Elder Wright Cusco Peru Mission

Today at 11:37 AM

Well,this week was carnival... that means every decent person left the area to get away from the indecent... we didn't teach anyone, find anyone, contact anyone... Nothing.

Our streets were filled with the drunk dancers, and the regular old drunks. The dancing they do before they start drinking is cool, and has culture to it... but the purpose of the dancing is to drink... so its sad to see the culture being taken over by the things of the world. They have this tradition, they put up a tree in an open space with lots of gifts hung in the branches.. then they dance around it while they take turns chopping it down with an axe... when it falls, everyone, kids included, run and grab a gift. At least thats what its supposed to be. My comp was telling me that thats how it used to be and it was a good time for everyone... fun for the families and especially the kids. Now, its an excuse to drink. The drunks make it a horrible enviorment for the kids, so they dont really come anymore, and the ones that do, are without the rest of their families. So yeah... Its kinds sad. But they still have that bit of culture before the bad starts and its very cool to see!!

For my comp's last day, we got to go to Lampa and go to the catacombs!! They weren't really catacombs, more like a sepulchur... they had a little mosselium where they hung bones and skulls and people threw money down there for luck. I still dont like how dark the catholic church is with all its apostacy, but its was cool too see. Observe the Picture where im kissing one of the skulls.. ;)

Well, its transfers today, my old comp is on his way home, and my new comp is Elder Chacon. Its not official, we haven't gotten our emails with the changes yet, but my old comp called me from Cusco this morning to let me know. Elder Chacon was in my MTC group, so were both pretty new. He's coming here to my area, and yeah... Hes a cool kid, very very good at soccer, and i think we'll have some success to gether.

Thats about it for the week, I'm happy and healthy