Family!!!  How is everything goin?  I got my new companion, elder zapata, from Bolivia in the mountains. hahah like the mountains in the forest hahah  he just got out of the ccm and was in there with Isaac bell, haha small world.  But he is pretty cool, he is 22 and a little awkward, just a little bugger, and I am a district leader now, and so just another thing to worry about, and the sisters are in my district, and they had two baptisms this saturday and so i had to do 2 interviews this weekend for baptism.  but everything went good.  Man it has just been another stress for me, but that is okay.  I dunno why I have so many things going on only six months into my mission, but that is okay I am ready to do a little more now, haha I guess.  

 

And so I will start by talking about the conferences this week, i am so excited.  This week in peru we dont get to watch it, because it is the city elections here and so there isnt church this week, because I guess everyone sits and drinks here those days, and it is mandatory here and so if they dont vote they have to pay like 100 dollars and so they all want to vote because they dont have the money to offord that, this week we are going to try to find a member to watch it with on the internet.  And ya it will all be in spanish, but that is okay.  My spanish will make alot of progress again, im ready for that.  My companion was telling me a story about how he used to hunt doves to feed to his cats sister, because that is all they would eat, and so he would hunt with his bow and arrow, haha but I love my companion.  He doesnt know the difference between a dvd player and a cd player, haha he put a dvd in the cd player cause he wanted to listen to the movie, he didnt know how to turn up the volume. haha his mom is the straight up mountains lady that wears her cowboy hat and her skirt. haha it is fun, i didnt get to go to cusco, but my companion is from the mountains and so I get a little of the culture, and man i dunno if I could of lived like he lived his whole life ahah.  

 

Yes mom we go to the sacrament, then to the new converts class, and then to priesthood class like normanl.  but you dont get that sweet spirit like in utah, it is like night and day, and so it is alot harder to feel the spirit here, there isnt reverence.  You have to be on your toes here and have to study yourself to feel the spirt.

 

we found a sweet investigator this week.  so we were going through all of our names in our agendas one day and we ran out of names to visit, no one was home, and I didnt have a good feeling about knockin doors that day, so I had a feeling to visit ricardo, a less active with some problems with drugs, and so I had a strong feeling that we needed to go, so we wnet threre and he had a friend there and he is an alcoholic, but that day he had quit drinking and wanted to stop, so he was shaking and having conpulsions and stuff, so we taught him the book of mormon, and wanted to have us in his house everyday, so we went to his house the next day, and taught him the restoration, and then we did our prayer on our knees and he did it and just started bawling, it was awesome, hahah so we will see what happens with that. 

 

Then guillerma, was going to get baptized this saturday, but like wednesday she was like elder stauffer I have one question, can i get baptized if i am not married, man my stomach just dropped, and was like no sister you cant, and so now we are planning a marriage, and teaching the law of chastity and they want to get married now, so that will be new for me  :)

 

I am sad for Sandra, but at the same time it could be a good thing, now she cant find her a man that is a member and get sealed to him, she is ready for that, man how lucky is she that we found here knocking doors, or rather we found her by mistake, i miss her, and i writing her a letter today and then send it.  But I will try to get her the proclamation soon.  Tell her, Sea Feliz, Todo va a pasar, y que estoy pensando de ella, y orando bastante y yo sè que todo va a mejorar, y piensa en la eternidad!!!  Sin fin, Para siempre con sus hijos.

 

MOm maybe you could just highlight that and just send it to her. 

 

 Love you guys a ton, and got my package this week, now I am going to go see if I get this weeks right now in the zone leaders house.  Love you guys so much.  write me

Whats up fam how is everything going?  Your elder is doing just fine just loving it with elder mitchell, tory was so lucky to get american companions always,,, haha  because  it is so fun.  Elder mitchell is awesome, we have had a lot of fun.  We didnt have a baptism but we still are  having success, still talking with everyone, yesterday we had to knock doors, and no one wanted us... ahah that is okay, one guy listened to us.  But lots of people know english here in this area because they are all rich and so they have tvs and watch tv in english, well they think they know english, but they dont.  I havent gotten my packages for two weeks now and didnt get an email either, so hope everything is good, haha but got an email from tanner today, sounds like he is loving the field, haha the mission changes a little bit when you get to the field, its not like the ccm.  How are my broncos doing?  I have  been wearing my broncos shirt in memory of my broncs this week.   You will have to tell me how they do?  Who is starting at quarterback for them.   Blake told me ma that you wrote him, that is nice of you, keep up the good work, haha wrote blake but not me an email :(  haha its ok jk, i know that you are really busy.  so vanessas mom got an answer and we are working with her to prepare for baptism.  And we have this homeless guy with a baptismal date to, and a couple others but everything was just a normal week and so I dont even know what to tell you.  It is fun being a trainer I love it, but it is a little stressful when you dont have anything to do and you have to just look for people to teach.

I think we are doing a good job, hahah  Last p day we make mac and cheese for daisy and carlos and stephanie, their daughter, they loved it  I have been eating so bad, and gained a little bit of weight but not alot I dont  think, but I will try to get back down, to when I send pictures home, stephanie tells me that I am skinny again hahah 

Toads thanks for all your emails and everything, that is always awesome to read your letters, thanks for everything, and work on your spanish.  haha who would of thought that in 6 months I would stop worrying about it, I can just talk now pretty good, still have to work, and my white companion isnt helping any because he doesnt talk spanish for nothing, hahah so i havent progresssed lately.  but it is still fun, that is one good thing about a pervian comp.  we are always speaking spanish. but thanks for everything toads.. 

So I am sending 3 fotos, one of carlos and daisy.  and then one of La Punta, we have an investigator here , lucy, she lives close so we brought our cameras one day.  and then elder chef, me llamo, ahaha  they call me.  but the spanish is here, dont really worry about it anymore, but still I need to work and work so i can be an expert not just normal, I wanna know everything. 

So we went to Tottus last monday and we used our visas you will have to tell me how much they charged because they gave us all sorts of heck about our cards, and they werent gonna let us use them, and then they did.  so just tell me what they charged.

Love you all WRITE ME EMAILS, SHORT ONES AT LEAST.......

Family, whats up in utah, just having the time of my life here with my new compy..  haha the big news, my new companion is Elder Mitchell, haha he is from Oregon,  IT IS AWESOME.  HA and ya I am his trainer, who would of thought that i would be training so soon, but hey I am doing it and we had a baptism and it was awesome, then on sunday the bishop asked me to confirm her a member of the church, so that was a little nerve racking, but hey i did it and didnt even mess up , and look she is a member of the church now, her name is venessa.  One day she just showed up at church on her own, and then we made an appointment with her, and visited her, and she was prepared by the lord, and got baptized.  but dang she had so many doubts, and her major doubt is that in the 10 commandments it says that the sabbath day is saturday, who would of thought that this could be a doubt but we got that all worked out and she got baptized.  Ha and a little about elder mitchell, i couldnt have gotten a better present, after that one elder, what was his name, oh ya, elder burgos.....  haha elder mitchell is from oregon, and he just came out of the ccm, and so he knew tanner, and by the way didnt get to go see tanner, so the only chance that i will have now is like on p day or something like that,  but elder mitchell was a quarterback in oregon and his team won the state championship so it is way fun to talk about those kinds of things again, because you cant talk about football with the latinos so I am so happy.  But I make him practice his spanish alot because he needs to practice, and so do i still and so I will continue practicing.  But we had alot of success our first week together, because we stick out a bit, hahah two greengos together in peru haha and so all of the people wanna know who we are and what we are doing...   so we talked with everyone this week, for being new he really liked to go up and talk with everyone, so we will see how many people we can challenge, I will keep trying to be a good example.  But man it is so much easier to be in charge again, hahah i love it, because I am such a better missionary when I know when people are watching.   I have been thinking about tanner alot and what he is doing. 

To answer some of your guys´ questions, my shoes are still awesome, we bought really nice shoes sister and so they arent worn out at all, sweet shoes, they dont celebrate labor day here, as far as I know.... 

Tammie that is awesome that you are still feeling somewhat good for being a prego again.  haha ill be praying for me, and that is crazy that you are going to have two birthdays so close together, ya have fun with that hahaha but tell bt that I love him, and you better keep my blanket up in his room still haha

Dad, I know it is crazy huh that we are all out at the same time, and having the best two years, just knocking out the best two years, and then after that I can figure out what I am going to do....

Mom How is my mother dear, that is awesome that you are hanging out with my friends,  how are they all doing?  Thats funny that you are hanging out with tyler, haha because like right after I left he was like texting whit to hang out, and go on dates and stuff, haha but thats okay we all make mistakes, and ya got other things to worry about, haha but Mom i love ya with all my heart, and your the girl that matters to me right now, (and my sisters).  Today daisy is going to make us brownies with icecream and I am making macoroni and cheese, and probably other stuff.  I got 1000 soles this month because I am the senior companion and so I gave elder mitchell his money and had to pay all of the stuff, but I have a lot extra, so I shouldnt be withdrawing money this month, but we will see.  I had gained alot of weight with all the latinos, because they didnt wanna run, but with elder mitchell, we run every morning, and so we will see if I can get back down again.  Everything is normal, and it seems like you just barely dropped me off.  Love you all so much  gotta go, elder stauffer.