Well, the past couple days have been really busy! But fun, tambien. It was great to get to talk to you yesterday. Jon, Heather, and Danielle, I´m sorry we couldn´t :( I hope your meet went well, though! I don´t know how to use this keyboard, so this will be all one paragraph. Well, traveling yesterday was...fun... Really, it wasn´t too bad. It can never be too bad when you have tons of young people to entertain you. I got to know some of the elders better. There are so many fun people here. Love it! I will miss our old district and zone and friends, but there are always new ones! Hna. Petherbridge didn´t get her visa, along with about a dozen other people, so they are still in Provo. :( We miss her, but hopefully she will join us here, and if not, Hna. Shearman and I will see her in Trujillo!!! We arrived in Lima a little after eleven, and then we had to go through immigration, and then someone picked up one of the elders, elder Massey´s bag because it looked like theirs, so we were waiting around forever until there was only one bag left and it wasn´t his, it was this Garcia person who took his. Poor fellow. Anyway, once we figured out that that had happened it was probably around midnight. And then we wen´t through customs, which wasn´t really anything significant, and then we got on a bus and drove through lima to the barricade--okay, that totally isn´t the word i´m looking for, but that´s okay--that is the CCM. High walls, three buildings, pretty landscaping, and I don´t really know what else. we arrived between one and two in the morning. There was another group that came earlier and another that came later--like around 5:30--but up at 6:30! Siempre! It´s good though. It´s best just to adjust and not waste time. In my room there are six hermanas--three american and three hispanic. So each of us has a native companion, but we split up to go to class (obviously, the natives already speak español). My companion is Hermana Cepeda, from Lima. She´s super nice. I like her. Sister Hoffman and Sister Robison, of Sandy and SLC respectively, are my companions the rest of the time. Everything is a little confusing here, because we just got a new president, President Cavanaugh, because the other president had to go back to the States for medical reasons. So, a lot of the time we don´t really know what´s going on, or what we´re going to be doing ten minutes later. It´s cool though. :) I´m sure it will get better. We have ´´free time´´ this afternoon, so we can unpack and get settled and everything. That reminds me of a thought-provoking story that our bus driver told us on the way up to SLC yesterday morning. He was talking about a couple of golfers who were friends (the names had absolute no significance for me, so i don´t recall them). Anyway, the one was asked if he though his friend would ever win an MBA golf tournament, and he said no. when his friend asked him why, he told him that it was because he never practiced in the off season. He never worked consistently to become better, so he would never be good enough to win. our driver related that to life and missionary work in that what we do with our ´´free time´´ is often a better indicator of success than what we do when we have to work. He mentioned something from a talk by Eld. Christofferson, which was soemthing about work preparing you for leisure and leisure preparing you for work. So if you don´t feel like working after doing something ´leisurely´ you probably should pick different activities. I thought that was interesting. I´m really grateful for the opportunity I have to improve how i use my time. I had another thought I wanted to share, but I´ve forgotten it. Oh! I´m trying to follow Hna. Bakaitis´s advice and speak en español as much as possible. It´s fun. I can´t beleive we have six weeks here--it´s feels like I know the people I knew for 3 weeks so well, I´m not sure i can even handle how well I´ll know my district after 6 weeks. Yikes. :) Anyway, I love you! Adios! Hna. Jackson