Hermana Brittany Lowe : Sun, Sand, and Palm Trees-- I'm basically home

SALUDOS DESDE ICA

Hello all! Yesterday I took a 50 minute plane ride (thank goodness) from Ayacucho to Lima, then a 6 hour bus ride down the coast of Peru to Ica!! Ahora estoy in Ica- San Isidro!! It's a crazy difference.. It's so hot and humid, whereas in Ayacucho it was cold and raining, haha.

Well Ica is more developed than Ayacucho and the people have a little more money. There are palm trees everywhere, but less grass and less green in general. A lot of people want to learn English and it's more of a priority here. No existe Quechua haha. My area is a little city but a huuuge area. Recently, there was San Isidro 1 and 2, but now it's just San Isidro and it's my area.

My companion is Hermana Legaspi from the Philippines! (Manila) and she's super cute!! She knows Tagalog, Spanish, English, and another language from her country. I don't have a pic yet, but you'll have a ton next week. The pics from this week are from me saying goodbye to Ayacucho, which was SO hard and so sad, btw. But I'm here in Ica now and gotta learn a whole lot and get to know a lot of people.

The good news is HERMANA BOYD is here, too!!! There are 4 hermanas in my zone, and hna boyd and her companion are the other two!! I'm stoked. It's weird to be together again, but we're so happy haha.

Anyway I'll have more to say next week about the work here in Ica! This is only my impression of less than a day here haha. It was hard to leave my home in Ayacucho and the people there, but I know I was called by inspiration and revelation to Ica! 1 Nephi 3:7!!!

Love you all!!

Hermana Lowe

Bits of her personal email to mom:

Elder Anderson, Nielson, and Lowe are here in Ica, too! Elder Lowe is my district leader! We have our meeting on Thursday, so I'll write about that next week.

I miss Ayacucho, but I know I'll get used to this area and the life here in Ica. The people here have nicer houses and yards than those in Ayacucho, but also this is a baptizing area, so that's good. It's super hot and I just slept without a blanket or anything last night bc it's so hot. My alarm clock said 84 degrees... yikes. No AC here! I'm constantly sweating and smell like sunscreen haha... seriously a drastic change from my last area.

I love you mom. Thank you for your prayers, I got here safely with all my things fiitting in my suitcases and about three other bags that I carried haha. A bunch of elders going to Chinca, Pisco, Ica, and Nazca were on the bus with me. I had to sit alone or by strangers, haha, but got to see a lot of elders from my group, bc they're all having cambios about now, too. It was good.

Love you so much, Momma. It doesn't seem real that I'm in Ica and that this is my area. I feel like I need to go back to Ayacucho, haha.