Last Lake Powell

Well Momma Bear!!! So this week i will tell you why i always wanted to come here to chorrillos.. it is a very simple reason.. one because it has the coolest name two because it was like surco.. with cool things such as mcdonalds and good food restaurants and things of that sort.. but it isnt all rich people like surco.. it has people from villa el salvador. but the benefits of surco.. so ya.. that was simple.. and well this week was really good.. my companion is awesome he is from argentina and so he is a che.. haha ask jeff or brian what that is.. i believe they should know.. he is really chill and as i said he is quiet but he is opening up little by little.. and well in the change yes i am still district leader and in my district we have my companion who has 5 months in the mission and then two new gringos that are in training one of them in his first change that got here last week and the other one in his second change.. they are both solid.. one of them is from millford he is cool.. and the other one is from some part of wyoming... a little bit strange.. but he is ok.. about what to expect from a wyoming right?? haha but this week was a good week.. we dont have too many investigators here right now.. i dont know but it seems like we got some work to do with the ward, seeing how my companion who started his mission here doesnt know any of the leaders because his trainer didnt find that important.. so it is kinda like we are starting from nothing. but hey that means we get to search for people and there are a few members that are always willing to help us in the work.. one of which is always there to go and do visits with us.. he is michael and i think he added you guys on facebook to be his friend because he is always with us and he takes pictures that he is going to put on facebook.. he served in bolivia santa cruz in 2006 ish.. he is cool.. but this week should be a really good week and i will let you know how it rolls.. You guys are all the best and hope you have a excelent week on the lake without me.. and i will have an even more excelent time down here in peru, finding people to teach the gospel.Well Enjoy.. a DC just for me.. Love Elder Farr+Orth+Waite+Whitehead+Farah+Future Whitehead=AWESOME

Goodbye Mala-Hello La Campina

Elder Herrera

Well Family!!!! So this week as some of you may know by now.. We got to help some doctors treat some patients here in Mala.. it was really cool because we got to do all the translating for the diagnosis´ and things like that to help both sides of the line... it is really strange being able to translate for other people and not gonna lie now i know that it does come in handy.. but it was really weird speaking English with other people who aren't missionaries because i am pretty sure that here in the mission we mostly speak a broken English and when we don't know what to say all we do is say the word we want to in Spanish.. but with the doctors that wasn't so much an option.. haha but it was a great experience and we were able to find some really good new investigators also.. so we really got to do some good work down there... And i guess if you understand that line that i just said you understand that i got changed!!!!! haha that's right i totally just threw in an English something or other.. haha i got changed to the zone of my dreams.. where i have wanted to be since i started the mission but never actually got here.. and now i do get to be here in the zone of Chorrillos.. it is a zone that is in Lima again so that is kinda awesome.. because i love Lima and my time in the south is up.. but my area is called la Campina.. and it is awesome looking.. my companion is Elder Herrera he is from Argentina and he seems like a really chill missionary.. he is quiet so that means that i get to start the conversation but that's all good ain't got no problem with that... haha well i know that the work in Mala will continue and i am excited to be in a ward again that works.. from what people have told me, my ward works hard so i am excited to get to work here!!! it will be legendary for these next two changes.. well that's all for today.. i love this work and really being a part of the lords army.. Love Elder Farr+Orth+Waite+Whitehead+Farah+Future Whitehead=Awesome!!!

Brother and Sister Price

Happy Birthday

Well Family!! So turns out my birthday was this week.. who knew?? haha well it went really well.. well it went well because i wasn't in my area for Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday.. but hey the end of the week went really well and we were able to have our two baptisms on my birthday and it was really cool and all went perfectly ... if i am lucky i will be sending you some pictures right after i send you this e mail.. it was a really fast week and well we were able to have a leadership training and it was kinda strange because in the middle while were eating lunch president Douglas called me and asked me if i was doing ok.. because he said as he was talking in the meeting he looked at me and felt like he needed to talk to me. and i was actually thinking a lot about my area and so i did want to talk to him because i hadn't been in my area for three days because the zone leaders were trying to tell me that we aren't working and it really bothered me because for the last few weeks as i have been saying we have been working a ton with the less actives and things like this and so according to our indicators they aren't the most incredible numbers but the zls are just trying to give us crap, and so i talked to president to tell him that we are getting attacked by the zls because we are focusing on the branch and he told me.. look i was visiting the districts and i am going to be telling all the zone leaders here next week and i have been preparing to tell them to do exactly what your doing in Mala.. and he told me not to worry and to keep working with the less actives because we need them to be stronger. and it made me feel a whole lot better and i know that the spirit tells us what we need to hear and that the lord will have other people help us through our problems if we are having them.. i know the spirit is the comforter.. and that he is always there for us.. I love this gospel and thanks to this experience and the baptisms this week was a great week and i am so happy to be here in the mission, and i cant believe that Elder Moore is finishing this week.. i love that kid he is so awesome.. and i know that he has made these two years legen,,,, wait for it.... dary... LEGENDARY.. The gospel is true and everything we need to do is live it.... and everything else is cream cheese.... Love Elder Farr+Moore(Chao amigo

Birthday Week!

What it is.. So family this week was awesome!!! We were able to visit a whole bunch of members because we are really trying to work on getting the branch back to what is should be at right... like last week if you remember there were 87 people and after much work this week we were able to visit a whole bunch of families from the ward some of which have been coming to church in these weeks, and others which have not been.. so we were able to go and find a family that lives like 10 minutes out of mala that is a family of 7 that all of which are members except the dad and we started teaching them a little bit in the week and on saturday we went and told them that we could send a member to go and pick them up in his bus and the dad who isnt member....yet.... said no we will go on our own dont worry.. and guess what... they got there at 850.. so not only they got there, but they got there early!! THAT NEVER HAPPENS IN PERU!!! not kidding it doesnt work to be early on peruvian standard time.... so the dad isnt member because well he said he hasnt felt a response but we might be getting somewhere because in the time when his family got baptized 8 months ago he never went to church but yesterday after one week of visiting him and his family again they all came.. how sweet is that!! i know.. super sweet.. also this week we were visiting two other families that were able to come to church and so that was really cool also because we were able to have a total of 112 people in our super little church... i know we are awesome!! I cant believe how fast this week passed to be honest i feel like i was here yesterday.. and today we are going to go down to my old stomping ground in chincha to play soccer against them... and bonus point elder hernandez is in my old area in chincha which makes it even cooler to go back there..so ya i dont know what else to say really.. well one more thing is that carolina and yamile are going to be getting baptized on saturday which will be really cool.. they are both super awesome and have passed many trials in their lives so it is even more fun to see good things happening to them.. and yes for the few that remember that is my birthday..and yes for the fewer that remember that is the day that i got baptized thirteen years ago in lake powell.. so it will be cool to have a baptism that day.. i am excited.. Well i know this work is true and that when we work with the members everything changes in missionary work.. we only have 8 investigators but we are helping build the foundations of the branch here for the future missionaries..but it will all be worth it.. I love this place and the people that i know.. this mission is the best and i have learned so much being out here and participating in the work of the lord as president monson said in his talk last conferance.and i know that we can all be a part of this work.. I love you all so much and hope you have another awesome week!!! Love your favorite Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+Waite+Whitehead+Farah+Future Whitehead=AWESOME

July 16th, 2012

Well family another week down.. This week went by really fast..haha for reals i dont know why but now time seems to be going a whole lot faster instead of slower... i think it is like a basketball game the fourth quarter always goes by fast until the last two minutes..haha but this week was a good week.. we were able to share a lot with hna carolina who has all of her family problems and we are working on helping her calm her life down and it seems to be working,, really well.. the gospel really does work miracles and i love this place in mala.. it was kinda sad though because after two weeks of going up in attendance we went back down to 84... so that was kinda lame.. but hey we have really been trying with the branch and it is incredible that we are keeping up with more than 80.. so we are happy about that but we really do want to get these people where they should be..and it just so happens that the week we drop down a little bit President Douglas came and gave the branch a surprise visit and then told all the branch that the gospel is simple and that we need to help our brothers and sisters learn that it is simple and that satan is in the complicated things and so if something is complicated its because satan is getting involved.. and another quote i heard is that satan never rests, so we being better then him shouldnt need to rest either.. haha i liked both of those quotes when i heard them.. but it was a pretty normal week we have really been visiting the members alot and we will see if that helps the branch out.. sorry this is surely a boring letter.. but i love this work and being here in the mission it is the bomb learning and growing as a person and really getting to know the gospel. I know that this is the true church and that joseph smith translated the book of mormon and that it is a true book.. i love reading it and growing as a person and learning what i should do through the prophets that wrote it.. and the prophets in our days. you are all the best and hope that you are reading the book of mormon and praying for help at all times.. to teach and to avoid the complicated.. Love your favorite Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+Waite+Whitehead+Farah+Future Whitehead=AWESOME

HAPPY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY FROM THE INCA CRUE I WISH YOU HAPPY ANNIVERSARY AND SOMEDAY I WILL PARTY TOO....HEY.. YAA...

Well family this week was something interesting no gonna lie.. we have gone full focus in the members of the branch here in mala..it is kinda interesting.. in the branch they have baptized 33 people last year and well 2 of which are active... so ya we have some work to do.. we kinda put a hold on baptizing for this week and for a couple weeks to come.. we are going to build a foundation for our converts not just baptize them just for the heck of it.. the good news is,, hna susana my convert from last month is the 2nd counselor in r.s. and Elmer is 1st counselor in young mens and pres of the young adults... haha so that is fun.. my converts are some the strongest ones here.. AWESOME... haha.. so not too much to say because the investigator pool is going down but the member pool is going up... interesting how that works. two weeks ago we had 73 people in church... last week 93 and this week 104 ... haha we are working!! I love this place and we have a goal to help them get a chapel built here seeing how we are in our house church thing..but we have chance we just need to get more people in the church!! that's what we are doing now.. anyway the work is rolling and we are getting more awesome... I love this work and i know that we can help the less active members come back to church.. they are children of god that have already accepted the gospel all we need to do is help them remember why.. and they are as good as gold.. you may not need to baptize them again but you will have the same affect on them if you help them come back.. the mission is awesome. i love you all so much...

July 2nd, 2012

Well Family... So there goes another week where we got to teach some really good lessons, and we are working really hard with our investigators who really want to progress, we have the hna Carolina and her daughter yamile and they are both really cool but they have had so many trials in life it just isn't fair... to be honest in this area i have met a whole bunch of people that are just trialed in life, and none of them have much desire to even live.. hna Carolina for example, she has three daughters and when her third daughter was born, which is hna yamile, her husband went off with another lady and they moved to Brazil and left the family just poor and alone, and then when hna Carolina oldest daughter turned 25 she had had 3 kids and then when she was 26 she decided she didn't want them so she left them at her moms house and left without telling anyone where she was going and they haven't seen or heard from her since.... so now hna Carolina is taking care of her 3 grand kids and all these people alone.. it is ridiculous and so ya i have really learned that the challenges in my life aren't anything, and that i really have received many blessings with the gospel in my life and i love all of the people that have ever helped me understand and live these teachings because i know now that life without the truth is just not fun and is just scary... i love you all so much and sorry if this isn't super awesome but i love this gospel and appreciate life so much more now than i ever have.i have known two people in the last six months that have tried to commit suicide recently... so ya just remember that if you have trials they are to make you grow, and improve as a child of god. I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!! I KNOW IT IS TRUE!!! Elder Farr+Moore+Orth+Waite+Whitehead+Farah+Future Whitehead=AWESOME