So our little town of Morrope is growing! :D (or at least the kingdom of god in the little town of morrope is growing! haha) This is the first week of the transfer and it was great. I have been really blessed this last week. My new companion is named Elder Chero, he is 21, and from Chimbote, :D here in peru. so he is my first peruvian companion. I am really excited to work with him. he is great missionary and everyone respects him. he has been in the feild for about a year now. ( he hits his year mark this week ) I feel really blessed, I have been praying that i would get a good companion. Morrope needs good missionaries. (so now their only problem is me... haha jk)
we have been working super hard this week. Its been interesting because i thought i would have to drag my companion everywhere the first week because thats usually how it goes, but i showed him i wanted to work and he just took off from there. we have found a lot of neet people this week that i hope and pray we will be able to teach and baptize. (speaking of baptisms we are about ot have the first baptisms in morrope this week! Hermana Juli and Magali are going to be baptized this weekend. we still have a lot to do before that point. I hope they feel confident and confortable. They really are the pioneers here in Morrope).
Morrope is really interesting because its brand new. My companion has been in family groups before but he says this is different than any other family group he has been in before because its so small and the missionaries have to do about everything. (which isnt true, we have a lot of help from the familia fiestas) i feel bad because i havent written a lot about the familia fiestas. so if you have translated familia fiestas you can see it means "party family" haha and they are just that haha. The parents are named walter and rosa. and they have five kids Royer (10), Maritza (8), Teresa y Angeles (6), and Noemi (4). Royer is a great kid who is super kind and respectful, something i havent seen in a lot of kids here, and like is dad he has a competitive streak haha, Maritza.... the first thing that comes to mind is fancy nancy haha she reminds me so much of Savannah, when i first met here i thought i was in dejavu. haha. she is definately a girly girl and very popular, she is the leader of all the little girls in the neighborhood. Teresa and Angeles are a hoot, although they arent identical you can tell they are twins because they do everything together. Angeles is little bit more like maritza really reserved and girly, but teresa is like my little sister lily haha. she is a tomboy and she has this small deep voice that sounds like she has a cold all the time. and Noemi, (aka Terremoto...or earthquake) many people use the term "terrible twos" but shes not two. haha. Right now, other than the neighborhood dogs, she is one of the loudest thiings to walk the street haha. Hermano walter and Rosa have been working for a while on helping her be reverent in sacrament, and since there is so little of us its kind of hard to pretend like the one being really loud isnt their kid haha.
speaking of people in the church... We had 32 people in the chruch yesterday!!! our little group is growing!!! its the most people we have ever had in that little church! :D :D it makes me so happy to see the work grow so much here in morrope. especially in the first week of the change. im really happy.
Hermano y Hermana Fiestas and their family have been the greatest. I really feel at home here. their small family reminds me so much of my own, and in a way they have become my family here in peru. Im going to be really sad to leave.
one of the things we have done this week is we visited one of the little casarios (or little vilages) called Romero about 20 minutes from morrope to find people to teach and we had a lot of sucess almost everyone we talked to let us in to teach. :D
Also, we got some really neat news from our branch president this sunday. there is about 30 aldults in one of the casarios Caracucho who are endowed members of the church and only are less active!!! we ahve a whole branch out there we can reactivate!! im excited to work out ther and find people to teach and reactivate.
Love you all time is short,
always look outward, and keep smiling!!
Elder Bunker
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