Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Peru!! Here he comes!!

Elder Martin is officially in Peru!   (I'm hoping anyways..)  He was shipped out of Arizona after a week stay and we were able to talk to him once again!  So spoiled, I know!   So for the record..April 26th was the day he left the country :)  Excited, nervous, anxious and missin him terribly are just a few of the emotions going on inside my heart and head.  The roller coaster off the Stratosphere would have been way easier to do than this.  His other best buddy sidekick, Carson received his call on Wednesday.  He will be as close as anyone to Elder Martin, he is going to Quito Equador, north of Peru.  He is the last of my boys to go for awhile.  So excited for him :)       Update: He made it!  Here is our first letter!!
Hey! im in peru this place is crazy there isnt any stop signs or anything and people drive like maniacs. the buildings are all crumbling in and the telephone poles have like a billion wires strung up on them. theres a whole bunch of little motorcycle taxis driving around and ghetto little busses called combis. people just light fires inbetween streets and theres a whole bunch of garbage laying everywhere its sweet. my comps name is elder rodriguez he´s from columbia, im teaching him english and he´s teaching me spanish. you cant drink the agua here and some of the food is bad too i guess but today the mission prez took all of us to chilis its funny theres a couple way nice restaurants scattered in all the ghetto city. remember that elder that got stabbed a few months ago down here in peru? hes in my mission and he was telling us his stabbed story it was pretty awesome you probably shouldnt tell ma tho. all the people here are pretty short and theres a bunch of dogs. soccer is huge down here theres like a million people gathered around the tv at the mall watching it. this place is seriously trippy its sweet. i´ll take some pics and send them to you on monday if i can. im heading off to villa hermosa. this is my address

Peru lima west mission
Carlos salaverry # 3664- Los olivos
casilla de correo 39-054
lima39
perú


tell jade to text that to mariah too. so mail doesnt make it across the boarder very often but if you send a package tape those pics of mary all over it. talk to ya later ill for sure have some sweet stories to tell ya.
love ya-dakotah

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh how exciting and nerve racking all at the same time. Hang in their Momma!

Diana Windley said...

I'm so glad he finally made it down to Peru. Geez...I guess my parents are in the super nice part of town because we didn't see a lot of that stuff...except for the crazy drivers. Seriously, they are absolutely nuts.

Jeremy Saunders said...

wow, so cool, and scary at the same time! What an adventure he is on and how blessed he will be for serving the Lord. Love you and your family Tammy!
mimi

Honeybee said...

So glad he is there! yeah! What a great picture too of all the friends.