This week was a little weird because my companion was a mini missionero and it was weird to be sr companion for a week. but we worked hard. on Monday one of our citas fell through and I had a feeling that we should go see this family. when we got there the dad was struggling to get the moto out of the house because they had dug more ditches. We helped him and after he told us he had said a prayer that someone would come to help him and then we showed up. it was nice to talk to everyone on Christmas! on Thursday one of our citas fell through and i had a feeling that we should go talk to this group of kids. so we went and talked to them and it turns out they have been looking for the missionaries to come around. we ended up teaching two brothers the next day and challenged them to baptism in the first lesson and they accepted! they are getting baptized January 18 and their parents are interested in listening too. it was awesome. then the rest of the days were pretty normal and today my new companion elder cortes from Chile also haha is here and we are excited to get to work. sorry this email kinda sucks i haven't been feeling too good lately.

 

Well hello again this week was pretty good. On Wednesday we decorated our room with Christmas lights and I even broke a branch off of a tree a crossed the road to make a Christmas tree haha. then on Friday we had our ward talent show and it was awesome. Except it was supposed to start at 7 and we started at about 840 haha but that's just pretty much how it is down here. On Saturday we had our devotional with the President in Piura. We played games and watched the polar express so that was pretty cool haha. When we were there I was talking to an elder from Hurricane and he was telling me that he was at our state football games last year and was telling me how awesome our crowd was. One of the families we are teaching have a dog that just had puppies and there was only one white one...they named it Elder Chapman hahahah.  Yesterday the assistants called us in the morning and told us that my companion has a cambio de emergencia  so he left today in the morning for Piura to be the personal secretary to the president. That kinda sucked because we were good friends. Now I am with two other elders but I'm pretty sure that Adhayr is going to be my companion this week. 

My gustarìa terminar este mensaje con mi testimonio. en este tiempo de navidad a veces solo pensamos en los regalos o la comida pero sabemos el proposito verdadero de la navidad. yo sè que jesucristo murió para nosotros y que el vive. yo sè que este es la iglesia verdadera aquì en la tierra y que podemos ser familias eternas. feliz navidad cholos  Translation: I'd like to end this post with my testimony. Christmas at this time sometimes we just think of the gifts or the food but we celebrate the real purpose of Christmas. I know that Jesus Christ died for us and he lives. I know this is the true church here on earth and we can be eternal families. Happy Christmas cholos...

 

 Elder Chapman, Adhayr and Elder Mantura

 

Hola...this week was pretty good. On Wednesday we had entrevistas with the President and it was my first one in the field so that was pretty cool. Then on Friday the zone leaders did a surprise visit in the morning and studied with us. Then when we got home our dueño told us that we aren't going to have water for 8 days starting soon. So that is going to suck haha. We are filling every bottle and bucket we can find with water so that we will have something to shower with haha. then Saturday I finally got my Thanksgiving dinner. We ate at a members house and had turkey and there was so much freakin food. By the time we finally finished the turkey and rice and stuff they brought out giant muffins. Then when we finally finished that they brought out a giant slice of pie. Then me and my companion were joking with them asking if there was anything else we could eat and they brought out panetón its like a fruit cake and it wasn't really very good but holy crap we were stuffed haha... then for dinner we went out on a limb and ate hamburgers from the street again haha. Still no damage done so thats good. This week we have a talent show in our ward and we are writing a song to sing in it that should be really funny haha. Then Saturday we have our Christmas devotional in Piura. We have a baptism planned for Saturday but we arent very sure its going to happen because the girls mom doesn't want her to so I guess we will see how that goes. Me and my companion saw this guy during the past week and felt we should talk to him and holy crap he turned out to have some serious potential.  The only problem is he doesn't have chairs in his house so we teach him standing up haha. Love you guys.

 

Well this was a pretty good week. On Tuesday we had intercambios (forgot what they are called in English) and that was nice because our district leader came to our area with me and I actually got to be in charge for once haha. We taught a few lessons that day and even taught a couple new people but the highlight of the day was when we were walking home that night and ended up finding one of our investigators drunk and he was just wandering around. This was the second time we have found him drunk but the first time that we have found him in public haha...and my district leader is also a gringo and he didn't know what to do and I pretty much just had to talk to this drunk guy and convince him to go back home and then we walked him to his house haha. The other day we were walking down the road and all these little kids started screaming, vaqueros! vaqueros! haha because one time we wore our cowboy hats and they saw us and now they call us that every time they see us hahaha. Yesterday we got to participate in the primary program and that was cool. Then I had my first experience with weird food. haha we ate at a members house and had fish but they just like cut it in half and fried it. eyeballs and all haha but it was pretty good actually. I have learned that there are two parts to the gift of tongues...one has to do with the language and the other is to be able to handle weird food hahaha. The other day me and my companion were feeling pretty good so we bought some hamburgers from a vender in La Venita and we thought for sure we were going to be sick but they were delicious and we didn't get sick. We think we are going to return for more haha. This morning it rained for about 20 mins...it was weird because I haven't seen rain for 3 months haha. Well thats all. Love you guys.

The Elders singing in the Primary Program...looks like he sings as much as he did when he was in Primary!!!

Thanksgiving Peruvian Syle

Well hello again. This week went by really fast. Haha first off our whole area is destroyed because they are going to put in water so that the people can have flushing toilets. So all of the "roads" are torn up and there is a big canal and big sand hills that we have to climb to get to lessons. So every night when we get home we empty like 5 pounds of sand out of our shoes haha. Thanksgiving was pretty cool here. I had some nice turkey and cheese sandwiches. You guys really missed out haha. On Saturday we finished our lessons and we were walking home and all of the power went out and we were in a pretty scary part of our area and still had like 20 mins of walking and we could only see like 10 feet in front of us so that was pretty cool haha. Yesterday we got invited to participate in the primary program this Sunday so that should be cool hanging out with all these freaking churres haha. Just so everybody knows, DeLane is winning the letter count... pretty handily. Well that's all, Love you guys.