Easter Week

Wowsers..
So there goes another week.. it started yesterday and ended today! my companion and i had another sweet week. we pulled 30 lessons again which is awesome! this week we were teaching a sister that we baptized on saturday, so that was awesome. My companion baptized her which was cool because he has been teaching her his whole time in this area. he said when they started teaching her she didn't want to hear about the gospel at all, but her mom was listening so she started listening, and ya she is baptized and awesome.

Also this week we found four new investigators that we can teach and now we have a bunch of people to teach. it is crazy! i would write names but it would take way to long. This week was the semana santa and i don't remember celebrating that in america, all i know we celebrate is easter. they have some crazy parade thing in my city with like a remake of the crucifixion of Christ,, it was crazy, the people put on roman clothes and had 2 crosses that they put on a hill. all the people were at the bottom of the hill crying. it was really weird.. unfortunately i did not have my camera to take a picture for you. but the rest of the week was more preparing people for baptism and setting up dates for it. My companion and I are getting along awesome and i love the way he teaches and the opportunity i have to learn from him. this place is legit and it will be one of my favorite areas and companions. I cant believe it has almost been six months. that is crazy! it feels like nothing and i am a quarter of the way done. i am so excited to be here and teaching all the people in spanish. i love the missionary scriptures that talk about how the lamanites will receive the gospel and flourish and i can say that it is so true. also in my study this week i read in alma 53:10 it is an awesome verse that talks about the power a missionary can teach with.. i love this gospel! i know that if a person wanted to give it a chance they would come to know that it is true, and recognize it is the plan they accepted before this world was. they just need to let it into their hearts..
Love your favorite elder farrmooreawesome...

4-18-2011

Here we come again....name that band..
Haha well i dont know why i started with that but all systems go and soon the world will know.. the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love my new area it is so freaking sweet! this week me and my companion were even more awesome and we taught 33 lessons, have 25 investigators, 8 of which are really progressing, and 2 baptisms for this week. It is awesome. ya me and my companion are still awesome! we have had no problems and i dont see any coming. we are like brothers, we can joke around but at the same time teach with the spirit. I love it because he knows so much about the book of mormon, so i am learning a ton. and my district leader told me that i need to learn what i am going to right now, because there is a good chance my comp or i could go next transfer. so that is a huge bummer but nobody knows until the day of changes. So this week was incredible! the only way i can say it is it was a spiritually driven week. Well on Wednesday me and my companion were just walking away from an appointment that didnt show up so we went to another house that we didnt plan at all. his name is pedro and he let us in.. now pedro in the past has not been progressing at all, but we got there this night and he was like i read and prayed and i want to give myself to the church when i learn more of what you teach me. so that was crazy and he told us what he read in moroni ten and said he like verses 3-5. haha those are the verses that we focus on so it was great.. then we went to another lady that my companion contacted a while back and she told us that she needed something in her life and gladly talked to us. and then yesterday we had another appointment fall through so we decided to go to a house of a member, we dont know why, but in the house that day was her daughter who has been inactive for fifteen years and started crying when we told her to come back to church because she said she wanted to but just couldnt bring herself to do it. it was crazy this week and the spirit was driving us.. i am so excited to get back out there this week and hopefully pull in some more spirit. i am doing great in that sense but yesterday i got flees!!! it is not fun to be itching but my awesomeness is stopping them i have decided, so all is well if you ask me.. no flee will stop me.. i know this church is true and will only help somebody going thru a hard time in life. just open the book of mormon and it will be on a page that will help in that exact thing. just search ponder and pray..
love your favorite elder Farrmooreawesome

Well another week gone....
Alrighty then well this week went by fast, just as they all have.
It really is crazy how time just flies out here. We have so many
investigators in this area and so little time to visit all of them. My
companion and i are great. we had his birthday this week on thursday
and well we ate chicken and french fries 2 times and chicken and rice
two times so in total we ate a full chicken a bunch of fries and
rice.. and then some cake stuff to go on top.. Well that night lets
just say i had a new best friend in the bathroom!! it was awful at 130
i got up and didnt get back to the bed until 530. thanks to a nice bug
that was in my food and gave me an awesome infection! so the next two
days friday and saturday were pretty sad.. i was in the bathroom for
two days, boy was it sad. but its all good my awesomeness beat the
sickness and i am now healthy again so we worked hard yesterday and
ended up having 21 lessons this week. which ya isnt the best but i was
sick for two days and well what more could i do. So on saturday night
i was feeling a lot better so we went to set up appointments with some
people for sunday. we didnt have church yesterday because it
was the elections of peru.. so we were walking and my companion asked
who we should go visit and i said this girl named diana who is 10 and
her mom.. well we went there to set up an appointment and the mom was
bawling and told us how the little girl and her were in a really big
fight and needed our help.. so that was an awesome testimony builder
for me because i really felt like we needed to go visit them and we
did. they needed to talk things out and they werent going to do it.. so
it was awesome!! also yesterday we had two lessons on repentance and i
told my favorite story of repentance and the power of prayer two
times. and that story is the story of korey.. i love telling people
how repentance is possible and how awesome my older brother is and how
he was one of the best examples for me in the 5 years before my
mission.. i love this gospel and the spirit we have the opportunity to
have with us at all times. it is only going to do what is good and if
we follow then all that is going to happen is the lords will.. we
arent going to change peoples lives without the spirit.. it is the
only thing that will take this message to the hearts of the people. my
testimony has grown so much and i love it.. i will try to be more
healthy to work better..
now i need to finish with a song my companion started singing the
other day and i joined in.. Smelly cat smelly cat what are they
feeding you smelly cat smelly cat its not your fault...... haha it is
a song from pheobe on friends and he loved that show.. so it was just
another thing we have in common...

love your favorite Elder Farrmooreawesome!!

April Conference

Howdy Hoe!!
> Wow, conference was awesome right!! the message that i got out of it is that all people need to help the missionary work, we need to have awesome desires and hopes at all times because they lead to actions, we need to do more service and lastly we are a church of action!! I loved it and when i started watching on saturday morning as you all know i saw the snow and started laughing out loud, and just yelled to all of the missionaries in the room que feo!!! it was great. i was laughing hysterically and i was super sorry for you guys, but it just made me happier to be here!! It was awesome to see that and know that i am supposed to be here.. And this week was legen wait for it... it was cool because we had 25 lessons in a week of five days. we could not do anything tracting wise during the days of conference! But 25 lessons is 10 lessons more than the average in my old area. the people here are so much cooler and more humble and they will talk to us at all times! It is an incredible experience to be in this area and my companion is from lima. he is about 10 minutes from my old area in surco so he is not far from home. but we get along great! his favorite sport is basketball and we are always happy together. he is so much more chill than elder tello and that is just my personality, so when we are teaching i feel like it is just coming more naturally. i love it. we have a little 10 year old and his family that we are teachin, the 10 year old was baptized a couple weeks ago, and he is crazy. saturday he came to conference in the morning with us then we went to lunch and he thought we were going home after that but then we told him there are two more hours and his reaction was.... oh que suerte!! he was so excited he just kept saying these are the words of prophets.. it was so sweet....and i hope your not lactose intolerant cuz this next part is dary!! Legendary.. i know this church is true and i love the family that i have been given to help me through this life and the examples that they are to me i love you all and i would be nothing without you! keep being amazing and i am trying to keep myself up to your level.
Love elder FarrMooreAwesome
(Note from Matt: I only have 20 minutes so I am not going to have time to write to all individually this week. I am sorry, but I will next week. Thanks for all the letters.)

Transfer

"Well my momma told me alligators are angry cause they got all them
teeth and no toothbrush..."

Now family you might ask why i would start my letter with a quote that
i have not heard in forever! let me explain.. So my explanation is
this.. my companion, or should i say ex-companion, always said crazy
things like that. Things that his mom had taught him like
you can't eat and then shower because if you do you will feel sick.
your body is concentrating on the water that is hitting your body more than digesting the food. so the food just sits there and then you are sick..there are other ones but that is the only one that i can remember
right now, but they are all hilarious.. And now the big news for the
day is that i have CHANGED MY AREA! it was really sad to leave the
area and elder tello.. i said my goodbyes to my favorite families that
are in chacarillas and it was not fun to leave my pensionista because
she is awesome and she took good care of us. My new companion is elder rivasplata.. and my new area is laderas de villa.. it is a much poorer area and my companion says that it is his worst house he has had in his one year so far in the mission. but it actually seems pretty awesome.. i guess i will find out how it really is later, but i already like it because it doesn't have freakin bunk beds. which just makes me happy because i really did not like the bunk beds in our first place. Also
this week we had 4 investigators come to the capilla in chacarillas so
that was really cool. but now i am gone and my companion needs to write
me to tell me how it all goes with them. the area over there was
not changing so i am pretty happy to have a new area.. my companion
told me we have tons of investigators and it is almost always in this
area that they get baptized.. he said he had 6 baptisms last month and
so i am really looking forward to knowing some more people.. It is
crazy that my brother nate dog is leaving for the mission this week. i
can't believe i left 5 months ago.. i don't think about my time very
often but it has been five months and i get to call home in may!! that
will be my six month mark. just like sports i get to call at
the end of the first quarter and lets be real in sports the first
quarter always feels the longest, so we will see if that is true also.
but time is flying and it is awesome out here..
And last and most important... this week is my mommas birthday!! the
best mom in the world gets to celebrate yet another birthday without
one of her sons. but i think these are her favorite birthdays because
she gets letters that say how amazing she is and how much we love her.
it is so true that my mom is amazing! she has done everything for me
and i can't do anything without her. there are so many reasons that she
is the best but most of all is because she loves me and my family and
keeps all of us close and not fighting. she only wants for us to all be
happy together and she holds our family together.. i had a lady we
were teaching in chacarillas and all her kids were baptized but she
wasn't and she said it is ok, all i want is for them to be happy. all
i could do was bear my testimony that wanting the best for your kids
is all well and good, but they want the best for you.. they don't want
to be in the celestial kingdom without their mom.. it just isn't the
same.. life isn't the same without my mom and it is so much better when
she is happy. so i know that my mom is amazing and that she
is an angel for our family.. love you tons mom!. you don't even know...

Love your favorite elder Farrmooreawesome

What it is!!
Well ya another crazy fast week down and this one was less eventful,
because we had almost nobody to teach. all the investigators we have
been teaching went on vacation or were helping there families move
into the college area, so we couldn't meet with them. this week
elder tello and I were trying to find more people to teach but
people just said, "no we are doing ok".. so that made this
week kinda slow; when the people have no interest. This week we
started teaching a guy that lives in our building. he talked to us last
week and was like, where you guys from? he thought we were both from the U.S.. i said i was from the estados unidos and my companion said trujillo. the guy was shocked because my companion is whiter than me.. it was funny. everyone thinks i am the peruano until they look at my eyes they say.. haha it is really cool. this guys name is fernando and he wanted us to teach him english. we went up to his
apartment to teach him english. we walked in sat down and he asked
us.. so as missionaries how do you guys start teaching.. and so we
showed him by teaching him. the first two times we taught him it
was only the gospel. he is really cool and for the last two years has been
suffering from vertigo.. everyday he says he is always dizzy and at
times feels like he is going to fall into the street. but the day we
started teaching him his symptoms stopped and they have been gone this whole week... coincidence..... i think not!! that is really the main
experience this week. we now have one investigator that is really cool
and the rest we have been teaching for 3 months and they do not want to
progress.. also we have had one investigator a chubby man, named julio
who is really jolly and like santa. every week he says,"ya i am
going to the church and then sunday he is never there.. it is just
sad, because he says he wants to get baptized, but wont take the step
of going to church.. other than that we have changes this week and
it is apparently very likely for me to go out of this area, because they are
going to close one of the chacarillas areas. they are going to make it one big area and my companion will probably run that.. but hakuna matata! the work is the work no matter what area i am in, right.. that is my week
and i know that this gospel is true and can have an awesome. legendary
effect in a persons life if you just accept it and dive into it with
full faith. It can take us all the way to the top and no other
religion knows that we have this awesome perfect plan to guide us in
life. I love you all tons and i know this gospel is true. thanks to all
my examples in my life..