October 28th Letter

Wow mom it’s great to hear from everything! I’m serious! To answer questions, first, Halloween- well that will come in my letter. Things are better with my companion and yes. So first did Jacie look up vocation for me? How about that family history? How about the elks lodge scholarship? How’s Kodi? Tell Jacie good job on the math (snicker ;) is she cutting the comics? love hearing about our ward sounds great!

First off, this week i got robbed, don’t worry no big deal they only took my camera. so i had to buy another one. But i feel really bad especially with you guys financially supporting me, so the instructions are only put money on my card from that 500 dollars in my account. that way the money i spent on this camera, and souvenirs is mine and not your hard work.

Second you asked about Christmas and i figured I’d clear that up in this letter. When i made a Christmas list this is what i have:

tacos}cinnamon rolls pancakes waffles mac and cheese banana bread pigs in the blanket, cereal peach pie crepes scones ham tetrazzini Christmas candy homemade cookies oatmeal a big salad scalloped or cream corn pie goulash frosty animal fries milkshakes and MILK

Ha-ha so as you can see i don’t need much for Christmas ;)

No this list is

Legos :) of course Mo- tab cd}

just some jeans a plaid shirts for post mission, Shaun white gum, a banana chair, 50 cent piece toothpicks roller skates, a white plog, pet fish, harmonica hockey stick toaster oven and waffles iron money for piano and banjo lessons, I’m serious about those when I get back, and
oh and a tandem bike for dates ;) no but as you can see i don{t really need much for Christmas, all i want is maybe 20 dollars for some souvenir for you guys, and yeah set the rest aside for post mission (speaking post mission i want Twinkies ;). or spend it on yourself and have a great Christmas. all i want is maybe a package with lots and lots of Christmas cards and letters, from all the family friends etc. lots of pictures yeah :) cause food like ginger snap cookies or stuff will get stolen so just put some money [(small) and send me cards. and after the mission I’ll go on a long walk or golf trip with dad;), bake cookies and piano lesson with mom, and movie date with Kodi, double date Kelsee, and basketball game Jacie, oh and work in grandmas yard ;) that’s all, oh and save the toys are r us big toy book with the comics too ;) enjoy Christmas packages and mail works here it gets here pretty fast, and you pick it up in lima. but since were in Huarez we get mail once a month, probably why haven’t gotten stuff yet. so first little bit won’t get stuff.

Now the letter}

This week’s been like trying to tell a joke in sacrament meeting in a Latino ward, it really stinks and it’s just bad... but in the end you’re still the only one laughing ;) and that’s all that matters ;)

First off right after writing you last week i got robbed... by a girl... of 11 years of age yeah picked up my bag and she reached above my computer grabbed my camera and took off..... Yeah sucks I know, but it’s all good, we all have trials, I’ll just have to get a new one. no worries:) can{t keep a good man down, and cant wipe the smile off Elder Grow’s face:) after this we went to yungay oh I wish i could show you pictures. santo campo yungay look it up online. but it’s a city north of here. The story is 2 elders of the church were killed and drug around the town, a member of the 70 came and took off his shoes, 1 day later and enormous earthquake buried the whole town, killing everyone instantly. The entire place is a giant graveyard over the city, very eerie and quite... so a Latino brought a soccer ball and we played on the outskirts :) after this, well, Elder Zavala wouldn’t talk to me, wouldn’t eat and yeah we were having major problems, something was wrong, so i called for cambios. i switched with the district leader, and dad remember the story how you ran to every appointment my cambio companion had the same idea.. never been more tired in my life. but i got to eat with their pinchanista, and wow she’s amazing they had omelets and pork and fruit juice.. we just get rice. so the bad news food is (machu pichu) and i hate it, good news it will get  better :) after this we went to the capilla to wait for an investigator she didn’t show and we were about to move on when we thought we should wait for 5 min, exactly 5min later a man came crying begging for our help to change his life, we taught him and he’s getting baptized this Saturday :) after that i taught ingles classes in the capilla every miercoles for 2 hours i love it. But it was interrupted by a long trip to the bathroom. the leche here is disgusting and comes in a can, i tried some and well yeah i miss my milk. After this the next day my companion was fine! he was wonderful! great! fantastic! whatever they had a talk about and his family problems well they are so much better now! :) We went way up in the mountains this day. Our area is about from Kaysville to Clinton and encompasses the city of Huarez and Lomas way up in the Andes; we trekked up there and visited an old lady and here child. no one goes there cause she’s crazy, she started off talking about how she had stabbed herself in the hand with a crochet needle and Christ came down and removed it from her and said now you know how i feel, well when we showed up and gave her the restoration pamphlet she flipped she keeps having this dream that Jesus visits her and gave her this book in a black bag like mine, interesting, we taught her and her daughter and when we got to the picture of Christ baptism the girl flips, shed had a dream 3 times the night before some guy in white was trying to drown her in a river, we explained the man she dreamed of was Jesus, the one in the photo, and she and her sister our getting baptized  god works in mysterious ways. After works walking down they warned me of the big white dog, i told them its ok I’m big and white too,

this had a huge almuerzo and well Saturdays our exhausting cause the next day the Hermana’s cooked us French toast which was great and i lifted rocks all day and threw them in a river :) anyway than taught a lessons sitting POW wow with a woman that only spoke quechwa, trying to learn that it’s hard. Look it up. But yeah Sundays are the worst; the hardest thing about us is getting people to just come to church. And well plus this Sunday i gave a talk. It went really great and i was blest with the gift of tongues, just not jokes ;) ha-ha but good news i have found my true laugh, its loud long and low and jolly :) ha-ha anyway than went to a members house for lunch they served us what... well looked like brownies,.. I’ve really learned the meaning of please bless this food... anyway that we sat for an hour looking at their wedding photos yeah that a consejo de barrior for 3 hours and accomplished nothing ha-ha those are always long, than went way up into Lomas where we past a bunch of drunks blasting Hotel California :) anyway we have 3 fechas for this Saturday and 4 for next weeks! :) I love it and the work is progressing. we have a really good investigator tonight who we got all the young single adult ward to come with us to the lesson, 6 people ;) anyway this week I’ve taken hit after hit, door after door, and trial after trail but still smiling and loving the work :) oh and Spanish doesn’t have the palabra shuck as in to shuck corn or shucks it doesn’t exist :) love you all

Elder Grow

Love you all send me more photos of you smiling having a good time more photos! :)