i as well was waiting for your email and it never came and i had a feeling
it didn't get sent or there was a problem when it got sent but yeah its okay now!
i got that sweet video of that game winning field goal! that was awesome and how
the whole team stormed the field. i bet they were pumped! and are you serious
that red mountain lost to skyline? wow. at least Kyle was playing good. and are
you kidding me? two mid field goals from josh? such a stud! and if he starts
snowboarding this year send me some videos and photos! he is going to tear it up
real quickly! haha...
here in the Peru they call diarrhea la bicleta which means the bicycle! it
is just about a weekly thing for me now. i at least have diarrhea once a week.
but wow it go so bad that you had to go to the hospital? what do you think was
the food that got you guys all sick? that is crazy! are you better now at least?
its crazy in each area that i have been, i always get really sick and i have
what is called the double dragon where i am coming out both ends... haha... its
not fun. wow it got that bad that you lost half your muscles? well now you know
how i feel! haha... time to start over when i get home! haha.. but i am doing
better dad thats for sure... this week we worked harder than our other weeks. i
really tried to pick up my two companions on my back and help lift their hopes
and everything. do you remember that family i talked to you about last week?
well, we fasted that they would be able to come to church, and i don't know how
but when we went to pick up the family for church, they were all able to go. we
had fears that the father would be working and not be able to but they all went
to church. it was great to see the fruits of our hard work getting them to
church. they loved it as well. many of the members took the time to get to
know them and one lady gave them a liahona and they started reading it in the
church. brother araujo which is the fathers name opened it up to the page where
it says why its so important to read the book of mormon and his wife was like
yeah we need to do a better job! haha... i am really excited about this family.
their daughters also participated in the practice for the choir because this next
week we have the stake conference and they are going to sing in it i think and
they aren't even members yet! hahaha... we are going to work really hard on this
family... they made me really excited again and will be baptized the 22 of
November. we also have a muchacho who is 29 years old that we are trying to
help change his life for the better and its been a trial... i can see my old
self in him. how he wants to change but needs someone to help him. hopefully i
can get to his heart and have a member there as well with us along the way to
help him change. my companion who is named elder huarsaya is a pretty cool cat.
he is laid back like me but willing to go out and work and baptize. elder
gomez is like that song called time bomb because if you cut the red chord he
like freaks out. he has like created his own little island and i try to reach
out. he doesn't really and so i don't know. im trying to work with him. they
are both from Peru. it was quite cool. in our mission if we see a family, we
have to stop what we are doing and go talk to them. we were walking in the
street Saturday and i was talking to huarsaya because we had done divisions and
at the last minute i looked up and saw this family. i could have startled them
but we started talking. at the end we walked with them all the way to their
house and in the end they invited us in to share the message. it was awesome
because they were a married family. a lot of padres are just living together and
never marry... which means they cant get baptized unless they get married if
they have a couple. but they were married and we taught them an awesome lesson
1. they said that they would read and pray to find out if its true or not. the
best thing is that they understood it very well. on Friday we will find out
more. its crazy...i feel really blessed because at least once a week we find a
family that is married while the rest struggle. i must got the sense and eye
for where the married people live. hahahaha... but everything is improving with
the companions... i feel like in a couple of weeks i am out of Ventanilla
because i will complete 6 months here really soon.
how was Halloween?? the next Halloween i will be back in the states! how
crazy is that? we carved pumpkins and ate a bunch of candy! i carved the letters
Peru in it... i will send some photos! what did you dress up as? and the rest
of the family and the neighbors?
as was i, i was quite shocked to hear it as well. i got a letter from her
telling me that she had thought and prayed about what she wanted to do with her
life and she felt like she needed to move to Utah and out of Arizona and get a
change of scenery and be away and grow spiritual and physically. i never told
her to do it, it was her own personal decisions... she knows very well the
situation. i told her that i would love to see her when i get home and that is
it. i know mom worries. i also feel that she still hasn't forgiven her as well.
she really is a different person. I'm not saying I'm going to spend my life with
her because i dont know and right now that is not what interests me. right now
the people of Peru do. I'm just putting the things in the hands of the lord
because in the end, the lord will help me find the one i am supposed to be with
and who knows, it could be her or it couldn't be. i have learned in the mission
to follow answers and revelation and if i don't, the lord loses his trust in me,
just as a father loses trust in his son if he doesn't obey. but this is how i
feel about it. and that is what i have told her and other people and that is how
its going to be... i just want mom to not see her how she was but now who she
has become. that has a great deal to do with the atonement and how we should
learn to forgive and forget. and i will tell mom that i can go surfing here
another time and get released when i get home. its better you are right.
surfing can wait. how was the dinner at robs house? i miss american food...
especially some good Cessys in the morning! yum! anyways fatha! sorry for the
bad week... makes me sad i couldn't help out. but i love you dearly! thanks for
always being my best friend and someone that i can trust so deeply in now. miss
you mom and dad!
LOVE YOUR SON,
elder macdonald
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