Holy cow this week has been the busiest and craziest week of my mission. I used to always look up to the zone leaders and never really understood all of the things they actually had to do haha. We have been running all over the place trying to make sure everyone is okay and doing what they need to do. Our room is probably the worst room I have ever seen hahaha. if it were a hotel it wouldn't even register one star. There is absolutely ZERO running water and we live on the 4th floor. So we have to carry 5 gallon buckets of water up when our 50 gallon drum runs out haha. But i could probably use the exercise...and we do have hot water. but that's just because we heat it up on the stove before we go use it to shower haha.


This week we had our zone meeting and it was the first time I was actually in charge of teaching it (with my companion). Everything went well and we have a great zone of 18 missionaries that are all excited to work. Talara is a district so that means that the mission is pretty much in charge of it and it consists of just branches. Sunday the power was out but that didn't scare anyone away from bearing their testimony. We went like 20 mins over because people just kept getting up to bear their testimonies haha. But I love it when the people down here bear their testimonies.


We have a few investigators that we are teaching. I and S and their two kids are progressing and reading their Book of Mormon and even came to church with us on Sunday. We also have an investigator named M that is looking for his answer. But we also need to find a lot more people to teach haha. I think that is the problem no matter what area you are in.


Well Christmas is coming up and it will be my last Christmas in the mission. Me and my companion are looking to make this one real special and one we will never forget. One idea was to just work the entire day and not call home until the 26th but we are still in the plans on that one haha. This Christmas is going to be a lot different and I can already tell..I can't wait. Well that's all. Love you guys!

Sharing a little from his email to me... I love Ether 12...some of my favorite scriptures are in that chapter. Especially verse 27 where it talks about our weaknesses and why we have them and how we can overcome them. I'm excited to talk to you guys on Christmas. I knew Daulton's birthday is today. It was crazy because I had a dream about him the other night. I won't go way into detail on that one but it was really cool. I know he's watching over us.

New area...new responsibilities

Well today is transfers! To be honest these past couple weeks have been pretty rough here in Piura. Me and my companion were working our butts off and nothing was happening and we were getting a little discouraged. But yesterday we finally got the a family to come to church as a family so we were really happy about that. We spent three days the past week on a service project painting a family's house. Haha we thought it was going to be a quick deal but it ended up being a lot harder than it looked Hahaha. Today we had a conference where the President told us all of the transfers. I got transferred to Talara and am now serving as a zone leader with Elder Gabedia from Lima. We are pumped to be together and get to work. I am excited to start over with a new area and hopefully see some success! As hard as it was I did learn a ton from Jorge Chavez and made tons of great friends. Just wish we could have seen a little more success. Also my companion finishes his mission this transfer so hopefully we can get him to finish it on a good note haha. Don't really have too much time to write today because of all the time it took to travel but I should have more time next week. Love you guys!