All continues to go well. The ward is super excited because after going through a very sad streak of poor attendance, it finally bumped up to 110 people this Sunday . They only had about 50 to 60 people going before. In these past 3 weeks we´ve really seen the fruits of having 4 missionaries in one ward, two of which being the hardest working sister missionaries in the entire mission. It really is inspiring to see how dedicated sister missionaries can be to the work. Chambeadoras.
On Tuesday the assistants came out to do a work visit with
us. It was cool having Elder Iribar in
the room for two nights and we talked about all the memories we had in Lopez
Albujar when we were just starting the mission. On Wednesday we had interviews with the President
and in the afternoon he went tracting with us.
When we were teaching Henry it
started raining and he just so happens to live in a hilly area without paved
roads. When we left his house it was
raining cats and dogs and we had to hop around the mud downhill and try not to
fall. The president is still quite agile, but Elder Muralles took a funny spill
and was covered in mud. We got back to
the room drenched. I’d say it was quite
the memory with President Rowley. We
will be taking a bus out to Piura for a monthly zone leader council in the
mission home. I’m not looking forward to
6 hours in a cramped bus. Anyways, life
is going well. I enjoy every update that you give me and your words of counsel
are very appreciated. Hope all is well at home. Enjoy the snow.
April 8, 2013
We had a made a nice trip to Piura last Monday. It was
a long 5.5 hour drive in a cramped bus but arrived at the mission office and
had a great time talking with a few of the elders that are working there. One was
Elder Pereyra, my son, and one was Elder
Peralta, my ex comp. We had the zone leaders council on Tuesday and ate Pizza
Hut for lunch (sooooo good) and then traveled back up to Tumbes. The other zone leaders are cool and we see
them a lot. One of them is from the states and is a good friend. You´ll see pictures of us frolicking through
an open field after dropping some missionaries off at the small Tumbes airport yesterday. 
Today we played soccer in a coliseum with the other zone. I have never sweated so much in my life as I
do here. Even though we were out of the
sun for a change it was still super hot.
Love you family. Thanks for the updates on your lives. Hope all is well.
Wow, can you believe it? I’m turning 21. What a shock. But to be
honest, I don’t even feel it. Maybe it´s because I’m in the mission and I can’t
really celebrate, or I am just getting old and birthdays are less exciting now,
but it´ll be like any other day. I’m
sure my pensionista and her daughter are going to smash eggs over my head. We´ll
just wait and see. But thanks to everyone for writing and wishing me a happy
birthday!
This week went well and I’ve got
some news to report... Maria got baptized yesterday! That viejita (oldy) is so
awesome. She has such a warm spirit and funny personality. I was able to
baptize her. When I entered the font I realized that the drains on the walls
were clogged. The water was about 1 inch from the top and still filling. There
was no time to turn off the water or open the drain because we were already in
the water! So we went on with it.... 10 gallons of water went pouring out of
the font, soaking the two witnesses. haha. But it was a pretty service and she
bore a powerful testimony on Christ afterwards. She is my second oldest convert (78) with the
oldest being Eva, 82. There is another girl, Jany, that we have been teaching
that will get baptized this Saturday.
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Today we went downtown and took pictures near the river on a big walkway that they built in 2003, then in a park called ¨Kiss park¨, and then by a cool art piece in the central plaza of Tumbes. It is a pretty beautiful city with lots of stuff to see... considering what I’m used to in other areas.
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