How's it going everyone? I hope you've had a good week. Sorry for not writing for a while, I always push it off till later then there's no time later haha.

I have a few weeks to cover so this email should be long, but my memory is terrible, so it'll probably just end up being the same size as the other ones anyways haha.

We had 3 baptisms in the time where I didn't write an email. The first is named Alis, we found her because she responded to a Facebook ad which doesn't happen very much here. She works in a casino and really wanted to change her life. She definitely needed a change. She told us some crazy stories haha. She was super open to listening to us and had absolutely no problems. It was great to see that change that she wanted actually happen, and now she went from working in the casino where most of the crazy stories came from to working in a restaurant owned by members.
 
The next baptism was a guy named Jimmy. He was a really cool story. All of his family are members and he had been taught many times in the past. He was taught by our current ap and also one of the zone leaders I've had, and some other missionaries on the mission as well. But he had a really bad problem with alcohol. Finally, he stopped drinking and was finally ready to be baptized. It was so cool to see this change in him, and his family is so grateful for his decision. 

The last one we had was yesterday. He's a little kid and his name is Adael. He has terrible adhd. It was so funny but frustrating to teach him because he couldn't remember anything and would get distracted really easily. We explained what baptism is and why we do it probably 20 times because he could never remember. We would ask him what baptism was and he would tell me that my arm has a mosquito bite on it, then I'd ask him again and he'd say that his mom bought a plant yesterday, then I'd ask him again and he'd finally hear the question and just say that he doesn't know haha. His aunt who's his guardian is basically a member, she just has to get married before she can get baptized. But she comes to church every week, and one day she asked him why we get baptized and he said to be clean, and I thought it was a pretty decent answer for once. But I was wrong because she asked him to be clean of what, obviously hoping he'd say from his sins, but he said, so that my body gets clean. We then had to explain to him that baptism cleans sins and showers clean bodies haha. But he eventually was able to remember enough to pass a baptismal interview. It was very frustrating, but very fun. 

Other highlights
-got bit (softly) by a dog for no reason
-stayed up until 2am playing uno 
-ate my last pepito in my life probably 😭
-a guy asked us for money and my companion gave him a penny from the United States
-a very...large man got on one of the motorcycle taxi things they have here and the taxi driver kicked him off because he was too big and they were arguing very loudly while we passed them haha
-I got tripped by a dog cause it was trying to jump on me while I was walking and it got wrapped in my legs and I tripped over it haha. There were a lot of people watching and laughing so that was fun

Also, I got transfer news and I'm going back to Puno, which will be fun. Puno's supposed to be the worst part of the mission cause it's cold and dry and the people are a lot less open to hear us, but I like Puno. But what I won't like is that I have to take a 12 hour bus ride tonight and an 8 hour bus ride tomorrow night, not fun. My companion is named Elder Ward and he's ending his mission. He's a really good missionary and he works hard, so it'll be a good transfer. I'm excited for it. This transfer was honestly kind of rough if I'm being honest. 

I love you all, sorry I don't write my emails.

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