Sooooooooo I'm freezing here, for all those in California I'd love you to send me some of that heat please. Getting up out of bed in the morning is so hard, it's like leaving an oven and walking into snow.
Butttt yah so this sector is awesome I'm having a blast with Elder Letham, we work and teach so well together it's really really cool. We have a ton of little towns in our sector cause it's so flippin big, and we walk a tonnnnnnnnnn, at the end of the day we're pooped, but there's a little town like 40 minutes walking out from Puno called Totorani, literally every door we knocked they invited us to come in and share a message, like what. So now we've decided to make that walk almost everyday cause it's so dang worth it and the people there are sooo nice. We set 3 baptismal dates this week!! That's a crazy amount and we're super excited, Last night we had a lesson with Gabriela, she's been an investigator for a long time and the only reason she hasn't gotten baptized yet is cause she's scared to make such a big covenant with the Lord, which I think is awesome. She's 16 and insanely smart and now we're slowly starting to talk with her parents too, cause they're on board with her being baptized too. SO, I decided that we should talk about the Atonement, (my favorite thing to teach about) and explain that even after baptism we're going to mess up, that's like a gurantee 100% will happen thing, but that's why we have the atonement. Even after baptism and we mess up, we can continue using the Atonement of Christ and erase those gross sins. She told us that she was a lot less scared now and that she really wants to do it now, so we set a date for the 15 of July and we all got really happy haha.
So yah that was an awesome experience we had yesterday, I appreciate the Atonement so much more than I did before my mission, not just cause I'm teaching about but cause I'm learning more about it WHEN I teach. It's cool.
Learning a ton everyday, I help elder Letham with Spanish a lot and we have a ton of fun with it, for Language study I play guitar and we sing spanish on the go, helps a ton and it shows you can have fun with anything you do:) So yah, people are awesome here, we're teaching and working a ton, we have a couple families that we're teaching which is the bestttt. Hope you all have an awesome week!! Love you all! --------Jacob 2:19-----------
19 And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good—to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.
Hope you all had a good Father's day!!! Soooooooooo lovin this part of Puno!!!
Companion- Elder Latham, awesome and hilarious guy, we have a ton of fun together and we are working our butts off. He's from Oregon, so yes I can speak English again:)
Mirador- So I thought I was gonna be in the middle of Puno but I was wrong, Puno is basically one big hill that's in front of Lake Titticaca, Mirador is when you get to the top of that hill and keep going, it's HUGE. Our sector is like an hour long...by car haha. It's super sketchy and there's a million dogs that attack us every night, I love it.
Pension- Angelica is our pensionista and she's the best, she cooks so good and takes such good care of us, Puno is known for it's terrible food but man she cooks so dang good. So yah that's my new sector briefly said haha, Elder Latham and I are working our butts off and teaching 2 families and a ton of investigators, we have to walk sooo far to get to them but it's so worth it. I'm still getting to know everyone and the members as well so later on I'll talk about who were teaching and stuff, the ward here is pretty small.
I gave a talk on Sunday and passed the sacrament, all of this is reminding of the good ol Yunguyo days haha. I think Elder Latham and I are gonna go visit some P-day this transfer which will be cool. But yah about 60 people went to church on Sunday which isn't WAY small but still. SO ya awesome week, everything is going super well and I'm just exhuasted more than anything haha, super pumped that this area has so much work to do, recently I've been loving teaching, it's something I love doing and I love helping people understand the Atonement of Christ more than anything, people here are so humble and super nice. I'm back in the boonies with the dirt houses and dogs, and I love it. So much haha.
Hope you all had a good week!!!!!!! I'm so bad with spiritual stuff so I promise I'll start putting scriptures at the end of emails again...starting next week;) Chow! (The first couple of pictures are of me the day I left Cusco, and sorryif they're blurry)
Welp. Didn't see that coming. I will be going back to the zone that I started in, I'm actually super pumped hahaha. These three transfers in Cusco have been awesome, I've met so many awesome people and was able to help 2 wonderful people make a covenant with the Lord. The city of Cusco is amazing. Maybe I'll come back again after Puno now that there's a pattern;)
Super excited for a change, I know the Lord knows where I need to be and who I need to help. My companion will be a new buddy, his name is Elder Letham. My first North-American companion hahaha. Ttio has a lot of potential now so I'm hoping to leave it in good hands, this sector will have at least two baptisms in July which is super awesome for Ttio haha, so it'll be sad not to be here but it doesn't matter right? All I want is people to follow Christ's example and it doesn't matter if I'm here or not! The mission is crazy, especially when the areas are so different, but it makes it so exciting.
Anyways! This week was good, we have so many more lessons here than before, people are progressing a lot, we are still teaching David and man I love teaching him, he just gets it haha. Thursday we had a conference with Elder Christensen from the Presidency of the Seventy, his talk was awesome, very calm guy, my favorite thing he said-" A lot of people say that the mission is the best two years of your life, that is so not true, the mission is the best two years FOR your life. The best years come after!!" I loved that so much, the mission is pretty dang hard and of course there are awesome moments, but I'm not gonna lie to myself and say that I'm having the time of my life haha. It gets hard. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's bipolar. Learning a ton everyday that I know will be soooooooo helpful after the mission. Like dealing with people;) I also realize how much I have back at home. In Ttio there are lots of families that have divorced parents or the dads aren't members, so they really depend on the missionaries for their homes to be blessed with the Priesthood. Really hard for those families but we did the best we could to help them out and bring the spirit into their homes.
I hope you all had a good week! Don't have a lot of pictures this week but here's one with a pair of twins that are hilarious. And yes that is the City of Cusco's flag...
LAKE TITTICACA I'M COMING BACK!!!
