I am just copying what Wendy put together for the email, she does a better job any ways.

Hola,

Masen and I actually e-mailed back and forth today for a bit.  This is what he said: 

Wendy:  Besides being awesome, how are you doing? 

Masen: completely awesome! today was changes and we didnt get one. 8 months in NC what up!

Wendy:  It is amazing that you still feel effective in one area for such a long time. 

Masen:  ha ha ha effective???? the past 6 months has been ridiculously hard, but that’s why i don’t want to leave. i don’t feel like i have   accomplished all that i need to accomplish here. so if i leave i will leave unfinished business here. 

Wendy:  Next transfers will happen before Christmas then?

Masen:  next transfer is in 6 weeks

Wendy:  Is it a miracle that you got to keep your companion?

Masen:  ha ha ha ha ha my comp was kinda a miracle, but not really. they try to keep us together for 2 changes at least (3 months) this will be    our third change so its not too crazy. but the miracle is that I’m still here. they are starting to  tell me that i need to buy land because    I’ve been here so long ha ha ha. 

Wendy:  What are you doing for p-day today?

Masen:  servicio. we are going to help someone. ya i dont know how i feel about that because i wanted to do something else, and we did    service last week, but its all good. what would Jesus do. and it is getting hotter, when the sun is out. its starting to be "winter" here or         the rainy season. why they say winter i have no idea because its gets hot, but usually there are a lot of clouds and at like 12 1 or 2 it             pours rain for like 10 minutes and cools everything off. 

Masen:  thats ronald and liz and andrew and sister claudia. hermana cludia is going to try and write you. she speaks english, a little, but i    think she can write alright. love you. chow--} (im hungry. ha ha) 

(There is a picture that is suppose to go here but it didn't copy over so I will have to do some work on it when I get home.)

Here is Masen’s e-mail.   The part about coming home early is in regards to his baseball scholarship at Western Texas College. 

From: Masen Fenn
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 9:43 AM
To: Wendy Fenn
Subject: Re: 24 years.

i dont want to come home early. right now thats not an option. i have the interview this week and i will talk with presidente blunck and let you know monday, but when you talk to coach dodd tell him that i will be moving back at the end of october and see what he says. 

ha ha about the package i get them in the first part of the month, because that is when the zone leaders go to lima, but if president blunck comes for training, or interviews he brings them too, so if it gets there befor thursday this week i will get it. ah that would be sweet. the tie will be super awesome, im almost positive that i can use it, but if not ya it will be a sweet gift for another family. 

talk about a trunky letter huh. wx beats bountiful, my friends are comming home, stuff about baseball and college. man i only have a year, and not even that. ha ha haha. 

dad told me about his promotion. . what what. thats sweet. im happy with that. ha ha maybe its because i was praying for a new car when i get home???? ha ha ha ha haha ha haha hahahahhahahaha. ah i crack myself up. 

this week was hard. we have alot of investigators, but they dont do anything. we always invite them to church. they dont do it. invite them to read. nope, and to pray. hardly ever, but this week we went aroud to visit most or our peeps and see whats up. they all said the wanted us to keep coming and visit them, so we told them that we would visit them if the went to church this sunday. only one showed up. crap, but the one that showed up was one that i didnt think would do it, so it was bitter sweet. this week i have a lot of plans to have a lot of success. 1 we are going to visit enrique. he is like 25 and is the boyfriend of a menos active. she is thowing up the walls that we have to clime, but we will just give her a little burn and teach him and have a baptism date. the other one is that we are getting refrences like we should. some families  want to visit other families, and want us to help. usually the refrences are hey visit this family. but now the members are taking interest. ah i hope so much that we hit it huge next month, this month i just want to get things going like they should. 

love you all got to go. 

A late entry but a good one from the kid!

   

Hola,

This is Masen’s e-mail from last Monday (10/1). Masen talks about the video he sent home of he and his companion playing fear factor and eating a mug worm. It is quite hilarious…just need to download it and send it to you.   

From: Masen Fenn [mailto:masen.fenn@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 10:25 AM
To: Wendy Fenn
Subject: Re: Pics and Videos

this week we had a baptism finaly. it was a single mom with two kids, but the older one lives with his dad. the daughter lives with here, but she is only seven. we found her by trying to contact a inactive family. the inactive family didnt want anything to do with us and pushed us out the door, but i asked for a refence from them and they said that i could visit the house infront of theirs. we went and knocked. tuned out that one of the daughters is a member and is 20. her sister got baptised. their is like 30 pople that live in this tiny house. and most of them are under the age of ten. ya ya alright 30 i a little much, but there is the mom. hna. blanca. magdalena (she got baptised.) Elizabeth (member) their brother merly and like 6 niños. so there is a lot of them. Blanca is the grandma. with names are her kids and the niños are the grand kids. i hope that some of them follow the example of the two now members. the story of magdalena is really rough so i wont share it, but it was cool to hear how much she has changed.

well i have to go. i tried to send two pics. but it didnt work. so ill try to discribe it. yesterday it rained a ton in like 5 minutes. luckly we just got back to our house to use the restroom after lunch. but it started to pour. so i got out my rainboots and my rain coat. it was funny

got to go mom

love you all

running like crazy still. ha haha hahahaha that’s life. and I know how you feel. there isn’t enough time in the day. the name of the family that ate the worms with us is. familia Guerrero mas conocido como Ronald and Liz. they are the family that helps us teach. Ronald has been a member since he was 16 but Liz just got baptized in January. Ronald was super inactive, but now he is the second counselor in the branch presidency. and Liz is the first counselor in the relief society. I love that family. there son is crazy. he is 2 years old, but super loco. just like his parents. ha haha. love to hear that tayden is doing good. and Easton and brietyn and bryn. hope they are all loving life.

oh ya my spanish is bad in the worm video still, but if you could understand it, it is too funny. my comp acted like a little girl ha haha. mas que yo. and when he had the head in his hand he said it was moving, THAT IT WAS ALIVE. ha ha ha haha I asked him how it could be alive if he had eaten the body. that was a way funny part. but when he pucked was the best. ha ha ahah ah aha ahah ahaha aha ha aha ha haha. did you get the video of when we killed the rat?

love you dad.

Masen is working in his Field of Dreams and finding mucho success

Hi Family and Friends,

Another happy e-mail from Masen. He says the work is tough, but I can’t imagine anything more providential than making contact with someone who found the Book of Mormon on the side of the road and has already read it. Amazing! Thanks for your prayers and support!

we ate suri live.
ya suri is a right of passage in iquitos. we just did it for fun and it was the funniest grosest exprience of my life. i have it all on video. i will try to send it to you tomorrow.

as for the time here it has been normal. not to fast, not to slow. and i dont want a transfer. i love my area even though it is tough. i believe we are changing it. last week a family went to church. their friend invited them so they came. we talked to them and took their address. it sounded like it was far away, but all the members said it was close. becasue the members said it was close we went to visit them. the branch president has a mototaxi. its a motercycle choped in half and the front is attached to a bench with 2 wheels. i make it sound crazier than it is, but its wack. ha ha. so we went with him. we were driving for like 10 minutes when i saw the sign SANTA CLARA ---> ya tight its not that far away. then we drove for like another 15 20 minutes to get there. ah su. tan lejos. it is in the middle of no where. only thing out there is rice farms. as we were driving the road is pure white. and my comp (becuase he is columbian and always joking about his farm) said hey where is the coke. ha ha ha i laughed a little then noticed the road. i said they found a perfect way to hide it. look at the road. he laughed and when he got out he made the action like he was going to sniff it. hes a goof, but way funny. elder collins called him goofy when they were in the same district.

the mission work goes on. estamos luchando como siempre. this week we found one dude that has read the book of mormon. he said he found it on the side of the road. its amazing how the lord can prepare someone. when we talked to him he asked about that, but said something about how Jesus Christ existed before this life. i asked him what he would think if i said he exsited before too. his eyes lifted up. then we read in the bible where god says that before this life he knew us and we were pre ordained and everything. he was shocked and it was cool. we only talked to him once for 20 minutes then had to go. i am sure that he will progress and be a leader in the church.

got to go. love you all.

im trying to send pics but its not working.

Elder Fenn

These are the bugs, YUMMY YUMMY. How would you like to eat these plump and juicy morsels.

This is dinner!!  Masen said that these bugs are high in protein and palm oil.  It is the missionaries rite of passage to eat these bugs.  I for one would have a hard time even picking the bug up but Masen has eaten several questionable delicacy which in my eyes makes him more than a man....

it makes him a missionary!!

Worms are part of serving in other countries but these are the worms Masen will have for dinner tonight.

This is Masen's e-mail from Monday. It's a bit short, but he wrote Tayden an e-mail where he gives advise to his little brother about playing football.  Tayden is lucky to have a big brother who loves and cares about him as well as the other siblings.

Masen's reference to my "faith" is in response to my e-mail where I told him that every day last week I would look at the picture of him baptizing in the river and think to myself..."he is just like John the Baptist in the wilderness--so amazing!" Then one day it hit me..."HE IS IN THE RIVER"--parasites...bacteria...please tell me you are wearing shoes!

 

First things first. where is your faith? ha ha ha ha im a missionary

and im not doing anything wrong so god will protect me, and im not

stupid enough to not take stuff to get better so dont worry. i

probably do have a parisite of something, but it hasent hurt me yet.

ha ha ah ah hahaah oh ya i will have a worm in my stomache tonight

just so you know. ill send you the picture of what im going to eat.

its so discusting, and it will probably only be in my stomache for 30

seconds. ha ha

read taydens email. i sent him a load of stuff that i am learning. its

really nerdy and missionary, but its tight. i know you will like it.

one thing i need for my health is a balance band. 20 or 30 doesnt

matter, but i need the best. i get alot of headaches here becuase of

the sun and the stress. but im loving life. my comp is the best and we

always laugh. its all good here. a little tough in the missionary

work.

got to go love you all.

Elder Fenn

The "worm in his stomach" is referring to a worm that they eat in the Peruvian Jungles called "Suri". Eating one is a missionary rite of passage. This is what they look like:

Suri is a clean food rich in protein and palm oil.

Masen got his new companion finally and he loves him.

Masen's message this week is full of fun comments about his new companion and the work he is doing with the people of Nueva Cajamarca.  This is a great message that makes a parent happy that their son is about the fathers work.

well to start off i had a great week. i finaly got my new comp. he is 22 and from columbia. his name. Elder Amaya. he is the best. he is super funny and we are alway laughing. the best thing is that he was in the same district as Elder Collins before. so we have fun making fun of everyone. the other best part about this week is that i got to baptise in the river baby. it was so sweet. the baptism was way spiritual and you could really feel the spirit, but in the waters of mormon (ya thats directly translated, i dont know if thats the right name or not, but you will understand.) was way better. when i baptised him he came out of the water and we took a couple more pictures. while we were taking pictures he turned to me and said, when is was in the water my body felt different. i asked him if it was a good feeling or what he thought. he just said different, but i know it was good. then we said jokingly that its because everything was washed clean. we laught a little. but then when he bore his testimony it was really powerful. you could really feel the spirt and tell that we helped him in his life. you know you got a good one when he says that he knows its true, but wants to learn more, then asks the whole branch for help. he will be a good leader in the church, and i think he might even go on a mission.

saturday was independence day for peru or something so everyone was celebrating. we were contacting and it was good. then we went to a different area closer to the pesions house. the first door we knocked my comp said we are going to find a future stake president here. i said that was too small and joking said profet, then i said no, but something bigger than a stake pres. a huge man answered the door and let us in. he told us that he was super cathlic and hes not going to chang for nothing. i said that was tight, but we would like to share what we know with him. he let us and we started talking. it was all normal then he shared with us a dream (EVERYONE HAS DREAMS/REVILATIONS HERE. . . EVERYONE) but this one was different. he said he dreamed a light, and heard a voice, but couldnt see anyone in the light. then the voice read jaramis 1:5 in the bible that says that we are chosen and ordained before this life. after he had that dream he converted to the catholic chruch and hasnt had it again. i am banking that after we shared our message with him that he will have that dream again, because if he does that we can baptise him and he will become a pres. of something big.

well i got to go. i love you all and miss you all.

Elder Fenn

 Masen and his new companion Elder Amaya with Hombre Mayor 

who he was able to baptize. 

 Baptising in the river.

This is suppose to be a fruit which he says is pretty tasty, much like a mango.

Hello again from Nueva Cajamarca

Hi Friends and Family,

Here is Masen’s last two weeks of e-mails. I think I neglected to forward his e-mail from two Mondays ago, so I’ve included it. I love it when I see Spanish taking over his brain, like when he spells lesson “leccion”. We are getting ready to send him a package so he’s listed a few requests…some predictable, others not so much.

Hi Family,

Mom, I would like calcium pills I dont eat like anything dairy here. the milk and cheese are horrible, and yogurt is alright, but i dont drink it that much. one thing you can send is my mission commision by bruce R McConkie. ya i dont know how to spell, but i think they have cards of it in the distribution center. like 5 of those in spanish would be cool. i have one in english, but several people have asked me for it. ya so my area is Nueva Cajamarca, i dont know if that will show up. Moyobamba might, and if that doesnt Tarapoto should. im like 3;30 hours south of tarapoto. and 1 hour out of moyobamba. my two line email last week was because i didnt get any of your emails. we email an hour earlier here. our schedule is different in the jungle because of the heat. but its not bad here. only like high 90s.

ya so my area is freaking tough. lima was ugly and it was hard to get into houses there, but it is totaly different here. we can usually get into houses to teach pretty easy, but they either dont understand,

dont care, or we cant find them again after the first leccion. freaking sorry if i write half in spanish, im writing freaking fast. the other day we went to visit a dad of a family whos wife is a member. he has all the knowledge that he needs to be baptized, but he is scared that his family will reject him if he stops drinking. Ah crap that should be easy to drop cause its crap, and we had the sickest lesson with him, but he just wouldnt accept a baptism date and dropping alcohol. yesterday we got into a house and they arent going to church or anything. we invited them to baptism, and they accepted, then they asked us if they needed to be married first. that usually doesnt happen. we said yes and explained why. they said that they wanted to learn more which is normal. it was the first lesson. so I have high hopes that they will get baptized next month. we are teaching another family of 7. mom dad and 5 girls. hahahahaha. but the dad is way cool. he knows a ton about every other church but ours, and he said that he likes our visits, i hope that he will get baptized next month, with total his family.

got to go. out of time.

Elder Fenn