Marcus's Mission

Hello guys and welcome back to another weekly message home. I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays and taking advantage of all this free time... So I think I need to explain the title a little more (A Branch Well Run) because it was such an interesting morning. So it all begins with our morning yesterday for Sunday. Getting ready we were a little slow and that meant a little late to church. Only about 5 min late, but as we arrived turns out they hadn't even started. This is because the President of the Branch was not in town, in fact he was 5 hrs away and didn't tell anyone. And so was his second counselor. So we planned the whole church as it was running and we led. What a fun interesting way to start Sunday right?? Other than that not much happened, oh wait except for Christmas... but I guess we didn't do much for that either other than eat and eat and eat. SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: Sorry gonna keep it short and simple. Faith is such a huge deal out here for both the people an...

Hey guys what a good day it is today with CHRISTMAS ONLY 3 DAYS AWAY🎄🎅🎁✨️ EMAIL ME TOPIC: Yo for this week tell me what your plans are for Christmas and what the heck your gonna do.  We're going to just eat and eat and eat. Its like Peruvians favorite thing to do here... Ok ok so this week has been a week like no other. The Spanish daily, all day, is frying my brain but we're making it through. Too many times I've hit my comp with the "just nod and say yeah" like I know what's going on... For that reason Time has flown by and I cannot believe that it is another p-day. Wooweee. ✨️wfw✨️ My weekly weird food (this goes out to my dad for always making us eat weird food as kids🥙🦑🍥) I'd say was eating cow tongue 🐮👅😛. Yes don't worry I'll show a picture🫡. But that is what I would say is my weird food of the week(✨️wfw✨️) On Wednesdays we had exchanges but only for half the day and I got to leave my area to go with the other companion who's n...

What is up peeps!!! Another week has gone by and we are another week closer to Christmas! A little quick update in case none of you were counting there is t-minus 10 days left till Christmas. Wow where has the time gone... Ok ok lets start the email so this past week we had the lovely opportunity of transfers. And would you believe it or not I left my area California Trujillo and officially out of training. Shout out to you papasito Nicoll!!! So Wednesday I was still in California saying goodbye to all the great friends I made there which was lowkey kinda sad  Nicoll and I thought that I was going to be staying and him leaving but we've come yo find out that our president is quite a funny guy...  So Thursday I got to find out what area I'm going to and who my companion will be. When it was my turn to find out I got called up and told my area is Huamachuco!! Huamachuco is so far away that when transfers roll around the elders who are staying in huamachuco don't come down so ...

Wow guys I cannot believe that my training is coming to an end here... Next week I get moved to the big boy missionary grounds so looking forward to what lies ahead December has begun I hope everyone is taking advantage of celebrating Christmas. This week has been a pretty interesting week as we basically dropped all our friends from the transfer as none of them wanted to keep our promises. So all week we set out to find, and find, and find. Sadly we couldn't manage to hang onto anyone yet but we are doing our best out here. Everyone is in too much of a Christmas spirit or something So now its time for story time... All that happened happened yesterday. Buckle up because it gets pretty funky. Our day started off with a visit from the wife of the landlord. We had been playing with this little Peruvian trumpos (toy tops) and apparently had been making all the neighbors mad with how loud they were banging on the ground...  So we've been more careful about making noise here because...