HOWDY HOE
Well there goes another week family. This week we had our interviews with President Manning for the first time in 4 months. It was pretty fun. We got to talk about how the mission has changed my way of thinking and he says I have changed but i dont know if i have really changed all that much. But I am happy that my companion and I are having a lot of success here in this area of pueblo nuevo.. This week we found 12 new investigators that could very easily progress. I think my companion and I are finally progressing and not fighting as much anymore. This week we only had 13 lessons with members but it was strange how we only had these 13 lessons and were able to have almost equal in new people. That means that we found some families and not just one person to teach. I think this area has a ton of potential and all we have to do is open our mouths and talk to alll of the people that the Lord puts in our path. I dont know how but i feel like I am so much more open to talk to the people. I dont need a reason to start talking to someone anymore i can just tell them why i am there and if they want to listen they can and if they dont it is their loss. Now I dont know if that is the way I should look at this but for me it helps because a lot of people are scared to talk to random new people because they could get just straight up rejected.But the good news is playing bball with nate i am used to that.....hahaha funny joke..nate cant reject me.. haha other joke.. But really I care for the people and if they accept I can show that more but if they reject me I dont take it personally.. That is something I learned a long time ago to not take things personally. We have one message and if they dont like to hear the truth they dont have to listen that is the point of this life. I love the mission and I wouldnt want to be anywhere else I cant believe how fast time flies and how much I have learned... I love all of my family and the examples you have all been to me and also all of my friends that are putting there strength in the same work as me.. I love you all so much have an awesome week..

10-10-2011

Alrighty then Family!!
So this week was a really long week.... but to make my really long week short. My companion and I are finally making progress. I think i said that a couple of weeks ago so again we will find out in the very near future if things really are getting better. I feel like it is always just one big fight, then we have a few days of peace, and then it is back to the fight. Now i know this wont sound believable to some of you, but most of the time i dont even know what we are fighting about!! All i am doing is arguing that i am trying to do my best as a companion. It is really confusing sometimes, not going to lie. I do have one bit of good news that i have found that has helped our companionship get better. It is one of those games you sent me mom in the very beginning of the mission... it is the basketball game... we just play ten games of that before we go to bed. You know me, i like to talk to my fake players when playing good and bad.. so my companion gets a kick out of that. I like playing the game so all is well at that point in time. haha In other news this week, i was reading more of 1 Nephi and i have been relating the scriptures to different kinds of things. It was really weird when i was reading a scripture and it really had nothing to do with missionary work, and all of a sudden i was thinking of how that scripture could relate to anything and everything.. haha it would be a lot cooler if i had written down the scripture to write on here but hey i'm not perfect.... all i am going to say is if you read the scriptures one night to try and help you in a certain situation, don't just read the words but really try and think about what the Lord is trying to tell you in between the lines. Because i know that i have had those opportunities before the mission and i dont think i understood what he was trying to tell me. So what i am offering is that you can really read and think of how those verses could relate to your situation and all of a sudden you won't be able to stop. You will just keep on keepin on loving what you read..
On another note this week we had an awesome baptism for the hna isabel mendoza. Her brother who has been a member for some 30 years baptized her and it was just really cool because one day we found her, and then one month later she got baptized. Also this week were able to talk with another hna that was coming to church. We didn't know she lived inside the ward boundaries, anyway turns out she just has a story.. i think i told you about avila but if not... she is an hna she has a little four year old and then also a little 6 month old baby... well this baby she has was with a member return missionary that has 3 kids with his wife and they are sealed in the temple... and he confessed his sin and he didnt get excommunicated, but he has goals to fix his marriage. Then this hna came to church and she wants to be baptized. She has real desires and she tells us that he had told her that his divorce was a sure thing.. So there was all of this stuff and interviews and she told us she doesn't want to be baptized for him but for her faith in Christ. She told the stake president the intentions of the guy and so we are waiting to see what happens there.. haha But she is ready to be baptized in two weeks..
well family i hope all is well and that all of you are in super health these days. i know this church is true and i am so happy to be here in the Lords work.. i hope you have an awesome week and i will do what i can to make mine just as awesome!!
Love Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+Future Waite=Awesome.

Conference!

Alrighty then!!!! Well i Loved Conference thank you for asking....
Haha i loved it for real their is nothing i can say more. I did get to watch all of it in spanish and I was taking all the notes that i could. it turns out that i ended up taking ten pages of awesome notes, and guess what it was the exact same amount as the conference in english so i dont feel like i missed things with the whole language thing!!! how cool is that?? i know.. Anyway this week me and my companion continued with our ups and our downs, but i think finally we might be progressing a little bit.. i came really close to writing progressing forward.. haha weird.. but this week was awesome we were walking and we saw this lady and both of us thought we should talk to her.. so we talked to her and told her to come to conference with us and she did.. Then Sunday, after she came to conference alone, we had a lesson with her and asked if she wanted to be baptized and guess what... ya she is set to be baptized for the 22nd.. of this month.. haha that is in 3 weeks.. She is super awesome her name is avila and she is right around 30 with 2 kids.. She is probably one of the coolest investigators or easiest investigators i have had yet in the mission. Also yesterday i was with a youth and i had the same feeling about a little couple that was just chillin outside. so we went and talked to them and they could be super cool...i will let you know next week about them. This week i have been talking to even more people in the streets.. now i know it isnt the most efficient but i feel like a much better missionary when i am doing it.. So in the conference i loved how Elder Holland told us satan is real and he has power.. All of us not only missionaries or soon to be missionaries need to know that. We need to build our testimonies so that we can fight the power that he has. i was thinking about how he was saying the things and what i thought about was that we will always have trials but if we can strengthen ourselves and overcome those trials we will only be building our patience. i am relating that to elder hales` talk. so all the talks in conference go hand in hand. I Love this gospel and i love listening to the prophets of our days because they just tell us how to be more awesome.. and now i am being more direct with people telling them all the truth and if they want it it is there own choice. i am just the messenger and i am proud to be so. but in this case not prideful proud but like ammon in the book of mormon.. awesome i know this is a work i am starting to get my grasp on how to be the best i can be.. love you all so much. Paz fuera!!
Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+future Waite=Awesome!!!!

A lesson learned

WELL ANOTHER WEEK DOWN......
Well i think this was one of the slowest weeks of my mission up to this point, let me inform you why.. Well i want to start off saying i love my companion..... when he isnt mad for no reason. but this week he was mad almost the whole week and i really just dont know why, and he didnt want to talk to me much at all. i have learned that when there is nobody to talk to things are really slow down. But on the bright note this week was really cool, in many other ways. To start off we had youth that wanted to come with us each day so that helped with my companion and i because together we just werent working well together. So the youth in this ward are super cool they remind me of our ward back at home with all of us super awesome people. This week was even cooler because we had the chance to hear from one of the new seventy for our area.. elder weddel. his whole message to us is there is always one more person that we need to go out and find. if we find that one then there is another one. So I really learned a lot about patience and diligence this week. i would recommend first reading Alma 32..28-45 because those verses really got me thinking about how when we are starting to practice something new, it is just having the faith to put the seed in the ground. what we need to do is make the seed grow and that includes the difficult times. so ya this week was tough but we had a lot more lessons and i learned lessons myself that i know will have a major affect in my life. I am so grateful for this time i have to grow and make myself stronger as a person. I love hearing all of the testimonies and prayers of our investigators because i can feel them growning ( I think he meant growing) with every visit. we are still working on putting more people with baptismal dates. but i love this area and my companion. we are doing better now which i am sure you will be happy to hear. i know i am because i know we are so much more effective when we really put our heart in the work.. like it says in D and C 64 the lord requires our heart. and that means all of our time needs to be dedicated to him, helping find his children, and teach the gospel that we have in our lives.. i love it...

Sept. 19, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOREY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was going to wish you Happy Birthday last week but it just seemed like a really long wait for your birthday which was yesterday!! So from what i hear it was pretty sweet, you got to eat some pretty awesome food.
But from there i too got a pretty cool present for your birthday. it turns out that peru had a peru conference, they tried to say it was stake conference, but it was really just general conference short version for Peru.. you know why because it was a member of the 70, it was julie b beck, it was d todd cristofferson, and lastly it was you guessed it President Thomas S. Monson.. It was awesome all of Peru had the same conferance where the prophet and apostle and others were basically telling peruvians to work harder in missionary work, and then telling them that coming to the church one time a month is not being a member... haha it was awesome because it was so direct for all of them to start trying in missionary work to bring the less actives back to the church.. it was legit, not gonna lie. i took 2 pages of notes at a stake conference and i can honestly say that was a first in my life. So after this conference we had 3 youth want to come with us. so my companion and I split up and had a few more lessons than we were going to have. It really was a cool session and great prep for general conference that is coming yet again so we can learn even more!! I am so pumped to get to listen to the prophets again in two weeks, gosh i love my mission and my new country... haha
Next on the week we had the chance to find 4 new investigators. we have the hermana isabel who is 100 percent ready for her baptism, which means i am pumped because we haven't had a baptism here in this area yet. after her we have the other girl yasmin but she is never home when we go to pick her up to come to church, but this week we had a really good lesson with her to resolve her doubts and so we feel really good about her. at the same time we aren't sure if she wants to come to church so that is kinda sad. this week i was studying in the new testament and for the first time in my life i have made it to matthew 10, now i just want to say that is sad on my part, but it is really awesome because i have used those chapters in my lessons tons this week i would now recommend studying the new testament because that is what Elder Neil A Anderson told us that we should do. i can now testify that it is true because it really helps build your testimony of our savior, Jesus Christ. I feel so good just going out this week and i actually contacted them with, hi I am elder farr and i am from the one true church in the world and i am here to share the truth with you.. it was awesome and yes we actually got into two houses with that. Me and my companion are doing well and i love this gospel and i am learning so much reading new things, that i never would have thought of reading before this week. I hope that you can all help in the missionary work whether it be bring someone back to church who is a little less active, or heck talk to some random person and tell them a little about the gospel and they could easily accept cause it is true.. I love all you so much and hope you have an awesome week. your favorite elder
Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+future Waite=AWESOME

Transfer and New comp. 9-12-2011

WELL FARR FAMILY & others....
Hahaha i love writing different things to start my letters. Well this week passed by really fast. Elder Zuñiga and I had some super awesome lessons and we found a new girl.. her name is jasmin and she is 17. we weren't sure if she would be a real investigator or just another little girl that wanted to talk to us.. we went and talked to her and gave her the pamphlet on the gospel of Jesus Christ and said if you want to learn more read this and we will come back to explain what you don't understand.. we told her the back has questions she could answer if she wanted to answer those. we went and visited her the next day.. let me explain that when we give people these pamphlets it's a miracle if they open to the first page, so we got to her house and she was like ya i read the book you left and i answered the questions the best i could but if you could explain some i would really appreciate it.. well my jaw dropped and i really just couldn't believe it.. so that was awesome. Also we had a reference named isabel and she also is golden. they both are set for baptism in october, so we are really excited.. Well i should also say that when i say we.. i now mean me and my new companion, Elder Llontop. he is from the same area as my old companion, elder serrano, but they did not know each other. well I was really happy this week with our work this week for me and elder Zuñiga.. i really learned a ton from him and i now study better then i have ever studied, and i understand so much more. i don't know if it was him that taught me or that all of a sudden i was doing it. but i think he taught me a bunch, it was awesome to be his companion..
Lastly, well i guess i will write that i too had the opportunity to give a talk this week just like Kelli and Alex.. It was kinda a surprise but i was really happy with how it ended up. I got to bear my testimony on fasting because the lady that spoke before me was talking on that. so i got to bear my testimony and i felt really really strongly to say that we fasted for years to help Corey and I really felt like that helped us, so i just love it.. the people afterward said that i did a good job so i was very happy about that. i felt like i had no problem speaking. i didnt take time to think of words, they just came to me.. i know i haven't written about the language for a while but i am feeling so much better with the spanish, and i know that i have had some heavenly help with that. i love this gospel and i know that it is true. I am so happy to have the opportunity so serve in these days and want to encourage all the young men in the ward that you really just need to listen, learn, read, and build your testimony before you go on your missions. that is the main message the apostle Neil A. Anderson gave us and president manning.. it is more important for us to have testimonies than anything else, with a testimony, we can really teach. I love you all and this gospel so much.. Love your Favorite
Elder Farr+Moore+Orth=Awesome

9/5/2011

alrighty then family!!!
Well this week family was pretty solid.. I finally got to leave the house on Wednesday and i feel much better about being out and about rather than sitting in the apartment because that is just horrible. Also this week i had an interchange with elder mckinnley, so that was fun.. we were contacting people and enjoying the interchange. it was the first interchange with someone from my group so it was pretty fun. we talked about sports but at the same time found four new investigators that were just playing cards and then they wanted to listen to us talk in spanish. they just saw two gringos walking around in the streets so that was really cool..Also we were really down because all of our investigators are eternal investigators, so we are trying really hard to find new people. then we got a reference and her name is Isabel Mendoza.. she is 60 and she has a ton of family in the church but her husband wanted nothing to do with the church. He said look if you listen or join the church i am gone.. so this week she told him i am going to listen to the missionaries and you can leave... then he said ok you can listen and i think i will too.. haha it is pretty funny.. we still havent taught him but she is really cool and she is set for baptism here in october!! i am not gonna lie we needed someone ready and super awesome like her to give me a little bit more energy and hope for the area.. So yes i am happily healthy and sorry this letter isnt very long but this week was sweet and now we are going to some area that has old things.. so i gots to run but i love you all. i love waking up in the mornings and studying the book of mormon the book of ether is incredible.. i love how it explains faith and how we need to get our faith stronger.. and also i just want to say Happy Birthday to Kelliann this week on the Ninth.. Another Trip to IN N OUT if you ask me.. and i hope you enjoy Magic Mountain sister!!!!!! much love. Love you tons and hope you have a great week.. Love elder farr!!!