It has been awhile and that is partly Masen's fault and partly mine. This is such a great letter that I think you will be amazed as well of what an amazing person our missionary has become.

ha ha ha to read you mission experiences makes me want to be a better missionary. i would give almost anything to have you in my zone ha ha hah ah ah ah aha hahahahaha. that way you could cook for me and wash my clothes and not lose them. ha ha ha ha but for real i want is missionaries that want to be missionaries. there are many that just come here and go through the motions. they get to a certain point and that's it. they level off and do nothing. well now my job is to help them grow. but that's just the problem. i have to be the example, and then i have to show them what they can be, and get them excited to do it. thanks mom for all the talks and for all the advice you have given me. it actually helps a lot. i know what i have to do, the only problem is how to do it. what i learned from listening to that link is that the HOLY GHOST tells you everything you need to do. this is his work and his glory. we are just here to do his will and gozar (to joy) in his success. (i don't know if to joy works, but it works in Spanish.) i really am blessed to be where i am today, and wouldn't change it for the world. 

AND FOR THE GOOD STUFF

so a while back we were walking through a park, and some random dude stopped us and told us to go by his house. he looked old, and was with his wife that looked old too. we thought he was drunk. we took his address and asked him when we could come by. i looked for his house one day, but didn't find it. didn't give it much importance. then one day a member went with us to teach and just be a missionary. that day he told us that he had talked with somebody that lived close to where we were and asked if we wanted to visit him. we were like ya buddy. lets go. well he took us to the house of the dude and his wife. (what a small world) we started talking to him, and everything. he got mad at us for not coming by so we made another date to go by. the next day we go by and he wasn't there. days latter the same thing. then one day when we had nothing to do we went by, and he let us in. told us that he was having a bad day, and really didn't want to let us in, but when we walked in he felt more calm. that dad i invited him to a baptismal service that night. he didn't go. but the next Saturday we didn't have anything to do and stopped by his house again. they received us really well, and told us that we got there in just the right time again. we talked a little to them and invited them to church the next day. he committed to go. in church we were waiting and waiting, and nothing. toward the end of the sacrament meeting he showes up with his wife. (his wife is 8 1/2 months pregnant) YAAAAA BUDDY. then at the end of sacrament he finds a long lost friend. EVERYTHING WAS GOING GOOD. then we go to the class and talk about prayer. he helped out and gave his opinion. then we get to priesthood. the class was on religion. the teacher is a returned missionary and is a way cool guy. i call him PO from kung fu panda because it looks exactly like him, and they are just the same. so PO is giving the class (real name is Aldo) and starts talking about what is religion. well we get to a point where we are talking about baptism and how we need one to enter into the kingdom of god. everything was way sick. it was a way sick lesson, then he came to a pause. nobody talked. . . . . . . then he, the teacher, kung fu panda, popped the question. he asked the investigator ``WILL YOU FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS CHRIST AND BE BAPTIED BY SOMEONE THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DO SO?´´ i went a little nuts in that moment cause it was so cool. the dude stands up and is like. i will tell you one thing I'M CATHOLIC. i was like noooooooooooooooo, but then he went on. ``but i don't even go to my church, and look at me now I'm here, and i love it. and if you love something you have to be a part of it right?´´ everybody said yes of course then he said ya ill get baptised. in the middle of the class the elders quorum pres. set a baptismal date for Hermano Jorge Peralta. 

one of the coolest experiences that has happened in my mission. now we the missionaries have to work hard with him and get him in the watter.

love you all

have a good week.

Elder