Sent Nov. 18, 20009

¡querida mama!

I really love Peru. We went to the temple today and the lima temple is small but beautiful! My stomach is finally becoming acustomed to the food and am really starting to love some of it. Though it really is too much rice, like almost every meal we have had here has had huge servings of rice! our mail only goes out once a week, so sorry in a couple of days you will get a letter that is a little old. It goes out on Monday and takes like 5 days to get to you but anything you send takes like 3 weeks. The street address is:

Apartado Postal
12-167
Lima 12-Peru

but they gave us an address that also works:

Elder Spencer Fogleman
Peru, Lima East
Av. Melgarejo 159
Urb. Campo Verde
La Molina, Lima, Perú

I think the second one works better; one is a PO Box anyways. People also get Dear elders here-once a week-basically they get printed out in provo and sent down here through the church's pouch system so those will probably only take a week to reach me.

I love you tons and am so happy to be here! i cant wait to be fluent so that I can better communicate with the people; the two bolivians I am rooming with speak so fast!

¡Buena suerte! ¡le amo! ¡hasta ver, para siempre Dios esté con vos!

Your Son,
Elder Spencer Fogleman

ABOUT PERUVIAN FOOD

Peru is famous throughout South America for its food. As a major fishing nation, fish is abundant, and prepared with imagination.

Below is some interesting information on Peruvian Food

The primary ingredients found in nearly every Peruvian dish are rice, potatoes, chichen, pork, lamb, and fish. Most of these meals include one of the different kinds of "aji", or Peruvian hot pepper, which mainly are: yellow aji pepper, red aji pepper, red rocoto pepper

Chicken, pork and lamb were introduced to Peru 500 years ago, when Spaniards came to America. Other ingredients, like potatoes, were already being grow in the Peruvian Andes and were taken by the Spaniards back to Europe.

Today more than 200 varieties of potato can be found in the Lake Titicaca area. They range in color from purple to blue, from yellow to brown. Sizes and textures vary as well. Some are smalls as nuts; others can be as large as oranges.