HEY FAM!!

Hey family how are you all doing? It sounds like dad is pretty busy and out of town and I totally understand how you feel pops. haha this next week is going to be crazy for us. We have four trainings to do and we have to do the changes and on top of all that we gotta try and visit our investigators. haha it should be pretty fun. But thanks for all of the great pictures. It seems like Payton and BT are getting so big without me. But thats okay, everytime I see them I just wonder how much they must talk now? haha cant wait to hear them on Christmas. Only 3 months away. But Tell Sandi thanks for me, it was so great to hear from her. I am super happy for her that her business is gong so good. Tell her that I really appreciated her email very much. and that I miss them like crazy and that Tanner is doing just fine, he is training again, and that I always ask the assistents from the South mission how he is doing every time I see them, and they just tell me that he is great and the coolest guy in the mission, all of the Latinos always say that Tanner is awesome. I have seen some of tanners Videos and he is hilarious still, thats why I love him. haha But this week has been pretty calm for me. We have been able to do some work visits. And when I do a work visit. What we do is we think ok who needs some help with their work, who can do better and who is not being obedient and who needs some help with an investigator? and then we call them up and tell them, hey tomorrow we are going to go work with you guys. And this week we went to Rimac, with Elder Ayovi and Elder Martinez, I went with them and elder Pineda went with Elder Perez because his companion was sick. So I took a picture with elder Ayovi´s camera from the top of a hill looking down on this hole of just houses. So hope I can get that to you next week. It was so fun to go up some hills and meet some of their investigators. I like trying to help them. But they always look at me to like start the lesson and I tell them even before,"Elders you guys are in charge of your sector, I am just here to help, that means that I can help in the lessons, but this is still you sector, so lead it." Cause they think they we are there to burn them or to just take over. But thats not what we do at all, we just help and try to help them get better in the lessons. So when they get done with the lessons, and we are walking I always ask them so what did we do good, and what can we do better in this next appointment. It is super fun , I love my assignment. haha That is the best part about being an assistant you get to go to every sector and work with every missionary. It has been great. That was on tuesday and then on wednesday we went to Palao to work with elder Lopez and elder Luker. I went with elder Lopez and we knocked alot of doors and got in one door with this María lady, and gave her a book of mormon, she was pretty funny. But we also went to the Bishops house to see if they had a reference for us, and they didnt so we asked if we could do something for her, and she put us to work man, we swept and mopped and her house is spick and span now. haha but it was a fun day also. So i am liking my mission. This next week we wont be able to do work visits because Pres. Tyler got back and now it is back to trainings. haha O well. Just gotta try and be the best assistant that I can be if that is what the Lord wants me to do.

Mom last week we didnt get alot of sleep , because every sunday night we have to take all the numbers, from all of the Zone Leaders. 12 zones in our mission, and we dont get done until 1 in the morning and then have to get up at 6.30 to be able to make it to a zone study on monday mornings. Every monday morning in the mission, the zone gets together and studies together and we go and make sure that all is well and to see if we can help some zones that are struggling. And then on monday the zone leaders send in a excel form on the internet before they write their families and the templates always get messed up so we have to come in on monday nights and fix the formulas and all that. And last week we had to do alot of changing. So we were up till 1 again. and then you always want to get up to study and so we just force ourselves out of bed. It is crazy but hey just helping me in my life I think. haha

Mom your package got here, not to the office yet but to peru. They always send us this little paper thingy´s that say when they are gonna bring the packages. And it will be here on monday. Cannot wait to open it. It will just make my week a little less stressful. Thanks mom you´re the best and you know it. Just keep going to ward council meetings mom, it is annoying here when no one shows up. Just show your love for the Savior by magnifying your calling. You are doing a great job mom!! I can here it in the letters you send me.

But president tyler got home safe and sound and then he is now back in Perú. They came back last night, and none of the missionaries didnt even know that he was gone, it was super sneeky. haha But hope that all is going good and that you have just the best week ever. Wish me luck this week. The pictures are the view from the office here and then a picture of Larco mar, when we went two weeks ago they were paraglyding. That is were the marriot is at. Love you all elder Jesse kevin Stauffer. Mom you still havent answered me if you changed that scripture on my picture in the hallway or not, haha it is bugging me. And yes I got you letter about the neighborhood. It sounds like you are sharing the gospel, mom that is awesome. Hope that you feel the joy that I do as we do it. Keep up the good work..

18 months!!!

Well family I had a whole bunch written and then it got erased so I will try and Write it all again.  But just wanna thank you and tell you guys how good you all look.  And that you all deserved a nice weekend together.  But today I complete 18 months in the mission and just ready for 6 months more.  Haha but thanks for all of the pictures.  That always makes the emails good.  And mom thanks for the package that you sent , I am sure that it will all be great, and if they dont fit I will lose some weight to make them fit.  But I tried to get some money off my card this week and it didnt work.  I dont have any money, once again, your poor peruvian son. hahah  And i wasnt gonna say this but in that picture of BT  on the big rocking chair, can you see that truck, wow its pretty.  I havent seen one of those in a great while. haha but dont worry just giving you hard time. You may ask yourselves man jesse is still the same about his worldly things.  But no I have changed a little bit, (but I still like trucks I guess) haha  but today we are going to go to La Bistecca and it is so good.  Everyone from my group is going to celebrate 18 months.  So I willl have to be on a diet for awhile now.  haha

But yup i sure did get to see tanner, we talked for about an hour about the mission and he looks great.  It is always so good to see him, a little wierd, I feel like i am home when I see him but it is a good boost to just keep going.  And I definantly feel like the Prophets of old, Alma 17: 1-3.  Man I love the Book of Mormon, I had a love for it before the mission.   But now it is such a huge part of my life and will never stop reading it.  Whatever I need to know is in it.  SO READ IT EVERYDAY....  It was really great to see him.  He passed me all of his pictures and videos, so I have seen alot of his mission now and he is doing a great job.  He is a great missionary.  and looks super happy .  and I love the kid alot.  Tell mike and sandi that I have been thinking about them too, and that I miss them and cannot wait to see them.  

But this week has been a crazy one, non stop and just trying to keep my Spirits up.  Next week we will get a little break.  But the week after next is gonna be a joke.  SO just gotta rest good, because I wont be sleeping to much.  My hours are all messed up now.  Going to bed at 1 at night and getting up early, takes an effect.  But hey 4th quarter.  But today just gotta set my goals high to end my mission strong.  Love you all so much.  and hope that all is well.  thanks for all of your support.  With love elder stauffer.  

SORRY SO SHORT.  iT GOT ERASED.  WE ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE INTERNET.  

Hey Family!!!

Well family how are you all doing?  Sounds like you are all doing good, but a hard week for you guys.  Sorry sister that you are sick.  And mom it looks like you had a week of partying.  haha But this week has been a little boring for me.  This week I have been training it seems like everyday, which gets super boring sometimes just training all of the zones but hey its what I gotta do.  This week we also had this special training that we had to do and I trained them on how they can do the district meeting better.  But we have also had some problems with the elders this week.  Yesterday I got a call from Rimac telling me that some elders got into a scuffle and so I then have to talk to President and he calls them and they had to go have an interview with him and now today I had to set up all the arrangements on where they are gonna be because President Tyler said that they cant be together, so we are gonna open up a new sector and put one of the two elders there with another companion and then the other Elder is gonna stay in that sector and will be with another elder. It is a real pain in the butt, but hey they said that they cant get along.  Also this moring I got a call from La Chalaca 2 telling me that in the middle of the night someone had thrown a rock threw their window and now they are scared to leave their room, so President has to call the police and report it.  But the thing is that it is in the most dangerous spot of our mission so the police isnt gonna do a thing there.  haha but thats what life is an assitant all you do is you try to help President solve all of the problems and you dont get to work with the people that much.  Which is the best, getting to teach people the gospel, but now I feel like I am running a business.  But super grateful to have the chance to have all of the experiences in the mission.  Not just proselyting.  But this week has been a good one.  It went by super fast.  

Sorry that my emails dont have that many cool things anymore.  Its just that I dont have anything new to tell you haha. 

Mom some things that I need...  More zebra pens like you sent to me last time.  Just black colored ones because I still have red and blue.  And if you could send me some jeans from american eagle, 33: 30.  I put a whole in my last jeans and now I am out of jeans, and I am gonna need them.  I bought some here but mom you know me, and how picky I am.  I didnt like them so I sold them to elder Noriega.  So pens and jeans, more wet wipes, ties, I need a sweet green tie mom, Can you please send me that picture of tanner and I so I can put it in my journal.  I had to buy a new journal.  I have two journals filled now of my mission.  Still havent missed a day.  Got everyday of my mission in them.  How awesome huh?  Maybe some garment bottoms, Im hurting for garment bottoms,  32 shorts. maybe like 4 pairs.  Some face wash.  Maybe some gum and protein bars, and that should make a pretty good box for me.  Thanks mom your the best.  

How are our neighbors in front of our house, and the keefes, and the other two older couples that aren´t members of the church?  Are block is a gold mine for a missionary.  After my mission I am gonna try and help the missionaries there in our block.  It is crazy now to see how much we could help the missionaries, we could have a family night with the family that lives in front of our house and invite them, so that mom can get baptized and they can get sealed into the church.  I know that they are there for a reason so we can help her.  I will never forget that day mom when that brother was talking to you and was crying because his wife wasnt a member.  We have to befriend her so she can get invited to the activites and so she can get baptized.  So their family can live together forever.  So we gotta plan a family night with them.  And ya pops I will get a letter out to dallin Decker so he gets on his mission.  Its crazy, he is where I was at when I was going to Dixie, wow how crazy, it feels like it was yesterday when I was down there and now we are talking 6 months left on my mission....  So ya I will get a letter to him.  

But sorry that it is so boring, but I dont even have pictures to send to you, sorry mom for this week.  You should be happy that all is going smoothly for me here in the office that I dont have to much to tell all of you.   but just keep up the good work and let me know how everything is going.  Love you all very much.  Hope all is well. 

Hey Family!!!

Hey Fam..  It sounds like nothing is new at home. And man I am gonna miss the whole football season again.  But hey look on the bright side, when it gets over, I will be almost done.   Ha but man that is an awesome picture that you sent to me, I hadnt even seen it because they were booting us out of the chapel because other people were trying to get in to see elder andersen.  So we just took it and ran, but now I got it printed off and gonna tape it in my journal.  My journal is like gold to me.  I still haven't missed a day in my mission and I need to buy a new one because I got about two weeks left in my journal.  I already have two journals full...  wow alot of stuff for you to read.  I got what I did everyday and the funny stuff that happens in the mission.  But the first thing in there will be my picture with Tann..  But this week we have been trying super hard to work hard and get to our sector.  This week has been interviews..  But before I get into what I did this week how bout I tell you the dates that I wanna stay. IM THINKING 10 DAYS IS ENOUGH REALLY.  But if you come in on the 19th at night late, then I think that I can come get you and sleep with you in the marriot that night.  Then we gotta get up early and go to the temple on the 20th of march, I have to go on tuesday morning with all those that are ending with me, and it would be sweet to have you there. we can spend all day Tuesday together.  In the morning the 20th of march I have to go to the temple and you guys can come with me.  They will have headphones for you to listen and yes you can rent temple cloths.  I rent temple cloths every time.  You wont need anything besides your temple recommend.  then after the temple we are on our own, and we can visit my converts that day and we can rest up because it would have been a short night.  Then anyday you want we can head to Cusco for 3 or 4 days.  I have been asking around and they tell me that we only need 3 days there.  But we got to reserve the Machu Picchu trip soon because they only let 7000 people go up everyday so we have to reserve soon.  And then after cusco we can come back here for 2 or 3 days and then we can go back home.  Dad and Mom trust me, you are gonna get so sick from the food and you will be so ready to go back..  So ten days is plenty.  Everytime someone new comes here and they eat the food, you get so sick, like I did.  so From the 19th till the 29th.  So on the 29th we would head out in the morning to get home.  on the 21st of march we can head to cusco and then come back on the 24th, so that we on the 25th we can go to church in San Luis and you can see how cool the church is here.  haha ok hope that you can get a trip planned around that. 

Ok this week has been interviews, and so when President Tyler is doing his interviews we have to train the elders. So that is from 10-4 pm.  And then after we head to our sector and try to get to work.  This week we had some success trying to find some new people to teach.  Just walking up to people in the street and talking to them.  and we also have an english class and alot of the ward comes out.  I teach it.  haha and sister to answer your question, every day I feel more confident with the spanish.  I still try and learn new words every days. haha but it is super hard to learn a language, its not easy.  and yes sister (el niño bebe means the child drinks, but in english we say the child is drinking.  In spanish they dont say it like with is, only just he drinks.  But you can also say, el niño está bebiendo.  But here in Perú they use the verb tomar to say to drink.  So here it is el niño toma or el niño está tomando.)  keep up the hard work sister.  See if you can translate this sister.  Te amo mucho a ti hermana, espero que estés bien, y que te guste tu trabajo, trabaja duro, lee tus escrituras cada día y El Señor te bendecirá.  Dile hola a Devin, y que él tiene que ayudarte con tu español.  Te QUIERO mucho SISTER!!!

well fam all is well here, just trying to be patient with my companion, trying to help him make more decisive desicions.  Love you all.  All is well mom and dad love you both very much.