2.15.10

This week was different, we had a late start on it because we went to sullana for monday and tuesday and had a multi zone conference with the president and his wife, that was cool but took a ton of time and almost all our pday! Then wednesday me and my comp spilt up to baptize people in different cities! My comp went to Mira Mar and baptized two kids in the river and i stayed here in talara to baptize victoria moran. Victoria comes from a part member family that was less active but me and comp had been visiting them since my first week in december trying to activate them with no success. Then two weeks ago the mom and her daughter came, then that night we visited her and they told us victoria wanted to be baptized and we had no idea she wasn't a member so yeah that was cool and a reward for our diligence.

The rest of the week was hard, we had to find new investigators and had now success at all! This was frustrating because we have a goal for 20 baptisms by march 14 and we only have 5, the goal is crazy but so are we. So pray for us and we'll see what the lord wants to happen.

2.8.10

I'm doing good today, as always on the p days, today we aren't doing anything for pday, we had a really big week and are really tired. But have an even bigger one coming up haha. Saturday we met with the pres. and sis chippman, that was cool and we're about to leave for sullana for anther zone conf with them. This week was crazy because it was like 105 friday, so freaking hot and then on saturday it rained for like 12 hrs straight and all the roads were underwater, so we went out prosaliting in our sandals and then the power company turned off the power so nobody would die with all the water that was running into three houses. We didn't have power for a couple days and sunday was fast and testimony meeting, i shared my testimony but there wasn't a microphone so i was half yelling. Then we baptized bryan and angie after wards. That was cool but i messed up on the baptismal prayer 5 times with angie and then she slipped when she was coming up out of the water haha still learning a lot, but bryan was perfect. Then after church we changed closes and went around and helped people put up there roofs up after the rainstorm and get ready for what’s about to come. We have a baptism wednesday in mira mar and in here in talara too and about 5 roofs to fix this week so we'll be busy

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2.1.10

This week was a roller coaster, It started of really good when we went up to a place called El Alto which is 15 minutes south of mancora, which is the cancun of peru, because we had a reference from missionaries, that a nurse that is living that heard about the church and was really interested. We went up met her, taught 1st, 2nd, third lessons, word of wisdom, tithing, chastity and prayer in 3 hours and committed her to baptism. She was supposed to come down sunday and be baptized but because of her work she couldn't make the trip, it was really cool because of other missionaries and the lord she was already prepared and we just had to ask her to get baptized. The hard part of the week was when president told me i was going to go to tambo grande, a small farming village because he needed to send my comp to chichalyo. I wasn`t down with that at all because i love the area I'm in and me and my trainer just starting to be effect. So i told him i didn't want to go and begged him for anther change. He said he'd think about it and call back sunday so for 2 days we were stressed out and he called back and said it would be fine if we stayed here. I don't think i scored any points with the pres. haha but life is good now. Today we went to this beach, negritos where there are some awesome caves and some crazy religion that worships in this one cave. We went to go take a picture but this crazy fat guy chased us away with a stick.