First before all, Michelle Perry I just got your letter this last tuesday!!!!
Natalie Cameron congrats on your call!!!!!!!!!!!! holy cow im so excited for you!!!
And michelle i havent had time to write back yet, but I am expecting to hear the big news from you, not from my family haha. so DONT FORGET TO WRITE ME! haha Im waiting for that letter about your call!!!
Wow so i have a lot to write haha. This last
transfer has been crazy. I am in a place I never expected to be. I have
been sent to Morope, its a small village about 20 min from Labayeque and
about 40 min from Chiclayo and about 20 min off the coast of Perú!
This area is going to be really
different. Morope is a small fishing-farming village. Everyone owns
animals or Chakra wich pretty much means feilds of crops. There has only
been four missionaries here, and i am the fourth. The people here are
very poor, but still reject us a lot. I guess this is known to be one of
the harder areas of the mission. there hasnt been a baptism here for at
least 5 transfers which is 30 weeks. but just in this last week we have
seen a lot of progress. I cant beleive it my new room is now a 3 story
house haha. (mostly because we live in the church) there is only 4
families in our family group (there is no ward or branch out here) so i
guess i will be giving a talk every sunday for a few months now haha.
We are pretty much the pioneers out here. there isnt
much to work with but we have had progress. I like to joke around that
the lord has sent us to the edge of his vineyard haha.
Our area is actually pretty big because we have our small town morope,
but we are also assigned to all the little casarías in the area. (or
small small villages around us) we got to visit one of them this last
saturday. The village is called Caracucho. HOLY COW i have never seen
anything more beautiful. we have two families out there and one of the
owns one of the most beautiful chakras i have ever seen. and the best
part... its FULL of mango trees haha. Mango has become my favorite fruit
in peru. We will hit mango season in January or Februrary from what I
hear and I will be here for it! :D We have already had a lot of mangos.
So thats my new area, my new companion on the other
hand is just as awesome. His name is Elder Cordero, He is from Chile and
he is my first Latino companion and I am his first Gringo companion. So
he has been helping me a lot with spanish and I have been helping him a
lot with English. He is a really layed back guy. He likes to play
soccer and he has 2 brothers. From the first day we have been laughing.
He is funny guy and its fun to joke around with him. I will probably
only have him as a companion for one transfer, and so im kind of bummed
but its fun for now.
This last week we have been teaching like crazy.
Even though the people in general are rough, we have been really blessed
to be able to find people to teach.
we are teaching a couple
named José y Deisy (yes its spelled like that). And they are awesome. I
think they are going to be the first baptism in Morope! but first we
have to help them get married... we are praying we can do it this month.
the river next to their house has been full lately so we have been
joking around that we need to get them married and baptized before the
river dries haha.
we had an interesting experience with José this
week. we were teaching them one night and after the lesson José asked if
we could help him understand something, and of course we said yes. He
went on to explain that the night before he had a dream about us (the
missionaries) he said that we came to help him finish his house (he
doesnt have a roof and a few walls still, because he needs to earn more
money) and we started digging a trench around his house and at first he
didnt understand why, but then he saw that the river started to overflow
and started distroying all of the other houses but when it got to his
house it didnt pass the trench we dug. he said he took it as a sign to
keep listening to us.
One reason why they love listening to us is because
we stop to talk. they said they can see a difference in the
missionaries. that we dont just stop by to hand out pamplets but really
were here to help.
well its time,
Love you all
Always turn outward, and keep smiling.
Elder Bunker
ps... i think this is the first time a lot of people have seen a gringo. (They all think its so funny i have arm hair haha)
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