Okay listen up. this is important.

So this last week they called me, to ask when I wanted to go home...turns out as gringos we get to choose.  So the thing is, that I had to choose between returning on April 8 as I have mentioned before or coming back May 17. The thing is that for various reasons that I feel and a few reasons that I don't understand, I want to come home the 17 of May. This is a month and a half later. I'm not sure how you all feel about that, but I feel like it's the right decision. Reasons being that this will be the only time that I will have to serve the Lord in this way, and that's one of the things I will absolutely miss about being here in Peru. Another reason is that I feel like because of personal weaknesses, I owe it to the Lord to give him more... because someday He will call me home and I want to tell him I took every chance I had to serve Him and I never let anything get in my way. Another thing is I won't  have school or work. With a whole lot of faith, I know that God will provide. I don't know how, but I know He gave me a bunch of direction before, about where to work and He pulled me through college by guiding me to the plasma clinic. So I'm not worried. Also, this way I will be waiting less to get back to school....time  that I wouldn't really be using too well if I were at home. 


A brief word of consolation:
As for this week it's been a tuffy, but i'm feeling stronger and i'm gonna get back on it. we have had to count contacts to families and we got 13. it was amazing, but we haven't been able to teach them anything. that's the bad part, but the cool thing is that i always show a picture of us all, and it melts hearts. and i always joke about the guapos gringos.This week we painted a house blue...like a nice celestial blue, and it made Rosa really happy. We almost got them to go to church, but we didn't have time to go invite them and they were waiting. So, crap but thats cool... we keep up keeping up. 
One thing I realized this week, is that I have had an awesome life, but I really haven't done stupid things and illegal things...nope. I was so chill. But that's one of the things that's weird, I've realized that people like me aren't normal...we are the weird ones jaja. Elder Palmer is from southern Utah and he was like..."Hey, the 26th come and gone, that means that I'm good to stay on the mission, because they cant press charges anymore jaja. I realized that the stress that comes from that just aint worth it, but we did swap some good stories about mudding. That was a good time.
I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week and that you understand and respect the revelation that came as they called me to make such an important decision.
Que la fuerza les acompañe

mateo 19 29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

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the letter to my mami

Well it occured to me last week, as I left the internet, that I had forgotten to send yall a letter. I feel dumb...but sorry. So this week,  i decided that I wouldn't forget for nothing. 

I'm glad that you're all so busy and that with school under way, you won't be thinking about how much you miss me. These last two weeks I spent eating fruit loops and cap. crunch and well let's just say that all the monies are gone. So these next two weeks are going to be a tough ones. 

My comp is great, we get along really well and he's the only one who likes to exercise which is awesome. I'm just going to enjoy the next few weeks, but you all should know I've gotten really fat. jaja

In our district, I've got a newbie Elder Spencer from San Antonio,Texas. He is really funny especially because he doesn't understand anything in Spanish, but he's coming along and quickly too. It's really funny because he keeps asking me about things that I have never heard of or that I was gone for jaja, but I get to make fun of his accent. It's really funny when he starts with the..."How did you get accustomed to Peru",  jaja and...."The when was the last time you dumped solids?" jaja  You just got to love the quarks! jaja

This last week was a doozy, we had very little success, but we found a family that I have a lot of hope for. The rest of the families that we are working with have kind of stopped dead and it just makes me sad because they aren't going to be able to progress and that  drives me crazy! I don't want to give up on them but MAN it's a battle that they have to fight alone. . . I pray for a miracle because that's about what it will take. 

Then there's us....we are going to start working like crazy to find new families and on building the faith to contact the people in the street. . . that's a tuffy!

haciendo caos

Conference update

As for conference, I won't be, watching it .... until  the week after  because  in peru there is a law that prohibits church activity and drinking during voting and it just happens that gen conf is the same days as the voting... oh and in peru everyone has to vote. or they get fined jaja. I heard that the church with be paying all of the fines for all of the missionaries that will be affected.

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mi querida y esitmada

Mi querido y estimado Familia Preece

Well it's crazy but transfers are in and Villena is gone, but the really weird thing is that I kind of miss him. I don’t know how but perhaps it was the hating him with love that helped us get through it. I don’t know, but to be truly honest I'm just surprised. We really figured out how to make things work and have had a good time too. Even though we had a few really bad days, I'm just pleasantly surprised. I guess that’s the way things go, I've just got to learn how to enjoy the stage of life that i'm in.

Te odio con tanto cariño that’s what I always said to elder villena. This last week was pretty great because it was elder villenas birthday, so we had a party and played a ton of uno, we were really trunky and we went to buy hamburgers a lot, which was cool too. I tried to make banana bread, but it turned out really really bad, more like glob of cooked dough … not really sure what happened there. The other really dumb stories are that we had a few dumb jokes. The first was trying to find look alikes. Comparing dogs to people and that always goes bad when you start looking for the nastiest looking dog and then say hello my beloved and esteemed elder villena and then the dog would bark oh oy callate villena. That was pretty good and that always extended to the politicians ajaj because we've got elections next month, and they’ve gone crazy with the pictures and the posters. we have a good time making fun of each other especially with ivan cunya a future missionary. He leaves 24 of this month and his little brother gabriel. Needless to say that led to making fun of more people, and it was just a rather enjoyable time after the fights and the stupidness.

I am really excited for this next transfer,  why? Well my comp is Elder Villalba and he's  from …..wait for it …… Ecuador ….. jajajajajaja. This will be my 4^th comp from Ecuador jaja, plus my mtc teacher served in Ecuador, and I think I've finally squashed my ecuatoriano hate but that goods. Elder villalba is a humble and very awesome kid I know that it's going to be a great transfer. He's from san pedro Ecuador about 3 hours from quito and and he has a brother and a sister and they are all members. They are one of the very few sealed families down here. That`s such a miracle! We have only spent a short time together, but he has just finished his training. He was trained by my pataza ( literally means huge foot—but it means super good friend) Elder Rich and he seems like he is a really obedient and hard working kid.

And the other thing is that I bought fruit loops, captain crunch, peanut butter and sublimes (chocolates) and tons of milk and bread and lots of other dumb stuff for a pizza and lasagna. I'll let you know that it’s the first time I've gone shopping in 3 months jaja because elder villena and I only ate bread and leche de soya and fruit jaja que loco.

I hope you all had a crazy good time in LP I will catch you all next time but really…..

As for me, I think I have never been better. I realize that the atonement is real and that in a huge way I know that God has given me the gift of 4 comps from ecuador because he knew what he was doing. He brought me down so that he could build me back up to be a better person and more loving than I have ever been before. It's been a crazy spiritual journey and I realize that I have lots of healing left but I have overcome some big hurdles.... like forgiving elder Martinez and elder melo … well almost … jaja. I've still got a ways to go.  But to be honest I'm just happy, and I'm scared to death because sister boone goes home this week and she's the one that came out here with me in the first place. .. crazy.

I love you all and wish you a happy Monday.

Que la fuera les acompañe

JEDI KNIGHT PREECE

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the skinny one is ivan and he's going to serve in bolivia la paz in September. he's been helping us a bunch. he also works in a bread shop.

btw i like the bread there's 

italian, french, cachanga, caramandunga and pan de espuma, which is really good but messy.

Some weeks trunky but good.

This last week, we got buisness done. We had a record number of lessons, and we have been helping a boatload of people.

As for me I'm trunky.  I realized that this next transfer, all the sister missionaries that I came out with are going home and that's just crazy! That means I'm next, and I know how fast time flies. More than anything I just keep working like crazy. 

BTW I love scripture manuals, especially the one for the DC because it really helps you understand what's going on. ... as for the rest ... 

We've  been working with a man named Jimenez, who always is inviting people to talk to us. He then spends 10 minutes talking about his life and his illness, and then we get to teach 3 minutes and then back to his life story (which we've heard a thousand times) jaja. He's  great! I really love it when he tells his grandchildren, come sit down listen to the word of God ... it's great! He has a good heart and a strong testimony in addition to always making us laugh. 

This week, we had an experience that I will cherish for as long as I live. We are teaching a handicapped less active  person who has many doubts, but reads and is very analytical. After we spent a good while taking him to the church, we left to go look for a family of investigators. We got to their house at about 7:50 and church starts at 8. We called them a mototaxi and sent them ahead, then we took off running for the church. We got there  just before they closed the doors for the sacrament. It was such a blessing to know that there was really nothing more that we could have done that morning...also entering the church we had a psych moment knuckles and yeah we did. ..

One of the Elders, Elder Salvateirra has been trunking me up. He was lent the guitar of one of the members, and he has been playing the Strokes, Bruno Mars, and MJ. I'm trunked out my mind, but I've enjoyed every minute. It's been good to relax a little bit, but the awesome thing is that we are still working crazy hard.

Hey anybody heard anything of star wars 7 ...

Anyways, keep up the good work

and may the force be with you,

Elder Preece