Elder Tanner Beck: November 20, 2017

Love you all and just know that i'm doing just fine down here!

On tuesday apparently it hit elder gunn again with the sickness which isnt good and we had district meeting and he was feeling really bad through the whole thing lol. didnt have much success this day tho.

Wednesday morning i wasn't feeling the best again but we walked to new parts of our areas today and just walked basically through more dirt and sand which was super fun! So we have this family (barrios family) that missionaries have been trying to get baptized and married for a while now and we actually have fechas for their kids but after a week they weren't sure anymore which is super frustrating but we got them to come to church which is good and we have hopes for the oldest!!!

Thursday basically just had weekly planning which i basically just did by myself because we didn't have much to plan. but also my pension asked for my moms recipe for out pancakes and i gave it to her and she uses it for so many things now which is super funny! we had tacos today with our tortillas being our pancakes lol! Also Peru beat New Zealand the other day and they are now in the world cup!!! its been 36 years since this has happened so that was super huge for Peru!!! i love it here!

Friday most of our appointments fell through again but its fine cause the sun was shining that day and i was in a good mood!

Saturday we had intercambios and i was with elder gunn this week in my area so i was directing! well both of us have the same experience with spanish and its still a little choppy so i was super nervous! but everything went perfect! (almost) haha, i directed every lesson and i actually didnt know i knew very well Spanish until this point so we did awesome! we only really had one choppy lesson but that was about tithing and the word of wisdom. the 2 lessons that we never teach so we didnt know how to very well but it was all good in the end!! but it was an awesome day and we found 2 new investigators when we only had 3 for the week and that was a super good lesson too!!!

Sunday I was super tired today because of all the walking with elder gunn! but church was good and we got 2 of the barrios there to church and that's one of the main things we have to do for investigators that want to get baptized. Also we got to go to the face to face last night and that was super cool! we brought Stanik and a recent convert Luisin and that was cool! it was with president oaks and ballard and it was way cool! well other than that i love this gospel and everything is going great down here! the Spanish is coming along and i learn so much every day! i know that the book of mormon is super important for us and that's one of the main things we want our investigators to do!

Peruvian Culture

_There lunch here is the biggest meal of the day so its super hard for me to eat it cause i would never eat breakfast or lunch at home lol

_there are also so many dogs on the roofs that will just bark at you when you walk past, its like they get banished up there because they are never not up there

Elder Beck