From May 3

YAY! I´m looking foward to the pictures! My fast yesterday was that you could find a house before moving out there.

I got your package as well! thanks for everything that was sent :) my comp loved the snickerdoodles and so did the zone leaders that are spending the night at our place. I think it probably actually arrived a couple weeks ago but the last couple weeks we didn´t get anything because of transfers and cars not working. (This package took 6 weeks to get to him. You can imagine the freshness of the cookies. They were probably hard as rocks. I guess missionaries will eat anything! He received another package from my Mom that took only a couple of weeks, though.) But yeah I got a lot of letters this week obviously and I got a bunch that were sent to the MTC from like middle of feb.

As far as I can figure out for calling you, (im still not super sure) is that I call you sometime this week to figure out a time that works for both of us on sunday and the sunday I call you...thats all I know. Emailing the mission office is definitely a good idea.

Ah yes. at the end of this transfer the mission is splitting and we are getting a new president. From my mission they are taking Puno and Juliaca, (the cold yucky areas) and anybody found in that area next transfer will be part of the Cusco mission. I doubt I´ll change missions but my buddy, E. Rogers might because he is in Juliaca right now. And yes I know E. Kunz really well and I´ll be able to see him in a couple weeks when we have a multizone meeting.

The only time i´ve been in contact with the mission home is when I lost my wallet (did they ever get that resolved with you?) and they all spoke spanish at me, even the gringos. I have spoken some english because there is an american elder in my district and occasionally when I teach my companions some english. But really its mostly spanish.

Dad, I studied up on your suggestion and went a little farther, I´ll send you a letter about it later ;)

Lets see so this week, I did some sewing of my backpack that ripped, and I ate guinea pig stew. The meat basically tasted like wateredown chicken but it was fine, But it is tough to eat because they don´t ever ever ever strip the meat off the bone and I got the ribs, which are quite small.

The last 3 nights there was a huge fiesta in front of our room, like literally a huge platform with bass speakers 4x the size as Scott carpenter´s speakers like a yard away from our door. Tons of people drinking and ´dancing´ in a circle (more like a drunken shuffle) and they were all wearing their traditional clothes too. It was rather funny to watch.

The first two nights we stayed at another room but sunday night we didn´t and surprisingly i slept well because i was so exhausted.

Love ya, thanks for your prayers and all that you sent

Elder Patrik Connole