Week 35

Pretty normal week

Not a ton really happened. We aren't gonna be able to baptize the older couple we wanted to cause the husband doesn't want to get married till August so that's too bad. But the good news is that we were able to talk with the parents of the two brothers that we want to baptize and they gave us permission to baptize them. So hopefully everything goes well this week and we can baptize them on Saturday.

Anyways, not much else happened this week lolol. Saw a pigeon get run over though so that was pretty interesting.

but ya anyways peaceeeee

Elder Mortenson

Week 34

so ya super chill week

Wednesday Elder Porter got sick so we stayed in all Wednesday and Thursday. So basically we slept all day which I didn't complain about hahaha

Friday we held the English class which actually went pretty well! A ton of people actually showed which was sick.

It was a good week other than poor health. We are still trying to get those 4 baptisms but it looks like we might only get 2 of them. But we are gonna keep trying and see what happens.

8 months next week!

Peace, 

Elder Mortenson

Week 33

So ya pretty normal week.

We had zone conference on Wednesday in Mollendo which was sick. I saw some of the Elders from my CCM group.

We finally got in to meet the cool family I told you about before a couple times, so that was sick. We also found these two brothers of this one member who got baptized back in December.  We were able to put baptism dates with them for the 23rd of March. They are more like goals because we don't have permission from their parents yet because they are both under 18.

We also have a couple of investigators who are parents of a returned missionary. They are planning on getting married on the 23rd and we are hoping to baptize them the same day, which would be sweet.

But that's about it. I started memorizing vocabulary words in Spanish like 2 weeks ago because my grammar is fire now! But memorizing words is super boring and I swear there is a word/verb for literally everything in Spanish!

but ya haha peace.

Elder

Brock Mortenson

Week 32

Same as last week literally like nothing to say

we found 2 old investigators this week totally by accident that we thought moved which was cool.  Hopefully we can get them baptized soon lolol. but ya not much else happened at all.

but ya eat some good food for me! 

Elder Mortenson

Week 31

So ya not much to put in this now that we can call every week.

Event of the week....we saw two little kids stuck between a bench and a fence in the plaza and their mom was trying to pull them out and they were screaming cause they didn't fit. It was so funny!

What I was gonna say about my companion's Spanish is that his trainer (American) told him not to study grammar and just study words cause "the grammar will come with time". So literally he hadn't opened his grammar book until this last week and his Spanish is really bad! He doesn't even know simple rules. Everyone we talk to has a hard time understanding him even though he has 8 1/2 months in the mission. It's so bad! But he finally started studying the grammar book because he saw me and the other American elder studying it, so that's good.

peace

Elder Mortenson

Week 30

Not a ton really happened this week at all.

We had transfers today. Elder Chase left to some place called Alto Inkla or something like that I really have no idea. It's still in my zone but its closer to the ocean. My new companion got here at like 10:30 from Arequipa. His name is Elder Porter and he is from Gilbert Arizona. He is from the group ahead of me so he just barely completed 8 months.

We haven't been able to meet with the cool family we found 2 weeks ago so that's too bad. 

Last week they turned the water off again for 2 days so that was dumb! But as soon as they turned it off we literally got every bottle in our room that we had saved up (ranging from a gallon all the way to like 300 ml) and filled every single one up with water still in the tank and then filled both of the big water drums we have haha so now we have enough water to last us like 3 years! lol

That's pretty much it tbh. No pics this week either, sorry! 

Peace,

Elder Mortenson

Week 29

So it was a pretty good week.

We contacted this chica on like Tuesday and got an appointment with her on Thursday. So we go to the cita and her parents listened to the lesson as well. Turns out they are super sweet!!! But ya, so we gave lesson 1 and talked about the Book of Mormon and challenged all of them to baptism and to read and pray about it. they seemed really interested and then they gave us food and mate (mahtei?) afterwards. Mate is like this stuff that you just put in water and it looks kinda like a tea bag but it's actually super good. Then we came back for the follow-up appointment Saturday but the parents weren't home and we can't teach chicas alone hahhaa. But she told us that she saw her parents reading the Book of Mormon in their room the night before, so that is super cool! We are gonna go visit them tomorrow I think.

 Also, last week, mom was telling me about the pipeline disaster in Lima and stuff and how a bunch of people don't have water. Then, on Wednesday the city of El Pedregal, where we live,  just randomly turned the water off and said it wouldn't be back on until Sunday. So we didn't have any water and couldn't shower or anything until Sunday. That was super great?!?

Not a ton else happened. Changes are next Monday so that will be interesting as usual. Our district leader thinks we are gonna get transferred but we will see.

It drizzled 2 days here which was amazing. I haven't seen or felt rain in forever... the good thing is that it is usually cloudy here so its not nearly as hot anymore.

I can't think of anything else or even an event of the week. Something probably happened but I can't remember it at this point, hahaha

Peace,

Elder Mortenson

P.S.  Here are some pics from Christmas Eve. Sorry they're so late!