Marcus's Mission

The work is moving along here, now we have a baptism date and she is just the coolest. We're hoping she can move her baptism sooner to this week . This week we have transfers and I swear if we get moved out before we baptize her I will flip out. It has taken so much work to get this place running again...  Well Tuesday started off a little bummy because that was the day that we were supposed to receive our carnets and all the other boys in my group did. BUT I DIDN'T. Let me help you picture what this place is like. It looks just like a dmv, with letters and numbers saying who goes next. Every single number is just randomized and it looks like a mess. I would argue that this place, called migrations, is worse than the DMV . The sad part was, I wasted my time in that office waiting like everyone else but did not get my brownie card . next week. What made up for it though was spending time with the boys that I had gotten close with in the MTC. So I guess it wasn't all too bad ...

  Yeah I'll get to the title eventually. I'm gonna be quick with this one but this week was filled with ups and downs.  I'll start with the downs We started our week finding 2 people, then could not find anyone else until Saturday night where we found 1... Then the highs Me and Nicoll had lots of bonding time together as father and son (he's my trainer). That has truly been a blessing, having him makes this transfer feel like it flew by.  We also extended 3 baptism dates this week all of them are so resdy but only 1 accepted. To be fair the one that accepted had been to church for nearly 5 or 6 months and the only thing that was keeping her from getting baptized is gone so thats amazing. One of the two that didn't accept went to church with us. She previously had a date but now wants to be more prepared. The last one makes sense because she really doesn't know much about God or Religion so we'll keep teaching them. Mr Money banks gets his own paragraph So in...

  Whats up guys!! Hope everyone is having a great week this week because I feel like last week just ended. We had a busy week so maybe thats why it felt so fast. We've turned into robots. Finding people has become a rhythm. We just visit all the parks around here because 1 they are beautiful, and 2 it is where people go when they have extra time. As with the title we used the Spanish phrase at the top a lot. Which means, we don't want to take more of your time, which was just for us to stop talking with them to find some more people. The work is hard out here, especially when people love to talk about God and Jesus but never want to accept what we've asked of them. But at least we're spreading the gospel out here!! SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: For my spiritual thought today I want to talk a little about why we as members of the church of Jesus Christ love not only the joy our gospel brings but what Jesucristo does for every one of us. So it begins. Why do members of the church wa...

   Holy frijoles its crazy out here in Perú. We've already run into nut jobs and crazy catholic grandmas with 3 weeks in the field. I honestly don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just a magnet for weird people. But all in all we've had just a great time here teaching these people. I missed an email so I'll kinda share some highlights and lowlights of the past two weeks!      After arriving in Perú we made it to our apartment, which is so small. The building is nice, only cramped. Only one bathroom a bunk bed and a huge closet for some reason...      My area is called California, which is the bougiest part of all Trujillo for Elders. The next bougie spot is California also but for the sisters. What sucks about being in a nice area is the people are "way to busy to stop and listen" to us for 5 min. At least the food here is so amazing!!      Out here in Perú we have whats called a pension who does the cooking and we do the eating. Our pe...