I Made It!

Dear Family and Friends,

 

I made it to Peru! On our flight from Salt Lake to LA there were only 50 seats and 28 of them were filled by missionaries. There was also a member of the seventy on his way to LA to train our new mission president so it was a pretty neat flight. The flight to Lima was long, really long. We had to fill out our immigration and custom papers which were in spanish and so they took about 20 missionaries to figure out what they were saying. The flight attendant also spoke in Spanish so I felt pretty confused most of the flight.

 

When we got to Peru the airport was packed. There were people cheering everywhere. We found out there was a Korean popstar on our flight and none of us even knew. At the airport we met up with about 50 misssionaries and traveled by bus to the MTC. The drive was pretty interesting. The houses are packed in the city. They pretty much just build on top of eachother. And most of the houses are covered with graffiti. You can tell which houses are the nice ones because they have tall gates with electric fences on top. There´s also laundry everywhere! They hang it wherever they can find a place. They do have a few fast food places like KFC, Starbucks, Burger Kind, and a Chilis in the city. The MTC is pretty nice though, and they have hot showers!! We have two huge fences and security guards so you feel really safe wherever you go. I really like a lot of the sisters here. One of my favorites is Hermana Hess. She went to Bear River and said she knows Justin. My companion is Hermana Moe. She´s from the Salt Lake area and we get a long pretty well so far. In our room there are 6 Sisters. Four English speaking and 2 Spanish speaking.

 

Even though it´s winter it¨s still pretty warm here. Sometimes it gets a little chilly but I´ve never put a jacket or anything on. The air is really smoggy. The sky has pretty much been grey the whole time. The people who work at the MTC are really nice. Most of them only speak very broken English so conversations are interesting but they are really helpful and friendly. For now I think our P day is on Thursday so that´s when I´ll be able to write. I hope everything is going well at home. Love you all!

 

Love,

Hermana Benson