February, 2014

Picking up New missionaries

The view from our Office

Playing Risk with the Boys

My new best friend. Obispito. he works for the mission and is awesome!

This week was pretty awesome. we had a baptism on Sunday,  that was pretty cool. Hes 20 years old and wants to go on a mission. I'm super excited for him. I left my camera in the room so pics will have to wait till next week.

Monday is our Leadership conference for all the zones in the whole mission so we in the office have been pretty busy. not a whole lot of proselyting has been done... Ii need to figure out a way to be a little bit more effective with my time.

My companion is super obedient and he's helping me be better at the little things that we always mess up as missionaries.

I got my PACKAGE!! Thanks so much for the andes mint cookies. they were glorious. I love the football and the frisbee. we tossed the disc a little around this morning it was awesome.

hows Boyd doing? i haven't heard much from him. i'm sure he's super busy.

I love you guys so much!!!

Dec. 2, 2013

I got super sunburnt!

this dog is huge and his name is Cuki. he follows us everywhere. hes not ours but he follows us and protects us. so cool

Arequipa, Peru

Happy Birthday Elder Haskell

They don't celebrate thanksgiving here and I don't even know what day it is.   Today were having a barbecue as a zone so for sure there will be some sweet pictures next week.

Thanks for the Books and Rubiks cube and cake!! we made the cake at my pensions house and shared it.  Peruvians generally don't eat really sweet food so they were a little put off by the really rich chocolate frosting. So we put half of it on the cake and im eating the other half with a spoon during study time.

I am in the actual city of Arequipa now in the Zamacola Zone are Villa Parai


so (ParadiseVille) Its cool.

I had an awesome birthday!!

I actually did here a little  about the earthquake tsunami thing down there. They are in my prayers. Tell sister Adasme were praying for them.

Thanks for writing me mom!!

We, as a zone had 115 baptism this month!! doing pretty good!!! Love you Mom!!

Elder Haskell

Sept 16

This week was great because it was the first week that I really got to work in my area. the past couple weeks ive been in Lima and away from my new area. we found a house and its pretty nice. It has a kitchen but were not allowed to cook so that sucks. Yeah, we do kind of leave the scary stuff out. Sorry mom but everything is rainbows unicorns and lolipops here. just perfect. My new area is called Chen-Chen. there are no paved roads in Chen Chen. its not even worth it shining my shoes, which are holding up good by the way. almost all the houses are made of estera and the people are pretty humble. we found a couple good people this week and we´re hoping that they can come to church and progress.

Three days ago I completed 7 months in the mission and am now the oldest missionary in the zone.  I love my companion more and more everyday.  We´re best buds.

Make sure you tell the Burtons that I love them. Seth turns 18 in November right? tell him to get on those papers and come join me in Arequipa. Im super stoked that Boyd is going on a mission.

Im glad it rained there. I miss the rain. Alot.


Elder Haskell

Sept. 2

INA IS DONKEY!? 

THATS awesomE!!! Pictures of the prom dress please!! How are the Williams?  I hope everyone is doing okay!! will write a letter and send pictures today! i have a sweet computer because im in Lima doing legal stuff again. give me thirty mins. :)

Well, 

I feel like im going through a rough time in my mission and really not finding a lot of time to work like we should be working, for example in the past three weeks I've had 4 Full days of work without interruption of meetings and traveling. They closed my branch and taken away the largest part of my area, which has been reduced down to two blocks by seven blocks, I can't help my recent convert who i love very much because he lives in the area that they took from me, im just waiting for me to get changed to another area. I don't know i feel super burnt out. My companion is awesome and he helps me a ton. hes ready to be on his own and maybe even train new missionaries. I feel like im waiting for the next thing to happen and its not happening yet. maybe im not giving my part to the lord or failing in something but well see what happens. 

Thanks for keeping me up to date on whats happening at home. I´ll still be in Lima tomorrow and spend all of Wednesday moving to a new room and organizing my new area. so this week is pretty much shot but I hope that we can progress and find someone who will progress in the gospel and have a real desire to repent of their sins. Faith unto repentance is so ridiculously important. maybe I´ll try to teach that better. 

I met an Elder who is from Alaska. He lives two blocks away from Enendorf air force base. pretty cool guy. 

hopefully better news next week.

Elder Haskell