El Cerro---The Hill

November 11, 2013

this week has gone bye fast for me too!  I'm glad to see dad is still working hard out there hahah. I hope you guys are enjoying yourself!  this week hasn't really been much more than normal, but it was a good one. my spanish is coming along. i can understand most of it, but my vocabulary is very limited hahah.  one bad thing that happened this week was my camera lens broke....... not really sure what Happened, but we are going to get it checked out today so don't worry! I also took some sweet photos with elder quilles camera, I will send those shortly!  we don't have any new dates, but Vicente is looking good! he came to church with us yesterday and his brother spoke!  his brother is freaking sweet!  his name is hector and i think he is the only member in the family not really sure, but he got baptized and then served a mission.  he comes with us like every night to teach and hes really funny.  he really wants some twizzlers so if you can send those that would be sweet! also elder quille really wants to try swedish fish hahah.  also whatever else you want to send would be sweet!  we had a lesson with a less active member this week that was crazy! She is really having a hard time right now and it was awesome to be able to help her!  I think that's one of the main purposes here is just to help others in anyway possible!  I also think that its important to remember this after the mission too! I am going to send some sweet pictures and theses are for Juju and Bernie..... i finally made it to the "hill" hahaha

talk to you next week! love you!

my whole area is cerros and it does get a little tiring.

mom:     what is a cerro?  a big hill?  you are probably in great shape!

jake:       yes ma'am, cerros are hills and I would be, but we have to each
               so much food out here its rough!  i am not sure when, but I think I will be
              eating guinea pig soon hahaha

mom:     why do you have to eat so much food?

jake:       because the members give us so much and you cant turn it down haha

CASABLANCA, PERU

November 4, 2013

this week definitely flew by!  it was a lot better than the first one haha.  the Spanish is coming along, but I am still definitely a gringo.  I can understand a lot better though which is good.  I got both packages and cards too!  I don't think the other address is wrong, i just think it is easier to send it to the other one for the mission president and everything else.  elder quille and I love everything you sent us and would love more haha.  we had a pretty solid week this week.  we have one investigator committed to baptism, Vicente Mendiz and he's awesome.  he is 18 just like me and i really hope all goes well!  Thats so awesome about missy, she said she wanted my address here, so if you could send here that that would be sweet because i dont even know it hahah.  i am going to email her after this!  I have some good pictures to send to you this week!  only two though haha.  i also got to go on splits with a north American missionary, elder walker and he is from arizona!  he used to be in the ward that meets next to the temple.  it was awesome! we were walking down this street and this lady came up to us and was talking to us about the rapture and other strange things hahah.  he decided he wanted to try and give her a book of mormon so we started to walk with her, but it soon became apparent that she wasn't listening so once we got to the door of her church she left us for a minute and we booked it hahah.  i thought it was a pretty funny story.  other than that not much is happening, just enjoying Peru more and more! one more thing, if you are going to send money, could you send it in Soles?  i just don't know how to exchange it here sorry!

con mucho amor

elder zundel