K, First. Grandma and mom. Thanks for the packages. Mom, i got package number 5 today. The one with the hello kitty card from molly haha. Made me a little sad at first. I hope she remembers me when i get home. And Grandma Schellenberg, I died laughing when i got your letter. Im so happy for you and grandpa that you got to come back to peru to visit. I hope i get that chance in the future. I know what you mean about peru becoming a home. its going to be weird to leave. I will be happy to see my family again but it will be weird. but i can forget about that for now. i still have 18 months! :D What made me laugh so hard though was your comment about the ´white lamanites´ in Cajamarca. I have met a lot of people from Cajamarca and i always think they are from the united states haha. The joke here in the mission for all the people from the united states is when we can speak well enough to tell everyone we are from cajamarca. I have only been able to do that a few times. My accent still gives me away haha.
This week we had a conference with Elder Camargo. He is a newly called 70 from this last general conference i beleive. (speaking of general conference i still havent seen that magazine... I might have a photo in it... not sure yet though). It was a great conference and he said a lot of things i really needed and really motivated me to work harder and get to know the scriptures better. Im finding more and more the scriptures really are my best freind.
So big news from Morrope!! we are growing!! Morrope is a small fishing town and its kind of the forgotten village of peru so its an area completely different than any other. But its been so amazing to see the work take off in only the two weeks i have been here. This week we broke records. We had the highest asistence we have ever had this week of 31 people in the house -church (we still dont have a building because we dont have enough people) but we almost ran out of seats and hymn books this week!! We have to ask the mission to send more supplies so we can help even more people.
And its all because we had a few great activities this week in which the Lord blessed us to have success. This week we had an activity of vollyball which was really fun. we played in the street and we set up the net between two light posts. it was almost like beach volleyball because the street is just dirt and sand haha. And we had a few new investigators show up there. We also started a english class this last week... and guess who is the teacher.... haha. yep! im teaching english now haha. it was alot of fun and we are starting to see the area really open up more. One of the hardest things we have to deal with is other churches teaching their members to turn us away. a rumor was spread before i got here that we are actually theives and we steal things from people during lessons... im pretty sure thats never happened. (im only the fourth missionary here and the other missionaries i know are good missionaries) so its been really interesting to work with that. The Lord has really blessed us with a lot of oppertunities to serve this week. We have been helping people all over town. We helped the wife of one of the investigators the other day pull water out of a well and set up a time to teach her and her family later that afternoon, and as we were heading to our next activity we ran into a guy who was tryign to load a dresser into his motortaxi so we helped him with that, and then we ended up offering another service immediately after that. It was amaizng to see that only within half an hour we were able to serve 3 different families and change their perspective of us. I love the mission for that reason. We get to serve ALL the time. I hope we find more oppertunities this next week.
We have a goal of setting up three baptismal dates this week! i hope they workout. They will be the first 3 baptisms of Morrope Chiclayo Peru Mission!!
I love you all
Always look outward, and Keep smiling!!
Elder Bunker
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