Tons of flooding in Iquitos

Meeeaaaammmmyeieieey,

     I´m just your son Elder Emett here. That old guy who called you
is right! There is tons and tons of flooding going on in Iquitos! Half
of our area is underwater!!!!! I can´t believe I forgot to tell you
that! Ok. Changes. Elder Riquelme is going home tomorrow. I am staying
here and my new companion will be Elder Blanco. He is from Mexico and
should be really really cool. I have heard a lot of good things about
him and I have met him a few times. Another tall, brown, handsome one
haha. He is from the same group as Elder Galarza, the one that I
trained! This is his 8th month in the mission and he is going to be a
zone leader. That´s really fast!!! That means that he is a really good
missionary and that we will keep on having tons of success in the
zone.
    We are  going to the conference in lima tomorrow! We called up
the mission secretary and hooked it up so that Harris and I could sit
on the plane together and stay in the same room tomorrow night
hahahahaha. BTW Thanks for sending me information about BYU!
NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!! I know you don´t want me to go, but
please just send me 6 or 4 things about the school so I can make a
wise choice.
   Terrible news. my internet time is officially up. I didn´t have
any time to write you in the morning with all the reports and the
changes and all that so i am just taking a few minutes out of my p day
to write, but I totes have to go now. I love you all a
ton!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep sending letters and packages with all the
candies that I so dearly miss! But mostly just keep praying for Ben
and I. We really do appreciate it so much and it really does help so
much with the work that we´re doing. Call me! (I just realized that I
really will be calling you soon hahahah FOR THE LAST TIME IN MY
MISSION HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA).

Elder Emett

Life just couldn't be better!

Dear Jill Emett,

 

     Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Still here in Iquitos. Still with my same companion, but but but he will be leaving and going all the way home in 7 days. Wow. We got your package!!!!! It was full of the shirt for my companion and tons of Easter treats!! thanks!!!!!! And I got 2 letters from dad and a letter from Branson! I pretty much figure that dad is my best friend in the world because we talk a lot! Hahaha, I have talked more with him during my mission than I ever did before! And we are like on different continents!!!!! I don´t know if dad even reads this thing, but tell him that I absolutely love his letters!! I know I never ever ever write him back haha, but it´s just for a lack of time (which I know he understands), but we will have a lot of catching up to do when I get back. And tell Branson that Im just super jealous of him. Not only did he steal my place in the Emett Family, he is also way better at soccer than I ever was. And to make things worse, i´m just fat and slow now.

     But Im super stoked!!!!!!!!! Wanna know why!!!!!!!!!! The Gonzales Family got their ID and now they are for sure getting married next week! I´m so siked!! It has been one of my favorite families that I have ever taught! They have been able to change so much and give up so much and they will finally be getting married. Life just couldn´t be better!

     We just had interviews with President Blunck and I´m pretty sure I will be here in Iquitos until I finish my misison hahaha. And that´s a good thing! I love it here in the jungle! I was just thinking yesterday and I realized that we are already in April! That means that I was in Yurimaguas more than a year ago. That doesn´t seem like it was a full year ago.

     Well next time I write you I will almost have a new companion haha. I will let you know what his name is at least! And next week is zone leaders conference so we will be going to Lima again! Missions are just my best thing. See you tomorrow!

 

Elder Emett (the older one) (but looks younger, but is older)

 

 

18 months today!!!!

Dear Jill,

Still here in Peru loving every minute of it. Today is the 16th of April... That means that I finished 18 months in the mission!!!!! I was joking around with Elder Harris telling him that no sister missionary can make it as far as we have and that we are true men now haha (cuz the sisters only serve for 18 months). duh. Nothing too exciting has happened this week. We are waiting on some different papers so that a few families in our area can get married then baptized and we are finding some different people to teach, but nothing too exciting. My companion is going home in 2 weeks haha and his family is SO EXCITED to see him! It kinda makes me think about you guys sometimes and what it will be like to see you again after 2 years and I think it´s going to make me cry to see 11 nieces and nephews! I only know 8 of them!!!!!!!!!!!! But the work goes on!!!! I´m mostly just way stoked that baby jake is going to be starting his mission out real soon! It will be fun to see what different difficulties his investigators have and how he does with it all. I´m sure he will do just great!

I think I had like 100 things to tell you all, but I really don´t have a lot of time left and I have nothing else to say. Love you!!!!!!

Elder Emett

He is still not homesick!!!

MMMMMMMMAmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Before I comment on what you wrote to me I have 6 or 4 requests. COULD YOU PLEASE SEND ME MY LITTLE BROTHER´S LETTERS SO THAT I CAN READ THEM TOO!?? ¿ME PUEDE MANDAR LAS CARTAS DE MI HERMANITO PARA QUE YO LAS LEA TAMBIÉN? I put it in English and Spanish just in case you could understand one or the other better. That is my only request.

So I was totally in the Lima airport on my way back to Iquitos and this white guy saw us and said, ¨Elders!!¨ So we stopped to talk with him for just like 5 seconds and I told them I was from Salt Lake (I was born there, right??) and they got stoked because they´re from Salt Lake, too and they told me they wanted to call you hahaha. So I totally gave that guy our number and told him to tell you that I´m happy and that my scar is healing up nicely and it looks like he did a good job! What fun! That´s almost as good as getting to talk to you guys!

We all know that dad sends me like 143 letters a week (Thanks dad!!) with tons of pictures haha. Well, since I got to Iquitos, i have been collectionalizing the pictures and now i have a HUGE stack of pictures haha. Normally I just take the pictures, look at them once, smile, then put them away haha. But the other night I just wanted to see them so I took them out and I looked through ALL OF THEM! I got way stoked to see all my brothers and nephews and nieces haha. It was quite the experience. It was the first time in 18 months that I have actually just thoroughly enjoyed looking at the pictures and thinking of you guys hahahahahaha. Maybe I actually have been gone for quite a long time! But don´t worry, I´m still not homesick! Missions are my best thing! It will be very hard for me to take my nametag off.

HAHAHAHA You went to dinner With Loorraa? Where was Kimber Timber? OF COURSE they´re excited to see me, we are best best friends!!! Just hope Jake doesn´t get super jealous haha jeez! AAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh yyyyyeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh. Mom, don´t worry! Yes, I had a facebook account before I left, but then I erased it cuz I knew I wouldn´t use it on my mission, but then I realized that it´s like the ONLY way to keep in touch with all these people and all my converts so I just had some guy from the ward reactivate my account so that all the people I met here can find me and send me a friend request and then when I get home I can open it and keep in touch with all my mission friends! Good idea, right? But don´t worry, I´m not getting on facebook ya silly brains!!!!!!! But if you want to be my fracebrook friend, you will have to wait until after the mission.

Oh man, I was just talking to my companion about papa bear´s wedding. Tell him to wait for me! I totally would love love love to see his wedding! Side note... I think I will be getting home on Beckham´s birthday, so that should be fun haha. big deal.

Ok, everything is alright in Secada. We are just waiting on some marriage papers and then we will be able to baptize my favorite family! I wish i had a picture of them to send you! They are so funny! Hahahaha They are called The Gonzales family and there is also another Gonzales family that we are teaching that should be able to get married and baptized this month or next month! So many Gonzales people! Did I already tell you I baptized a man named Stephen? He´s the man. He is an active member of the church and is preparing to receive the Melquesidec Priesthood. What a stud.

Quick story! When I was sitting on the airplane on my way to Lima, I was sitting next to a teenage girl and her mom. To help keep me from getting sick on plane rides I always pull out a book of mormon and just read so that I´m not thinking about anything else. Well, they both saw me reading the book of mormon and started asking me questions about who I was, why I had a nametag, how it is that I spoke spanish so well, what is the book of mormon, why was I in Iquitos, Why was I going to Lima and all kinds of good questions, so I obviously turned it into a teaching situation. I taught them about a few different things in the book of mormon and answered a few questions they had about the ¨mormons¨. haha. Needless to say, they absolutely loved it! I don´t know if it was for the spirit, or my blue eyes, but they accepted a book of mormon and an invitation to go to church. It just builds on to my testimony that God is always preparing people to hear his gospel. He knows where they are and he knows where we are and he ALWAYS ALWAYS puts us together! The lady gave me her number so that the missionaries can get in touch with her and see how she is doing with her book!

Thanks for everything family! Thanks for all the support and love!!!! Ben and I will both be calling you in just like a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Emett

Pictures

Best Priesthood session of his life!!!

Mammy

It has been a super crazy week! Another family got baptized!!!!! They were so stoked, but not nearly as stoked as I was hahahaha! The guy´s name is Jose and his wife´s name is Lissette. We baptized them two and Elder Walker and Elder Tana (the other two elders in our ward) baptized the other lady there and her daughter (I totes forgot their names hahahaha). That´s the first picture I am sending. The next one is of me in the water with Jose right after I baptized him! Cleanest water ever!!! hahaha. Not! All the water we use here comes straight from the amazon river or straight from water wells and it ALL SMELLS LIKE FFFFFFIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHH

HHHH! But I´m used to it.
Conference was SO GOOD! wow. Conference as a missionary is like 431 times better than it was as a teenager (haha I just realized I´m not a teenager anymore). I actually feel like I understand what they´re trying to tell us and I recognize the scriptures they use and I always get so much from it. Conference is number 1! P.s. that was the best priesthood session of my life! Elder Holland is and has been my favorite for years for his powerful and direct way of speaking and it was just such a good talk that he gave. We watched 4 sessions in english and 1 in spanish.
Yes! I am getting all the packages you are sending so don´t worry! I got both the packages and now I have 2 brand new pairs of pants! Thank you!!!!!! And thanks for the money!!!!!!!!! No.... Easter is not celebrated in Perù.
I sent another picture, too! It´s of the wedding! On the far left side is Jimmy (He is the guy who was driving the moto when the silly car decided to hit us) Then it´s my companion, then the family, then me and another lady named Marly who is our pensionist! Great people!
I wish I had something cool to tell you, but I´m all out of cool stuff and WHAYYY out of time. I love you all! Thanks for everything! Call me!

Elder Emett

Awesome Pictures