Dear Family,
We've
got some more transfers coming up today, and I'm pretty convinced that
I'm going to get transferred. I've been here in Pucallpa for about 6
months, which is pretty long for a missionary to be in an area. However,
there have been rare occasions missionaries that have stayed in an area
for 9 months before they move, so we'll see what kind of stuff happens.
Last
Wednesday, the entire city of Pucallpa (and every other city in the
jungle, I hear) celebrated a huge holiday called San Juan, which is
supposed to celebrate the life of John the Baptist. The people here
celebrated it with a popular dish called "Juanes", which is rice,
chicken, and olives rolled up and tied up into a little bag made of tree
leaves. We got a few ourselves and they tasted pretty good! Most people
aren't a fan of the olives, especially the white people (gringos). The
olives are so infamous with the gringos, that they've earned the
nickname "Matagringos", which more or less means "Gringo's Death". I
thought they tasted really good, though. Maybe I'm just crazy or
something.
Our area, which is party-central for
the people in Pucallpa, was SUPER crowded for the holiday! It was more
crowded than Disneyland! We had no trouble talking to people that day.
The city closed the biggest street so people can lay out their
posessions to sell. I didn't look much, but I did see some pretty cool
things people were selling, like Amazonian paintings. They celebrate
that every year down here, so I'll get to see it again next time!
That's
pretty much all that happened down here. This week, we got a good
amount of people to come to church. There's one elderly couple we're
teaching that are super excited to be baptized in the church, named Juan
and Lila. We got to get them married before we can baptize them,
though. We're currently working on that.
How has everyone been up there? Looks like my family is turning famous! I hope you all have a fun, busy week!
Love,
Elder Dixon
P.S.
This picture I'm sending is a picture of me, Elder Haymond, Elder
Manrique, and Elder Figueroa with our Juanes that we were given that
day.
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