Tayvin

 Hey guys, sorry I didn't write this whole transfer. A lot has happened, but writing an email is always the last thing on my mind. I don't know if I wrote this in my last email, but I stayed in Puno for another transfer. It was really good. We baptized 3 more people. One of them was Yaneth. She was on date last transfer until she disappeared off of the face of the planet. Literally we knocked on her door and called so many times until we just gave up. Then one day this transfer she finally texted us and apologized for not responding, then she got baptized. The other two was a single mom and her son that we contacted in public. Sorry, I ran out of time to write this. I got distracted then forgot about it haha. But I'm going to a place called Quilla Bamba. It's a jungle area, but it's not as hot as the other jungle place I was in. It'll be really cool. I'll write a better email next week.

How's it going everyone? A lot has happened in these last 3 weeks. First, I got transferred to Puno...again. I started my mission in Puno and now I'm back, but my new sector is way better than my first one. Puno is cold and high altitude and people don't want to listen to you. Nobody wants to go to Puno, but to me it's not that bad. We have Lake Titicaca and there are some cool members. The work here is pretty good for us because the members haven't liked the missionaries in the 2 wards I'm in charge of for like 6 months, so they wouldn't give them any references. When we got here, they dumped a bunch of people on us that want to get baptized that the missionaries didn't even know about haha.  I was calling people that old missionaries were teaching, and this old guy said we can come visit him, and it was a horrible visit. He talked about ancient civilizations for about 5 minutes and we kept trying to cut him off, but he wouldn't let us speak. Then w...

How's it going everyone? I hope you've had a good week. Sorry for not writing for a while, I always push it off till later then there's no time later haha. I have a few weeks to cover so this email should be long, but my memory is terrible, so it'll probably just end up being the same size as the other ones anyways haha. We had 3 baptisms in the time where I didn't write an email. The first is named Alis, we found her because she responded to a Facebook ad which doesn't happen very much here. She works in a casino and really wanted to change her life. She definitely needed a change. She told us some crazy stories haha. She was super open to listening to us and had absolutely no problems. It was great to see that change that she wanted actually happen, and now she went from working in the casino where most of the crazy stories came from to working in a restaurant owned by members.   The next baptism was a guy named Jimmy. He was a really cool story. All of his fa...

Sorry, I know I wrote a short one last time and haven't written in a while, but I'm writing another short one. We had transfers 2 weeks ago and I'm with Elder Jenkins now. He's from Cedar City too and I was already with him for 1 week in Puno because of an emergency transfer, so I already know him. He's cool and it's his last transfer so it's a little bit of a battle to get him to work haha. It's a little annoying that he isn't working very hard because I have to do basically everything, but I guess I'll learn how to do everything really well.  Not much has happened the last couple weeks, but yesterday we had 2 baptisms! They're both sisters of a teenager we baptized last transfer and they're really cool.  Also, we left a mop bucket full in our house for a few days, and we learned our lesson because our house is full of mosquitos now haha. Now I will empty the mop bucket every time right away. Anyways, I hope you have a good week and feel...

 Sorry guys, I have no time at all, so I'll just say a couple things. I went to zone conference, and we took a plane to get there because my city is pretty far from Cusco. We found an awesome family and they're all preparing to be baptized. Saw a guy mowing his lawn with a machete. A girl we were teaching asked us if we had girlfriends and got super excited when we said no. 😬 Played soccer just like every other pday. Ate some really good pizza. Gave my 5th talk on the mission (one every transfer somehow.) Also, I finally made a google photos album if you want to join it. My phone got robbed before this transfer, so I lost a lot of good pictures and videos, but I got a few back from emails and google chat so it's not all lost.  Anyways love you guys. 

 These last few weeks were really great, but honestly nothing unusual really happened other than normal work. But the work is going really well. I was able to baptize our friend Amancio and he's the best. He lives about 20 minutes away taking a taxi in the middle of the jungle, so it's always fun going to his house. We always see some sort of animal while we're out there. We've seen monkeys, some sort of rodent thing, and a lot of snakes. We saw a huge boa constrictor in the middle of the road, and it was super cool, but aggressive. I'll try to send the video of it. He was probably the most ready person I've ever taught to be baptized. He always reads the scriptures and prays and comes to church. He didn't have any problems with commandments or doubts, and he wants to be a missionary. We would have had to try not to baptize him haha. Now all of his siblings want to get baptized too, so I'm really happy for them.  We also found a girl that was...