new favorite food: ceviche

Ok, huge embarrassing story for this week. We were walking down a street, had 30 to kill before our next apt., and just randomly I looked down at my tie and noticed there was a huge bird poop splatter on my shirt!! Ugh so gross. I feel so embarrassed that for who knows how long, I had been walking down a somewhat busy street smiling, saying hi, and trying to stop people to talk about God. They probably thought I was just an embarrassment to nature.

I´ve been getting good at holding my breath, preparing for my swimming career after the mission ;) my best so far is 1:48. Sometimes Elder Galeano and I would, as we were walking, pick a tree up ahead and hold our breath until we got there haha.

Our ward mission leader here is American, which is pretty cool. From the LA area, knows Stevenson Ranch. He is an amazing mission leader--takes the work really seriously and is a really good teacher and leader--it's a bit intimidating. It is so weird to hear English to be honest, usually I can just talk to my companion in English, about people that are right next to us and they have no idea, but I´ve got to be careful haha.

There is a dish served here by the Peruvians and Ecuadorians that is amazing--called ceviche. We have many members from those places and have cooked it for us- it is so good. It is basically a soup type thing, served cold, and there are two types, 1 (Ecuador), with shrimp as the main thing, then 2 (Peru) with fish. The funny thing is though, that with the fish--they don´t cook it! Disgusting right? Well they let it sit in lemon juice to 'cook' it, but honestly I love that food. It´s alright with the shrimp, but I think the ceviche with the fish is much better. They taught me how to cook it so when I get home I´m going to cook it for you and let you try it. I think you´ll love it, Dad :)

They work is doing great, everyone´s doing good. although Jessica hasn´t been answering which is freaking us out, she found out about the law of chastity that we have and I think it weirded her out... :S pray for her please.

I think that´s about it, we had a really good week--teaching quite a bit which is keeping us busy. Thanks for your emails and support.

 Love Elder Franson