So I've literally played soccer everyday except for Sunday and today which is pday and dont have time to. I played the very first day i was here and suprised all the latinos so much! Now everyday they ask me if im playing and say champion everytime i walk bye. Really, just about every person in the MTC knows who I am and that ive played college soccer. its the absolute best to be playing here in Peru, its insane. it still hasnt hit me yet that im in south america, its just not real.
The MTC (missionary training center) or CCM (in spanish) is great!! There are about 120 missionaries here. My companions are pretty great too, which is nice. And yes, I have 2. This is because the girl who was suppose to be my companion got engaged literally the day before coming out here. craziness! so im in a trio. My district is also the best. (A district is basically just a group of missionaries about 10 or so for classes etc. not very many people came into the MTC at the same time as me so all the people I flew in with on the plane are in my district. They are all North Americans of course we are all at basically the same place in our learning in classes. We will be one class together for the entire 6 weeks we are here. And there are 11 of us. 6 Elders and then 5 of us sisters. The guys in my district seriously are the best though. They are all very fun, kind and considerate, spiritual, and hard working guys. I am extremely impressed with them. And one is British!! so that always keeps it interesting with his accent and goofy sayings/phrases nobody else knows.
Adjusting to the missionary life has actually been way easier than I thought it was going to be. I havent had withdrawals from facebook or anything like that really yet. but i guess it has only been a week. So I share one room with the 4 other sisters in my district. we have bunkbeds. and I get up to shower at 5:30 in the morning. Which is about 30 minutes earlier than I have to but I hate the rush of it and like to just be able to get ready when not everyone else is around. I say its crazy because there are 3 showers and 3 bathroom stalls for about 24 girls. which are all the sister missinoaries here. it nuts. then we have breakfast at 7:00 which always consists of some kind of egg, fried or scrambled, a piece of cheese, a piece of ham, and some fruit and rolls. everyday. but i totally dont mind. and from about 7:45-9:30 its classes and studying all day except for 1 hr of Physical Activity time and 45 Minutes for lunch and dinner. Although I am adjusting, i still am tired basically all the time, but its completely fine! :) It will be my life of being tired for the next 18 months anyway.
Its crazy how fast we learn here. I just think about HS spanish and how long we took to learn somethings and here, its like MANY things in one day. I cant imagine how it is for people with zero spanish background. Ive been here a week and I can already pray, bear my testimony, approach people and ask about them, and today I am teaching my first lesson...ALL IN SPANISH.
So I guess its super rare for missionaries going to any of the Lima missions to come to the Lima MTC. They all generally go to the Mexico MTC. So I am literally the only sister missionary going anywhere here in Lima and there are only a couple Elders going to Lima missions. So im unique in that aspect here too.
Haha, one thing that is super funny, that im just going to have to go with the flow of is everyone calls me Hermana (sister) Kisser because they cant pronounce Kiser correctly.
So as missionaries we have one Pday a week (Personal Day) which is today. It's our one day a week to EMAIL family and friends, wash our clothes and bedding, and not wear church clothes all day, and take pictures of any kind. The unfortunate thing though is that it ends at 3:45 :/ Oh well! Because one unique thing about the Peru MTC is that we get to go to the Temple once a week on our Pdays in the morning. Its pretty close so we just hop on a bus and go! But the evern CRAZIER thing is that we get to go shopping afterwards for 1.5-2 hours depending. We of course stay close-ish to the temple. But its weird because we literally leave the mtc, catch a bus for 50 cents (peruvian) WITH NO ADULTS OR LEADERS WHATSOEVER and just go to the temple and go about shopping after wherever we want. (within reason of course. we dont go anywhere dangerous or sketchy or where we shouldnt) Today we just went to the temple store (peruvian deseret book kinda, but super teeny) and this place called Totus. Its just a big grocery store. Kinda of like a mini walmart, but it was SUPER nice. But it was just weird to me to learn that we could leave the walls of the MTC at all, let alone go shop by ourselves!
So funny story. The toilets here are not up to par. I say this, because I flooded one! 0__O In the US it never would have. But I flushed it, then it went up a teeny then I thought it was going to go down, but it never did! So thank goodness there was a plunger there so I could plunge it. ...although I still had to clean up some water, :/ unfortnately because of this me and my companions were a bit late to our sunday devotional.
Im not sure what all to write about! I feel like Ive written an awful lot, and congrats if you made it to the end and it all made sense. The keyboards here are weird because they are spanish keyboards so excuse the typos and the lack of punctuation. So much has happned this week and its been the longest week of my life, but not long at all at the same time, so its kind of odd to know what to write about what people would like to hear. But i think next weeks email will be more put together and consise and Ill tell you a bit more about how things work here and since Im in a schedule it wont be so hectic.
I hope everything is going well for all who read this! Life is great for me so far here in Peru!
Hermana, Kiser
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