January 12,2015

So this week was a really normal week we didn`t have to many new investigators this week. The new investigators we do have are some old investigators. We taught this one family who are living together and they want to be baptized but the dad doesn`t want to marry his girlfriend. They`ve been together for like 26 years.... So I told my companion when we go back and if they still don`t want to get married we have to drop them.

During my personal studies I`ve been studying in Preach my gospel. Mainly in the Christlike attributes. I`ve learned a lot more about my savior! Also I`ve been helping my companion with random gospel questions he has! The most spiritual moment I had this week was probably during a family night with a less active member and her family. I did a lesson with the three things we need to do in life to have a structure to support all the problems that we`re going to have. The three are Read, Pray, and Go to church. I Taught the lesson and she started crying and I could feel that the holy ghost was speaking to her! :D

So how Are you??

I`m amazing!!! haha it`s so freaking hot it`s not even funny! 

How's your companion?

He`s a newbie peruvian! haha he doesn`t like to listen to be and the stuff goes bad... its funny somtimes! :D

What part of peru is he from?

Chiklayo! 

How is the ward?

it`s a lot bigger then the last one!! and more active!

Do you like it?

Yeah!!!

Is the food better?

It`s normal! but here there`s pizza! 

Do you eat a lot of rice?

hahaha yes!!! 

Does this area have dogs?

Yeah! not as many as the other!

How's the bed?

Not as good as the last one! :D

Do you use your bed protector?

Yes! :D

So where do you use the internet there?

In an internet cafe! :D

Do you get to go to the temple?

No... only when a convert goes or your the companionship of the month! 

Pdays we usually just party! haha today I think we`re going to have a water balloon fight! :D

I gotta go!!! I love you so much!!! Have fun without me!! :D

Alex's saying good bye before he was transferred 

Pictures of his new appartment in Lima.

January 5,2015

It´s going by pretty fast I think.... hahaha

The Packing went pretty good! I´m fairly certain that I got everything! hahah I think I left one thing and the other house becuase I didn´t want it... I got here by bus! haha that´s how we travel distances here! :D My new companion is Elder Quintana! Yeah He´s a pretty chill dude... I am a full hour and a half away! haha I´m in Lima now! :D I´m in Izaguirre! Yes I did say goodbye to everybody that I wanted to! :D 

(Ward or brach in your new area)

It´s a Ward which is really weird for me! hahah and people actually go to this church which is also really weird! :D 

I´m sending a video! but We were on top of the roof of the building we´re staying in! :D 

I think so.... but they´re up in Huaraz! (Do you have a couple in you district)

Which CTR ring?(I found his CTR ring cleaning his room out)

(How is your companion)

He´s pretty down to earth.. haha I don´t know I haven´t had any problems with him... well I´m training him so that might be why... haha I´m finishing his training! :D

I have to go!! bye!!!!!!! I love you!!!!

20 questions we sent him!

• What has been your biggest success?
• What has been your biggest challenge this week?
• What has been your biggest concern?
• Who has been your favorite person? Why? 
• What are you looking forward to this coming week?
• Do you have a goal set for this week? Tell me about it.
• How was your walk with the Savior this week?
• What was your most spiritual experience?
• What was your best experience?
• What is your apartment like?
• Where do you do your shopping?
• How much do they give you to live on monthly?
• Are you doing well budgeting your money?
• What is the best thing you have been fed?
• What is the grossest thing you have been fed?
• What do you love about where you are living?
• Is there anything you need?
• Tell me about your companion?
• Do you have things in common?
• What is the biggest thing that has impacted your life this far on your mission?
• Tender Mercy of the past week
• What is the the nastiest thing you have had to eat?
• What made you smile this week?
• What is the most common food you are fed?
• Have you had anything yet?

Answers to the questions

• Probably Adrian.....
• I´ve had a small cold but I´m fine now! :D
• being in a place I don´t kknow
• Elder Lansing! because I really have no way of explaining
• Finding people to baptize
• I want to find a way to study better
• Pretty interesting
• President told us a lot of information about the first vision that I didn´t know...
• Meeting a very special family! 
• Very small! 
• Plaza vea! 
• 800 soles!
• Yes!:D
• I don´t remember the names of the foods
• ummm this really weird salad thing....
• I´m in the smallest area! 
• No... I´m alright
• He´s short... and peruvian
• Some of the music we like
• Studying the scriptures
• uhhhh I don´t know
• This chicken with really gross sauce! 
• Elder Brown
• Chicken and rice
• No
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  This is something he wrote Jessica...such a funny kid!!
  
  
  

December 29,2014

This week was a really interesting week. On Christmas Eve during the day we went out and knocked doors because all of our appointments fell through so we were out knocking on doors and we found a lot of people who said the wanted to listen, but they were either women alone in the house or teenagers. So we got appointments to return through out the week. Then on Christmas day we went out to find all these people but they either weren`t there or were way drunk! haha but we still had lessons I just thought it was funny how drunk some people were! :D So we got a family that is investigating, the family Sifuentes, They are a really good family but they aren`t married.... but.. We told them that they are living in sin and that they need to get married. The next visit when we showed up we asked if they had talked about getting married and they said that they want to get married on their anniversery! Which is the 3rd of February! We also have couple other people that are proggressing but this week all of them were basically in Lima all weekend so they all missied out on church.

hahaha It`s just really funny because it`s their anniversary of living together! hahah not dating! 

I`VE GOT TRANSFERSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(When??)

 I go to Lima tomorrow!

(Are you sad)

Yes.... haha My companion and I have a line of baptizms coming! 

haha I have no idea how to feel! 

December 22, 2014

So this week was pretty interesting! haha This Tuesday my companion and I went to find a reference from a member but they weren´t home so we decided to go knocking doors. We knocked on a couple and nobody answered but on the third or fourth door we got to was open and had a huge Christmas tree. After first we yeld hello inside but nobody came so I knocked on the open door and a shirtless dude came out. He said he was sorry because he was washing clothes, we said it was alright and interduced La Dádiva to him and he look really excited and said yes he really wants to see it, but his T.V. died so he sent a little his little niece to go ask her mother if we could watch it at there house. She came back and said that we could watch it so we went into the house and it was full of people! 8 people to be exact.. but 2 of them came in after the video so we didn´t count them! :D

My companion and I are fantastic! He is making me work hard, which is really good, and we are progressing as a companionship to! I´ve been teaching a lot more and My Spanish has spiked this week. My companion and I have been doing practices of teaching and when to flip flop and when its a good time to answer, and when its a good time to pause and let the spirit talk! Its great time! :D

We had our party on Friday! so I´m emailing like normal today! :D I´ve only got like 40 min to skype... so Idk how it´s going to go down! and We changed the time that I´m going to call you guys because I forgot about the time change thing! haha I´m going to call around 12 in the afternoon here.. so like 10 over there in utah! :D 

Also I have recieved the package!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I´m sorry but I opened!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!! hahaha

December 15th

This week we have a couple of investigators that are very interested and we have been teaching! The name of one of them is Maria Flores, she has here 2 year old son and the dad ran away so we go with members to teach her, but she said she prayed and felt that this is something she needs to do! :D I wasn`t there because we had a work visit but that`s what my companion told me! The second is the Family Sifuentes, they are a family of 7 but the littlest one has 7 years so we can`t baptize him. They are an amazing family and the dad said he`s trying to find a religion for his whole family, and his kids really like us and they always want us to be there, and they really want to go to the church! They have a Fecha for the 17th of January! We asked them if they were married and they told us yes, But at church when the sisters asked the Hermana if they were married she said no... so we`re going to ask them later if they are or not! :D

My companion and I are fantastic! :D We have been working on letting me talk more during the lessons, which has helped with my spanish a ton! :D 

I`m doing fantastic! I haven`t had anything try to kill me yet... and I haven`t really had any super spiritual experiences this week other then letting the spirit talk through me during the lessons! :D

Dec 8

I sent Alex a mad libs...this is what he sent back....:)

Dear Mommy

Things on the mission are going Peachy!

I have eaten Chocolate cereal for breakfast. It is Glorious!

The best thing about the mission is Que estoy aqui para compartir El Evangelio!

The hardest thing about the mission is studying in the mornings

The weather here is Humid! 

Our mode(s) of transportation Taxi`s or Walking (state mode(s) of transportation) is Cramped and stuffy

On P-day the funnest thing I do is Write home!

On P-day, the lamest thing I do is walk around...

Please send: Dad my love... :D

I miss you and love you.

Elder Durrant!

December 1,2015

Woo!!! Sorry I didn´t write last week!! I kinda forgot and then we ended Internet and I hadn´t written it yet! :D Any way, what´s happened the past couple of weeks is that I got my new companion, his name is Elder Martinez, and he is amazing!! haha he knows how to work hard and to have fun at the same time! which is perfect for me! He told me recently that when transfers were coming up he could feel that he was going to be transfered, so he prayed that he would be sent somewhere where he could baptize weekly! and the Lord sent him to me.... so we have plans to work really hard and to party all the way through! :D Also I´ve had a couple expierences that were kinda Spiritual for me! now that I´ve started to be able to understand Spanish a lot more I can understand what they are saying and a scripture will pop into my head. I usually didn´t pay that much attention to it when it happened but I´ve started to realise it´s happening and that I need to act on it! So during a lesson with my convert Adrian we were talking about something... I honostly didn´t understand the story but from the words that I did understand a scripture popped into my head in D&C about forgiving people, let me give you some background.. the mother of Adrian was crying because someone yeld at her and Adrian was a little upset.. this was the situation I was in... I didn´t fully understand the story but I knew something had happened so I asked my companion if it was a good idea to share this scripture. He said yes and I shared it explained it a little and bore my testimony that it´s our job to forgive everybody.. and the Sprirt was so strong that Adrian had a blank face(He makes a face when he is reciving new information) and his mother stopped crying and said thank you thank you... And thats my spiritual expirence this week! :D