This is a picture of our gang down here...look at us we are all matching...

As many of you know, February 7 was Super Bowl Sunday. However, seeing as we do not have a TV down here, this day passed just like any other. But we, being a big group of Americans decided that we were not going to let anything stop us. So on Wednesday we decided to relive Super Bowl Sunday with our own Super Bowl party. After making a massive bowl of guacamole and making some chips in our oven we started watching the game. Unfortunately the copy of the Super Bowl that we acquired was lacking all the commercials, but that’s okay. We had the game to watch. Or at least we thought we had the game to watch, turns out that our version of the Super Bowl only went to the first couple minutes of the 3rd quarter. So we had great fun watching the first part of the Super Bowl only to be left hanging as to how the game ended. Thankfully someone knew the outcome, so at least I know who won. I just think it’s funny that we were able to pull off a Super Bowl Party, yet lacked the most important part – the ending. Hehehehehe….
Just in case any of you are wondering if all I do is things like watch the Super Bowl, it’s not true. This week I was just as busy as ever with visiting all my students, informing them about nutrition. Also our evangelistic meetings have been going really well. We now have more people coming each night than we have benches for…and we have a lot of benches. It is neat to see people get happier day by day as they learn more about our Savior.

This is a small section of Los Jardines. I walk the street of this invasion and many other streets as I visit my students. It is pretty dry and dusty or soggy and muddy, but it is a pleasant little place. The women just string a net across the street in the evening and that´s where we play volleyball. If a motokar comes (you can see one about the middle of the picture) then we finish our volley and lift up the net for the motokar to pass.

Just incase any of you think that I am crazy I really am not. Yes this is a picture of me and my toothbrush, but it isn´t just any toothbrush...you see my good toothbrush died, so I bought another one. But this toothbush was terrible and made me hate brushing my teeth, so I went on a quest for a good toothbrush, turns out that Lauren Kelley had a extra toothbrush from her dad who is a dentist and she lovingly shared this amazingly normal toothbrush with me. Made me happy...so here is a picture of happy mindy and her toothbrush.

This is Martin (La Sierra University Student who is studying the bible with the folks of Los Jardines) and I after eating lunch at one of our students house. We had a delicious fried rice (not a food typical of Peru, but the wife likes asian food, do we had fried rice) wich chicken, cabbage salad and fried platanos (an incredibaly typical food of Peru - you can´t escape it...it is like a delicious black plague...)

This is a new fruit called sapote (which is a that sounds very similar to the word for frog, hmmm...) it is pretty delicious. It resembles a sweet pumpkin...

Good day and welcome to hour 778 of the 17th of September. This has been a very odd day, with drastically changing weather and every tweleve hours the sun goes down and comes back up again as if days were changing. But each time I check I am still in the 17th of September.

But life is grand here in this non-expeditious day. At first the people were a little bit shy, but now that we have lived with them for a while they have opened up. The people who were once quiet during my lessons, now just can´t wait to chat and are usually anxious for another lesson. I am glad that I have now reached this level of friendship with my new students. The little kids that used to only stare at me now come running up to me and give me hugs.

We have started our nightly evangelistic meetings once again. This means that I am even more busy than ever. I spend all day running around to the houses of my 50 some students, then rush back to help cook supper. Then its off to set up for the meetings. During our meetings we have two of our Bible instructors, Matt Hartman from Southern and Josue from the Adventist University in Lima, who play the role of our MC´s. They are both very creative and are always entertaining. It puts everyone in a good mood for the meetings. Last night was the funniest thing yet. Matt being from America speaks English and Spanish, but Josue is Peruvian and only knows Spanish, however, they decided that they would try something new. So Matt did do the welcome in English and Josue translated it into Spanish. Matt started off…and Josue followed suite with his equivalent of the translation. Only for some odd reason, the two messages were nothing alike. Even though the Peruvians couldn´t understand the English and the horribly mistranslated message, they all thought this event was quite funny due to how strange english sounds to them the reactions of people like me who know both languages.