4-23-07

Hey thanks for your letter, how are mom and Stephanie? Make sure that you are not still sending letters to the CCM. Well I’m in a new area, my comp and I were out teaching and when we came back for lunch the pensinista said that there was an emergency transfer and I was being transferred. I’m not sure exactly why, but it had to do with safety and having white boys in that area.

Before I left that area our zone had interviews with President Morris. He told me to make sure that you guys were writing and that it’s important that we save these letters because they will act as a journal. My new area is all up hill, it is a little nicer than my last area. It’s more of a city and our apartment is not great but better than Ventanilla. My butt is killing me because it is like walking up and down Shadow Mountain 10 times a day. I’m so tired and frustrated at times. But President Morris told me that sometimes it feels like we are going backwards but really our success comes in huge steps. The mornings are really hard for me but the day gets better. My comp and I have two areas Vista Alugre and Libertadores.

On Saturday we had a baptism, well it was a baptism for my comp because Saturday was my first day and I didn’t know the people. Someone in the ward had filled the font, but the water was nasty so we drained it and cleaned it. We go to two wards on Sundays and the ward in Libertadores has a brand new chapel. It is amazing and it’s really nice. In my last area we had three baptisms planed for this month, but I left, oh well its ok.

I hope you got my letter for grandma and grandpa’s anniversary party in time. How was their party? Sometimes I feel like I don't know English or Spanish. I am so proud of Stephanie and everything that she is doing the first goal wow! We don’t live with the pensin. In this area we have to walk down the mountain to eat. Sorry I can’t send photos by email, but I can receive them from everyone. It’s ok to give this email to people, well people you choose like friends and family. I would love to see a lot of photos of you guys and what is going on. Write as many times as you want during the week. I have to go. I love you so much and talk to you soon.

Elder Little

03-08-07
Hello, how is everything going? Everything is good here. I got to go to the Lima Peru temple today with my district. The session was in English. The temple is only like ten minutes from the CCM. Not a lot has happened here; I wake up, eat and go to class. We teach everyday in Spanish with the Latino’s. I‘ve learned so much in the past week. One of the teachers that I have at night looks like Carlton from “Fresh Prince” except Peruvian. It is a nice place here. The CCM is small and it does have a nice soccer field that we play on everyday for P.E. The CCM is kind of back up against the mountains. There is a big wall that goes all the way around it, with a guard tower in the front.

03-11-07
I think that it is better when I write on Sunday. I was having a tough day on Thursday. Yesterday we got to go to my mission to do some proselyting. Well I think it was a part of my mission. It was about 2 hours away and we all traveled by bus. I was so excited because once we got out of the city, we traveled on the road right above the coast for about 30 minutes. The road was right on the cliffs that go straight down to the beach. Well not really cliffs more like sand dunes that go straight down. I saw a guy (American) walking on the side of the road with a surf board. It reminded me of Jeff and he looked like Jeff. When we got to the city it was crazy. People and dogs everywhere, herds of cars trying to go through alleys. A lot of the people drive a motor-taxi which is a motorcycle with a little carriage on the back. We started at the church which was on a back alley. I had a Latino comp and one of the ward members came with us because we were visiting less active members. The first house we went to the people we needed to teach did not live there anymore. We went and started contacting people. I would just bear my testimony and talk about Heavenly Father. My comp would help me when I got stuck. The best part of the day was teaching two less active members in their homes. This was in the afternoon and a member of the bishopric was with us. We taught them the first lesson and talked about keeping the commandments and they committed to come back to church. I could not understand most of what they were saying, but I could tell that they were truly genuine. I got your letter Thursday. I’m glad you got to talk to President Cryak. I’m glad that “Dear Elder” works well. I’m starting to adjust, but I don’t know about fluent in Spanish. I had the opportunity to speak today in sacrament meeting. I had prepared most of my talk, but I needed more. A few minutes before the meeting, the spirit prompted me to what I needed to say. The spirit helps me so much when I speak Spanish. I watched a talk from Elder Uchtdorf for district meeting. He gave the talk about 2 months ago at the MTC in Provo. He talked about accepting your challenges and the situations you are faced with and just knowing that the Lord will bless you and that it is part of his plan for you. Also about becoming a great missionary and converting yourself. I hope that everything is going well for you and that everyone is happy. Oh don’t worry about sending me my blessing, I found mine in one of my notebooks, I hid it.

I love you, talk to you soon,
Elder Little