4 Weeks left!?

Week #97
7/27/15
Hey Everyone!

Well this week was a pretty good week to be honest! We are happy and working hard here in Las Delicias!

 

This week on Monday we played some soccer for 2 hours in the burning hot sun which was really fun but we were dead after playing soccer! I guess im going to need to get back in shape soon here! Even though we were in the sun for a long time we didn't really get burnt which was good! The rest of this week though we were definitely feeling some pains in our legs though! 

Tuesday we had some interviews with President and Sister Williams! I always like talking with them and leaning from them and their examples! Event though we didn't talk for very much time i feel like i learned a lot of things and was able to feel their spirit which was awesome! 

Thursday we had our district meeting which was pretty normal as usual.. Before i was always nervous to give the district classes but i feel like this has really helped me to get over most of the nerves! Im not saying im a perfect teacher but i feel like being a District Leader has taught me a little bit more how to teach.. haha! 

This week the members were doing good at coming with us until we got to Thursday and then from Thursday to Saturday they all failed on us! Despite those difficulties we were still able to have a great week in which we were able to visit many people! We have had some pretty great lessons this week and recently i have been noticing how much i love to teach the restored gospel with the people! I think thats kind of why i get frustrated when the people dont open up the doors because that means we dont get to teach them about happiness! I wish all the people would just open up the doors but i have also learned that Salvation isnt necessarily that easy!! Well were just going to keep on pushing on!

We have kind of gone down hill on the contacts these past couple of weeks because we had already knocked all the doors in the area but thats no excuse so this week my companion and i are going to do a lot more contacts than in the past weeks! We really need to find some more people to teach that are prepared to hear! We are working with lots of good people but sometimes their progress is slow! 

All is going well here in Las Delicias which in English would be the delicious! I don't know what they are referring to though.. If its the dust that's always blowing around that's not very delicious.. The pension does make good food though which is always nice!! The members are cool and we are getting to know them better and gaining their confidence and all is going well! Really there is nothing to complain about! All is well! I know that God lives and loves us too! He wants us to be happy but he cant force us to be happy so we have to use our agency to chose to be happy!

Have a great week everyone! Love you all!

Love,

Elder Jarman

I ended up slipping and falling twice

Week #96
7/20/15

Hey Everyone!

So this week has been rather normal with nothing too out of the blue!

Monday of last week we did a serious room makeover where we cleaned everything really well and we even waxed the floor. It made the room smell really good and it also made the floor really slippery and that was not good! I ended up slipping and falling twice but it was still worth it to clean the room!

This week was pretty decent i guess! The cool thing is that everyday this week the member who was going to come visiting with us came! Some of them got there a little bit later than planned but we were just grateful that they came with us! We weren't able to have a ton of lessons but many of the lessons we had were awesome lessons! We were able to find a couple new people this week which was cool! So hopefully we'll see some progress here soon! One cool thing that happened this week is that investigators and 6 less actives came to church!! We were stoked! It was so cool to see all of them there! We felt blessed to have so many people come to church! The only thing is that lots of them were women and children.. Its always harder to get the men to come to church but were trying! We are excited though because a less active we found somewhat recently named Susana has been coming to church and we have been talking with her husband who is not a member! We have had some really good lessons with them recently we just need him(Karl) to come to church!

Another thing that had been happening this week is that the new water heater that we put into our room has been pulling too much energy for the main box to handle so we have been having lots of technical problems this week! The first time it happened it shut the power off in the whole room and we couldn't get it back on so we called the bishop who knows a little bit about that stuff and he came and fixed it. Then like 2 days later something similar happened and long story short we have been having problems with the water heater and the light in our room and everything but the cool thing is that the bishop came over again this morning and fixed everything up and was showing us how to do it so next time it happens if it does i think i will be able to fix it! The kind of things you learn in the mission! Not just spiritual things but other cool things too!

Other than that this week has been rather normal! The ward is awesome and the members are awesome and im enjoying being here in this area and in this ward! I know that this is the most important work to do on the earth and that it will bring tons of blessings to not only our family but other families looking for the truth as well! Hope you all have a great week! Love you guys!!

Love,

Elder Jarman

I will "die" here in Las Delicias

Week #95
7/13/15

Hey Everyone!!

Well this past week has been somewhat difficult but we were able to have some good lessons!

So yesterday they told us who has changes in the zone and it turns out that i dont have changes and my companion either.. So unless there are some emergency changes i will finish my mission here in this area. So yeah i will be here with elder coca in this area for the end of my mission.. or in mission terms i will die here in Las Delicias and Elder Coca will kill me! Haha! Elder Coca has finished his training yesterday so im not training anymore but im still the District Leader! In the district two of the missionaries finished their missions and two others had changes.. So for now we think that there will be two new missionaries that will come to our district and that temporarily they will shut down one of the areas.. Its possible that another area will become part of our district but im not really sure for now.. Anyways.. Today is the start of my last transfer of my mission.. My last 6 weeks!? Wow that went by fast! A couple days ago i completed 22 months in the mission and i have learned so many things during this whole time!!

This week was somewhat difficult because there were members bailing on us left and right but after all said and done we had a decent week! We didn't have too many lessons but we had some cool lessons! Especially one we had yesterday with someone named Rosa! She and her husband John are really cool! We are having trouble getting them to come to church but we had an awesome lesson yesterday in which she committed to get married and baptized and to come to church and start on the straight and narrow path! Hopefully they will be able to keep their commitments! Another family we are teaching is the family of Karl and Susana! Susana is a less active who is coming back to church and we had our first lesson with her husband Karl yesterday and all went well! Yesterday was his birthday too and so we were surprised that he wanted us to come over on his bday! They seem really cool so were going to work a lot with them in the next coming weeks!

Well theres nothing much else that happened this week! Things are all normal! Theres always dust flying in the air and since its hot and were sweaty by the end of the day we are covered in dirt but its all part of the fun! My companion is deathly afraid of dogs and there are quite a bit of dogs here in Pomalca so its always kind of funny to watch him run away from the dogs! There are some men ones here that are actually somewhat aggressive to so we usually try to avoid those ones! In this area the dog dazer thing comes in handy lots of times! Its pretty funny to mess with the dogs too! The pension here is great! She lives with her husband, daughter and son in law and they are all awesome! She cooks good food and were always joking around and its pretty fun! They have become like a second family for us! Long story short.. all is going well!

I know that God has restored his Priesthood power here to the earth and through the Priesthood today we can receive all the ordinances and blessing to be happy! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Jarman

Hermana Nancy's baptism!

Week #94
7/6/15

Hey Everyone!!

So this week has been somewhat difficult for us but it was awesome at the same time!!

During the first part of the week we were not having much success at all! The cool thing is that on Tuesday was Hermana Nancy´s interview with our mission president in Chiclayo so after lunch we went to Santa Victoria and waited there for a couple minutes for Hermana Nancy to come to the interview! While we were waiting a group of Elders walked up the the office who had emergency changes and one of them was Elder Kasteler!? It was cool to see him and to talk to him but it was kind of sad because they shut down Morrope and there arent missionaries there anymore! Tuesday there were emergency changes because that the day when the mission split. Part of our mission is now part of the Trujillo Norte mission and so there were some last little emergency changes! So anyways i got to see Elder Kasteler and some other Elders too! The interview with President only took like 15ish minutes. He came out and signed the paper and said goodbye! Quick and easy! So we walked out of the office that day stoked that Hermana Nancy was going to be baptized! 

The whole rest of the week when we went out with members to visit the people didnt want to open up the doors for us and when we werent with the members the people opened up their doors but since we werent with members we werent able to enter a lot of the houses.. We were kind of ummed but we were able to have some good lessons this week! Not quantity but quality!

On Saturday we had the baptism of Hermana Nancy at 4PM! She got there at like 3:45ish and then we ended up having to wait until like 4:20ish when the baptism started! There were quite a bit of people there for her bapism which was awesome! The service went well and we sung a special number just us 4 missionaries from the ward and all in all it was awesome! My companion was able to baptize her and it was his first baptism so he was pretty happy and all in all it was a very cool and spiritual experience! The only bummer is that her family didnt come to the baptism.. :( Were going to have to work lots with her family now! Anyways it was a great way to end a somewhat difficult week!

Were still happy and keeping up the hopes even though sometimes things are difficult! I now that everything we pass through and endure in the end will be for our benefit! God loves us so very much! Love you guys too! Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Jarman

The Lord prepares people for us to teach

Week #93
6/29/15

Hey Everyone!

This week was quite a bit better than last week! So were pretty happy and chugging along in the work!

This week we have been focusing a lot on Hermana Nancy and preparing her for baptism! This week w have visited with her a couple of times and everytime she just seems so willing and ready! She is awesome! Things are on track for her to be baptized on Saturday she just needs to have her baptismal interview first! We have been trying hard this week to have her read the Book of Mormon and she is doing well so far! One cool thing is that we got to church yesterday and when we walked in the door she was already there sitting down with some ofher kids! She got there beforeus and forgoed her breakfast to come to church! We can really tell that she wants to do this! Its always so cool to see how the Lord prepares people for us to teach and when we find those people and bring them the message of the gospel the change that comes upon them and their family and the happiness that they recieve! So we are hoping and praying that all goes well this week and that on Saturday she will be able to have this very special experience!

Other than that this we on Wednesday we had a ward mission night activity that was planned by the the full-time and ward missionaries and it was very stressful! Im not going to lie it was hard work! We eneded up going all out on the activity and spending a lot of time in preparation for the activity! The activity was like a mini Plan of Salvation representation! There was an iron rod the people had to follow to get to the tree of life but they had to pass by all these rooms that had movies and karaoke and other fun games that were acting as distractions! Its kind of hard to explain it over the computer but after all said and done it went pretty well and we were abe to learn more about Jesus Christ and his wonderful Atonement that he gives to us! Im not going to lie im glad that its over though! The other cool thing is that some investigators and less actives came to the activity!

Other than that this week was rather normal! We weren't able to go out visiting with too many members but we were able to take advantage of the few times this week when we were able too! This week should be a lot better too because we have people signed up to go out with us this week!!

I know that Jesus Christ lives and like the hymn says "Oh it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me" I'm so grateful for his sacrifice and for being our great mediator!! Love you all!!

Love,
Elder Jarman

The dedication of the Trujillo Peru Temple

Week #92

6/22/15

Hola Everyone!!

Well this week had been tough not going to lie! The whole week we haven't really had any success but Sunday made up for all of it!

Tuesday was a pretty cool day and about the only good day we had the whole week! I did a work visit with Elder Epperson from my group! After the District meeting we went with each other and i went to his area and my companion and his companion went to our area! It was pretty cool! We had a good day and i was able to learn a lot from Elder Epperson! It was kind of strange being with someone from my own group but fun at the same time!!

Wednesday through Saturday were hard days for us! All the members who told us they were going to come out with all failed on us!! That didnt allow us to visit any of the women we had appointements with and we almost werent able to visit Hermana Nancy.. On Friday we had an appointment with her and the member was there in his house but just didnt come out and kind of like disappeared.. So we went to our ward mission leaders house whos having a little bit of back problems right now and he was willing to sacrifice for us and miraculously we were able to visit Hermana Nancy and we had a good lesson with her and shes doing awesome!! Thats another thing that keeps us going during the difficult week! The joy that we see when the people make those changes in their lives and are so willing to accept the gospel!!

The other really awesome thing was what happened on Sunday! On Sunday was the dedication of the Trujillo Peru Temple and it was aweomse!! There were 3 sessions and we were able to attend all three of them and the spirirt was very strong! Presidente Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Elder David A. Bednar came to do the Temple Dedication and we heard awesome talk and messages and it was all really cool! Also the night before we watched the cultural event for the Temple where they did all these native dances and it was a really fun experience! It was a good way to end a rather tough week that we had! The good news is that theres a new Temple in the world and that Nancy Penas is progressing very well! Were still keeping up the hard work!

I know that Families can be together forever through the sacred Priesthood power that God has restored to the Earth through the prophet Joseph Smith! I love you all! God love you too!

Love,

Elder Jarman

If all goes well while you are all partying for the 4th of July I will be in a baptism!! :)

Week #91
6/15/15

Hey Everyone!!

So this week went a whole lot better!! I am finally getting to know the area a little bit better and we were able to have some success this week which felt good!!

I guess ill start with the coolest thing that happened this week! On Saturday we had a great lesson with Nancy P. in which we explained to her about baptism! We talked for a while and it ended up being a long but awesome lesson! She explained to us how she has felt the "Spirit"! I put it in parenthesis because she didnt use those words but she literally explained almost all of the fruits of the spirit which lets us know that she really has felt the spirit! We invited her to be baptized on the 4th of July and she accepted!!!! So if all goes well while you are all partying for the 4th of July I will be in a baptism!! :) She came to church on Sunday too which was awesome!! She is progressing very well and we are very happy right now!!!

So other than that this week we were able to do divisions on Thursday with some of the members which was cool! I was kind of nervous that i wouldnt know the area but it ended up being fine! We had a lot of success that day too which was awesome!! Everyday this week besides one we were able to have a member come with us which was super cool! Thats one of the perks of being in a big ward!! Saturday was a day of a lot of walking and a lot of contacts!! Pomalca is a very dusty place.. after walking around for so long contacting the people you can wipe youre face off and you can feel all the dirt thats on your face.. you can also feel it in your hair and its all rather nasty.. 

On Tuesday we were able to do a service for our pension which was really cool! They serve us so much and we cant really pay them back for their service so it was cool to be able to do a service for her and her family! We helped knock down two walls in her house and take all the debris out! It was actually kind of fun but we finished pretty tired and sore but it felt good to do service!!

Sunday we had stake conference with lot of the other members in the stake! It was really good and the talks were good! It was really hot in there but what made it so awesome was that Nancy came with her daughter and her niece and it was so cool! She is so awesome!!

My companion and i are getting to know each other better and hes teaching me some of the slang they use in Bolivia and everything going great!! The pension son-in-law is going to bring us Pizza Hut tonight for dinner too which im excited for! First time in like a year and a couple months!!

Well i hope you all have a great week! Love you guys! I know that God lives and LOVES us! 

Love,

Elder Jarman