buenos dias mi familia y mis amigos!!!
Everything is going well here! We went to huanuco on monday for a
conference with president! It was good but we didnt know about it
until saturday!! So our p day is today! Well! Elder Schreiner and i
didnt get transfered! Cerro de pasco!!! Tierra de machos y no de
muchos!!!! Whats good!!! I am actually excited to stay here!! I dont
have to much time which is sad but i will send some photos of me at
the sign in cerro!! So i found out that our area is the highest area!!
in all of peru!!!! Cool huh?
Love yall, and thanks for the pictures!!! And yes mom that was me with
the money! love yall!!!
Hahaha, well this was an interesting week. The first couple of days
were slow, and then it picked up. We found a new investigator named
jon! He is 18 and he doesnt believe in God but says he wants to
believe and have a relationship with him! So thats good!!! It has been
really slow here and we are trying our very best but sometimes I just
feel like Cerro de Pasco is hitting me in the face like a bag of
bricks. It has hailed this whole week... My umbrella has holes in it
now so hopefully I can buy a new one!
Being here in Cerro de Pasco has been nothing but a testimony builder
to me... Yes... it is cold... yes it hails every day... yes we teach
about 3 lessons in total a week.. but something that i have realized
was, that i wasnt gonna be babied here in peru and baptize millions..
that just aint gonna happen. In my interview with president he told me
i was in one of the hardest areas in all of peru and they average 2
baptisms here a year.. That made me feel better that i wasnt just
failing here. But i think i was put here as a test of my faith. Yall
all probably know by now that it really has been a test of my faith.
But i aint gonna let it budge me. As district leader i have been able
to help find the needs of there investigators and really been able to
help them out! And I have seen the Lord bless me with the gift of
tounges as i have no problem speaking spanish, it just came to me
after diligent studying! And i only have 8 months! I know my spanish
isnt perfect however, so for that i am following that advice of my
brothers to study it every day! Ya know its super cold here, but i
feel like i just need to be grateful, because who knows if i will get
sent to la merced where you sweat in your sleep!!!
Soy, the hermanas in my district had a baptism so that was
good! But then right after my companion had to go to the clinic and
get a ingrown toe nail removed.... it was gross... so now he cant walk
much...
i gave a talk on missionary work. it was good. And then me
and my companion and the two zone leaders, (cause we are in the same
ward), sang quartet of called to serve (first verse spanish, second
english). I really enjoyed that. We sang dang good!!! hahaha
Transfers are and i feel like i still have time here in cerro
de pasco, there is some one here that i need to find.. And i will find
them!
I love all my friends and family!!
Con mucho amor y muchos llamas,
Elder Thatcher
got the package!!! heck ya mom!!
Well this week has been super hard. So on wednesday elder Schriener
and i fasted for 24 hours so we can find more people.... not until
friday were we able to find 3 new investigators. I hope this week they
can progress, they are 2 kids that are neighbors and then one of the
kids moms. I am pretty excited for this next week.
So president wasnt able to come do interviews, so i dont know when we
are going to do those. This wednesday i am going to huancayo to go to
a conference for all the district leaders in the mission. So i will
get good food and get to see lots of missionaries cause ive been stuck
in cerro, i will get to see elder lopez as well!! Then we get to play
soccer for 3 hours in a nice field, im excited!!
Well not too much went on, just cold here in cerro de pasco!! Love
yall so much!!
Cerro de pasco -Tierra de machos y no de muchos!!!!-
With love and lots of stinky llamas,
Elder Thatcher
elder larson in water!! haha he didnt see the water,
I'm cold
Well... soo funny story... Elder Schreiner and I were super sick this
week with fevers and were only able to leave our rooms til saturday.
It was terrible. But ya.. we are better now, thanks to the health
secretary helping us out. It has been good though. I feel a ton better
which is good and same with my companion. It was funny, he said how he
never got sick when he was in the jungle and then he gets sent here
and finally got sick. Felt sad, but just about everyone here in Cerro
gets sick at least once.
So our area is getting tough, just about everyone in our area that we
contact says that they were members at one time of there lives. So
almost everyone in our area is less actives, so we will be working a
lot with them this week..
GUESS WHAT!!!! today we are going out to eat at a restaurant and there
is something called lomo fino which is like juicy steak. And there is
this one restaurant that sells it here that we found. Im gonna buy
it!!!! It will be sooooo good, only problem is, its like 50 soles,
which is like 15 dollars i think.
But yeah that is about it..
Til next week.
Elder Thatcher
Well, Elder Walker left me for the jungle, and now my companion is
Elder Schriener from springville Utah. He was elder walkers companion
in the ccm. It is cool! My third gringo companion in a row. It is
crazy. But ya im still here in cerro freezing!!! But i like it here.
It has been hard trying to find new people... But hermana Patricia, my
convert, is sharing the gospel like crazy and giving us references, so
maybe this week when we contact some of them it will be better. It has
been raining alot. We are just entering cold rainy season. My
pensionista is super worried for me cause i am losing weight, i dont
know why that is happening because i eat my food.
Anyways, just still here in Cerro, Elder Kidd left Cerro as well, he
also left for the jungle. Well Love you all.
Elder Thatcher
Bye elder walker and elder Kidd!!
Christmas Day the family was able to Skype together for an hour. It was so great being able to see Logan and hear his voice. He was also able to see his nieces and nephews - including 2 new nephews born while he has been in Peru.
Well this week has been great to see all my family!! It was awesome to
turn it on and see all my nephews and nieces on the screen. Made my
day!! This week has been interesting... Not to much work.. Which is
sad because all of our investigators and basically everyone who has a
brain would leave Cerro de Pasco for the holidays. It didnt even feel
like Christmas here. So ya hardly anyone was here, so we visited
members.... which was a mistake... we ate soooooo much gross food...
Turkey, rice, and potatoes.... and fruit cake... and then this drink
called maka... sooooo gross.... I ate it all day... and the turkey is
boiled and dry.... Im not lying I threw up that night, and so did my
companion... just too much gross food.. The fruit cake is gross... i
ate 8 hugeeee pieces of it.... so gross... ( PLEASEEEE if anyone wants
to send food, go ahead haha) Luckily i didnt have to eat guinea pig,
so thats good...
Me and my companion are going to try to make tacos today, im sure its
going to be a fail, becasue all the ingredients are way off... We have
transfers tomorrow, so we will see what happens with me and Elder
Walker. Elder Kidd, my zone leader is getting transfered out of here
for sure because he has 6 months here ( what a trooper) so ya that is
usually the max you have in an area so we will see.
I loved seeing everyone, i really liked talking spanish with chris,
that was cool!! I will send some pics... Love yall!!!!
With love,
Elder Thatcher
Elder Kidd and I with the llamas!
selfieeeee
apparently this looks like an elephant!
