Conference Weekend

Hey everyone! 

So not too much happened since last P-Day…

We went hiking and overlooked the other half of our mission! There is a huge mountain range, and there are 10ish Zones in our mission, and half are on one side, and we are on the other, with two at the base of the mountain. It was fun to talk and hike! I did miss listening to music while hiking a little bit! 

We have been working nice and hard! We have Hermana Ana, who is getting very close to being ready for Baptism! We are building her testimony, and she is so so wonderful! Shandu is also really ready to be baptized! We have permission from his parents, and we still have more to teach! Edu and his family are so wonderful, and Edu is ready, and his parents need just a little bit more time! But all of these people are our baptisms for the 14 of October if everything works out perfect!

Conference was so wonderful! I got to watch nearly all of it in English! The people there did not want us to do that, since our mission calling is for Spanish… The gringos revolted with scriptural proof, and we ended up getting our little room to listen and to sing in English! 

I really loved listening to conference in the mission field! It’s just like the scriptures. While reading the scriptures, you find things new every time, depending on what you need. When listening to conference, all I heard was stuff about missionary work, and stuff to help my investigators. God really does speak to his apostles to give us the guidance we need in our day, and gives it to everyone if you are willing to listen! I would encourage everyone to read up, and work on the Doctrine of Christ. With this, we receive all of the promised blessings given! But most importantly, study the Doctrine in the Book of Mormon. It has all of the answers! And That is essential!

I have been teaching Elder Mendez English since the first week, and it hasn't gone the way we thought... Haha! He is really good at the little phrases he wants to know, but past that, not much! He is always telling me "Just do it" "Don't do it" Those are helpful! He knows "I need to fart" and probably uses that more than any English... I hear "I don't want" "Help Me"! Besides that, he knows the first line of The Spirit of God, He knows A Childs Prayer, The First Vision, and Moroni 7:47! He is also now our District leader, and we are working on practices, and always figuring out what we can do better to help our district!

There is always something to learn here, and it’s always fun to figure out what that is!

Thank you everyone! Hasta Luego!

Elder Ball

Hiking on P-Day!

Up a REAL mountain!

Zone CantoGrande at the top

"The most natural green I have seen"

Zone Photo Opportunity

Zone Photo

Elder Ball the Moto-Taxi Driver. (He says he's only hit his head a few times getting in to these...)

Elder Mendez

Little Santos

The Book of Mormon in Quechua!

American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador. Quechua is their language. I asked Taylor if he was trying to learn Quechua, and this is what he told me:  

"Quechua is so beyond what I can do! I have the Book of Mormon, but it would take over a year to learn just little things. I can't focus on learning that! And it is weirdo as you can see! They don't have the complete Book of Mormon! It skips books, and verses! It doesn't have Helaman 5-12!"