tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49319186462864207092024-03-12T20:58:45.856-06:00Elder Will DuranteTeam Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-31118711246027592392016-08-13T12:12:00.000-06:002017-02-02T08:27:29.157-07:00Misc Info and Pics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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ZONE SKIT</div>
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2nd Christmas</div>
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CCM (Lima): Elders Tyson Compton and Ethan Whitaker</div>
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First Area (Pampas): Elder Bryan Torres—10/9/14 to 11/19/14, Elder Boris Arnez—11/20/14 to 12/31/14</div>
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Second Area (Huánuco—Amarilis): Elder Luis Caro—1/1/15 to 2/11/15, (trainee) Elder Facundo Tapia—2/12/15 to 5/6/15</div>
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Fifth Area (Huánuco—Colonial): Elder Jeffer Carhuaricra—12/2/15 to 12/7/15</div>
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Sixth Area (Tarma—Modelo): Elder Santiago Calle—12/8/15 to 2/9/16, Elder Luiggi Mendoza—2/10/16 to 3/29/16</div>
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Elder Logan Thatcher—Rockwall, Texas</div>
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<i>Albina Diaz Huaman</i>—Pampas </div>
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Johnny—Huánuco</div>
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John—Huánuco</div>
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Kevin (Will <i>Confirmed</i> him)—Tarma</div>
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I got word that I am coming home this Wednesday! My knee is such that I can't really work and they think that I need to recover and be taken care of in the States so I am coming home on the next transfer. One good thing: since the plane is already full, they got me a first class seat. So, I get to fly home in the business class! So, I'll see you soon!Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-9966830993618101262016-05-02T10:58:00.001-06:002016-05-02T10:59:04.805-06:00Pain in the Mission<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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the missionaries in Huancayo went to Huaytapallana glacier for Pday. Elder
Collantes and I stayed behind because we couldn't make the hike. We did go to a
park called El Parque de los Mates. It was pretty cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I completed 20 months in the mission. I went to a district meeting in the zone
Mantaro with Elder Islas and Elder Collantes. Later I went with Elder Calle to
buy groceries for this weeks’ worth of breakfast. We went to Plaza Vea (which
is in Real Plaza) to buy all of it. It's the closest thing to Wal-Mart that
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Wednesday I went and taught a lesson with Elder Collantes and Elder Islas to
some really good investigators. It was nice to get out and teach a little bit.
I really miss it!! I pray my knee gets better soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some new shower heaters in the new house. We have been showering with cold
water so it is nice to have hot water!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we found out that President Henderson has a bad foot infection. So he will be
in Lima a little longer than was planned. The consejo for the zone leaders this
next Tuesday is canceled until further notice. I worked on the English book a
little today. I haven't had much time to work on it because the office staff
needs the use of the computers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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usually too busy for them. We went to this place called Ingenio, which is about
an hour outside of Huancayo, and they cook rainbow trout. It was very, very
good! After that we went to Real Plaza to get a milkshake before we started our
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it was awesome. We had a good lunch after our fast. I went and taught a lesson
with Elder Compton and Elder Holmes. In the middle of our discussion Elder
Holmes got a call from Presidente so he went out and answered it. A minute
later he called me out because President Henderson wanted to talk to me. I asked how his foot was and he said, not good. He
asked me how my knee was and I said it was all right – about the same and kind
of hurts. He said okay, that's what I need to know. Presidente is hospitalized
right now and hopefully he will be back soon. Well, have a great week and I
will talk to you guys soon for Mother's Day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week was pretty lame. I basically just watched two zones play soccer
because I couldn't play because of my knee—but no big deal. I got to laugh and
joke around with some of the guys. A little later I was informed that I was
going to be going to the office for the next two weeks to heal up. If I don't
heal, then I'm going to have to go home. I will be resting and icing my knee
and doing whatever I can to try and get better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I got to the new mission home. It's pretty sweet. It's a little bit smaller but
a lot more modern. I am crashing with Elder Compton and Elder Holmes. It was a
long day! I basically just sat and did nothing in the office except rest and
ice my knee. Hopefully they will give me a job to do or something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to President's house and Hermana Henderson asked me to make an English
book with 25 little lessons that could be taught in like district meetings. I
think it’s so the Latinos can get some practice with English. There is the job
that I was looking for! We all know how bad I suck on the computer so this
should be a good experience. Being in the office lets you know a little bit
more of how the mission works. It's really cool! I actually knew a fair amount
already. My knee still feels kind of heavy but I'm sure it will improve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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secretaries. We went to Real Plaza, which is a sweet mall, to get a couple of
things. It kind of makes you feel like you are back home because it is a modern
mall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I was back to resting my knee again. My knee is just kind of sore and achy. It
feels like it's just kind of a deep, chronic pain like I've had it for a while.
I feel like I just need to do some exercises and to some therapy on my knee.
It's kind of cool being with the missionaries in the office because it's pretty
funny sometimes. There's just a lot of laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I just chilled and iced my leg. Later that evening there was a stake talent
show in the Peñaloza chapel, which is the old chapel that I attended. So I got
to see some of the members and they were all concerned and asking about my leg.
"Oh my gosh, how are you doing? We are all praying for you and your knee!
We miss you!" I have only been here for a couple of weeks. They're really
awesome! After the talent show there were a lot of people that went to Hermana
Charo's (my former pensionista) and ate picarones. It was good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I went to the La Libertad ward with Elder Compton and Elder Holmes. Afterwards
we had lunch and then we went to the office so I could rest/ice my knee. I kind of feel like I'm a burden for
everyone, which sucks! I hope my knee heals quickly. I hate this! I hope you
guys have a great week and I love you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pday this week we didn't really do too much. We just played sports like
volleyball at the church with everyone in the zone. I didn't get too involved
because of my knee. We didn't have too much luck with our meetings that
evening. We did teach Zandalee a lesson and that went well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tuesday
we gave a good zone training. We talked about developing faith in Jesus Christ
and a couple of other things that I feel really helped the zone. The training
went great. Elder Collantes called me and told me that the MRI machine is in
maintenance and we are going to have to wait till later to do it. I did
divisions with Elder Larson for the day and it went well. We went to Totus for
dinner. It is this Italian restaurant and the food is really, really good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to Huancavelica to approve one of the companionship's rooms and to see
how things were going. Huancavelica is a pretty cool place! The road to
Huancavelica is known to be like the worst in the mission because it is like 3
hours of curves/switchbacks. I've got to admit that it was pretty rough but I
was fine. The missionaries were doing well. They have the nicest casa capilla
(church house/mini church) that I have seen in the mission. It made the one
that we had in Pampas look like garbage. We ate at an Italian restaurant called
Oregano's. The valley we drove through was really pretty. We went through this
little town (Izcuchaca) that sold this really good cheese bread! It was kind of
cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we got back from Huancavelica and then I received my MRI. Getting the MRI was
kind of a weird experience. They had me lay down on the table and a robe. They
strapped my knee in and had me put on some headphones because the machine was
super loud. It lasted around 30 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I was supposed to get the results of the MRI but the one doctor that can read
them wasn't there. Elder Collantes is going to send them to Presidente to try
to see what's up. I'm just kind of on waiting mode which sucks. We had our
weekly planning this morning and then we went proselyting. We went to the
nicest place in the entire mission to eat. The restaurant is La Leña Prime. You
gotta love hot wings and ribs!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President Henderson sent my MRI results to his brother who is an orthopedic
surgeon. We also had a pre-interview with Zandalee. Things are looking good for
her to be baptized on the 29th!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was pretty good on Sunday. I finally got to know the ward. I hadn't been to
church here yet because of General Conference and the Peruvian elections. It's
a big ward and it is awesome! The people are nice and the chapel is nice which
is great! Please don't worry about me. I'm fine. I'm just trying to keep you
updated on my health. My knee is just trash and it really, really hurts. Ha ha.
But I'm fine, I can still walk, I'm not paralyzed. President did call me and
said, "We have a chance" and that his brother did not see anything
wrong in the results. So that's awesome! It must just be a lot of inflammation.
President told me he has some plans for me and will let me know in the next
couple of days what I need to do. I'm sure all will go well. I love you guys
and can't wait to hear how your week went!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Monday
was a real solid Pday. The knee is still kind of bugging me but oh well. There
are four zones here in Huancayo. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Our zone (Huancayo – Peñaloza),
Los Andes, Mantaro, and San Carlos. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After we ate we went to the stake center and played
games (basketball, volleyball, football). After chilling for a while we went to
this cool souvenir shop. I bought a few things and I am almost done buying
souvenirs.</span><br />
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we had a good consejo of the zone leaders. We had Popeye’s for lunch and Pizza
Hut for dinner. The trainings were good. It's not as cool to go to these zone
leader meetings because we don't get to stay in the new mission home. We got
the Pampas elders sent back to their area now that the strike thing is pretty
much over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had district meeting, which went well. Afterwards we had a full day of work.
Our teaching pool is kinda small; we are rebaptizing a girl whose record as a
member was lost or something. Her name is Zandalee and her baptismal date is
the 29<sup>th</sup> of this month I think. We have a couple of other people who
have a baptismal date but they have to stop working Sundays and stuff like that.
My knee really is hurting me and I was supposed to go to the clinic on but the
doctor didn't come in. Don't worry about me. It's not like I can't walk. It's
just bugging me and I need to get it fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I went to the clinic and they wanted to do a full exam on my knee. We have to
receive permission from President Henderson to run the tests so I think it will
be this next week. Elder Thatcher took me out to eat at Totus and it was
awesome! It's like this Italian restaurant. We had this three cheese lasagna
and oh my gosh it was delicious! Thursday is the day that we go to the office
and pick up packages, so we did that too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Friday
the elders from Huancavelica stayed with us because of our interviews with
Presidente. I got my scripture cases that I ordered from Huancavelica which are
so, so awesome! One cool story—</span> E<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">lder Thatcher has been working with a couple for
three months. They are Catholics and are really nice but they have never
accepted a baptismal date or anything. So I went for my first time the other
day and we challenged them to a date and they accepted it! It was a really cool
lesson with a strong spirit. We talked about the Book of Mormon and they have
decided to prepare for the 7<sup>th</sup> of May. Super cool! Their names are
Alejandro and Vilma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Saturday
we had our interviews with President Henderson. He told me that he was going to
ask for permission for me to get an MRI taken of my knee to see if anything is
torn. If something is torn then I will be heading home to have surgery. That
would suck! If it is just inflammation, then he is going to try and
"save" me. I might be in the office for a bit helping him out and
resting my knee a little more than I normally would be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday
we did not have church because they were having presidential elections. Not too
many people wanted to listen to us. There was a lot of drinking and parties
going on. Last time during elections I was in the CCM and it happened to be the
same week as General Conference. They postponed General Conference because we
are not allowed to have meetings in Peru during the week of elections. It's the
law. No news yet about the MRI. I called Elder Collantes and he said that
president thinks it will be Monday. I don't know, I'm sure he will let me know
as soon as he gets permission. I'm not sure if I mentioned it but we, as zone
leaders, do practices with the missionaries. They are like practice lessons and
they all went well. We have to do evaluations on every companionship as well.
Every time we have interviews we do that. Anyways, that was my week. I hope you
had a great one. I love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Monday
we really didn't do too much. We played Uno at the church with the elders from
Mantarana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tuesday
we had an awesome day of work! It was just filled with lessons! Filled I tell
you! We also found a bunch of new people to teach! This area is just booming
right now!! We found out the changes and I will be transferred to Huancayo to
be zone leader. My companion is from Rockwall, Texas and his name is Elder
Thatcher. I am super excited!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I arrived in Huancayo and our room is remarkable! We have an oven, sink, and
triple bunk bed. We even have an outdoor deck thing. We live on the top floor
of a nice house. I feel like a rich man or something. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hermana Charo is my pensionista. She cooks us hot wings, pancakes,
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mission office is in our zone. The elders from Pampas are with us because there
is some sort of strike thing going about a University between Pampas and
Huancavelica. There are people with rocks and sticks in the streets and they
are angry. Our zone is sweet and huge! Huancavelica and Pampas are in it, so I
will get to visit those places.</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is funny that I am the zone leader of the same
zone that I started the mission in (Pampas was my first area). Our zone is in
the actual city of Huancayo. It is awesome and exactly what I wanted!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thursday
I went to the clinic/hospital with Elder Collantes for them to check out my
knee. They gave me a shot in the butt and they need to put two more in me
later.</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
places that I went to have my shot put in were pretty scary. They were little
rooms called Topicas in the street. It seemed like random people with piercings
put my shots in. It was kind of scary but quite the experience. I am walking and doing what I can but my knee
really does hurt. Hopefully the inflammation will go down and things will be
fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Happy
April Fools' Day! Today kind of sucked because Elder Collantes told me that I
shouldn't be on my feet much. He told me I can walk four hours a day, two hours
at a time. I received another shot and I'm sure that things will be all better
soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we watched General Conference in English. I really liked the priesthood
session. I have a new perspective on a lot of things and I'm going to be trying
to "access more of God's power through the priesthood". There were a
lot of cool messages!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was another awesome day of General Conference. We are a little bit worried of
how the prophet is doing. He didn't talk too much. We had some investigators
come also! I am starting to get used to the new area and the new roads. I hope
you guys had a great week and I send my love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Elders came over for Pday. We wanted an elders Pday since the sisters had a
sister Pday to the jungle. We went and played soccer at the place where I lost
my gold chain. I'm super excited for dad and his new calling as Bishop! I know
he's going to do great! Hermano John, a member here, took us out to dinner and
he asked for dad's name and phone number. He said that he called you actually!
I hope that wasn't too weird. I figured you would appreciate talking to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Wednesday
we went to Palca and taught Hermana Guadalupe. We played soccer at the church
with Santiago. Actually I didn't play because my feet and my knee are really
hurting me. I think that since my feet have been hurting me, I haven't been
able to walk correctly and that is causing my knee issue. That kind of sucks
but I'm going to keep on working hard!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thursday
we had an "attack" in Junín. We headed out about 10:00 in the morning
and we got back around 5:30 in the evening. It was an awesome, beautiful day! I
think we really helped the elders. We found a boatload of people to teach!
Their area is huge for just two missionaries. I think this is going to give
them a good jumpstart for the next transfer that's coming up. We had the whole
district there. The "attack" was a success!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had weekly planning. We had Santiago's last lesson before his baptism. He
was really, really excited! I'm not sure if I mentioned this but it is Semana
Santa (Holy Week) here. They have a lot of crazy traditions here. There are a lot of parades, flower pictures
in the street, parties,...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I completed 19 months, which is kind of crazy. We had Santiago's baptism which
was an amazing experience! I bought him two ties and gave him a shirt. Hermano
Yarasca baptized him. It was nice to have a member do it so they could build
that relationship. I called Elder Collantes, the health missionary, and talk to
him about my knee and feet. He said to wait until the changes to figure it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday
was solid! Santiago was confirmed a member, received the Aaronic Priesthood and
was ordained to the office of a priest. He was super, super happy! He is
stronger than most of the members here already! He helps out with service, he
comes with us to lessons....now when he comes with us to lessons, it will count
as a lesson with a member, since he is a member. He is already developing
relationships, he's going to start blessing the sacrament and everything like
that. I really do love him! It is going to be very hard if I leave. Church
classes went really well also. Well, we will see how changes go. I love and
miss you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-7687232548820450272016-03-21T09:55:00.000-06:002016-04-07T14:15:06.932-06:00District Conference<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We
had a good time on Pday—we made tacos, which is always nice! We played soccer
and basketball after making tacos; I also got my haircut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tuesday
we had a full day of work. Elder Holmes, President Henderson's personal
secretary, has been talking to the Justice Department about the bus incident
last week. I had to send him an email with a bunch of facts about the company,
who was involved, how and what happened, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Wednesday
was kind of a cruddy day I have to admit. We had one lesson; however, that one
lesson was a pretty good one. We got two new investigators out of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thursday
was much better. We had for good lessons. Edgar's wife is going to talk to her
boss to see if she can get her day off to be Sundays so she can come to church.
We contacted some references that some members from another branch gave to us.
They are going to be great investigators! We also went and gave a blessing to Graciela.
I baptized her for the sisters a little while ago. She is getting two tumors
removed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Friday
we had our weekly planning and had a few lessons. We also had our weekly
meeting with the presidency of the district. We discussed how this next week we
are going to go have an "attack". So the whole district here in Tarma
is going to go to Junín and we're going to try and get a lot of work done
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Saturday
we started a fast with Santiago because he asked us to. We're fasting to help
him take care of the debts that he has. He is doing awesome! She is super,
super cool! I just love him to death! He wants to improve so badly. He's
working hard to get to his baptismal date later this month. He even went to the
priesthood session of the district conference and everything. He's doing really
well!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday
was the district conference here in Tarma. All of the missionaries in the zone
came as well as the members in those areas which includes: San Pedro de Cajas,
Junín, Marcavalle, La Oroya, Modelo 1 y 2, Mantarana, and El Milagro 1 y 2.
President and Sister Henderson came. Hermano José Villegas and Kevin received
the Melchizedek priesthood. Kevin
received the calling of branch secretary and José Villegas received the calling
of Sunday school president. One of the coolest things was that we also helped
José give his first blessings to his wife and Valentino for their health. We
also found three new families to teach this week. That is awesome because I
always love to teach families!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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funny story—a guy we are teaching thinks he knows everything and makes the
funniest comments. We read a scripture about repentance and he stops us midway
and says, "I know what this Scripture refers to, the three Nephites who
aren't dead." His wife isn't a member yet and it just confuses her. Ha ha.
You guys are the best! I love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-86200664256762471492016-03-14T16:50:00.000-06:002016-03-16T16:52:13.577-06:00Sad Stuff<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Something
crazy happened on Pday as we were on our way to La Merced. After traveling for
some time I walked toward the front of the bus to speak with the driver's
assistant (the person sitting next to the driver who opens the door, takes
tickets/money...) to see if he would change the music. As I was starting to
speak to him, some drunken man walks into the middle of the road. The driver
swerved to try and miss him but he couldn't avoid him. He hit the man head on
breaking the windshield and then we felt him get run over by the tires. I
literally saw a man die. It was super sad! Once we got to La Merced it poured
rain all day, we played soccer, basketball, and tossed the football around a
little bit; some missionaries went to El Tirol waterfall. I did not go because
it would've been like my 8 billionth time there. We are staying at Henry's
Recreo and I roomed with Elders Mendoza, White, and Whitaker. It is so pretty
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
multi zone on Tuesday was awesome. We learned about how to help investigators
understand the importance of attending church. We traveled back to Tarma
without any issues. Everyone stayed together that night because of the zone
training the next day. We did fun little activities at the zone conference like
tying balloons to shoelaces and then trying to pop each other's balloons.
Inside the balloons were little puzzle pieces and then you had to put the
puzzle together. The puzzle ended up being a picture of Elder Whitaker and
Elder White (they were in charge of the activity), so that was pretty funny. My
companion conducted the meeting and we were in charge of the practices/role
playing. We did the Restoration (in four minutes) and the one about the
importance of attending church. After the multi zone we went out to eat and I
had mariscos (seafood). It was good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the training went really well. We talked about repentance and I think it
worked. The mission has really been emphasizing right now that everyone be
clean and have the spirit because if not then we're kind of just wasting time.
After the training, we got all of the missionaries sent off and then later we
played soccer that night. Santiago is still excited about getting baptized!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thursday
was a pretty average day. We ran into Sergio and he asked us to help him throw
out some of his vices so we helped him do that. We taught Edgar a lesson so
that was good. It rained SUPER hard that night! It flooded all the streets and
everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Friday
we had four lessons and our weekly planning also went well. We sent Elder Perez
to Huancayo because of his leg. I'm not sure if I mentioned but he is having
problems with his leg so hopefully that all gets figured out and he gets
feeling better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We
went to Palca on Saturday with President Durman. Guadalupe and her mom are
doing really well. We had an awesome experience with Jorge. We planned to teach
him the parable of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16. When we got there he
told us he had a dream of a friend who had passed away about two years ago. She
came and talked to him. Jorge thought originally she had gone to hell but
somehow moved to heaven. He said he remembered reading a parable in the Bible
but he didn't remember where. It was exactly what we had planned on teaching.
It was cool to have prayed and received the inspiration and been able to walk
in and teach exactly what he needed. The spirit was so strong. The sad part is
that he didn't really accept that visitation/dream as an answer. He thought it
was just coincidence. We've decided to kind of leave him for a little bit and
give him some time and hopefully he will realize what he really needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday
we had an attendance of 92 people. We had a full morning of lessons and then
one lesson after church. We also found a really cool family! We went to this
mountain that I've always wanted to go and do contacts in ever since I got
here. I've always thought that there were people waiting there and sure enough
there was a less active man whose wife's not a member. His parents are actually
sealed in the temple. He knows a lot of things but has been less active for two
years and his wife has desires to be baptized! It is awesome! They have a
little kid too. The branch is getting better and things are going well! Know
that I love you and will talk to you later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-6827365159410322482016-03-07T14:58:00.000-07:002016-03-15T14:58:43.052-06:00Angels Among Us!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On
Pday Elders White and Whitaker came here to chill with us and we went and
played soccer at this indoor place. I took off my gold chain to play and I put
it in my backpack inside my shoe and while I was playing, I think somebody came
over and stole it. I realized I don't have it and I cannot find it anywhere. I
talked to a lot of people and the facility workers said "justo" in
that moment the surveillance cameras weren't working. I must admit that I am
pretty mad about it! It was an important thing to me! Any ways, we received a
phone call from Elder Holmes (the office) that the zone leader conference got
postponed until Wednesday because President and Sister Henderson are sick.
Which means the multi zone conference got pushed back as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went and asked around again on Tuesday about my gold chain. I asked to see the
surveillance footage and the supervisor said that they weren't working in that
one part. Maybe it fell out of my shoe but I really feel like I had it all
contained in my backpack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went to Huancayo for our zone leader conference. The trainings were really
simple but I really liked them. We had chicken sandwiches for lunch and pizza
for dinner. Elder Peterson has returned. He finally was able to fly back. The
elders that went and "rescued" him could not fly back though because
they did not have their passports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we got back from Huancayo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Friday
we had our weekly planning. We have been communicating/planning with the zone
leaders in La Merced about the upcoming multi zone conference/Pday this next
week. It should be great. Later in the day we were walking around and ran into
Jerusalem and Joanna. We stopped to talk with them and then from out of nowhere
Hilario, their little brother of four years old, came up crying and throwing a
fit. He always does that so we didn't pay too much attention to it. So we kept
on talking and then we heard somebody yell "the baby fell!" Sure
enough he fell off about a 20 foot cliff into an empty lot of dirt. But Hilario
popped right up and continue to wine. I seriously have no idea how he lived. It
was nuts! I felt super bad but I guess you could say there's no doubt that
angels are still on the earth!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Saturday
we started our day going to Palca to do some service for Guadalupe and her mom.
We picked away rock on a lot so that they can build their house on. We had a
bunch of members there helping us as well as Santiago. It was a good time. We
started our fast, individually and as a companionship, with Santiago. It's
going to be an awesome experience. Santiago also accepted a baptismal date for
the 19th of March. He was planning on getting baptized in December because he
wanted to pay off some debts but we decided to fast with him and even before we
started the fast he told us that he wanted to be baptized.</span></div>
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we had all of the missionaries in the zone with us because we will be traveling
to La Merced at 6:00 in the morning to get there for Internet time to write our
letters etc. We will be staying at Henry's place again. We had a good day at
church. We finished our fast with Santiago and he and everybody else is excited
for the baptism. Well, the next email I send you will be from La Merced. I love
you all and have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-82131296992586242292016-02-29T14:40:00.000-07:002016-03-04T16:45:51.804-07:00Peru Perniciousness!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I
am still really stoked about getting into BYU! Thank you all for your help. I
really do appreciate it! We had a fun Pday again on Monday. We played capture
the flag again with water balloons at the church. That night though we did not
have one single lesson. We went to teach the Jorge family, but they were really
rowdy, so we helped them bring up water out of this well type thing by the
street to their house about five blocks away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Santiago,
our investigator, came with us to Palca to visit Guadalupe, a less active
15-year-old girl. She is doing great! She's really excited to come back. She's
working on her Personal Progress and we're helping her out with that. Later
that evening, we went and helped Santiago chop wood for his stove and then
taught him a lesson with our elders quorum president. We received the transfer
information and we (Tarma district) then gathered in the chapel to do the
printing and announcing of the changes. Afterwards, I went and coordinated the
changes with the others zone leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
changes went well on Wednesday. We were basically in the terminal from 8 AM to
2:30 PM. Elder Peterson stayed with us that night because he had to go the next
day to Lima for migrations. We went to play soccer at the church but the Jorge
family showed up really late so we didn't get a chance to play BUT something
really cool happened. I felt that we should show them around the church before
we left and so we did. When we came to the chapel where we have our sacrament,
they were all amazed! The mom even said that she had dreamed of a place just
like this but didn't know where it was, but this was her dream. It was awesome!
They said they will be attending church on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Thursday we went to the restaurant "Hot and Tender" with President
Durman, his wife and kids, and the sisters. It was a good time. We received
news that there was a landslide on the route to Lima and Elder Peterson was
stranded, but he found a car to Huancayo and made it back safely. There were
some other missionaries that were on a bus that were also affected by it, but
they got in a taxi made it all the way into Lima. I can't believe there are so
many crazy things that happen here in Peru! We also received a call that night
that a family in Mantarana burned there house down! So on instead of weekly
planning, we're going to be able to go and help that family clean all of that
up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to Palca with Santiago and taught Guadalupe. That it went really well.
We then did two baptismal interviews and they both passed so El Milagro will be
having two baptisms. We also received news that Elder Peterson has been stuck
on that bus without food for a day. I thought that he had made it to Huancayo
but Elders Moss and Solorzano went on a rescue trip to find him. They found him
but the weather was getting really bad so they paid for a car to take them all
the way to Lima. All of the flights are full so they aren't coming back til
Monday. That's Peru for you! Giant landslides, bad weather but things are going
well! Happy 18 months to me in the mission today! Time is flying by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President came and did interviews with a few people here in the zone. Lately
he's really been putting an emphasis on people being worthy, which is really
cool. He's really an inspired guy and knows exactly where and how to help each
of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was good day. It was Hermana Holland's birthday, so we had a little get
together after our branch council meeting. We visited the Villegas family and
they're doing okay. They would like us to visit them more, which we probably
should, but we're trying to help the members to take on the role of fellowshipping
them. They are new members and need some support to help them stay strong.</span><br />
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TO NIKENNA for winning state in basketball!! I love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-78172880466933729982016-02-22T17:13:00.001-07:002016-03-04T14:56:54.616-07:002 Decades Down!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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had a pretty solid Pday on Monday. We played soccer and then a few games with
water balloons because it was really hot. Things are going well here. I am
happy. It's kind of freaking me out that I am turning 20! I'm so excited I got
into BYU. That is super sweet. It's a huge answer to a lot of prayers and
fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a pretty successful day. We taught the Jorge family, that's the family that
Elder Butterfield and I found that has like 11 people in it. They're doing all
right. It's just kind of hard to teach them all at the same time. I think it is
hard to pay attention and hear when everybody's all together. But things are
going well with them. I think they're going to start progressing pretty soon. I
hope they do, they're good people and they really need this gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was not very successful. We walked around A LOT. We tried contacting a lot of
stuff like that, it just kind of sucked. The highlight of the day was when we
went to play soccer. We were alone with the other missionaries from Monterrana,
waiting for the investigators to show up before we started playing and then out
of nowhere the entire Jorge family showed up! It was awesome! Diego, another
investigator, also showed up so it was great.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thursday we had a killer day! We went to Palca with Santiago and visited Kevin
and Guadalupe. Guadalupe told us a cool spiritual experience where her family
was having a problem on the farm and the seeds wouldn't sprout and so her
family was arguing about it, so she went to her room. She grabbed the Book of
Mormon and randomly opened it. She read 3 Nephi 18:20 where it says that we
should ask in prayer for things that are necessary. She said she felt super
calm and she prayed for help. The next morning they went to the farm and the
seeds had sprouted! We also put a baptismal date with two people from the Jorge
family, Christian and Jerusalem. They accepted a date for the 26th of March. We
went and visited Sergio. When we got there, there was some weird guy on his
balcony. We felt a little uneasy about who was there and what was going on.
When the guy finally left we went up to teach Sergio. The smell of smoke was
pretty strong and Sergio wasn't real alert. We found two new investigators
contacting, which was cool. We had 7 lessons that day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to La Oroya to do a couple of baptismal interviews. When we got back,
things kind of fell through and we didn't get much accomplished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we visited the Jorge family and Jerusalem told us a really cool spiritual
experience where she prayed to see if what we were teaching is true and while
she was praying, her mind went to totally white. She said she saw people all
dressed in white and they were happy and a bunch of other cool things. She said
that was an answer from God. We also visited Jorge, Abraham, and Adriana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hello! If you can't tell, this is the 20-year-old Will speaking; I am no longer
a 19-year-old teenager. Haha. I had a pretty good birthday today. Nothing crazy
happened because I didn't really tell anyone. However, Elder Calle from the
office called me, which was cool, he remembered it was my birthday. President
Durman and his wife also called me. Not too many people came to church today. I
think they're on summer vacation or something. It sucked that none of our
investigators came. My pensionista found out that it was my birthday because
she fixed banana flavored pancakes with chicken for dinner tonight, which was
cool and very nice of her. That was my birthday. I love you guys!</span><br />
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Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-84365043340105494452016-02-15T15:31:00.000-07:002016-02-22T15:35:39.300-07:00Travel. Meetings. Travel. Valentines.<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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we had a zone Pday and we played soccer, ping-pong, basketball, and a couple of
other things. When I was playing basketball I got my face scratched and so I
came away from that game with a few cuts and scratches. I got a call from Elder
Gutierrez telling me that president would like me to conduct some meeting thing
we are going to have with Elder Godoy later this week, so I will be doing that
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we gave our training and it went well and then we did divisions with
Marcavalle. Marcavalle is an area in La Oroya and the missionaries there are
Elders Campbell and Bruno.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to Huancayo and while I was shaving we got a phone call from president.
Elder Calle is now the new assistant! So that is really cool! I told him he was
going to be the next assistant! (Assistants always go in a week before the
regular transfers) My new companion is Elder Mendoza. He is from Tumbes, Peru.
He is a fun guy. All of his family are members and she has about 14 months out
in the mission. We stayed in a hotel because there was no room in the mission
home because of all the missionaries that were there from the various zones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Me and Elder Mendoza emailing!</div>
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conference went really well on Thursday. I conducted the meeting send it went
just fine. The spirit was really strong, we talked about some traps that
missionaries sometimes fall in to when teaching investigators. I took a lot of
notes in my study journal. Only the district leaders and zone leaders stayed in
the mission home that night. We ate Burger King for dinner and I also bought a
nice pair of dress shoes. They only cost me 40 soles and they were so nice!
Older white bought some too. My other shoes were pretty thrashed and I wanted
some decent ones to come home in and I got them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we took a convey to Huánuco and eight hours later we arrived! The training with
the leaders and Elder Godoy was good. We basically made a list of what we
thought, as leaders, we could do to help the zone out and then we explained why
and discussed it as a group. For lunch we went to an awesome burger joint
called Locos. I had half a Mexican burger and half an American burger with a
milkshake and fries. It was seriously like I was back home. It was super good.
I never knew about that place when I lived in Huánuco. It's probably a good
thing because I would have gone there a lot. I saw Elder Tapia. He is in Cerro
and he is training. So I guess I have a "grandson"-- I think his name
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Saturday
I got back to Tarma in time to baptize one of the sister's investigators. She
asked me last Sunday if I could baptize her and I was glad that I was able to
do it. Her name is Graciela. I was really tired, I think because we had been
traveling so much, and it was really nice to be back in our room.</span><br />
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Graciela and the sisters</div>
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Valentine's Day! I have to be totally honest and say that I forgot it was
Valentine's Day until someone told me at dinner. The zone is doing well. We
didn't get to teach too much this week because we were gone and traveling so
much. Traveling kind of sucks because it kind of feels like I have done nothing
all week. I'm excited to get back to work. I miss you guys and I hope things
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Monday we had a "Pday of elders". We all went to the indoor soccer
arena (it has artificial turf) because it was raining so hard outside. The
elders from Junín stay the night with us that night as well as Elder White and
Elder Whitaker because we went to Huancayo the next day for consejo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had Burger King for lunch and Pizza Hut for dinner while we were in Huancayo
for training. I really liked the training the assistants gave about the rock of
Christ and how we can help people construct that rock or rebuild it and build a
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we had a couple lessons. Luz Osorio in Palca told us that Sergio received an
offer to go to Chile to work. Now they are worried about the marriage and
baptism. We told them that something was probably going to happen and we tried
to prepare everything in case something did happen, so we are going to try and
get everything set up for the 13th. It rained in the evening so we did not get
to go play soccer but things are fine. I'm a little stressed out about all
these things but it will be fine and will work out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Birthday mom! I can't believe it's your birthday. February is ticking right on
by. It's kind of freaking me out, seriously, the next thing you know it will
be my birthday and then there goes February and there goes another month then
the last general conference then comes the Skype call for Mother's Day and
everything like that. It's just going crazy. I hope you have a great day and
that you get spoiled because you deserve it! Thursday we did divisions with El
Milagro 2. I split with Elder Butterfield and my companion was with Elder
Barrus. We helped a family move some furniture and various things while they
were moving into a different house and afterwards we had a chance to teach
them. We had nine new investigators! They all listened very intently and
accepted another visit. They attend the MMM church. They were super receptive,
which was cool!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we finished our divisions. President Durman and his family went with us to
Palca to visit Luz. We talked about their marriage a bit to make sure it's a
sure thing and we are still waiting to get an answer. We had a meeting with the
District presidency and it went well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Saturday, Hermana Berta's dad died. We gave him a blessing after he passed away
in the hospital. He was still warm and it was kind of weird, we arrived just
after he passed away. Strange. She is doing all right. We did some service for
the nine investigators we taught the other day. We did not get to teach them a
lesson because they went to the market. We put a baptismal dates however with
Eduardo and Rosa for 13th of March.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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women and they're dancing in the street. It's called carnivales. It's kind of
weird but that's just life here in Peru.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Sunday we spoke with Kevin and Luz and Sergio isn't going to be baptized until
he gets back from Chile. It looks like he will be working in Chile till
December. That kind of stinks. We had 91 people in Sacrament meeting today
which was awesome. We have a new investigator named Jorge who came to church
and Santiago came as well. Santiago still has not accepted a baptismal date
because he said he had a dream where he met this like mountain man that told him
that he needs to pay his debts until he works with God. We told him to pray
about it and he received this dream and so who are we to tell him that it was
not an answer from God but he seems to be doing pretty well. We also received
the news that we are going to Huancayo Wednesday this next week instead of
Thursday for training. We will have some preliminary training on Wednesday and
then everyone who is not a zone leader will leave and then we will stay
Thursday night to have an additional meeting with Elder Godoy. Friday we will
go to Huánuco now! We will stay the whole day there and then we will come back
Saturday morning. I was asked to baptize one of the ladies that the sisters are
teaching on Saturday so I hope I get back in time. It's kind of crazy that we
will be traveling so much. I had to carry Hermana Berta's dad's casket down the
giant stairs that lead from her house. It was sad. They like put cotton in
their mouth and ears and nostrils here. It's kind of gross. They took him to
Cerro de Pasco to bury him. That was my week. Hope you had a great one! I love
you!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Birthday Dad and Mom! Don’t even think that I forgot. I was just waiting to
tell you all at once! On our Pday we went to this giant cross/statue of Christ
in this little town called Acobamba. It's about 15 minutes from Tarma in the
direction of Palca. It kind of sucked as we were walking up because we didn't
see the path—so we kind of suffered. On the way down, we saw this nice little
path which cut our time basically in half. It was kind of funny. After getting
down, we went to the church and played soccer. Later, we had a good lesson with
the Villegas family and then watched a movie about families with our
investigator, Kennedy. We watched the movie with him and his sisters. All of his
sisters are members. He is the only member of his family that is not a member
yet but we are working really hard with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I completed 17 months in the mission, which is kind of crazy to me. We had our
district meeting, which was good, as always.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On
Wednesday we put a baptismal date with our investigator, Edwin. We put it for
20th February. He accepted it really quickly and it was cool. Later we played
soccer at the church and Rosa Pizarro's husband came—cool. My pensionista gave
me like an antibiotic kind of thing for my head to help that spot heal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went to Palca on Thursday and met some less active members with Hermano
Jarasca. We also went to a La Oroya to approve a room that the other
missionaries want to move into this month. It's a good room they just don't
have a shower. So we'll have to get that built and a couple of things like
that. It will be a lot better than their other room; that other room is just
garbage. We worked for a few hours and then went to Hermana Rocia's, who does
our laundry, for her little birthday party thing. She felt really special and
we gave her a blessing because a couple of things are passing in her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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watched meet the Mormons on Friday for our ward mission night. We had a decent
amount of people show up. There was popcorn and soda and all of that awesome
stuff. We watched it on a projector upstairs in the chapel. We got a call about
an emergency transfer. So we took care of that and everything went well. I had
an awesome baptismal interview with a girl named Banya. It was really cool and
spiritual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Saturday we had minimal success. We couldn't visit our planned people because
we didn't have a priesthood holder to go with us. We had to give a little
presentation to all of the branch presidents in the district. We talked about a
few points that everyone to do a little bit better. El Milagro had two
baptisms, Abner and Banya. We went to this restaurant called Pollo Stop with
President Durman and his family. We also did a little service in the morning
where we went and cleaned the church and helped the sisters move rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sunday we did not have that many people in church, I really don't know why but
it kind of stinks. We had a good Ward Council and then we had a good lesson
with Kennedy. He mentioned that after the blessing that we gave him, he has had
a much better relationship with his wife. He said that he has been reading and
praying with his wife and that has been a big difference maker. We want so badly
for him to be baptized!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my head is doing better and things are going well. I love you guys so much and
thanks for everything!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-42867033164681738262016-01-25T11:38:00.000-07:002016-01-29T11:39:57.895-07:00Birthday Baptism!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For
Pday this week we went and played basketball at this like public pool place. We
played with the missionaries, some members came and that one team that wanted
to play us again. That was fun. We went and got something to eat and then went
to the church and played some soccer. So nothing new there. Later we went and
visited the Villegas family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had our district meeting and we learned about challenging our investigators
to baptism. Afterwards we went and helped the sisters move a few things out of
their room. They are moving completely at the beginning of February so we were
helping them get organized and ready. That evening, President Henderson came
and interviewed the sisters (we got our interviews the next day).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our interviews with President Henderson went well. In my interview we laughed
almost the whole time. We talked about how things are going back home and how
we can help people here—normal things, it was just really funny. We also
watched a worldwide broadcast for all the missionaries which was cool. They
talked about a lot of things but I really liked how they said that we teach
repentance and baptize converts. That is our purpose. After our interviews with
Pres, I started shaking in my stomach and I was feeling really, really bad. I
had a bad fever and I ended up going to bed—so we didn't get any work done that
evening, we just rested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I was feeling a little better. I took it kind of easy—we went out to a meeting
and then came back in afterwards because my head was just spinning and
spinning. We had pretty good success though. Kevin had his baptismal interview
and it went well. A couple of people in the zone are sick, which kind of sucks.
I seriously slept like crap Wednesday night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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super happy! Things are going well in the area. We have a new investigator
whose name is Santiago and he has already come to church twice. He also came to
Kevin's baptism. We challenged him to be baptized but he wants to learn a
little more about the church before committing to baptism but he says he's
going to be with us until he dies. He is about 65 years old and he moved here
from La Merced for health reasons. A lot of people came out to Kevin's baptism.
We sang him happy birthday and the branch got him a cake. I am feeling a little
better; just have an upset stomach still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I woke up with some weird thing on my head (rash?) anyways, we had a full day
of work which is kind of rare for us because we usually have to do a lot of
things for the zone. It was nice to work. We had five lessons. We did divisions
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had five investigators at church on Sunday--Santiago, Jackie (Kevin's sister),
Sergio (Kevin's dad), Rosa Pizarro and her husband. We should be putting a lot
of baptismal dates this next week. I confirmed Kevin a member of the church and
gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost. It was my first time doing that and it was
by far the most spiritual thing that happened to me this week. When I put my
hands on his head, it was kind of hard to speak. I really didn't feel like it
was me talking. It was really powerful. It actually reminded me of the first
time I used the priesthood to consecrate some oil with dad. It was really cool
and I felt the spirit a lot! The blessing he received was really cool. It was
specific and I felt like I was just the mouthpiece. I've been waiting to feel
that and it was awesome! Well, that was my week. I love you guys!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-11011894622538009562016-01-18T10:16:00.000-07:002016-03-04T14:27:39.645-07:00Chilean Hot Dogs--"Completo"!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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turf field. The Chilean hot dog is called a "completo" and it's like
filled with meat, salsa, guacamole, onions, on a hot dog in a nice piece of french bread! Later we went out to dinner with Elder Bajania and Elder Bruño.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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gave our training on the doctrine of Christ on Tuesday. Transfers are this week
so we went and printed off the changes for the zone (my companion and I are
staying here together). Since we are in Tarma, we print off the changes for the
whole mission because we are kind of centrally located and a lot of
missionaries pass through here. It is kind of cool to see all of the transfers.
My "kid" (Elder Gonzalez) is going from San Ramón to Huancayo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our day was filled with sending and receiving missionaries. After we finished
with the transfers, we visited Sergio and after our visit, we took him to the
chapel for his interview with President Durman. We then visited the Villegas
family. We had a good lesson with them. Hermano José really opened up about
some of his challenges and we were able to talk about not losing faith and
overcoming hardships. We then went and played soccer at the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we did some service where we helped organized a store, like stocking cookies
and a bunch of things like that. We had a couple of lessons and then headed out
to Palca to visit the Osorio family. We talked about their wedding and got some
numbers figured out. We went to the hospital and gave a blessing to Hermana
Berta's dad. It was also Hermana Lizet's birthday so we went to the store and
bought her a little birthday cake. I think she liked it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we visited Sergio and he is doing okay. We had a meeting with Sergio and the
Osorios, they came to church really sad because they went to sell potatoes in
the morning and their selling price for a bag of potatoes dropped from 100
Soles to 30! Another thing that didn't help was that the driver that was
supposed to take them to the market slept in, so they didn't sell very much and
did not make enough money to get married this next week. They were really sad
and bummed out but after talking with them they felt a little better. The
wedding might not be as fancy but it should be all right. Thoughts go through their
heads like, "why is God doing this to us when we're trying to get
baptized?" So we're trying to explain and help them out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Saturday
we went to a wedding of a couple in Mantarana. They throw rice everywhere, it
was kind of funny. The wedding was really, really pretty. They are really happy
and are getting baptized Sunday. We also went out to Palca and visited the
Osorio family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday
we had an attendance of 86 and our investigator, Hermano Kennedy came to
church. It looks like the Osorio marriage will take place a little later when
they have saved a bit more money. Their son, Kevin, is still going to get
baptized this next Friday. He is super cool and should be heading out on his
mission as soon as possible. He wants to leave one year to the day of his
baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week was kind of crazy. We were told that there was a team, here in Tarma,
that wanted to play us missionaries in basketball. So we show up and they said,
"hey let's go to the coliseum" (which is kind of like their rec
center). So we said, "sure, that would be a lot better." The court
there has a wood floor, even though it's kind of crappy (wood pieces would get
kicked up as I ran) but they have decent hoops. Little did we know that we were
walking into the biggest game of our lives. Haha. All of a sudden they had fans
rolling in and they had a referee there to officiate! So there was me, Elder
Larson, Elder Walker, and Elder Calle. We played for like three hours straight.
It was kind of nuts but fun! Elder White and Elder Roberts stayed with us for
the night because we were heading to Huancayo the next day for the zone leader
council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Huancayo we had KFC for lunch and lasagna from Pizza Hut for dinner. We
learned about the doctrine of Christ and also watched a training on how
assistant's and secretaries should be the best proselyters in the mission. So
they are going to be in the office a lot less now. There are a lot of changes
in the mission right now. For example, when we do divisions, the other
missionaries will be coming to our area instead of us going to their's because
our area should be a model of how it should be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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got back from Huancayo on Wednesday and Jersy from San Ramon actually drove me
back. He's doing really well and Kevin is going to be baptized soon, which is
awesome. We had a decent day of work. We played soccer at the church and
visited with a number of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had a full day of work. We cleaned the church for our service. We were going
to go to this chakra (farm) for this lady but she turned us down. When we
showed up, she said they did not have time and already got "it" done.
But that is all right, so we clean the church instead. We had some lessons and
that is about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we did our weekly planning. We visited Sergio and when we got there he was
drunk. He told us how he just can't stop drinking and smoking marijuana and
everything. It was sad. We talked about the atonement and how he has power over
temptations. José Villegas came with us on a couple of visits, which was nice.
We had our weekly meeting with the district president also (the district
president is kind of like a stake president of the district). I did a baptismal
interview that night and then went out for hamburgers. We found a nice little
burger place for 5 soles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to La Oroya to do 2 baptismal interviews. A mom and her eight-year-old
little daughter are getting baptized. I interviewed the little girl and my
companion interviewed the mom. I almost didn't pass her. I had to explain most
of it and it seemed like she wasn't quite understanding things. I went off to
the side for a moment and prayed about it. I basically explained to God that I
was going to pass her. I felt really calm and peaceful about it. When I thought
about not passing her, I felt like I was literally choking, which was kind of
weird. It was a pretty cool experience. Her mom is awesome and is really on the
ball. We got to lunch really late and we were only able to get in 2 visits
before dinner. The missionaries had their baptism, which was awesome and that
was about it for the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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single lesson. We tried to visit people in the morning and they weren't there,
then we had church and then we had our branch council. That took up a good
chunk of the day but, we had about five of our investigators at church so that
was nice! Well, that was my week. I hope you had a great week and we'll chat
later!</span>Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-82788427098436169842016-01-04T16:15:00.000-07:002016-01-29T12:03:01.850-07:00Happy New Year!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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for Pday we pretty much played soccer and basketball at the church all day. We
played with some members from the ward, El Milagro, and it was really, really
hot. I was exhausted! Later we visited the Villegas family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had our district meeting in the morning and we learned about how to find
people to teach from Elder Perez (missionary from El Milagro 2). After our
meeting, we went and spoke with the hermana's landlady about their housing
contract. We got it figured out. Their room is really kind of crappy. So they
are going to stay in their room one more month and then we will help them find
a new place in February. That evening we went on divisions with the youth in
the ward. It was a good activity. We found a couple new investigators and
visited a couple of other families. We also went out to eat with the branch
president to La Madera.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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had a lot of errands to run on Wednesday. We had to send off some packages and
pick up some packages. We bought tickets for some missionaries that are going
to Lima for their migration paperwork. We didn't have much time to proselyte,
however we did find a new family to teach. It's a family with a mom, dad, and
two kids about seven years of age. The mom is a Jehovah's Witness and the dad
was very interested in what we had to say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we did not have too much success because nobody was in their house. I can't
believe the year is already at an end. Time sure flies when you're working
hard. At night we ate Panaton and drank chocolate milk with Elders Larson and
Valencia. We watched the fireworks from our roof and had a good time. Our pensionista (Hermana Berta) even gave
us ties, which was awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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New Year's! On Friday we did not have one single lesson. We went out to this
little village called Acobamba with the Villegas family and sat and talked with
members. We got a reference from this little house in the country. They cooked
Pancha Manca for New Year's but we couldn't eat it because we don't have
permission. It's kind of freaking me out that it is 2016 now. I hope you have
put your new year’s resolutions, I have put mine into effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started by taking out money with everyone and then we went to Junin to do a
baptismal interview. On our way back to our room to start our fast, we noticed
a man and his wife moving his house. It was literally all of their stuff that
had just been unloaded into the street. So we helped them move their things up
to their new house. The thing is, their house was like a 10 minute walk up this
giant mountain. It was rough! It showed me how out of shape I am. It was cool
to help them out though. We headed to our room and started our fast and then
went to our lesson with the family whose mom/wife is a Jehovah's Witness. The
husband (David) is amazing. He read the restoration before we even showed up.
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our church now starts at 2 pm. It's going to take some time getting used to.
There were not that many people in church because of the schedule change. We
went to Palca before church and found a new investigator named Brian, he is 15.
He's actually the nephew of Hermana Luz Osorio (the family we are teaching
there). His mom is actually less active
so if you could please keep them in your prayers. Today it was a pretty
spiritual fast. We received a lot of answers that's we were looking for and
things are going well. I hope you all have a great new year and I love you!Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-20416192806830850892015-12-28T10:03:00.000-07:002016-01-13T10:11:41.175-07:00Christmas Skype!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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Pday we went to this giant cave called Huagapo with the entire zone. It was
really fun. I finally got to use my head lamp, which was cool. Afterwards we
played Frisbee and took some pictures with an alpaca that was there. We had a
really good time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tuesday Elder Calle and I gave the zone training on the law of consecration. We
wanted the missionaries to focus on doing things because it is the right thing
to do. After the training everybody went to their respective areas. I did
divisions with Elder Turin in Junín, which is about an hour outside of Tarma.
It rained all day and is freezing. It's right next to Cerro de Pasco. My shoes
and socks were completely soaked! This has definitely made me a little more
humble and I realized how many blessings I have in Tarma. To be honest, this
area is just kind of rough. It was neat to go about and help the people here
today. It was muddy, muddy, muddy because of all the rain but things went well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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divisions ended and I went back to Tarma. Elder Calle Skyped with his family
and then we had a primary/branch activity. Elder Calle dressed up in a giant
Barney costume and I dressed up in a giant Winnie the Pooh costume. The kids
went nuts when they saw us and it was really fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christmas Eve we couldn't really find anything to do because everybody was with
family and didn't want to meet with us. Elder Calle and I walked around the
entire day wearing our Christmas beanies that we got from the Christmas zone
conference. Everybody looked at us kind of funny. We went to the Villegas
family for dinner but they started cooking really late so we only got to eat
panaton and hot chocolate. Panaton is like that really dry fruit cake that they
eat here. They gave us gifts, which was very kind! A bit later we went to our
pensionista's and had some turkey. This year was definitely better than my
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Christmas! On Christmas morning I started off by opening the awesome gifts that
you sent me. Thank you very, very, very much! Later we went around to
companionships here in Tarma and handed out little bags of chocolates as gifts.
We then went and picked up Elder Delgado and Elder Alfonzo from Cerro. Elder
Alfonzo came down to perform a baptism. We had lunch and then went to Palca to
visit the entire Osorio family. They are the family that is going to be married
in January and get baptized. We shared a video with them and Luke 2:10-11. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After
we got back from Palca, we went out to eat dinner as a district and I had
chicken, steak and french fries; and then we rushed over to the Villegas family
and they gave us food that they prepared for us yesterday. They made it so that
we could take it back to our place to eat it and it was really, really cool. I
bought Elder Calle a beanie that he liked and wanted for Christmas and he
bought me dinner.</span></div>
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I talked to you all on Skype and it was great to see you guys! As you know we
were in the church and we kind of had to scramble at the last minute to find a
laptop to talk to you guys with because the computer we had decided to spaz out
and stop working. Wendy, one of our new investigators, let us borrow her
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was the last day this year that we will attend church at 10:00 AM. This next
year we switched to 2:00 PM. The Osorio family from Palca came to church and
they are doing great. We went and taught them after church as well. Kennedy
(kind of an eternal investigator whose family are all members) came to church
and we visited with him after church also. We taught him an awesome lesson and
he said that he felt really good about attending church all three hours instead
of going to work. He drives back-and-forth to Huancayo for work. He is usually
pretty busy but he stayed today and he was happy. We had a good branch council,
we had an assistance of 88, and it was a good day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the way, I got your other package on Saturday after we Skyped. I have been
giving the things out to everyone like crazy. Everyone loves the ornaments you
sent for them. Thank you for thinking of them. COOL STORY</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">your stickers
went to a family that the sisters are teaching and I guess the dad has a bad
drinking problem but his little girl used a package of those manger stickers to
make her dad a New Year's present. It struck the dad really hard that his
little girl was learning so much about Christ and I guess he is listening a lot
better now to the sisters and hasn't drank as much. Super cool! </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">I was super excited and happy that I got to talk to you all! I really miss you so much and you all look great!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Love you!!</span></div>
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I wrote you guys on Monday, we went to lunch and then played basketball at the
church, but it was pouring rain so we didn't play for very long. Then we went
to El Milagro (district) and taught those missionaries how to play wall ball
and Uno. We had a sweet meeting with an investigator, John Pierre, he is 14. We
didn't really have a plan of what we were going to teach him but we felt
inspired to talk to him about baptism. He has been meeting with the
missionaries for over a year but has not made the decision to be baptized, so I
shared with him the story of Saul and how he was baptized right there on the
spot because he had faith in Christ. So he now has a baptismal date for
December 25th! It was really cool to have him accept that date because he has
been kind of scared and he didn't think he was ready, but he is totally ready.
He is a super sweet kid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we walked around a lot. It kind of sucked because all of our meetings fell
through except for one. We did a lot of contacting. In the morning I studied a
talk by Richard G. Scott about prayer. I think I talked to dad a little bit
about it but he talks about how God answers prayers and how gratitude is so
important in everything. I'm really trying to apply it in my life right now. So
when I was praying earlier, I made sure to give thanks for a lot of the things
that I normally don't pray about. It was really, really cool to be able to feel
the spirit and how special it is when we give thanks to our Father. I also
received a lot of help and answers to my prayers. I think that's something we
can be better at, thanking God instead of just asking for things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we got everything situated and headed to La Merced. We are actually staying at
Henry's recreational place. It's amazing—he saved the best room for me and my
companion. He is so kind. We went to
lunch as a zone at La Madera. While we were eating, I got a phone call from the
office. President Henderson would like me to conduct the multi-zone conference
in La Merced. Anyways, everyone loves their rooms and the jungle is awesome.</span></div>
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the conference went well. We did a funny skit with three parts. The first part
was like an Internet scene where it was my birthday and Elder Hernandez
received a Dear John letter and it was really, really funny. We do sketches
every Christmas multi-zone conference. The second part was with elders cleaning
their room and how there were monsters in their bathroom and then we compared
the difference between the elders and the sisters rooms. Then the third part
was the first Pday with really, greeny gringos. It was cool. I was the trainer
for Elder Checkits from Layton, Utah. He is kind of new and is really funny. He
had a giant bag with pills, sunscreen, bug repellent, etc. The Satipo zone did
a sketch on how the mission would be if sisters were in the office and then the
La Merced zone did a funny reenactment of what it will be like when Elder
Fernandez goes home after his mission. We did that one present exchange game
where you pass your $5 gift to the left and then the right and then the left...
After the conference was over, we all received flu shots. So that was kind of
crazy! We also got to go to a member talent show that night. One of the members
danced like Michael Jackson. He has really long hair and he was really good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we got everybody sent off which was nice because there was a strike and we were
afraid that there would not be any cars. All the shops and stores were closed
so it was kind of crazy. They do random things like this all the time in Peru.
The reason for this strike was because they did not want to put a University
here in Tarma. It's kind of like, "we're angry so we're not going to
work". It's kind of ridiculous. We had an activity Friday night called
"a night in Bethlehem". The missionaries dressed up as Roman
soldier's/Robin Hood guys and the members dressed up like people that lived
during Jesus's time. It was supposed to start at 7:00 but it didn't start until
9:20 so we didn't get to stay for all of it. It was fun and it was nice to have
an investigator there and some recent converts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Saturday we helped an investigator named Kennedy and his family move. We didn't
have to move them very far so I did not take very long. After that, we had a
good day of work. We had a good lesson with an investigator named Richard. We
talked about the second coming and taking up your cross and follow Christ. He
has a baptismal date for the 16th of January. We had a couple of other lessons
also but it has been hard trying to find people to teach right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had an attendance of 92 people. Kennedy and John Pierre came to church.
Later we went and visited a family (la familia Osorio) out in the little
village of Palca. It's about 30 minutes outside of Tarma. The dad and son are
not members but the mom is a member just less active. The parents have a date
for marriage on the 22nd of January and on the 23rd they are going to get
baptized! Later in the evening, we went and gave a blessing to José Villegas.
He is not feeling too well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that was my busy week. Things are going well here and I hope things going well
with you. Ciao!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931918646286420709.post-91501781658219864862015-12-14T09:38:00.000-07:002015-12-21T08:57:46.647-07:00Transferred Again?! Tarmatastic!!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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everything here in Huánuco is absolutely awesome! God obviously thinks that it
is too good for me because I got a call this morning telling me I have
emergency changes to Tarma. I am still a zone leader and president made the
decision to send me there. I am kind of bummed because we are going to have so
many converts here in Huánuco. My new companion is going to be Elder Calle. I
heard he is excellent! My pension and everyone is heartbroken, even though it has only been 4
days. I am a little sad but I know it is for a reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have a bunch of new responsibilities like getting packages and stuff and
helping everyone out. Every month we go to Huancayo and have a conference with
all the zone leaders in the mission</span>, we<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> receive training and we eat really well. We head
out tomorrow. I have to pack my bags AGAIN tonight and my clothes haven’t been
washed or anything. But oh well. The area in Tarma is a mountain again! I was so
happy with a flat area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have to lug my bags to Huancayo tomorrow for the council of zone leaders and
from there I will head to Tarma. I think that God wants me to learn that things
aren’t going to go exactly how I want in my life OR he wants me to be extremely
thankful when I have it easy back home. I can’t decide which it is, probably
both. Anyways, after I got the call, we went and made tacos as a district and
then we went and played soccer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I went to Huancayo for the zone leader training, which was great. I really
liked the training that President Henderson gave on adversity. We had Burger
King for lunch with salad, which was way awesome and then we had Pizza Hut for
dinner. That's pretty much all that happened on Tuesday. It was really cool to
see all of the guys there at the zone leader council. I really enjoyed the
training though, there was a good period of time devoted for questions and
answers. It was quite helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I got to Tarma. Elder Calle is really awesome! He is a great guy, we are always
laughing, and we are working really, really hard. Elder Calle is from Lima. He
has 13 months in the mission. He has been a member for all of his life and his
family supports him a ton. Our room is pretty good. I actually really like it
because our room is nice and warm, which is nice, because it's a little
chillier here in Tarma. We also have two missionaries that live below us in a
little room.</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Our
area is GIGANTIC! It goes from Tarma almost all the way to San Ramon, which is
about an hour and a half away. It's very interesting because it is warm here
during the day but then it gets chilly at night because we are in the
mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are 20 missionaries in our zone.</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The missionaries are all really cool. There are only
four white people and the rest are Latin. We had district meeting, which was
good. The chapel here is really pretty. Tarma is a "district" instead
of a stake and we work in a branch here instead of a ward. There is a multi-zone
conference on the 17th in La Merced and so we are renting a bus next week. We are
all actually heading down next Wednesday and will be staying at Henry’s Recreo
in San Ramon. There will be 3 multi-zone
conferences in the mission. Ours in La Merced, one in Huancayo, and one in Huánuco.
We have a lot of work here and are teaching a ton of people, who are really
nice, just not married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a good day but kind of a crappy day too. We didn't have one single lesson,
but my companion had the chance to baptize a little girl, which was cool. It
wasn't our baptism, but she was really, really happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have had a lot of errands to run recently, so we haven't had too many lessons.
It has been quite an ordeal to prepare for the multi-zone conference; like
renting the bus and getting the food there, plus we need to get things like
mops and "therma" (they are kind of like shower thermostats) for the
missionaries in our zone. There's a little separate fund for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was good. There was an attendance of about 80 which is pretty impressive for a
branch. After church we went to visit a family in this little town called
Palca, which is about 30 minutes from our house. They will be getting married
in January and then get baptized. They are awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This next week may be a little hectic with the multi-zone Christmas conference,
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Monday
I received a phone call from President Henderson saying that I'm going to be a
zone leader in Huánuco (Colonial). My companion will be Elder Carhuaricra, from
Lima. Tuesday I just basically said goodbye to everybody. I got a little Jersey
thing from La Familia Barrientos and Hermana Alicia threw me a little going
away party. I went home and started packing my things. It's kind of been a sad
day. Those goodbyes were seriously so stinking rough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At Henry's--El Recreo Tirol</div>
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My pensionista's family</div>
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Jhon Melina and Jhonier</div>
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Our landlord--Hermano Rios</div>
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La Familia Barrientos, Elder Gonzalez and me</div>
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I traveled to Huánuco. It was a long bus ride but my room is nice. Our bishop
is my pension and we actually live in his house. We're in our own makeshift
room, it's kind of sweet. Our area is really small but the zone is cool. We
have 12 missionaries in the zone. 4 of them are sisters. Hermana Asto from San
Ramon actually followed me here, she is in my zone so that is kind of funny.
Thursday we had a full day of work which was nice. There are a lot more
problems that you have to deal with as a zone leader, which is to be expected,
I just hope I can be of some help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we did weekly planning and Saturday we had district meetings. There are two
districts in our zone. Elder Bautista and Elder Jay are the district leaders.
Saturday we started our fast and things are going well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sunday
was a good day at church. Four of our investigators showed up and they all have
baptismal dates for December 19th. It was a really, really cool to see some of
the converts that I was able to help baptize from Amarilis at church. There was
this little Christmas devotional thing and I got to see Jonathan, John Pierre,
Christian, Deisi, and some of the leaders. It was really fun to see everybody
again. They were all really excited to see me too. We had about 68 people in
attendance, which may be a little low, but we are in a beautiful chapel in the
stake center. I can't wait to email you tomorrow. Zone leaders get about 30
minutes more internet time because of the extra reports and stuff we have to do, so ciao for now!</span>Team Durantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05861500460101450034noreply@blogger.com0