July 15th - The last transfer...
I received a phone call from the president last night, and then the
assistants told us who were getting transferred. I was one of them, but then they told me not
to travel to Piura. I had to have my bags ready, but I won’t be leaving Tumbes. In a few hours they`re going to call me again
and let me know where to go tomorrow, and who my new companion/area is going to
be. That makes goodbyes a lot easier knowing that I can come back the last
weekend of my mission to see them one last time.
On Wednesday I signed my Peruvian visa release declaring
that I’m leaving the country on August 27th. That was a trunky moment. On Friday we had a ward mission night with
Karaoke. Me and my comp sang a popular
song here and everyone had a laugh. We then said our goodbyes to Sister Cruz who
was ending her mission. She`s from El Salvador
and has been in the same zone as me for 9 transfers in the mission.
Today for p-day the two of us went up to the border. It is a
pretty popular place here because Peru and Ecuador have a peace agreement. I really just wanted to go for the picture of
Ecuador (don’t worry we didn’t go across).
July 22
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I got transferred to the other zone here in Tumbes (Zone
Tumbes instead of Zone Puyango). My area
is called Buenos Aires and is going to be a great place to end my mission with
lots of work to do. My companion is
named Elder Caño from Guatemala. He´s
got just 7 months out on the mission. He is a great missionary though and he
and his last companion had a lot of success.
They just happened to find a
handful of people that want to get baptized so when I got here they already had
3 investigators with a baptismal date. There
are four elders in the ward and we all live together. It´s actually one of the
only rooms in the mission that allows four elders to live together. We live in a 3 story fun house with the
kitchen on the first level, two elders on the second floor, and we´re on the
third floor. The house belongs to the bishop but he rents it out to the missionaries
and chooses to live in a tin roofed house with his family just around the
corner. His two sons live on the fourth level.
Today we went to Puerto Pizarro. It was my third time being
there but this time we went with the whole zone. Elder Smith, a good friend of my from Lopez
Albujar who also studied at BYU Idaho, just got up here this transfer and is the
new zone leader in the Zone Tumbes. It´s going to be a very fun transfer.
I’m excited to get back but excited for the last project
that God has given me here in the mission. I am so certain that the church is true. It is
impossible for this to not be Christ´s gospel that he wants all of us to enjoy.
Without a doubt. It is all amazing.
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