Hey family,

Thanks for the Pictures. This week was good; we got to go to the Stadium in downtown Lima to pack semis with food, water and clothes for the earthquake victims. It was just our zone; we made lines and just started filling the trucks. We filled two trucks and a big semi with sugar, rice and milk too. It was so fun just to go out and give service and use my arms, it was tiring but I felt revitalized after. Afterwards we went to a little restaurant and had lunch.

That night when we got back we went to an appointment. I was teaching about baptism and had asked if she had any questions. She asked me how I felt after my baptism. The spirit really hit me and I shared with her what Dad told me after I was baptized, while we were changing. He said that right now I was perfect and cleansed from my sins. It is so true that you treasure the things of God up in your mind and he will give them to you in the very hour that you need them.

Saturday was really good too; I carried this solid wooden door up a mountain for a member family. We are teaching her son who is not baptized. We were on our way to teach him and his mom stopped us and asked for our help. I put the door on my back and started up the mountain and it was steep. The member we had with us was kind of holding the back. It was a cool experience.

Also, you can tell Kirk that Punks are not dead in Peru. I passed this guy a week ago that had a jacket on and on the back it said "Punks not Dead".

I love you so much

Les Amo Elder Little

My week was good I’m back in Lima the city. It’s about ten minutes outside of my old area Libertadores. It is really cold, I am freezing most of the time but it should warm up in a month.

My new house is rad, our room is nice. The family reminds me of a young George Lopez family they have one son. He reminds me of a kid from a movie, he is really nice. They have giant pictures of him all over the house, if that tells you anything.

The food is so good they have a maid that cooks chicken, potatoes, white rice and homemade hot sauce. We had pizza the other night and chicken because some nights she doesn’t cook, so she just buys our food from a restaurant. I was so happy to eat cereal with milk the other morning. No, I did not get my package, hopefully tomorrow in zone meeting.

I am so happy to read about your new calling, you are going to be amazing. You are always so dedicated to your callings. I am thinking about when I used to watch you prepare so diligently for your activity days girls.

Until next week,
Love you all.

Hey I really enjoyed your letter it was perfect.

A barbecue buffet sounds so good you would laugh if you could see the stuff I’m eating here, but I eat it because I’m so hungry. Since it was father’s day the husband of our pension was home and he barbequed chicken and some kind of other meat it was good but not filling.

This past week was ok for p-day we went to some more runes that over looked the beach and then we went back and just relaxed in our zone leader’s house. The week was ok I spoke in sacrament meeting and taught the lesson in Sunday school for the young men young women it is not that big of a deal because their is only ten of them and I showed a video. I still get really frustrated when I can’t say or speak exactly the way I want to. But I know that the spirit helps me so much with the language when I’m sitting in front of investigators.

This past Friday was really nice I did a comp change with my zone leader in his area. He’s from Idaho and a good missionary it was so nice to work with a comp that I could trust and learn good things from. He speaks good Spanish and him and I share some of the same ideas about the work. His pension is the best in the whole mission she owns a pizza restaurant. For dinner we ate pizza and hamburgers.

We’ll be going to Lima this week for a zone conference and to say good bye to President Morris. I love you all so much I hope you have a great week.

Love
Elder little

My new area is really cool it is two hours outside of Lima so I am way north. It is really cold and foggy every morning. My area is Pativilca the closest town is Barranca. There is one main highway that links to Lima and the northern cities that goes up through the town.

The beach is not to close but it is kind of a beach town this morning on the way to breakfast I saw a car pass with a bunch of boards on the roof. We eat avocado every morning for breakfast with bread and butter with hot water coco powder and sugar. The other day I was so hungry I bought two dozen rolls and gave four to my comp and ate the rest. I got another needy comp but I like my area and he helps more with my Spanish.

The people are a little crazier out here then in Lima. We are in a branch there were 20 people at church on Sunday. I am learning with my comp that if you have something and they don’t it’s theirs also. The branch president wanted my camera to take pictures of some lady that got a wheel chair from the church and I said look this camera has all my mission pictures on it so I went with him to take the pictures and helped him put them on the computer.

Before I forget give this scripture to Stephanie Alma chapter 37 verses35 37 I found it the other morning and thought it was good just replace son with daughter.

It sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun I love to hear from you every week. I love you and I will talk to you in a week got to go.

Love
Elder Little

Hey family,

That is rad that you guys went to a Padre game. I forgot all about how much fun their games are. It sounds like you guys had and exciting week and school is almost over so I bet you are all excited.

Well this week was good for me to. Well the beginning was hard but it got way better. On Monday for P-day we went to this big park and five other zones in our area came. All the North Americans played american football. It was fun, but one of the workers of the park juked us because we were gringos and made us pay 2 sols each just to rent the field for an hour.

The Lord blessed me so much this week. On Tuesday one of the elders in our zone got called to the offices. So his comp was alone, so he stayed with us for the week and I got to learn a new area because we worked in his area to. It really lightened things up between my companion and me. The week got a lot better, we taught a lot of good people in both areas.

Yesterday was a great blessing for me I spoke in sacrament meeting again and my comp said it was powerful and my pronunciation was really good and after church a lot of the members started giving us references. We are teaching a man who is really progressing and is going to be baptized this weekend we taught him and his girl friend last night the plan of salvation and the spirit really helped me to teach, and then in our last appointment I felt so happy and grateful because it is so nice at times to just be able to teach with the Spirit and let it guide and help me to remember things.

To top it all off I’m being transferred on Wednesday. To Barranca it is about two hours north of here.

Love and talk to you next week. Love you so much!

--- Elder Little

Thank you for telling me all about grandma and grandpa’s party and wish I could give them a big hug right now. I’m glad to hear that grandma and grandpa’s party went well but did you get my letter?

We had a multi-zone meeting this week and there is an Elder Hixson in my mission he doesn’t know Brad and Jeanette though he is from Sandy. He is new like me; well he is on his second change. He is cool and I asked him what he was doing to cope, he said pray. I miss my old area and my old comp. The food is worse here. The plumbing here is really weird they don’t have hot water but they have a circuit breaker switch next to the shower and two wires going into a plastic shower head. I guess the wires are hooked up to two little probes inside the shower head that heat the water as it comes out. The other morning I was showering and my elbow touched the shower head and it shocked me.

In your last letter dad asked for my address to send goodies. Please don’t send a lot but maybe send some power bars and normal food and maybe some food to help keep my strength, also some Pepto-Bismol pills and Tums. Please don’t send a lot!

How is Craig doing? I wrote him two letters before I left the CCM.

The other night I was in a teaching appointment with a family. I was going to start the lesson but my comp started by rattling off something about prophets and then was looking at me to teach. I was frustrated because that is not the way you should teach and my comp really bugs. But I just took a deep breath and started teaching, my frustration left me and I was able to teach by the spirit.

Tell everyone that I love them; oh it is really expensive to send letters here so I might send a pouch of letters later, and will you just mail them to the right people please. Oh please ask questions about anything that you want to know about. I love you all so much and will talk to you soon.

Love Elder Little

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