WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29TH!

Whats up yall how's it going in the US? This week actually went by so fast it was crazy. My little niece Della was born this week, and she is the cutest thing, I am so excited to see her in person in 21 months. She was born on the perfect day because that day was super boring and I was super upset because we had 1 lesson the entire day. So much walking for nothing, and I am not a patient guy, but when I got back home and saw she was born i didn't care anymore, so shoutout Della for coming in clutch. The next day though we had a ton of lessons and it was the best. Our baptism date is still on and still on my birthday!!! October 7th is an exciting day. Nothing too crazy happened this week i had some fun lessons with cool families and played some volleyball and taught english classes. This week is gonna be super fun, tomorrow I have intercambios (i forgot the word I english) but im going with my district leader tomorrow for the whole day and me and him are such good friends. Its gonna be a ball tomorrow . Then later in the week we have a giant volleyball night with the ward that I am super excited for and these chibolos (slang for kids) are cooked going against me ima keep it a buck. They have me beat at soccer but not volleyball. Then on Saturday me and the zone are watching general conference all day at the stake center and thatll be super exciting. Pday was so fun today, we went to a 300 year old catholic church building and toured it and saw the catacombs and it was filled with a bunch of bones of past priests. The old catholic buildings give me the heebie jeebies I have a weird feeling in them but its cool to see how other people worship and how old that building is. It was super pretty though and I liked touring it. Then we went to the really nice part of my mission where a ton of tourists go and I met a family from queen creek Arizona and they were in a stake close to mine so it was cool to see more Arizonans and Americans in general who speak English. Then we went to some stores and I bought two things (a poncho and a little coin pouch for my belt), and I love them. The pdays here are actually so sick, and I really like touring peru. I'll end my email with a up and down. The down part first, we have this girl named Rosario we were gonna ask to be baptized next lesson but she didnt respond to our texts so who knows now. It felt like I was playing snipers and shotguns on OG halo and I was about to get the final kill but my shotgun ran out of ammo and I died . But thankfully there's respawns so maybe there's still hope, we will find out and ill let yall now. We did have a miracle this week though thankfully. Bascially I saw this guy in the street and waved for fun and he drove up to me and he said are you a missionary and I was like yur you know it and he said que chevere (awesome) and he is super interested in the church and wants to be baptized so we've been teaching him a lot and his kid is almost 8 as well . He is my top 3 favorite person to teach and me and him get along really well. Its just a matter of time and lessons before he takes a big step in life.

Spiritual Thought: Enduring to the end is so important and it shows heavenly father ans jesus our love and faith for him. This mission is a testament of that, everyday I endure some sort of trials whether is almost getting robbed by a gun (sorry I didnt tell you mom) or just crazy dogs, I have to endure because thats why im here. I need to give people the opportunity to feels gods love and endure every trial that comes my way. Thats my advice for all of you, take trials and beat them and endure and learn from them. God wants us to be happy but he isn't gonna make it easy, just worth it in the end. Having faith isn't a matter of hoping its a matter of knowing, and we need to KNOW we can persevere and keep moving forward in our lives, not hope things will get better. Amen amen amen

Love you all dearly and I hope yall have a muy chevere week 

From, the elder who is working on his spending habits 

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So i thought to update yall so you wouldnt stress (shout out Ashley for pointing that out) but basically we were done for the day and we were walking home and across the street was a group of guys and one had a gun, and me and him looked at eachother and after that they are started walking towards us pretty quick but they had to walk uphill pretty quickly. I think they said something to us but we didnt respond and I didnt understand them. But me and comp just walked down a different street and took the long way home so we didnt have to deal with them. Not too crazy of a story, so dont be worried grandma . Alls chill here in Peru

Love you guys