Hi Elder Evans, This Is Katie...... What???!

A North American girl called the the house this week. Justin said, "I pick it up (the phone) and she says "hello Elder Evans, it's Katie." (I was thinking.....what the heck??? How did Katie Koh (a good friend of Justins) get Justin's house number? It wasn't her.) I didn't get it. I was trying to think how did someone from home get my number here and why are they calling me? I guess when I went to Lima the other missionaries ended up doing service with this girl down here. She is from Tennessee and has been here for 8 months trying to start a charity organization. Crazy. We all went this Thursday again and helped her out. There was a huge mountain of dirt about 20 feet long and 5 feet high that we had to flatten out so a lady could move her shack onto it. We got it done pretty quick. This week I am helping a neighbor, Flor, the mom of the 2 kids who have gotten baptized put a speed bump in on our block. Should be interesting."

This week Justin had 3 more people enter the waters of baptism. A family. The mom, Lili, and her two kids Delicia and Kevin. He said the dad wants to get baptized too, but had to leave for the jungle to go to work for a couple of months. Hopefully he will when he gets back. The dad only comes home 4 times a year. We don't know how easy we have it here.

Today for p day they are going to the same beach they have gone to twice before and are going to play soccer (now there's a popular Latin sport!) on the beach and eat lunch at a restaurant there. Sounds nice for my beach loving boy! Justin has mentioned that there are all sorts of tourist hut things there so he'll be on the lookout for the Christmas ornament I asked for back in December. Good thing he listened to me about the skull thing!

What a beautiful shot!Loooooove it!




He got the package this week that we sent to him. It is amazing how quick he gets our packages and letters in Peru. Much faster than Bolivia! He says, "I am always on a sugar highhhhh for a couple days when I get candy from the states." It seems to be his favorite thing to receive. Glad he is happy, even if it is from a sugar highhhh!