David Peru Mission

Week 2 done. esta illuminato aquí el ccm. The days here feel like weeks and the weeks feel days.  My Spanish speaking is coming along slowly, but my understanding for the most part is good. The food here is great.  In class we finished learning all the basic religious lessons and now we are learning how to properly use verbs. Also we are ´teaching´ twice per day now.  This week there was a new MTC president and his wife that are looking over the MTC.  I was sick for most of this week. Sundays are the best days of the week here followed by Wednesday and Tuesday, everything else is just a blur because its basically the same thing day in and day out. At this point, it is 16 hours of learning and studying 5 days a week. I'm picking up more and more phrases everyday.  Weird thing that happened this week was that my companion plucked his mustache on Monday night just for fun!  He is an absolute mad man.  Pictures will be sen...

Hey Everyone! This first week has been quite the roller coaster! When I flew out on the 9th I took the whole trip alone until I landed in Lima, where there was a group of 15 other missionaries! I landed in Lima at 12:35 am Lima time so about 9:35 pm in Vancouver. I didn't get to the MTC (Missionary Training Center) or as they call it the CCM till 3:30 am but not in bed till 4:30 am. Then we had to get up at 8:30 am to have a full day of Spanish thrown at us.  We had to start TEACHING lessons IN SPANISH our second day!   I'm rooming with 3 other elders named Elder Anderson, Hirishi, and Rosales.  They are all pretty cool.  The next 2 days felt like they had no end because they are teaching 2 different concepts between morning and night. An analogy that has been made is that we are drinking from a fire hydrant, it definitely feels like I am!  Take a big drink! On Saturday I learned how to pray in Spanish. That is one of the only th...

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Elder Porowski made it to Peru!! His first PDay (Preparation Day) was Wednesday.  He wrote a brief email enitled "Not Dead": hola!  after a long day of travel i arived in the MTC with 15 other missionaries! from  across the US. we arrived at around 3 and it was 22 degrees! not looking forward to summer. i was the only elder without a suit! and the MTC president and his wife said that iquitos is the only mission that does not require a suit. the rooms are air condisioned but everywhere else is very hot. tell me when Ethan gets his call and where he is going! Elder Porowski I look forward to many more emails.  (Hopefully with more details? :)