October 30, 2017 - Holaa - San Luis

Hey everyone! love you all so much and am having a great time in Peru! 

So last Monday we had a family home evening with our pensionista and i had to give the message by myself and it went great. We just read in Alma about Ammon and I just talked about service and how important service is in this life! We are always looking for ways to serve people because that's the way to their hearts. So a couple weeks ago we found this 17 year old girl named Stanik that had so many questions about what church was true and other stuff so we have made a lot of progress with her.  She is gonna get baptized on December 2! She loves reading the Book of Mormon and goes to seminary every day which is awesome! This Saturday we had a cool activity at our church called puertas abiertas or open doors, we had so many invites that we handed out and told the members to do the same, it was basically just a tour of the chapel. So the time came and there were really only 30 people that came and we only got 6 references which was kinda a bummer but that's 6 more people to talk to! We also got pizza after which was awesome! 

Love you all and this gospel is so great! If you think about it we get so much more than everyone else and I just want to share that with everyone here! I love the Book of Mormon and sad that I only get a short amount of time a day to read it! 

Peruvian culture!

_Everyone thinks that we are always hungry so we get so much food!

_ they have this barley coffee that apparently isn't bad but they have it so much and I hate it!

Also my mom wanted me to send the letter I send my president every week that you guys will have to translate if you want.

muchos gracias presidente! nosotros pedimos para bautismo muchos veces en la primera lección pero la investigador no esta seguro. Muchos éxito porque tenemos una fecha este semana para Stanik Atoche!
Yo aprendo mucho sobre paciencia este semana. Como misioneros necesitamos mucho paciencia porque la investigador es en su propia tiempo. También es muy importante para nosotros a leamos Predicad mi Evangelio cada día. Este tiene mucho información que ayúdanos en este obra. 

nosotros tenemos 8 investigadores
_Celestino Marquina : iniciativa propia
_Javier : miembro activa
_Justo : miembro activa
_Deisy Felix : iniciativa propia
_Adrian Cuti : iniciativa propia
_Junior Velasquez : iniciativa propia
_Debora Velasquez : iniciativa propia
_Robinson : iniciativa propia

tenemos 1 nuevo fecha y también teníamos 8 investigadores asistir la iglesia ayer. 
_Stanik Atoche - 2 Dec!

Cada semana mi español esta mejor. Yo puedo entender casi todo en este momento pero es difícil a hablar porque mucho conjugaciones, pero cada día aprender algo nuevo! También es mas fácil a leer el Libro de Mormón en español cada día. 
Gracia por todo! Usted ayúdame mucho cada vez en este emails!

Elder Beck

Pic 1-2 Elder Luna and I

Pic 3 - Me, Elder Luna and our mission leader in the front and Elder Gunn and Elder Pacco in the back, Hermano Jonathan (Ward Mission Leader) and Hermano Esteban

From Tanner to our family - Well love you guys so much and please write me every week! I love it so much when I get to talk to you guys! I'm having an awesome time down here so you don't need to worry.  Cant wait for everyone of you guys to have the same experiences as me.  Well I got to go but talk to ya guys next week!

1- Have you been able to have a 1 on 1 interview with President Rios yet?  How did that go with him not speaking English? yeah but they are really short and i can understand almost everything at this point

2- Do you have any problems with the food and your system?  Is it affecting you or are you able to tolerate it ok? I've been perfectly fine with everything, I haven't had any problems with sickness or diarrhea, its been great

3- Do you write reports to your mission pres?  I remember Michael Jamison doing that and then sometimes sending them in his letters to get more details- would love you to forward them to us if you can so we can get more details into what you are doing day to day.  Yeah I can copy and paste them in but they are in Spanish lol

4- Any foods you been missing yet since Christmas is coming up? yeah all american food, but for Christmas can i get all the rest of my ties? I need more lol

5- How are your shoes holding up?  I love my shoes! there are great! yeah they are holding up just fine - yeah we walk quite a bit, just depends on the day. we don't have any more mobility money so we have been walking more, our area is huge!  It is about 10 miles across.