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...

  Hey guys now that I actually have enough time to do this I'm going to be doing a little bit of this and some videos as well. But I just wanna say thanks to all the people who have been so patient about getting only a little bit of information each time I sent an email. So sorry for that but now I am going to be a little better at that.  I want to start with my experience in the MTC in Peru. I learned some really hard lessons there. While in the MTC I learned that being obedient isn't seeing how much you can get away with. Its putting forth your trust in our Heavenly Father and saying, "I may not completely understand why this is the way things are, but I love you enough, and trust you enough, to do these things you have asked me." So I'm gonna talk more of what what i learned in the video just because I genuinely think it was such a powerful and life changing experience for me understanding FAITH & OBEDIENCE. So for those who just want the updates we will co...

 

It was great to hear from Marcus that he traveled safely from the Lima Peru MTC to his his mission in Trujillo. It was followed by an email from his mission president: Dear  Elder Hill  Family, Greetings from the  Peru Trujillo North Mission ! We are so grateful for your support in preparing and sending  Elder Hill to serve in this sacred work of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We feel honored to welcome  Elder Hill, into the mission family.   We know they have a desire to serve their Savior. We are confident that they will be a powerful instrument in the Lord’s hands as we labor together in the Gathering of Israel. As missionaries here in the Peru Trujillo North Mission, we are united in purpose — to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. We look forward to working closely with your mi...