¡Terremotos! (Earthquakes!)   Yes, we felt both earthquakes and yes…they were scary! But thankfully we didn’t experience any damage here. We’ve actually felt a number of earthquakes since arriving, but most of them are very small tremblings (like a really big truck is rumbling by). The one early this morning definitely lasted the longest and was the “loudest.” I didn’t...

 Happy Thanksgiving week!     Monday’s journal entry: “It’s been a rough day…both Lane and I are feeling completely swamped.”      That sort of sums up our week! But it’s good to be busy, and we know things will get easier with time and repetition. Our “fun” highlight of the week occurred on Thursday when a couple of people from the Area Office...

Well…we survived transfer week! It felt chaotic to us, but thankfully we have a local driver who helps with all the transportation. And most importantly, all the departing missionaries caught their flights.  Lane and I feel like we felt when we started Kindergarten, or junior high, or high school, or college. Where we’re trying to figure out a new system, which seems strange since...

We are official! On Friday we picked up our “carnet de extranjeria” (Peruvian foreigner ID cards) which displayed the words “Migratory Quality: Religioso.” So we can now wear our missionary name tags!   Picking up the cards was an adventure! The Area Office arranged our travel to the government building near old downtown Lima where we would receive our cards (which was a...