Last week in Iquitos!

Jill Emett,

     Ok, so like totally like my sister Michele like sent me like 4 or 2 pictures of her brand new baby Addie, but she isn´t that brand new anymore... she´s like 2 I think... What happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????

????????? I never even met her once in like 2 years and now I´m supposed to just walk into her life out of nowhere and expect a relationship??? I hope she likes me cuz she is sooooooooo cuuuuuuuuute!!!!! What  a cute family we have!!!! Today was a good week!! We taught some people, got caught in the rain again, then my companion got sick, then I got sick, then we commited a family to baptism and they said YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had a bunch of investigators in the church and in ward mission night! Fun stuff!!!!! Well, that all sounds super confusing about the money deal hahaha. I have decided that I probably just won´t touch that account anymore because there is no possible way to keep track of all that because every time I take out money it´s not it dolares.... it´s in nuevos soles peruanos...... like.... it´s not.... like... the same... ya know?
     So this same area where  I have been since the month of November.... I´m leaving it next week. That´s gonna be weird. I don´t know where I´m going, but I´m pretty sure president will tell me tomorrow cuz we have interviews with him woohoo!! That will be fun! He is coming to Iquitos.
      ... ummmmmmmmm. That´s all!

Elder Emett

I guess there is not a McDonalds in Iquitos!!!

Dear Thaeeaammanayyyyy,

     Happy Christians!!!! It was a pretty good week! The trip to Lima
was good as usual (hahahaha it was my very last one!! what fun!).
Everything is going just fantastic here in Iquitos, Peru. It´s just
blazing hot or it´s raining. nothing else.... ever. It has mostly
rained a lot this week haha. On monday night, I left with my companion
as usual to start our proselyting. We had a few lessons to teach haha
and right as we were saying the prayer to leave the house we heard a
few drops hit the metal roof... then a few more...  then a few more...
then we finished the prayer... then we looked at eachother... then we
heard a big BOOM! And the rain came pouring down like crazy
hahaha!!!!!!! We both just looked at eachother with a huge smile, then
went sprinting out into the rain and mud to find a mototaxi. Hahahaha
it was so much fun! We got SOAKED! But then we started teaching and we
got all dry. What a fun day! You asked me if there is a Mcdonald´s in
Iquitos... I will answer your question with this:
hahahahahahahahahahaha. Not much is new with me. I realized that I
only have 3 months left out here and now I just feel rushed to get as
much as I can done (not that I wasn´t working, but I just feel like
doing more now). I am still WHAY happy and WHAY healthy (except for
all the parasites and bug bites.....that rymed haha). The next
transfers are in 2 weeks!!! I am going to be leaving my area! I don´t
know if I will leave Iquitos, but I think I will. I have been in the
same ward/area for over 8 months!!!! Since November 2011!!!!! That is
a really really really long time haha. I know everybody and they all
love me! It will really not be easy to leave. But the thing is I have
2 changes left after this one. Every change is a 6 week period. All of
the new missionaries coming in are with their trainers for 12 weeks so
President Blunck wants me to train a new guy!!!!!!!!!! It´s going to
be so much fun!!!!!! I really am so so so excited! So I will be
leaving my area on the 24th of July. Wow. I can´t believe its already
July. How long have I been in Peru for anyways??????????
     Ok, I have a few people I need to publically thank for sending me
TONS OF LETTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1. Dad  2. Jessica  3. Hannah
Andersen  4. Max   5. Riley   6. Becca   7. Grandma
Sandra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My companion was SO SO SO HAPPY when he
got that backpack!!!!!!!!! Could you please tell grandma Sandra that
she totally made my day, my companion´s day, and that I love her! What
a nice thing to do. Now my companion and I walk around in style
hahaha. Dad asked me a hilarous question in one of the letters he
wrote me. He asked my what I want to be when I grow up!!! Well, dad, I
have your answer. I thought about it for about 2 days and I tried my
best to think about what I could possibly do to keep me as happy as I
have been on the mission my whole life and I got it! I want to be a
home teacher when I grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!! I don´t
plan on making very much money, but I´m ok with that! Are there
inactive people in the ward? Are there families who still have not
been baptized???? I would just love to home teach them hahaha.
     So I talked to Sister Blunck about the whole BYU Idaho thing and
she doesn´t see a possible way I could get in without having taken the
ACT (I guess that´s important idk) and we both came up with the
solution! I am just going to study at Dixie, then maybe when I grow up
I can move away from St. George. Don´t get me wrong, I love St.
George, but I don´t know how I´m supposed to survive without drinking
fresh coconut milk so I think I will be going to either Jamaica or
Hawaii to raise my family hahahaha.
     Ok, well I already wrote way too much! I love you all! See you
tomorrow!!!!!

Elder Emett de la selva

Dear Jill?????

Dear Jill,

     I´m going to have to start this email by thanking my little brother, Ben, for writing a whole bunch this week so that I don´t have to!!!! hahaha. Same ol same ol up in heeeeeeeeuuuhhh. Still in Iquitos and still loving every second of it. Technically I should  be seeing you all in about 3.5 months, but I was kinda thinking about extending my misison another 2 years. What do you think about that????? We are teaching some really great people right now and we found a ton of new families to teach last week. We have some baptisms planned out in July, but we will have keep working really hard so that they can actually get baptized. love kolby.

Elder Emett

P.s. I´m going to lima tomorrow for that conference thing we do ervry month. Wish me luck!

I love having a big family!

Guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

    What´s up famlie???? I´m just still here in my same area since November 2011!!!!! I have 3x more time in my area then ben does in the mission hahahahahaha!!!!!!! Big deal. I don´t even know what havasupi is, but it sounds like a blast? Good for all the murried kids that they could all go have some fun doing whatever it is that you do in Havasupi! Wow! I can´t believe how big our family is!!!! When I tell people that I have 7 brothers, 2 sisters, 3 sisters in law (almost 4), 1 brother in law, and 11 nieces and nephews, they never believe me!!!! I love having a big family! I´m just glad that I don´t have to take care of all the kids hahaha.

     Well, today was a good week. We baptized that one lady we found walking with her husband that one day (we whould have whay baptized her husband, too, but her husband alrheady got whay baptized like 15 years ago). We are teaching this really nice lady named Martha Luz who has 2 little kids and lives with her husband, but she split up from him like a year ago, but he doesn´t have another house so he kinda just lives there and doesn´t want anything to do with her, us, or the church. Does that make sense???? (I hreally hhope so). She is like super super strange sometimes. She laughs a whole ton and always asks us some of the worst ever questions that just don´t make any sense or acheive anything. She always told us that she had tons and TONS of doubts about the church, so we tried an old trick that I learned back in Lima. We gave her a book of mormon and committed her to read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahaha, like alwhays, IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!! She hasn´t missed a sunday in church in almost a month and she is progressing very very quickly. She says that she only has 1 doubt left. Out of like 9,562,228 doubts that she had about the church, there is only 1 left. I have no idea how much time and energy it would have required to solve all of her doubts one by one, but all I can say is that the book of mormon does it WHAY faster that we can!!!!!!!!!!!! And that last time we were in her house, I gave her 3 different scripures that she can use to solve that 1 doubt. Needless to say, I am positive she will be getting baptized soon. Maybe I won´t be here, but I feel like I have done my part there.

     Nothing too exciting this week, just trying to take things 1 day at a time. Later dudes!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Elder Emett (That one  guy what gets home in roughly 3 months 2 weeks and 4 days)

Promise of a temple in Iquitos

THCheuammiesuasss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

     I´m not sure if that makes sense. Oh well. What´s up family!!!?????? Before I start let me just say happy father´s day to Dad, Jason, Scott, Matt, and Josh!!! Cool stuff!! Tell little Paysli happy birthday for me, and tell Branson congrats on  the great soccer playing!!!!!! I was never on a team that won anything hahaha. Well, you guys, I miss you all a ton. I sure have been in Perú for quite a long time. I wanna let you all know that I´m having a super great time! During my mission I have been blessed with the opportunity to listen to 7 apostles speak. This past week was one of those experiences. Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Cook were on an assignment in Manaus Brasil to dedicate a temple, then they flew on their personal jet directly into the city of Iquitos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They wanted to have a special fireside with all of the members, investigators, and missionaries in Iquitos!! So the conference was at 7 in the biggest stake center in the whole city. We showed up at 4, waited in a HUGE line for about an hour, then we got inside in the same room he would be speaking and just sat down and waited for two more hours. It was so cool when they came walking in!!!!!!! Elder cook´s wife spoke first, then Elder Cook. Then President Uchtodorf´s wife spoke and President Uchtdorf concluded. Every talk was so amazing!!! They were all just short talks (or long testimonies). President Uchtdorf promised the Iquiteños that if they all payed their tithing and they all had current temple recommends that the Lord would bless them with a temple in his own due time, which is a HUGE deal!!!!! Because the city of Iquitos is completely surrounded by big, jungle rivers, it´s basically an island. O sea, the only way to get into Iquitos is by air or boat which kind of costs a lot of money and these people just don´t have a lot of money so it is really hard for them to get to the temple. It would bless so many people´s lives if there were a temple here in Iquitos!!!! What a great promise!! All of the ward members are totally siked out about getting temple recommends now! It has been quite the experience. Just being in the same room as Elder Cook and Elder Uchtdorf was something I will never forget. I feel the same way every time I see a member of the 12. I just know that they are called of God.

      We are baptizing another family this next week!! We were just walking out of a lesson like 2 weeks ago and we saw this family walking back to their house and we both had a really strong impression to say something to them, so we did!! we went out of our way to go say hi and introduce ourselves and ask if we could come back and teach a message to their family. They guy told us that he was a member, that like 20 years ago he was baptized in a small city in the south part of the jungle called Yurimaguas (ever heard of that place???) and that he had just told his wife like the night before that he wanted to start going back to church and get married, but he just didn´t know where or how to start. I would love to say it was a coincidence that my companion and I felt a strong impression to talk to them, but I know that it wasn´t a coincidence. It was the will of God. He knew that this family was ready so he sent us. We listened and obeyed and now this sweet little young couple will get married and baptized THIS WEEKEND!!!!! They are just so cute in church haha because they come all dressed up and give us huge smiles and sit down with their two adorable little kids and just smile the whole time. We also receive a referral of another family that was in church on sunday, so we went to teach them sunday afternoon and the lesson just went REALLY REALLY GOOD! They accepted marriage and baptismal dates for the month of July. There are also a few other people we are teaching who are just absolutely amazing and will be getting baptized the 30th and a few more in July.

     It was just an all around great week. We had a special conference with President Blunck on Thursday and he asked my companion and I to teach about a creative way to talk to people and invite them to listen to our message, so we did a fun little training in the conference and everybody loved it! Well, I guess I´ll see you next week!!! Love you!!!!!

 

Elder Emett

Going to see Elder Uchtdorf and Cook today!

Dearest the Tham tham wusssup,

     Another successful week went by. Yesterday in church, these two guys walked up to us and told us that they had two friends who wanted to be baptized. So we went and visited their friends and now they are both going to get baptized. It was really quite an experience talking to the both of them because they were just SO READY!!!!!! They will both be getting baptized on the 23rd of this month along with another family that we just found 2 weeks ago. Amazing things happen when The members take part in the work.
     We are all just way way way stoked about the special visit we will be receiving from Elder Uchtdorf. I was imitating his voice while I talked to my companion all morning haha it was super funny! We are planning our WHOLE entire day around it. We are super lucky  though,  because it is a pday so we don´t even have to take time out of our schedule  to go and see him. It´s just a pday!!
     Hahahaha you asked me what we do if we are walking around and we have to go to the bathroom. That´s a really good question. Remind me to tell you and I will tell you when I get back, ok? So I totally looked at my watch yesterday and it said June 10th and I thought for a minute ¿what is that? then I realized!!! That´s Josh´s and Fuller´s birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! That is so cool!! I can´t believe Josh is 26! I thought he was like 24 idk. And I love that Fuller is older than Jason hahah. He´s such a man. Tell  them both that I love them and I love their families, too!
     HEY THANKS!!!! I 100% got 2 big, amazing packages from you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of them was full of candy and the other one was full of a backpack!! Thank you so much! It really helps out to get things from home haha, and the camel back is helping out a lot so that I don´t die from all the hot, hot heat. I am even more stoked that you sent another one for my companion!! He is super stoked about it! Tell Grandma Sandra that she is the best and that my companion says ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Gracias!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!! Tell dad and Riley and Hannah Anderson and Jessica thanks for the letters, too! I love reading about the family and friends and seeing what´s going on! Let dad know that I receive more letters weekly than any other missionary in the entire Perú Lima North mission and that I absolutely love reading them and seeing all the fun pictures he sends.
     Well, we got the changes today hahaha. I AM STAYING IN MY AREA!!!! ¡¡¡Locazo!!!! This will be my 6th change here!!! 6 changes = 9 months hahahahahahahaha. That´s like more than a third of my mission in the exact same place and I love it!!! It has been a great area for me. My district leader is really really cool, too. His name is Elder Jensen and he is from Tooele, Utah. We are now living in the same house and it´s totally way way cool. Sometimes we get time to chat and it always lifts us both up a ton. The ward is doing amazing right now and we have investigators who come to church and more who are getting ready for baptism in June and July. (Can you guys believe it´s already June???????) That´s crazy sauce.
Love you!!

Elder Emett (the one who´s going to see Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Cook today)

Another great week

Good morning mother,

     What a good week!!!!!! My companion and I prayed together starting out this week so that we could find more new families to invite to be baptized in june and july and we found 5 new families!! 4 of them committed to baptismal dates, and 3 of them came to sacrament meeting! We were just on fire one night and we made tons and tons of contacts and met a lot of people and it just felt good cuz we both just felt so guided. We had no idea what to do because 2 of our appointments fell through, so we just contacted the first house we saw, then just kept going haha. It was a great day.
     So, we moved houses again haha. We are back in the same house that we were in when I first came to this area (in November... over 7 months ago.... i know.... that´s a really long time). So we live with two other elders right now. One´s name is Elder Jensen. He is from Tooele (pronounced Too-will-uh) haha, Utah. He has 2 months more than I do in the mission... which means that he has 2 months left in the mission hahahahahaha. He is a really really good missionary and one of my best friends, too. we always do gringo chat. He´s a sharp kid.
     We are going to Lima tomorrow to go the that conference thing. It should be super super fun! The elder working in the offices told me that there are like 2 packages for me that are waiting there so... Thanks!!!!! Well.... funny story.. true story. Do you remember that one time that you sent me like a whole bunch of money so that I could buy a suit? That was the best, thanks! Do you remember that one family that we got married that doesn´t have any money cuz the guy makes about 5 dollars a week selling brooms to his neighbors and 7 people have to live off that  and we talked to the ward council and they couldn´t help us out either and it came down to their wedding day and they didnt have any money so i payed for it? do you remember that? Well I did that. Sorry. I´ll just come home without a suit. I mean, its blazing hot in Iquitos and its blazing hot in st george so why whould i need a suit anyways, right? It kinda seems like a waste of sweat-pore-action that i could use in more practical situations. That sounds crazy. But it´s super true. So please don´t send me more money or I will probably just end up getting stuff that isn´t really that useful or just paying for weddings when I was supposed to buy a suit. hahahaha. Well, that was awkward. Love you!!!

Elder Emett