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Lima Peru, Here I Come!!!

Sorry for the cheesy title, but I can't wait! I leave this next Monday to head on out to Peru! I leave this Monday at 12:30 AM, so technically Tuesday, but we leave the MTC at 8:00 Monday! I already have my filter water bottle! 

This last week has been interesting! It really has all of the sudden turned into week one again! We are going over every part of Preach my Gospel, like we did on week one, and we are learning how to start our first lessons... Like we did on week one! We are learning how to make a plan for a lesson... Like week one... But it's all good stuff! And much more fun now that I can talk in much better Spanish than in week one! That’s probably why we are doing it all over! Haha!

We really lucked out on with all of our teachers and leaders at the CCM! Presidente Lyons again has been such an amazing example! His wife has been super sick, and is going into surgery this week. He really appreciates all of the support he gets! He is so busy… he has to help his wife stand, brings her meals, and from all of this still worries about our Branch, and is the Executive Secretary of the CCM! He is one of the best examples I have here of a good leader! Our teachers here really devote a lot of time to helping us out. We try really hard, and they really appreciate us! Hermana Correa is so helpful and funny, and Hermana Sausedo is fantastic! We have learned so much and I don't know how they had the patience to do it! Listening to the 1st week Missionaries, I just hope I wasn't that bad!

It is crazy how fast you learn the language here. It's a little bit more difficult now that I know more words, I need to focus more on the Verb tenses. It is super fun to practice with our Latino Roommates! We have been teaching them English. We have got them so far to ask what our favorite color is, what we like to do, how we are doing, and of course they now have a large vocabulary of Nacho Libre quotes! We had to! Their accents match perfect! It’s a blast in our room!

Well, not much else is happening, since it is the last week. It's nice to have a lot of Spanish already, I thought I would know a lot less.

I have been reading “Jesus the Christ”, and it is amazing to see everything laid out. For me, has not been as difficult as everyone else has said! Haha! But I get a lot of time to have personal study along with the Spanish study.

I have made new friends, learned more Spanish, and of course learned more about the gospel! Love you all!

¡Gracias!

Elder Ball

Peru Lima North Mission




Elder Ball and Elder Adams from Texas



Beach Volleyball with Sister Thurgood going to serve in Florida and 
Sister Hutchinson going to serve in Chile.
Elder Webb and Elder Ball.  


Elder Ball and Elder Webb

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