Hola!
Well, it was a pretty good week!! Last P-day the Bishop invited us to his house to make pizza and cookies.. and when i got  there, im not gonna lie, they were struggling. They dont bake here, and very few people have ovens. So it was a mess. But we got them straightened out and the cookies were probably the second worst ive ever had in my life but they were good. They absolutely  loved them. They were really scared to try the cookie dough raw, but after they had a bite they ate half the bowl before we could get them in the oven. We made a lot though so its all good.

I had splits with the zone leaders on Tuesday, Elder Lindblom from Arizona, Gilbert (He knows Payne) was my compainon for the day. We started the day by finding scriptures to share with the Adventisits who keep asking us to justify our beliefs with the Bible. One of the ones they wanted was proof that Sunday should be the sabbath and not Saturday like it says in the time of Moses. So I took them to the Tora where the Lord institutes capitol punish for those who break the sabbath. The dude that picked up sticks and Moses recieved revelation that the people should stone him and everyone else who did so. So I asked if they still stoned people like they were suposed to? If they followed the law of moses so closely. Then I told them that the life of Jesus changed the gospel, the the biggest event in the history or ever, was the Atonement and ressurection of Christ. Its what gets us into eternal salvation so memory of the reason we get to fulfil our purpose and return to God. We hold the sabbath on Sunday, and that they should pray about it to know for sure... they didnt like that answer but they couldnt contest it with anything so we might have a chance to correct this apostasy. Then we went to a little town an hour away to fetch a birth certificate for someone in Lima that was gonna get married, then get baptized. So we went to these people that haven't ever seen white people excpet in movies and just let them stare at us while we ate popcorn and waited for the government building to open... all the moms that passed with their daughters told them that one day they needed to marry one of us... Im guessing they thought we couldnt speak spanish cause they said it really loud. So that was funny, the birth certicicate was in one of those old old books that are huge and leather bound. It was pretty cool, but impossible to read casue they did everyting in this crazy cursive. So this lady that specialized in reading the book found it for us and got us a copy. It was pretty cool. Anyway, the rest of the day me and Elder Lindblom had appointments and sang country songs on the way to all of them. He's got one more month left and he goes home, but he told me we have permission to listen to patriotic music on the 4th of July!! So thats awesome!! Anyway, good day with him.

Our investigators had a good week this week! We found a new gal that agreed to be baptized on the 14th so we have three baptisms planned!!! The Murillo Girls confirmed their baptism date of the 7th so were gonna get them dunked! Alex told us he wants to be baptized but neeeded a littel more time to decide on a date, hes got to marry or seperate is wife/girlfriend to do it though. But he wants it now which is awesome! He's got doubts about how God works, especially when it comes to saving sinners. His whole life he's thought there was no way to please God and that we were all going to hell. We had him read the "if you love me keep my commandments" scripture and you could see it just smack him in the face. He got real quiet for 5 minuets and told us he understood that part now, so that was a huge step for him. Our new gal is named Sandra, She's definetly been prepared beforehand to recieve the gospel. She came to church and loved it, found some friends and wants to know more. Then we have our less actives, Guillermo is one week away from having his interview and getting the priesthood which is exciting. He's changed a lot. Now we have a new Family... the mom is the only member. They have 4 kids. We've met 2 of them, anyway, the dad just lost his dad and had questions about where he was and stuff. The plan of salvation cleared that up, and the lesson was really cool, then it got weird.... Somehow we got on the topic of spirits and if they could manifest themselves... we said yes but with lots of limits... but they took that as a sign to tell us all about the ghost stories they've been apart of... ghosts picking up a piece of paper and playing with it like a streamer, a baby ghost throwing a bottle against the door, a old guy ghost with a hat runnning in front of a car and then not being there... it was worse when Elder Concpecion said he'd seen ghost as well.... i felt like i was in Ghost Busters or Supernatural... So the lesson took a dark turn but we have a date to come back and teach them how to do family history to get his dads name to the temple. 

Thats about all for the week, we get to go to some catacombs today for p-day so ill have some good pics next week, i up loaded some to dropbox if yall want to check them out. A video as well of one of the games they play here and the punishment for losing. Love you all lots! Stay safe and do everything your supposed to do, the Lord will bless you! Elder Wright

Pizza and cookie making!!

COOKIES!!

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FRENCH TOAST!!
Well, I broke... I couldn't take it anymore.... I needed good food.... so I bought a little griddle thing and made myself french toast!! It was sooo goood... in reality it was probably some of the worst french toast I've ever had in my life, but compared to what I have been eating it was the best. I didn't have a plate, so I ate it off a card board cereal box and that made it taste even better!! The syrup down here isn't all that great but that's all good. Im now gonna have to make it every other day. Maybe eventually ill try to make crepes, and pancakes, and biscuits and gravy... Maybe.

Anyway, lots happened this week. First off, our zone of Ayaviri was dissolved this week. The church hasn't grown there in years so they pulled the missionaries out. There were six of them. I'm still in the same place of Juliaca, but now we pertain to the zone of Julicaca. So thats fun. Said goodbye to my first zone leader and got a picture of the 3 gringos that were in the zone. So yeah, now we don't have to travel to Ayaviri every other week now which is awesome.

Our investigators are progressing as of the moment and we have another golden family that we met yesterday. The family Morrillo is doing alright, the daughters agreed to be baptized on the 7th of February, but the parents needed more time to think about it so we'll probably move it to a later date. But we had an awesome lesson with the parents this week and the spirit was way strong the whole time. You could see them realize what we were saying was true which was awesome to see, but, the ball is in their court, they can accept what they've learned and get married then baptized.. or they might not. We'll baptize the daughters for sure, but we would like the whole family to be part of it. Esmerelda, and her daughter are reading the Book of Mormon but  were having trouble getting them to pray about it and to come to church. Our long time inve. Alex, told us he wants to be baptized, but we have a lot of work to do with him. He's gotta get married or leave his kid and girlfriend. And he was a little weird at our last lesson, he was really laughy. Which isnt bad, but it was during the lesson and usually he's really serious and has questions. Then there's our new family, its a young couple and the sister. They are cool people and in my mind, they're the kind of people that not only will endure to the end, but excell to the end. So I have high hopes for them! We taugh them how to pray and they seemed excited to do it and get an answer. 

A lot of our work is reactivating people, so we have 6 families that we see and have lessons with, they all have their problems. But the biggest problem is they dont read their scriptures and say their prayers. One family thats been inactive for years, just sent their kid on a mission, Eddie, hes in Lima Central. Since then they've been getting active and we had an awesome family home evening with them on Saturday. It started off bad though. None of the people that said theyd come, showed up. So while we waited, for about an hour and  a half, for the son who was working, the bishop showed up with everyone!! It was a prayer answered. The mom looked relieved and after that we had an awesome lesson about families and temples. Then we played a game where you light a match, say a phrase that means, lighter i give to you, lighter give back to me, then whoever the match goes out on.. gets drawn on.. i uploaded a picture to drop box! Its pretty funny!! I got blue marker all over my face. 

FRENCH TOAST!!

Elder Asay, Elder Hyer, Me!

More game fun.....

Other than that Spanish is hard, and people don't understand me which sucks but i guess that's just how it goes. I cant wait till I can actually have a flowing conversation with our investigators and can answer their questions without having to stutter and stop to check my dictionary. Little by little though. So all is well, and I'm having fun! Love you all lots!

Elder Wright 

Catching up on some pictures from Christmas!!

 

 

Christmas Day! 2014

We went to our pension (she cooks for us) "ranch" for Christmas day.

One more change down...

Well, we have 17ish changes in a two year mission. A change is every 6 week. And Im already two changes in. I've only got 15 changes left! We had some cool stuff happen this week. We found a new golden family that were gonna baptize. A mom and her daughter. Her name is Esmerelda. She has been looking for a church for a long while now. She knows a lot about the bible and always says her prayers. We had a 2 and a half hour first lesson with her! She's ready to be dunked! The Murillo family is kind of progressing... we found out that the mom and dad aren't married... so that's a problem, They have 4 kids together and are a very close family so its surprising that they aren't married. When we asked them to follow Jesus and be baptized, the two girls said yes and the mom said she would have to think about it and talk to Joel about it. So the girls will get baptized, but Im not sure about Yeni And Joel. Oh well i guess... we are trying to get the two to pray but its hard to get them to do something so easy! We went to Puno last week for p-day and I got to see Lake Titicaca, its pretty big, and the water is gross in the part that I saw. We climbed to the Condor, which is a look out point and that was fun ,ill get pictures of it to  you  guys next week. Its a mile climb of straight up stairs... it gets your legs burning pretty good! Were in Ayaviri this week for zone meeting and no one knows if they have changes this week or not so everyone is panicing.. except for me, cause they sent me an email telling me that I was staying where I am. We set a mission goal for 1200 baptisms... that turns out to be one baptism for every companionship every month.. which is possible... but hard to do. Last year i guess we had 700 or so baptisms. So yeah, that's fun stuff. A funny story... on Monday, I bought a churro... and while I was walking, we saw a family pushing their little moto to a gas station. The two girls were pushing from the back and the dad was steering and pushing from the front-... the mom had a baby and was sitting in the back seat... so, i put the churro in my mouth and push the little car for them. The two girls stop pushing, the dad says hay esta hijas! which means ¨there it is daughters¨, and the mom turns around to see how hard the girls are working to get the car going that fast... and sees a big gringo with a churro in his mouth pushing their car.... anyway, the dad doesn't look back and when i get them to the pump, I just walk by like nothing happened and the dad had no idea, the girls at this point are laughing at their dad confusion when he sees they're 30 yards back not pushing. I imagine they told him it was me, but i didn't stick around to find out. So yeah, that was funny. I am now a pro with my new sling shot... and could peg a turkey between the eyes at 100 yards. All the birds know my name, and the churro lady does as well. So yeah, Im doing good. and having fun. Love you all lots and hope all of you are happy! The gospel is true and miracles happen every day! You  just gotta look for them.

We played a game where you got to draw on the loser's

face. I made it the whole game without a mark....

I finally lost the game!!

Futbol!!

Elder Conception on the streets

MORE PICTURES!!

 

 

 

My first are is Juliaca

 

Pretty sure this is against the rules??

......and this!!

Elder Falslev from Clinton, UT

                                                                       District at the CCM

IM HERE!!CUSCO, PERU

December 29, 2014

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!! So im in Ayaviri this p-day cause we were having our monthly movie night. We watched Ephriams Resucue. I love that movie. We're all blessed with certain gifts to share with the world, all we have to do is share these gifts. And try to be better and better each and every day. SO anyway, my internet is really slow cause were in a little pueblo so i cant get pictures off, sorry, next week. Anyway, apart from the awesome fireworks show we had christmas night, 360 degree firework show. We didnt get to do much these last couple days. Everyone didnt have time for the messengers of Christ in the time set apart to celebrate Christ... yeahhh oh well I guess. I had a companinon exchange with the zone leader. Elder Hyer from Moses Lake Washington. We had to do zone buisness stuff so we only got to teach one lesson in our two days but thats alright. We got to give a blessing of healing and i absolutly love blessings so that was awesome. Elder Concepcion and Elder Jara had a lesson with our golden family while I was gone and it went awesome!! Elder jara is super excited for us. Hes sure were gonna dunk em. They fed them tea while they were over and they didnt realize they were drinking tea till a little while later and had to give a little word of wisdom lesson and then had to repent this Sunday. Speaking of this Sunday, it was awesome!! We had 4 investigators at church! Thats the most for our whole zone. We had the family of gold there Murillo, and Alex, both loved it and Alex felt the burn to be baptized. We still have work to do with him and we have to get him hitched but i think hell make it. The kids of the family murillo absolutly loved it. During the break they came running to tell their mom how much fun they were having and then ran back to class. The older girls were scared to go to young womens but the bishops daughter jumped right in and helped out. Shes awesome, her name is Annie. It was exactly what those girls needed. Then the hom >Yeni, liked the lessons in class, one was on being prepared for the second coming, which i thought at first would be a bad pick, but turned out awesome for her. We also had our less active dad attened yesterday and get the fire and desire to get the priesthood. We only have 5 higher priesthood holders in the ward, and we need at least 25 to run a ward... our inactive list is very long and its now a goal to get them back to church to run the affairs of the kingdom, but Hermano Gulliermo look really sad that he could help and look resolved to get into the position to help. Heck Yeah!! So thats about it for the week. hope everyone has a good New Years and sets a goal to make a diference in one way or another!! love you all, stay safe!