Kolby has to leave Peru... Boo!!!

 But he is finally coming home... *YAHOO!*

 

How about that conference????

Dear Mamchiessthissesss,

     How about that conference????????????????? When I heard the announcement that all girls can now serve when they are 19 my jaw dropped and I just stared at my companion for 6 or 4 minutes without saying a word. whe wher speechless. Wow. THAT´S SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel kinda bad for all the future zone leaders, but revelation does´t need explication. I set a personal goal to get back from the mission and make sure all my female friends get out on missions!!!!!!!!! Laura, Kimber Timber, Everyone!!!!!! It won´t be hard to get them stoked about it, pues, that´s the only thing I´m stoked about right now. My companion and I set a goal this week. We are going to find 10 new families to teach and baptize 2 people on saturday. We have 1 baptismal date, her name is Anamaria. She is about 50 years old and lives with her whole entire family. The only problem is that none of them are ready to accept the gospel, but she is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO   READYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She went to almost every conference session and she loved it!!!!! We talked about how important it is to be an example to her family and she understands that that´s the best way to help her family accept the gospel. She is STOKED to be baptized!!!!! 

     Well, today is October 8th! Happy birthday Matt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every one of my companions is jealous that I have a brother who served in Brazil. That´s where all the southamericans want to serve their missions hahaha. I don´t know if you guys were paying tons of attention in the conference, but Elder Cook mentioned his trip to Iquitos!!! That was way cool!!!!!! I have a few heroes in life and one of them is Elder Holland. I love how he explained Peter´s ¨moment¨ of conversion. I was studying that story sunday morning just before the conference haha and Elder Holland helped me understand it so much better. Elder Hales mentioned it, too. I love you guys. I wish I had more time to write, but I need to go!

Elder Emett (más limeño que Morales)

Scared out his mind to come home!

I know, right??????????????

     This week was very loooooooooooonnnnnnnggggggggg hahaaha. We were planning on baptizing  another family on the 29th and they were all stoked, but their papers just didn´t come through... We are planning on baptizing them the 13th. They have been listening to the missionaries for quite some time now, but nobody has known how to get them married... good thing I got tons of experience in this from Iquitos!!!!!!! There is another person we are teaching that has a goal to be baptized the 13th. His name is Jerson. He went to church yesterday with us and invited to eat dinner with him  today so we will see how that goes. There is another family we are teaching that we invited to be baptized on the 20th of October, but they didn´t go to church yesterday!!!!!!!!!!! bummer. At least they´re already married. They will attend next week. We have two other families that we are teaching that need to get married so we are starting on that. We just had lots and lots to do last week, but that´s good!!!!! We have EVEN MORE to do this week. My agenda is completely FUUUULLLLLLLL!!! We have a load of lessons to teach, a marriage to organize, zone leader council, interviews with President, general conference, and two zone meetings we have to plan and conduct. I honestly think this will be the busiest week of my entire life haha. It´s funny because I never did ANYTHING before the mission because I didnt know what to do and there was never anything to do, but now there is tons to do and even when we don´t have anything to do, we can go outside and knock doors!!!!!!!!!! Haha, we knocked doors ALL DAY long on sunday. Good day, fun times. I love being a missionary. I used to hate knocking doors and teaching lessons, but now it´s just the only thing I know how to do. I don´t even know how to play soccer anymore. I´m not even sure if my english is very good anymore, but I am sure that these two years in the mission have been exactly what I wanted and needed.

     I don´t want to sound like a big-time bummer, but I am scared out of my mind to come home. I have no idea what I´m going to do!!! But I just figured I would plan all  that out when I get there cuz if I think about it too much now i´ll stress myself out haha. But don´t take that the wrong way!!!!!!!!! I am SO EXCITED to see you all!!!! I´ve been practicing saying all your names in my prayers so that I can recognize all those nephews and neices? nieces? I don´t remember exactly how to spell that... or is it neeses? or nisiz? or sobrina? or perhaps nchtehessess? oh well, all I know is I have to study when I get back. big deal. Oh yeah!! I bought you guys some cool stuffffff!!!!!! And I´m going to the center of Lima with my companion (who is from Lima..aka.. el limeño) to buy just a couple more things for you guys cuz there are a few little things more that im gonna get with the money you sent me. And......... I BOUGHT A SUIT!!!! And I didn´t give it away to the family we baptized!!!! It´s a pretty nice suit! It´s super black and super peruvian. It came with a shirt, a tie, and shoes!! It costed 300 peruvian dollars. 

     I always show a picture of you guys to our investigators and some ward members and my companions and my zone and they always say the same thing... Wow! Your brothers are huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... what happened to you?????? I wasn´t a big huge muscly man before the mission, but i had something, but now hahahahahahaha I´m just chubby and have tiny little arms. For example.. when you sent me that watch when i started the mission I always had to fasten it on the fourth or fifth loop to keep it from moving and it was tight... now i wear it on the third loop and it´s loose hahahahaha. I´m positive that Branson has bigger arms than me hahaha. Well, I´ve written way too much now, almost as much as my baby brother in arjinteenuh!! man i miss that guy. 

Elder Emett

Don't blink or you will miss this email!!

Buenos Días!!!!!

     Hey family how´s it going!? I have about 0 time to write because we are leaving now to play soccer with another zone here in Lima. We baptized a family of 3 on saturday! It was a super cool experience! They got married and baptized the same day! Se llama la familia Quispe. I need a huge favor. I need you to send 5 pictures of me before the mission to my email. All the missionaries who are ending this change have to send 5 pictures of before the mission to the offices to do some kinds of slideshow thing so maybe you could send like a few pictures playing soccer or hangin out with my bros or something así. It would be better if you could send like 10 pictures and I will choose between them. THANKS!!!!!!! Well... talk to ya later man

Elder Emett

IT WAS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!

ThCHHHEAmamamyyyyyyysis....

     Wow! I was ready to write you guys this morning, but then we had all these different things going on in the zone and I had to organize a few things and find a new internet place and send 4 missionaries to the mission offices and a whole handful of things haha so I just found some time to write to you!!!! Thanks for putting money in my account! I am going to get a suit today!! And after that, I am going to go with my companion to another part of Lima to organize a marriage we have coming up this saturday and another one next friday! We are going to marry and baptize 2 more families this month!!! Wooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the hard work is finally paying off haha. My companion is the man. We are bros and he is a stud.com. He speaks a lot of english and we set a goal to not speak any spanish in the house haha, it´s really cool because he understands everything I say in engish and he can respond and everything! Well, I was right about this week. IT WAS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were sprinting all week long!!!!! We literally did not have 1 minute to stop and think! We were just going and going and going! The energizer bunny couldn´t have kept up with us!!!! The mission is an amazing thing. The zone is really excited and they are all working really hard. We are going to pass the goal that we set for this month!! I have learned a lot this week. I learned a lot about diligence, goal setting, and faith. I wish I could share every detail about everything I learned, but there just isn´t enough time haha. 

     We are teaching 4 families that have goals to be baptized in october. I should baptize at least 2 more families the saturday before I come home. It´s impossible to understand how fast the mission is until you have 1 month left. I gave a talk in sacrament meeting yesterday about how I gained my testimony of the book of mormon and an ex missionary came up to me afterwards and told me that if I could teach the first lesson like that every time and make the investigators feel how I made him feel during my talk that I would baptize more that John the Baptist ahahahahahahahahahaa. I´m going to give my homecoming talk the first sunday I´m home, right?????? I hope so haha. I hope all my friends who are not members or are not active in the church are there! Is the brown still around there???? I´m definitely going to take him on a few dates after the mission hahahahaha. well........ talk to ya in a week!!

I want you guys to see what spanish is like. It´s a lot like english. I bet you can understand a lot of what I wrote!!!!! It´s just a basic testimony

logré tener mi propio testimonio del libro de mormón por medio del poder del espíritu santo justo después de hacer una oración a Dios y preguntarle si el libro de mormón es verdadero o no. Algunas semanas antes de esa experiencia, yo había escuchado el testimonio de una de mis amigas del libro de mormón. Ella dijo que le había ayudado mucho en su vida y nos invitó a leer el libro. Gracias a ese testimonio, tuve el valor de investigar y ¨probar¨ la buena semilla. Empecé a leer el libro y sentir el poder que tiene. Así logré tener un testimonio propio y firme de La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días, del profeta José Smith y de mi Salvador, Jesucristo. Siempre agradeceré a mi amiga por compartir su testimonio en ese momento y siempre compartiré el mío con la esperanza de ayudar a alguien más. 

Elder Emett

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AMAZING!!!!!

Heyyyy HEEYY heyy HEEYYY heyyy

      Wussuppppp?????????????? Dear family. THIS WEEK HAS BEEN AMAZING!!!!! My new companion´s name is Elder Morales, and he is a STUD. This is his first change as a zone leader and he is one of the best zone leaders I have met in my 23 months in the mission. He is from Lima, Perú and he has 13 months in the mission. He is my height, with dark skin, black hair, and brown eyes and pretty skinny. A lot of missionaries that I know start to relax in their last change in the mission, but that is NOT what we are doing! I have never, not even in Yurimaguas, felt so focused on missionary work as I do now. Let me explain... In Preach My Gospel, in chapter 8 it talks about setting and achieving goals, it says that the mission president (i´m just roughly translating from spanish to english) will maybe set goals of excellence that we should work on completing. President Blunck´s focus is the family. In the Perú Lima North mission, WE BAPTIZE FAMILIAS. At the beginning of 2012, President Blunck set a standard of excellence that is called 8/4/2. The idea is that in every area every single month we can baptize at least 4 people and of those 4 people, there are 2 families. Almost every single month when I was in Iquitos, I completed with the goal with my companion. But now my companion and I have an impossible goal haha. We don´t just want to achieve the goal, but we want every companionship in the whole zone to complete with the goal. This requires A LOT of work, attention, dedication, faith, diligence, and verification, but we KNOW we can do it. We hardly had time to think this week we had so much to do haha. And this next week will probably be one of the craziest weeks of my whole mission. A lot of what we do this week will determine if we meet the goal as a zone or not. I know all of the zone´s investigator´s names by heart and we are constantly praying for every one of them. Like I said... I have never been more focused in my whole mission. But that´s how it´s supposed to be right?????

     I wish I could send you all some sort of picture, but my camera is not working all that well ahaha. oh well. About the suit. I don´t have one. I borrowed a jacket from the mission offices, but I wont take it home with me haha, it´s not my size at all. There is a place right here close that is doing a special on suits. with S/. 300 I can buy a new suit with pants, 2 shirts, 2 ties, and shoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That´s about $120. But I don´t know. I don´t like spending your money. I´m fine with just going home in a shirt and tie and maybe my sweater hahaha because St. George is going to be WHHAY too cold for me!!! About what I want to eat when I get back... waffle cookies. no bake cookies. maybe a home made lasaña. Lots of vegetables. Maybe some kind of salad. Maybe some pizza. fruit snacks. gushers. oreo brownies. dr. pepper. 7 layer dip. doritos salsa verde. hahahah idk, I just want to eat all that and some other things that you make haha and i want to see all my huge brother and little nephews and nieces and erbody. That´s so funny that the stake president has my return date in his phone haha. I never understood the power of his calling until I got here in the mission, but i have an amazing respect for church leaders and every stake president i have met in the mission has been such a great person!!! I really respect his calling so much! Haha i feel honored that my name is in his phone hahahaha. He is a good guy. 

     We were praying really hard all week that we could have a lot of investigators in church so that there could be families who are progressing toward baptism for these next few weeks, and there were 11 investigators there!! With 5 families! We were also praying so that a family could get a few things cleared up with their marriage papers and we went with them this morning and we got it all cleared up so  they can get married and baptized on the 22nd!!!!! My testimony of prayer has grown so much. I love you guys. Thanks for all the support over all this time. I really am excited to see you, but it will not be easy for me to leave Perú. 

I have seen 8 apostles during my mission!

Tchzszzzzsaaremiimmmyyyyj!!!!!!!!

     What a crazy week!!! Well, not really haha. It was a pretty normal week. OH WAIT!! On friday, we got to listen to an Apostle!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Cristofferson come to Lima to meet with all the missionaries!!! It was super neat!! I have seen like 8 apostles during my mission!!!! And all of my companions and friends from the MTC were there!! We had a big group hug haha. Everybody has changed so much. Well, we got the changes today...... I am staying in my area, but my companion is going to another part of Lima... We are actually really good friends and we were excited for this change together, but it will be a very good thing for both of us. Our personalities didn´t really mix that well haha. But it will be sad. I am going to be training a new zone leader to finish out the mission. Today is the first day of my last change... 6 weeks left to give it my all. I´m more prepared now than I ever have been. This will be a very good change!!!! My new companion´s name will be Elder Morales... I don´t know him haha. I have no idea where he is from or what he is like, but I´m sure we will get along and we will work hard together. All I know is that he is in Lima right now. I will meet up with him tomorrow morning. 

    I´m sorry that Aunt Florence died, but you´re right, it was a good thing. Give Linda a big hug for me. Tell KJ congrats on her 5th child!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think they are trying to get to 10 like you guys!!!!! haha. I tell everyone that Im going to have 11 kids because I want to beat my dad, but 12 is too much haha. Well, I don´t have that much time to write, but i love you guys, thanks for everything!!!!