Ha ha, so Graciela spilled los frijoles. Yeah, I'm out here in Jayanca. We have a growing group. Actually, we will be a branch in a couple of weeks. We have a whole bunch of members out here, I think like 150 or something like that. I am not 100% sure. Tuesday we have a meeting with the group president and the mission leader. We will make a directory then. I am here with Elder Perez. from Cusco. He is a little hard headed and has trouble accepting anything I say because he is 22 years old, but we are working and learning together. I am finishing his training. He only has 6 weeks in the field, but we are working hard at finding a middle ground to begin working well together while at the same time working to build his desires to be here. He is a little disheartened because the work is hard and he feels stressed by nature, but we are progressing. Also, I am the District Leader here. I am responsible for 6 other missionaries right at the moment so it has been interesting for me as well to learn to adapt.
We do have a pensionista out here. She is a very kind lady who doesn´t believe that I like to eat small amounts of food. (I normally eat only 1 medium sized plate of food.) She regularly gives me a giant plate full to the brim. She is the best and she is slowly reducing the amount day by day.
We are the only missionaries here. We cover Jayanca and several small towns or villages around here. It is a combination of farmland and forest. We are close to the jungle. The jungle is about 2 hours from here inland - not too far. In the last picture I marked, I am with Elder Juergens who played football for BYU. He is good friend here in the mission. Elder Juergens started the training of Elder Perez but they had some trouble together so I got changed in. I am afraid Elder Perez may still have trouble because I'm like Elder Juergens, but we are slowly finding a middle ground. We found the ostrich farm today and these are the pictures I managed to take.
I'm out of time. I love you all and thanks for the package. I will write again next Monday.
Much love
Elder Thomson
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