Nephi & Jacob; Jason & Bryce

hey everybody, how's it going.

so some interesting things this week. so this week is cambio but i don't have any changes. i didn't expect to because i will be going to Bolivia soon but still. same comp and area. i should be here only about 3 weeks more but i guess you never know.

so this week we had some cool interesting experiences. we did a noche de hogar or family home evening with our best investigator. her name is medalith cachique and is 20 years old. very cool but wants to be sure that the book of Mormon is true before she gets baptized. so we did this noche de hogar and it turned out nice. i did the lesson in it and it ended with games. they are fun. we do a lot of those fhe in this area. it's part of the mision plan here and it helps a lot. we always have some good people there. also this week we got some good references from some members. two families and both seem pretty cool. we have a new desire to do everything we can to help the people here as best we can. elder medina is dying here and i will leave to bolivia from here so we plan on leaving everything that we have here in solidaridad. and so we hope to have a lot success.

i have not been feeling too good lately but, as of saturday, I've been feeling a lot better. don't know why. kinda weird how things just seemed to change so fast. but i feel good right now. I'm happy it seems. excited for whats to come and feeling a million times better than a week ago. and Bryce in part it has to do with you buddy. i don't know why but i just read ur letter that u sent right before you got to the mtc and what you said there i think helped a lot. it seems corny but my goodness just got to me. you said that i was more like nephi and you like jacob... but lets just let jason be jason and bryce be bryce and we'll make nephi and jacob want to be us. how amazingly true i want that to become. see this is why i always said that you will be the better of the two buddy. but i say lets do it. up to this point I've given a lot of myself. but i know i can do more. I'm a better missionary than what I've been to this point. i know you''ll be a great missionary if you just follow the rules and forget everything else but the work. its hard. lets do it. lets make nephi and jacob want to be us. i know we can. I'll do my best, u do your best and we'll do it. I'm proud of you buddy and i don't mind saying that i love you.

ok now .... this isn't meant to be a letter just to bryce so sorry but i get going on one thing and next thing you know ..well ya.

so this week i didn't do any new paper work for bolivia but i'm sure i will have to now. the cambios in the zone are mostly in the other district. in fact the only change in my district is that elder crisanto, the zone leader is dying, which by the way means finishing the mission, not like dying. so I'll have a new zone leader. and no that's not the one that i had problems with before, he's still here and still a pest but I'm learning to love him. slowly but surely.

and it's 100 positive elder medina girlfriend left him. he has just one month left and so we'll see how that affects him. the poor guy. i feel bad for him but he seems ok as of right now. just amazing though that after 23 months of waiting you'd leave someone. but ya. so this is the second time this has happened to me where my comp's girlfriend left him. i hope it'll be my last, it's sorta a awkward situation.

and to end just wanna say thanks and happy birthday to everyone whose birthday it is. i miss everyone and am glad to hear from everyone every once in a while. I'll try to write more but with the time ya know how it goes.

and bryce the secret to writing fast in the mtc is print out ur emails and just type. it cost like 7 cents every page but it's worth it. and then while typing try to make a plan on what you're gonna say, write it on a piece of paper and take it with you. i try to plan out what i wanna say every week... most Weeks i end up forgetting the paper at the home tho but it helps. and just so you know the timer is only in the mtc. not in the field when you get here you have your leaders and comp as timers.

ok bye everyone

It's just a kiss on the cheek president, after all, the babes love me

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

MTC Letter (3)

Hey people what is going on.

first of all bryce enjoy my room but take care of it. as soon as you go out it's mine again hahahhahahhhahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok i sent the pic card and some pics so make sure you get them. if there are any that might scare you mom just know that we had the help of a professional stunt man. thats all you need to know. and im really goood at being upside down. so make sure you put them right side up and get them out to everyone.

i bought a phone card and can call only mom and dad, sorry everyone else. if you wanna talk be with them, which probably won't happen. sorry, but mom and dad you only have about a hour to talk so know what you want to say.

the zone leaders are my old companion and elder weller from my room. its nice but now we need to be the example.

my flight number is 696 to atlanta georgia, not miami, sorry i lied. i go to atlanta then on flight number 351 to peru. track me if you can!

now the dear elder thing is frikin amazing. it works so good. i got it the very next day. i don't know if itll be that good in peru, some guys say it costs money but it is just as fast. others say they only come in on p-day, but since its all on the computer they get it there after you send it and just don't hand it out till p-day. either way its worth a shot while im at peru.

i still have problems fallling asleep but its gotten a lot better.

i won't be alone on the plane to peru, i know others coming with me but none are in my district or zone

ok since i never got to write about the fourth of july here it is, we got to stay up and watch the fireworks from the miley cyrus concert at byu. it was good except for the finalle. i stayed in my room thought with elder blackham and johnson. we had a perfect view and it was good.

i got the rest of my shots done on thursday or something, htat stunk cause my arm hurt for a couple of days, but it was worth it

i want to thank everyone for sending me things. sister hatch, amanda and of course family number two, mom and dad, thanks for all the food and candies. im like the most popular person in my hallway becasue everyone knows that i always have good food. most of its gone already evern though i got it like yesterday or two days ago. thanks.

i dont know y but i got the urge to just have stickers. alana sent me some and i want some to put on every letter, so mom dad hop on. and i mean like crazy amazingly, totaly cool stickers. byrce can help pick them.

i don't know the peru mailing address but you guys can find out online i think i be there the 17th so i'll try to write that first day if thye let me.

my emal won't change as long as im on my mission so you guys can send as many as you want, just keeep them short for now. i may be able to print them out and if i can then you can make it longer. but i wanna here from everyone a little to send some.

now im sorry i haven't sent letters to some people. i just need you to send it first so that i could send some since i didn't have your addresses. so if you don't wannna pay for postage just email me your address and ill write you all letters.

thanks to amanda, mom, dad, g-dog, byrce, rita, mom #2, anthony, luke, harrison, alana, pam and kirk, and melia, and dan for writing letters. i love to get letters. though i understand if you don't want to send to many will im in another country because postage goes up, but i hear theyll give us more time to email, so we'll see.

lastly, i still haven't heard from mike, jess, daniel, or a lots of other friends. whats up with that? it's ok but i do want to hear from you guys. im not that busy

ok i finished everything i had planned to say with five minutes left. so i'll write about whatever.

anthony, i loved you letter. email me you address so i can write back. you can keep emailing me, but i can only go through my parents unless i write. kinda special but what can you do. however, i hear that changes when i get to bolivia. we'll see. and get mike to write me.

amanda and family #2- wow. you guys know how to take care of me. thanks for everything. and i sent like eight letters so make sure you get them all.

mom and dad and my family- thanks for everything. make sure you get the pics and keep writting.

i only have 30 sec or id write more. \have fun and be safe