February 21, 2011

Hello world!

We had another awesome week here in Floresta! We had the baptism of

Silvia Burgos. She is the youngest daughter of hermana Perla, the lady

who's in the picture with her. The other little kids are all nephews

of Silvia. We have been preparing Silvia for a while, almost since I

got here, and she had been listening to the missionaries a little bit

beforehand. Her baptismal service was pretty good. She had to get

dunked three times. First for her name, second the elbow, and on the

third she got in! It was the first time that Elder Campos had to

baptize someone more than twice! We felt kinda bad for Silvia but she

was a pretty good sport haha.

We are working with a couple named Doni and Carla. Doni is the son of a

member and his future wife Carla. They are really cool and want to

learn. They are having lots of problems in their relationship but are

trying really hard to apply the things that we are teaching them. They

needed a testimony of the Prophet Thomas Monson, so we read an article

about anger from him in the ensign( the one with the King Benjamin on

the cover, I don't remember the month) As we were reading it Doni's face

changed. He became very serious and was listening very intently. We

finished reading and he said that his words gave him goosebumps. we

were reading it taking turns reading a column, but when it got to

Carla she asked if she could keep reading it. She almost read the whole talk.

They both, after reading it said we know that he is a Prophet of God.

I have a much stronger testimony of the power of the words of the

prophet. His words have helped three of our investigators have a

testimony.

We now have nine people with a baptismal date for March and April.

Braulio, Claudia, Nancy Max, Yamaira, Luis, Alejandro, Cristina, and

Jose Maria (Jose Maria is one name. They do it for Mary and Joseph.

If you're a guy it's Joseph Mary and if your a girl the other way around.

culture fact of the day) Please pray for all of them. They are awesome

people. All of them have their specific problems and challenges but

the lord is helping them. Pray for Braulio he needs your help to be

able to make it to his date. He comes to church, pays his tithing but

doesn't feel sure about getting baptized. Pray for him to have the

courage to just do it. He knows it's true.

I love you family thanks for all of your prayers! I love you so much

and pray for you all. Be safe and keep working hard!

Love Elder B

Mom,

I have received my trunkie letter. It's a letter that says when I'm

going home and asks me for specific info. I'm coming home the 3rd of

August. I'm not sure if I'm going to extend or not but I'm leaning

towards the no. I need to know these things

The number for Pres Muirhead, the airport where I'm gonna land.

Thanks mom if you could get that stuff for me for next week that would

be great thanks.

Have you talked to Jess? And I think that I'm going to want to go

to BYU but in 2012. I need to go home and work my tailfeathers off...

I have found some way cool buddies here in the mish we wanna be

roommates. Well mom I sure do love you. Hows dad? I sure do
miss you guys a lot but I'm working hard and doing my

best. Thanks mom!

February 14, 2011

¡Hola mamà y familia!

Mamà està hablando español jaja. Mom your speaking Spanish! Spanish is

really fun, I like it a lot. I'm gonna have to look for a job where I can

use it! Tooty won! Awesome! Sorry I can't be there to watch! I

have a couple of appointments that day;) but Il'l be rooting for you!

And that's awesome news for Frank and the Mailes! D-line coach for the Aggies!
I know he was working hard to find something. That's awesome that
he is on the staff officially now.

I hope that everything goes well for Lindsey and Austin. Sounds like

the economy is doing rough... I see the dollar dropping all the

time... When I got here it was above 3 soles to the dollar and now its

around 2.70.

My comp and I are working our little missionary tails off! We made it

through changes and neither one of us is going. That means that I'm

going to kill him! That's missionary terms for being with a missionary

until the end. This is his last change in the mish. He's going home the

29th of March. We will all miss him cause he's the bomb. There is

still lots of work to do until the end! We have 4 people with a date

for March. They are Braulio, Claudia, Nancy and Max. Please pray for

them! They need your help. Braulio especially needs your prayers! He's

an eternal investigator. That's when they have been listening to the

missionaries for years and years and they don't get baptized. He pays

tithing and goes to church everyweek but hasn't got wet yet... But he

has a date for the 5th. Pray for him please! Your prayers will help

him.

This week we found a ton of new investigators! Two or three families!

In total we had 16 new investigators! Awesome! The Lord has blessed us

so much! We have a baptism this week of a girl named Silvia. She is

the daughter of a recent convert. It's been kind of a rough journey

with her because she is so reserved. It always looks like she isn't

paying attention or just doesn't care what it is that we are saying but

then we ask her and she knows everything. She actually recieved her

testimony in a really cool way. My companion gave her a Liahona from

the April conference with the talk about gratitude from President Monson.

She said that she read it and felt the need to be more grateful. She

just looks happier now. As she was reading it she said that she felt

like his words shook her. She's ready and will be baptized on Saturday.

We also found a lady named Nancy. She has had a very hard life. When she

had five children from the ages of 9 to four months her husband left

her and never came back. She also lost her daughter to suicide last

year. She has had a very hard life and an even harder last few months,

but we are going to help her. She's gonna make it to happiness.

I love you family so much!

Love elder B