NEW ADDRESS--PLEASE NOTE!!!!

JAKE'S NEW ADDRESS---(he loves to get letters!)

 

Mision Peru Lima Norte

Carlos Izaguirre 124

Casilla de Correo 31-057

Independencia
Lima 28
Peru

Here is his email from October 28, 2013

 

mom!

whats happening!  this week has been a long one hahah.  big boy peru is a lot different than the ccm.  the language is pretty rough out here too.  its also difficulct to remember everyone that we are teaching and rhe ward members, but even with all the problems, i am having a good time!  its like a whole new world out here hahah.  the people are so awesome out here!  i just wish i could understand everything that they are saying hahah.  they are extremely generous with all their food and drinks which have been interesting.  speaking of food, i heardabout them in the ccm, but i thought they were a lie haha.  we have a pencionista that makes us breakfast and dinner!  we then eat with a ward member for lunch.  we also have a lady that does our laundry for us hahah.  the church hires them because this area is really poor and tthey need jobs!  my first are is wiesse, and my first area is casablanca.  its freaking sweet!  you could maybe try to google he areto see pictures or something! it has a whole bunch of hills and the people just have houses on them randomly hahah.  we have a sweet house too i will send some pictures after im done writing.  we live right under neath the bishop of thew ward who is aweome! and last but not least, my companion elder quille.  he is the freaking man!!!!  he is from peru so he doesnt speak english, but he is such a good teacherand example for me.  i still cant really comprehend what i am doing haha its so awsome!  there definitely are hard timews out here, but one thing that i have learned is to just be as patient as possible because if im having a rough lesson or day, it will pass soon and its better to just keep working at it and it will eventually get better!  there are also dogs everywhere here hahah.  i have ofte thought about the dazer, but i am getting along just fine wthout it! i havent gotten any pakages or letters yet, except i did get one from stephen colten crue and ethan which was awesome!  i want to try and wite them, but they will have to be patient with me hahaha.  i have pday on mondays now and we write at like 10 in peruvian time!  tell alli i will try to write here a birthday card, but i dont really know how to send letters yet hahah i hope she had a good day!

love elder zundel

 

 

NO EMAIL ON OCT. 24--just pictures--

On October 22, 2013, Jake arrived at the Mission Home in North Lima Peru.  He is now out in what he calls "BIG BOY PERU."  No longer in the training center but living in the city with one companion.  We did not get an email from him during this week--just pictures that he arrived.  He will now be emailing us on Mondays!

Last Email from CCM (Missionary Training Center)

Jake's Email from October 17, 2013

 

buenos tardes!

 

hello mother! 

 how are you doing at the home front?  everything is going great here!  i got five letters last night hahah two from you one from alli and one from ashley and one from bernie and juju!  did alli and ashley ever get there letters?!  i sent them awhile ago, but im not sure how mail really works here hahah.  everyone in my district makes jokes about me because im pretty much the only one who gets letters hahah.  anyways,  this week was awesome!  it flew by and its crazy to think about, but i will be in big boy Peru in 4 days!!!!! its crazy and im not sure where the time went here.  i dont really feel ready to leave here, but am definitely ready hahah.  i love it here, but we pretty much do the same thing every day which gets a little boring.  im still waiting on the other letters to get here, but i did get your international stamps.  i didnt know how to send letters when in the feild so i thought those would work, but i now understand how to haha.  i cant really remember what we did this week because it seems like yesterday that i was emailing you guys.  we asked our fake investigator if he wanted to get baptized, unfortunately he isnt quite ready haha.  our teachers have been telling us what it will be like when we get into the feild and they said we will have around 15 investigators at a time which is insane because we have two here and its hard to teach them!  i will have some sort of contact with you guys on tuesday, i think an email.  the only downside is i dont know when our pday is so dont freak out if it is a little while before you here from me!   I hope everyone is doing well out there, dont worry about me, im living the good life out here in peru!!!! i really feel so lucky for this oppurtnity i cant beleive i get to do this somethimes!!!! love you guys so much!

 

love

elder zundel =)

 

 

Jake's group from the CCM

NEW ADDRESS!!!

PLEASE NOTE!!!---Jake will be leaving the CCM (Missionary Training Center in Peru) in one week) so please do not send any more written letters to that address.  The new address for him will be---

Elder John Zundel
Perú Lima North Mission
Ave Carlos Izaquirre #124
Casilla de Corrello 39-054
Independencia
Lima 28, PERU

He loves to get written letters/and packages in the mail---thank you all so much for your support!!  love you!!!  jen

well its thursday again!  not much different goes on here, but its really fun!  we are getting really close to going to the field, which is crazy! its already been almost a motnh.  i got some sweet ties for dad grandpa and bernie i think they will like them and i will just carry them around until i come home!  it will be worth the wait!  that guy that added you is a teacher here, and he is really funny hahah.  he isnt our teacher, but hes really funny.  i am learning a lot of spanish here, but it still pretty hard.  once we get into the field, i think it will be better because nobody will speak english and i will be forced to speak spanish haha.  anyways i have also started to learn loor al profeta (praise to the man) on the piano!  its pretty sweet and very fun.  im not sure if i have already talked about this, but here at the ccm, one of the thinggs they have us do is teach lessons in spanish with a fake investigator.  its pretty crazy, but i get by with my broken spanish and just share a lot of scriptures haha.  i sent alli and ashley letters, they should have left on monday so hopefully they get them soon.  also mom if you could send me a battery powered set of hair clippers that would be awesome! i really want to learn to curt my own hair haha.  i also took a really cool video for you guys, but i dont think i am allowed to send it so you might havew to wait until i get back.  its one of the coolest things though!  every monday night before the advanced grouop leaves we all go to the third floor next to the door that separates the elders from the hermanas and sing god be with you till we meet again.  three verses in spaniosh and 1 in english.  its one of thje coolest thingsd if donwe!  dont worry either mom i havce been eating plenty of food hahah.  theres a rumor going around, that we will get pentinistas (not sure how its spelled)  in the field.  they are someone in the ward that comes and cooks of food and cleans our clothes because the people need jobs so badly here!  evertypne says its true, but i still struggle with it hahah.  anyways, time is going by really fast here and its a lot of fun.  i dont need anything really except maybe some twistables to mark my scriptures haha.  also i love all the letters i get, they are so awesome and inspiring!  im excited for alli and luke, they will have an awesome time!  hope theese are enoughg words hahah i try really hard during this hour to remember everything we have done haha but its hard!  i forgot to tell you mother, but i got you a nice pair of llama earrings hahah they are sweet! i will be sending some pictures soon, thanks for all the emails and letters they mean so much!!!!

A teacher that added us as a friend on facebook

Jake's district

Jake's email from Oct. 3---

mom!

 

how are you guys doing?!  i had another great week in the ccm, all the days seem to blend together here, but they are going by very fast which is kind of scary! this past sunday i became a district leader (107)! its pretty cool, but adds a lot more stress sometimes!  we are all getting along great and are working hard!  i got a letter from ashley and the pictures!  thanks so much!  i got to show my roommates and have found alli an ecuadorian boyfriend hahah i have a picture of him that is hilarious and i think colten will like it as well!  i also got my haircut by one of my roomates! it was awesome and i look great as usual!  i took a picture of it so hopefully i will have time to send it!  it reminded me of the good ole days when tommy would cut my hair at lunch!  dont worry tommy you wont be replaced (hopefully he sees this).  not too much else has happened here just a lot of studying and classes! there was an earthquake last weeek that i forgot to tell you about, but it was very small! i feel really cool when we get to go out in the city because i lead everyone around and its just really  fun haha.  the busses are still crazy here though! i cant even stand up straight in them and they just cram as many people in as possible haha.  i dont have much else to say except i came across an awesome scripture this week!  its in 3 nephi 13:26-34.  sorry if its not the righ5t reference, i forgot to bring it with me.  it is the one about the lillies of the field.  i just thought it was awesome that we dont really have to worry about anything as long as we are striving to keep the comandments and live like jesus.  anyways, i hope you guys have another awesome week! you will be in my prayers!

 

love elder zundel





these are for tommy! my haircut from my panamanian brother

this is a possible boyfriend for you alli! hes from ecuador (if i remember correctly).  i got the pictures last night and he was asking if you had a boyfriend and to tell you he is interested hahaha.  this is also a picture i wanted to show colten because he has never gotten a haircut in his life and i was wondering how coltens lucious locks were coming along.  he doesnt have to cut it because its a tradition, i think its pretty awesome!

 

 

 

 

 



PICTURES!!!

We received a shorter email from Jake on September 26, 2013.  He seemed in a hurry trying to figure out how to upload and send pictures for the first time!  Thank you to so many who have emailed him!!  I know he really appreciated it and is going to try to get back to you all when he gets the time!----jen

hello mother!

 

this was another great week in the ccm.  i got a few of your letters (one from dad and one from you)! they were awesome and i love them!  also tell everyone thank you for emailing me but i probably wont be able to back to them right away. 

 

not too much different happened this week, except we did get to go prostlyting and it was crazy! we taught two lessons in members homes and i wasnt able to speak much but i could kind of understand them!  we even got to go to an area that is in lima north! the people dont have much, but i can tell they are awesome people!  we also had to say goodbye to our other roomates this week because the latinos only stay for two weeks! it was sad saying goodbye to them because they were so awesome.  i will try to send some pictures if i have time i just have to try to figure out how to first hahah.  tell everyone thanks a ton for sending me emails its so awesome!  a tip we got from older missionaries here is to take pictures and read them later so i again appologize if i dont respond to some of the other people!

 

also if you could send me some more memory cards.  dont hate me mom, but i gave two of them away hahah.  its actually a good story and i will share it with you because not much has happened this week.  it was there last night and elder pujay (from lima) gave me his haz lo justo pin (choose the right) it is so awesome and is on my new shoulder bag with a picture of the temple on it haha.  anyways a didnt know what to give him in return, but remembered that he didnt have as camera.  i really felt bad about this and decided i would give him it so he could take some pictures! another one of our roomates was trying to buy one of another elder and i decided i would give him one because we had become good friends and he too didnt have a camera.  he gave a new tie as a gift and it was just really cool.  other big news, i got a haircut today hahah.  i am healthy and all is going well! 

 

 

elder zundel