Nov 24~ Cambios...and Muchos Cosas Mas

Hey everyone!  I hope everything is going good. So yep I probably had the craziest week of my mission. So last week I got transferred about 20 mins away from my old area with a Elder Mendoza from Argentina and was with him for about 2 days...but while we were walking up to this house, there were a bunch of dogs chilling outside.  So they run away when they see us coming but one of them came up behind me and cheap shotted me in the back of the leg!! SO I had to go to the hospital because the bite broke my skin!!  I am now currently enrolled in rabies shots every 5 days for two weeks!!  But don't worry the bite isn't that big it's all better now.  That night they couldn't give me the rabies shot, so I had to come back the next morning...but the same night after a really long night... I get a call that I am getting transferred to TARMA the next morning after I get my shot!  And my (new) companion is Elder Mason (he has 1 change less than I do, from St George)...so the next morning, I get my rabies shot and then went off to Tarma! It's such a sweet city...its like the city you have to pass to enter into the jungle cities so the drive was beautiful!  Then while I was unpacking my stuff the taxi that drove me to Tarma...well I got my satchel jacked with all my scriptures, camera, and glasses. :(  SO yah, I was bummed for a solid 3 days about that. Six months of studying in those scriptures! I got some new ones and maybe I can get glasses here. The area I am in is one of the hardest areas of the mission but I am ready for the challenge!! 

But despite all these crazy things that have happened to me this past week, I am still so happy! It's amazing how happy being a missionary and doing the things I do everyday makes me feel!  I am truly grateful for everything God has given me! Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!!

Love Elder Baca

MOther come in mother repeat ooverrrrrrrrrrrr

Hey I hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving this week! I love you so much and the fam and I really hope you guys enjoy the holiday seasons!  Sorry I didn't write a lot this week...internet is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy slow and had to write Pres H.!  I love you!

Nov 17~ Cambios and Borrachos

Hey Everyone!! 

Hope everyone is doing good! So tomorrow we have changes and it's like 95% sure I'm leaving because I already have 3 changes here!  I'm so bummed to go, because our investigators T. ( no not the Black Rapper) and E., are getting baptized next Saturday. Its probably the hardest thing for a missionary to teach someone all the lessons and have these amazing investigators, and then to get your area switched :(  But its so sad because all of our investigators are like saying in their prayers when we finish a lesson, "te pido que Elder Baca puede quedarse aqui en Huancayo por algunas meses mas" (I ask you God that Elder Baca can stay for more time) or they have all been saying to me in the saddest voice "no se vaya" (don't go..). Or other people telling me that they are going to cry when I leave! hahahah!  It's pretty sad, not going to lie because I am way used to everything here and everyone, but I will go wherever God wants me to go and I'm just happy our investigators are getting baptized!  I'm not too bummed, because my mission is awesome! Im pretty sure Ill find amazing people that are ready to hear our message in any area, and Im pretty sure I'll find peeing drunk guys that know English in about every area also!  I'm starting my SISTER mission this week actually (18 months to go). It was really a humbling week for me week...our pension told us that before her and her fam joined the church she was physically and verbally abused by her husband, her was a super drunk, and they literally lived on a dirt floor...but it all changed when 2 missionaries knocked on her door. Now her husband is the nicest guy ever and they have the best fam...crazy how the gospel can change people. At times our investigators call us doctors or psychologists because we help people out with just about any problem..but I don't know if I could help people out with their problems, major problems, without the Gospel. So yes, everyday out here is humbling and it'll take me about 2 years to just type all the experiences and lessons I have learned!  But what we do as missionaries changes lives! And families! I'm a witness of that!

So to inform you all what a normal encounter with a drunk guy in Peru is like (there are so many just about any where you go, and any time). So usually it starts out with a bunch of fat drunk guys yelling in English..." HEY GRINGO" or "HEY Mr" or " GOOD MORNING" ..and then it follows with usually a pretty drunk statement like ..." You need to pay me, Im the boss of Peru" or "you know I'm a UFC cage fighter feel my muscles"  Or, a bunch of spiritual questions like "I want to change, I want to change help me" followed by a lot of religious questions.. and then its usually followed by a lot of crying and hugging attempts. And then usually a couple hours later I see the same drunk guy passed out in the grass....yep so now you all know what a normal day in the streets of Peru is like!

Also I got my head shaved by this mullet lady last week..so yep in other news, I look like my beautiful dad Dave Baca:)

I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!!  

Trompo Master

 

Killing that rice with my Taco Bell sauce!!!

Mom, GETTING ME TRUNKY WITH THESE TEMPLE PICS!!!! haha BUENOS Dias! Okay first of all I can't believe Jarred finished a year already! And Im freaking out Alex Boye is coming to talk to everyone! HOW? I love his music! So crazy!  It seems like you are pretty busy with everything...just a question has in Ward Council? That's been the huge stress here in Suda America is about ward council!  But now ours are pretty good! But yea I have cambios..usually an elder sticks around in a area for 2-3 cambios max! Im super excited to get to know the mission!! Oh and my pension this week she bought me this sandals as well as some for you! aahah! SO I'll give them to you in 2 years but that was nice of her! Yah but the weeks are starting to legit fly by now!  like I'm already a 1/4 done with my mish!!!!!!!!  AND I feel like i have so much more to learn and everything- i feel like i am spiritually maturing and getting way humbled everyday! Love you! Hope you have a good week and thanks for the food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Love, Chimee!!!!!!

Nov 10~ Trompos

Eating a fish head

...and enjoying all the fish I didn't catch

QUE TAL!!! 

Wow I can't believe its already Pday again! So crazy how fast the time is going now! SO this is my last week probably in Nuevo Horizante here in Huancayo because transfers are next week, so we will see where I am heading off to next Tuesday! But I'm loving my area I am in right now! We have some sweet investigators, that will unfortunately be baptized after I probably get changed, but our ward es lo maximo! Yesterday I gave another talk in church about the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives! But I was way sick yesterday (nausea and D) so I was hoping the whole time I wouldn't pass out or throw up while I was talking, but everything turned out good. I think I'm finally starting to put some weight back on with the 5 pounds of rice I eat everyday! And my companion and I are now officially TROMPO Masters, they are these sweet Peruvian TOP like toys!! You can do all types of tricks with them it's so sweet! hahah! But I hope everyone has a good week this week! Remember, God loves you! 

Elder Baca

Can you write me real quick with everything that happened this week!! I love reading that!! AND OH GOT YOUR PACKAGE LAST TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!! HECK YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK you so much! LOVE YOU!! Those shoes are like slippers and feel fantastic on my toesies! Thanks MOM!!! Love You have no idea how much the support from you guys helps out and coming from a gospel familia! Took it for granted before my mission but will be eternally grateful! Only got 18 months to go, because my comp and  I are going home the same day..like May 18th...I'm not trunky I swear (trunky is the term we use for people that want to go home) hahah  And dang braces, lucky!!  Tell them they are lucky to have braces!! --I was studying about the Spirit, go read 1 Nefi 33: 1...Really is essential for a missionary (the Spirit), but it's important for members to know that before baptism people can feel the power of the Holy ghost, and it's up to us to create this environment by testifying of the Restoration and of Jesus Christ! Tell everyone I said Hi!  And I pray your package gets here and my letters get to you!!  I love you MOM!! The weeks are starting to fly! Love you! 

Nov 3~ Halloween and Cabeza de Pez

Que Tal Familia Y Amigos!! 

So this week was way good! This emails going to be short but I have a ton of pics to send! Looks like everyone had a sweet cross-dressing Halloween....well, I dressed up as an abuelita (with my Peruvian dress and everything)! hahaa and today for P-day we went up in the mountains to this park and went fishing and had this giant picnic thing! Oh and I legit ate a fish head today, eyes and everything ;)  Peru is so beautiful! I hope everyone is enjoying life! Love you all!  Also had a lesson with a Catholic High Priest this week...hahahaha it was so fun!

Elder Baca

Hey Mother !!! Your package is already here!!! Ill get it tomorrow! I have some sweet pics to send!

WHAT  THE HECK!!!  I am freaking out about how tall ewees gotten!! Torque ???? seriously!!! hahah chekc out my pics I just sent!!! And Torque Seriously! CRAZY!!! And yea the Casio, not my nice one. Hit me up wtih some news!!! What's going on in the US and with the fam! And Murr town!  LOVE YOU MOM!!!  I GTG!! Sorry time was way quick! GTG WORK! Love you! Tell everyone I said whats up!!

Halloween!

This is M.! The family that we live with

Estoy pescando por PEZ

Classic fish pose with all the fish I didn't catch.....