The Plane Made it to Peru

Heya momma! 

So I made it to Peru alive! haha I am in the Pachacamac area which is pretty much the outskirts of Lima so I'm in the same city as Alex... kinda. the flight was good except that it took 6 hours and I lost my ctr ring but other than that it was great! We got here Monday night at like 1030 at night then got a hotel and woke up at 5 in the morning to go to a training meeting that went from 7 until 3.. longest meeting of my life but I learned lots of things! It was great! then I got my companion elder Orea! Its funny he kinda looks like Zeke which always makes me smile a little ha. he has been out for about 20 months and doesn´t speak any english but luckily for me I can understand most of what he is saying. We got here around 4 or 5 and then I unpacked my bags at the casa and we went to the stake center because the district leaders needed help with baptismal interviews so I went on splits while my companion helped out. I went with the zone leader Elder Morrison and we taught a family that was baptized last week. We talked about the book of mormon and its importance and how we need to read it all the time. elder morrison speaks english and is from las vegas so i learned lots from him! this morning we woke up at 630 and studied and at 1030 we went to a district meeting and then a zone meeting. in the district meeting i had to demonstrate how to use the book of mormon to extend a baptismal invitation... let me just say the gift of tongues is a beautiful, real amazing thing! ha i can understand most of what everyone is saying and i can say what i need to so that´s great. um the city is different than i thought. there are literally stray dogs everywhere you go and everything is so dirty and there is garbage everywhere it is really bad and the smell matches pretty well. we get on buses to go wherever we need to go which is kinda fun cuz i don´t have to walk as much. usually pday is on Monday but because we had everyone changing and being reassigned to new areas and what not this week we had it today on Wednesday. the weather is great and the people are awesome! they are short haha i am pretty tall, but they people are so open to the gospel it is amazing! they are so humble and just great! so far i think that im going to be okay here and have lots of fun! one thing that they told us to do is to in the morning when we study to study at least one verse about the atonement. if we get into a habit of doing this every day our testimony of the atonement will be so strong. and that is the main thing we need to build on. Love you guys so much thanks for all of your support and prayers. can´t wait to hear from you again! 

  Elder Millward