Elder Cache Troy Johnson

  Buenos Dias!  I hope you all had a good week this week. This week was kind of long but it also flew by.  I had 2 exchanges this week. One with another Gringo and another with a Latino Elder From Peru. I stayed in my sector both times for our exchange and it was super awesome.  Our Area is doing well too! We have 1 person on date for baptism and we have been trying to put someone else on date but she just started a new job and just happenes to be working when we try and visit her. BUT we'll figure something out.  The other day we got into a bible bash. My companion and I were sitting on the side of the road, updating our day, and this lady comes out of no where and just starts talking smack about religion. I kindly said, "Thank you for you time and kind words, nice to meet you, my name is elder johnson and this is my companion." I was trying to leave the situation because the spirit wasn't there so there was no point in talking. I thought my companion and I wer...

 Feliz Año!!  I'm not gonna lie the New Year was CRAZY here. There were fireworks going off literally everywhere. All along the horizon and people were lighting fireworks off in front of our house so they were above us too. It was awesome.  There are these things here called munigotes and they are paper machete statues of every USA thing you could think of and at the end of the year they fill them up with dynamite and just light them off in the streets. We weren't able to watch any unfortunately because we had to be in our house at 6pm yesterday.  Last night we played 5 crowns because one of the elders in my house brought it from home and we had sparkling cider as well. It was super cool because that's what my family at home ended up doing for new years as well. It was cool to live that tradition 4000 miles away lol. We had transfers this past week and I am still in my same area in the peninsula with my Guatemalan companion AND we're finally not in a trio anymore....