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La vida de chulucanas

Chulucanas: jajaja que la fuerza les acompañe (may the FOURTH BE WITH YOU)

So today's a great day for all star wars lovers and for me jaja. we are celebrating the 2 years since the announcement of star wars 7 jaja good times.

the truth is, this last week was awesome working hard. rollin in the numbers and eating up the time. jaja the truth is the mission is awesome. it's the hardest thing i've ever done in my life, but it's also the thing i've done for the longest. 

the truth is that i can't be happier. but that's what i say today. tomorrow who knows? jaja that's the thing with the mish your up and then your down jaja but it's all good. 

this week we ............... worked like missionaries do pues.

i keep having flashbacks. it's nuts. like ........ oh yeah i left the mtc months ago.... what we're teaching again ...... but yeah. ...... uuuuummmm

today we went to la encantada  a pueblo about 20 minutes from chulucanas. it's a small town, but the coolest part was that the town is famous for their pottery. the truth is that nicole would love it. i'll send a few pics home. i took a lot ..... but only of the ones that were decently clothed jajaja tha'ts a big problem las cosas cochinadas. 

i hear that you guys are still fighting over which room i'm going to stay in. just so you know, i will be exacting my revenge. treat me kindly o tu sabes lo que recibiras 

........

solo sabed que os amo y muy pronto ire a vosotros..

Paz os dejo. 

Y que la fuerza este con vosotros.

ELder PRECEe

fotitos jajaja

como quisiste no se por que 

son feitos como tu jajajajaja

look at this dork jajaja

this is my pic that pres has got on the transfers wall jajaja. 

they took it when i first got to Piura, Peru  after. 18 hr. in a plane jajaja 

Chulucanas, Peru

so it pretty much was a good week. we are getting more contacts. when i got here we really didn't do many, but that's the thing when you move from one area to another you have to start from where the area's at. and then work up. we've got a lot of good people, but the thing is that it's a touffy because well there are lots of problems with chastity, so everyone we talk to is subject to a bit of suffering ie repentance and they don't do that a lot. but hey not so bad i guess. 

the truth is i'm still focused although i'm a lot more stress free. jajaja i've been reading like crazy and i'm even starting to organize my mission notebooks. i think that will be a blessing. jaja plus i've been thinking a little and i mean a little about the purpose of life jaja. but i haven't come to any conclusions yet. still thinking that living in the basement is the best option for me. jaja it's a nice plan. i have to think cheap food and free hot water what more could i ask for jaja.  

so we live in the arequipa con junin. it's a nice two story building but it flooded before i got in because of the monsoon ajaja and now there is a lot of nasty mold, but we are going to paint it next week. and then we won't get sick jaja. but it's nice a little concrete box. with a hole for a window, so i'm just happy. the street is Arequipa 631, Chulucanas not sure about the number, but it's the concrete one next to the other one that has a white fence. we have a room on the second floor, but in the back facing the coral. it's big, but we don't have a shower curtain jaja or a door for the bathroom jaja but no problem.  in addition to the butterfly plague the stinks are nasty. they are everywhere and the crickets. aweful  but up until now, i have only been bitten once by a mosquito, which is good because there is a dengue going around jaja. that would really bite getting dengue and then going home jajaja. but yeah the church Moquegua 700, Chulucanas and ........... yeah well there really isn't much else.  hope your weeks great and i'll write you when i be 3 weeks from quiting time.

Elder Preece

May the force be with you.

Chulcanas week 1: So lets get things straight.

as for me i'm doing fine. i'm working diligently and i'm learning the names of my branch. it's a nice branch of about 50 actives, and they are either really old or kind of young. it's a common trend among peruvian wards, but it's normal because there have been lots of problems. you see they fight a little. but normalishly. for here. jaja

we have had a few interesting happenings. 

our apartment has been invaded by moths yikes... and we have had no food because we didn't have time to buy food last week, but now that we are skinnier, we went to piura to buy more jaja but now it's all good. i bought about 160 sols of food that should keep me good until about ............... the time when i get home jaja. but moving stuff by bus is a hassle and i don't want to anymore.  jaja but i don't have to that's the good thing jaja.

um my comp is a quiet kid from cuzco. he's great just doesn't talk. the worst kind of comp for me, but he's obedient and he works. its been tough because it's a new area, but it's not like i've got to do much more than work because i wont have to teach anyone so it's chill. 

it's been a tough week but i'm not complaining. i just want that to be better. beat my inner demons and then get back to where i belong. jaja i love peru and i've become really peruvian but  it's time that i get back especially because i keep getting these nightmares that i'm late for class, but i don't know what my classes are. it's horrible.

LOve yall

May the force be wit ya.

Elder pREECE

FREAK i forgot how much i hate beginnings.

so i realized today that the truth is that it's not endings that are soooooo bad. . .. it's the beginnings that suck... like really. new branch new pensionista (she serves water simple not the water (juice) that my old mamita loved to serve jajaj) she was a little rebellious jaja  but well so you know i'm now in chulucanas, piura, peru. its a small town about an hour out of piura we came in a bus. it costs 4 soles to get out here. about a buck and a quarter. expensive right. . . .

this last week was crazy. we spent some time with chrystian chiroke an RM that got back about the time that i was sent to paita. it's always fun to spend time with him. he's a crazy nut job, but i love him. if you look up his instagram you'll see pics of us jajaja or his face jaja. technology is crazy.

i loved conference although we missed elder holland the wifi went out, and we had to run to the house of our mamita to watch the end. we ended up staying in her house to watch the last one. we ate a nice parillada and some ceviche de pota. yum. . . when i get back we'll have some fun cooking up some ceviche. you might like it jajaja 

so my new comp is elder quispe. he's got 14 months in the mission. he's from cuzco, and he's alright. quiet not like elder martinez jaja but i'm sure we'll be getting along more than anything because i don't have the leadership jaja i'm just going to be as happy as can be. i like the area lots and lots of pista (pavement) paita was .... a little ..... well 

anyway it's just really kind of exhausting making new friends and it's even stranger when i know that i'm going in just 6 short weeks. but that's the mish gig. when i got my new assignment pres. called to thank me and that made me feel really weird in a lot of ways. i have always wondered if my efforts have been pleasing to the lord and in a way that was a great answer to my questions. so i guess that's awesome. i started to read the new testament this week i love the story of jesus. it fills me up and makes me wonder. he really was that incredible. and yet so many don't believe in him or if the believe they don't do what he taught. 

conf. thoughts.

1 getting married is important.... don't think i'd ever thought of that before.

2. Sabbath day and technology arent 100% compatible.

3 cellphones and the sacrament NO

4 we need to be more respectful of other religions remembering that they too want the same things as us. 

5 we need to build our faith and our testimonies. 

sure i'm missing something but....

oh and anybody know what's up with Pres. monson? he didn't give the welcome or the ending speech. what's up with that and he looked sick to me. .. i want info if there is any.

love y'all have a killer week.

ELDER PREECE

que la fuerza este con vosotros.

Paita: Cumpleanos

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LATE JAJAJA

Paita: FELIZ DIA DE SAN VALENTINO

I want you to know that el dia de amistad here is not as well celebrated . . . by the elders jajajajajajajajaja. No we had a great day, sharing the love of Jesus. . . . it's a whole other level. Today, we went to the beach...which is what we like to do. We always get there, but we have to make like a can of sardines. This is the last week of the transfer. and I'm sure that I'm going to stay here. It's been tough, I won't lie... mostly because as a missionary I put a high bar and you could say that I beat myself up to it. I think the hardest part about mission life is with your companion because when they aren't up to par .... you suffer. I have realized that if we are strong, then we get put with others who aren't.  WHY . . . because when you have a strength you have to share it or use it. That's what happens. I realized that in my mission I have suffered a lot, but that's because God needed me to help others, and in the process of these pain filled experiences I have grown so much more than 

I thought would be possible. I have learned too, that I need to fear God more then anyone or anything else. I have learned that stress and pain are natural. We are working hard here and I won't lie to you. Missionary work is a little tough in Paita because they work sooooo hard, but they are good people.

This last week I got sick and had diarrhea until.... whoa, but because of this I read the 2014 May  Liahona jajaja.  I think it's one of the best ever. I'm almost done with the November one but it's still got me down jajaja. 

Lately I've been sick, stomach sick like "I CANT EAT THE STINKIN RICE" sick. I DONT WANNA, but hey I gotta. 

Oh I'm not sure if I told you, but I've collected a bunch of seashells for the girls. I think that they would make cool necklaces, but you have to wait until May.

Other than that, I'm  really boring. I could tell you about the zones drama like how they don't say elder or that they talk informally with the pronoun tu but that's really not that interesting. . .  . . . . . . . . . well you should know that talk by writing is my least favorite mode of communication. I heard an interesting phrase... to papa monkey green bananas NO:...weird but works.

Oh yep I drew a blank

Love you keep strong and remember 18 of February. I turn 666 days old in the mission jajajaja.

Elder Preece

May the force be with you.

Paita: para la famidamly

i love you lots Practically times up. but just want you to know that im working away harder then ever. and that really we are super blessed. had interviews last week with pres. and let's say that it was a wet one.  .. .but i asked him for a blessing and i know that everything's going to work out just fine. im working on the faith in hard situations. pray for us and pray for my companion he has some things that have got to change and pray for me. and i'll pray for you. love you all and wish you a happy week. 

May the Force awaken jajaja be with you.

ELDER PREECE

Paita: your letter.

This week has been a crazy simple week, nothing really exciting happened, but I hope you liked my letter from last week jajaja. I have been trying to be super positive lately because the work has been tough. As I have done so, I've realized that I have been worried about a lot of things that really don't matter and I have had my eyes opened to the miracles that are all around me. Even though I sleep sometimes, well a lot in church jajajaja  I am my fathers son. jajaja. 

This last week,  a less active family came for the second time and they brought their deaf child. They are a super cool family. Another family, that I have never taught but have ran into a few times that had been baptized about a year ago came too.  This was also super cool. We didn't even see them this week. I know God's giving it all He's got...we really are just super lucky to have the gospel!

I love you lots. I've been thinking a lot really about something really really important... what I want to eat when I get back and I decided that I want waffles with bacon aaaaaannd strawberries, fresh strawberries. Yep and with whipping cream and orange juice, real florida orange juice...none of the tampico crap. I want this to be the first meal home with my family. Anything else  I want, I will just have to come back to Peru for. jajaja. It took a lot of thought but then I realized that we can't  eat pig or strawberries and waffles don't  exist here soooooo done deal. 

jajaja

On a more serious level,  I would like you to know how my area is. The dirt here makes a nice layer of talc and everyone works in the fish. That's  one of the hardest things about this part of the world, in the pota (giant squid) they are gone 10 days in the merluza no idea what that is but it tastes really good. 15 to 20 days and perico that's 30 days. Which really bites, because the people don't have time off. The rest work in the factories, and  that's even worse. They usually work a week of graves and then a week of days. They only stop work for Sunday, but that is when they do all there shopping and washing and etc.

This week we haven't had water in our room.... bugs the crap out of my comp,  but I'm chill. I figure at least, I don't have to poop in  a hole like everyone that we visit soooooo I figure we are better off. Not that pooping in a whole bothers me much jajaja, but I guess a white shirt is really telling jajajajajaja. BTW in Peru, they don't buy building lots, they just build and hope that they don't get kicked out.

My comp is crazy awesome, a tad trunky but I'm alright with that. He was a dj before his mish and he loves all music especially electronic, so he sings all the time.  I just ignore that but also we have had some very deep disney conversations and sing ins jajaja.  We've  been changing the lyrics to the songs, he usually makes fun of me for being trunky hahaha but all is good.

I WENT TO THE BEACH

ELder preece

May the force be with you.

Paita, Peru: Christmas & New Years

Carta de la Misión:19 enero de 2015

Buenos Días a la Mejor Misión del Mundo—Perú Piura!!

Durante la semana leí muchas cartas de ustedes y sus metas y logros. Muchos compañerismos

están trabajando mejor que nunca con los miembros y el consejo de barrio parar encontrar nuevas

familias para enseñar y bautizar. Algunos misioneros están fijando metas muy específicas con los

miembros con seguimiento constante para ayudarles a lograr sus metas y planes misionales.

Las Normas de Excelencia son altas. Yo escuché de misioneros hablando con 20, 22, y 23 personas

nuevas muchos días durante la semana. Estos misioneros se sienten felices y exitosos. Hablé con

otros que hablaron con 12, 13, 15 y siente muy bien y quiere hacer más. También hablé con

algunos compañerismos que hablaron con 3 o 5 nuevos cada día y me prometieron mejor sus

esfuerzos.

Con todos quiero compartir algo que leí esta mañana en Moroni capítulo 7:

26 ..... Y tan ciertamente como Cristo vive, habló estas palabras a nuestros padres,

diciendo: Cuanto le pidáis al Padre en mi nombre, que sea bueno, con fe creyendo que

recibiréis, he aquí os será concedido.

27 Por tanto, amados hermanos míos, ¿han cesado los milagros porque Cristo ha subido a

los cielos....?

29 Y porque ha hecho esto, ¿han cesado los milagros, mis queridos hermanos? He aquí, os

digo que no; ni han cesado los ángeles de ministrar a los hijos de los hombres.

 33 Y Cristo ha dicho: Si tenéis fe en mí, tendréis poder para hacer cualquier cosa que me

sea conveniente.

42 De manera que si un hombre tiene fe, es necesario que tenga esperanza; porque sin fe

no puede haber esperanza.

43 Y además, he aquí os digo que el hombre no puede tener fe ni esperanza, a menos que

sea manso y humilde de corazón.

Yo les testifico que es “conveniente” para Dios que nosotros encontramos más de sus hijos

elegidos. Él está feliz con los esfuerzos y los cambios que están haciendo. Les amo mucho. Oro

que puedan encontrar familias preparadas para el Evangelio. Oro que puedan trabajar juntos con

miembros para “Apresurar” éste gran obra de Salvación.

¡A Trabajar........con fe, esperanza y humildad!

Presidente Rowley

Mission Group Picture

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they sent this to my comp jajaja

carta de presidente

Enero 2015


¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Es imposible creer que es 2015. El comienzo de un año nuevo es una oportunidad de evaluar nuestras vidas y el camino en que estamos caminando. Es una oportunidad de resolver de nuevo a hacer lo bueno y reconocer lo bueno que hemos hecho. 

En un discurso Elder Jeffrey R. Holland dijo que el año nuevo es para “hacer un inventario de nuestra vida y ver hacia donde nos dirigimos comparándolo con el antecedente de donde hemos estado hasta ese momento. "El explico que debemos seguir adelante con fe. “La fe es para el futuro. La fe pone los cimientos en el pasado pero nunca anhela quedarse allá. La fe confía en que Dios tiene grandes cosas reservadas para cada uno de nosotros y en que Cristo es en verdad el sumo sacerdote de los bienes venideros.”

Queremos invitarles a evaluar su vida, su misión. ¿Está donde quiere estar? ¿Hay cambios que quiere hacer? En Isaías 7:15 dice que debemos “desechar lo malo y escoger lo bueno.” Tal vez no estamos haciendo cosas malas pero en las palabras de Elder Dallin H. Oaks a veces tenemos que distinguir entre lo que es bueno, mejor, o excelente. 

Elder Quentin L. Cook nos enseñó en la Conferencia General de Octubre 2014 que “examinen sus metas y objetivos y se esfuercen para ejercitar mayor disciplina. Nuestra conducta y opciones diarias deben estar en armonía con nuestras metas. Es especialmente importante que tomemos decisiones que concuerden con nuestros convenios de servir a Jesucristo en rectitud. Por ningún motivo debemos quitar la vista de esa meta ni dejarla de lado.” 

En Alma 34:32 dice: “Porque he aquí, esta vida es cuando el hombre debe prepararse para comparecer ante Dios; si, el día de esta vida es el día en que el hombre debe ejecutar su obra.” Les invitamos a pensar en lo que quieren lograr en su vida, en este tiempo en la misión y hacer planes y metas que van a ayudarle a llegar. ¡Lo mejor aún está por venir!

¡A trabajar!

Presidente y Hermana Rowley

lots of love from 2015 elder preece what what.

not sure you'll ever feel the same way about peru as me but i understand why. when someone is in a place for 2 years you become a part of it. as a missionary i am about 99 % peruvian jajaja.

this last week we ate dinner with pres. quiroga from the branch. he's awesome very excited about working to expand the branch, which is awesome we had pizza, turkey, ice cream, canned peaches. we were stuffed. that was christmas eve. christmas day we ate a type of cebiche that is approved in the mission. more or less. it's cooked so we figured it counts. it was squid with other types of sea life that i couldn't recognize with lots of lemon that was great. christmas here is a huge celebration that leaves about everybody drunk or sleeping soooo the afternoon was fun, but better yet was new years. we had a ton of fun for new years.we burnt a viejo or the old year. it's a really fun peruvian tradition. each year they make a manikin which represents the last year. they load it full of explosives and paja which is like straw i guess and then the light her on fire. jaja we made one. it's a great time. you'll see him in the fotos jajaja. we slept early and woke up at 1 to see the craziness and i'll say they put up quite a fight on the fireworks scheme. it was cool to see.  

we went fishing today that was crazy btw i feel like we've really been downing the fishing scheme. all you need to fish is that plasiky wire and a hook and the hook doesn't even need a hole. i caught two small cachudos but the rest of the group didn't get anything jajaja it's a trick but to be honest i liked it. look out lake powell here i come.  then we went to the beach colàn. it's a nice touristy beach that's even got a pretty catholic temple. we got a few pics. the beach had a funny thing lots of sea snails and lots of seashells like what you find at lake powell but bigger i saved you a bunch if you want them jaja i really love that part about paita. oh 

the best story of the week i'm becoming dad. so we we were teaching this lady right and about 5 mins in the member we brought starts to nod off and then 6 mins in i start to nod off and at 10 mins my comp says well here's a pamphlet well stop by later jajajaja and the other was christmas day we stayed up talking until 3 slept until 4 and then we went and peeled chickens until 7 we started studding at 8 and both of us died jajaja super funny. i've been really tired lately and sleeping in lessons a lot . s

we caroled christmas eve. to a that was fun especially when we sang rudolph in english. 

take care and all 

elder preece

May the force be with you.