Wasn't able to avoid the kiss but was able to avoided the alcahol. ja ja ja

A great letter from Masen this week.  He was able to tell us about a couple experiences in their teaching and the success in their baptisms.  Here is the highlights of that letter that I think he will be OK with us sharing with all of you.  It might make you laugh a little as it did me.

!Por fin! estoy 14 libres mas gordo. ja ja no, no es verdad. estoy solamente como 8 libres mas gordo. the package was awesome. The cookies were definitely a uni cookie and tasted weird, but they were soft. I don't know if they tasted weird because of the travel time or because my taste buds have changed or what, but they were still good. I have only opened the chocolate chip ones, the sugar cookies have a message on them. . . ? I am not going to be able to read that, sorry, but I'm definitely looking forward to frosting that huge uni-cookie. yum. Goal to have a happy tummy. . . . . . . didn't work. ha ha ha sorry. the whole week I was sick, not from the package.  I think I got sick from Chili's. Man this week (I) was sick.

Alright this was my week. I finished emailing you last week and then we went to Larcomar. I now know one place in Lima that I can take you. It was sick right on the beach. We went bowling and then went to Chili's. yummmmmmm but i think the chicken got me, it was worth it. Cost 30 soles. We only get 90 personal a month. ha ha ha ha worth it. Ya I dropped a lot of money but its all good. In that day I only spent like 25 bucks to bowl and eat at Chili's.

 

After that the spiritual stuff went down. The whole week we had very good lessons. We are actually having a lot of success. We got one reference for someone that has depression. We knocked the door not knowing what to expect. The mom answered and said oh your from the church right? ha ha ha ya.. hold on. She ran inside, don't know what she did, ran back to the door and opened it way excited and let us in. At first we were like alright sweet they like the church. ha ha The kid with depression is a smart kid like Einstein. We will see what happens with them or maybe not if I get transferred, but I don't think I will. I find out in a half hour. 

The best part of the week is that we had a baptism. The kid is 9 year old so that was cool. What was even a cooler part is that on the 4th of Feb. we baptised his older brother who is 16. Saturday he was able to do the baptism. It was sweet. The brother baptised his little brother. ha ha ha. In May we have a date that the mom will get married so that she can get baptised. Now because of the baptism, one of his sisters who is an evangelist is starting to listen to us. Sweet.

Bad things that went down this week. We went to visit one person that came to church last Sunday. In church his relatives came up to us and said go visit him. Ya so we went. He is Adventista (I think he was trying to say Seventh Day Adventist) or something and when we talked to him he always tries to prove us wrong through the bible. This is a good thing because he knows his bible and that makes him easy to teach. The bad things that happened was that after the lesson he kinda forced us into eating lunch there. It tasted fine, but my comp took a sip of the drink which was juice with alcohol. ha ha sucker drank on his mish but he gave me the heads up not to drink it. Thanks man. After that his daughter came down. She is 16 but looks older. It's custom here to give the women a kiss on the cheek. To defend us from this we throw out our hand for a hand shake. Usually that's it, this has never happened to me before so i threw out my hand not expecting anything. She grabbed my hand and pulled it in so that I could give her a kiss on the cheek. WOW I'm going to hell. Got my first kiss of the mission and after it happened to me my comp tried not to do the same thing, she didn't have that and he got his 5th I think. After that we explained the rule so hopefully that won't happen again here. It was pretty fast and I thought I acted fine not to offend her and get out without that happening. I failed, I'm a failure. ha ha ha

Don't worry, I've already repented. Hopefully that doesn't happen again because it was weird for both parties afterwards. We went back again to teach the dad and invited all his family to listen. They didn't want to but I think they understand better and its all good.

That was kind of the big things of the week.

Bugs aren't bad around here but their are roaches and spiders and stuff. Not bad. There are more at home. got to go. 

Like always, love and miss you

Elder Fenn

 

 

 

Hello everyone

It has been awhile since I have had the time to post updates for Elder Fenn and the successes he is having in Lima.  Much of the problem is that his mother can instant message with him and there usually is no letter to post.  He is still in the north part of Lima but would like to make it to the jungle as soon as possible.  He says that he or his companion will be transferred for sure this next week and he is hoping that it is him.  I find it funny that some of the people are asking Masen about the kind of man Mitt Romney is because they know that he is a "Mormon".  Isn't it interesting that they would know that?  You never know who is watching and what they may think about who we are.  Keep the faith and work hard!

Here is some of the questions his mother asks and his reply.

What about the President and his wife...any association there?
we have training meetings with them every month so ya i see them every once and a while. we have had 2 so far and both times i got to see elder Richardson. i am blessed because i am having success. we have baptised like 8 people in the 3 (almost) months that i have been in the field. the first time i talked to him in the field was like 3 weeks ago and the Saturday before he had just gotten his first baptism. by then i had 8. and last week i saw him again and he said that they were getting more and more so he is starting to work.

this week i had 2 baptisms. they were sweet. our focus in the mission is in the family right. so every time we baptise a family its like a little bonus. the next focus is in hombres mayores, or men older than 18 years old. this is a focus because it is building the church con el sacerdocio, or priesthood.
this week we had 2 baptisms. i would send photos but my card isn´t working. . . so next week. but they were both men older than 18 so it was way sweet. one was a man that came to church with his cousins and his uncle. he is like 32 and said that it was the first time in most of his life that he has felt like that. he felt a feeling that he forgot about, the feeling of peace. the day after he went to Church we saw him again. that Monday he said he wanted to get baptised. that was 2 weeks ago mas o menos and ya he was confirmed a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints yesterday. sweet. the other man was 88 YEARS OLD ha ha. that was kinda a scary baptism. i thought that he might die in the font. but he was actually really smart. you could talk to him and he could understand almost all of it. but you had to shout for him to hear the lessons. we found him because we are teaching his daughter that is 55-60 years old. we will baptise here in May if I'm still here. May because she has to get married first.
Have you had a zone conference or anything yet? When are the next transfers?
the answers are already in the letter, but i have had 2 zone conferences. he is starting to do them every month because i guess as a mission our numbers have gone way down. next transfers. . . . i will find out after the next email sesh how will be transferred and where. but i am almost positive that I'm not going. my comp has 7 months in the same area. pobre-cito ha ha. por kid. but its all good. i have a lot of investigators that are way cool here and i want to see them get baptized. ha ha ha the coolest of our investigators are from elder Richardson's zone. ja jaja but not his area. we stoled them because they live a lot closer to our Church than the other church.
out of time.. never have enough..