Waiting to go south...

  So many people have suggested we have a blog for our "Peru Adventure" and we are starting it now, even though we are not there yet!  We were originally supposed to go January 14th, but were visa-delayed to March 4th, then to April 8th, and now to May 6th.  We missed most of the bitter cold weather in Utah, where we would have been training, so that was a plus!  We had some record snow in Wichita, though and it was fun to watch grandgirls on the snow boogie board!  We've been told that it isn't because of our past misdeeds that we have not received Peru's welcome.  They just move on Peruvian time!  The plan is to go to Huancayo, 10,700 feet up in the Andes, where we will digitally photograph Peruvian National Archives to be made available through familysearch.org to people all over the world.  It is quite an exciting project!  We don't have to set up the contracts, fortunately. Other people have that responsibility.  Another couple is in Huancayo now doing it and they have been very helpful already in finding us an apartment and giving advice on what to bring and what we will do.  Another couple is waiting as we are for visas and they will then go to a different city.  All of those people speak Spanish and so does Earl.  I know a lot more Spanish than I did in September, thanks to Hector, our tutor from the MTC (Missionary Training Center) in Provo--via skype.  We also have another couple who have become friends who are in Peru and have been doing this same thing.  I do know that blogs are better with pictures, so I will try to include some!