First Letter From Peru

Ola Familia! 

I made it Peru safely. I don't know how to send letters right now so i'm using the email. I woke up at 1:30 yesterday morning, after falling asleep at 12.30. It took a long time to get packed up. Before I left, that night, we sang God Be With You Till We Meet Again, and I wrote down the lyrics to Amazing Grace and we sang that after too. It was awesome and sad at the same time i'm going to miss all those Elders from my first district. So we got to the airport around 4 or so and waited for the plane to come, then we went to Dallas, then off to Miami, where we had a 2 hour layover (Oh ya i got bodyscanned at Salt Lake Airport, so that's not good), Then it was about a 5 hour or so flight to Lima, we got here about 10:30. i got through customs and everthing fine, then we had to find the driver, who didn't speak any english. Then we started driving to the MTC, Lima looks like it just went through a war, there is trash all over the streets, people just throw stuff out off the car right in front of you, traffic rules don't really seem to apply here either, i thought were going to run over some people several times. All the houses and everything are really differant, some have bare staircases, they'll be several differant in a building and none of them will match, it looks like a nuke just went of and all the buildings are just bare. Very differant from South Jordan. So we got to the MTC, which has abouyt 15ft. walls around it, it is al lot smaller only 3 buildings to it, but it's only about ten years old so everything is still brand new and it's really nice! Especially the showers! When i first walked into the room I woke up the 2 Elders who were sleeping, that was interesting, their both from Bolivia, they spoke a little english so that helped, Latin people like to touch you when they talk to you, the one had his hand on my arm and the other on my shoulder the whole time, then i asked where the baño was (bathroom) and as we walked to it he had his had on my arm the whole time, it was interesting. It's nice tho, my original companion showed up an hour later, and we share the same room again so that's nice. My companion arrived today, Elder Mayta (pronounced My-Tuh) from Lima, he doesn't speak any english, so it's been interesting. oh ya there is only about a hundred Elders and Sisters here give or take, but all the "native" Elders are so friendly and nice to you, I'm really tired had about 3 hours of sleep the past 2 days. The food here is really good, not really sure wat it is, but it tastes good, appaerntly they switch off chicken and rice combinations, and if you eat to much rice and drink no juice (by the way this is REAL juice) you get constapated, and if you have to much juice you get the runs, so hopefully I figure out how to balance that. And I hope my Spanish we come along a lot faster now, I know it will. Anyways that's all for me, what's going on at home, I sent some pictures to you, and what was this massive garage sell for? I hope everybody is doing good. I love you Mom.Dad,Cara,Brennan, Jennie(and others not sure who will get this). And i'll find out how to send letters, i'll talk to you in a week, my time on the computer is running out! 

Love, Aaron