Peru Trip Part I - Lima, Peru

July 8th- 23rd

Brett served in the Peru, Lima North mission 10 years ago and has wanted to go back to his mission for a long time. After graduation we finally found the perfect time to travel. It was such a great experience. An eye opening experience at that. It's just kind of crazy to think that Brett lived there for 2 whole years. In every place that we traveled in Peru we found families that Brett met on his mission and we even meet up with 3 of his Peruvian companions.

We traveled a lot on the trip but I'm so grateful we did it. It was an experience that I will never forget.

So we flew from Calgary, Canada --> Los Angeles --> Costa Rica --> Lima, Peru(stayed for 4 days) --> Iquitos, Peru(stayed for 4 days) --> Lima,Peru --> Tarapoto, Peru(stayed for 3 days) --> Lima, Peru(stayed for 1 day) --> Cusco, Peru/ Machu Picchu(stayed for 4 days) --> Lima, Peru(one night) --> El Salvador --> Los Angeles(one night) --> Back to Calgary. whew!!

Tired from all the travelling

The 2nd day in Lima we wanted to go to the temple but once we got there we found out our recommends had expired. I guess from graduation to the big move we didn't realize that they'd expired. I was really sad that we couldn't go in.

but we really enjoyed talking to the temple president and walking around the temple grounds. It is such a beautiful temple and it's so peaceful.

We walked down a few streets to a resturant and I noticed this wall with broken bottles on top. I guess they do that to keep people from jumping the wall.

We went to the Peru MTC (missionary training center) where it all began for Brett. It has changed quite a bit in 10 tears, especially the trees.

the cafeteria

Driving around Lima. It's kind of sad to see how people live.

Our loot from the Lima market

Our Hotel El Gran Bolivar

This is an area where Brett lived on his mission.

Wenceslao and Brett - Brett baptized him

Vasquez Family- fed Brett everyday in this area
They even feed us when we stopped to visit them

Segura Family-fed Brett everyday

Marcos Family- Brett lived and ate at their house

Montes Family- Brett taught this family the discussions and baptized one of his sons
When we found them David told us that he got baptized 2 months ago

Our wonderful taxi driver who helped us find all those families. He was so patient with us.

A restaurant right on the beach. They asked us what country we were from and brought over a Canadian flag to our table. Then we ate the food and nearly died! Just about ruined our trip. We were lucky to have some medication handy and were okay the next day.
They had a few of these containers at all the airports that were filled with nail files, scissors, knives, guns, blow darts, butcher knives and more. It was just kind of funny to think that the officers would find all those things on people.