Hola familia and friends! This week was pretty cool. It was full of new experiences, a new a record, and a lot of rain. First of all to answer your question dad, I have seen alligators out here. They aren't close to the city, but there is a place about a half an hour out of Coca where there are alligators and I've seen them. They are cool. There are also Boa Constrictors in all the rivers. I haven't seen one yet, but I really want to. There are all kinds of things out here haha. Including the piranha! I ate a piranha yesterday. I'll bet none of you have done that. It was pretty decent. I like Tilapia more but the piranha was pretty good too. The traditional Coca style of fishing here is awesome. They have a powder that comes from a plant that they throw in the rivers and it drugs the fish so that they swim slower. Then with their own two hands they grab the fish. They grabbed three piranhas this week. There is a recent convert family who went fishing for a branch activity. It's legit. We went fishing last Monday with a fishing line, and a bolt for weight and nothing else. It was awesome, but we didn't have a lot of time to stay there. This month, once again we have broken the record for baptisms in a month. Our last record was nice, but this time we finally broke double digits. We made it to ten and we were stoked. It was a good month for us. This week it was incredibly hot as well. The sun in Coca is unbelievably hot. It burned us up during the week. We have a very large teaching pool right now. We have worked like crazy to get out and find people and we have been able to do so very well lately. Now we just need to make sure these people progress. We have two baptisms set in stone for this month, maybe three in our sector, and we are happy about that. My comp and I are doing super good. Elder Arrieta is awesome. We have not had even one problem with anything. I never thought I'd say that about a Peruvian, Did I say that out-loud? oops. . . This week we didn't have great attendance at church because Sunday morning it poured rain like a beast. We were soaked when we got the the church and we live two blocks away. It's been good here in the oriente. I'm loving it here. It's hard, but we have been working as hard as we can and we are being blessed for it. I love you guys and I'll talk to ya next week. Hasta luego.
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March 2016
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