No Halloween in Peru!

mammy. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Perú will not be celebrating halloween this year because nobody knows what it is. They all think it is the devil´s birthday. Silly peruvians. I am actually doing amazingly good right now. My health is good, my companion is good, the investigators are good, the ward is good, and you guys are good. Everything is just going great right now. I love hearing all the great news from the house. Tell Beckham congrats on her swim meet and tell Branson that the corner is his until October 2012. I am sitting at a computer in a little internet shop looking at a big, amazing package full of american candy that you all sent me and a big letter full of love that says HAPPY HALLOWEEN. You will never understand how much the things like that mean to me. I know I am so bad at writing you all and sending pictures and all that, but I really do love you all so much. I wish I had more time to write you and think about you, and I will try to do better than I´ve been doing, but the mission is just too short. I know you understand.

You silly heads never even told me that Chase Jensen had a mission call. Where is he going? I guess I will just figure that all out when I get home hahahaha.

We found a really cool family this week. There are these huge hills in Lima that are just filled to the brim with houses. Every square inch of the hill has a house on it and the houses are ridiculously small, none of them have water, and all the people are extremely humble. We only have one hill in my area and we went up there on saturday in the morning and we found a family that said we could go back and teach them, so we went back yesterday and met the dad and his three older kids and taught them the message of the restoration. We were sitting on their beds in the room where all four of them live (about half the size of the piano room), without light or anything fancy and we just let the spirit explain the importance of the gospel to this family. A lot of times we are trying to explain things to people and they just don´t understand, but this family understood so well. The oldest son, Elias, was the most attentive. At the end of the lesson we invited him to pray to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and he said he would pray, then we asked him why it was important to him that Joseph Smith was a prophet. He stopped and thougt for a minute, then said, ¨because if Joseph Smith was a prophet, then the church that you two represent is the true church.¨ Then we asked him, if the church that we represent really is the true church, why would it be important for him in his life to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized and he told us that that´s exactly what he needed. The rest of his family accepted to be baptized, too. On Tuesday, we found another family, the Pizarro family and it was a similar situation. The mom told us that she felt like she needed to start going to church, but because there were a lot of churches, she didn´t know where to go. We shared Joseph Smith´s experience with her and invited the entire family to pray about it, come to church, and get baptized, and they all accpeted too! These experiences have helped me strengthen my testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith and the power of the message of the restoration. Both of those families we found were just contacts we made knocking on doors. I know without a doubt that we are led by God. Not just us, but every missionary in the world. He has people prepared in every area where he has put his missionaries and in much more places, too. I have been learning a lot this week about the conversion process and about God´s elect. There are so many people here who are ready to receive this message, we just have to find them, and give it to them. I really do love this work so much.

I have some advice for Ben who will also be serving in a spanish speaking mission. DON´T BUY A BUNCH OF STUFF IN ENGLISH. You will use your english scriptures and your english preach my gospel and your english hymn book during your time in the MTC, but after that, everything is in spanish. Don´t be worried, you will learn the language just fine, but you don´t need to bring a bunch of english pass along cards and stuff like that with you in the mission. In the bookstore in the MTC, you will be able to buy a spanish hymn book and other fun things, but they will give you a bible and a triple combination and preach my gospel in spanish when you get there.

I am still in the same area and I actually have quite a bit of time here. It has gone so fast. normally, the missionaries are only here 2 or 3 changes and I will be completing my third change the 15 of november. I´m not sure if I will be changing areas, but something tells me that it might be a possibility. I kinda hope I stay here longer, this has been a very good area for me, but I will be just as happy if God wants me in a different place.

Today we are totally going to go play frisbee, then go to a supermarket place and buy some halloween candies to give all the little kids that we are teaching. I really do love you all so much. Thank you, dad for all the letters and all the support and love. See you tomorrow.

Love Elder Emett

Figured out his life career!!

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Dios quiere que los hermanos Emett hablen español. God wants the
Emett brothers to speak spanish! How exciting! One of my best friends
in the mission is from Argentina! He is such a cool guy!!! I don´t
know anything about Argentina, but I am soooooooooooo excited!! My
whole zone is absolutely stoked right now that there will be another
Emett in the field and that he will be learning spanish. I am never
speaking english with ben again. I can´t believe he didn´t end up
going to Russia or Guatemala or Fiji, but I am stoked stoked stoked. I
knew he would be speaking spanish! Oh, revelation is so cool. He is so
supposed to be going to Argentina. How is he doing the MTC? Is there
an MTC in Argentina, or will he be in the Provo MTC for 9 weeks? Such
cool stuff. I am so excited for him. And, I don´t know why, but I am
really excited that Josh and Michele are moving closer to our house
and that James isn´t going to cut his hair until I get back! Thanks
for all the great news. Ben is the man. Has anybody else gotten their
call that I don´t know about?
It has been a really good week in Lima, Peru. You asked me how
many people there are in Lima. I have no idea. There are roughly 30
million in the country and Lima is the most ginormous-est city in all
Peru, so probly like... a lot. I don´t know haha. My companion and I
are getting along just great. He has been thinking a lot about his
home and things like that and he has been kind of discouraged, but I
finally realized that he just needed to work even harder than we were
to forget about himself. So we started working even harder than we
were, and now we have 6 investigators with baptismal dates, and two
families that are just dealing with a few legal issues, and we are
finding tons of new people to teach every single day. It really is
going good.
Time is moving like a japanese race horse. I feel like I just
barely started out on my mission, and now Ben has his call. When he
actually gets in the mission, I will only have 8 more months left in
the mission. : ( That´s a frowny face. I had a dream last night that
I got sent home for medical reasons and I was so sad. It felt so real.
When I woke up, I literally shouted with delight to find myself still
in the mission. I was so stoked haha, my companion kinda looked at me
weird cuz it was 5 in the morning, but I didn´t care. My mission means
everything to me.
Today we are going to play soccer and eat tacos for pday. I am
just so excited today. It has been a really good week and I can´t wait
to have another Emett in the field and to talk spanish with him. I
love you all so much. Thank you for writing me with tons of great
news.

P.s. I was just pondering one day and I totally figured out what my
career is going to be afterwards hahahahaha. I´m going to be a high
school seminary teacher.

Love Elder Emett

My stoked-ometer is still full!

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There will be TWO Emetts in the field at the same time!!!??? That is great news. Ben is going to Guatemala. I´m sure of it. He is such a stud and he is so handsome.

Another successful week. My companion is having some major personal problems with self-esteem and I found him crying, packing up all of his stuff to go home. I sat him down, talked with him for a while and got him to calm down. Today we had ANOTHER interview with President. That guy is so patient haha. I´m sure he will be staying in the mission, but it has been a really hard 2 months for him. It has been tough to keep him stoked, but my stoked-ometer is still full. Sometimes we just gotta keep fighting. We had a few baptisms planned out, but the family wasn´t able to get baptized, so we will have to keep finding more people, and helping them out with their situation. So crazy that the mission is passing so fast. I had a dream that the mission was over and all I could do was cry.

There are so many little babies in our family!!!!!!!!!!! I never ever met Addie and now she is a year old. Kjirsten has a new baby, Shellie has a new baby. Is Jer married yet??? Thanks for all of the great news. I love you all so much. Kjirsten asked me what I want for christmas and I was going to ask for another year in the mission, but I think I will just keep it simple and ask for a small 2012 calendar. That would be rockin.

Don´t got a lot of time. I will email you all on monday.

CONGRATULATIONS BEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Elder Emett

Star War Clone Bugs & Crazy Boys

Half Way Through the mission this week!!!!

Jill Emett,

I am such a silly little boy. Your email made me cry. I just can´t stand to see the words ¨half way over¨. My mission has meant absolutely everything to me. So crazy to think that it is going so fast. Ben´s an Elder?? That´s excellent. So in like two weeks, he should have his mission call? Where does everyone think he is going to go? I think he is going to come to my mission and I´m going to train him haha.

I¨m glad you all had such a good sacrament meeting and sunday. I miss sundays like that, but to tell you the truth I can´t even remember what it´s like to go to church in english. I´m afraid I wouldn´t understand everything.

My companion and I are doing just great. We are actually doing better than great. We are complete opposites and at first it was hard and disagreed on a lot of things because we were trying to think as individuals, but we have finally learned how to think as one and let our opposite personalities complement one another and it is amazing to see the results of that. We are teaching well together and baptizing and planning more baptisms, the ward absolutely loves us, and we absolutely love them and everything about where we have been called to work. My testimony of the power of prayer, faith, and fasting has grown a lot in these past few months. We have been able to help out a lot of people through the combination of the three. I could never doubt the reality or the importance of this work. And I could never doubt that God really does know us and he is so ready and so willing to help us out with everything. One month ago, we started teaching Helen. I invited her to be baptized in the first lesson and she told me that she doesn´t want anything to do with that kind of stuff, but she will happily go to church and all the activities. What do you do in that situation? I don´t know. We just gave her a book of mormon and bore our testimonies about it, then fasted and prayed that she would be able to receive an answer. She was baptized on saturday! Matt´s birthday. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) The book of mormon is aboslutely true, mom.

Tell Shellie congrats on her little baby girl who will be born this week. How many little nephews and nieces do I have? I would like to meet some of them haha. I had a dream that I got sent home and me and Branson cried together then made plans to get me back on the mission hahaha. I could never imagine not being on my mission. I´m just so comfortable. I don´t have any problem talking to people or understanding them, I undertand more about missionary work, and I just love my calling. I feel like I am still just barely starting out. My mind absolutely denies the fact that I am going to be completing a year in the mission. It has been so fast.

Thank you for supporting me so much family! I love you all so much! I am sending two pictures, but neither of them are very good. just some bugs in yurimaguas that look like star wars clones and i forgot what the other picture is hahahahaha, I am so bad at taking and sending pictures.

Love Elder Emett

Loved Conference

Dear Mother,

Changes came today. I will complete a year this change. That is so off the chain!!!!!! I feel like I´m still in my first area! I´m finally realizing that the mission just might get over some day. I can´t see the end, but I can see how fast a year can pass and I´m scared out of my mind! I have to be a dad when I get back!!!! I´m SOOOOOOOOOOOO not ready! I just want to stay home and eat my shirts and play pokèmon.

I will be staying in the same place with my same companion. We had a small problem this week just for a lack of communication, but we talked about it and got it figured out and we are doing much better now. It has been a lot different with my new companion, he hardly ever ever talks which I am just not used to, but we are just focusing on our strengths and the things that matter most and we have 3 baptisms this saturday! One family! They are actually getting married today!!!!!! And we would totally be going to their wedding, but the lady is from the jungle and they went there to get married haha. Oh well.

The conference was so amazing!! Maybe you guys noticed too that Josh´s mission president spoke. That was cool. We were able to listen to the conference in english! Out of all the missionaries in the zone and all the members in the stake, there are 3 white people. So the three of us went into a little separate room and listened to the conference talks in english right from the internet. I LOVED CONFERENCE!!! I remember before the mission, I always just slept through all the talks and never really liked it that much, but I loved it sooooo much this time. I have a deep appreciation for the internet services that made it possible to listen in english, and the apostles and prophets are 100% my heroes. We had an investigator there who had a testimony before, but she was able to watch that testimony strengthen and now she has no doubts that she is making the right choice by being baptized this saturday. I loved all the talks about the book of mormon. I feel like I owe everything to that book, the men who wrote it, and ultimately, to God. I was reading in 1 Nephi 14 this morning and I found a scripture that helped me so much. God has expectations for us as members of his church. We ALL have so much responsibility and it makes me so happy to hear that you are all doing missionary work, too. I am so proud of Ben. The mission is going to change his life so much.

This morning, with my companion, we were reading about charity. We tried to study it in a way that gave us a clear idea of what we needed to do to become charitable missionaries. We had a few disagreements this week just over small, insignificant things, and studying together about the gospel really helped us out. We came to the conclusion that we are going to do 2 things better. We are always going to pray to have more charity and we are always going to put other people before ourselves and always look for opportunities to serve. I am sure that our relationship is going to grow and we are going to be able to help out a lot of people.

Tell Beckham congrats on her swim meet! That´s exciting stuff! I was never good enough to take second place in anything haha. I had a work visit with an elder in my district the other day and in the night, before we went to bed, we listened to a talk by Richard G. Scott about prayer and it got us both stoked to pray more and pray harder and with more intention to act on our impressions, so I have been praying like that and it is changing how I view everything. I just want everybody in the world to listen to conference haha. I am going to go today and buy some small speakers and download some talks from the prophets to be able to listen to in the night before I go to bed. And nothing else. Today is a free p day because of the changes, so we are just going to relax and get some housekeeping and cleaning and letter writing done. I am writing a letter to you guys that I have been writing for like 3 months, I just haven´t had any time to finish it haha and I always tell you all the good stuff when I send emails anyways haha. I am also writing a letter to the Lii family. No, I haven´t forgotten about them haha. I´m always happy to hear that all is going well with the family. I pray often for you all because I really do love you so much.

Love Elder Emett

p.s. I don´t have any pictures. to be straight honest, I´m just not taking pictures hahahaha

Cute email t o Kjirsten!

Dearest Sister Kjirsten,

Thanks for the email and the new nephew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life sounds so exciting around there! I just want you to know that the plan of salvation is real and our family is really helping God out with his divine purposes!!! Thank you so much for understanding that plan and making our family even bigger and even happier than it was. Tell your little girls thank you for all of the adorable letters they wrote for me and tell your husband congrats for finally having a boy! Is his middle name axel or dumpster? I can´t remember which one you ended up putting, but I definitely will love him no matter what. Thanks for being a great sister! I love you and your family! See ya in a year!!!!!!!!!.......... and ten days.

Elder Emett