Sometimes it is just good to hear from him.

me gusta su español. ha ha but ya tell ej not to worry. it stunk when they only spoke spanish, but you learn faster that way. ya no worries, but put him into a language class if you can. what ever language. same with brietyn cause its easier for them to learn. and piano is sick. i can read music ha ha. elder richardson taught me how in like 30 seconds so with practice i can play a little. its funny and hard. top hand is easy but both is way hard. dont have time to practice anymore so probably will forget everything soon. i can buy a guitar how sick is that. but first i need to firgure out a way to get rid of some of my stuff so i can have it as a carry on.

no i am not cold here. it is summer and it is vary warm. no houses have a/c. it sucks i sleep above everything and wake up sweeting some times its awesome. ha ha. never had a drink with ice, but we buy drinks ice cold alot. i only sweat inside the peoples houses. its really not that bad. other than that. i like the temperature, but its way polluted hear so i don´t like the ¨weather¨. the sky is never blue and you can never really see the sun, or the stars. ha ha i miss looking at the stars.

transfers are every 6 weeks but trainning is for 12 so i have one more transfer minimum here i think. but they say that president blunck tries to get the missionarys into the jungle fast beacuse it is easier to learn spanish there.

as for families we are teaching we have one really sweet family. they always send their son to church, well the past two weeks, as they have work. they seem really interested in the gosple and they are way friendly, but we have to get them married before we can baptise them. i think we can get them. we met with one family yesterday that seems really cool, but it was only one meeting. one kid that is 16 has accepted to prepare for the 4th the only problem is permision for the parents. i dont know if that will be hard thing or not. he is way smart and knows the bible better than i know the book of morman, or any scripture. its way tight teaching him cause he teaches himself. my comp just throws scriptures at him for him to read every once and a while to help him learn.

 

 i got the stats for total nfl while i was in the ccm so i was wondering. is the superbowl this sunday. oh i miss bbq sauce ha ha. they have it here i guess i just havent gone to the store.

sorry about my spelling. i think it has gotten alot worse. ive been writing people and sounding english out in spanish. mixing up letters and everything its way funny. out of time

well thats all for this week folks

untill next time peace.

Elder Fenn had a great week!

On Monday, Wendy took the chance to get on the email and ask if Masen was there, to her suprise Elder Fenn sent back that he was and she was able to talk to him via email messages.  As she said, "it made it feel like he wasn't so far away.

The problem with that is he doesn't have the time to write a letter for the most part but it was more a question and answer session.  He wants to hear more about what the family is doing so it is nice to fill him in on the home front. 

His spirit is soaring and and you can fill it.  As a parent it is amazing to hear his stories and fill the love of Father in Heaven working His miracles through him.

He was able to write a short letter so here it is:

alright so i think i am finaly getting into the hang of things cause this week was kinda like ya whatever, or maybe because this was the first week we didn´t have a baptism. ha ha. but we still kinda did. there are 4 missionarys in our ward. and the area that the zone is in is divided into 2. the other missionarys had a kid that wanted to get baptised. my companion is the district leader and in the interview he asked who would be baptizing him. he said he wanted my companion to do it. so we had to pretty much do all the work on saterday to get things ready. so it was our baptism ha ha ha. but ya. sunday was way good because we got 3 investigators to show up to church. that was way cool. one of them we were not expecting at all. the night before we gave a lesson to an investigator in a members house. she then said that there was a family she wanted us to talk to. she pointed to some people in the street like 2 houses down. we were running late and had to get back to the house cause it was past 9. so we talked to the family for like 1 minute and only invited them to attend. the next morning the family was walking to church and passed by the house. the dad told the oldest girl to wait for his son so he could go with. and they both came. so that was a sick story. havent had a meeting with them yet so we will see how things go with that family.

thats probably the coolest thing this week. other than that life is pretty boring here. the food is all the same, but for some reason they give it different names. to me its chicken and rice, and potatos, ALWAYS. oh ya boring meaning we do the same things over and over and over. but its fun, only cause the lord blesses us with happines. thats the only reason i can think of.

well love you all, almost out of time again. the shortest hour of my life is emailing right now. never seems like enough time.

take care now bye

ha ha

Love

Elder

Fenn

Success again and fun too.

 It is good to see Masen having fun.  Kevin wanted to swim in the baptismal water, he had to carry him out! ha ha

 It says, Welcome everyone to the baptism of Kevin Chancha Torrico.

 Hang em out to dry the work is done!

 you learn to eat it. 

Masen doesn't like fish....

Name of companion and those he has baptized

Got a couple of good letters from Masen this week.  It is the high light of the week as we can't wait to check the email for one of his messages.  The language is still a work in progress for him but things look good for he and his companion.  Masen had the opportunity to have another baptism and that makes two he has gone in the water with.  The pictures we will post as soon as we can figure out the format of how he is sending the pictures.

Comps name Elder Cisnado. de Nicaragua

Family Huamani

The Girl i baptised Maria Cristina Huamani Chahua

this weeks baptism- Kevin Chancha (chancho is pig in spanish ha ha)Torrico

ya i think. i can understand a lot, almost everything i feel like.

food is completely different. fresh juice-nectar every meal, not always good. rice for every meal and usually pollo every meal. every meal has different names, but they all taste the same. and they serve mountains of food. i hate it. i feel way sick after every lunch, sometimes that's my only meal of the day because it fills me up so much. i don't know where they get all the food, they are poor down here, but i think i am in a middle class town.  there is garbage everywhere. the people pee wherever they fill like, smells always. the only good part is that the people are humble and friendly. oh ya and the closest American food is McDonald's and that's 30 min away one way. chilies is like 1.30 maybe. its close to the mission home.

these pictures are this Saturdays baptism. ha ha that was crazy. the kid wanted to swim in the water after. i had to carry him out. it was funny. the grandma is the recent convert.

 

language is going pretty good i think. i feel like i can understand everything like i said before, but speaking is a different story. conjugating and everything stinks. but it gets better everyday. elder Cisnado says that i will be a latin in 3 months ha ha ha. we will see. they all say that i speak clear when i talk and everyone is complimenting me, but i think that they are all liars, or i fake it really well ha ha ha. 

 

for the pigs head, i did eat some. i dont know where and i dont want to know, but i had some of the head and other parts. it was not bad, just tasted like plane pork. the head was a softer meat and ya i dont know. kinda like pure fat but different. the food is not bad, it just all tastes the same. rice with chicken, and sometimes mashed potatos, but alway potatoes on your plate. the one food i like is lomo saltado. its pretty good. the Peruvian resturant might have it i dont know. no mexican food here though. i think i miss that the most. . . . .ha ha

 

well love ya. i am running out of time. all is still good here. we have some way sweet investigators that i think will get baptised with a few more discussions. and one door contact yesterday that i think will commit pretty quick. so we will see. and ya sorry about your mission. i have dunked as many as you have already. ha ha ha its crazy work down here, but i need to work harder, mainly in spanish.

 

love you

 

Elder Fenn

A Baptism Already, & Looks What's for Dinner...

Don't you love what was for dinner?

Good thing the rest of the pig is what was eaten.  Masen said it was good.

Masen's new companion.  Still need to get his name.

Elder Fenn gets the opportunity to get in the water.

Elder Fenn outside the Peru Temple with members of his CCM district and AP's

Time to celebrate after the baptism.  They all look happy!

Really nice group and Elder Fenn gets to baptize the young lady in the middle.

Elder Fenn exiting the water happy after baptizing in his first week in the field.

Miscellaneous pictures of Masen Fenn

Sister Blunck, Elder Masen Fenn, President Blunck

Masen in the Provo MTC

 Elder Fenn on the way to Lima CCM

Elder Fenn in the Lima CCM dorm room with the Shad Sims T shirt

The Peru Lima Temple

Elder Fenn Safe and Sound

Masen has made it to the Mission Home and assigned to his first area and companion in Lima in the town of San Juan de Lurigancho.  
 
Dear Brother and Sister Fenn,
I´m writng you at this time to let you know that your son has safely arrived to the mission and has been asigned his first companion. We are very excited to have him with us here in the Perú Lima North Mission and know that he will have lots of success. Also, I have attached a scan of a letter that your son wrote on Tuesday as well as a photo of him with President Blunck (Mission President) and Hermana Blunck. We are very thankful for your son´s service and for your support.

-- Elder Flores

Personal Secretary to the President