Hola from....

Hola mi familia!!!

As I said last week, we had transfers and i got sent out of Tumbes! and i
am now in....La Union 2! I basically went from the most north part of the
mision to the most south part. We are south of Piura where the mision home
is by about 60 minutes. Last week we all traveled down to piura to meet for
transfers and then he assigned us to our areas. I am down here in la union
with Elder Chichia. Hes from Sandy, Utah but hes mexican. He knows spanish
and english really well so hopefully i can use that to my advantage and
learn a lot more. he is a pretty relaxed guy and its kinda nice to be able
to speak in english every once in a while. we are both new to la union and
the other elders that were here before us didnt leave us anything to work
with...so its basically like we are opening up a new area. all we did this
week was knock doors and find new investigators. its also been a pretty dry
area here so well have to work pretty hard to get investigators here. its
actually not a ward here either, its a branch so its a little bit
different, but there is a church and lots of members so not too different.
im pretty sure they are going to become a ward in like 3 months anyways.
but when i was in Tumbes our whole zone was within like a 5-10 min car ride
of eachother. but here in Castilla (the zone) we have to travel 1 hr in a
combi (van) to get to our meetings everyweek. Its just tons of fun needless
to say haha. but oh well.

We have a pretty nice room though. You should remeber the other video that
i sent you of our last room in tumbes right? well this room we have now is
like 2 1/2 times as big as that. but really as missionaries it doesnt mean
anything lol. just lots of empty space. and it also means that we dont have
to use bun beds becuase there is more space. i sent pictures of the room.
the only problem is that we are on the 3rd floor. which is pretty cool
because of the great view that we have (which i also sent a picture of ;))
(better be thankful for those pics ;) jk jk) but the problem is that its
smoking hot up there. There is another set of elders that live down stairs
and their room is always nice and chilly but all of the hot air rises up to
our room soo...yeah it isnt much fun. but thats alright, we just leave our
window open all of the time. and you know what that means! we get to sleep
with mosquito nets at night! haha i really dont like those at all, but its
part of the exp :) but anyways, not a whole lot else going on, the other
two elders are also from different countries, one from Guatemala and the
other from El Salvador. Elder Agular is a pretty funny guy, he only has 1
month in the mission but all he does is talk and joke around lol i love it.

....sad day about T swift and T bow....lol jk jk. She´ll be married by the
time i get back for sure.

Sounds like you all had tons of fun down in AZ. Wish i could have come down
to hang out with you all. The weather sounds a lot better than here. Its
actually just as hot here as it was in Tumbes during the days. but at night
it gets a little bit chillier. the only downside is that there are gnats
everywhere and they are the most annoying things ever! hate them lol. oh
and about the mail, yeah im pretty sure itll get here quicker. The only
problem is that im pretty sure that a bunch of my mail had just arrived in
Tumbes when i left, so now they will have to send it all to the office and
then to me here in Castilla, so it might take a while. But i got a letter
from Mert this week! yay! thanks Mert :D

Sounds like everyone is doing well! its always great to hear how everyones
life has changed for the better including mine. Man this church is true, am
i right? we dont need to look any further than our own family. i love and
miss you all more than you can imagine. but i just keep trucking along in a
new area with new amigos. Tell the rest of the world hi for me, ive got
Peru covered ;)

Hasta la proxima semana,

Love,
Elder Woodburn