Lindstroms in Lima: 02-02-2020 Global Palindrome Day

Just Thought You Should Know

When I was writing in my journal this morning, I realized that the numbers read the same forwards and backwards. That makes a number palindrome. I was excited about it, so I told Thor. He looked it up and found out it is the first global one in over 900 years! Plus it's the 33rd day of the year with 333 more days to follow. Just thought you'd want to know!

02-02-2020

Our Week in Review

We started our week with the 2 week training of new missionaries (even though it was 3 weeks for them, due to Elder Holland last week). That is always a fun training. Sister Amato talks about being resilient. Resiliency is an important part of life and especially in the mission. We get to listen to this fun song "Get Back Up Again" from a Troll movie. You can check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuFm0m2wj0

Hermana Estevez, Lenzi, Dunn, and Stephan
Our new missionaries are the two in the middle.

I interviewed missionaries about their English language goals the rest of the week. I ask them questions in English from their weekly homework to see if they understand. It's always fun to talk with them. I also speak to the North American missionaries and ask them the same questions in Spanish. Hopefully it is helping me to learn Spanish.

Hermanas Suarez and Morales came in matching dresses for their interviews!

Thor was busy with Fundet this week. Early in the week he did a training for 163 students! They started their new semester. He said it was a great day! He even saw one of our old missionaries. Former Elder Arteaga is learning a trade to help him progress in life. Thor went back later in the week to oversee the self-reliance training. All of the students are taking Personal Finances. It's a great class, I would recommend it to everyone! He really loves teaching and motivating the students at Fundet; he feels like a gospel-oriented motivational speaker.

New semester at Fundet.

Thor with former Elder Arteaga, a new Fundet student.

Personal finance classes at Fundet.

The missionaries that are going home this transfer had their last self-reliance training on Friday. They talk about their vocational plans and what and where they are going to study. We will miss these missionaries when they leave in 3 weeks!

Our missionaries at their final vocational training.

Parque de las Leyendas

Saturday we went on a new adventure. We took a bus to downtown Lima. We usually take an uber, which is like taking a taxi. We survived the ride and ended up at the Park of the Legends. This is a huge park which is part zoo, part botanical garden, and part archeology site. We went to the botanical garden and saw the part that was open--part of it is being renovated. We also checked out the butterfly house. It had some really cool flowers and butterflies. We watched the seals, penguins, and decided it was too hot and we'd have to come back on another day.