Helado de Aguaje!

So, for any of your Dr Who fans... fun fact.... here in Puerto Maldonado, theres a ton of motokars (a car built around a motorcycle.. pretty ghetto) that go around selling aguaje, that fruit that makes you turn into a girl. But, they have a microphone, and they go around yelling, "Helado de aguaje, aguajina, aguaje maduraaaaaa!" But, it's pretty sweet, cuz the voice always sounds like the Daleks from Dr Who. Fun stuff. My companion and I have also become addicts to helado de agauje... so. Hoping I don't turn into a girl during my time here in Peru. It's just so cheap, and its always SOOOO hot here! 

Well, this week was good. One thing I realized this week... I want to go to the temple SO bad right now. I dunno why. I just really really wanna go. But, this week we spent a ton of time with the leaders of our branch. We were putting together the plan misional for the branch, and we got it almost all done. It's basically my baby, and I'm super excited to get it all done haha. We also had a variety of activities this week. This Tuesday we had La Joya's 1st Mutual, so that was fun. We played a bunch of games with the youth, and I had a good time personally.. haha. I would love a calling with the youth when I get home. We also had a mission night on Friday, and called it "The Fruit Festival". It was kind of a flop honestly, but we did have a few people come and it was fun playing games and having fruit salad. 

We also had interviews with Presdient Harbertson on Thursday which was super sweet. I love talking to our President, I always feel super fired up after haha. We talked about some interesting doctrine and... yeah. It was really good. 

As far as investigators and everything... Ian still has his date lined up for the 19th, BUT, he had to leave and work for a while.. he comes back the 18th... so we just gotta be calling him and strengthening him while he's gone. Pray for him please! Guillermo Yatto is doing well too, still progressing well, came to church yesterday with all his family (except his girlfriend/wife... situation is improving there, but still not perfect). The family of Karina y Jose has been good this week! All of their kids came to the activities this week, AND church. Karina couldn't cuz she is kinda sick (my fault... I was kinda sick, but didn't wanna be lazy, so we still went to visit, and I totally got their family sick... oops). But, they're progressing to come back to activity which would be awesome!

Anyways, that's it for this week. Everything is doign well... it's super duper hot again here haha so that's been pretty crazy, but I'm gonna take advantage of it before they send me off to Puno or some other crazy and cold place in the mission. All is well here, love and miss you all. Until next week.

Elder Richman