Week 32/76 Central Heating, Seedless Grapes, And Castañas

Hello lovely people!

I survived 4 hours on a bus to get to my new area of Yungay! 

My new companion, Hermana Condori, is from Peru and she is so sweet!

Yungay is a branch, there are very few members, the church is a house, and the baptismal font is a swimming pool, but it's super cute!  

We tried stuffed tomatoes this week, 10/10! 

Our house came with a free barbell and weights, and after it got fumigated on saturday, a fumigation spray container thing!

You can add seedless grapes and central heating to my list of things I miss and took for granted in the United states. We have a wood burning stove in our house but don't have the wood or the permission to light it. A small space heater is our only source of heat in the cold mornings and nights because, although it gets freezing cold here, central heating does not exist.

I don't know if anyone knows what a castaña is, I didn't until this past week. But it tastes kind of like a potato and the shell is a cute little spiky ball. Thanks to google translate I learned that it's a chestnut! All my life I've been singing about these things and I didn't even know what a chestnut was!

I have been a missionary for 7 months which is very exciting, and I'm still learning and doing new things everyday, which is even more exciting! 

Even with kilometers of distance between yungay and everything else, with hay bales, and tractors, and the smallest branch I've ever been a part of, I am so grateful to be doing the work of the Lord and finding the precious souls that are here in yungay! 

I love you guys! I hope you are enjoying the end of April! 
-Hermana Pratt

our fumigation equipment and our barbell and wood burning heater thing in the back
castañas! 
Yungay!
el campo
stuffed tomatoes







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