It has been a great run but now Elder Fenn is needed in the Big City of Lima.

Hi Friends and Family,

Masen has finally been transferred after 7 months in Nueva Cajamarca.   He has asked to stay in this area because he continually felt that he had a work to accomplish and had not done so yet.  As he puts it-- the good thing is he will get our Christmas package.  Our Stake President told us that the prayers of missionaries are powerful and if we have a special need we should have Masen add it in his prayers, so we have asked him to pray for Bryn to get a better ACT score.  If she raises it just one point, it qualifies her for a much larger scholarship than she is already getting.  She is going to attend Snow College next fall.

I am not sure what the reference to the steps means, but I do know that the poor people of Lima live on the hillside, so there must be a place where they have to climb massive amounts of stairs.   Ronald and Liz are the ward members he was the closest to in Nueva Cajamarca—the ones he ate grub worms with. 

From: Masen Fenn

Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 9:42 AM
To: Wendy Fenn
Subject: Re: Gobble Gobble

well the big news. im going back to lima, so i should be able to get all my packages when they get there. ya ill be sad to leave this area, but there is always another exciting adventure on the other side. dont worry about my comp from humble backgrounds becuase we all live the same here.

brynlie can get 1 point better, but its in her head. if she thinks she can she can. she is smart. getting a's and b's in calc. she just gets scared in the tests and say that she cant do better than me, but she can. easily! but i will definantly pray for her. i will be praying that she gets a 27! not joking. i know she can do it.

i didnt tell ej happy birthday last week because we went to an area way far away and everybody new how to get there and how much time it took except for my district. we got there like 45 min late, and the zone leaders didnt let us have more time.

as for me. im headed to lima. im kinda excited because i get to have christmas in lima, and new year which is super super super cool, but its ugly. im actuly way excited because i will be able to see ronald and liz get sealed in the temple. so im actually way happy to go. but nevous to see where i go. i might have to wake up everyday and go do the stair stepper 3000 every mornig hiking the mountains to find my investigators, but at least ill get in shape. ha ha.

as for andy. he is a punk in the end he started to drink again. his wife felt betrayed and they dont want to get married. she still wants to get baptised, but cant because they wont get married. the kicker. . . .  they still are going to live together. andy knows he is into some bad stuff, but just doesnt want to change. i want to smack some sense into him. well i have with the bible, but i think he needs a physical beating. ah man i feel so sad for this family, im angry with them because they dont change, and im angry with myself because i cant help them any more. ive ran out of ideas to help them, and time cause im going to lima, but oh well. live and learn. ive learned alot from them.

one cool thing that happend this week is we are visiting another family in kinda the same situation. the dads a drunk. the mom wants to get baptised and married and knows the church is true and everything, but all their kids are member. 1 has his papers in for the mission, another one is preparing and he is like 16 the rest are small. but the dad didnt want anything to do with the church except listen to the word of god in his house. he thought that was enough to bring peace to his home. about a week ago he was driving in his motocar( the motercycle with 3 wheels and a bench over the two wheels in the back. ) (Crazy) but he was durnk driving in that and roled it. the next morning his 6 year old kid woke him up in the middle of the road. i think thats what changed his mind on the marriage thing. we went to visit them this week and he wasn’t there, but the wife said that she was looking for her paper to get married this 15 of december. ah cool. this family has change alot, and i think it was more of the example of the oldest son that is going on a mission. i wont see any more baptisms here, but amaya should have 2 real fast.

just ran out of time.

love you all

Finally another baptism to look forward to.

I told Masen that I got a promotion at work and the hours are long so his first comments are about my new working conditions.  I also mentioned that it would be fun to be able to take the family down to Peru to pick him up when his mission is completed.   Wendy in her last post recognized that Masen was frustrated with the progression of the work with the people but this letter to me seems to have lifted spirits.

when i fist got here ronal and liz were like teach us some english, so i was like ya alright what do you know and they said ``work  hard to live like a gringo´´. ha ha ha looks like thats what your doing. do your bosses say anything, or do they like that you work like crazy? it would be way sick if you could pick me up, but i think it would be cooler if we came back after i was relesed to do some things that i cant do while im a missionary, like swim. we explored a cave one time, and it was cool, but the guide said that there is another way to go and you have to swim to see it all. we walked as far as we could, until we got to the water, and it was way sweet, but i want to go farther. either way it would be sweet to see you guys here. 

i hope romney wins, but it would bring alot of good and bad stuff about the church. thats sick that tayden is taking classes i cant wait to see that fool all grown up and huge. 

oh before i forget, i need to know how to make chicken feddichini. and sheperds pie, and other goods that mom knows i love that are easy. we now have a stove and can cook our dinner and breakfest. like a good pancake mix would be sick to know how to make. but they have to be from scratch so i can do it here. 

as for me in the mission this week was way wack. my comp had to fly to lima one day, the next day get his papers good so hes not illigal and then fly back that night. he then stayed in tarapoto because he got back way late. he left tuesday at like 3 and got back thursday at like noon. it sucked. the whole time i was in moyo (Moyabamba), but they let me work here for like an hour and a half with another white kid from payson ut. it was sooooooooooooooooooooo sick to be with a gringo. ha ha ha. we just walked around talking about the weird stuff we would see in english so nobody could understand us. while we were in the bus to come here everybody was staring at us as we talked in english and then one dude said something stupid in spanish. then we talked in spanish for a little to let him know we understud. it was funny. i dont know if i told you about andy and rosemary, but he is a member that hasnt been to church in like 6 years and rosemary is his girlfriend. they have two kids. he is 24 and she is 19. we were working with them for a long time, then we had to  drop them. the otherday andy was drunk and got into some bad stuff. ha ha the next day he came to find us to help him change his life. ya he should be getting married the 23, thats the goal, and then she will get baptised the 24. what up. we have a nother baptism planed. finally. now i just need more. 

love you all have to go.

hope you understand the email. i was in a rush trying to send it.