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SOMOS MOLLENDO!!
Awesome week for us!

Wednesday was a crazy day, but a really productive one. We met with our director and figured out our schedule for the rest of the semester. We don't have much time left!!  Sad. With the way that our schedule is worked out, we will be traveling EVERY weekend to teach the self-employment workshops. So excited for that. That means that we won't get to know the people in our ward very well, but it does give us a chance to meet DOZENS of new members throughout Southern Peru as we travel. I'm planning a research project in which I ask members about education, their goals for the future, things like that. I'M STOKED!!!

Before we headed out to teach in Mollendo early Thursday morning with the jovenes in a camp out, we took advantage of the fact that THE MARC ANTHONY was performing at the nearest University's stadium. So, aprovechamos, and went with our friend Gary, who taught us salsa. The guests were the local group Somos Mollendo, which I thought was pretty ironic since we taught in Mollendo, and Eva Ayllon, a native of Peru.

The next morning, we headed out on the beach with the teenagers of the stake and spent the whole day at the Punta de Bombon, where we did homework, body boarded,  and danced the night away with our friend Pablo.  Peruvians are gente pilas. ENERGY!!!

We were so rudely awakened by super loud megaphone with a ear-splitting alarm by one of leaders while we were in our tent. 6 in the MORNING. They sounded it RIGHT IN OUR EARS FOR A WHOLE THREE MINUTES. Jenny and I just sat there and didn't move. We probably looked like lazy young men, or we had died in our sleep, because we didn't do ANYTHING. Jenny and I couldn't stop laughing about it the rest of the day.

Our third workshop was in Mollendo, and we were on our own this time. The leaders in these branches of the church were worried that people weren't going to show up, so they made an announcement OVER THE RADIO that we were going to be there. So, that automatically meant a whole eclectic mix of people that showed up. Awesome.

Currently, we are back in our apartment in Arequipa, taking advantage of the time we have to do homework. Today, we found out that our workshop for this week is cancelled, so that makes for more time here!

Jenny and I both realized this week how lucky we are to do SO MUCH of Peru while we are here. We travel A TON.