“Out of the dreariness
Into its cheeriness
Come we in weariness,
Home.”
~Stephen Chalmers
This poem started rolling around in my head in mid-January
and made me feel a little melancholy (which can be a good thing now and then),
but it also made me recognize that our little apartment here in Peru feels like
home. The ancient Nephites knew the importance of their homes and fought to
protect them:
“Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause,
for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for
their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all,
yea, for their rites of worship and their church.” (Alma 43:45)
February 15 marked our 1-year mission anniversary. We served
6 and ½ months from our home in Lehi (over Zoom) and we’ve been here in Lima
for 5 and ½ months.
We’ll let the pictures tell the story of our week!
¡Que tengan una semana fantástica! (Have a fantastic week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
We hope everyone had a happy Valentine's Day!
Two elders stopped by the office and with valentine balloons! One of the elders had a doctor appointment and the hospital was handing these out.
If you remember ... last week we mentioned that we were looking for our "lost" order of 1,000 copies of El Libro de Mormon. Well ... this week we received a delivery of 1,345 copies of El Libro de Mormon. Hallelujah! Apparently these were ordered on Nov. 3 by one of the previous office secretaries. These should get us by for a while!
We ran into these cuties at the CCM today. The sister on the right is from the same ward as one of the elders in our mission, and his dad is the bishop of her home ward. Fun connection!
These aren't exactly police officers, but are some sort of transportation officials/workers. Here they are right outside our office setting up some sort of "let us check your vehicle papers" trap.
How would you like this job ... working with that tangled mass of electrical wires?! We pass by here every day on our way to the mission office.
Corinne (Lane's sister) invited us to meet her at the Inka Market on Saturday afternoon. Inside the big portal there are tons of little shops. It was fun to walk around and see all the souvenirs, jewelry, clothing, etc. that were for sale. But we didn't love the high pressure salesmen! If you even looked at an item, the sales person would be right there trying to make a sale. Sadly (for them), we are both more of the window-shopping type.
Getting to and from the Inka Market in Lima traffic was an adventure!
No one seems to realize that there are LINES on the road!
This picture is blurry, but we wanted to capture this dad with his kids on his vendor cart. One child is sitting right on the motorcycle part and 2 or 3 kids are in the actual cart part ... no seatbelts, helmets, or even side rails. The kids probably love it, but it's scary to see this in the Lima crazy traffic.
This part of town felt like Diagon Alley (from Harry Potter).
And the road just kept getting narrower ...
and narrower.
The motorcycles dart in and out or just go "off road" (on sidewalk).
If you look closely, you can see a little kid squished in between the two adults.
We finally see what was causing the bottleneck: A limo a with a princess-like dressed girl standing out of the sunroof and having her picture taken!
Then open road after the Limo bottleneck!
We love seeing this hillside covered with colorful houses.
A closer look at the colorful houses on the hillside.
We did some Saturday afternoon grocery shopping after the Inka Market. This grocery store is the same chain that is located near to us, but this particular store is located in a more upscale part of town. It is definitely the fanciest grocery store that we've seen here.
