It is definitely summertime in Lima!

Well, it is only the second day of February and I can tell it is getting hotter. The days have been clearer lately too. I wouldn't mind getting some of that winter weather you guys are having up there! Or I honestly wouldn't mind getting hit with a water balloon!

So I hung out with Sonia for a little while on Thursday night. We had a good time just talking and hanging out. She was telling me about how she lives alone here in Lima. And she is in her 30's I believe, but even so, that is really unusual for Peruvians. Most seem to live with their parents or at least some family member until they are married. We were talking though and she said she knows that God will keep her safe. I think it is pretty cool how she does that. Her pastor has evidently been trying to get her to move in with her brothers or sister because he doesn't like her living alone. So we're going to start hanging out more. I'm excited about the opportunity to spend more time with her.

We are having Peruvian cooking days and American cooking days here. So we'll have several people come over and teach each other how to make different dishes. I decided to make a strawberry cobbler, but when I went to get the strawberries, they were out. So I decided to experiment and make a mango cobbler. And I must say it was one of the best cobblers ever! I love mango but unfortunately it just doesn't taste as good back home. I'm still trying to find some good recipes to make here with pretty basic ingredients, so if anyone has anything please let me know!

Today I met a guy named Armando when I was walking home. We talked for a little while and had some good conversation about stuff. He gave me a card for this store where he works and makes stuff so I think I am going to go there and talk to him some more. It's funny how if you ask a Catholic person if they go to church somewhere, they don't respond with the name of a church...they just say, "I'm catholic." I guess that means they don't go to church?

Last night when I went to church for the Galatians class there was some sort of concert going on. It turned out that there was a group from Nashville there. It was kind of funny because the singers didn't speak spanish but had memorized songs in spanish. They also had a speaker who spoke in english and then someone translated it. It was refreshing to me to hear a message in english. So I ended up missing the class because of the concert. I tried to go, but the music was so loud that I couldn't hear the speaker. The concert had a good turn out though and a lot of people had come from outside of Lima.