Christmas Skype

I'm trying to attach the first 5 minutes of our skype phone call just so you can see how great he looks and some of the things he talks about.  I will have it all figured out for Mothers' day and should be able to record his whole call!

Enjoy!

First Baptism.

Hey everybody!!!

 So this week was pretty great!! i got to go to the temple and do a session in spanish!!! it was a little difficult but it was awesome!!! Then we got to go to the market and look around for a bunch of stuff the markets are pretty cool! as far as investigators, we have a baptism this Saturday of two young  boys named Anthony and Leonardo! they are so awesome! their testimonies are 10 times stronger than mine ever was when i was 11 or 14 they are legit! Also at the temple like one block away is a subway!!!!! needless to say i ate fresh!!! it was great! not exactly american but the closest that i could get!  so excited for Christmas coming up! even though i don't really get to do anything, the 25th for us is going to be a normal day of preaching the gospel, but if i look on the bright side im almost kinda like santa because im bringing gifts to my investigator, and this gift is the greatest gift of all, the gift of the gospel!!!! Thank you everybody for all you love and support  i really appreciate it! hope you all have a great week!!!!

Letter for Mom

Heya Mom!!

 My week was pretty great! We had pday on Friday and we got to go to the temple and do a session!! it was a little difficult in spanish but i understood probably 85% of it all so that's good! then we went to this store that is in front of the temple and bought some stuff, we don't get to go often so i got what i needed like cover for my book of mormon and a backpack for pday and stuff. as far as appointments and teaching, this week was a little rough, we didn't find anyone new and didn't have very many lessons. but that's okay because we are demonstrating our obedience and our diligence and i know that the lord will bless us! For Christmas our zone is having a party on the 22nd where were doing a white elephant dealio and were watching a movie, For us Christmas day is a normal day like any other day. we get up get ready and preach the gospel. woo hoo! haha but i do get to skype home on Christmas! ill just be using a computer of one of the members in our ward. i don't know what time yet but ill figure it out with my companion and ill let you know in next weeks email! also i get to call on the 22nd for like 2 minutes just to set up the time and what not so well know for sure by then! thank you for everything you're so awesome!!! Im having so much fun down here its awesome!! as far as music the easiest thing is for me to just download songs and stuff from lds.org or other church websites, our mission president says we cant have anything like piano guys or david archuletta because although they're members. they're in it for the money and he just says its better to avoid it altogether, but i would greatly appreciate if i could get the inside out acapella and any other cool groups that you know of that pretty much just do hymns. Awe man shucks to hear about football but that's okay!! wish coltin the best of luck!! 

With our ward the missionaries are in charge of a lot, pretty much we always have to make sure that church starts on time and that people are reverent, its a lot different down here. usually we show up during mutual on Tuesdays to help out the bishop with things he needs but that's about the extent of things we do with the ward other than the ward leaders. we have to constantly teach them and help them because the best way to find new people is through the members of the church and that's hard because they don't understand that very well that they need to help us. tracting does practically nothing it just shows diligence. references through ward members is the best form to find people. its a little tough but im confident that we can do it.

Sounds like everything's going good in burley! cant wait to call you guys next week!" im so excited!!!

Letter week of 12/8

This is his letter he wrote to his friends:

wow its december already i cant believe how fast the time has flown by!! it doesnt feel at all like december because is summer down here and its like 90 degrees every day!! but im having tons of fun! i love it down here! its 100% filthy but its awesome!!! ha literally you sweep the floor in your room and then you sweep again 10 seconds later because its already dirty! but im having lots of fun and learning lots! we have 3 investigators with baptismal dates! two are brothers Leonardo y anthony and they are the bomb.com!! they are 11 and 14 years old, and they have such strong testimonies its unreal. they will definetely be strong in the church! and we have marizol, its a great story, we went to her house because we received a reference from a ward member tthat maybe we could teach her sister, we knocked on the door and she answered because her sister wasnt there, and she has so many questions, the first was do you guys believe in baptism? haha shes definetely a chosen person to hear the gospel of the lord, and she is progressing really really fast!  spanish is coming along pretty well! i still cant understand when the people talk really fast, but when we are teaching the lessons i can get most of whats going on, my companion is a big help because hes from mexico and he talks slow and i can understand him and he helps me a lot! this week we are focusing on being exactly obedient. this week when you have time i would encourage you all to read in mosiah chapter 2, it talks about obedience and whats required of us. if were obedient we are entitled to many blessings that will be poured out upon our heads. THis week i get to go to the temple with my zone! its funny because they have been trying for 6 months to get permission to go to the temple on a pday to go through a session and they finally got permission! for me its great because ive been here like a month and i already get to go! the temple is an awesome place!! also a big thing here in peru is the bank in 2010 started an iniciative, every 2 to 3 months the bank is making a new coin with a new image on it, it is a 1 nueve sol (equivelant to about 33 cents) they come out with new ones every few months and they are a big collectors item down here, they will finish making them in 2016 so some of them dont even exist yet, ive started to make a collection its pretty cool! anywho i hope you guys are having a great time! have a great week!!!

This is the letter he wrote to me!  He is getting excited to call home for Christmas! (so am I)

hey momma!

thats awesome!! sounds like your job is going to be great for you! thats awesome! haha i don't really have any problems getting up in the morning which is strange! hows everything going in december? can't believe its december already its crazy! im going to skype on the 25th at whatever time works for you guys, depending on when my companion can too, also i need my username and password for skype so i can log on haha! im going to start writing just a massive group email telling about my week to everyone so i have more time to write you guys about other stuff and what not so ill see how that goes. yeah jaxon told me thats awesome! no i havent seen any llamas and what other package? i got the one with the beef jerky and the peanut butter and stuff but if there was another one i havent got it yet... ill ask my my mission president. the weather has been great here too! no snow either! ha matter of fact its about 80 degrees or hotter every day! i left summer in the states for summer down here! crazy! i actually kinda miss snow and especially snowboarding thats a little hard ha but ill live for two years! the weirdest thing that i have eaten so far is bread with chicken and peaches so not much haha its mostly rice, chicken and potatoes here so not much different from idaho except it has a latin twist to it. its really delicious and im getting fat haha, no but seriously i have a little bit of chubbiness, can you send me (only if its sittin there not being used, if youre using it thats fine use it) but can you send mle the t 25 discs? i have a half hour in the morning when i wake up to workout and thats it so that would be perfect to keep me going! also things that would be good to have that i don't necessarily need but are floss picks, they are so much faster than flossing and you cant buy the down here only dental floss, also maybe some command strips with hooks but ill live without them. and i think i have in the avalanche in the glove box a tiny book of mormon in english, that would be good to have becase when i have free time i don't have my quad with me because it weighs a ton. thanks! this week im focusing on being 100% obedient and trusting everything in the lord because without him we can't do anything. anywho hope you have an absolutely fantastic week this week and have fun everyday! always look for the good in the day! im loving every second out here it really is a neat experience!

Love you lots momma! and i cant wait to skype on christmas!!! love you tons!!!!!!!!!

Information on Peru!

 

Here is the letter to his dad! It had more information than what my letter had this week. :)Also I don't know what to say about his not capitalizing other than I think he is in a hurry? Maybe? It drives me crazy but I love getting to hear from him  so we deal with it!

hey daddio! 

haha yes i am very much enjoying the weather! its warm and awesome! the food is great! turns out peru is the other place famous for potatoes so im happyhaha. every meal consists of arroz, papas, y some kind of meat. with sauces. its a little spicy but im growing to lvoe it. the fruits are so far just oranges, bananas, and apples havent had many opportunities to buy much else cuz we don`t have lots of time. but ill let you know. oh actuallythere is this one that is really really weird, its like an orange, but on the inside is like this stuff its weird its like slimy with little bug kinda things in it, its good but you just have to eat it fast, no there not really bugs haha. i love inka kola its the best! well second best next tomtn dew!  most of our area is close enough we walk! theres lots of hills we have 5 cerros in our area. but we take buses when we need to go anywhere. there are big charter bus type deals and there are like uncle ricks stalker van type buses. imagine one of those with at least 30 people in it. and add to that they my back is touching the roof when i stand up! fun haha! money is holding up okay! today is personal pday so im going to a market to buy some things ineed, and some cool ties and whaqt not with the money that i brought withme. every month the mission gives us money on a card that we use for all the mission stuff so pretty much my money in my account from home is for personal stuff. we are assigned to an area our ward and another ward share a chapel, its kinda small but its okay.

   awesome! keep working with robert i know hell come around the spirit has a way of touching people and changing their lives! the best way to help him out is using the OLAT haha, its orar, leer, asistir a la capilla, y always have the templo in mind. doing that prepares everyone for baptism. things are going pretty swell here. the kinds don`t play with boleros they play with little top spinners like they wind them up on a rope and then you throw it holding on to one end of the rope and the spinne flies off and goes wherever its kinda cool actually. they play regular soccer in dirt fields and they are pretty good haha. but i cant play basketball or soccer in my mission because mission president says no, our mission is like the 2nd most obedient in the whole world its pretty cool actually, a big order to take but tons of blessings to go with it. have my first baptism the 13th of december! that will be awesome and hopefully there are more to come! lvoe ya dad and hope youhave a great week!

 Elder Millward