HALLOWEEN THIS WEEK

Yes sister they celebrate halloween! And I got my box mom, thank you so much.  Sorry that we are so late today, I didnt know we werent gonna write  until later, but as a mission we played sports today and so that was fun.  It seems like we just did it the last time a couple months ago.  It scares me how fast all this is goin.  But man I am kicking myself in the butt right now because I usually write my ideas in my agenda that I write you guys, and I had such a good idea this week and I was like no i will remember but man I cannot remember for the life of me.  I am a little stressed because today we have to change rooms.  I wasnt gonna tell mom because I dont want her worrying but it is only fair that  you all know, but we have to change rooms because we got eaten alive by bugs, and now it like isnt stopping, we spent one whole day cleaning and spraying but ya it didnt do anything and now sister tyler told me today that ELDER STAUFFER YOU HAVE TO LEAVE YOUR ROOM TODAY, and so now with elder hawk my zone leader we are going to go room hunting today and tomorrow.  Elder Zapata has it pretty bad, but I am good, only on my wrist.  She is making us leave our pensionista also, because she just doesnt want us in that house anymore, and it will break my heart to have to tell daisy because she has been doing the whole  breakfast lunch and dinner thing for 11 years, and I cant think of another lady in the ward that could even do that.  so we will be cooking for ourselves for awhile.  so we will see, but just another experience.  THe mission is full of them ill tell you what.  But I asked the assistents if i could meet up with tanner, and we have a way sweet assistent and he was like, ya if you want, haha so we will see what tanners president says.   The weather is heating up, we finally sweat again, but what am I saying, I am going to die, if it is like it was that night when I got here from the Provo MTC.  And when I was in the ccm it was good and hot.   had our baptism and now the whole family are members so that was a good experience, she wanted me to baptize her so yup i did  it.  The mission is the best.  I am happy to hear that you all got back from Nebraska good.  That is embarresing that they lost to the Raiders by that much, wow, what is there record.  O well it is ok here but when I get back they better get their butts in gear.  O ya I was gonna tell you a little about Sister Tyler, I love her she is awesome, she is defenantly the boss of that relationship haha and of the mission, it is funny. Changes are coming up but I wont have a change, but I wish, man it is so hard here in this area, but Im here for a reason.   Sorry if I am forgetting to answer all of your questions, im not on my game because this week I was just thinking about other things so next

 week Ill step my game up.  But yes mom I have gained a little bit, but I will try to eat more healthy now that I will be cooking for myself.   Like tory did in his mission, sweet.... haha we get spoiled here with the pensionista. 

Man that looks like so much fun, and want to start out by telling you all thanks for your emails.  And it is always the best part of mondays to see that everything is good at home and that I can just keep focusing on what I am doing here.  Nebraska looks so fun, that bus, sweet pops, good idea.  We will be renting a little bigger van than that when I get home and get my family started, but whoa got alot left haha just completed 7 months yesterday and ya just another day today.  Haha but good good news.  THEY GOT MARRIED, YESSSSS!!!  Ha man that was stressful enough for me, cause we had to go into the city building with them on friday to sign papers and that took like three hours and so our numbers this week were way down but I figure that if I am getting people married then I must be doing something good, and its not me, didnt do anything besides teach the commandments and then the Lord was helping along the path it was easy for them.  Friday they took us on a little tour after signing the papers and we went to La Punta, the point, remember in lima there is like that point and then the island, ya we went there.  Callao is way sweet, i wanna serve there way bad.  But then saturday we just waited for elder mitchell and his companion to get to our room because Guillerma wanted elder mitchell to go to her wedding so then elder mitchell got there and we just walked to the wedding.  And like 30 couples were getting married, they get married wierd here.  They like just have one date, and they let them get married for free, so everyone and their dogs are there haha that was an experience.  But it was super super awesome, she is now getting baptized this saturday, FINALLY.....  But hey a eternal family, so that will be an experience if the Lord will get them all prepared to go to the Temple.  This week has been some hard days, but today i feel a little better.  Just been hard because I have just been trying to have patience and conquer that part of me that I dont like.  Like my companion refuses to turn the lights off after he gets done in the bathroom and so i always have to get up and turn them off, and then he does not shut doors behind him, and I try to teach him to walk on the side of me, but he just doesnt want to do it.  he walks behind me and it drives me nuts, and then I lose the spirit because it bugs me, and then ya... SO i am doing my best.  we have interviews this friday with President Tyler and those are always sweet, he is like our best friend.  I cant even explain how awesome he is. 

I sent you pictures of the wedding and of the Obregón Family.  And yes as you can see i have put on a few, haha but ya ill get back down soon.  Its just everyone here in this sector feeds us rolls and so ill i do is eat bread, and rice, rice every meal but still Im not sick of rice, I actually like it, but it makes ya gain a few pounds...  but hey the mission does that do a missionary.  i remember when I saw tory for the first time and his face looks way different haha 

It is pretty cool to think that you will be reading this email all together.  HI MOM HI DAD HI KODY HI STEPH HI PAYTON HI TORY HI TAMMIE HI BRANIK HI ARIN HI DEVIN.   But I am confused why arin and devin didnt go.  Youll have to let me know. 

So me and tanner are trying to work something out to meet up somewhere or something.  But we will see

And mom how did you know that I had fungus on my foot, haha I didnt wanna tell you so you didnt worry.  But it worked, took it right away. And thank you for the muddie buddies, they were awesome, and cant wait to get the box. 

Aunt connie, thank you so much for the package it was awesome, and I am going to put the picture that I took with the package on the email right now, when i got the package i put the sweet tie on, and i am wearing the tie right now too..  so thank you, and thanks to all of your fam, I will try to write a letter soon,

Man there is so much to a mission, you have to memorize, read, talk with everyone in the street, knock doors, and much more, there is to much sometimes,  but ill just keep pluggin.  Love all of you guys a ton, keep righting me. 

Les extraño bastante, espero que todos estén leyendo sus Libros de Mormón.  El idioma esta bien, todavía estoy progresando pero estoy allí.  Ójala que les guste leer un poco español.  Les amo un montón.  Nos vemos, hasta lunes, hasta luego bebé

Ok fam how is it going there for everyone, sorry this computer wont do a question mark, haha but man another fast week for me, and everything is going good.  We are just grinding to get some people progressing.  But I have good news, haha this saturday Guillerma and Alfonso are going to get married.  Vanessas mom, ahaha and so I am happy, so I will be planning a wedding with the ward for the first time this week.  Man i am so happy for them, one day i sure hope I can see them getted sealed in the temple.  So we got to watch conferences this week, and man they sure talked about the missionaries a lot, I felt proud that President Monson did a little tribute to us.  I was happy that I got to here that and more than anything feel the spirit of The Lord.  Because I am basically in Satans Kingdom down here in Peru, he has a firm grip down here down south.  But That was cool, Tann just emailed me, man I was tempted to write back but no cant do it.  haha And someone else wrote me too to ask if I was on, but Im not gonna do it, last week I broke the rules on the Internet and man I felt guilty all week so I promised myself that I would do better this week.   But this week we have been praying so hard to get new investigatores, and man we got a sweet answer to our prayers.  At the conferences this guy Gonzalo came to them on his own so all of the missionaries were talking to him, but I didnt wanna overwhelm him so I just kinda hid back a little bit and just listened to what they were saying to him, and then there were like brother were do you live, and he was describing my area, man was I happy because he is ready to hear the message.  So then I stepped in and said ya let me take down your address and everything was good.  So this wednsday night we are going to visit him, so we will see what happens, he was way tall and looked like a german dude, so that is cool.  Then found a guy in the street sunday too, so that will be good this tuesday in our appointment with him, his name is cristian

But it is warming up a little bit, and man I dunno if I am ready, because when I got here that night after the MTC i will never forget how humid it was at 12 30 at night.  So sorry pops when you come you are going to die in march because that is one of the hottest months here. haha but we will see how I like the summer down here.  The zone and district is doing good, the sisters are kicking Elder zapatas and my butts so we have to kick it into gear this week.  The major problem here is they dont attend church.  And they have to attend two times to be able to get baptized, so it is a major challenge of ours.  but this week I will teach that in the district meeting.  haha I cant beleive that conferences already passed by, before you know it, I will be calling home for christmas, that will be awesome.  the other day there was this little boy that was 2 and a half and was talking so good.  So I was thinking about bt and how he prob is talking so good.  The little boy spoke better spanish than I do.  So man that made me miss seeing them two grow up, pay and bt. 

Mom thanks for your advise, ya whatever happens happens..  Hope that your letters come soon, I need to write the Bishop one individually this time because he did so much for me.  I thought about this during conference.  1 Mom, without mom, I wouldnt of even worried about what i was doing in high school, would of just kept folliwing the croud.  2 Pops, his good example, and wanting to be like him another reason to be here.  3 Bishop, without him also, I am not here.  Without those three people there no is Elder Stauffer 2, tory being 1.  So I just feel so prepared.  I feel like a celestial feeling here, living this higher law, I feel like I knew that my purpose in this life was to serve Jesus Christ, and with these things comes the Eternal Life, celestial Kingdom.. I never thought that I would change so much in 6 months, but crazy stuff happens.  I told people before my mission, Im not going to change... But why would I want that, I wasnt doing the things that he wanted before my mission, and now you have even more of an eternal perspective here.  Even though it is hard to feel the spirit in the roads here, or anything but there is just something going on, haha but its a good thing. 

So I sent three fotos, broncos, our map with elder zapata, ya our huge area of rich people, its hard here, and where they sell their chicken.. Ya not to safe. 

Love all of you guys a ton, thank you for all of your support.  Remember that would should be better representatives of The Lord everyday.  Love you all sorry so short.  But I had alot to read and put pictures.  Love you

Patience by Neal A Maxwell.  READ THAT THE BEST TALK EVER

"Jesse...that's Jesse!"

Payton is getting to know who Jesse is so well! Everytime she sees a picture of him she get's so excited and says "Jesse! That's Jesse!!!" It is so cute and she is getting so big!

Go Broncs!!!!

haha that is awesome that my broncos are killing it there in the states.  It has been a good week.  We had two p days because here in Peru was there elections and so we couldnt leave the room yesterday, and if we wanted to leave we had to go to a members house.  We only got to see the session in the afternoon.  And yes in spanish, and yup just sat and relaxed and listened in spanish like a breeze, haha but Ill stay humble about it, because man it is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life to learn this stinking language, but it is awesome I love it.  so there was no church this week. We watched the conferences on the internet, and went to the rojas familys house.  They are awesome and have a little bit more money than the others, they fed us and let us watch it with them on their plasma, man I felt like I was just at home.  I wrote letters yesterday, and will be trying to get letters out to the fam next, because I didnt have time.  We are just working hard to get some better investigators, and I had a really good week.  President tyler is the man and let us watch toy story 3, that was awesome in spanish, that kind of spanish is what i have to improve like the small talk.  The gospel stuff is easy but just normal stuff now. 

Sister to answer your question, we walk everywhere in my sector, but have to take a van (combi) to the beach.  the combis they pack with people, and today we were running a little late and had to take a full van and so I had to stand in that thing and it is prob like 3 feet tall from the ground to the roof, by the time we got to where we were going, i had a nice little ache in my back.  but then to go to the offices we take a bus.  And always have to stand in those, my luck there is never a seat haha and it is always 1 sole for the both of us, 50 centimoes for the both of us.  Get better sister sorry about your knee. I will pray for you...  There are a ton of cats sister, like a ton.  More than you would like.  we were in this house of a less active member and they got into a huge fight about the cats, the husband and wife, cause the husband doesnt like em, and the wife wants em, but their house is nasty, but one of my best friends. They are.  Haha and dev Im in peru, haha if I need to go to the bathroom in the night, I just go, but you cant flush, ya no big. ahah

Toads, what the heck happened with byu, that is crazy, wow.  Think they will be getting someone new soon.  Get hunting youll get something, when we keep the comandments he blesses us with temporal things and spiritual things.

Tor that is sweet that my nephew is coming right along and just keep up the good work, dont let the spirit fade, it goes away so easy.  It is crazy, lots of things to do in the mission and ya never feel like you have done enough but ill just keep working.

It was daisy´s bday this friday, and so that was cool, I bought her a picture frame and put two pictures in it.  haha not much but I am poor.  she is my pensionista.  You didnt give me your advise about sarah ma so I just wrote her yesterday, and will be sending it to you. How did elder mitchells mom get your email?  but elder hawk want s to write his family and is hurring me, Just wanna tell you all I love you all so much, pray for me.  I am going to see today if i get a package form you guys, last week didnt get one.  Love you