I HAVE A PIZZA PLACE NOW!!!

Hey hey fam... Didnt get an email from no one this week so I hope that everything is good, I sure had a stressful week.  But I will Start by saying how sad it was to say bye to all of my friends in san martin, bello horizonte.  Sandra, George and hans.  I^ll miss them a bunch.  But you know the lord, he always has something prepared for me.  This week I have really felt like an instrument in his hands.  I have had a lot of time to just think by myself this week because my new companion, Elder Burgos, doesnt talk all that much...  I have been thinking about my whole life and how I feel like he has prepared me big time for this moment in my life.  But on wednesday was changes and I got to change from Bello Horizonte, to The zone marangas, And my area in precursores.  My companion is Elder Burgos, We are co-senior companions, but ya he doesnt do anything.  It is alot of responsability for me this soon in my mission, but I am ready, I have always been a better person when I have been leading people.  He has two months in the mission, and so this is his second change, and his trainer was elder williams.  He just ended his mission, and so he was way ready to go home, because he didnt teach elder burgos anythin, and so now I have to teach him everything.  So elder burgos is like accostomed to not working now.  They left the area bare, we have no investigators, he doesnt know the area, he doesnt know how to teach a lesson, he doesnt have anything memorized, he doesnt know how to present the book of mormon, he doesnt talk, I cant understand him good because he talks so soft, and they didnt feel out anything is the area folder, and so we dont have anyone to visit now, so basically, we are starting from scratch.  Elder burgos´ mission call is to mexico, so he doesnt care all that much about the work here, he is just waiting to get out of here, so it is kinda hard.  Because he will be leaving soon, and when he leaves I will be with a mini missionary.  A mini missionary is a young man from the young mens courumn, and when that happens I better know the area, because we have the biggest area in the zone, and so I have alot to do and study.  But the good thing is that I went from the dust of bello horizonte, to an oasis here in precursores.  All of the people are rich because they live on the beach.  Yes my area has the beach now, which is way sweet.  The area seems like california alot, you see nice cars driving around, have a bunch of super markets, like wal mart, or sams club, and their houses are awesome, and they have huge palm trees, mom :)  I knew that you would love that.  This area is sweet, but the people are less humble, a little more prideful and so we will see how good I can do here alone, haha My spanish is going to improve alot in these next 6 weeks, but I am way grateful for how i can talk now, just have to keep working at it.  I dont worry about it all that much anymore if you can believe it.  Spanish is awesome, and I will have to teach all of you when I get home.  I havent got my packages for two weeks again, so that is hard.  But ill live, i know it is because i need to work hard here in this sector, and i am way happy to be a senior companion now, and not get bossed around anymore, I didnt like that all that much, because they dont realize that i am capable to be a missionary too.  So I am way ready for that.  But I thought this week that I could explain to you where I am at, and you guys can look it up on google earth... I really hope that everything is good at home....  So remember on the map in my mission call, it has that point of land, like a peninsula, and then it has that Island out in the ocean, I am the next area above that, and so I get to see La punta everyday.  And so in google earth type in Avenida Argentina con Avenida Elmer Faucett.  And right around there is my area, and it is huge...  In the changes meeting, I asked all of the new elders how tanner is doing, and they all said that he is doing good , so that was way wierd to hear that they had just come from seeing tann that same day.  And mom remember that missionary that you sent me out of the standard examiner? he got here and I told him about how you sent me his picture.  ahah it was funny.  My room is tiny, and the shower is like in the room, we live on the 3rd floor, and it is like a cement hut, it is pretty funny, but I love it.  Just know that everything is good here with me, miss all of you guys very much, but just hoping that everything is good at home, because I havent got anything for awhile now, and no email today, so I love you. And pray for me this week that we can find people to teach....  Love you very much...

First Facebook friend in Peru she actually lives in Hooper, was visiting in Peru her family lives there! Birthday party Stephanie gave them with mountain dew! When she got home she came to visit our family and have dinner with us. 



"Wow amazing things happen.. I was talking to this lady Sandra, that was in jesse's first area, on Facebook and she said my doorbell is ringing she said guess who it is it was Elder Stauffer! He had come there because he had to stay there in that area tonight waiting for his new companion he is getting tomorrow I felt like I had won the Lottery!!!"

--Mom

IT'S HARD TO SAY GOODBYE

Leaving his first area

1st Area

 Ok this is one of the things we eat here, and this is car and a little girl that they always babysit.  Car is georges and hans little brother, but the little girl is so cute so i had to send you this picture.  She is awesome, and the little kids here are usually like chucky.  But she isnt she is awesome, and she speaks spanish and it makes me laugh because I think about bt and how i am learning a new language at the same time that he is, i dont know if you guys have thought about that, but i am learning with bt.  I was way surprised that he spoke so much into the tape recorder.  But mom stephanie is going to take some things home for me, so you should be gettting in touch with her in about two weeks, she will have a cassett tape from me i hope.  but i didnt tell you guys that my companion is 24, he is almost 6 years older than me, and is older than my sister so that is kinda wierd to think about.  But my new zone is way young, we all are under 1 year besides the zone leaders, and me and my companion have the same time, he entered the ccm in la molina 18 of march.  so at times it is hard becasue we have the same time and he is senior companion and he tells me what to do, but he doesnt anymore, because i told him that thats not gonna happen with me and he stopped.  But it is awesome now, we are friends and all is good, i teach him english and he teaches me spanish, and i am learning alot.  But the only thing is there is like a billion words i dont know, that i have to work on memorizing.

The little boy that everyone thinks looks like Jesse! And he does for sure!!!!