October 14th Letter

If you’re going to play in Texas you got to have a fiddle in the band, and if you’re going to baptize in Peru, start 2 hours early ;) Relief society! Oh awesome! Wow our ward sounds great! can{t wait to come back and see them all!! my visa I haven’t seen, the mission had it, my pants are great the holes are fine thanks to my fine sewing skills, the pictures haven’t come yet, i don{t know whether there in the mission office or whether they are on their way I’ll let you know :) I had a similar scary experience this week I’ll tell you about later in my letter. Peru is great there’s dogs everywhere and in Huarez it rains about every day which i love, and the nights it gets cold, i miss snow and well let’s put it this way :)

This week i never once thought that i would go home... but i definitely thought i just might die ;) ha-ha keep that and remind me about it in 2 years along with my [chapman proselyting story[ its one you got to hear in person

So the week started out with an amazing interview with the mission president, i love him! Literally the man is my president for a reason, so much i can learn from him. We had a wonderful interview and through his keys i found out a lot of stuff i need to work on and I’ve implemented them and the work goes great!! He even pulled a golfing and Alabama football reference, me and him get along great! The focus of our   mission is to baptize retain and reactivate specially all three, we were working with a lot of part member and menos activos families too! the work goes great and well our mission goal he told me to have a baptism every week, they establishing my mission goal of 100 baptisms, and well were off to a good start :) 2 baptisms this week!!! You know how everyone has cool first baptisms stories well my first baptism tops them all... :)

so we baptized a 11 year old actually 2 but the second one on Saturday my companion told me i should baptize him, so i worked on Spanish and got ready, well a little note about Peru specifically Huarez all the water is feed to us via glaciers, it’s the coldest thing every and usually comes out in brown chunks, similar to the boy meets world episode where Cory and Tapenga move into their new apartment ha-ha anyway so i got in the water and literally jumped out, it was like the polar bear at scout camp! So cold!! it froze my butt off, but i turned around looked in to his frightened eyes prayed and stepped in, well i quickly lost feeling in my legs, and well he was scared 10 min of cozying and everything we eventually shut the doors so no one saw but the witnesses in the adjourning bathroom and i baptized him, when i went to go out however, :) i couldn’t move :) ha-ha the bishop pulled me out to see my feet well a nice purple gray color :) ha-ha we spent the next 20min rubbing my lays warming me up! I hobbled home through on my thermals and blankets and winter stuff and bundled up that night, however the next day i got up to see frost bight :) ha-ha frost bite from a baptism! anyway i couldn’t move my hip my muscles were so tight so i stretched it out and go t a blessing from the district leader (his first one ever in English) I and well I’m all better now :) faith is an amazing this and every day i exercise my hip and its coming a long still pops but all part of recovery process ha-ha but yeah frost bite from a baptism! Anyway yeah we start baptisms an 1 hour late than we say because everyone’s late. but the work comes great, we had an investigator not pass the interview with district leader and president of the stake, my companion and me were talking to the investigators husband, who was obviously concerned and a little and bashing our leaders, and well from what i understood my companion (who is really great and loving me and him our getting along) tried to console him, but sounded like agreement so i prayed and bore my testimony of Christ and persons and priesthood power, through the spirit my Spanish is coming along great, it didn’t affect him but i was just happy to for my testimony of the priesthood you guys have installed in my, thanks dad thanks mom, you guys are truly amazing :)

this week i learned a lot about the law of compensation as well in revelations 21:4 it says god will wipe away all tears, and this give me strength to know that god blesses us 10 fold, knowing that god can’t lie really helps especially... every rice dish i eat i now that my wife will be that better of a cook :) every step i take she’s that much prettier :) every missed peach pie, or breakfast where all i get is a piece of bread :) well that’s ten- fold breakfasts ill have with homemade food and a wonderful wife who makes homemade jam and Christmas candy and tacos and yeah :) i think that’s how it works right ;) the work goes great and all though every night i fill like I’m going to die (we literally hike the Andes for investigators every day) every morning i wake up and can{t wait to serve :) don{t forget the challenge to contact at least one person before Christmas in general conference and we work a lot with the ward council don{t forget the importance of this and the importance of members in missionary discussion and work :) love you all so very much! 2 (possible 3 with the last transfer) months down :) love you all ! god be with you till we meet again

i really have grown to appreciate my family, please i know grandpa had a lot of family history, make sure it doesn’t go to waste, if possible keep it id love to do some research when i come back, i taught a gospel principles class in church the other day (in a different language now that was scary mom ;) ha-ha anyway and my companion (a member for 1 year) was saying how hard it was to understand certain gospel topics, thank you for teaching me from a younger age i love tall the knowledge i have and love you with all my heart}

Elder grow :)

Also i keep a budget, all the other elders laugh at me :) but you raised your son right :) love you 

also the bananas here are called plantaes de la celba  (bananas of the jungle) and are orange :) i love you all with my whole heart i feel your love and prayers and means a lot ,K this week two years looks like a long time but can’t wait to see you all in 2 month Christmas call!! :) So literally I’ll be home for Christmas :) anyway love you al  l :) also the Peruvians love my curly hair :)