. I’m going to…….. drum roll please…… PUNO! Where it’s SUPER cold and they eat Chuño. Chuño is made from potatoes and what I’ve heard is they smash it with their feet and then make balls with it and put it back into the earth to freeze and then they eat it and cook it… I’ve had chuño in soup and it’s NOT yummy. So I am going to higher altitude and I will probably lose weight there.

 

The beginning of being covered with foam.
Luckily it goes away quickly. Better than water

Anyways, I think that sums up my week pretty much. I wish I had a super funny story, but more of just complete mission craziness. One thing though… this wasn’t out of stupidity, but I was SUPER thirsty Friday night and we couldn’t leave to buy water, so I boiled water. There weren’t any cups and I didn’t want to wait for the water to cool, so I poured the boiling water into my plastic water bottle. Well the plastic melted a little and the bottle shrunk, but I was able to drink my water happily!!!

 

Another interesting thing, I learned that here, you can baptize your car. And Carnavales… I think it’s now over, but we got soaked yesterday.

 

I think that about covers it all. I hope you all had a lovely week and that you enjoyed Valentines Day. I was on lockdown thinking of you all!!!

 

Love Always,

Hermana Carly Lang