dearest family

this week was a good week. we had lots of investigators taught, and we even fixed a baptism date. but that's not really my success all the credit goes (rightfully to our father in heaven). This week i have realized 2 things the first is that i need to have a stronger testimony because the people of peru deserve somebody who can bring the spirit to a lesson and give them the strongest push towards the truth as possible. that's why i started reading the liahona or more specifically the 2010 october conference talks . .  i think or it's april, but i am not really sure. anyway it's amazing how little i paid attention during all the general conferences in my life. i think i only remember . . .. well let's just say that it's not a lot. but they are really good. perhaps it took learning a different language to really learn how to listen to the spirit. 

today we have had a really fun pday we when to head of cow or cabeza de vaca. it's a very little known inca relic, and it was sweet cause we got to walk all over the walls and in the pits. they had the coolest little pots and shells that had importance i´m sure. but i was a tad excited to just see everything. also they say that the city was built in the year 100 b c and it has been covered in dirt completely. and i was thinking what kind of event would have to take place to cover an entire city . . . oh . . . christ died. got it. to say less testimonio strengthened.  .. 

we also encountered a gheto park that i hope to show you someday i´m having some problems with my camera's card, but i hope to repair it. we have cambios next week, so i´ll be writing to tell you where i´m at and who I´m with. its a pity really because after 3 cambios with elder castillo i don´t want to change, but that's the life with missionaries you just get to love the weirdo, and then they leave you.

 

any way no time left chau

elder preece

que la fueza te 

no pics and definately no chicks.

so this week was a good one. we had interviews with the president. I really like him. he has a super good personality (in reference more than anything tooooo the fact that he gets teenagers and understands the inability for latinos to be 100% obedient.) that more than anything has caused me the most grief, but his advice was just worry about you and help them along. you really can´t do more that. and for the pictures i'm sitting at a computer that doesn´t have a usb port that hasn´t lost its precious life, so the wonderfully awful pìctures i took won´t reach you until next week. and plus we went to the beach today how wonderful. the weather here is a nice crispy hot mixed in with some sweat and a few cloudy days. it's actually more humid here than i would have thought. i sweat all the time. it´s awful. but it's cool. just the week after i got your package, i found where to buy peanut butter and coco powder. haha it's justice, but the peanut butter is really expensive or so i have been told. we played beach soccer which is actually really fun. and just chilled for a few hours, which i feel like is a real great way to make the other 6 days of the week hurt more cause we always have things to do . but a lot of missionaries wouldn´t make it if they didn´t have that time to relax. as for me i am just learning to be content with where i am. i spent almost all my time in the mtc trying to get to peru and almost all of my time in peru wanting to speed up the time. but i realize that i might never get back. i think it helps give us perspective when we see missionaries going home. to some it makes them trunky, but to me i am really appreciative that i still have a long time to serve. although it's hard. the other thing is when i am done, i will be done and go home and work on something else. 

I didn´t know you bought another car. . .  thats cool. but it seems that you now have 3 cars in the shop and two more to boot. sorry that your kids are all really hard on the equipment so to speak. so news from the mish. what would really help us out is prayers for new investigadores or better yet lessons with investigators. we are doing all we can to teach, but sometimes we need a little direction, and one thing i am learning daily is to rely more on the spirit. yes this is something hard for me. but yeah.    

this last week was quick. at the church stake conference they broadcasted a live meeting from slc with elder bednar and elder scott and some 70 i don´t remember to all of peru. and they gave some of the most powerful talks i have ever barely understood. hahaha they are really spiritual and guided people. they talked a lot about the arrepentimiento and the jovenes in perú that what we need is the youth of today to take over and be the leaders and parents of tomorrow. really awesome stuff. anyway. i didn´t know that having 100 stakes was a really big deal, but apparently it is. peru is one of 5 nations to have 100 stakes i think, but the work here is progressing one family at a time. 

the sad new: we pretty much lost one of our best investigatores this week be cause she is having problemas with her parejo. i think they are in a down ward spiral. what's really sad is it wasn´t until we set a date for their baptism that the problems started. super sad stuff but we move on. 

we are really working this week for lessons with members and lessons with new investigadores because about all we do is visit less actives and we really want to drop the less part. but we have had some success we have about 3 families that are more or less attending church. which is awesome and hopefully they will bring their families. 

i have included a screen shot as an explanation for why i spell things so wrong. any way, lots of love and protection.

May the force be with you your son and most favorite child 

Elder preece

and ps. 

Happy birthday

mckell

brianne

daddy

and the rest of you birthday kids.

vayan bien en la escuela

que la fuerza te acompañe 

hasta luego 

elder preece

Friend in the showers, peanut butter balls and sunglasses

so this week really nothing much happened on the investigator front. i guess we did fix another baptism day with maria palacios so hopefully that goes through. also we have another family that has a wedding date but hasn´t been attending church. and if they don´t start, she´ll still be able to get married, but her baptism is out. and so we keep working. 

lately we have been working with luis and maralin. It is a super sad story. they are living together only for their kids, and i am not sure what to do for them cause he seems to want to put things right, but she seems like she´s done waiting. it's a mess. they aren´t married and soooooo for those of you that have wives give them a kiss cause there are enough broken families in the world. and you're just lucky enough to be whole 

so on to something hilarious I wore the same tie for the entire month of august the nasty flower tie ( which i love) anyway no body noticed an entire month and nobody said anything. and that's when i realized that we are storm troopers. people hardly notice that we are different people when we get to a new area. 

which brings me to who is in the new star wars cast. i´m dying to know if i am going to be disappointed or not.

also for the star wars front i have been thinking a lot about the quote from yoda which goes 

Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless. 

so i have been thinking mostly that i am luke skywalker. actually i had this thought before, which is why i have the grand picture of him. but all my life i look forward never focusing on the moment. which is a problem because it will make you really unhappy especially when you have two years of doing the same things over and over again. not that tracting isn´t fun. but it gets tiresome, and you're hot. and it really sucks, and then somebody invites you in, and you feel the spirit, and you testify and it's beautiful. and then the night comes and you wake up the next day, and you have to fight to have the spiritual experiences again. don´t get me wrong i love peru; i love serving. i just always have rushed from one experience to another. and as dad says sloooow doooown. for this my compañion is awesome he is really slow. 

i have my first interview with the president this week wonder how that will be.

so our little scorpion friend: found him in the shower while i was pooping, which was a good thing cause he scared the poop right out of me. really convenient if you ask me. we have a bunch of these little guys around. they are kind of a nuisance. we even found one in the church. 

one of the new missionaries is from south jordan. and he actually hung out with nicole laraway haha small world. his name is Elder haha (side story: today one of the latino elders called my attention with gringo i chewed him out a bit cause my name is elder you shouldn´t forget it.) holmes yes as in sherlock. oh and from what i heard the mtc in provo takes the cake for mtc experiences. although they have soft serve ice cream in the lima mtc. that would pretty cool. 

oh this week i decided i hate tv. because peruvians watch the darn thing all the time, and it is soooo hard to have a solid spritual lesson when you have to ask the to turn the tv off (side note they call it a teli which just sounds terrible). as for the spanish i understand about 50%. i work hard, but they just say tons of words that i don´t know. it's great though cause you can always fake understanding. like the other day elder rich a different new elder was asked which sports do you play? and he was like huhg and elder yañez was like futbol basketball which sports? and he was like oh claro, and i whisper what the question was and he was like oooohh no musica. yeah really not much else hasta proto

may the force be with ya

chau

elder preece