Getting Ready to Go to Bolivia

ok what's up everyone...

this week was very good. we are teaching good a decent amount of lessons. we have some good investigators. some new ones. one is a young lady, twenty, named medalith. she is the only non-member in her family but her family is inactive. so we started visiting her and her family. anyways she's gone to church for two straight weeks and we are very happy. she's a good person and the plan is to baptize her the 23rd. so were happy for that too.

outside of that, we have some families that we're teaching still but, like most of our people, sometimes they go to the church sometimes they don't. pretty inconsistent but that's how it is. we just do what we can and keep going.

so ya, this morning the office called and said that this Thursday i have to go to the office to go and get some paperwork done for my foreign something or whatever. so... i would assume that that would be for me to be going to Bolivia. since i did the stuff for Peru already. but i don't know. if it is for Bolivia it would mean probably in five weeks that I'd be going there. I'll let you all know though. I'm actually excited for the chance to go to Bolivia. i think it would be really interesting and a great way to change the scene of things a little bit. i love Peru. it's a great place but Bolivia is my mission and i sorta wanna go.

so ya that's the word on Bolivia. now my district is great. we are having a lot of success and doing good. as is the zone. it's a good area but not one of the best according to the missionary grapevine. but i love it. even though I'm pretty sure I'll be getting changed this cambio. but like most things in the mission you never really know.

ok so it was great to call home yesterday. that was nice. mom sorry i called so late. didn't realized you were home that early and whatever. i know Bryce didn't get to call you so i bet you were waiting all day for that. but ya i loved talking to ya and I'm glad all is good there in the ward and the branch. which reminds me. i wanna say hi to all the families in my ward... desert hills. i miss you all and hope all is good with everyone there. and then a special hi to all the families in the Spanish branch. the six months that i was there were just amazing. i loved it and hope to always be part of the branch. thanks to everyone. but actually since the Spanish branch people speak Spanish i shoulda written it in Spanish. mom you can translate it if you want to . next time I'll write in Spanish.

so lets see... we still haven't changed rooms. not like we really want to but since the pres says we have to we're looking. but there still and none that meet their requirements. so we're still there. it's nice.

so ya things are going good. this week is gonna be kinda busy probably. we'll have interviews i think, i have to do two changes, and Thursday i have to go to that thing in the office... so ya fun fun

thanks for forwarding Bryce's emails. it's nice to hear that he's doing good. one week done. only 103 left. don't tell him that tho. and like he said the worst things about the mtc were the showers but ya know when he gets to Argentina and doesn't have the option between blistering hot or ice cold.... and the only one is ice cold, he's gonna wish he had those mtc showers.

so just some random facts....

• no i haven't been robbed...
• i haven't eaten any other strange food
• 4 of the six dogs that always barked at me and tried to bite me have died. i didn't kill them somebody else did. in the middle of the night somebody shot them. in the morning the owners went outside and found them all dead. kinda funny... unless you like dogs.
• my pench wants to make turtle and alligator for me but can't find the meat
• they sorta celebrate mothers day here. but it's not as big as it is in the U.S.
• my foot is getting better....slowly but surely
• my district always wins when we play soccer. we have our own name and everything. my district is ... distrito despertad.. and the other distrito burgos... and we've won at soccer 6 to 2, 5 to 2, and 3 to 1... domination. but ya know we try to be nice every once and a while and change teams up.

ok so that's about all i think. thanks for all the help and packages.. letters and all that good stuff. i miss you all. bye

Proud of little brother - Bryce

hey everyone

so ya this week was a very interesting week. sorta started out on a bad note though. this last Monday after pday, while playing soccer, i sorta slid into a wall and messed up my foot. just a little bit. but ya so they put me in a resting mode sorta. they said go to the citas that you have but outside of that don't walk too much. so i tried that but it got boring. long story short it still hurts to walk and today I'm seeing the doctor and I'm sure that will get things fixed. so ya that was fun

another fun thing... something missionaries love is a cambio with the assistants. my fourth that I've done in my mission. they keep coming to me. but ya so that day was really good. we found some new people and had some great lessons. we walked a lot and it hurt but it was worth it. but what i found out was more valuable. he said that every missionary from Bolivia will be going back, they just don't know when. the plan they were given is to send between five and seven back every cambio. so they know who's going this cambio but not the next ones. so basically i could be returning in ten weeks or in 6 months. but if all goes like they plan i will be in Bolivia to finish my mission. which is fine with me. I'm excited to see a new country and whatever.

so ya, also this week another sorta strange thing that happened was that i baptized someone. what was strange was that the baptism wasn't mine. it was someone from an area in my district. i had taught the girl once and then in the interview she asked me to baptize her. kinda funny. i had no idea what to say. i said that either one of the elders there could baptize her or anyone in her ward with the priesthood, a friend or bishop.... and she said... well can you do it? i didn't know what to say... it was weird. but ya she said she wanted me to do it and so whatever. so ya. it was nice to get in the water again. i tell ya when i get back gotta go swimming a lot more. it'll be on my list of things to do when i get back.

and ya so this week also Bryce goes into the mtc. this Wednesday. I'm more proud of him than I've been of anyone else in a long time. way to go buddy and i know you'll be a great missionary. i love you and I'll miss you. but know that when i finish and i work with you for a day or two in Argentina I'm gonna show you how good of a missionary i am... so you better work... i expect a good challenge like always. be safe and just keep going.

ok so outside of that i don't have much to say. it was kinda a boring week. just know that I'm ok. my foot will get better and I'll just keep going. like i tell Bryce. so ya that's the plan.

bye for now

July 22 - MTC Peru

hey im writting from peru to let you guys know some stuff.

first of all im safe in the mtc and having a good time recovering from that horrible midnight flight.

this place is really cool and the food is better than at the mtc. some real peruvian food. its cool. peru on the other hand isn{t so cool. the place is crazy poor and all the drivers are worse than amanda when she started drivine, and thats saying something.

i cant wait however to get out on saturdays and start teaching. its a privelge here that they dont get in utah. im excited.

another cool thing is that they say we actually get to get a tour of the city one day. like regular tourists. thatll be cool

anyways my address here is something like this

Apartado Postal
Aspersud-CCM
12-167
Lima 12-Peru

or

Elder Taliercio
Bolivia Santa Cruz
Centro de Capacitacion Misional
Lima, Peru
Av. Melgarejo 159
La Molina, Lima, Peru

or you can send it pouch, which means not in an envelope just taped at the top to

Elder Taliercio
Bolivia Santa Cruz
Lima Peru MTC
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, UT 84130-0150

they want us to tell you guys not to send packages. one we cant have food in our rooms anyways cause itll atract ant and cochroaches, to they say its expensive and wont get to us anyways. so send letters and if you want to get me anything they say to just put money into my acount and ill get it here. so i guess just talk to my ma if you wanna do that.

they also pay for my letters going out. cool. and we can write any day any time as long as were not in class. so expect some mail but not to much casue id feel bad having them pay for 100 letters

i played on the soccer field here. its turf but its really nice. i like it alot and will have fun i bet.

anth thanks for the address, ill get you a letter soon.

im tuesday is my p-day so expect another letter then.

send this to everyone and thanks for everything

bye...

Jason's 2nd letter - MTC Provo

ok so i wasted the first 7 minutes of my time trying to remember my password. ya sounds like me.

thanks for the emails and writting letters i appreciate it a lot. and thanks for the donuts rachel. they made me the most popular person in the mtc for a while.

ok first while i love being able to email and connect with u all like this remeber that its hard for me to read seven half page emails and still be able to write you guys everything. so while i will do my best to read all the emails i will make sure that i devote at least twenty minutes to writting. which means that letters are probably best for right now. in a little bit ill be able to email longer

which leads me to my first thing, my travel plans and visa are all good i leave the 16th at ten am and go to miami, and then to peru. the plan is to spend 8 weeks there but they said that i may have that time lessoned if i can prove i deserve to get out of there.

next point: my spanish has improved a ton since i got here. its amazing how quickly you learn. ive had teachers tell me i needed to be in the advanced class but i wouldn't want to. i enjoy the time i have here and want to make the most of the chance i have to learn about the gospel instead of just teaching it.

ok so my district is the craziest district in the mtc. we have the zone leaders with us though so we can get away with almost anything. its so much fun it should be agaisnt the rules, but we all respect the rules and have as much fun as possible without getting into trouble. but there is that saying that its only breaking the rules if you get caught

i think i told you that my companion was changed after the fourth day here. my new companion is amazing too. everyone in our district is so great it wouldn't matter who my companion is.

i will try to send pics but the machine here is down and wont let us print any out right now. ill get some to you though and youll see how weird we are, even as missionaries.

i have seen beth rizley a couple of times

the food is ok, most of the time is not bad but a few times a week it is amazing and i feel like i could eat it all.

pam i saw pics and i have to say that you have another cute baby. i hope im that lucky to have two cute little babies.

o and ya'll can send pics to me over here, in fact i hope you do. just soes i know whats up. some of the guys even got some little books filled with some, it was really cool.

the mailing system stinks and might that up to six days to mail from arizona to here, so make sure that if you mail something to mail it before the tenth, cause i leave for peru the 16th and who knows if id ever get anything down there through the mailnext point:

dear elder or whatever that thing is works, at least here, i don't know if it will in the mtc in peru but i don't see y not and you guys set it up not me.

mom dad if ya'll wanna send anything soon i need batteries for my camera adn alarm clock cause i think i left them at home Ooooops
double a thanks and paper, just for the letters so i don't need to take it from my journals, candy is always appreciated by me and companions

and everyone feel free to send me letters i love letters and i need addresses before i can send any letters out, so any friends who want personalized letters need to send me one first, i trust mom and dad have given out the address and sent these to whoever wanted them, and thanks mom and dad for thatand just soes ya'll knows i can recieve and write letters any day of the week, not just on p-days. i just can't recieve or send emails any day

i think thats about it with 3 minutes left. if you guys want to know anything else let me know.

o and im excited to see skyler here tomorrowhere

my mailing address
Elder Jason Taliercio
MTC Mailbox #116
BOL-SC 0716
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, Utah 84604-1793

thanks

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