And so i will start by saying mom we cant email back and forth anymore, because we were in the mission offices this past week and i didnt know that it was bad to email back and forth but sister tyler told us that we arent supposed to do it, and so mom i am sorry but i guess it is a rule, and i need to be 100 percent obidient to get the language down, i need the lords help. I know that you understant that :) but NOW yes mother dear I got your box on monday, how awesome is that!!! And everything was in it, thanks mom that box was the best to get a sweet tie, and yes i was wearing the green tie when i saw stephanie, i was working with elder celiz in her ward, but mom she is going to take a box home for me next monday, and so today i am going to get the box all ready with my favorite treats, a u jersey for kody and other peru stuff. Hope that that makes you super happy, because i was super happy to get your box. But we had our baptism, willy, :) we are finding success. But i want to talk a little about willy, he is 74 and he has a strong testimony already about the things that we have taught him. So he was in his white cloths and we had the talks and stuff like we always do before baptisms, and then we all moved over to the font, and before he got to the font, he fell down to his knees and offered a prayer to his heavenly father, man the spirit was so strong, and it was awesome to see because i have really changed his life, and so that is way awesome, he is the best man that one could meet in this world. He will always be in my heart, and everyday i cant wait to teach him more, but elder lopez and i are working away and are super blessed, all we have to do is leave the room and start working and the lord puts the people in front of us. It is a real testimony builder. And man this last week i have made so much progress
with the language, seemed like everyday that i made progress with one aspect of the language, and i could probably write this whole email is spanish if you guys knew spanish i would, but man it is awesome, this language, haha and it is even better when i understand everything they say sometimes, and other times i cant understand, but in my mission i should be able to understand everything. But this week was full of experiences, we were baby sitters this week, councelors, teachers, preachers, and a cleaning crew. haha man this week was a good week, and time is flying by. But we were councelors because sister claudia and brother cristian are having a bunch of problems and i just want to start by saying that we have no idea about everything that we have family, always pray to our heavenly father thanking him for what he have. So yesterday we were upstairs eating, and cristian said to us, we need to have a conversation, and he said to us that there is divisions in his family now and that we have to change something and he kinda got a little mad at us because we always put the baptismal cloths up stairs for claudia to wash and it was stressing her out, and then she just blew up on him, and said, i dont have problems with the elders, i have problems with you, because we dont even have any money to feed our family, i dont have any money to buy our son a uniform for school, and she was bawling. And she said without the elders we dont have money to eat cristian, man my heart was broken for everything that we have, and they dont even have money to eat without the money that i pay them, and ya that is how all of their lives are mom and dad, we dont have any idea how blessed we are, why are se so lucky? it is always a question that i have had these past couple of months. But just pray for me, that i dont give all your money away dad... haha but no im not supposed to it is a rule, and i have been fighting with it alot but the spirit has been telling me to not give them money, that the lord knows what he is doing. But everything is awesome, i have my full health back, i basically know my whole red language book now, just have to put it to use, and we are reading the book of mormon as a mission now and so my goal now is to be able to speak better by the time i finish, the goal is the 21 of september, and we started the 24 of july, but we started then because it was pioneer day, and we are finishing the 21 of september becasue it was the day that moroni appeared to Joseph Smith, man I cant even explain the mission, besides it is the best, the best for me personaly because i feel like i am building a relationship with our savior which is something that should of happened along time ago, but i am trying to pay him back for the wonderful blessings that i have in my life, like my mother and everything that she has taught me, my dad and how he has had the blessing of providing for us like no other, and my awesome bros and sisters. Cant forget my awesome extended fam, and my friends. Think about blake and tann all the time, and miss them like crazy too. But today is a pday as companions and so i will be writing letters today. Love your spanish speaking Elder, Elder Stauffer, (Still working on the language, dont get me wrong, love you all more than you know, love you mom and dad) Until next week, and hey write me emails, during the week, i can read them, just cant respond back and forth. Elder Jesse Stauffer
