Monday, December 30, 2013

Week 34


ahhhh it was so incredible to talk to all of you and see everyone´s faces!! wow-everyone looks already so bigger and more grown-up. especially McKay! I love how we all still interrupt each other and I´ve missed all the chaos:) skyping was the GREATEST. It was just what I wanted for Christmas and gave me more of a desire and push to truly serve with all of my heart, might, and mind!

forgot to mention-Rolando Falabella´s in the Liahona!! page 23! He´s in Guatemala? at least I´m pretty sure its him, he´s holding an umbrella:) check it out!

On Monday night, we were having a fhe with the Heredia´s and Luis Galvez. they invited him to spend Christmas with them and he mentioned something about having a surprise for us the next day...we were really intrigued and wondered what it could be. my companion felt that it would be him accepting baptism and I wanted it so badly to be it, but also didn´t want to get my hopes up either. so the next night, Christmas eve-we had a lesson with him and Jose accompanied us. we were talking about the Atonement and baptism, Jose bore strong testimony and the spirit was really strong. Then he reminded us of the surprise that he had told us about yesterday when we were teaching about baptism and he told us the absolutely wonderful news of accepting to be baptized, he´s given it a lot of thought and really feels that its right. January 11th, wahhooooo!! it was the absolutely best gift that we could´ve gotten for the celebration of the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ. 
 
Speaking of CHRISTMAS...seriously the BEST Christmas EVER!! thank you Oakton Ward YW (and mom) for the package!!! Holy cow-I don´t know what I´m gonna do with 9 packets of insect repellant wipes. haha...but thanks:) the new flats are really cute! yáll are the greatest!! spent Christmas eve with all the missionaries in our zone at the zone leader´s pensonieta´s house. chicken, pappa fritas, hot cocoa, MICROWAVABLE popcorn, paneton, and SMORES!! yes, it was truly bliss. 
 
And on Christmas day, all the missionaries in Trujillo spent it together with President and Sister Marler for a few hours in the morning. talent show with hilarious skits and singing, spiritual fireside, time for testimonies, and cake to celebrate Jesus´ birthday! we saw pictures of the current temple construction and its gonna be 3 times as bigger as the temple in Lima! Its so incredible that we´re here to help prepare God´s children to enter into the House of the Lord and families can be together forever. A house of learning and a refuge from the world in which we can have strength and power.

I made a small notebook for my companion and a printed a picture of the both of us. She made me a lovely card and princesa chocolates! ahh they´re so tasty! did everyone like the chocolates that I sent home? hope so, bon o bons are like a peanut butter dream! 

So...Christmas night we had to be in our rooms early at 7, since the streets would be crazy and plus people would be celebrating their own Christmases with their families. we had just barely finished visiting Eduardo and Mamma Transito and it was 7, but my companion was walking towards another family in the ward since we had a card to give them. I was right about to say something, since we needed to be headed back, but ignored the impression, it would only be a few minutes to drop off the card and wish them a merry Christmas. while we were waiting for them to answer the door, I don´t know how, but my companion tripped on the street curb and her ankle rolled quickly under her foot. it all happened really fast, but man-it was BAD. she was crying, intense pain, and I didn´t know what to do cause I doubt that she could walk. hailed a taxi and called the zone leaders. the family that we live with helped me with helping her up the stairs. Ice, cream, and elevating it. Boy it was bad! super swollen, but I didn´t think it was broken. a perfect way to end Christmas, right? certainly memorable:)
 
Since then, the swelling has gone down, but its got some bruises and still really painful to walk on it. I was going to work with another Hermana in her area and her companion who also needs to rest and can´t work since she got her appendix taken out was gonna come to our area for about 4 days. but they had a baptism on Saturday that they both wanted to be there for...so been resting up in the room. the 1st day we couldn´t proselyte, I read 22 pages in the Book of Mormon! haha wahoo, I´ll defiantly be able to finish by Jan 9th! Yesterday after church, we were going to only visit with our apt with Jose, but ended up tracting like normal for the afternoon and now its worse.:( the other hnas. that also have our same pensoniesta have been bringing us meals, which has been super nice. there´s not a ton we can do, her ankle just needs lots of rest and time to fully heal. Probably will do splits tomorrow, so our area can still progress and I can go out with a member and teach while she rests in the room. our landlords have been super nice and its funny to see everyone offer up their two cents of advice as to what to do, since we haven´t gone to a clinic yet...please pray for Hna. Portillo! I want my companion back:) and a normal sized ankle.

I need to trust the spirit more and rely on the impressions that I receive! It was a lesson and hard experience that I needed to learn. Humbling and hard, each day. 

I know that Jesus is our Savior and Redeemer, His love is for all and it was so special sharing His message during this time of Christmas. The Atonement is all about love and we can show our love, appreciation, and gratitude to Him by being obedient, serving, and using the Atonement. I used to think that the Atonement and using it was just for sins, but honestly we use the Atonement and the infinite powers of His life each and every day! Its the means by which we can improve and progress each day. Its the love that we can have for others and share with others. I´m so grateful for my Savior and His love and sacrifice for me.

Thank you for all your Christmas love and wishes!! It was such a fun and wonderful holiday and time to celebrate the birth, life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Love you all more than you will ever know!  Merry Christmas to all and how CRAZY that we´ll be entering the year 2014...WHAAAAAT?!? when did that happen?!?! for real. absolutely nuts yo. be careful walking around sidewalk curbs this week, that's my best advice!

Monday, December 23, 2013

Week 33




awesome week!!!


José’s preparing for his interview to receive the aaronic priesthood and even accompanied us with some of our teaching appts this week, gettin`him ready to serve next year!! yeahhhh buddy!!!
Luis Galvez. Had a wonderful lesson with him and Jose bore strong testimony. he begged us to have a chocoletada (hot coco) and cheese from a city that he just got back from after we taught. it makes me sad to see how lonely he is, dad-whenever you think of how crazy and hectic our family is, just be grateful that you DO have a crazy and hectic life!! loads better than being home alone, all the time. 

Eduardo`s doing really well, such a stuff. his mom’s insisting that we visit tomorrow:) 

We had a ward Christmas devotional this week, well actually it was just eating a bunch of paneton and hot cocoa. haha its how you get èm to come! and watched a video about the Savior. It went well, Eduardo’s mom came!! people actually started to come and started about an hour and a half late...classic. 
We’ve been visiting a less-active named Tula and were teaching about Adam and Eve and the creation. my companion accidentally called her hermana eva and we couldn’t stop laughing. then tula said something about how my companion was gonna wet herself. oh man it was so hilarious. almost as good as when an investigator’s cat jumped on my shoulders and I screamed in panic. oh man there are so many stories that I forget to tell you all! I’ll make a list. 

My companion, hna. portillo, had a sonogram to see if there was anything funky in her stomach. nothing was found and we’re waiting to hear from the office if she needs to get another exam done which she would need permission from her mom cause it would involve anesthesia. man I’m good at spelling....she’s feeling better, but still not 100%. sometimes tho she simply cracks me up! eats total junk food, then complains about an upset stomach later...I feel like that’d be a common-sense cause and effect reason to eat healthier...but no. haha I’ve never known anyone to love lays potato chips and coca-cola so much!! haha.
Its really tricky to work on her xmas present!! I started it while she was napping this morning, but still have to finish!! Our landlord is good with Photoshop and graphic designing, he did an awesome job with a picture of her that I’m gonna give to her and I asked them to buy a pillowcase that I’m gonna decorate. Quite useful, right?!? trying to make it a fun holiday for both of us, esp. cause its our both first and only Christmas away from home and on the mission!! we’ve been invited to a few houses for tomorrow, but too bad we can’t eat outside of our pensoniesta`s house:( well hot coco and paneton is ok, but not a dinner or anything. Which is too bad, cause a less-active family wanted to have us over to try guinea pig for Christmas! 

but we’re gonna have a dinner together as a zone tomorrow in Moche and making SMORES!! Really excited. it’ll be really wonderful. and on the 25th, we have a few hours with all the missionaries in Trujillo with prez and hna. marler where they’ll be a talent show and cake or something. HUGE thank you to the Oakton ward YW for the package!! haven’t opened it yet, but looking forward to it on Christmas morning!!!

Also thanks for the boy’s school pictures and Christmas card!! wow-McKay looks so handsome in braces and grant`s HUGE!!
The show in plaza de armas was AWESOME!! I was in the very front and it was just a tad intimidating singing in front of SO many people, but went really well! I got chills up and down my spine when the audience got really into some of the numbers and everything. it was so rad!! Saw loads of friends from the MTC and so wonderful seeing some of the missionaries that are serving in Chimbote!! ahh Hermana Human is on her last transfer and I’m thankful that I had a chance to say a final goodbye. she’s so incredible!! Saw some incredible people from my previous ward in el bosque too, it was wonderful!!!
2 people asked us for $$ for medical needs and I genuinely want to help èm out, but we can’t as missionaries:( 

And the guy that sells bread on the corner or Costa Rica and bobadilla is only 13 years old!! We pass by and say hi to him every night, but I didn’t realize how young he is! and works so many hours every day! 

a member’s grandson wants to be baptized, we had our first lesson with him yesterday and he’s such a precious 8 year old.

Merry Christmas and I can’t wait to see and talk with you all on CHRISTMAS!!!
paz Y amor yàll. eat extra choco for me:) and watch elf and aaaaall the home alone movies. and ice skating! 

Monday, December 16, 2013

Week 32


We just finished practicing all the Christmas hymns and parts of the Christmas program for the plaza de armas that we’ll be performing at this Friday and Saturday!! pretty exciting:) singing in front of about 2 million people, no big deal or anything:) ahh Christmas is just the GREATEST, right?!? and we can skypeee on the 24th or 25th, I’ll coordinate with Hunt since I´m pretty sure mom’s still trying to figure out how to copy n´paste these days:) so excited!!!!!!! 
My companion has been sick lately, I’ve been taking care of her and we finally were able to make it to the clinic, after vomiting a few times!! hoooray, it was actually more legitimate than I had imagined. She has an inflamed stomach and we’re going back to have tests done this afternoon. The doctor thinks that she has gastritis, which would make sense cause she´s had it before in El Salvador. Hoping to find out what exactly it is, so she can start feeling lots better!!
Transfers are tomorrow and we’re together another 6 weeks. Not a whole lotta changes in the zone, one area was closed and we have a new zone leader and district leader. I’m glad that we’ll be together for Christmas and have a looong list or people that we need to make/buy Christmas gifts for.
José’s baptism was on Friday and was truly wonderful. There were of course a few random close-calls before, like the guy who was gonna baptize him randomly went on vacation and didn´t tell us until a few hours before. and couldn’t figure out how to drain the baptismal water and ended up just adding more to the already dirty water. haha then using a dustpan to filter the bugs that was at the top of the water. oh and the elders saving us when the pair of white pants that we had didn’t fit and they hurry and ran to their room to get another pair. but none-the-less, it went really well. I gave a talk on baptism and the holy ghost and the ward mission leader baptized Jose. truly, his life’s changed forever and he started to cry as he bore his testimony after. He’s awesesome!!
We were invited and sang a pretty song for the activity that the YW had this week, it was beautiful and funny how always any Peruvian activity or event doesn’t start until at LEAST a half an hour after its suppose to. classic Peruvian time. I LOVE the young women´s program and hearing these girl’s testimonies was so beautiful. they are incredible people! I´m so grateful for my own absolutely remarkable mother, I think of you and your example more each and every day:) Especially when I was trying to nurse hna. portillo back to health, I remembered all the many times and different family members that you took care of and how you never once complained or were impatient with. I read her a story in the liahona until she fell asleep, just like you’d do with us in the "big bed". 
Guess who finally finished Alma?? yeeaahhh buddy!! its so incredible, honestly I’m learning so much about the Savior every day and am just LOVING the book of Mormon.
I love you all so much and hope all is well, merry Christmas!!







Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Week 31


Dearest Boody Clan,
 
woooah this week was by far the CRAZIEST and BUSIEST in the mission thus far!! We had a training sort of thing in the morning for a service that we`ll be doing for the Municipal Peru Trujillo. It was hilarious. Basically we`ll be warning pedestrians and people crossing the street of incoming traffic and reminding them that they need to wait to cross the street and hold their kids hands. Haha oh peru....red lights don`t matter and people jump in front of traffic all the time. 
 
Then we had an awesome meeting with Elder Grow all day on Wednesday. Part of it was with our leaders in our ward too, which was wonderful. Learned a lot aaaaand pappa john`s bbq chicken pizza-yeah, thats what I`d like to call a successful day:)
 
Friday we had an alzar la voz in our area, where a few companionship's from the zone came and helped us look for old contacts and references. and in the night we had a noche de tortas activity with the ward. it turned out really well, a great opportunity for our investigators to meet members and for less-actives to get to know ward members as well. lots of fun games too, it was wonderful. 

Saturday we spent the morning doing service at Huanchaco, the popular beach of Trujillo. There were soooo many people and many people from the ward came and we all cleaned up trash on the beach. I found a shoe! Jose came along with the group that we went with the ward and had a grand old time! he`s made a lot of friends from the young single adult group and his baptism is this Friday!! he`s awesome and will make an incredible missionary in the future!!! he`s already planning on serving:) 
 
Yesterday was the primary presentation and Eduardo`s mom came to support him, he did such a wonderful job!! man I love Eduardo, he`s so precious. All the little kids sang so well and I had flashbacks of when I was singing with everyone and dad would make the most ridiculous silly faces and I couldn`t stop laughing and smiling:) 

So my companion and I will be talking with someone and when we find out they live outside of our area, of course we ask if other missionaries can visit them (we can take their contact info on a reference card) and all tooooo often, they ask like 50 times why can`t WE visit them and teach them at their house. haha we laugh and explain that our area is here and where they live is a different zone and that there are other missionaries serving there with the same message that we have to share. haha then they ask again, if WE can come instead. haha if it wasn`t so common or slightly creepy, I`d probably appreciate the flattery more. 

One of the elders who works in the office and serves in our ward was saying that he`d totally flip out if one of his daughters was serving here and if he knew how dangerous our area is. I mean I don`t say a lot about it cause I guess I`ve gotten used to it by now, but yeah....its pretty violent and people get killed daily. One of my favorite parts of our area, Pueblo Joven, people tell us all the time to stop going there and a police officer stopped us in the middle of the day and asked what we were doing there. we asked if there was a time that was specifically more dangerous and he said no, any time of the day is really dangerous and to be super careful. eh it just makes the our days extra exciting! especially when weird or random stuff happens, maybe one day I`ll tell you some stories:) 
 
Its starting to feel a little bit more like Christmas & I love it!! I made a paper chain to count down the days and some liahona pages to decorate the wall. we were able to watch the Christmas devotional yesterday and it was so beautiful and perfect, we`re bringing the world the happy message of the fact that Jesus is our personal savior and redeemer. I love this Christmas spirit that all can feel around this time of year, people are happier and more open to hearing our message of the restored gospel. 
 
 I absolutely LOVE this climate!! Its December and I use spf 55 on my face everyday. haha its weird, but the sunny weather is gorgeous:)
 
A few things before I forget:
-last Sunday I bore my testimony and although sometimes my Spanish is rocky and awkward, when I spoke and testified of the Savior, it was so smooth and natural. I challenged each family in the ward to think of and pray to know who they could give a book of Mormon to for Christmas. best part was that I accidentally closed my testimony with saying "in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, amen." haha oops...I`m just always in praying mode, that's all:)
-still can`t believe that Rex went to CA and UT for thanksgiving, thanks for the pictures!! 
-hna. downs, my mtc comp was super sick and they finally found out what was causing all the pain:3 hernias!! surgery in Peru, a few days of rest, and now she`s back in El Bosque and feeling a lot better. thank goodness!!!
 

a few things that would be nice to get for xmas:
-pictures and letters (I mean that's a year-round request, but thought I`d remind ya:)
-my YW torch, I believe its on the top of my dresser in my jewelry stuff. its a small oval-y gold pendant with the torch.holler if you can`t find it
-some dental flossers. the little plastic-y guys. super handy!
-recee`s pb cups. but I`ll probably splurge and cough up the 5 soles for a bag of the mini ones...
-any way you could look thru Grandma pearl`s huge photo albums in the basement and find my baptismal picture?? ahh that`s be awesome! laminated too would be perfect:)
-pentel R.S.V.P. FINE tipped pens. a few black and a few in color would be great.

I mean most of all getting to hear everyone`s voices and TALKING on the phone will be the absolute best gift that I could ever ask for:) cheesy I know, but its true! 

I`m so thankful to be apart of this church, truly I know that Jesus Christ is at the head of it and directs our work. I love the organization and how the different auxiliaries help people thru all the different stages of life. Lately, I`ve seen how incredible the young women`s program is and I`m so grateful for the countless HOURS that Marilyn Copans spent with me, in order to finish my personal progress.and now as I`ve been working on earning my YW bee, I`ve been able to see more fruits of my labor and have come to know the Savior even more thru reading the Book of Mormon.  I`m seeing how it is such an incredible program for the young women here in trujillo. The YW asked my companion and I if we could sing a special number for their night of excellence this sat and it`ll be wonderful to see the young women and their mothers come together to talk of the blessings of the gospel in their lives.

Monday, December 2, 2013

Week 30


Ahh this week was great!! 
 
Jose´s doing super well!!! Man he´s been through a lot with his ex-girlfriend and other things in his life. We brought him to an elder´s baptism and it was legit!! Preparing for his own baptism on the 14th!! Super receptive to the gospel and has incredible faith in Jesus Christ. Hoping to start teaching his brother and mom too:)

Andres. He was a contact in Pueblo Joven, back when Hna. Allred was in my area for the intercambio. It was such a goldmine area on that Saturday morning!! He´s almost 18 and studying accounting. Came to church for the 1st time yesterday and it went really well, 14 for his baptism too.

Luis. We watched the Restoration video with him, but he still doesn´t think or have faith that Joseph Smith truly saw God and Jesus Christ....and couldn´t come to church yesterday:( ughhhh he has a lot of potential, but just having a hard time recognizing the spirit. 

Maria Mendoza. Waiting on her parents to come to a decision about her being able to be baptized or not...patience hna boody, patience. I´m grateful that our recent convert, Eduardo is an awesome example to her!! they´ll be great buds in primary together.

Speakin´of our younin´, Eduardo is writing and practicing his testimony for next sunday´s primary presentation. We helped him brainstorm and write a draft. and he´s been practing it with us. so precious! for real. Eduardo´s the greatest!! and his mom´s making an exception to come to church next week to see it!! (normally she´s always at the store sunday mornings). 

As I´ve mentioned, we´ve been teaching a lot of less-actives and seeing the fruits of our labor. We went out delivering treats this week with the Bishop and some of the ward council and it was successful, just need to leave earlier in the evening so we can hit-up more.

Well yesterday morning was seriously INCREDIBLE!! we called all of our investigators and less-actives to remind them about church/coordinate to pick them up, but a lot of people didn´t answer and I thought we were gonna walk in empty-handed. But we picked up Jose, then Andres, then Brillit and her sister. Then on the way to the church, up ahead we saw Eduardo with his grandmother and other members. And Indirah joined us too, in a skirt that I gave her too:) man it was just beyond words amazing. the picture doesn´t do it justice! haha we walked in the chapel with about 8 people trailing behing and Brillit and her boyfriend Dasly got to talk with the bishop. Rescuing souls and surely seeing the blessings from doing so!!!

Saturday night, after we started our fast, we were gifted lots of sweets from an investigator that was celebrating her 10th birthday. haha of course the night that we can´t eat any of it is the night that everyone´s all generous:) haha 

This Wednesday we have a multi-zone and Elder Grow will be speaking with us!! Super excited, we´re gonna be there from 7:30-9pm and we´ve been told to be prepared to give a short talk about the plan of salvation too. wahoooo!! 

Thats something that I´ve been studying a lot about and it simply fascinates me!! Its incredible that we lived with God before our time here, in the earth. and that one day we´ll be able to return to His presence. truly incredible. 

I know that Jesus Christ is my Redeemer and Savior, that only through Him and the Atonement I can be saved and forgiven for my sins. Its all about love, love for the children of God, love for His father, and its through love that we can come to know Him as our personal Savior. And its by love that others can learn of their true identity as children of God. 

Mission´s crazy hard over-all, but also the absolute most incredible and rewarding time of my lifeeee!!! Truly, thank you so much for all of your encouragement, thoughts, prayers, and kindness. Makin´me strong!! take care and happy December!! 







Monday, November 25, 2013

Week 29


Happy Pday!! also thanksgiving, right? actually I have no clue when thanksgiving is or rather was...but I`m assuming it was this week cause its the last week of November!! ah man how crazy is THAT, that december is just around the corner. Time is FLYINGGGG and its freaky how fast the weeks have flown by. I feel like we just barely got in October and then BAM-end of November. I got a really nice xmas card from Liz & Drew Armbruster and its crazy that Christmas is coming up!! ahhhhh loco, simply loco.

Peruvians her have this awesome tradition of painting their houses every year around Christmastime and its so fun to see what random color combinations they`ve got goin`. 

So thankful that we were able to hear Elder Nelson and his wife this week!! it was incredible. all about how we can each prepare to enter the temple by making our homes a place in which we can grow and learn together, feel the spirit, and progress spiritually. Wow, it was simply incredible. and I`ve never seen so many peruvians headed to a chapel-haha. now if we could only get that turn-out every sunday at 8am!! for reaaaal tho..it was funny how chaotic everything was right before he came to speak. My companion and I squeezed out of the kitchen that we were crammed in, watching it off a tv, rushed to the bathroom-which we ended up using the men`s bathroom since there were far more women waiting than men, then rushed back to our seats. it felt like the women that rushed around trying to get oil for their lamps and who didn`t wanna miss seeing the bride and groom. except in this case, it was a herd of people with Elder Nelson that passed my the window in the room that we were waiting in. The messages were incredible and we`ve been sharing some of the messages with the less-active families that we`ve been visiting in the ward.

With some of the members of ward counsel, we prepared and delivered alfajors to 6 less-active families in the ward this week. it was a great turn-out!! just like the cookies are sweet, the blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ are even sweeter! They were really grateful and it was perfect that the bishop could extend his great love and desire to help them with thigns that they are each struggling with. we`ve been visiting a lot and its incredible to see the blessings of these rescued souls!! La obra de salvacion es incredible, en serio! 

Yesterday, we had an incredible lesson with Jose!! With 3 ward members too, ahhh it was so boss-they each taught part of the lesson and gave such strong testimonies!!! He accepted and we are VERY excited for his baptism on Dec 7th!!!! wahhoooooo!!! 

Luis is doing well, building more of a trust with the members and even taught a part of gospel principles yesterday!! it was awesome. seriously LOVE Luis, esp. that he was willing to take Eduardo and MammaTransito to church yesterday in his taxi. so grateful. 

My dearest, dearest pensoniesta`s husband died this week:( He`s been sick with cancer for quite some time, but wow it was so awful to see her so sad. In the morning after she recieved word, I just hugged her and she just cried and cried as I held her. Please pray that Mamma Maria and her family will be comforted! She`s such an incredible woman and at least he`s not in pain anymore. How truly comforting the Plan of Salvation is, that we can see our friends and family again!! 

We`ve been room and job hunting for a woman that the other Hnas in our ward met the other week. She`s been abused by her husband for the past few years and recently got kicked out of the house, without anything. She has 4 kids, but only the one thats from a different man has been with her-the rest with the husband, Oh man it just broke my heart, she`s trying to find somewhere to stay and it needs to be close cause her son has colegio until decemberish. please pray for her!!! There`s a few members that we`ve been asking about a room, but as for the job...nothing yet. 

We`ve been grateful that more of/a variety of ward members have been accompanying us to our lessons. Except its always just a little funny to me when we ask for their cell number and they don`t have one, cause it just got robbed. people`s cell phones are getting robbed everyday!! and dogs too. kinda random, but a family in the ward`s little pup got jacked earlier this week. just goes to show how truly protected we are, no one`s tried to steal our movistar:)

I have been studying and reading in the Alma chapters in the Book of Mormon and am truly so grateful to be able to read from this specific word of God each morning. I only wish personal study was a few hours longer!! I know that Jesus Christ truly atoned for our sins and its only through Him that we can be cleansed of our sins and come to feel the genuine love, joy, and peace that God wants us to have in life. I`m so thankful for His perfect example to me and that I have the opportunity to improve each day.

Love you all so much!!!!

headeed to the beach today, wahoooo!!! 

and we have hot water again!!! ahhh life is good. 

Taxi to hear Elder Nelson




Fixin Shower!

Alfajors 

Sunday, November 24, 2013

The President joins the Elders for a day of teaching.


Every week President Marler hits the pavement (or dirt road) and joins the Elders in a day of teaching.

A moment of fun before a lesson
 Here Elder King and Mendoza teach a little girl about the Book of Mormon
Next time they meet with her mom too…terrific day

Last week he joined Elder Perez and Elder Kaelin in a day of teaching and serving… Look at those bags of recyclables


While teaching the Elders found that this family recycles for a living, the Elder's helped by loading of the goods and taking them to the recycling center.  Have wheelbarrow…will travel!