Dear Family,

I'm glad everything is going well at home. I'm good here in Huancayo. We are working hard, especially with the members. We have a lot of investigators, and yesterday we had 9 in church, plus two more that we couldn't officially count (not married). We had to teach principios del Evangelio, and it was about the second coming. It was a little difficult to teach that without any preparation. We have a lot of people progressing, so we will have good baptisms this month, hopefully. It's good to see the members helping us and getting interested in their references.

I really don't have much to say. My chicken is still growing. Hna Clariza bought two more chickens to be friends with my hen, but Janet the chicken doesn't like her new friends and keeps pecking them. Oh, last week we found and bought some macaroni and cheese, and it was really good. It's not too expensive either, so we can actually afford it. We are teaching Hna Clariza a few American foods, and we are enjoying them, even though they never turn out quite the same as at home.

Here in Peru, carnavales started. It is a festival, and there are weird traditions. Saturday, they did this thing where they put a bunch of presents and balloons in a tree, and they stick the tree in the ground. Everyone gets drunk, and later they cut down the tree and everyone rushes to grab the presents. Also, the ongoing part is a huge water fight. Everywhere we go we have to watch out so that we don't get hit by water balloons or get buckets of water thrown on us. We've already been targets twice. I am thinking about walking around with a water balloon in my backpack to defend myself.

Thanks for your love and support.
Love,
Sarah