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From Elder CHristofferson to being bitten by a dog
so whats up everyone
sorta a lot to go through and not much time
this week was really cool. on Wednesday we had a devotional with d todd christofferson and it was really cool. talked about baptism and really prepped us up to see an apostle there. we got to shake his hand and say hi too so that was cool. also since it was in the ccm we got to see all the other elders who were with us in the ccm, well a lot of them. i saw most of the other elders who were going to Bolivia, and something cooler than christofferson was there, my mission president. president maynes was there and everyone, who had Bolivia got to meet him and say hi, that was cool
outside of that, we got one girl with a baptism date, nov 8th so that's chill, today cambios, but not for us. utia wont be dl which is good bc he was starting to get really worried he would have to shape up and be the dl. but its cool. they're adding a new district in our zone so u never know what can happen.
something kinda fun, bryce ur gonna love this, i got bit by a dog. but not bad. luckily i had my book of mormon in my left hand. i walked by and saw this dog laying down. i heard him get up and as i turned around, he bit me. but with the divine revelation we have, i had started lifting up my book and the dog got scared, so he pulled back a little and just got my calf a little, no marks or anything. so that's that.
the work goes good, we've found some families in our areas and are teaching them. they just don't wanna progress though. that is don't wanna go to church. but we try. it seems like whenever we have a great lesson with someone, we go back and they're drunk. a lot of drinking here, which is sorta a problem. most don't wanna drink and want to change, just need some help. so that's that too.
something kinda cool, yesterday, me and utia got caught in a crowd of catholics, they were in a parade type thing and stopped to pray and me and utia were in the middle. well sure enough, a member sees us and yell, hey mormons. and all eyes go to us. he was dressed normally, we are in white shirts and ties, so ya. got some dirty looks after that but all turns out good. it was kinda funny.
that's all i think. thanks for ur help, letters, support and all that. and yes i do get dear elders. just its sorta slow, but the letters are slower cause i haven't gotten any, but no worries. thanks again for everything, i miss u all and since its the second cambio i did the math and have 604 days left, or something close to that. so ya. bye
MTC Peru - 8/6/08 email
ok so sorry bout not emailing yesterday.
they changed the pday this week to wednesday becasue today we are going to take a tour of the city. and they wouldnt let us email and tell anyone so i hope yall arent to mad.
anyways i made a list of stuff i wanted to say and left it in my room, sounds like me. but ill do my best
bryce, how do you like your calling. sounds like a lot of fun. learn from the young mens presidents and counselors we had because they were amazing and really prepared us more than we could know till we actually need the stuff that they taught
on that note, thanks to everyone who sent me letters. i probably shouldnt really want and be waiting for the letters but we all do. ive gotten the most in my district and im so gratefull. i love hearing about whats going on there, so thanks a lot. i also saw that a lot of people started using dear elder. thanks for that too.
ok so this last saturday was really sweet. me and elder camargo taught so many more lessons than the week before. every lesson was different, but all had the same goal. to get the inactive members back to church. everyone accepted our commitments and i heard that three or four of our people went to church, which they say is a very good ratio. so good news there. also, we placed our first book of mormon. it was actually kinda a fluke even having one. one of the missionaries in the ward was like, i have to many can you hold this till after lunch. i did and lunch came by and i didnt see him. so i kept it. the first person we go looking for after lunch we couldnt find but we found one guy painting something and started talking to him. long story short, he got the book and an appointment for the missionaries to go and teach. cool beans. we also had the first door slammed in my face. that was a lot of fun. no sarcasm either. i actually laughed so loud that the ladys husband reopened the door and listened to our message. he said anyone who can be so happy to have a door slammed in his face and laugh, must be someone he wants to talk to. but not much else happened. invited him to church left a flyer and left the rest to him.
something else really cool. we got to go up to the mountains, which isnt the cool part cause its horrible up there. climbing up and down and its so confusing the people who live there only know there own street and cant help you with directions. but what was cool was the chickens. tons of chickens all over the place. last week my comp almost got eaten by a dog, this week the guide for us was being followed by the ugliest chicken ever. it was kinda funny.
anyways like last week i dont wanna go into to much detail in the email, but i wrote a letter and it has more detail.
so about today. today is gonna be the best day of my mission. we officially are the new leaders of the mtc, halfway done with out experience here and the newbees come in today. they say all but eight americans will have a latino comp. so that might be kinda cool. but, 4 lunch today they are getting us pizza hut. finally, ive been dying for pizza. as much as i love chicken rice and mystery meat, pizza will be great. and after the pizza we go on a tour of lima. you know i love history and this place is filled with it so im gonna love that. after that we go shopping. yay shopping. ive never been more excited to act like a girl in my life. but here we can buy legit soccer jerseys for 20 sols, which is eight dollars, so im gonna do it. and a bunch of ohter stuff hopefully. well see. but to end this day of days, we get to stay up and do nothing else, but the thing everyone wants to do, soccer. for 4 hours. im so excited. four staight hours of soccer, that is heaven. so ya, today will be kinda cool.
once again sorry bout not emailing yesterday, it wont happen again hopefully.
we will be leaving the mtc here in three weeks and get to bolivia 3 weeeks from today. me and like 9 others are going to the santa cruz mission there so itll be a good ride.
we get a new room, comp, and leaders this weeek so im sure ill have lots to write about next week. till then, thanks for everything. its great to have the support of everyone. im gratefull for everything you all do and have done. especially you mom, and mom number two.
i was gonna end there but i just wanna say how much i love moms. after all they do, i just find it amazing. its crazy to think about everything they do for us. thank your moms you young whipersnappers.
they changed the pday this week to wednesday becasue today we are going to take a tour of the city. and they wouldnt let us email and tell anyone so i hope yall arent to mad.
anyways i made a list of stuff i wanted to say and left it in my room, sounds like me. but ill do my best
bryce, how do you like your calling. sounds like a lot of fun. learn from the young mens presidents and counselors we had because they were amazing and really prepared us more than we could know till we actually need the stuff that they taught
on that note, thanks to everyone who sent me letters. i probably shouldnt really want and be waiting for the letters but we all do. ive gotten the most in my district and im so gratefull. i love hearing about whats going on there, so thanks a lot. i also saw that a lot of people started using dear elder. thanks for that too.
ok so this last saturday was really sweet. me and elder camargo taught so many more lessons than the week before. every lesson was different, but all had the same goal. to get the inactive members back to church. everyone accepted our commitments and i heard that three or four of our people went to church, which they say is a very good ratio. so good news there. also, we placed our first book of mormon. it was actually kinda a fluke even having one. one of the missionaries in the ward was like, i have to many can you hold this till after lunch. i did and lunch came by and i didnt see him. so i kept it. the first person we go looking for after lunch we couldnt find but we found one guy painting something and started talking to him. long story short, he got the book and an appointment for the missionaries to go and teach. cool beans. we also had the first door slammed in my face. that was a lot of fun. no sarcasm either. i actually laughed so loud that the ladys husband reopened the door and listened to our message. he said anyone who can be so happy to have a door slammed in his face and laugh, must be someone he wants to talk to. but not much else happened. invited him to church left a flyer and left the rest to him.
something else really cool. we got to go up to the mountains, which isnt the cool part cause its horrible up there. climbing up and down and its so confusing the people who live there only know there own street and cant help you with directions. but what was cool was the chickens. tons of chickens all over the place. last week my comp almost got eaten by a dog, this week the guide for us was being followed by the ugliest chicken ever. it was kinda funny.
anyways like last week i dont wanna go into to much detail in the email, but i wrote a letter and it has more detail.
so about today. today is gonna be the best day of my mission. we officially are the new leaders of the mtc, halfway done with out experience here and the newbees come in today. they say all but eight americans will have a latino comp. so that might be kinda cool. but, 4 lunch today they are getting us pizza hut. finally, ive been dying for pizza. as much as i love chicken rice and mystery meat, pizza will be great. and after the pizza we go on a tour of lima. you know i love history and this place is filled with it so im gonna love that. after that we go shopping. yay shopping. ive never been more excited to act like a girl in my life. but here we can buy legit soccer jerseys for 20 sols, which is eight dollars, so im gonna do it. and a bunch of ohter stuff hopefully. well see. but to end this day of days, we get to stay up and do nothing else, but the thing everyone wants to do, soccer. for 4 hours. im so excited. four staight hours of soccer, that is heaven. so ya, today will be kinda cool.
once again sorry bout not emailing yesterday, it wont happen again hopefully.
we will be leaving the mtc here in three weeks and get to bolivia 3 weeeks from today. me and like 9 others are going to the santa cruz mission there so itll be a good ride.
we get a new room, comp, and leaders this weeek so im sure ill have lots to write about next week. till then, thanks for everything. its great to have the support of everyone. im gratefull for everything you all do and have done. especially you mom, and mom number two.
i was gonna end there but i just wanna say how much i love moms. after all they do, i just find it amazing. its crazy to think about everything they do for us. thank your moms you young whipersnappers.
Peru MTC - July 29, 2008
ok hi everyone again. so a lot to get through today cause i got my first work out in the field.
first of all, just wanna say that everyone who wants to write me should use dearelder.com or something like that. mom put it up so everyone can find it. it will come within a week or two but is practically garunteed to come to use, unlike the mail. i got one withint four days that dad sent it so if people wanna write it is free. dad mom and anyone else wholl use it a lot, if you pay four dollars a month they garuntee it to us in four days that its sent. good deal. only if you want. im not quite as desperate for mail here since they keep us busy all day long. i really have like no spare time, except for maybe a couple minutes after lunch sand dinner. but thats good and the way i would have it.
so im sleeping better, thanks for your concern. this place is sweet because today p-day we spent two hours playing soccer and will probably spend another three hours out there. but who knows. i realize how old my body is though. after i play i get really sore and thinks that some of these young whipersnappers need to play easier. but i would never play any easier on them, so it works nicely.
ok. this saturday we got to spend out in the field in peru. me and my companion with one teachers and a lady from the ward territory we were in. we went and visited inaftives and did some contacting. it was a really cool and humbling experience. we got the poor part of town, but if any of you have seen peru, the nice part of town is ten times worse than the poor part of town in pheonix. so basically these people lived in nothing. it was good though i dont know why but i felt like home. not that my home reminded me out the place, just like those people were my family. it was cool. so since my companion still hadnt quite got the language down, and they want the missionaries to teahc i did a lot of talking. i understood mayber 80 percent of everything being said, which was more than enough to get by. the people we talked to listened and you could tell the ones that sincerly wanted to be at church but just couldnt afford not to work. however, we got everyone to accept our commitmehnt to go for at least one hour this coming week and see how things go. me and my companion defidently felt like we had a lot to work on though. contacting and just basic language for the stuff we need to teach. so we are working our butts off this week to make sure we will be perfectly ready for htis saturday. and i believe we will. i put more detail in my journal, im gonna try to make a copy of it and send it home, if not mom i wrote you a letter taht left here yesterday, it has all the details. get it up so people can see.
a couple of more things. one i hear that bolivia is becoming quite a hot spot with the political unrest stuff. the elections are in august and they say that they might break out into a war. if thats the case they wont keep us in bolivia. so just if any of you here about a war in bolivia, just know that i wont be there and ill be perfectly safe somewhere else. tehy dont expect a war its just a possibility.
two yesterday was the indenpendce day of peru. yay peru. founded 1821 one year after joseph smiths vision.
three, i got peruvian money, its crazy cool. i think i already had some though. i dont know how. the exchange rate is 2.8 so not quite as good as i had hoped. whats happening to the dollar over there guys.
oh, some of you expressed some concern about me coming over here and not dominating soccer just becasue htere were some peruvian people. uh no. can you maradona junior. ya. and humble.
again if any people wanna write use DearElder.com its good.
so im pretty sure i wrote everything i wanted to with 7 min left so im kinda excited.
we got a lot more cool pics coming your way whenever i send it to you guys. did you guys get the last ones. did everyone see them. cause they were crazy cool.
well well well i guess that all folks.
till next week
first of all, just wanna say that everyone who wants to write me should use dearelder.com or something like that. mom put it up so everyone can find it. it will come within a week or two but is practically garunteed to come to use, unlike the mail. i got one withint four days that dad sent it so if people wanna write it is free. dad mom and anyone else wholl use it a lot, if you pay four dollars a month they garuntee it to us in four days that its sent. good deal. only if you want. im not quite as desperate for mail here since they keep us busy all day long. i really have like no spare time, except for maybe a couple minutes after lunch sand dinner. but thats good and the way i would have it.
so im sleeping better, thanks for your concern. this place is sweet because today p-day we spent two hours playing soccer and will probably spend another three hours out there. but who knows. i realize how old my body is though. after i play i get really sore and thinks that some of these young whipersnappers need to play easier. but i would never play any easier on them, so it works nicely.
ok. this saturday we got to spend out in the field in peru. me and my companion with one teachers and a lady from the ward territory we were in. we went and visited inaftives and did some contacting. it was a really cool and humbling experience. we got the poor part of town, but if any of you have seen peru, the nice part of town is ten times worse than the poor part of town in pheonix. so basically these people lived in nothing. it was good though i dont know why but i felt like home. not that my home reminded me out the place, just like those people were my family. it was cool. so since my companion still hadnt quite got the language down, and they want the missionaries to teahc i did a lot of talking. i understood mayber 80 percent of everything being said, which was more than enough to get by. the people we talked to listened and you could tell the ones that sincerly wanted to be at church but just couldnt afford not to work. however, we got everyone to accept our commitmehnt to go for at least one hour this coming week and see how things go. me and my companion defidently felt like we had a lot to work on though. contacting and just basic language for the stuff we need to teach. so we are working our butts off this week to make sure we will be perfectly ready for htis saturday. and i believe we will. i put more detail in my journal, im gonna try to make a copy of it and send it home, if not mom i wrote you a letter taht left here yesterday, it has all the details. get it up so people can see.
a couple of more things. one i hear that bolivia is becoming quite a hot spot with the political unrest stuff. the elections are in august and they say that they might break out into a war. if thats the case they wont keep us in bolivia. so just if any of you here about a war in bolivia, just know that i wont be there and ill be perfectly safe somewhere else. tehy dont expect a war its just a possibility.
two yesterday was the indenpendce day of peru. yay peru. founded 1821 one year after joseph smiths vision.
three, i got peruvian money, its crazy cool. i think i already had some though. i dont know how. the exchange rate is 2.8 so not quite as good as i had hoped. whats happening to the dollar over there guys.
oh, some of you expressed some concern about me coming over here and not dominating soccer just becasue htere were some peruvian people. uh no. can you maradona junior. ya. and humble.
again if any people wanna write use DearElder.com its good.
so im pretty sure i wrote everything i wanted to with 7 min left so im kinda excited.
we got a lot more cool pics coming your way whenever i send it to you guys. did you guys get the last ones. did everyone see them. cause they were crazy cool.
well well well i guess that all folks.
till next week
Jason's first letter - July 1 - Provo MTC
hey sorry i had to send it to myself.
i forgot my email stuff in my room won't happen again. so i have only 25 minutes left to email so i will try my best to get everything in.
i miss everyone down there and hope you're all doing great.
the mtc is a great place, to be totally honest a lot better than i thought it would be. the guys here are great people. im in a district of 8 people and we get along great. one of our guys was gonna leave but decided to stay which is great cause he'll be a great missionary.
we are learning so much here too. ive memorized d and c 4 verses 1-3 in spanish and a whole lot of other things too. something interesting that happened to me is that i had a companion exchange here already. and no im not causing trouble yet. when i got here my companion was elder strobelt but they changed my companion to another guy in my district who'll be going tyo the peru mtc too. his name is elder moss and he's great. we are all in the same room and to be honest us four are like the worst set you can have becasue we get along so great we are noisy, and sometimes stay up later than we should be listening to stories from one another. we are gonna try not to though, the rules here are strict and they have people checking up on everything so we don't want to get in trouble.
so mom dad i've written you some letters and one for bryce basically saying that i expected some letters from you this week and haven't got one. shame on you. one of the other elders already got 12 from home. so i expect you to be gettign everyone to send me some so i can brag to teh others. really i want to here from everyone. but the rule is that i can't email anyone but you guys while im at the mtc. once you have it u can forward it to everyone, but if they want to talk to me they have to write to me and i promise ill write back.
i really really want letters.the transition here seemed easy at first but recently has been harder especially without letters from you guys. but no worries, the lord enables those he calls and he's called me so i won't ever quit. i love being here.
let everyone in the spanish branch no that i am already speaking spanish three time better than i was before. i came here and already knew so many gospel words in spanish thanks to them so tell them thanks.
make sure u send an email to amanda, mike, jessica, anth, liz, daniel and anyone else, but tell amanda, jess, and liz to write me becasue when the district leader gets the mail he sees the name of the person writting the letter and if it's a girl makes a big deal out of it. so i really want the girls to write. alana and midory and rachel and any other girls other than you mom.my email address is http://us.mc324.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jtdiegom@myldsmail.net send that out to everyone to but let them know that i only have 30 min on the computer so if i get alot of emails it is a lot of work for me. mail is best if they can afford the 42 cent stamp charge.
i will stay diligent and work hard. this work is good and this church is true. i know that and the more i study (and believe me im studying like never before) the more i know. its amazing how much we can learn. i have five pages in my notebook for lesson 1 section 1 (god is our loving heavenly father) in preach my gospel. so im getting really in depth which is great.
have fun and be safe, ill do the same and talk to you in a week
i forgot my email stuff in my room won't happen again. so i have only 25 minutes left to email so i will try my best to get everything in.
i miss everyone down there and hope you're all doing great.
the mtc is a great place, to be totally honest a lot better than i thought it would be. the guys here are great people. im in a district of 8 people and we get along great. one of our guys was gonna leave but decided to stay which is great cause he'll be a great missionary.
we are learning so much here too. ive memorized d and c 4 verses 1-3 in spanish and a whole lot of other things too. something interesting that happened to me is that i had a companion exchange here already. and no im not causing trouble yet. when i got here my companion was elder strobelt but they changed my companion to another guy in my district who'll be going tyo the peru mtc too. his name is elder moss and he's great. we are all in the same room and to be honest us four are like the worst set you can have becasue we get along so great we are noisy, and sometimes stay up later than we should be listening to stories from one another. we are gonna try not to though, the rules here are strict and they have people checking up on everything so we don't want to get in trouble.
so mom dad i've written you some letters and one for bryce basically saying that i expected some letters from you this week and haven't got one. shame on you. one of the other elders already got 12 from home. so i expect you to be gettign everyone to send me some so i can brag to teh others. really i want to here from everyone. but the rule is that i can't email anyone but you guys while im at the mtc. once you have it u can forward it to everyone, but if they want to talk to me they have to write to me and i promise ill write back.
i really really want letters.the transition here seemed easy at first but recently has been harder especially without letters from you guys. but no worries, the lord enables those he calls and he's called me so i won't ever quit. i love being here.
let everyone in the spanish branch no that i am already speaking spanish three time better than i was before. i came here and already knew so many gospel words in spanish thanks to them so tell them thanks.
make sure u send an email to amanda, mike, jessica, anth, liz, daniel and anyone else, but tell amanda, jess, and liz to write me becasue when the district leader gets the mail he sees the name of the person writting the letter and if it's a girl makes a big deal out of it. so i really want the girls to write. alana and midory and rachel and any other girls other than you mom.my email address is http://us.mc324.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jtdiegom@myldsmail.net send that out to everyone to but let them know that i only have 30 min on the computer so if i get alot of emails it is a lot of work for me. mail is best if they can afford the 42 cent stamp charge.
i will stay diligent and work hard. this work is good and this church is true. i know that and the more i study (and believe me im studying like never before) the more i know. its amazing how much we can learn. i have five pages in my notebook for lesson 1 section 1 (god is our loving heavenly father) in preach my gospel. so im getting really in depth which is great.
have fun and be safe, ill do the same and talk to you in a week
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