¡Feliz cumpleaños al presidente Packard! (Happy birthday to President Packard!) Today is our mission president’s birthday, and it’s been fun to watch the assistants during the past 3 weeks as they worked on President Packard’s birthday gift (a Peruvian flag signed by all the missionaries). It was no small feat getting the flag sent around the mission and signed by everyone...

 ¡Feliz Pascua! (Happy Easter!)   Easter here in Lima is different than in the States. We haven’t seen any Easter candy or treats in the grocery stores, but schools and lots of businesses closed down on Thursday and Friday. Then everything picked back up on Saturday. From what we’ve heard from others here in Lima, most wards don’t have any sort of Easter sacrament meeting...

 ¡Feliz Domingo de Ramos! (Happy Palm Sunday!)   This week sped by in a blur … lots going on!   Tuesday morning, around 3:15am, we received a call from President Packard informing us that due to the transportation strike and protests here in Lima, they wouldn’t be able to go to the airport to pick up our incoming elders from the US. Instead, the Area Office...