Hey Fam!!!

Hey family, how are you all doing, sounds pretty crazy for you all right now but it was absolutely crazy for me as well this week, it was nuts..  But thanks so much for the emails, I always feel so much better to know what is going on, and how awesome that you got to go to conference.  That is so awesome, I would of loved it to go, but it was so awesome in the mission home, without my shoes on with carpet and kicked back, man it was nice.  And you know how they talked about Perú so much, ya that was awesome.  When the seventy talked about his mission in perú and La Plaza de Armas, ya that is so in my mission, that is the Rimac zone, that is one of the coolest zones in the mission.  And then when they talked about the mission president of the west mission, ya he lives one floor above president tyler, and so when they saw their foto on the conference, we heard them yell and then they came down after to take pictures with us, and so it was pretty cool to be in the same house as them right after their picture was on conference.  So i have that picture on the email.  We hooked up the projector and watched it on the wall it was nice.  i watched one session is spanish, and then the priesthood session in spanish also, haha ya normal I understand them both now, ahah  Sister tyler told me this week, "Elder Stauffer I heard that you get a package everyweek, are your parents rolling in the doe?"  she said it just like that, I started to laugh so hard because she is always so formal but when she is in her house she loosens up a little and jokes with us and she said it like that so I thought it was funny.  And then I started to think about dad and how busy he probably was this week.   But dad just remember that busy is better than slow, how lame is it to be slow, time goes by slow and there is nothing to do, so just enjoy it, this is what you have always wanted.  Something that we learn in the mission when we have to deal with stress is to just rely on our Heavenly Father, He will take alot of the load if you just trust in him.  Dad if you keep all of the commandments I promise you that the business will go just fine, If you read everyday and pray in every moment it will just go good.  Don´t get mad, just problem solve.  This week has been a joke for us, well I got my new companion, Elder Diaz full of energy and ready to go.  On monday we had to train the new trainers so they know what to do when the new missionaries come in .  And then we had to do all of the informs for the entire mission, we do it on excel.  and then on tuesday up at 5 to go to the ccm to pick up the new missionaries.  That is awesome I love doing that, we get on the bus with the new missionaries and I had to tell the bus driver how to get to the chapel, and we did the change meeting in a different chapel this time and so it was alot different for me, and then elder Diaz was new so I felt like everything depended on me, IT WAS AWESOME.  haha I love the moments of pressure to see if I can get it all done, and man it went okay, not great, but we got it all done.  We had to hand out some stoves for all of the mission and I told them to put all of their luggage in this one room and then we handed out the stoves right by that room, and then when the change meeting got over all 200 missionaries headed to that room to get their luggage and it was right by where we were handing out the stoves and it was the biggest traffic jam of people I think I have ever seen.  haha But they all got off to their sectors.  Elder Pineda went to Maranga where I was for 6 months.  He is zone leader there now.  But I am thinking that I will be here in the office for at least two more changes and maybe until the end of my mission, we will see. This week we also had the zone leader council and they always go smoothly but people just kept calling us, and President Tyler was pretty stressed because we ran out of books of mormon in the mission and that is his thing man, just go hand out books of mormon, he makes it simple for us.  And then the clinic kept calling because we are taking care of an elder from the Arequipa mission right now, that fell off the second floor and had to get back surgery, he broke one vertabre, and they call us in a panic and they tell president that we needed to get a blood donor in there fast because he was going into surgery and so was like how are we gonnna find a blood donor, and so I got onto Imos ( it is the system that we have to keep track of all of the records of the missionaries) and on there it says their blood type and I found elder Tobler, and he had A- so he went with sister Tyler to the clinic.  It was a crazy day.  Then yesterday alot of missionaries had to go to immigrations and man all of their companions were in here until2:00 just wasting time, I was just praying that Pres Tyler didnt come into the office and see all of the Elders just messing around, I tried to tell them to do something productive but they were bored so they started to do some magic tricks and all that and so i just started to read the scriptures but they all got off before Pres Tyler got here, and it went smoothly.  And then today we got up and went and played against the south mission office and they kicked our butts in fútbol.  Perú won their match yesterday, so everyone is super excited today.  And also this week we had Elder Trujillo with us because he has to get knee surgery on his miniscus and he is a big guy, got a huge gut and he found out that we have been having a wrestling tournament in our apartment, and so he said Elder Stauffer I will kick your butt and so I said ya lets go, and man I womped on him, it was hilarious,  I am going to try and send you the video.  Love you all, be looking for the video to see if it comes in.  PS:  I got dips on that kearns truck toads.   

Pres Tyler bought us icecream after the session.  It was awesome. I dont think it is going to work the video.  LOve you all..

Hey family, I forgot to tell all of you, THAT TODAY WE HAVE A BAPTISM.  WHOO HOO, :) HER NAME IS MIRIAM, SHE IS AWESOME AND READY, WE HAVE TO GET PERMISSION FOR HER SON BUT THE DAD DOESNT WANT HIM TO GET BAPTIZED.  :(  LOVE YOU ALL, WISH ME LUCK TONIGHT, THAT IT ALL GOES WELL WITH HER BAPTISM.  :)



CONGRATS POPS!!!!

First off I just wanna say dad that is awesome, haha and thanks for staying up until 

12 for me and sending that email.  haha that was awesome.  You are going to do a great job.  Sometimes we feel so inadecuate but it always turns out.  And just remember what you have done for the past 30 years and it will go awesome for you.  It was a good decision.  Did you have to look at there acounting books before you bought it and everything?  How much did you buy it for?  It is crazy how much He is blessing our family. Dont forget that we need to thank HIm!  When Jesus healed the 10 lepors only one came back to thank him, lets try and always be that one that comes back and thanks him.  Kody and Tor you gotta work hard! Lets go...  haha but first things first, have an awesome day of conference, it is such a great blessing to be able to hear a prophet of God, sometimes I take the Gospel for granted even being on my mission and just want to be so thankful for how awesome it is to not be confused about our Heavenly Father.  It is so different down here in Perú so many ideas about Him and who He is, and all I can do is just try and help.  So enjoy..  Well today we are getting taken care of!!  We are going to the mission home and we get to watch it with President Tyler and with Hermana Tyler Elder Webb and Hermana Webb.  It is such a sweet assignment that I have haha but Sister webb is making us mexican food, and she is such an amazing cook, it is unreal and so today will be awesome.  And MOTHER THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU ARE THE BEST! i GOT MY PINK TIE ON RIGHT NOW.  i WOULD SO SEND YOU PICTRURES BUT MY MEMORY CARD HAS A VIRUS ON IT AND THAT IS WHY I HAVENT BEEN SENDING PICTURES.   But you did an amazing job, thanks so much mom, I love you.  Now I can make it till the end of my mission I think, and to be honest it is coming right up on me.  This next couple of changes are going to fly for me because on tuesday I get a new companion.  Elder Diaz from Colombia, haha I know him well and am so excited to try and help him be an awesome assistant.  haha I was his district leader in Maranga and so I already know him, he will be coming in on monday to help me go get the new missionaries from the CCM.  That is a crazy day for us but hey we all have crazy days.  This last week went well for us.  We didnt have alot of time to share the Gospel but we sure had a lot of trainings.  I got to go to Palao, Rimac, San Luis, and San Martin.  It was awesome to go back to San Luis and to San Martin where I had so much success.  Just want to remind you all that I still have the record for the most baptisms in one month in one zone in the history of the Misión Perú Lima Central, 36.  haha Even when they had cusco in the mission.  And I thought that it is interesting that here in lima we baptize more that they do in the Cusco mission, cool huh?  Only the North and East missions baptize more than us.  But we will see if I can advance a little more with elder Diaz, he is full of energy and will help he be really up beat and going for force.  Excited to do alot of work visits with the missionaries this next change because we dont have interviews and we can just go work.  It should be fun.  And yes sister they celebrate halloween, dont you remember last year I told ya haha i still do...  and sweet truck that you bought, I think that it looks great sister. Ok I sent you three pictures, one of 

La Bistecca when I completed 18 months with all of the zone leaders we went out to eat, well all of them that were in the ccm with me and their companions of coarse.  And elder Diaz is in the front row and has the green tie, he is awesome.  And then one of us at lunch here in san isidro, we ate some sweet ceviche, it is super famous here in Perú but I dont like it that much, it is just super hot uncooked fish, they put like a ton of spices.  But elder Pineda wants you all to know how grateful he is for the letters and all of that.  Él me dijo que les dijera que está muy agradecido por las cartas que le han mandado.  haha that is what he said to me.  But one quick question, kearns has a rotator?  Love you all listen to a Prophet of God today.  Love you all so much, thanks for your support.  Elder Stauffer.  

 

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.

WHOO HOO!!

Wow how wierd it was to see get to see Tann.  It felt like a dream...  On Wednesday I got up and went to the district meeting in San Luis and then we came back and went to eat and then we headed off to Limatambo where the meeting was at.  And I was kinda nervous at that point, thinking man what am I gonna say....  haha but I got there looking for tanner and I couldnt see him anywhere so I walked into the chapel and I still couldnt see him but then out of no where he came up to me and I looked at him for a sec thinking that it wasnt real that Tanner was actually right in front of me but then it hit me, its real bro.  haha so I gave him a huge hug and then we didnt know what to say it was funny. He looks great, he told me  that my voice is deeper now.. haha wierd.  But he said that he is loving the mission.  We talked about Pisco for a little.  But he was in the choir so he had to keep practicing and so he went to practice and I went to the bathroom and then came out and there was Isaac.  That was awesome to see bell and to know that he is back to his old self.  I didnt notice not one difference in him, he looked great and happy.  But then it was time for the meeting to start and then getting to see Elder Andersen and being able to shake his hand was pretty awesome.  Elder Uceda and Elder Waddel were there too.  But he did his talk and just told us what the First Presidency expects from us.  They expect us to go home with a stronger testimony.  So just gotta keep working on that everyday.  But then after Tanner had brought his camera so we took pictures and talked a little bit more and then they booted us out.  I didnt have my camera because Pres. Tyler us to tell the mission not to bring them, so how could I tell the mission not to bring cameras and then take mine and take pictures with it.  So I knew that Tanner would take his so he will be sending pictures on monday, because I dont have them.  But it was awesome....  After 17 months.  That is along time....  

Anyways...  I sent you some pictures of lunch that we had with the tylers and the webbs.  And you also can see that the lady chopped my hair off, she buzzed me good.  Haha o well just means that I dont have to cut it for a month.  which is super nice.  We got a new elder in the office, Elder Covington from texas so it was kinda like his welcome gift I think.  But that is the mission home, it is on the 19th floor looking over the golf course here in lima.  It is super nice.  We ate spaghetti and lasagna.  It was awesome.  And today for P day we are going to la Bisteca.  It is a pretty fansy restaurant and the webbs are going with us.  But i am gonna be so full, it is a buffet and has steaks so I am just gonna chow down on a steak that I havent had in 17 months.  haha We´ll go when you come down.  but we need to start to get a plan made.  It is getting time.  I heard the earlier you get your room booked in the marriot, the cheaper it is.  So I was thinking maybe that you could get on that.  

I think that the day you need to come in is on the 20th of march, in the afternoon.  If you come in on the 20th in the afternoon, I can go wait for you in the airport and pick you up and everything.  And then that night you can come to the office and meet president tyler and sister tyler.  and see all the elders that are ending with me.  Like elder wayne...  

Then for 3 days we can be here in lima and on the 24th of march we can catch a flight to cusco in the morning and get to our hotel and do something there in cusco and then on the 25th go to church and do something in town there, and get ready for machu picchu on monday the 26th.  Then on the 28th we can fly out in the afternoon to puno and get there and get settled, that will be a short flight.  And Saturday the 31st in the morning we can fly to iquitos , the first of april go to church and look around, and then the second go do something cool there.  Then on the 3rd of april fly back to lima and fly home at night.  

BUT AS YOU CAN SEE...  That is alot of stuff to be doing...  As I typed that I got the feeling that it would be super hard to do all of that.  What we can do is just choose one or two things to do.  Like here in lima and then go to cusco, and thats it.  Or here in Lima then cusco and puno.  But I really think that you guys will get enough of just here and cusco.  

I think this is a way better idea and alot cheaper.  When you get here on the 20th we can stay in the marriot that night, and then on the 21st fly to cusco and stay there until saturday the 24th in the night and get back here to lima to the marriot, then on the 25th that way we can go see some people, and we can just hang out here in Lima that day, because it is sunday and we shouldnt be really doing anything anyways.  Then on the 26th we also can visit some people, and on the 27th and 28th go see some things in lima Then on the 29th we can fly back home.  I think that is the best idea.  Because I didnt serve my mission in Puno and Iquitos.  Only here in Lima and I wanna see macchu picchu.  So If I had a choice I would choose the second idea.  I think it is alot smarter and alot less stressful.  We would enjoy our time rather that just be running around everywhere.  So lets just go to machu picchu and then come back here to lima and visit.  That way we can leave all our bags here in the offices and we wont have to take much to cusco and then when we come back to lima we will have plenty of time to go pick them up from the offices.  So lets just go to machu picchu. and stay for 9 days.  That is enough for me, I will be super ready to get back home.  I think...

But this last week the interviews started so this week I will be doing the interviews all week with pres tyler.  well love ya much, hope you guys can get all that planned out.  But I wanna just go to machu picchu so we can enjoy our time.  Love you elder stauffer