Sometimes when you teach the advasary works hard to stop you. Masen has a great spirit dealing with it.

Hi All,

Sorry about all the package talk…I have sent him two packages that he has not received.  I asked him 5 very specific questions and he answered one of them.  He still has not told us about his new companion.   We will have a lot to talk about in 13 days. 

Love you all

Wendy

From: Masen Fenn

Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:00 AM
To: Wendy Fenn
Subject:

this is whats going down with the packages, well i sent you a letter that Pres. Blunck sent, but apart from that the packetero. (the person that gets the packages ) said that i have to go to the mail office personaly to get a package, which Pres. Blunck wont let happen because it is out of the mission, or he has to change some documents. that was the first thing that he told me, then he told me that he doesnt think that i will be able to get my package at all. i have no idea why. it might  be Pres. Blunck just saying no because he is mad. we didnt do so hot this past month in the mission. 

the one that i should be able to get is the one that will get delivered directly to the mission offices, becuase they said that if you sent it fedex i would get it, but obviously the sent that messege way to late. 

you didnt do anything wrong i think that they are just changing the rules or something. the elder told me that becuase you put Elder he couldnt get it for me. i think its because thats a name down here. 

ya but this week was hard. we contacted all week and didnt get anything. we are working with 2 families where their dads arent members. both of them are named jose. one is gonzales the other vicente. they are both way cool. jose gonzales is super sweet. he likes to play soccer and is always playing. thats why we cant find him in his house. its kinda frustrating, but i know how it is. i just hope he keeps coming to church. his wife is a member, but she is the problem of the family. she likes to drink and party. so we are working hard with him because he is the chill one and wants to get his family back together. his daughter helps us out alot. 

the other one is jose vicente. he is cool. works with silver making jewlery. has had a hard time with his family in his life. he was the religious one and wanted to go to church and everything, but his wife Doris didnt want to. then they had a big fight and he moved out and Doris and the daughter got baptised. they are both super cool. jose now wants to get his family back together, and wants to have more faith so he is listening to us. i just hope he will go to church with us, and get baptised. 

they are cool, and i think that they will get baptised next month or in feb. the baptisms that we have for this month are kids. all are younger than 15 so im kinda sad for that, but atleast we are helping them join their family.

this week was funny. the other day we contacted a shoemaker. well he contaced us. we started to talk to him and said that 1 time he prayed to god and god helped him sell his shoes. so i was like sweet well lets invite him to church. then we started talking a little more and he just wanted to fight. i was like ya im out then. we were trying to go and i invited him to church. gave him the pamphlet and wrote down where the church is. i put a star next to it to make it stand out a little more, and when i gave it to him he started to scream at me. ah how can you draw this. this is from the devil. you teach about god then draw this. who are you people. ha ha ha ahaha haha then i stood up and told him striaght. ya why do you want to prove us wrong and fight with us. you know this is just a star and there is nothing wrong with this. i hope that you can find god cause i know that he can help you. your invited to church. then i just left. 

hahaha its a little funny now, but at that time it made me a little mad. another fool told me that i didnt know what i was talking about when i asked him what church he went to. tried to show me up telling me what church meant. then we read with him what it means and he just said nope. ha ha ha. so i asked him what he thought it meant. hahahah he got all mad and said you are the misisonaries you have to teach me. ha haha i wanted to say i just did, but we just left. 

well hope this week is a great week for you guys cause i know it will be a good one for me. 

the families that we have are sweet

love you all

bye

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. 

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!!