We have been on the bus heading towards Cajamarca for the past 6 hours. Only 10 more hours to go! Hopefully we’ll be able to sleep for eight of those. It’s been a great day! We got into Lima at about 11:00pm and Zara came and collected us at about 12:30. She has been so wonderful. She speaks quite a bit of English and has been helping us with our Spanish. She is an LDS travel agent and has even served a mission in the Lima North Mission. Her family was so kind too. She had a maid named Dora who made us delicious food! For breakfast we had tortilla de juevos y jamon. It was like a flat omelet cut like a pizza. We also had Milo or chocolate milk and galletas or saltine crackers too.
We then showered and got our belongings cleaned up. Before we knew it, it was time for lunch! It was delicious! We had chicken and rice on a potato with a salad of cooked carrots and beats. There was also fresh cheese, avocado and corn with awesome huge kernals! We also tried Inka Cola! We didn’t’ really like it, but we did like el jugo de mango!
After lunch we went to help Sebastian (Zara’s 16 year old nephew) in the garden. He is so nice and speaks great English. He plans on attending BYU next year! We loved him! We gathered our things and Zara took us to the bus station at a little after four to catch our four thirty bus to Cajamarca. Each passenger is only allowed 50 lbs of baggage. I alone had well over 150 pounds of baggage. The other girls had quite a bit as well. The whole time we were there I was praying that all would be well and that we’d make our bus and that we’d get to take all our luggage. Zara talked to the administrator and explained that our bags were full of things for poor children. He let us take all of it with us and only pay an extra $20!! I couldn’t believe it. It was so kind! I was so grateful!
Our bus is super nice with padded reclining seats. A pillow and blanket. A movie in Spanish with English subtitles and we even played Bingo! Las Tres de nos made bracelets of embroidery floss and Abigail and I read Mosiah 22 in Spanish and translated it with the English BOM. Our Spanish really is improving as we speak! We’ll get to Cajamarca at around 8 am and from there Brother Sandro will take us to El Bichito. We can’t wait!!
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