September 20, 2017

Hey everyone!

So this Friday for physical activity we were playing American football and I go to throw the ball to Elder Anderson and I threw out my arm really bad and I couldn’t use it for about 2 hours.  But playing football with my district is super fun.

Saturday was pretty awesome.  We had a proselyting activity where we went out with the missionaries on splits to go contacting in the Lima East mission.  It was awesome!  I went with Elder Hunt.  He’s from Salt Lake and he’s been out for over a year.  So we started at the chapel that they all meet in and we got on this bus.  The driving here is absolutely crazy so we get on this bus with twice the amount of people and we go for about 20 minutes into the city and we start knocking on people’s doors.  As we are doing this, Elder Hunt is giving me advice and helping me out with the language.  I can’t remember all the little details, but the people here are so nice and so willing to listen to us.  I realized that I can understand 60-70% of what people are saying which is awesome but I can’t speak that well.  We got 3-4 appointments down and we talked to probably 10 people about Jesus Christ.  Also there are so many stray cats and dogs everywhere just lying in the street.  It has gotten me more excited to get out there. 

Yesterday was hard for me because I was missing family and other things, but I prayed a lot yesterday and I decided to fast today so we will see how that goes.  But hopefully I can get peace and comfort as I am out here.

I finished the Book of Mormon this week and started again.  We watched a talk by Elder Bednar and he told us that we should get a new Book of Mormon and write a question that we want answered in the front and that has really helped me focus on the question and find specific things pertaining to that.  So that has been going well.  I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God and I love reading it every day.  I love it out here and love all of you guys.

Elder Beck

1) Another district pic on the bus to the temple today

2) me and Elder Davis on the bus

3) Last time at the Lima temple before Trujillo!

4) Me and Elder Anderson in front of the temple.

5) Elder Call

6) Elder Boren

7) Elder Davis, Anderson, Beck, Call

8) Elder Harris (E'Sanchez)

9) Elder Harris again

My mom got an email on Sept. 21 from Faye Mayberry.  She said, "We were the witness couple for his temple session yesterday.  We are senior missionaries here.  He's a great guy and missionary."  This email made our day - so grateful for so many that think about us and send us texts or emails randomly.