Leaving Lima, Lima, Lima….moving to

Chacarilla Peru

Dear Mom and Dad,

Well this week was awesome. I have never been more surprised for a transfer in my life. I got transfered. My companion Elder Hualinga stayed in Central and I am now in an area called Chacarilla. It is right across the street from my area in Vista Alegre. So I have hot water again and it appears that the fleas didn’t follow me. So I have never been more shocked for a transfer in my life. My new companion is Elder Jería and he is awesome. He is from Chile, a part called Viña del Mar. He is an amazing missionary, so I am pretty excited for this transfer and we are going to work hard. 

 

So that is the surprise of the week. The area is pretty hard as far as the people because it is a little more rich. Its even richer than Vista Alegre, actually about the same. I walk past my old area every day so it feels kind of wierd. There are a about 100 people who go to church every week, so the ward is a little stronger than the one in Italia. I am excited to work with the people and the members here. As for the investigators there arent many, but a few of them are ready to progress. We went to a house yesterday and she said she would like to get baptized eventually because she wants to bring her kids to church. She also has a few friends in the ward. So we will help her out. There is also another investigator, I have only met once. She also has a desire to learn more and maybe eventually get baptized. So we will be working with them.

With all that the highlight of the week is when Elder Bednar came. It was awesome and I learned some things that I will never forget and that will help me for the rest of my life. He said that we need to be agents and not objects. It was kind of funny because he said he was sick of people in the church just praying and waiting for things to happen. He said that we need to do it. So it was a great experience and I am excited to apply everything I learned to missionary work and to my life. It was awesome to see an apostle. The training itself was interesting too. It was like nothing I had ever been to. He gave us three talks to study before, then when we got there he asked us what we learned. After that we did questions and answers for over an hour. Everything we talked about was based on what we said. So it was interesting and amazing.

Also in a few weeks we are going to have a training from Elder Godoy in the first quorum of the seventy. We were supposed to have it a couple weeks ago, but it got cancelled. So life here on the mission is amazing and I am having a lot of fun. Sounds like everything at home is going great and that is wierd to see Jackson with all of Auzzys friends jaja. Tell everyone good luck this week and know that everything is going great here for me in the mission. I have gotten to the point where I am really enjoying everything. Im learning a lot. So hopefully you all have a great week!!

 

Elder Seljaas