Hey Whats up Texas? How can I put it I am not trunky at all I do not want to go home at all I feel that there is so much that I still need to do for others as well as for myself. I feel like I haven't changed as I should have but oh well these twelve weeks I really want to give it my all and as my comp is a good guy but has 6 months in the area he is really disanimated like depressed. I love him but it's hard on me cuz he just doesn't care like the other day he told me I'm here for two years that's it thats all I'm here for to go on a mision and go home saying how he doesn't care about baptisms or anything that kinda just makes me mad cuz he just wants to waste time in the house or in the houses of members and ya its really stressing me out cuz I feel like its been this way my whole mission I'm ready to work and I have a companion that's holding me back , don't get me wrong I'm not saying that I am the best misisionary and I am sure I have held back some missionaries but man it just makes me sad I work my butt off and they just don't care oh well I'm in kind of a depressed state so ya sorry but I will talk about somehting very cool.  I have been studying more about seeing Christ face to face and I have seen in D&C 93:1 88:68 also some other scriptures such as the John 14 about the otro consolador and in la guia de escrituras it talks about two comfortors the first is the espiritu santo el otro es JesuCristo mismo and that when a man recieves the second comfortor that Christ may appear to him from time to time to instruct him. and may even present him to the father. I have also learned from a quote by Bruce R Mckonky El élder Bruce R. McConkie escribió que la
promesa de ver el rostro de Dios puede tener
cumplimiento en esta vida: "Tenemos el poder y el
privilegio de que, al llegar a ser limpios de corazón, veamos
la faz de Dios aun mientras vivamos en este mundo de
pecado y tristeza 

The translation is  that the promise to see the face of God can be completed in this life ( we have the power and the privilege that becoming clean in heart we see the face of God even while we live in this world of sin and sadness

but ya I have also learned from my studies that the temple was built for the purpose of seeing the Lord face to face in the Celestial room,

So that's something intersting,  also I have really been trying to pray as Moroni 7 says with all energy of heart.  I'm trying but I feel like I'm missing something. I'm trying to ask what the spirti would have me ask 3 Nephi 18 24 but ya  its hard I'm trying to be more sensative to the promptings of the Holy Ghost trying to discern those promoptings but ya anyway well also I am just trying to pray to have more faith and charity and to become pure in heart. I have found the same answer ...keep´the commandments,pray, fast, read the scriputres, and basically those things I am doing. I put a goal to fast twice a week and to be positive that's the hard one by the way and to always have clean thoughts when I say clean thoughts I'm talking about positive thoughts I'm talking about thinking about Christ and what he did for me all day long its hard but I'm working on it well im almost done but i wanna say

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS IRELAND 

I love you ireland!! you are freaking 16 years old!!! Wow I'm such a grandpa now ahha !!!Ireland I love you so muych you still can't date cuz I'm still not home and I can't interview the boys yet but ya I love you sis you are so beautiful I love you have a happy birthday and remember that comes from peru as well ahaha

 I gotta go y'all!!

Hola Texas well im doing good I'm just bummed about my mission extension getting denied although my friend elder Dority is pretty happy ahhaaha!! He's actually one reason I want to go to Utah for a year and work instead of study he's just a great friend and has changed my life in alot of ways!! This week we had a baptism for this 16 year old named Andy. He's a great guy really actually my comp baptized the family but not him so when I went there I asked how many kids they have and how many were members and well he wasn't so ya he wanted to get baptized so ya it was great. I really don't know how my comp baptized everyone else but him oh well they all members now except the father who is excommincated but ya they are active and are really great. 

What's up Texas? well this week has been hard like our golden investigator Joel who said I want to get baptized asap well on Sunday morning we get a text from him saying that well he is going to stick with his church now. We have had some problems this week especially with Joel well para que sepa joel is like 28 and told us yo quiero a bautizarme el mas pronto que posible mañana si es que se puede but we told him he needed to prepare and everything and he was wicked exited about everything but the only problem was that his dad is from assembleas de dios and like hates the mormons but Joel had known the church for a long time so he was pretty exited. I guess Sunday or Saturday night his dad like disanimated him like crazy we don't really know anything cuz de la nada he sent us a text message saying he was just going to stick in his church so that made us sad but his friend is a member and Joel keeps his car in his house so we should be hearing from his friend today but ya other than that weve  been looking for families. We have this lady Minoska a less active that we will rescue but she has two kids that want to get baptized ,I dont really want to put them in the water cuz I need to talk to the dad but the dad doesn't want to talk to us but he wants his kids to get baptized kinda wierd right?  This week we also had interviews with presidente Godfrey  and check it out I might get another extension isn't that so freaking dope now he can't give ma a year but he said he can possibly give me another transfer  or more ojala que un año mas but ya they interview was weird.   I'll tell you more about it in a private eamil but ya anyway I'm all great I'm wokring hard and my best friend Elder Dority is my zone leader so all chill anywya ya I gotta go chow

Hey what's up Texas? I'm great! This week has been good so far.  This week has been good like real good but also hard I'm in an area that in the past 6 months they have had 3 baptisms but we are programing for like 5 this month.  Diana has a date for this week and we have this black guy not to be racist its just there are not alot of dark people here he has a date for the 30th but he doesn't feel prepared but he wants to get baptized.  Funny story about him everyone thought he was a member cuz he has been going to church for like 4 years he actually went on a temple trip and everyone thought he was member and he went to the registration haha the dude enterd the temple but they kicked him out hahaha.  We also have this guy Joel he's dope literally fell from the sky well not literally but what happened is that he heard the missionaries before and was going to get baptized but he owed money to some columbian gang thats comes here and lends money to everyone but kills them if they don't pay and well ya he came up to us and wants to get baptized. We will put him in the water this 24th or the 30th.   Then I found 2 pfs part member family there is a mother who has 2 kids and wants them to get baptized the father doesn't want a thing but I said that before she even signs a permission I need to know her husband and talk to him cuz I am convinced that anyone can get baptized.  Then we have this girl Mara she is a snake a recent convert the freaking retarted misisonaries just baptized her without even teaching her family but now were teaching her mom Cristina and her 3 sisters Ariana, Samara and Tamara. Only Samara went to chruch this week she is 8 and every time she sees me she runs and hugs my legs haha!!  Well were gonna be working on them for this month or the month of agosto so ya things are looking dope were still getting low lessons but I don't care cuz were progressing like crazy and ya well life is good! We are  working hard and my comp is a little lazy and he want to go up as district leader like crazy this change so he is prideful and tries to tell me what to do but in our companion invintory he tried to council me and burn me a bit like how I need to do more work visits to the elders in my district how he doesn't want to work in the morning how he doesn't want to befriend the members and how he wants to visit these girls.  I kinda told him no on all of them telling him I will not do a work visit for 24 hours unless there are progressing investigators that they will visit or interviews and how snakes is a big no no and how he needs to befriend the members better cuz they gossip alot here like its crazy and everyone is telling me I need to marry peruvian so if they ask y'all I am in a very commited long distace relationship ok just cuz I dont want any of that. I told him he's to just be patient cuz I know what I am doing I have had lots of success not to brag but my zone leader Elder Dority told me that I am the missionary with the most baptisms in the mission and my comp only has 6 but I understand anyway. Well this is a great week have a geat one y'all chow!

I got the opportunity to see Miguel and Rosa and their baptisms.  I got permission from he assistants to go with my zone leader Dority because he also left people that were preparing for baptisms.  I was going to baptize but I had to go fast so my kid did it with his new companion.  Miguel and Rosa cried when they saw me and I cried as well!

Me and my first kid with the heart sign

Hola Texas! Whats up? Well this week has been hard as heck a lot happened.  Well I turned twenty I feel so old now by the way but it aslo doesn't feel real my brother River left for his mission to Ogden, Utah.  Your a beast man and I got a new mission president so hopefully I will  get that year extension that I've been waiting for.  I am so sad first I left my favorite area casa blanca and came to comas en año nuevo where the old missionaries didn't do anything like they slept all day watched movies and crap so there is nothing here and I feel like I'm opening an area cuz there is nothing here.   But this week my companion is Elder Herrera he has 8 months in the mission he is cool but they told me he is like a mirror if your lazy he's lazy if you work hard he works hard so hopefully it's be good with  him but ya I'm struggling in the area but we basically spent the whole time looking for people to teach we found a couple golden families that were cool but ya we weill try to get them to church this week and get some baptised but ya anyway love you all!!

Hey Texas whats up? This week was interesting. Well first of all what happened is I got a new kid yes my posterity is increasing I just hope that they dont' come this fast in real life. Anyway my kids name is Elder Carrasco he is 18 from Chimbote Peru his dad is also bishop same as me and my last kid .I  go to the meeting this week and these guys see me and they were like another kid Atwood man you should start using proteccion haha its a little bad but I got a good kick out of it haha!! This week on my kids 2nd day here we got home at 11:30 basically its a long story but Miguel is a bodyguard he's actually a skinny guy but ya well he gets home at 10 at night so we walk there we get him to sign some crap and we leave but its dangerouse so we had to take a diferent route but ya I felt bad my poor kid but its not the latest I've got home . I got the freaking zone leaders barking at me so thats nice anyway well basically we spent all week looking for new investigators contacting a bunch and doing some crazy paperwork like I am at my breaking point ! its crazy I really needed this pday!