The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

December 19, 2016
"So this week was good weird hard and just different! So we had 3 amazing baptisms this week! And only 2 showed up on Sunday.... N wasnt there!!!! We didnt really know what happened but she says she is going to be there the next Sunday we are praying for that to work out. Elder Fernandez is going to die this Friday! So so crazy. He has been such a great influence on me. We have worked so well together and I know that in the end of my mission i will look to him as one of my best companions. He does so well at listening to the spirit and he does really well with enduring to the end. He is a great missionary and its going to be really sad saying goodbye to him. Im nervous to have a new companion but i know that we are going to do great things together. So our baptisms this week! N, A and AM! They are so awesome and they know this is the truth. They love the church and everything this gospel offers and they are going to be great members! I had the oppurtunity to baptize A and that was just awesome I love it. This week was kind of crazy hahaha lots of going to the Church for baptisms or too the offices for Elder Fernandez so that was all kind of fun! I got to say goodbye to Elder Olsen! He lives in Arizona and he left last Thursday! He is awesome and that was sad seeing him go. This week we are going to say goodbye to 2 more Elders in our district... Its sad seeing missionaries leave but also very happy. They have worked so so hard for all of this and its made me realize how I do not want to go home at all. I want to work hard hard hard so when the days comes when I leave I can feel as if I have done the work I was called to do. Ive been listening to the talk by Elder Holland about missionary work a lot this week. Its so awesome how he talks and its so true what he says."Why is it so hard" "Why isnt our success more rapid? This is the truth, we believe in angels we trust in miracles why dont people just flock to the font?... Ive thought about it a great deal and I offer this as my personal feeling its not church doctorine persay its just my feeling... I believe that missionary work is not easy, BECAUSE SALVATION IS NOT A CHEAP EXPERIENCE! SALVATION WAS NEVER EASY!... why would we think it would be easy for us when it was never easy for him." Then he goes on and talks more about missionaries and its just so awesome. This work is definitely not easy but it is definitely necessary. I love being a missionary and I love Peru. missionary work is very awesome and i hope to hear from you all love you!

Pics on the way!"

Roller Coaster Weeks

12/5/2016
"This week was very very busy but also in a very different way. With Elder Fernandez being the district leader we have lots of interviews to do.. and we have to take a bus to the church then take one back so sometimes that takes up a lot of time and then with all the baptisms we had this week! 7 baptisms in our district this last week! So awesome I am so happy for our Elders. Me and Elder Fernandez are working really hard to baptize this month! So we have Family M E and they are just so awesome still. They always read theyve gone to church three weeks in a row and they just dont have a testimony of the Book of Mormon yet. So thats something we are helping them with. Theyre awesome keeping their commitments too! Besides praying... which is a pretty big commitment to miss hahaha. But we are helping them with that too. They are awesome and I dont know how to explain it just really amazing people. So interested in the Church and they are really progressing! Then there is A and AM and they are awesome too! They are really into the fact that they are going to be baptized for themselves and for Jesus Christ. Not for anyone else. They are doing awesome and are getting excited to get baptized. They have accepted the Law of Chastity and The Word of Wisdom with no problems and I cant wait for the day that they are baptized. We found a new family that we are going to start working with! They know that we are "Elders" and they always say hi to us! We taught them one short lesson cause it was late and we are meeting with them again this week! They are a really cool family! So besides that we had a day or two that was just a lot of walking but thats alright! We are going to keep working hard and finding more people! We also had our Multi Zone this week with different zones so that was really cool! I got to see some of my good buddies! SO yea! Hope you are all doing great!

1Corinthians 13:11

I found a snickers so that was really awesome. And then in the other picture i just look dumb im still practicing my smile... then the other is a picture of the crazy every day traffic in Peru! I want to hear how everyone is doing so you should all email me real quick lol. Love you all!"

12/12/2016

"So this week was awesome! First off i want to start off with the fact that we had a lesson with Family ME and also the Mission President decided to tag a long hahahaha. We asked him for his help and he was more than willing to go! There are almost 200 missionaries in this mission and he felt the need to visit this family with us. That was amazing. I cant even explain it akll but that was awesome the spirit was so strong and the family felt it too they are so amazing. They are making this Saturday the goal but its not for sure. THey want to know more but President Stauffer really helped. WOW:

Our district is doing so well and its so awesome seeing the hard work pay off and its going to pay off for me and Elder Fernandez this week! So something awesome happened today! N (who is our investigator that told us she is going to be baptized when she gets home) called us today. WOW! After the longest up and down roller coaster of my life she decided that she wants to get baptized WEDNESDAY!!! She called us and told us that she went to the baptism of another companionship and one of our other investigators was there too, AM. AM and her daughter are going to be baptized this Saturday. Anyways, N sat by AM during the baptism and after the baptism they left together. AM didnt know what type of situation N was in but AM started to talk about her baptism this Saturday. AND Nacilmar wanted to get baptized as soon as possible! So she called us today and said Wednesday!!! Because of the excitment and testimony of another investigator! That was something so amazing. Miracles are weird and they are real. Such a testimony builder. We are going to end Elder Fernandez's mission strong! EMAIL ME!"