Dear Familia,
I hope all is good at home, and while it's starting to get cold there, we're just heading into summer here. It's going to get really hot haha. No me gusta! Anyway, this week was good. We finally had a baptism. I got to do my first baptism of the mission. The hermanos name is David. He is 9 years old and his family is inactive, although they are members. It was awesome. The water was cold but refreshing. Poor little David was shivering the whole time. I had the opportunity to give two blessings too. Those are difficult, I gotta say. haha Right now we're working with a family whose father is a pastor of another church. Yesterday, we discussed diezmo (tithing) and why we don't pay pastors. He had a lot of questions and was really interested. Also we had the opportunity to explain why the people call us Mormons. We introduced the Book of Mormon. We pray for him and his well being. The ward had the missionaries sing with voice to the congregation yesterday haah. I was belting out words in Spanish haha. I hope I didn't hurt their hearing! We've been eating all sorts of things here. Yesterday, I had to eat duck heart, with the tubles and all. I felt the uneaten portion slide down my throat.....not bad if you ask me. haha The only thing I don't like is the liver....gross. I almost throw up everytime haha but its all good. We have a bomb cook here! and no father, I haven't seen someone to shine my shoes.....yet ahha but with time! Luckily, I haven't gotten sick yet..working on stayin' healthy! We walk probably like 6-8 miles a day and every night I'm absolutely exhausted! but I guess that's a good thing! the Spanish is slowly coming. I'm learning something new every day! We have been visiting a lot of -activos, people that don't go to church anymore. We are trying to gain the confidence of the people! The kids always climb all over me breaking ¨my bubble". Last week, there were like 4 little girls about 7 years old that chased me around for like 10 minutes, It's interesting here. Way different than the estados unidos. (United States) It almost feels like a dream! Sometimes that's good and sometimes bad! I'm starting to slowly get used to that as well... I love you all and am getting used to the missionarry work, it's hard! I'm glad you guys are all doing well!
Sincerely your son,
Elder Pinegar!
*Jared remembers shoe shine boys all over when he was in Peru
**Alex has been trying to send pictures to us the past few weeks--but looks like we won't get them until January since he can't send any over the internet--it's too slow.
Elder Alexander Cato Pinegar
