August 17, 2015
Well to start off this week has been really hard. He started his last 12 weeks. The first and last 12 weeks are a big deal. That was news to me but I guess that is how it is. He has been saying to everybody that he only has 12 weeks left and now he is saying to me, "Can you believe that I only have 11 weeks left. Yes, yes, yes I can.
Tuesday I was reading in Isaiah for a few hours and only read a like 15 verses. I was thinking about how not only do we need to read the scriptuces but we need to study the scriptures and we need to search the scriptures. If we can learn this we will grow to love the scriptures and we will not miss one day of scripture study!!!
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday were all the same a LOT, LOT, LOT, LOT, of reading scriptures and talks from the brethren in Salt Lake.
Friday was the same too. Hahaha. I am looking at my planner like "Wow we didn't do anything this week." Hahaha. It really isn't funny - it is really sad but what can I do? Not too much, continue to show my love.
Saturday we planned our next ward activity and it should be really good. We are going to do a Talent show. That is pretty dang cool for Peru, As missionaryies we can do things that are spiritual so I think that we will put something together that is pretty good - we will see.
Sorry that this week there isn't that much to report. I will try to do better next week.
Love you all
Elder George
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
Transfers, Transfers, Transfers
Hello hello hello!! There is something avçbout saying the same thing 3 time in a row. I don´t know what it is but I like it haha!!! What can you say, I am kind of a weird dude!!!
This week was good. First off there were transfers today!! I am staying here in Picchu with my companion. At first I was really worried for myself when I saw that one of us didn´t have a change. You all know that the past 6 weeks have been rough for me. After about 5 minutes I could feel the spirit in my life and I know that this is where I need to be and he is who I need to be with for the next 6 weeks. I don´t know the reason yet. But there is a reason and I will press forward with faith!!!
Tuesday was AWESOME!!! We had our multi-zone caference with president and his wife (Sometimes you gotta be a little sneaky and find pictures of the same thing on someone else's blog and just abscond with the pictures they have. Most of these pictures come to you in that fashion. Elder George did send a few and I will make note of those)
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| President and Sister Harbertson |
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| Elder George is really in this picture! I was so excited when I saw him sitting on the ground level clear in the back leaning against the wall!!! |
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| There he is again wearing his Skyline Golf sweatshirt!! |
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| So Beautiful!! |
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| This is the one that he sent. Sister Johnson on the far left writes the blog with Elder Johnson that I stole the other pictures from. |
Wednesday my canpanion was really tired from the day before and I read a lot. I decided that I am going to read Isaiah. It is really interesting. If you read in 3rd Nefi, (I always smile when a little Spanish creeps in) you will see that the Savior says that the words that we need to understand are the words of Isaiah. They contain everything that we need to know for our salvation. The only problem is that I have been studing every day for at least an hour and haven´t even made it to the second chapter hahahaha. You have to work for your salvation!!!!!!!! Not easy folks to understand this book!!
Thursday we did a service project that took up the whole morning. People here in Peru just love painting. They don´t care if it is a really good job or not they just like it when their house is freshly painted. They know that we work for free, so they just call up the elders, and we come, and paint their house for free. They like free and freshly painted!! What more could you ask for really!!!
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| Thank you Sister Rhoades (discovered her name from Sister Johnson's blog) for making no-bake cookies and sharing with Elder George! |
Saturday we had Stake Conference so we were in meetings all day and same with Sunday!! But all in all is was a really good week we are finding new people and slowly, but surely, improving!!
I love you all have a great week!!
Love Elder George!!!
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Go a Little Further Than We Think We Can = Blessing
August 3, 2015
Let me just tell you all something, I love teaching English to the kids here - it is a total....hoot!!! Hahaha, but really, it is so much fun!!! They are so cute and it is just really, really, fun for me!!!
This week was okay. Sometimes I get discouraged with the appointments falling through and the investigators not coming to church or keeping their commitments. But what is new? That is the mission, right? And it says in Preach My Gospel that you can be sad, but don't let that keep you from working. So for now I will just be a little sad!!
This week was a hard week for my comp. He hit 22 months and he got TRUNKY!! Yeah 22 months, was all he could say. I am sure that when I hit 22 months I will be happy, but, I will never stop working. I will work until my very last day. My very last minute. I will serve for the full 24 months. But ANYWAYS.......yeah!!
Tuesday was a sad day for Elder George. I had worked so hard to get a appointment for every hour of the day on Tuesday and I was really, really, excited for this day. But something went wrong and we didn't teach one person. We walked around for 7 hours without a single lesson!!! Those are really hard days. You just feel like Satan is really working on you and you just have to gut through the day without much to enjoy - the whole day.
Wednesday he got mad at me because we had walked all day the day before and he refused to leave the room, hahaha. Lucky me right!!!!
Thursday every thing was made right!! We found a few new people to teach. We found a couple that we have fix our ripped pants. That happens more than it should hahaha!! But we contacted them and they shut their shop and let us teach them right then. It was miracle. Everything had been going bad. We just need to go a little further and that is when we are blessed - when we go just a little bit further than we think that we can.
Friday and Saturday were the same we walked a lot and then he would get tired and we would go back to the room. But Sundays are always good because we have to work!! It is the day for the Lord, so that usually gets him to work, if I say that hahah!!!
Anyways that was my week nothing too special!
Love Elder George
Let me just tell you all something, I love teaching English to the kids here - it is a total....hoot!!! Hahaha, but really, it is so much fun!!! They are so cute and it is just really, really, fun for me!!!
This week was okay. Sometimes I get discouraged with the appointments falling through and the investigators not coming to church or keeping their commitments. But what is new? That is the mission, right? And it says in Preach My Gospel that you can be sad, but don't let that keep you from working. So for now I will just be a little sad!!
This week was a hard week for my comp. He hit 22 months and he got TRUNKY!! Yeah 22 months, was all he could say. I am sure that when I hit 22 months I will be happy, but, I will never stop working. I will work until my very last day. My very last minute. I will serve for the full 24 months. But ANYWAYS.......yeah!!
Tuesday was a sad day for Elder George. I had worked so hard to get a appointment for every hour of the day on Tuesday and I was really, really, excited for this day. But something went wrong and we didn't teach one person. We walked around for 7 hours without a single lesson!!! Those are really hard days. You just feel like Satan is really working on you and you just have to gut through the day without much to enjoy - the whole day.
Wednesday he got mad at me because we had walked all day the day before and he refused to leave the room, hahaha. Lucky me right!!!!
Thursday every thing was made right!! We found a few new people to teach. We found a couple that we have fix our ripped pants. That happens more than it should hahaha!! But we contacted them and they shut their shop and let us teach them right then. It was miracle. Everything had been going bad. We just need to go a little further and that is when we are blessed - when we go just a little bit further than we think that we can.
Friday and Saturday were the same we walked a lot and then he would get tired and we would go back to the room. But Sundays are always good because we have to work!! It is the day for the Lord, so that usually gets him to work, if I say that hahah!!!
Anyways that was my week nothing too special!
Love Elder George
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
"Neighbors, My Pig Laid an Egg!"
July 27, 2015
Howdy!!!
Hello friends and family!! How are you all? I sure do miss you but things really are getting better here in Peru!! I have seen the hand of the Lord so much in my life this week and am happy and proud of the progress that I have personally made in the mission. There is nothing more satisfying than reaching one of your goals that you had for your mission.
My good friend Elder Salvatierra is improving. This week we just had a sit down talk and it was so perfect anybody could have felt the spirit that was there. I thank the heavens that the spirit was there because without the spirit that conversation would have turned out a lot different.
Tuesday we had our talk and that is when things started to get better. The whole day Tuesday was about the same as always. I studied the whole day and I have been praying this whole transfer to know what to say and when to say it. It is really hard to have a talk like we did, and I was honestly a little scared to talk to him about it. But I had questions come to my mind that I know were from the holy ghost. With some of these questions he really opened up to me and ever since that day things have been getting better. Things are not perfect but they are getting better and that is all that I need right now. I am not wanting perfection just improvement.
Wednesday we had an appointment with the Cucharro family. I love them - they are investigators. They are 4 siblings. We are not teaching the parents but the kids are really progressing. We had a family home evening that was really fun. When we play games, there is always a loser. Usually I am one of the losers. Considering that all of our games have to do with tongue twisters and that I am talking in my 2nd language that really isn't a surprise. But it is fun. There are a few punishments that they can choose for me to do and for some reason they really like it when I go out the door and yell "Neighbors, my pig laid an egg!" They really like that here, I don't even know how many times I have yelled that here in Peru, more than 15 hahahaha!!!
Thursday we had a mission conference with Elder Uceda. He is in the 70 and is amazing. He is one of my favorite General Authorities. He talked with us a lot about repentance and how many people think of repentance as something bad or like a punishment. But he said something really cool, "Repentance is a principle of perfection," think about that for a few. I just really like that phrase. It is kind of simple but really powerful. We have to repent to become perfect. I don't have time to write that much about it but it was amazing.
Friday we had a really rough day. We walked a lot but we didn't teach one person, but that is the mission some days. Some are good, some like today and others just different haha. There is no such things as a bad day in the mission. Just different.
Saturday the zone leaders came and had divisions with me. We went to Calca because I had another interview for a baptism and the elders there are going to have. That pretty much took up the whole day, an hour and a half there and the hour and a half back but what can you do. I have no money because I have to go to Calca so much so I am one poor missionary haha. Like there are missionaries, poor missionaries, and then there are district leaders who have to travel to interview missionaries haha!!!
Sundays are always nice to just feel the spirit real strong in your life. I have learned to really love going to church and participation in the Sacrament. We contacted a lady that Is SOOOOOO ready for baptism yesterday, so that is good. We have an appointment this week so we will see how it goes!!!
That is about all for this week, if you want to hear about anything in specific throw my a question at the end of your email and I will try to get back to you!!
Love you and am praying for you too!!
Love Elder George
Howdy!!!
Hello friends and family!! How are you all? I sure do miss you but things really are getting better here in Peru!! I have seen the hand of the Lord so much in my life this week and am happy and proud of the progress that I have personally made in the mission. There is nothing more satisfying than reaching one of your goals that you had for your mission.
My good friend Elder Salvatierra is improving. This week we just had a sit down talk and it was so perfect anybody could have felt the spirit that was there. I thank the heavens that the spirit was there because without the spirit that conversation would have turned out a lot different.
Tuesday we had our talk and that is when things started to get better. The whole day Tuesday was about the same as always. I studied the whole day and I have been praying this whole transfer to know what to say and when to say it. It is really hard to have a talk like we did, and I was honestly a little scared to talk to him about it. But I had questions come to my mind that I know were from the holy ghost. With some of these questions he really opened up to me and ever since that day things have been getting better. Things are not perfect but they are getting better and that is all that I need right now. I am not wanting perfection just improvement.
Wednesday we had an appointment with the Cucharro family. I love them - they are investigators. They are 4 siblings. We are not teaching the parents but the kids are really progressing. We had a family home evening that was really fun. When we play games, there is always a loser. Usually I am one of the losers. Considering that all of our games have to do with tongue twisters and that I am talking in my 2nd language that really isn't a surprise. But it is fun. There are a few punishments that they can choose for me to do and for some reason they really like it when I go out the door and yell "Neighbors, my pig laid an egg!" They really like that here, I don't even know how many times I have yelled that here in Peru, more than 15 hahahaha!!!
Thursday we had a mission conference with Elder Uceda. He is in the 70 and is amazing. He is one of my favorite General Authorities. He talked with us a lot about repentance and how many people think of repentance as something bad or like a punishment. But he said something really cool, "Repentance is a principle of perfection," think about that for a few. I just really like that phrase. It is kind of simple but really powerful. We have to repent to become perfect. I don't have time to write that much about it but it was amazing.
Friday we had a really rough day. We walked a lot but we didn't teach one person, but that is the mission some days. Some are good, some like today and others just different haha. There is no such things as a bad day in the mission. Just different.
Saturday the zone leaders came and had divisions with me. We went to Calca because I had another interview for a baptism and the elders there are going to have. That pretty much took up the whole day, an hour and a half there and the hour and a half back but what can you do. I have no money because I have to go to Calca so much so I am one poor missionary haha. Like there are missionaries, poor missionaries, and then there are district leaders who have to travel to interview missionaries haha!!!
Sundays are always nice to just feel the spirit real strong in your life. I have learned to really love going to church and participation in the Sacrament. We contacted a lady that Is SOOOOOO ready for baptism yesterday, so that is good. We have an appointment this week so we will see how it goes!!!
That is about all for this week, if you want to hear about anything in specific throw my a question at the end of your email and I will try to get back to you!!
Love you and am praying for you too!!
Love Elder George
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
A TON - - The Word of the Day
July 21, 2015
This week was a good week!! Well, if you compare it with the past two weeks, it was good, haha!! But here we are. I am learning a ton in the process and that it what it is all about. If I can change and become a better person, learn to love, this companionship will be a success.
Tuesday, I went on changes with the elders in my district. They live almost 2 hours away in a little village, but this is one of the prettiest little towns I have ever seen. It is so calm and everybody is more open to listen to the gospel. We were walking back from breakfast and somebody pulled over their mototaxi (look it up)
and just told us to get in and that he wanted us to teach his family. Elder Jeffery was a little scared but I told him that we should just go!!! It was awesome!! We invited them to be baptized in the first visit and they are going to get baptized next month!!
Wednesday we gave service the whole day!! We try to not do that too often, just service and no knocking doors but it is a form of missionary work also!! So that is all we did the whole day!!
Thursday, my comp was tired from the service and so I read Jesus the Christ. That book is really awesome. I have learned so much about Jesus and his life and it has helped my testimony grow a ton. I am also reading the Bible dictionary. That has helped me understand the Bible a ton. Like a TON!! Sounds really nerdy I know but if you want to understand the Bible better read the Bible dictionary first - it helps a ton!!
Friday and Saturday were about the same as Thursday and I read a lot.
Sundays are always a good day for me. A day in which I can feel close to the spirit. We don't have a temple to go to so I just try to feel the spirit as much as I can during Sacrament meeting. Sounds weird, I know, but if we have a righteous desire the Lord can do anything,
Love you all to the moon and back!!
Love Elder George
This week was a good week!! Well, if you compare it with the past two weeks, it was good, haha!! But here we are. I am learning a ton in the process and that it what it is all about. If I can change and become a better person, learn to love, this companionship will be a success.
Tuesday, I went on changes with the elders in my district. They live almost 2 hours away in a little village, but this is one of the prettiest little towns I have ever seen. It is so calm and everybody is more open to listen to the gospel. We were walking back from breakfast and somebody pulled over their mototaxi (look it up)
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I looked it up this is a random picture from the internet! |
Wednesday we gave service the whole day!! We try to not do that too often, just service and no knocking doors but it is a form of missionary work also!! So that is all we did the whole day!!
Thursday, my comp was tired from the service and so I read Jesus the Christ. That book is really awesome. I have learned so much about Jesus and his life and it has helped my testimony grow a ton. I am also reading the Bible dictionary. That has helped me understand the Bible a ton. Like a TON!! Sounds really nerdy I know but if you want to understand the Bible better read the Bible dictionary first - it helps a ton!!
Friday and Saturday were about the same as Thursday and I read a lot.
Sundays are always a good day for me. A day in which I can feel close to the spirit. We don't have a temple to go to so I just try to feel the spirit as much as I can during Sacrament meeting. Sounds weird, I know, but if we have a righteous desire the Lord can do anything,
Love you all to the moon and back!!
Love Elder George
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
A Girl Gave Me Flowers♥♥♥
July 14, 2015
Well here we are again, one week less that I have in the mission. It is weird that the more time you have in the mission the more valuable that the time becomes. You start to say things like, "one day less in the mission" instead of "one day more in the mission." Well that is if you really understand why you came on a mission. You start to pray with my love. You change. This week was a....week. What can I say?
Monday we played soccer. That is what you do in a mission in South America. Every P-day. All day for P-day - soccer.
Tuesday, we had a goal to find 6 new investigators this week. So I reminded my companion that we had that goal, and in order to reach our goal, we would have to work pretty dang hard. So that is what we did...for a few hours. After a few hours of contacting and such, he was tired and wanted to sleep a little bit more. I was very thankful for the time he had given and wasn't up for fighting, and so I gave in, and we headed back to the room where I was able to finish the Book of Mormon for the second time in Spanish. Well yeah, I also read in Alma where they lay down their weapons of war in the ground. I thought a lot about how we can apply this story to our lives. We have to do the same with our sins. We have to bury them really, really, deep in the earth and promise God that we will never take them out. That is a real repentance. That is how we can become the people that God wants us to become. Okay, that was really random but, it was something that I really liked from my studies this week.
Wednesday we had a lesson with a investigator that we dont visit that much because he really doesn't want to progress. He is not willing to do the things that he needs to do. His wife is a member that is coming back to the chirch. We are basically just his friends. That is what he thinks, so we explained that we are here for a much bigger purpose. We are here to help people make covenants. He didn't like that very much, but it is something that you have to do as a missionary, help others understand why you are here.
Thursday we went to the birthday party of a member and ended up staying there practically the whole day. I was talking to all the people who were not members that where there while my companion was being a Latino and dancing, haha. We have a few new people to teach this week because of the party and my comp got his dancing in for the week.
Friday I was running around the whole day doing things for the district and trying to get everything ready for zone conference with Elder Black. He is the other district leader in the zone and we have to teach about unity in zone conference today. So we spent most of the day planning together.
Saturday we went to Calca (look it up online it is beautiful) for an interview. It is always so sad when you interview someone and they are not ready for baptism. You have to explain that they just need a little more time to prepare for this covenant. But you can see the spirit working within them, and when you can help them understand how important it is that they don't just get baptized to be baptized, it is a really special experience if you ask me. There are not that many people who get to give a baptismal interview. We have the last say if they get baptized or not. That is a pretty big responsibility.
Sunday we went on divisions with a few of the members . That is always something that I like to do. You learn a lot about yourself and the member. It was a good time to just talk and learn.
Nothing too exciting this week maybe I will have something a little different next week!!!
Love you all and know that I am praying for you all!!!
Love Elder George
Well here we are again, one week less that I have in the mission. It is weird that the more time you have in the mission the more valuable that the time becomes. You start to say things like, "one day less in the mission" instead of "one day more in the mission." Well that is if you really understand why you came on a mission. You start to pray with my love. You change. This week was a....week. What can I say?
Monday we played soccer. That is what you do in a mission in South America. Every P-day. All day for P-day - soccer.
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| Selfies can be so disturbing. |
Tuesday, we had a goal to find 6 new investigators this week. So I reminded my companion that we had that goal, and in order to reach our goal, we would have to work pretty dang hard. So that is what we did...for a few hours. After a few hours of contacting and such, he was tired and wanted to sleep a little bit more. I was very thankful for the time he had given and wasn't up for fighting, and so I gave in, and we headed back to the room where I was able to finish the Book of Mormon for the second time in Spanish. Well yeah, I also read in Alma where they lay down their weapons of war in the ground. I thought a lot about how we can apply this story to our lives. We have to do the same with our sins. We have to bury them really, really, deep in the earth and promise God that we will never take them out. That is a real repentance. That is how we can become the people that God wants us to become. Okay, that was really random but, it was something that I really liked from my studies this week.
Wednesday we had a lesson with a investigator that we dont visit that much because he really doesn't want to progress. He is not willing to do the things that he needs to do. His wife is a member that is coming back to the chirch. We are basically just his friends. That is what he thinks, so we explained that we are here for a much bigger purpose. We are here to help people make covenants. He didn't like that very much, but it is something that you have to do as a missionary, help others understand why you are here.
Thursday we went to the birthday party of a member and ended up staying there practically the whole day. I was talking to all the people who were not members that where there while my companion was being a Latino and dancing, haha. We have a few new people to teach this week because of the party and my comp got his dancing in for the week.
Friday I was running around the whole day doing things for the district and trying to get everything ready for zone conference with Elder Black. He is the other district leader in the zone and we have to teach about unity in zone conference today. So we spent most of the day planning together.
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| Calca Peru - I looked it up! ;) |
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| Yeah I got flowers from a girl in the mission! |
Nothing too exciting this week maybe I will have something a little different next week!!!
Love you all and know that I am praying for you all!!!
Love Elder George
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
I ♥ AMERICA!! ♥♥
July 6, 2015
"God bless the USA"!!! I love the 4th. It is my favorite holiday for sure, but, it is not quite the same here in Peru. Well, in fact, it really isn't a holiday at all, but oh well, you know.
This week was really LAME!!! So this Email will also be really lame. Sorry in advance.
Tuesday I waited for my new companion to get here. All day I literally did nothing. Just waited. Well actually, I got a lot of reading done in Jesus the Christ and finished it this week. It is a really interesting book. My companion got here at 5 in the evening and his name is Elder Salvatierra. He is going home in 4 months and is not afraid to just tell someone that, "Ya I am going home." He is TRUNKY - - is what I am saying. He doesn't really want to work and so I have that on my plate now.
Wednesday all the District Leaders had a training with President Harbertson and I learned so much. I can really tell that he is a man called of God. He has helped me grow so much spiritually. I will forever be indebted to that man.
Thursday, Friaday, and Saturday were all the same. I got the opportunity to study the whole day. I seem to get the chance a lot more as of late. My companion likes to sleep the whole day. I feel pretty trapped but I will continue to set an example and be the most obeident that I can.
I know that this Christ's church on earth today. I know that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and his son Jesus Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon is true, that through the teaching in that book we can become the type of people that God wants us to be. I know that we can live with God and our families forever. I know that through prayer we can talk with God. I know that He answers our prayers. I know that Christ is my Savior and that through his atonement I can be cleaned from my sins. I love this gospel and I love this work. I love my Savior.
Keep sending prayers my way. I am praying for you guys always!
Much love,
Elder George
"God bless the USA"!!! I love the 4th. It is my favorite holiday for sure, but, it is not quite the same here in Peru. Well, in fact, it really isn't a holiday at all, but oh well, you know.
This week was really LAME!!! So this Email will also be really lame. Sorry in advance.
Tuesday I waited for my new companion to get here. All day I literally did nothing. Just waited. Well actually, I got a lot of reading done in Jesus the Christ and finished it this week. It is a really interesting book. My companion got here at 5 in the evening and his name is Elder Salvatierra. He is going home in 4 months and is not afraid to just tell someone that, "Ya I am going home." He is TRUNKY - - is what I am saying. He doesn't really want to work and so I have that on my plate now.
Wednesday all the District Leaders had a training with President Harbertson and I learned so much. I can really tell that he is a man called of God. He has helped me grow so much spiritually. I will forever be indebted to that man.
Thursday, Friaday, and Saturday were all the same. I got the opportunity to study the whole day. I seem to get the chance a lot more as of late. My companion likes to sleep the whole day. I feel pretty trapped but I will continue to set an example and be the most obeident that I can.
I know that this Christ's church on earth today. I know that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and his son Jesus Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon is true, that through the teaching in that book we can become the type of people that God wants us to be. I know that we can live with God and our families forever. I know that through prayer we can talk with God. I know that He answers our prayers. I know that Christ is my Savior and that through his atonement I can be cleaned from my sins. I love this gospel and I love this work. I love my Savior.
Keep sending prayers my way. I am praying for you guys always!
Much love,
Elder George
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