What it is!!!
Alright so another week's over and this one went by faster than any other one, i think, but i do not have a clue why!! This week we had a bunch of meetings and one was a multi zonal one and president manning was there. he talked about how we need to be completely obedient and how we need to do all of our studying and stuff and thank goodness my companion is really good with all of that. So we do all of that daily, he is really good at keeping me obedient. actually he doesn't get up on time so i get up at 630 and he is up around 7. that is his only problem but we are trying.
It was crazy because on friday we heard about the earthquake and all that in japan. we went to the house of the family caseda and she was freaking out. she is a recent convert and she asked us why this is happening in japan and why would God let it happen. i am not even kidding you, i knew exactly what to say and do.. it was weird because part A. it was in spanish and i actually knew what to say. And part B. i opened my scriptures and turned to mormon 8:29-30 keep in mind i dont remember this scripture, but i was seriously led to it because i opened the book and looked right at these verses... it was incredible because these verses basically say exactly what is going on in japan right now. I am seriously freaking out because i have never in my life had an experience where i opened the scriptures to something i hadnt studied recently to teach somebody. but it was just completely new for me! i know that the spirit will guide us in our lives, and i now have a stronger testimony that the book of mormon is true. It fortells of our days in so many different ways! I love this gospel and i have learned so much since i have come out here. and i know that all the mission is is a leap of faith and once you do it you are only opening yourself up to learning more! it is an incredible gospel! i love you all tons for all that you do. and i would be nowhere without my family.
Love ElderFarrMooreAwesome
Monday, March 14, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Alrighty then family!!
So it really is incredible to me to know that i have now been out
here in the mission for over ya 4 months. Time is flying and out in the
field it is flying like a jet, which is about 3 times faster than a
normal plane i am going to say. also this week i looked at a calender
and thought to myself, it has been a long time since i had a diet
coke... well i counted how many days it has really been and guess
what?? I have now passed the 100 day mark of not having a diet coke. i
feel like i am in one of those help groups.. also i would just like to
say that i had no problems with it and everyone always said that i
wouldnt be able to go without.
Also this month we have had 3 little earthquakes.. i slept through
two of them and during the third we were walking. And for your information.. Before the earthquake in chili a couple years ago-- the last major earthquake in that area was 40 years before.. the last major earthquake in ica, peru before that one was 40 years before. and now the fun part,,, the last major earthquake in the lima area is 40 years ago this year! so all the people are scared we are going to have an earthquake, it really is all people have talked to us about this week.
And so this week was a little bit interesting. Me and my companion are
doing great together and ya we are really good friends, but we do have
very different personalities which makes me happy, if i can get along
with him. So this week we were working really hard and every single
person we tried to contact was just like ya no esta bien i don't want
to talk to you right now. not kidding all of them it was horrible in
that sense. But also this week we set up another baptism for the 19th
of this month so that is really exciting. it is a fat little nice man
name julio. He is cool and his life has blown up because he told his
wife he had an affair a couple years back, so that he could truly
repent, she left him.... ya it is pretty crazy. also we had more lessons this week than last week which was great because in the lessons i can speak whatever i want to. It is like hey your in a lesson and now you can talk better in spanish then in english.. it is awesome! i love it here and i totally know that this is where i need to be and that the spirit really does guide you when you are worthy to have it with you, and you are praying for some help. i do not want to be anywhere else right now because this is a challenge and i like to be challenged to see what i can handle. this area is rich people that think they have it all but i know that they don't, and i need to break their walls down with the help of the spirit and that means i need to live straight up awesome.. it is like my favorite song right now says.. "there are a bunch of people out there just waiting for what we can give em` Truth, Freedom, Saaalvation!! we are not the ordinary fearlessly extraordinary workin righteouss......." Saturdays Warrior..
Also i want to say happy birthday to Granpa, Carrie, and Alex because
you have all had crazy impacts in my life which has led me to this
point in life and i just want to thank you for all you have done for
me.
Love you tons your favorite Elder FarrmooreAwesome!!
So it really is incredible to me to know that i have now been out
here in the mission for over ya 4 months. Time is flying and out in the
field it is flying like a jet, which is about 3 times faster than a
normal plane i am going to say. also this week i looked at a calender
and thought to myself, it has been a long time since i had a diet
coke... well i counted how many days it has really been and guess
what?? I have now passed the 100 day mark of not having a diet coke. i
feel like i am in one of those help groups.. also i would just like to
say that i had no problems with it and everyone always said that i
wouldnt be able to go without.
Also this month we have had 3 little earthquakes.. i slept through
two of them and during the third we were walking. And for your information.. Before the earthquake in chili a couple years ago-- the last major earthquake in that area was 40 years before.. the last major earthquake in ica, peru before that one was 40 years before. and now the fun part,,, the last major earthquake in the lima area is 40 years ago this year! so all the people are scared we are going to have an earthquake, it really is all people have talked to us about this week.
And so this week was a little bit interesting. Me and my companion are
doing great together and ya we are really good friends, but we do have
very different personalities which makes me happy, if i can get along
with him. So this week we were working really hard and every single
person we tried to contact was just like ya no esta bien i don't want
to talk to you right now. not kidding all of them it was horrible in
that sense. But also this week we set up another baptism for the 19th
of this month so that is really exciting. it is a fat little nice man
name julio. He is cool and his life has blown up because he told his
wife he had an affair a couple years back, so that he could truly
repent, she left him.... ya it is pretty crazy. also we had more lessons this week than last week which was great because in the lessons i can speak whatever i want to. It is like hey your in a lesson and now you can talk better in spanish then in english.. it is awesome! i love it here and i totally know that this is where i need to be and that the spirit really does guide you when you are worthy to have it with you, and you are praying for some help. i do not want to be anywhere else right now because this is a challenge and i like to be challenged to see what i can handle. this area is rich people that think they have it all but i know that they don't, and i need to break their walls down with the help of the spirit and that means i need to live straight up awesome.. it is like my favorite song right now says.. "there are a bunch of people out there just waiting for what we can give em` Truth, Freedom, Saaalvation!! we are not the ordinary fearlessly extraordinary workin righteouss......." Saturdays Warrior..
Also i want to say happy birthday to Granpa, Carrie, and Alex because
you have all had crazy impacts in my life which has led me to this
point in life and i just want to thank you for all you have done for
me.
Love you tons your favorite Elder FarrmooreAwesome!!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Where to begin!
Alrighty then so another week down family and to be honest this one flew by faster than any other. it was crazy we were walking everywhere and nobody would listen to us when we went to their house, so we didnt have a ton of lessons. but when we taught i know that the spirit was there! it was crazy in some of the lessons the people started crying. it was awesome but you could just tell the spirit was smacking people in the faces. Well yesterday only consisted of my second baptism. a little girl named adriana kelli sandoval lozano. she is 11 and it was really good, again i didnt fail so i am 2 for 2 haha. but other than that this week was really mostly just walking and trying to find some more people to teach. we have decided to just kinda stop teaching two or three of the families we have been teaching because they have not progressed at all in these 8 weeks. so we are trying to find some more people. Also i read in preach my gospel chapter four and it is all about following the spirit and i am really trying to do that more completely because he knows who is ready for me to teach, and i mean me specifically because i can teach now in spanish no problem. sometimes it aint perfect spanish but i can now explain what i am trying to say in different words. this week we had like three families drop there jaw when they heard i only had two months speaking spanish they say i speak really well and said that i was understanding too. they were shocked because before they had an elder that didnt try, had a bad attitude, and understood nothing and he had been out for 8 months so that was a confidence boost for me. anyway i love you all a ton. i know that this church is true and the book of mormon has all the answers, and that we need to follow the guidance of the spirit because he wants to help us all the time. we just need to learn how to listen to him. but he is always talking. always!
Love your favorite Elder FarrMooreAwesome
Monday, February 21, 2011
Got Fedex Christmas package
Alriiiighty then!!!
So familia what is up from the tropical awesomeness of peru! So this week was ya another flier if you ask me. We got so much done this week it was great. no baptism but we are finally getting the ward to help us out and just doing the work that we can to get some new investigators. hopefully we will be able to meet with a bunch of new people this week! that would be awesome but we are working on reactivating the hermano that we live with and he has agreed to read the scriptures with us every night so we are trying to get places with that. Also we have been talking to a nice lady named hna maria and she has started with her wedding papers and all of that stuff so she can be baptized next month. we are really excited for that. i love it out here it isnt easy but i knew it wouldnt be. i have had numerous conversations now where i didnt have trouble understanding what people were saying. it is awesome when that happens because it has bothered me for months not knowing what people are saying, but now it comes down to getting the languange down and speaking it correctly back to them. i know that i can express myself when i want to but a lot of times it is incorrect spanish. they can understand which for me is the real point. we didnt have any crazy experiences this week but it was just cool. when we are working hard i can just tell that the spirit is here to help us.. Well we did have a really cool contact the other day, we were just walking and saw this lady sitting in the park with her baby and her little boy so we stopped to talk to her. she was really receptive and talked to us for an hour. then we said if you need any service we are glad to help. we said we paint and other stuff that she could need and she was like, "how much does it cost if i had you come paint my department?" she thought we were kidding when we said service is free, she said, "well i will be calling you and i want to hear more about what your message is too." so she said she would call today or we need to call her if she doesnt remember.. but it is awesome out here and i know the church is true. The mission has strengthened my testimony like crazy. and i know that all is well on the home front, because i know prayers get answered and i pray for safety and strength all the time for me and home.. love you tons your favorite elder farrmooreawesome
So familia what is up from the tropical awesomeness of peru! So this week was ya another flier if you ask me. We got so much done this week it was great. no baptism but we are finally getting the ward to help us out and just doing the work that we can to get some new investigators. hopefully we will be able to meet with a bunch of new people this week! that would be awesome but we are working on reactivating the hermano that we live with and he has agreed to read the scriptures with us every night so we are trying to get places with that. Also we have been talking to a nice lady named hna maria and she has started with her wedding papers and all of that stuff so she can be baptized next month. we are really excited for that. i love it out here it isnt easy but i knew it wouldnt be. i have had numerous conversations now where i didnt have trouble understanding what people were saying. it is awesome when that happens because it has bothered me for months not knowing what people are saying, but now it comes down to getting the languange down and speaking it correctly back to them. i know that i can express myself when i want to but a lot of times it is incorrect spanish. they can understand which for me is the real point. we didnt have any crazy experiences this week but it was just cool. when we are working hard i can just tell that the spirit is here to help us.. Well we did have a really cool contact the other day, we were just walking and saw this lady sitting in the park with her baby and her little boy so we stopped to talk to her. she was really receptive and talked to us for an hour. then we said if you need any service we are glad to help. we said we paint and other stuff that she could need and she was like, "how much does it cost if i had you come paint my department?" she thought we were kidding when we said service is free, she said, "well i will be calling you and i want to hear more about what your message is too." so she said she would call today or we need to call her if she doesnt remember.. but it is awesome out here and i know the church is true. The mission has strengthened my testimony like crazy. and i know that all is well on the home front, because i know prayers get answered and i pray for safety and strength all the time for me and home.. love you tons your favorite elder farrmooreawesome
Monday, February 14, 2011
I love Christmas letters.. so this week was a really awesome week for the whole spanish thing. It started on tuesday when we were talking to hermana crisostomo and we were teaching their family, i had a totally new idea for my companion.. it was to have them teach us lesson two because they have all had the lessons like three times. so the little kids were teaching us the lesson and we were asking questions then out of the blue the mom says, “I was baptized when i was a baby in the catholic church”... and we had never heard this from her, she had never expressed anything like that. So that is one thing we practiced all the time in the mtc,. and the one thing they always said not to do was to directly harshly say your baptism was not real.. and what do you know that is exactly what my companion did. It was just plain crazy so after that all of a sudden i was speaking spanish explaining what my companion meant, trying not to offend her because her jaw dropped. i was asking her questions like why do you think your baptism wouldnt be real? and she was just like i dont know.. but she has had the lessons a good three times, so i asked her how Christ was baptized and she said by immersion and i said a whole bunch of other stuff in spanish and then finished with.. Do you believe Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ. Yes. Do you believe the book of mormon is the word of God. Yes. Do you believe this church is true.yes.. and then she said but i liked my baptism and i think that it is real.. and i asked better questions during my spanish talking part but those were just yes/no at the very end.. because it is not normally good to ask yes no questions. but this week was really good in that sense. we did not teach as many people as we would have liked, but we had good lessons when we did get to teach.
Also hermana maria told us she had a dream that she had to choose between two paths.. there was a hard path with rocks and hills and there was an easy path where she could just walk around this building and enter.. So in her dream she chose the hard path cause it looked more fun. so she went down this path and at the very end there was a large man and his name was monson... and he gave her a giant hug when she got to him. and it was crazy because she had no idea who the prophet was so that was kinda cool. so i asked her what she thinks the dream means or what she needs to do in her life and she said that she thinks it means she needs to choose to be baptized and i said ya that sounds like a good answer. but she needs to be married first and then she told us that she is going to make her husband marry her because the dream hit her like a bag of bricks. it was crazy, but the crazy part is that i understood it.
I really felt a jump in spanish this week and i know that the spirit is helping me out with that because all of a sudden i will know a word and what people are saying like it is english. it is an incredible feeling and i love it here in Peru.. i would not want to be anywhere else in this world right now. I know that i have a true love and care for these people now. there are just people i look at and just want the best for, like when i think of emma and cam and trenton and brins. it really is a different feeling. i know this church is true and that missionaries are needed in this world even if they don't speak the language. as long as you have the spirit and want to try to help people. they will know that you cannot be a bad person and will let you in. I love it here. i would encourage anyone to serve a mission because this is real. it is real work and real life. i have never experienced the things and feelings i have had out here
Monday, February 7, 2011
Hola from somewhere warm...
Haha so the weather down here is incredibly warm and it is just really awesome in this area! I love our ward and our investigators. We have been teaching a lot but only a couple of families. we are working on teaching some more people. this week we found 103 future investigators but 90 percent of them are for other areas. our area is just where everybody works and then they go to other areas where they live, so that is kind of a bummer, but at least we are talking to a bunch of people. My spanish i feel took a crazy leap this week. I was understanding a ton but there are still those days that are just like what in the world is going on. It is pretty funny on those days, i think i laugh more those days cause i am just amazed at how i understand and then I don't understand. it is crazy! but in my opinion the spanish got a ton better so it was really good. Also another week down in a flash..people arent kidding. once you are out in the field time just flies. it has already been a month!! we have changes this week and i dont want a new companion.. ever since i started understanding more, things have been awesome with elder Tello. we can joke around now as we walk around which for me is good enough, right now, just so i know that i am happy and can be myself.
And as i well know today is my favorite Emma`s Birthday!! i cannot believe she is 5 already! haha.. i remember getting checked out of school to go down to cali the morning she was born.. That is ridiculous! it really seems like yesterday when i think about it. I love you little girl and i just want you to stay your happy self and have fun on your birthday! .. Happy birthday to Jeff also.. I just thought of when i got to share a room with you back in the day. and then remembered when you introduced me to entenmans... yum.. anyway i just want to say that i love you all tons and hope that you have had as awesome a week as i got to have. Love your Favorite Elder FarrMooreawesome
Haha so the weather down here is incredibly warm and it is just really awesome in this area! I love our ward and our investigators. We have been teaching a lot but only a couple of families. we are working on teaching some more people. this week we found 103 future investigators but 90 percent of them are for other areas. our area is just where everybody works and then they go to other areas where they live, so that is kind of a bummer, but at least we are talking to a bunch of people. My spanish i feel took a crazy leap this week. I was understanding a ton but there are still those days that are just like what in the world is going on. It is pretty funny on those days, i think i laugh more those days cause i am just amazed at how i understand and then I don't understand. it is crazy! but in my opinion the spanish got a ton better so it was really good. Also another week down in a flash..people arent kidding. once you are out in the field time just flies. it has already been a month!! we have changes this week and i dont want a new companion.. ever since i started understanding more, things have been awesome with elder Tello. we can joke around now as we walk around which for me is good enough, right now, just so i know that i am happy and can be myself.
And as i well know today is my favorite Emma`s Birthday!! i cannot believe she is 5 already! haha.. i remember getting checked out of school to go down to cali the morning she was born.. That is ridiculous! it really seems like yesterday when i think about it. I love you little girl and i just want you to stay your happy self and have fun on your birthday! .. Happy birthday to Jeff also.. I just thought of when i got to share a room with you back in the day. and then remembered when you introduced me to entenmans... yum.. anyway i just want to say that i love you all tons and hope that you have had as awesome a week as i got to have. Love your Favorite Elder FarrMooreawesome
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
1st Baptism
Howdy Hoe Familia!!! Què Pasa!!
Alright family so this week started off pretty slow. we had our district meeting on tuesday, then we had zone training on wednesday and thursday that lasted all the morning until dinner so we didnt get much teaching in, so this letter could be pretty short. But this week we moved to a new apartment which just made me ridiculously happy!! it was great our new place is super cool and comfortable and also in our new place we have a cd player. so i have been listening to my one cd every day and that one cd is timmy. i hadnt listened to his whole cd before, i dont think, but it is really good. i love the 3rd song, the 4th and 5th but they are all good-- but i love all of those. it is really cool and any peruvian that hears it love it.. anyway so if you could send like three or four of his cds that would be cool so i could give one to my companion i dont know.. friday we finally got to work for a full day again and we had our interview with our little 8 year old that was getting baptized on saturday, then saturday the district leader intervied him and he said that he wanted me to baptize him and boy was that a shock.. so i had to study up the baptism prayer in spanish which was just difficult. so we went and did that on saturday, and it was awesome!!
it was his birthday on the 29 and he turned 8.. so he was baptized on his 8th birthday.. which just so happens to be the day after my half birthday. It was so cooll and the water was FREEZING.. he was shivering his little feet off. so i think i will send pictures of that next week but i am not sure. i dont know what happened but it was just a really fast week again like justin said, every week is over and writing again. so is has just been a really great experience and i know that this church is true. and this week my testimony of the book of mormon has grown 10 times from what it used to be at. i would recommend not kidding reading the book of mormon side by side with another language. just read it in english and then try to pick up the other language and what it says because you pay so much more attention to the words. it is crazy. I love it! but i have felt the spirit so much and i love it here and i know that this is where I am supposed to be in my life and i would not want to be anywhere else..
Love your favorite elder FarrMooreAwesome
Alright family so this week started off pretty slow. we had our district meeting on tuesday, then we had zone training on wednesday and thursday that lasted all the morning until dinner so we didnt get much teaching in, so this letter could be pretty short. But this week we moved to a new apartment which just made me ridiculously happy!! it was great our new place is super cool and comfortable and also in our new place we have a cd player. so i have been listening to my one cd every day and that one cd is timmy. i hadnt listened to his whole cd before, i dont think, but it is really good. i love the 3rd song, the 4th and 5th but they are all good-- but i love all of those. it is really cool and any peruvian that hears it love it.. anyway so if you could send like three or four of his cds that would be cool so i could give one to my companion i dont know.. friday we finally got to work for a full day again and we had our interview with our little 8 year old that was getting baptized on saturday, then saturday the district leader intervied him and he said that he wanted me to baptize him and boy was that a shock.. so i had to study up the baptism prayer in spanish which was just difficult. so we went and did that on saturday, and it was awesome!!
it was his birthday on the 29 and he turned 8.. so he was baptized on his 8th birthday.. which just so happens to be the day after my half birthday. It was so cooll and the water was FREEZING.. he was shivering his little feet off. so i think i will send pictures of that next week but i am not sure. i dont know what happened but it was just a really fast week again like justin said, every week is over and writing again. so is has just been a really great experience and i know that this church is true. and this week my testimony of the book of mormon has grown 10 times from what it used to be at. i would recommend not kidding reading the book of mormon side by side with another language. just read it in english and then try to pick up the other language and what it says because you pay so much more attention to the words. it is crazy. I love it! but i have felt the spirit so much and i love it here and i know that this is where I am supposed to be in my life and i would not want to be anywhere else..
Love your favorite elder FarrMooreAwesome
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