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 Travel Department came out to our
mission office for an audit. We were told that it would likely take the
morning. Well…they showed up at 9:00am and 7 ½ hours later, at 4:30pm, they
left. It was intense, but good. And thankfully, one of them spoke English
pretty well. There was a lot of training involved and even though we’re still a
little confused about some of the procedures – Peru has a very complicated
migrations process which we have to follow very closely for all the foreign
missionaries here, and which seems to change weekly – we now know a couple of people we can call for help.
Probably the
most stressful part of the audit occurred when the lead auditor said, “Well, it’s
now 12:30, and we’d like to take you to lunch. What places do you like to eat at
around here?” Horror of horrors! We eat our brown-bagged-peanut-butter-sandwich
lunch pretty much every day. The extent of our restaurant knowledge near the
office extends to KFC (which we have grown very fond of here in Peru) and Chili’s
(which could be a good option, but would take a lot longer since it’s a “sit-down”
restaurant and Lane was not wanting to have a 2-hour lunch at this point!).
Luckily we’d seen a little sandwich place in the mall near where we often go to buy
missionary supplies that we felt comfortable trying. And it turned out just
fine.
I love the
following verse of scripture and it seems appropriate for this week:
“ … live in thanksgiving
daily, for the many mercies and blessings which [God] doth bestow upon you.”
(Alma 34:38)
¡Ten algunas experiencias buenas esta semana! (Have some good experiences this week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
The audit team from the Area office. They were very helpful.
P-day jog and stair-climb near the Packard's home. Surprisingly, it hasn't warmed up here yet. It still remains cool and smoggy every day.
Fun Christmas tree display in the mall made of many fancy glass goblets.
