Monday, September 10, 2012
First Baptism
Hey Everyone,
so i have zero time to write today. we went to the mountains today as a zone and took picutures and hiked and got back late. I just need to say peru is only second to the united states when it comes to beauty. grandma was absolutely right about the moutains here. they arent as tall as colorado, but they are just as breathtaking. they shoot strait up out of the ground. soooo beautiful. this is definatley a handpicked mission by heaven for me. I dont think i have seen many other places as beautiful
So biggest news of this week. MY FIRST BAPTISM!! I had one last cambio but this is really my frist. Junior asked me to baptized him. to be breif. it was the best experience of my mission thus far. but the good experiences dont come without a little bit of oposition. to say the least we had a lot of impedimientos to work around. Like for one, the stake president forgot to fill the font haha. so we had to fill it by hand with buckets. Junior was supposed to get baptized at 4:00 but he ended up getting baptized at 6:30. and there were a lot of other things as well like the bishop being sick. the primary having a party in the gym next door with blasting music and other things like that. it turned out great though and the spirit was really strong, I think it is mostly due to the faith of Junior. He is the golden investigator. He wasnt to start FHE with his family this week
We have 5 new investigators. one is named Jamy, he is a handicap 25 year old. dont know if we can baptize him because he is practically a little kid. but he says hi to us everytime we walk by and we have already had a first lesson with his dad. we are hoping we can teach them both soon.
my new companion is named elder larson. he is from arizona near mesa. He is a great missionary, very strict with the rules and so he keeps us both in line. I have to admit it is hard to adjust to every new companion but there is always something great about each one of them. Elder Larson is always sharing his sweets with me (he buys candy all the time haha) . so thats a plus. I have definatly put on weight, but i can still see my ribs so im not chunky... yet.
another neat experience was yesterday. I dont know how much to share because sometimes these experiences are sacred and we shouldnt share all of them. but i think this is ok.
Saturday my companion and i went to go ask the bishop for the keys to the church so we wouldnt get locked inside (that happened earlier this week) and so we could have keyes for the baptism. The bishop was sick and we had given him a blessing the day before but he still seemed out of it.
sorry so short,
Love you all
always turn outward and keep smiling!!
Elder Bunker
so i have zero time to write today. we went to the mountains today as a zone and took picutures and hiked and got back late. I just need to say peru is only second to the united states when it comes to beauty. grandma was absolutely right about the moutains here. they arent as tall as colorado, but they are just as breathtaking. they shoot strait up out of the ground. soooo beautiful. this is definatley a handpicked mission by heaven for me. I dont think i have seen many other places as beautiful
So biggest news of this week. MY FIRST BAPTISM!! I had one last cambio but this is really my frist. Junior asked me to baptized him. to be breif. it was the best experience of my mission thus far. but the good experiences dont come without a little bit of oposition. to say the least we had a lot of impedimientos to work around. Like for one, the stake president forgot to fill the font haha. so we had to fill it by hand with buckets. Junior was supposed to get baptized at 4:00 but he ended up getting baptized at 6:30. and there were a lot of other things as well like the bishop being sick. the primary having a party in the gym next door with blasting music and other things like that. it turned out great though and the spirit was really strong, I think it is mostly due to the faith of Junior. He is the golden investigator. He wasnt to start FHE with his family this week
We have 5 new investigators. one is named Jamy, he is a handicap 25 year old. dont know if we can baptize him because he is practically a little kid. but he says hi to us everytime we walk by and we have already had a first lesson with his dad. we are hoping we can teach them both soon.
my new companion is named elder larson. he is from arizona near mesa. He is a great missionary, very strict with the rules and so he keeps us both in line. I have to admit it is hard to adjust to every new companion but there is always something great about each one of them. Elder Larson is always sharing his sweets with me (he buys candy all the time haha) . so thats a plus. I have definatly put on weight, but i can still see my ribs so im not chunky... yet.
another neat experience was yesterday. I dont know how much to share because sometimes these experiences are sacred and we shouldnt share all of them. but i think this is ok.
Saturday my companion and i went to go ask the bishop for the keys to the church so we wouldnt get locked inside (that happened earlier this week) and so we could have keyes for the baptism. The bishop was sick and we had given him a blessing the day before but he still seemed out of it.
sorry so short,
Love you all
always turn outward and keep smiling!!
Elder Bunker
First Cambio
Hey Everyone,
So alot has happened this last week... A lot. This has been one of the best weeks of my mission. Last P-day we went to the beach to take photos and chat. So much fun.
This week has been really good though because we have been able to work with Junior more. He is the coolest guy. One of the greatest fears and dissappointments as a missionary is when we have the oppertunity to baptize someone and they end up going innactive. Junior, I am confident, will be an active worthy member his whole life. There is a few reasons I say that.
First, we taught the last lesson of the discussions in PMG which for us was tithing. We were confident Junior would commit. We taught him and the lesson seemed to go well and the spirit was there and he understood everything perfectly. So at the end of the lesson we were a little bit suprised when he was hesitant when we asked him to commit to obey the law of tithing after he was baptized. We waited in silence for a while and watched him think, and I thought this is it, this is where we lose our golden investigator, he then looked up and started laughing and he was like just kidding, of course i will! haha chistoso. I didnt know whether to laugh or freak out.... I ended up laughing too. haha funny guy.
The other reason i am so confident is because the other day after church he started asking me how missions work and how one applies to serve and things like that, and how much it costs. What?? I was shocked. Junior is always suprising us. He has really become one of my best freinds here on the mission as well. even though its still hard to say everything i want to he is patient.
Also this week I found out that here in Peru they changed the age for young men to apply for missions. Here they can leave at the age of 18 now!!! Is anything changing in the states?? And no, HT sisters, they havent changed it for the young women, still the same. sorry
This week we also had a fake christmas with Junior and our pensionista Hermano Hernan. I still havent had christmas here so they thought it would be fun to cook-buy christmas food. we had Platano and Flan. Both I love, sooo good. I dont think i would have liked them before the mission though. My sense of taste has been changing a lot i have noticed.
This week we also had a talent show with the sister missionaries ward. We used my idea from heritage tours to do the arms and face to get ready in the morning. We had to shave, brush teeth, put on the misisonary tag, and tie a tie. So much fun. I was the hands so i didnt get too mess y haha but my companion, Elder McAllister got smothered in Shaving Cream. Activities like that just make the mission a blast.
On the way back to the house where we eat dinner though we almost got robbed. I say almost because the moto we took was heaven sent. It was about 9 oclok and we still had to eat dinner so we were pushing it for the 930 curfew and we were riding back via mototaxi. about 4 blocks away our driver yelled back at us and told us to be careful because we were being followed. we looked back and there were 3 other motos following us. Our driver must have met the misisonaries before because he addressed us as elders was kind enough to flip a few u turns and drive a few extra blocks to throw the other motos off our tail.
Heavenly Father really protects his missionaries. (although I dont think we will be taking moto at night anymore)
This week we had intercambios as well. I was working with a gringo named Elder Driggs. He is a fun guy. We did a lot of contacting that day because alll our visits fell through (which was really hard because i was really sick) but we ran into a Nun at one of the doors we knocked on. The cutest lady i have ever seen, she is 87 years old and has been a nun for 72 years. Sweetest oldlady, she turned us away though. (how in the world do you convert a 72 year nun?)
This week was hard too. Like i said i was sick, I throughup and had diarreha for a few days but im over it now. In fact I think I feel better now than i did before i was sick. I guess its just all apart of adjusting to the food.
The hardest part of this week though was last night. we had a misisonary dinner with all the missionaires in our district and it was really fun. we enjoyed eachothers company and did our weekly reports. After however, we received our transfers. My trainer is leaving. I cant beleive it. This is going to be one of the hardest weeks of the mission because I have to direct the area and teach my new companion the area as well, and my new companion will be my second trainer. I feel like i have just gotten used to working with elder mcallister and we are really efficent now. our numbers have been great, and we have been really blessed.
sometimes its hard to understand, but I feel confident this is what needs to happen.
The Lord is in this work, because it is His work.
Sorry if this is a Bit short.
Love you all
The church is true tell your freinds!
Always turn outward, and keep smiling.
remember humility is not thinking less of ourselves but less about ourselves
Elder Bunker
So alot has happened this last week... A lot. This has been one of the best weeks of my mission. Last P-day we went to the beach to take photos and chat. So much fun.
This week has been really good though because we have been able to work with Junior more. He is the coolest guy. One of the greatest fears and dissappointments as a missionary is when we have the oppertunity to baptize someone and they end up going innactive. Junior, I am confident, will be an active worthy member his whole life. There is a few reasons I say that.
First, we taught the last lesson of the discussions in PMG which for us was tithing. We were confident Junior would commit. We taught him and the lesson seemed to go well and the spirit was there and he understood everything perfectly. So at the end of the lesson we were a little bit suprised when he was hesitant when we asked him to commit to obey the law of tithing after he was baptized. We waited in silence for a while and watched him think, and I thought this is it, this is where we lose our golden investigator, he then looked up and started laughing and he was like just kidding, of course i will! haha chistoso. I didnt know whether to laugh or freak out.... I ended up laughing too. haha funny guy.
The other reason i am so confident is because the other day after church he started asking me how missions work and how one applies to serve and things like that, and how much it costs. What?? I was shocked. Junior is always suprising us. He has really become one of my best freinds here on the mission as well. even though its still hard to say everything i want to he is patient.
Also this week I found out that here in Peru they changed the age for young men to apply for missions. Here they can leave at the age of 18 now!!! Is anything changing in the states?? And no, HT sisters, they havent changed it for the young women, still the same. sorry
This week we also had a fake christmas with Junior and our pensionista Hermano Hernan. I still havent had christmas here so they thought it would be fun to cook-buy christmas food. we had Platano and Flan. Both I love, sooo good. I dont think i would have liked them before the mission though. My sense of taste has been changing a lot i have noticed.
This week we also had a talent show with the sister missionaries ward. We used my idea from heritage tours to do the arms and face to get ready in the morning. We had to shave, brush teeth, put on the misisonary tag, and tie a tie. So much fun. I was the hands so i didnt get too mess y haha but my companion, Elder McAllister got smothered in Shaving Cream. Activities like that just make the mission a blast.
On the way back to the house where we eat dinner though we almost got robbed. I say almost because the moto we took was heaven sent. It was about 9 oclok and we still had to eat dinner so we were pushing it for the 930 curfew and we were riding back via mototaxi. about 4 blocks away our driver yelled back at us and told us to be careful because we were being followed. we looked back and there were 3 other motos following us. Our driver must have met the misisonaries before because he addressed us as elders was kind enough to flip a few u turns and drive a few extra blocks to throw the other motos off our tail.
Heavenly Father really protects his missionaries. (although I dont think we will be taking moto at night anymore)
This week we had intercambios as well. I was working with a gringo named Elder Driggs. He is a fun guy. We did a lot of contacting that day because alll our visits fell through (which was really hard because i was really sick) but we ran into a Nun at one of the doors we knocked on. The cutest lady i have ever seen, she is 87 years old and has been a nun for 72 years. Sweetest oldlady, she turned us away though. (how in the world do you convert a 72 year nun?)
This week was hard too. Like i said i was sick, I throughup and had diarreha for a few days but im over it now. In fact I think I feel better now than i did before i was sick. I guess its just all apart of adjusting to the food.
The hardest part of this week though was last night. we had a misisonary dinner with all the missionaires in our district and it was really fun. we enjoyed eachothers company and did our weekly reports. After however, we received our transfers. My trainer is leaving. I cant beleive it. This is going to be one of the hardest weeks of the mission because I have to direct the area and teach my new companion the area as well, and my new companion will be my second trainer. I feel like i have just gotten used to working with elder mcallister and we are really efficent now. our numbers have been great, and we have been really blessed.
sometimes its hard to understand, but I feel confident this is what needs to happen.
The Lord is in this work, because it is His work.
Sorry if this is a Bit short.
Love you all
The church is true tell your freinds!
Always turn outward, and keep smiling.
remember humility is not thinking less of ourselves but less about ourselves
Elder Bunker
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