June 21,16

June 13,16

Well this week has been pretty interesting, at the beginning of the week we were struggling a little to teach and find people, but in our weekly planning my companion and I talked it out a little and we figured out some things that we need to do differente so that we can have some more success. Weel we put, what we had planned, into action and we ended up having a lot of success. It was pretty cool we had contacted a lot of the references that we had recieved and we ended the week with 8 news. It was pretty great! My companion and I were pretty happy with what we had done but we feel that we can do so much more! so this last week is going to rock! And finally we had a Lesson with Melissa! she was so hard to teach her these last few weeks but we finally could teach her! Also we had a pretty epic lesson with Erika and we totally killed the doubt that she has about Diezmos it`s just in her to pray and ask God if it`s real!

Umm I have no idea! They`re saying I might go in saturday, but it`s most likely that I`ll be going in midday on Sunday. 

Well With the zone we had a little party and we had cake! 
No I`m not going to email
I`m totally going to be flying with a ton of missionaries!.

June 7 16

So this weeks been pretty normal! We´ve been teaching some of our investigators and we´ve had some pretty epic lessons my companion and I decided that we need to ask more questions during the lessons so we can tell how the person is understanding and how they feel about what we´re teaching and it´s been going really good! Now I don´t have to talk as much we kind of ask a question and they talk then we talk and then they talk it´s pretty great! Also our investigators that we´ve got progressing are still progressing pretty great it´s just they´re super busy and we can´t hardly teach them! it´s super frustrating!!!! but there we are! Also there aren´t going to be very many pictures because I lost my camera on the bus ride home from the temple but here´s one picture!

I´m down with doing some moving stuff out! it´ls going to be aweosme!

I don´t need anything, it´s fine honostly 

ummm there isn´t anything special I would like haha just whatever you guys usualy get"! 

May 30,2016

Well this week was a little sad but at the same time pretty cool! This week we had an investigator that was going to get baptized this Saturday but she, like last week, got super busy with her family and lot`s of other stuff and she couldn`t go to her interview. She is super determined to get baptized it`s just right when she`s going to take that first step something happens and she can`t do it. My companion and I have done all possible to help her, we had planed to visit her before her interview and also we had been calling, but her phone is broken so that was useless. We were kind of upset that day but the miracle of the week is that our numbers didn`t go down actually they went up! we had a ton of lessons with members and that same day of the interview we found three news! Also we had visited some members and helped them to feel the spirit and to remember the importance of some things! So it was pretty cool! 

May 23,2016

Well this week has been pretty interesting! because well we had a baptism planned for this saturday but it didn`t happen because Melissa got super busy! from Tuesday the day we saw her until saturday in the morning we didn`t see her or teach her, and her brother had her phone so we couldn`t call her either, she literally disapeared! but we found her saturday morning and she told us that she was super sad that she couldn`t get baptized and she explained what had happened. She`s still super excited to get baptized actually she defended the church against her grandma from the states! she said that the church is a sect and Melissa told her ^How can they be a sect if they only believe in god? ^ and after a bunch of other stuff she told us at the very end she told her Gma that what ever happenes I`m getting baptized in this church!!!! she´s pretty cool! The rest of the week has been pretty good the best day of the week was Sunday because We had taught three amazing lessons with Less actives and their families! The spirit was so just en every one of them I just hope that they can make the best decisions!

Flight plans :)

Dear Brother Durrant, Sister Durrant, Bishop Siufanua and President Newman,

 

Elder Durrant is finishing his mission and we are glad to know him and serve with him during these last years. He is a great missionary, thanks for everything you did for him so that he could be here.

 

I will send you his itinerary from flight back home. He will travel on June 20.

 

If you have any question just let me know.

 

Thanks.

 

Élder Alcazar

Secretario Personal del Presidente

May 16,2016

Well this week was pretty cool! My companion and I have been trying to work as much as could witht he members this week like take them to appointments, etc. You couldn`t really see it very well in our numbers but they were there with us almost everyday looking for their friends, taking them to appointments that we had. It kinda sucked because almost every apointment that we had fell when we were with members but we had a lovely time getting to know the members a little more and finding out more about the history of our area! Also we`ve got an investigator thats progressing, actually she was supposed to get baptized this Saturday but she didn`t go to the stake conference so we had to postpone for the 21st of may! But she went to church yesterday so she`s going to get baptized this weekend!!! Awesome also with La hermana Erika we had talked to her and found out that she hasn`t really been reading the Book of Mormon so we`re with her on that! 

Ya that sounds like a good plan! 

It`s also your birthday!!!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!! 

No don`t worry about it I`ll be home soon enough. 

May 9,2016

Well this week was a pretty cool week! Melissa just keeps progressing it kinda sucks because her baptizme was for the 14th but shes didn`t come to church this week so her date fell but the 21st she`s going to get baptized! But other then that we got to see a baptizm of the Elders en my distict! Also I got to interview him, He`s a really good kid and has some really good goals! Then we had a stake conference in which a seventy came and gave an amazing talk! He said so much in so little time but it was truely amazing and it`s helped me make some more goals for the future! 

The transfers were good! I didn`t get transfered! 

May 2,2016

Well this week was pretty awesome! my companion and I decided to follow the advice of our President and start asking references from everybody even from the people we just barely met! As we starting doing it we didn´t see very much success but after we kept doing it asking everybody for refereces we found some people the gave us like 3-5 refereces in one and others 1 or 2 or nohing at all but at the end of the week my companion and I had 21 references! and we had been trying to contact all of the references we haven´t been able to contact all of them but we´re in the process and it´s really cool becasue a lot of the mpeople that we contact had either listened to the missionaries before or they were excited to meet us! so It was an awesome experience. Also we´ve got a couple investigators that are progressing and they are amazing! One of them´s called Erika I´ve talked about her before but she just keeps going and is amazing! and the other her name´s Melissa and she´s so cool, she reads every pamphlet that we give her and she doesn´t ever stop reading the book of mormon! it´s amazing! 

So Can we skype on saturday? President said it would be better if we could call on Saturday because of transfers but if you guys can´t it´ll have to be Sunday in the afternoon! ¿Saturday in the morning or Sunday in the after church

April,25,2016

Well this week was pretty great, First off because we had an awesome trainning with President and his assistance! We learned so much about how we need to act in finding new people and how it should be part of us and not just something we do! Also we learned a lot on how we need to treat all of the sons and daughters of God! It was truely amazing! Then two days later I got a call from the assistance, they told me they wanted to do and interchange with my companion and I. So I ended up going to trujillo to the area of the assistance with Elder Stephens, and Elder Sanchez came down to be with my companion. In this interchange i learned a lot! The biggest thing I learned in this interchange is how we need to love everybody! And Also Learned a little on how we need to take more responsibility for the things we are in charge of.

April 18,2016

Bueno esta semana fue muy genial porque hemos podido trabajar muy bien y tuvimos muchos lecciones con miembros! La hermana Erika no pudo bautizar porque tiene algunas duda todavía acerca de los diezmos y quiere tener un testimonio un poquito más fuerte de la Iglesia, pero tiene deseos de bautizar so algunas cositas! Otro que eso todo estaba muy bien esta semana y tenemos algunos investigadores quienes están progresando muy bien! 

I got my package! :D haha thank you!! 

April 11,2016

Well this week was pretty cool! This week my companion and I have been visiting a lot of members this week and doing somthing that we call 1x1. It`s when we go to the house of the members with a book of mormon. So what we do with it is that, with the members, we share our favorite verses in the book and we mark them with a highlighter. Afterwards we read the verse and share the reason why we like it(All of the people in the lesson participate). Then we leave the Book with them and also we make a goal with them that they can read these verses with one of their friends and give the book to them. Now what we`ve got to do is go and do some follow up to see how it`s going adn to encourage them! Also I had the opportunity to have a work visit with Elder Weber, in this work visit we talk about a lot of things and we both came out really edified. He helped me see the importants of make little goals and working little by little. We`ve also got an investigator whose going to get baptized this saturday!!! she`s super awesome and excited to get bapized her name is Erika! :D 

No I haven`t gotten it yet... 

ours starts at 8 am! 

It`s really good! I like it! 

Not really I haven`t herd very much about missionaries getting suits.

April 4 2016

Well this week was awesome! Got my new companion and he is the best! We went around this week visiting members and investigators so that he can get to know them and their families! He´s from Ecuador, Iquito! and he´s got 4and a half months in the mission! Something that I´ve seen in him up to right now is that he really loves the people! Even though he might not see it in him I can see it! The conference was amazing!!! A lot of my questions were answered and just being able to feel the spirit so strong for so long made me feel really good and ready for whatever comes at me! Also I learned that I need to get better at a lot of things as a missionary, lider, and as a son of God! 

They went nuts!!! haha I was down stairs listening to it in english but us gringos! went nuts!!!!

It´s awesome!!! All of the misionaries from the zone looked at me funny because I had my suit! it was aweosme! 


He´s amazing!! :D
Ecuador, Iquito! 
No but he´s practicing! 


No I´ve got one last transfer! haha but I got the call for my flight plannign! haha so I´m coming home the 20th but I don´t know the scheduel of the flights but he said I´ll be getting that soon! 

They´re doing really good! no there aren´t any holes on the bottom. There are little things here and there but they´re still doing really good!

Mar 27 2016

I still haven´t gotten my suit tomorrow I´m going to get it! :D 

So this week was pretty great! The coolest thing that happened is that our investigator came with us to the sisters baptizm that the had! Afterwards she told us that she thought it was really intersting and when the people asked her jokingly when is she going to get baptized she kept telling everyone the 16 of april which is the date that we set with her! So we´re super excited! So transferes came and My companion is leaving! and I´m going to get a new one! his name is Elder Lopez"! I still haven´t met him but here soon I´m going to be able to met him! my companion Elder flores is oging to Casma my last zone! I´m super excited for him"! haha

March 23 2016

I did get my suit ordered and I got it for less that 100 dollars!! haha it`s awesome!

It should be done by saturday!

Transfers are this sunday! 

Because we went to the temple!

Well this passed week was really cool! becuase we were able to visit a lot of people and help a lot of people with some of the doubts! but the coolist part that happened this week was the an investigator, that we didn`t know, went to curch. She had been looking for a church to attend. One night she had a dream the she needed to attend the mormon church so she went and contacted some friends and she showed up on sunday! We still haven`t been able to teach her but we`re super excited to teach her! Also the trip to the temple was a wonderful experience, I got a lot of questions answered and a lot of my questions were answered with ¨I need to have more paciencia¨
Bueno esta semana que pasó fue genial porque hemos podido visitar muchas personas y ayudar con muchas problemas y dudas. Pero lo mas genial que sucedió esta semana que fue una investigadora, que nunca conocimos, a la iglesia. Ella estaba buscando una religión y una noche tuvo un sueño sobre la iglesia mormona y que necesitaba ir. Entonces se contactó algunas de sus amigas y asistió a la iglesia el domingo! Todavía no hemos tenido la oportunidad de enseñarle pero estamos muy emocionados! También el viaje al temple fue una experiencia maravillosa! Recibí muchas respuestas y muchas de mis respuestas eran que necesito tener paciencia!

March 14 2016

Bueno Esta semana nos fue muy bien, hemos podido ayudar a muchas
personas pero algo super genial que pasó esta semana fue que nuestra
investigadora fue a la iglesia! Hemos estado invitándola y tratando de
ayudarla a asistir pero nunca llego. Pero este domingo estábamos
llamándola a invitarla a que venga a la capilla pero no contestaba,
entonces mi compañero y yo llegamos a la capilla y nos sentamos
normal, empieza la reunión y entra la hermana Erika! estábamos tan
emocionados y nos sentamos con ella y algunos miembros vinieron a
saludarla y fue muy bonito!

so there`s a guy here that`ll do it I just need the money! :D I`m
talking to dad about it!
No i haven`t seen everybody else´s. please forward them!
oh hey and also Next week we`re going to be writing on tuesday not on
mondy so don`t freak out!

Testimony for YC

I feel like nephi... haha It´s hard for me to write about spiritual stuff because when you talk the spirit carries the words to their hearts! haha but I´ll try. can I do it in spanish? 

Bueno Me gustaría compartirles acerca de.... hahaha yeah   So I just want you guys to understand how important the gospel is. Before my mission I really didn´t understand anything, why the gospel was so important, the church, this, that, etc. But here in the mission I´ve learned that the gospel is the only way to be happy in the life! I thought I was happy with my videogames, movies, friends, and whatever other thing that I had. But I never fully understood that I was never fully happy with these things. I´ve had my wonderful, and very pactient parents my whole life that have taught me so much, and I never really thought much of what they said or taught. From my expierences, of what I´ve experienced up to right now, is that wickedness was never happiness. The things of the world don´t matter what does matter is God, Jesus, and the Spirit and after those three that family and the church. Right now maybe you don´t understand or you don´t feel the same, But I invite everysingle one of you to Read your Book of Mormon, Pray, and go to Church! Study as much as you can and if you do it you will see they blessings! You will feel as even more happy then you are right now. Also doing these three things will help you with what ever problem that you have Personal or in your Family. God wants us to read, pray, and go to church and putting your faith is him trusting that he will help you will see the blessings! I testify that God loves us and wants what´s best, I know that his son gave his life for us so that through him we could become like him,  and I know that the Spirit will guide you in all of you trails! I love all of you and wish the best for everyisingle one of you!   

                                                                Love,

                                                                       Elder Durrant 

Feb 29 2016

So this past couple of weeks were fantastic and really sad at the same time.... The fantastic part is that my companion and I rescued 2 members last week and this week! it was fantastic to see them go through this process of coming back to church! Also we were able to have success in our numbers this week with lesson that we`ve taught, and some new investigadors! and etc. But the sad part is that there was a fire in my area. My companion and I were contacting a less active family and a fire went up close by so my companion and I went to go help and see what was going on and as we were walking towards the fire the people were going nuts, crying, screaming for help, wanting to take all of their stuff out of their houses, etc.  it was crazy. we did what we could in some areas and we went to go help a member with her stuff. but in the end the fireman got there and turned off the fire! 

Hey so I talked to my president and he told me that I need to buy a suit coat! I´ve got my pants still just the coat I need! haha So I´m going to be asking around and finding out how much it´ll be. Because I´ts alot cheaper to buy a suit coat here then in the states! 

March 7 2016

so this week flew by really fast!!! my companion and I have been traveling a ton this week.. for some Blessings that the sisters needed and also for su investigator that they had, then also had to go back and have interviews so their investigators could get baptized, and some other things that we´ve been doing! but other then that the week was pretty great! we didnp´t have very much success in the numbers but we did get to help a lot fo people and feel the spirit! right now my companion and I are having some problems helping our investigators progress but we´ve made the goal and we´re practicing that we can speak a little more firm with the people and teach a little more clear so they don´t make any mistakes. It´s been going pretty well but we´re still getting better and it feels good to be able to hlep this people!  

They´re doing good, they´re getting help from a lot of people to be able to rebuild, actually they´re almos done just missing some pieces here and there. None of the members were afected by the fire all of their houses are okay! 

Feb. 22 2016

So this week has been really interesting because my companion and I have been visiting a lot of less actives and they told us the reasons why they left, and a lot of their stories are the same.... so my companion and I have decided that we`re going to go and visit members to see if they need help or to just share something with them so that they can keep progressing and feel the spirit! Also this week we saved a less active family!!!! The sister Olga and her husband Juan! They`re so awesome and amazingly funny! Sister Olge never lost her testimony (she`s one of the happiest people I know) she just got super busy and there wasn`t time to come to church but we saved them and their so excited to get back into the church activities and stuffs! :D 

Hey I also forgot I lost my suit coat!!1 hahaha we moved rooms and when we moved it got lost...... My companion put it in the car and we`re thinking that maybe somebody came up and took it... because we can`t find it and the owner of the car doesn`t have it.. haha I`ve still got my pants just the coat dissappeared

I love you guys!!! and have fun without me! :D haha