Hello Family and friends Well this week was a week of a lot of traveling. I went to the two farthest zones in the mission. I went to Nazca which is basically like the hottest driest desert in the world. There its 90 degrees durring the day in the winter. You can only imagine what it would be like in the summer. I had a good time there. It was nice to be in the sun. It was an 8 hour bus ride to get down there though. The buses that go long distances in Peru are pretty intense. They are two storied buses and they are huge. We sat in the front seats of the second story so we had a panoramic view of everything. That was neat. We got to Nazca at about 930 that night and then went straight to the room of the zone leaders to get ready for bed. It reminded me of sleeping in Hawaii. here in Lima it gets really cold at night. I sleep with 3 big heavy blankets at night. When i was in Nazca i didn't use anything. It was nice and warm the whole night. The next day we did an 8 hour long training with the zone. Then after that we worked with the zone leaders in their proselyting area and went to bed again. The next day we woke up and studied like normal and then went to the bus station for another 8 hour bus ride. We got to Lima about 7 that night. We had to take care of a few things in the office then went home and went to bed to wake up at 300 in the morning the next day to catch an airplane to Ayacucho. We got to Ayacucho at about 6:15 in the morning. When we got there my companion and I changed and went for a little run. Ayacucho is a city that lies at 9000 feet above sea level. Im way out of shape and I've lived at sea level for the better part of the last two years. To say the least i was breathless. We ran to the top of a hill and got a view of the whole city. It was pretty neat. Wish i would have taken a Camera. Supposedly it rains a lot in Ayacucho. I was really excited because i havent seen rain in over a year. But it didn't rain. It was a little disappointing but thats alright. After the run we got ready and repeated the training we had done in Nazca. By about 6 in the afternoon i was losing steam. We worked with a couple of companionships in their areas for the rest of the day. at ten thirty exhausted, my head hit the pillow and i instantly fell asleep. Then we got up the next morning at 5:30 to catch a plane back to Lima. That was basically my week. It was a long one. I really enjoyed the general conference on Saturday and Sunday. Lots of fantastic messages. I hope you were all able to watch it. The talk from Elder Waddell was a lot of what he taught us when he was here. Interesting. Well thats all for this week. Miss and love you all. Elder Hesselgesser
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Oct 6th, 2011
Sept. 24th, 2011
Dear Family, Well im ending one of the most eventful weeks of my entire mission. It has been a really great week. First of all on Monday we had Family home evening with a family in our ward. their last name is Hooker. The dad of the family is a returned mission president and an area 70. That was a fun family home evening. It was kind of funny because what he did was pull out an old powerpoint from when he was a mission president and lectured us on it. It was pretty funny. It was great though because we were able to gain the confidence of the family and the mom of the family trusted us enough to give us the reference of her mom. So it payed off. That was a neat experience. the next day we started a "mission tour" with Elder W. Christofer Waddell of the first quorom of the 70. On Tuesday morning president went to pick him up from his house and met us in a chapel in Lima. We had to go early to get everything ready. Then him and President Manning showed up with their wives. From 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon was just him speaking to us. It was really awesome. The spirit was super strong. But that wasnt even the best part. After that we went down to Pisco which is a town about 3 and a half hours south from Lima. We rode with President Manning, Sister Manning, and Elder Waddell. It was a really neat experience because we could just speak with a general authority in normal conversation. It was funny because he seemed more eager to answer our questions than we were to ask questions. But we got to learn a lot about what it is like being a general authority and some of the experiences he had been able to have. It was nice to see more than just the general conference side of a general authority. He was just a really great man. And the neat thing is he will be speaking in the priesthood session of general conference. So keep your eyes open. W. Christofer Waddell. We had basically an identical meeting the next day and then headed back up to Lima. then the third day we had another conference in Lima for the remaining zones that had not participated earlier. One of the other neat things was that my companion and i were able to sit on the stand with him because we were conducting the meetings. Never thought that i would be conducting a meeting of a general authority. Wierd. But super awesome at the same time. The area that im supposedly working in right now, (Even though we dont get much time to work there) is completely different then the other areas ive been in and has been a good learning experience. The biggest challenge no longer is people understanding basic doctrine because the people here are generally educated and quite smart. Also the people in this part are some of the richest people in Peru. It is definitely one of the richer parts of Peru. The people are not as open, but the church is a lot stronger here because there are good leaders. The people are much more educated as well. Interesting how that works. We are really close to where the church started in Peru. There are many members of our ward that 40 years ago were part of the first branch in the country. now there is 98 stakes in Peru. Talk about rapid growth. So thats whats going on in my area. I did get the tape recorder. Thanks a lot that was great. I loved hearing from everybody. I especially loved hearing Keagan talk. thats crazy. Im starting to realize how much things have changed since I've been home. I think i have missed the births of 5 going on 6 babies since I've been here, not to mention the entire remodeling of the house. I looks a lot different by the way. Thats a lot. But i am having some really great experiences. Today we have a baptism! Im really excited for that. It has been almost two months since we have baptized. turns out as assistant we have no time to find people to baptize. Its a little depressing but we are doing what we can. So tonight a guy named Angel is being baptized tonight. He was an orphan. He is 22 years old and has finally found something to fill the big hole he has inside of him for not being raised by parents. Im really excited for that. This week that is coming we are going to be traveling a lot. On Monday we are taking a 7 and a half hour bus ride to one of the furthest zones away thats called Nazca. then the following day we are doing a training there. and the day after taking a bus back. The day after getting back we have to get up at 3 to take an airplane to Ayacucho. The mountain city, to do a training and we will come home the next morning. So lots of traveling. Should be fun. Miss you all tons hope everything is going well. See ya Elder Hesselgesser
Sept. 17th, 2011
Hello family Well the recorder came i found out about 10 seconds ago. I opened it up to try and turn it on and the batteries are dead. I will go and buy some today and start listening to it. Well this week flew by really really fast. It was a super busy week. Ive been running on little energy. We have had to stay up late a few times to get things done. This week were the changes. On saturday and sunday we spent basically all day working on the changes. We were doing that until 12:30 at night sunday night and woke up at 6 on Monday to go to the changes meeting. The rest of the day was insane trying to get about 100 missionaries to where they needed to be. On top of that my companion and i had a change. We are still assistants but we went and are opening up a new area. Talk about a lot of work. We are weighed down with a lot right now. But at the same time having a great time. We have already had some great stuff happen in this new area. It is one of the richest areas in the entire mission and there is even a member of the seventy in our ward. Kind of crazy. The missionaries were pulled out several months ago and now we were put back in. The ward responded really well and we have had a full weak of appointments. Well only at nights. So then on Tuesday we started at 5 in the morning to go and pick up the new missionaries from the CCM. From then on tuesday was training the new missionaries and training the trainers of the new missionaries. Then on Wednesday we traveled down to a city called Pisco. Stayed in a really nice hotel. That was awesome. Then the next morning we woke up at 5 again to do a leadership training for all of the zones in the southern part of the mission. That lasted 8 hours and my companion and I ran the whole thing. After that i was pretty exhausted. We took the bus back to Lima got back about 10:30 and went to bed. Got up at 6 the next morning and had to do the same 8 hour training for all of the missionaries that are here in Lima. So to say the least we have been really really busy this week. I just got up from a nap and feel much better now. Things are not going to slow down either this week we are going to be accompanying Elder Waddell a member of the area presidency all around the mission. We will be organizing three different meetings in which he will be speaking with the missionaries. then the next week we have to go to Nezca which is about 8 hours away by bus and then come back and fly to Ayacucho the next day so we can do the same leadership trainings. Its busy but im loving it. Im having a ton of fun. Im learning a ton and im having oportunities that most missionaries dont have. Thanks a lot love you all tons Elder Hesselgesser
Sept. 10th, 2011
Dear Family, Well this week has been a pretty good week. Busy still. This week we didnt have to do any trainings but we did do some interchanges and spent and are spending a lot of time getting ready for the changes on Monday. I truly had no idea how much time we would be spending on the changes. Yesterday we were at president Manning´s house all day working on the changes. It was a pretty neat experience to be able to work with him and watch the spirit work in him as he chooses each and every one of the companionships. I had no idea exactly how much time mission presidents dedicate to doing the changes. In his house he has a giant board. Each missionary has a little card with his picture that says where he has been and the assignments he has had. And using that he rearranges the companionships. He did about half of the changes with us. We spend a full three days with him working on them. It was really neat. It was really a very spiritual experience for me. Now we are organizing all of the travel information so that all of the missionaries can get to their new areas. Its definitely a new experience. Im learning a lot about how the mission and the church function. Well other than that not a whole lot has happened this week. Sorry for the short letter. The next two weeks should be a little more interesting. We will be traveling more and we are going to take one of the area seventies for a tour of the mission in two weeks so that ought to be fun. Anyways i miss you all tons hope everything is good at home. thanks for the thoughts and prayers. Elder Hesselgesser
Aug 26th, 2011
Hey Family, Well this week has been pretty awesome. I have had some really fun experiences. We spent Monday and Tuesday getting ready for Elder Anderson of the quorum of the twelve to visit us. He came to talk to our mission, the Lima central mission, and the Lima West Mission. So Its enough to say that we were a lot of missionaries. It was a lot of fun. Our mission was in charge of making a choir. So we made a choir of fifty missionaries. I was in the choir. And we got to sit in the front rows. It was awesome. So i was in the third row. It was pretty much a really great experience to be able to hear from him. He speaks like 5 languages and i think the last one he has learned is Spanish. His Spanish was more or less. It came out as a combination between French, Spanish, and portuguese. Anyways, He Took the time to shake all of our hands. That was really awesome. The first time i have shaken hands with an apostle. A phrase that he said that is still echoing in my mind is, "I know with a certainty that Jesus Christ lives..... Because I am his witness." It just brought me to think about the reality of his calling. He is called to be a witness of Jesus Christ. I don´t know why but when he said that it just kind of blew my mind. After that President Manning went out to dinner with him. Im not too sure what they talked about but I´ll have to ask president manning about it tonight. My companion leaves on Sunday. I´m a little bit sad about that. He is going home. His mission time is up. But he has been a really good companion even though he has only been my companion for a week. Well thats about all thats going on here. Yesterday i went to visit a companionship that lives way out in the farms. They use bikes. My rear end hurts really bad today for sitting on a bike all day yesterday. Other than that all is good. Tomorrow we are going to a city in the mountains called Ayacucho. It will be my first time out of the desert part of the mission. It is the only zone that isn't in the desert part of the mission. We are going to be flying there in an airplane. So that should be a good time. Well miss and love you all hope everything goes well for you. PS you can still write me this week even though i wrote you early. Write me tonight and next friday night too. Just plan on writing me every friday night. Also tell Grandma and Grandpa to write me i havent heard from them in a very very long time. I would also like their email address so i can write them. Thanks! Elder Hesselgesser
AUg 20th, 2011
Hey Family, Hey guys hows everything going? It was good to hear from you this week :( Well i understand things are a little busy. You should plan on writing me every Friday because sometimes i will be writing Saturday and sometimes other days in the week but if your write me every Friday i will get it every time no matter what day im writing. Well the rest of the week went pretty good. Its definitely flown by. Since the last letter I wrote things have gone really well. We were supposed to be getting home from our super long road trip this morning but instead we came home on Thursday night. We met up with President Manning in Cañete to do a Multi-Zone conference and he saw that my companion was sick and sent us back to Lima to rest a little bit. It was a very tiring road trip. I was with 10 different companionships in 10 days. It was hard to adjust to so much change in so little time. My focus has changed from helping investigators to helping missionaries and its definitely a big difference. I had an awesome opportunity to return to my area in Cañete for a day. It was the best day of the whole trip. I saw one of the families that i baptized and now they are giving lunch to the missionaries every day. They are the pension of the missionaries. And they promised me that they would go to the temple to be sealed next July! It was awesome to see them again! Not only that the dad of the family whose name is Oswaldo came with us and introduced us to his friends and neighbors that night. It was Awesome! They are the greatest family ever. I cant wait to see them get sealed in the temple in a little less than a year. Anyways other than that today we ate doughnuts for breakfast it was awesome. Having a good time. Im not rested up a little bit and feel a lot better. I got a little worn out on the road trip, but also had a lot of fun. We were able to learn a lot from the missionaries and get to know almost the entire mission. This week that is coming i think i will be writing on Monday or Tuesday because we are going to the furthest part of the mission called Ayacucho to do another zone conference. We have to take a plane to get there. Weird. So i think we will be a little busy next Saturday but still just write me on Monday night. But just write me ever friday night Actually write me as soon as you read this and then write me again on friday night. Because im using my email almost every day to communicate with president so i can read emails i just cant write any to you. And send me the recorder i want to hear everybody. And have you been able to get into my BUUH account? And why havent grandma and grandpa written me.... I really want to hear from them. Or at least give me their email address. Welp thats all love you all and miss you tons bye bye Your son
Aug 6th, 2011
Hey mom and dad and family
Well just so you know my prep day has changed to Saturday. From now on i will be writing you on Saturdays and if for some reason im not able dont worry too much ill be writing you soon. So you should start to write me on friday nights now. Anyways how is everything at home going? Good i hope. I hope you all have been taking the boat out and stuff. And i really hope that you are enjoying every moment of summer because im freezing down here. Its really cold. My feet just dont get warm. Now that im in Lima its a lot colder than it was in cañete. Its not snowing or anything but it sure feels like it should be. But im going to enjoy it now while i can because when summer comes around its going to be really hot. Anyways life as an assistant is a lot different than a normal missionary. We live in a carpeted apartment with a kitchen a washer and a dryer. Its pretty awesome. Oh yeah and it has hot water. And its an apartment complex with a weight room. So to say the least this is the area of Peru where only the richest of the richest people live. Its pretty insane. But everything is super expensive. There are also stores that are like Safeway, Well its not Safeway but something similar. And hey have things like milk and cheese and ice cream. So this week I've been eating ice cream, french toast, cinnamon toast, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Oh yeah and pizza too. Its been pretty cool. Its really cool to be in contact this much with President Manning. He is a spiritual giant and its cool to be around him as much as I am. Unfortunately this week things aren't going to be so comfortable. My companion and I are going on a trip for a week to visit three zones in the southern part of the mission so we wont be back until next saturday. We will be leaving monday morning. As far as actually teaching, we do have a proselyting area, but ive only been there once for an hour so we really dont go there that much. Anyways thats about all thats going on here. I definitely miss Cañete. It was an awesome area and Ill actually be going back there for a day later in the month in order to do a zone conference there. So that should be cool. Well thats all thats going on here. Im learning and eating a lot. Sometime soon ill start a diet to loose all the weight I've gained here.
Elder Hesselgesser
August 1, 2011
Hello Family and friends
Well this has been a pretty insanely crazy week for me. We spent basically the whole week traveling all over the entire zone and doing baptismal interviews. It was a lot of stress and a lot of things went wrong but a lot of things went right too. As a zone we had a great month and we have improved a ton. After getting done with some baptismal interviews on Saturday morning President manning called me and told me i was going to have a change. He called me here into the office to be an assistant. So basically i just got changed away from the best area ever to the office. Wel i probably wont be in the office that much i will probably be traveling a lot but i wont be in my area anymore. To be 100% honest im really scared because i just had a ton of responsibility put onto my shoulders and Im not even sure exactly what im supposed to be doing. In short im a little scared. But hey where the lord calls he provides a way. I just have to learn a lot of stuff really fast. On the upside i live in a building in down town Lima. I live on like the third floor and our apartment is carpeted with a kitchen. Oh yeah and Hot water. And since we are in the rich part of Lima American food is obtainable. So that will be fun. Well I hope everything is going well at home. We did have another baptism this week. It went really well. Im really sad that i had to leave my area because i had a lot of fantastic experiences there. I hope that everything goes well for you miss you all tons.
Bye
Elder Hesselgesser
July 25th, 2011
Wow well this has been a bit of a difficult week. But a good one as well. They cant all be great i guess. But we did have a baptism so that was really great. It was a lady whose husband died three years ago from Lucemia and she has a three year old little girl. I had the great privilege of baptizing her and she just came out of the water with a huge smile on her face. She was super happy and very excited to be a member of the church. We have basically run out of investigators. We have to go back to finding to be able to have more people to teach. But thats alright its a lot of fun searching for people. Other than the baptism nothing to out of the ordinary happened this week. I sent home the voice recorder and it should be arriving soon. I had to take out the batteries so it wouldnt weigh very much because it costs a ton to send things from here. But yeah you will just have to put in new batteries when you get it. Also it would be cool if you can record some Keagan and Carter and grandma and grandpa because i havent seen them in forever. Tyler sent me a bunch of pictures and i loved them thanks a lot. I cant believe how big Keagan is getting. He looks just like Tyler did when he was little. And Carter i dont hear much about him but i assume hes a pretty cool little baby. Anyways Update me on life and it would be cool if you could send me some pictures of the boating. Also some pictures of the house because from the pictures that kelly has sent me it looks like
it has completely changed. Also some pictures of some of the other new babyes in the family would be cool if you can get a hold of them. Thanks a ton miss you all bye bye
July 17, 2011
Hello friends and family. Well this has been another great week in the mission. Each one seams to pass by faster and faster. This week we baptized a family. A really awesome family. They are pretty much the type of family that every missionary dreams of baptizing. It was awesome. It was a family of four a dad a mom and two daughters. Their names are, Oswaldo, Yenny, Kristina, and Zaida. They are pretty much the best ever. Their baptismal service was a really powerfully spiritual. The next day the four of them were confirmed in the sacrament meeting. So that was definitely the highlight of the week. If everything goes well there will be three more people getting baptized next week. We are praying a lot for every one of them and we know that with the lords help everything is possible. On thursday we went to a house in the middle of a bunch of farm land and we basically knocked it down. It was pretty cool. We had shovels and sludge hammers and we just went at the walls until the whole house had fallen down. And it wasn't that small either. So that was a really cool experience. Im loving the mission right now and working hard. Im trying to not be satisfied and to just keep working and the more we work the more the lord is blessing us with success. We have truly seen a lot of miracles here. The changes are in two weeks. I dont know if im going or staying but regardless of what happens i will never forget what has happened in this area. I have learned so much and have been able to grow a lot. Instead of writing more this week im just going to load up pictures and let them do the talking. Love you and miss you all. I could use a letter or two from my friends once and a while :) TJ
July 11, 2011
Dear Family and friends,
Well i really dont know where to start for this week it has been a really really great week for us. We have learned a ton. We are in the middle of a big change here in our zone. Where i am right now in cañete 4 months ago was basically the Dead area of the mission. Nobody was having any success. Since that time we have been working really really hard to change that. We have had a lot of changes here and have been working really really hard to get the zone to a new level. Every tuesday we have a meeting with the district leaders to plan what we are going to do to help the zone improve and what we are going to do in the district meetings. This week we talked and learned a lot about faith. We realized that we were working without faith and that we weren't doing as well as we could be. We set a goal as a zone to baptize 36 people before the end of July. This is a zone that baptized 3 in March and 3 in April. So we went out and did everything we could between wednesday and sunday to increase our faith to find the prepared people to be baptized in the month of July. We had an absolutely amazing experience. In my own area we saw miracles. We had strangers showing up to church and other people asking us if they could be baptized. I honestly couldn't believe it. The Lord has worked so many amazing miracles here in this area and I dont know what we have done to deserve them. In my time here i have been able to recognize that as missionaries we basically dont do anything. But its the Lords work he does it, and as long as we are obedient and diligent we will complete our portion of the work. I have seen so many miracles in my area alone. yesterday was just a day of miracles for us. For example the money that we needed for the month of July had not come to the bank yet, we had to pay a fast offering, but i also needed enough money to pay for my bus pass to go do some visits in a village far away. I also needed to give a fast offering for a fast we had done earlier in the week. Then while we were at church i found 10 soles more in my backback! Exactly what i needed. That was pretty amazing. And that was the least of it. Yesterday three people came to church that we have never even taught before. Later in the day we taught two of them and one of them started the visit asking when she could get baptized. The both of them accepted a baptismal date in July. I´ve found that when we humble ourselves and search for the help of the Lord in the work that is his, he will either guide us to the people he has prepared to receive the gospel or he will guide them to us. Up until now we have had the great opportunity to participate in two baptisms this month. We have 10 more scheduled before the end of the month including two families. I am honestly living the mission dream right now. People are falling to the sky that want to follow Jesus Christ. We had 13 investigators in the chapel on Sunday! That just shows you something. Well between wednesday and today the zone worked very hard and with faith was able to find 33 people in 5 days and place them with a baptismal date. now we are just praying and hoping that each and every one of them can make it to their date and be baptized. My companion is a good missionary and we are working really hard together. We hardly have time to eat. Today we are going to travel to play soccer with another zone that lives about an hour away. Welp i hope that everything at home is going well because as of now everything here is going great. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers i need every single one of them. Prayer is a very powerful tool in missionary work. Well i think thats all for this week i hope everything up in the states is nice and summery because im freezing down here! hahaha goodbye With faith everything is possible.
Elder Hesselgesser
July 4th, 2011
Dear Family and friends Well this week has been a pretty good week. Still extremely busy Time is just flying by. The weeks go by like days. And this week im sure will go by even faster. It has been a really good week though. The family i wrote about last week is doing really well. They are all really great people. Its amazing the change we have seen in them since the first day that we met them. Their names are Oswaldo Jenny Krisitina and Zaida. Oswaldo and Jenny are the parents. Kristina and Zaida are their two daughters. The four of them are going to be baptized on the 16th. Its been a lot of fun to see the way that accepting Christ in their life has helped them so much. I have been thinking and reflecting a lot about where true happiness in life comes from the last few weeks. I feel that i have found the answer. The big broad and obvious answer is that true happiness only comes from God. All type of worldly happiness doesn't last long and basically just makes us happy for a little and then we end of just a lot sadder afterwards. Being in this environment here and seeing so many people and talking with so many people every day, It is so easy to distinguish between who is happy and who is sad. And with about 100% of them their level of happiness in their life right now is based on the decisions they made when they were young. If they made good decisions they are happier. If they made bad decisions they are sad and a lot of times in really difficult situations. In the poorer parts here just about every girl has at least one teenage pregnancy. And they have to live with the concequences of their actions for the rest of their life. Instead of studying and progressing to get out of the poverty that they are in they just stay the same. Anyways in reading and searching the scriptures i´ve found that happiness comes from two really important things. number one is obedience and number two is the words of christ. Ill tag on the scripture references at the end. Anyways i have a ton of pictures today we also had a baptism this week of a girl that had a ton of problems. But we have also seen a huge change in her as well. Its amazing how much the Gospel of Jesus Christ has helped her and given her hope in her life. Thats all for this week. Ill try and explain the pictures. Love you all Elder Hesselgesser
June 27th, 2011
Hello Friends and family,
You will have to excuse the short letter last week. I didn't have too much time. This week was actually a pretty good week. I am still enjoying where i am very much. I really like my area. Its a really cool area. But its still in the middle of the desert and it never rains. The winter months are here so the weather is a little dreary. Its a little cold too i have to wear a sweater at night to keep warm. Theres no such things as air conditioners here or heaters so we just learn to live in the weather as it is. Daily life here is super busy. i dont think I've ever been so busy in my entire life. But it has helped me to be able to be more focused on what i want to do. It should help me a lot in college when i get back. Well We had a super cool experience yesterday with a family that we are teaching. They are a classic peruvian family with parents that work 12 hours a day 7 days a week. They sell fruit juice in the market. We challenged them two weeks ago to not work on sunday to just leave it completely and
that God would bless them for doing it. It takes a lot of faith to do that because Sundays in Peru people that sell on the streets sell triple what they sell on a normal day. So that is a big step of faith to just leave it. Yesterday the four of them came to church as a family and last night we visited them. It was then that we realized that yesterday was the first day they had ever spent together as a family. They all just had huge smiles on the their face and were so happy. They are an awesome family. It takes a lot of faith to do what they are doing. They are planning on being baptized on the 16th of July the whole family. Its amazing how the gospel can bring families together and its amazing the change we have seen in this family. Its awesome! So that was the great way that we ended our week. right now we have baptisms scheduled for 4 of the five weeks in July and all of the investigators that have a date in the first three weeks are progressing. So we should have a really successful month again like in may. Well thats the hope at least. We have the goal of 10 for the month of july. thats about all thats going on here right now im loving every minute of it but definitely missing summer at home. Its a different world down here. I now realize how much i had when i was a kid. And the kids here dont have anything. But in many ways they are a lot happier than the kids in the states. Its pretty amazing. Happiness does not come from material things but from a persons relation with god and with other people.
love you all
feel free to write me i havent received a letter in a while
Elder Hesselgesser
June 13th, 2011
Dear family and friends
well this week has been yet another successful week here in San Vicente de cañete. I really love my area and am having an absolute blast right now. Well its a lot of hard work but im loving every second of it even the hard parts. I can honestly say that we are seeing miracles happen here almost every day. I am so amazed at the trust the Lord has put into our hands at this time. Every week we are finding somebody new who is prepared to recieve the gospel. Every week we are having more and more success. Right now we have 10 investigators that have baptismal dates and i can honestly say that each and every one of them was prepared for us and that we have been guided to each and every one of them. Im am truly amazed. There are trials and its not easy but when there is success its awsome. We have investigators that are truly having amazing spiritual experiences and recieving answeres to their prayers. Its really awome! I really dont know what else to say i got a package this week! thanks a ton you have know idea how much i needed new insoles. My shoes are in more or less good shape but the insides were just torn apart. And know i feel like im walking on clouds with my new Dr. Scholls haha. The Zone leader things are keeping us super busy there is zero minutes of extra time durring the day. Sometimes i wish the days were longer so we could teach more people. The weather here is really cooling down. Its now going into winter and im starting to be really cold. Theres no such thing as heater or AC hear so we just live with what the weather is like. Right now im sleeping with a blanket and sweats a sweatshirt and a hat at night to keep warm. Its working pretty well. Its not exactly a washington winter but its pretty cold. Theres always a cloud layer over the town but it never ever rains. Every once in a while early in the morning it will be like midsty but it does not rain here. Ever. Its nice compared to the hot summer that we had before but its a little too cold i would say. anyways other than that things are great here. My area is huge and there area great investigators in every part of my area. We spend a lot of time traveling to get to little neighborhoods that are in the middle of nowhere. Something different about peru is that nobody lives alone nobody just builds their house alone like we do in the states. everybody has neighbors. They form groups of people called pueblos that live together. and so we have to travel far to get to some of the publos here to visit. But its okay i really like my area i hope i never leave. Thats all Ive got for this week hope everything is well in the states. Hope everyone is having a good summer. Love TJ
June 6th 2011
Wow well this week was yet another eventful week. Its amazing how much has been happening and changing in the last few weeks of my mission. First of all on Monday last week we went to the beach. Im not going to lie that was really awesome and a little depressing. The two senior couples that are in our zone brought us hot dogs and we made a fire and cooked hot dogs and smsmores. It was fantastic. Then we played soccer on the beach. It was probably the funnest Pday i have had since ive been here on the mission.´ Then that very night we went back to the room showered got ready and President Manning picked us up in his minivan and took us down to a town called Chincha to stay for the night. We stayed in a hotel that was pretty much unbelievable. Well it may have been somewhat normal for states standards but compared to what i have been living in here it was paradise. And the best part was it had hot water. Im pretty sure itook the longest and best shower of my life. And the beds were super comfortable. So that was fun. Also president manning took us out to a super expensive restaurant to eat dinner so that was pretty cool as well. After staying in the hotel for the night we traveled another hour and got to a town called Pisco. there we had a leadership training which was pretty cool. We got back late that night. So for monday and tuesday we weren't in our area at all. Then on Wednesday evening at 6 we had to go to Lima to a Zone leaders council. So we spend Wednesday night traveling as well. Then on Thursday morning we had the zone leaders council until about 4 in the afternoon and we got back to our area about 8 at night again. So basically we were traveling every day from Monday until thursday. Friday and saturday were great days of normal work but sunday was very different. There were presidential elections here in Peru and on election day by law every peruvian citizen has to vote and no church or any type of organization can hold meetings on election day. So We didnt have church yesterday. We were also not able to contact in the streets in order to avoid any problems. So instead we just visited a bunch of investigators and members. The work here in our area is going really well. Unfortunately in our zone its not going so well. We seem to be one of the only areas in this zone that can have any success. But im really enjoying the success that we are having. I have never been so busy in my entire mission and im loving it. We spend every minute of every day running from house to house to try and visit everybody and even then there isnt enough time. We have even considered cutting our pday way short to be albe to go and visit more people. Right now we have 8 investigators with a baptismal date and we have plans to invite more in the weeks that are coming. Peru is fantastic im having the time of my life down here. I just hope i can stay where i am for a while so i can keep on working the way i am right now. Love you all and miss you a ton Elder Hesselgesser
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
May 30, 2011
Hello Family, Well You could say that each and every week just gets crazier and crazier. I have absolutely no complaints. We have so many awsome people that we are teaching and we find even more new people every week. Its really quite amazing what is happening here. Im not sure what it is but there has been a huge change in this area and in the zone. In March and April the entire zone baptized a total of three each month with 12 missionaries. In this month of may we baptized 13 and we baptized 8 in the area that im in. And we have lots more that will be coming in June and July. The only thing that is hard for us is we have so many great investigators but not enough time to teach them all. Its basically impossible to teach all of the good investigators that we have. So its a little painful in that respect because unless we could be in two places at once it would be impossible to be able to teach everybody. So we are just trying to get to the best of the best and even that is proving to be hard. Like i said i love what is going on in my area but we just arent capable of doing everything that we want to do. This week we had a family get baptized. Their names we Carlos the dad Mery the mom and the two kids Anita and Cristhian. There were a few minor difficulties but the important part is that they got there on saturday and were baptized. They were them confirmed on Sunday in the sacrament meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting because there is elections here next week and there is no church the sunday of elections. and in the sacrament meeting we confirmed the four in the family and gave their two little ones baby blessings. So that took up just about the entire sacrament meeting. It was pretty interesting. It was great to finally see the family get baptized. I had the opportunity to baptize Carlos Christhian and Anita. So that was awsome. Something ive noticed on the mission is that something always happens the last week before the baptizm that tries to prevent them from being baptized. Always something happens. Its just a matter of preparing the people so that they dont fall when thier trial comes. But the family got through and made to the waters of baptism. It was a neat situation. It was funny because after baptizing the little kid he screamed out, ¨You almost killed me!¨ So that made everybody laugh but things like that are uncommon. The last kid i baptized a month ago screamed Dont Drown ME! HAHA. Anyways we had a great baptismal service and a great week over all. As far as responsibilities go this week we have to travel twice to go to two different meetings. Its going to be a little hard because like i said we have a tone of people to teach and now we will be out of town for two days this week. So that will be a little bit difficult but im sure we will manage. Everything usually just seems to work out. So we will hope for that this week. Okay thats all for now Miss you all a ton i hope everything is going well up there in the states. We are working hard and having a lot of success. Miss you all a ton and i hope that everything continues to go well. Keep me updated on the news and feel free to write me any time. Love, Elder Hess
PHOTOS1. The family plus the missionaries (The senior couple helped them get married so thats why they were there)2. The family plus us again 3. The family
4. After being baptized with a few of the members
More pictures
1-3. are from when we got lost looking for a members house to eat lunch it was really pretty so we took pictures but we walked around for three hours in farm fields looking for the house.4. a fruit called granada its one of the wierdest things ive ever eaten
5. we moved the guy is the branch president he has amototaxi. Its the peruvian version of a car. hardly anybody has acar here if they have something its a mototaxi.
6. With a little shopping cart!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
May 23, 2011
Hello friends and family, Well i just finished the craziest week of my mission. Things just get crazier and crazier each week. We have an emergency change in the zone this week. My companion left and the companion of the other zone leader left and now we are companions and they combined our areas. They called us at 1030 at night and told my companion he had to leave first thing in the morning. It was a little sad because i really liked my companion and i only had one week with him. Its been a really hard week to try and combine the two areas and visit all of the investigators. But that was the least of what happened this week. The next day after having the change the assistants came on a surprise visit to our area. That was all well and good but we had to take some time out of our day so taht they could do some errands. We were in charge of organizing and setting everything up for a multizone conference on friday. Then on Saturday we got lost in the middle of a giant farm trying to find the house of a member for lunch. All in all we were walking for 3 hours. In the middle of a farm field. So that was interesting. Lets just say that this week has been a little stressful for me. But im doing relly well. The area we are in is having a ton of success. There is a family of four that should be baptized this coming saturday. Im really excited for their baptism because we have been working with them for a long time so that they could get to this point. Today we have to move rooms. Im going to live in a different house now. So that should be fun.
My new companion is Elder Bruns He is from New York. He is a really good missionary. I dont know why but i always seem to get american companions. Its almost unheardof to have to americans together in the mission but its the second time for me. But its all good we are working hard and having fun. We had 10 investigators in the chapel this sunday which was awsome. So im hoping that we have a lot of baptisms in the weeks and months that come here. Ive said this from the beginning but i really like my area here. Its a great area and has a ton of potential. We just have to work. This week has deffinitely been the most eventful and maybe the most difficult of my entire mission but i know when we have the challenges we get the rewards. Im hoping that today we will be able to rest and take it easy a little bit so that we can recharge the batteries a little bit. The weather here is starting to cool down quite a bit. Im now wearing a sweetter at night to keep warm. We are in the desert so the temperature drops a lot at night. But durring the day its normal. Everything is going good i have nothing to complain about jsut hope i can find an hour or two more durring the day to get some stuff done. Love you all tons, Elder Hesselgesser
May 16, 2011
Hello Family, Well this week has actually gone pretty well. All the stress was on monday and after that we could finally settle down and start to get to work. We had a really successful week. As an area thigns are going really well for us. We have a baptismal date for a family on the 28th and they came to church as a family on sunday and stayed all three hours. It was awsome to finally get them all there. We also started to teach a super old guy this week. he is almost deff so the lessons are funny because we are shouting at him so he can here.
There is a lot of great things happening here. Its been a little stressful trying to help all of the new elders in the zone. Two new areas opened up here so the Elders dont have any idea where anything is. But its all a part of the process. I really really like my new companion. His name is Elder Fuentes he is from the northern part of Lima so hes not too far from home here. He is a really good missionary and is helping me out a lot. The only bad part is that this is his last change so he is headed home really soon. But hopefully we will be able to do some work while he is here. Nothing too crazy has happened this week i have just been working hard and very busy. Sorry for the short letter but i dont have a ton of time. One of the snior couples in the zone bought a ping pong table so we are all going to go and play ping pong today haha welp thats it miss you all tons and see you all later. Elder Hess
May 9, 2011
Hello Family Well this week has been extremely eventful and just like every day in the mission a learning experience. On Tuesday we had a meeting with the zone leaders and surprise surprise the assistants came without letting anybody know beforehand. Apart from that one of them came with me for the day. So i had a surprise visit from the assistants on Tuesday and he stayed with me until 11 in the morning on Wednsday. He told me on Tuesday that i needed to go to a meeting for all the zone leaders in the mission the next day. So the next day i got together with the zone leaders from here and we went to Lima together. We got there at about 8 at night and had time to go out to dinner. The mission office is in the richest part of Lima. Everybody that has money lives in this part and if they have money they have a lot of money. So all the restaurants in this area were super expensive. We went to a mexican restaurant and payed a ton of money for a tiny bit of food. The wierd part was there was more english speaking people in the restaurant than spanish speaking. It was really wierd. Im not used to being around other people that speak english. That night we stayed with the office elders in their house. They have an entire floor of a skyscraper as their house. So it was cool to be able to look down on the city from up high. The next morning we left super early and went to the temple. The temple was fantastic like always. I enjoyed it very much. After that we had a zone leaders council. And for lunch we had pizza hut! that was awsome. It was a really interesting experience and i learned a lot.
On Saturday night the changes came and more than half the zone left. In one of the areas president took out both of the elders and put in two new ones. It was really crazy and im not exactly sure how its gonna work but we will make it work. We have a lot of work cut out for us this change to get things going here. Im hoping that we can get the work going here because its been dead for about 6 months now. To complicate things more im not even companions with the other Zone leader. Im not exactly sure how thats going to work but its going to be a little difficult. On saturday two of our investigators got married. It was stressful trying to put their reception together but everything turned out really good. And at least, they are now married. Well thats been my life this week hope everything is going well for you miss you all and love you and happy mothers day!
May 2, 2011
Hello family. Well this week was a really crazy and hectic week here. I was to say the least sressed to the max with all the things that we had to do. We were after a lot of effort able to baptize a family of four. we have been working with them really hard for for about 4 weeks to help them be baptized of saturday. We had to plan all their interviews and baptisms and confirmations and coordinate with the leaders of the branch so that everything went according to plan. To say the least it was stressful. But it was great to see all of them as a family be baptized together on saturday night. It was a pretty special baptismal service. My birthday went pretty well. I didnt really do anything to celebrate. We were helping a couple of investigators get married that day so thats what we were doing all day was helping get a reception and everything ready for them. At night we went to my pensionistas house and she had bought a cake for me and they sung me happy birthday. After i blew the candles out they all smashed eggs and flower over my head. Thats a tradition here in peru is if its your birthday they crush eggs over your head. So after that pleasent experience I ate my cake and we went home for the night. Thursday we went up to Lima because my companion had a doctors appointment. He also had an appointment with the optomotrist. While we were there i had the guy look at my eyes and got myself a pair of glasses as well. On sunday we were able to confirm the whole family that got baptized a family of four. Then we gave babies blessings to the two babies in their family. We also helped give a babys blessing to another baby in the ward whos dad isnt a member. To say the least there was time for only two testimonies after all of that and one of them was the dad of the family we baptized. It was something really special. It was neat to finally help a family get to baptism together. Thats all thats going on here miss and love you all Elder Hesselgesser. Pictures
1. Me and the sunset cañetano
2. The bride the groom all their children and the wedding cake
3. Me and the wedding cake
4. Me and the birthday cake.
5-6. Me covered in eggs and flower. (My birthday present)
7. The family and us all dressed in our baptismal clothes
April 25, 2011
Hello Everybody Well this week was another good week. Im actually exhausted to be honest. We are rediculously busy i dont have an extra second to breath here. I got the package that you sent me. Im really escited to eat the cake i just dont know when im gonna eat it because this week is going to be super busy and im not going to have a spare second today.
A couple that we have been teaching are getting married today and we are in charge of their reception. So yeah you can imagine. But we should see how it goes. Anyways this coming saturday a family of four has a goal to be baptized and it looks like they are going to be able to be baptized on saturday. Im really excited for that it will be the first full family i have been able to baptize in the mission. So im really excited for that. On thursday i had a really crazy experience. President Manning came down to do interviews with us. And one of the investigators of another area in my district had talked with him months previously and wanted president manning to baptize him. So he did it. It was pretty neat. President manning is a guy that just radiates the spirit of God in all places. One of my old companions called him a portable temple because anbody thats with him always feels the spirit. So it was a neat baptismal service.
Yesterday i got bit by a dog. Its the second time this dog has bitten me. its the dog of my pensionista so i cant avoid it because i go to that house every day. But may ill just kick it in the face or something to teach it a lesson. I ate a couple of wierd things this week. Duck and cow stomach. Ducks good cow stomach is not. We are working hard here and trying to get the investigators we are teaching to baptism.
I dont have any crazy stories this week i spent two days in other areas doing interchanges with missionaries in my district so like i said im very busy. Too busy to take time to think or to miss home or anything so i guess thats a good thing. Welp thats all for this week. Oh and thanks for the tape recording i loved it and ive already recorded all sorts of stuff to send you. Ill probably send it out next week. Miss you all tons and hope everything is going well up in the states. Elder Hesselgesser
April 11, 2011
Friends and Family I was thinking that tylers graduation was coming up soon. Thats crazy he is now a college graduate! I bet that feels good. Too bad its just the beginning for him but thats alright. And im glad to hear that all the family is now at home minus me. Should be a busy funfilled summer for all of you up there. As far as the work goes i have no complaints. Im in an area that is completely different than my first area. There is a lot less people and a lot more area. A lot less garbage and dogs in the streets and a lot less hills as well. all in all i really like it. It reminds me a lot of home actually. Well minus the houses and the people. The landscape reminds me a lot of home. Theres lots of green fields surrounded by brown hills. After being in Lima for so long i feel like im in paradise.
The week has gone really well and we are starting to have a lot of success. When i first got here there wasnt any investigators with a baptismal date but now we have 7! And we should have more by the end of the next week. We are teaching a lot of families which is really neat. Last PDay we went to a place called Incahuasi. Its some aincient ruins not to far from cañete. We got there and it was closed and nobody was in the offices. So in order to see the ruins we crossed the streets and climbed up a hill. Turns out the ruins were probably the ugliest part of the view from the top. It was really cool. Im going to upload some pictures of it.
Last week i weighed myself. And concequently I am now starting a diet. For dinner im only eating fruit. And the only real meal im eating is lunch. Just a small breakfast and fruit
for dinner. Its a little difficult but necessary. Other than that theres not much new to say. Im really really busy and enjoying the work right now. My new companion is a nice change from the last one. He is really calm and go with the flow. He is a good missionary and likes to work. So we get along fine and have had a lot of success in these two weeks. His name is Elder Perez and he is from a city in northern Peru called Iquitos. Its in the middle of the jungle where they eat insects and aligators and stuff... so he always has some funny stories to share. The only hard thing is that he for some reason has the goal to gain as much weight as possible on the mission. Exactly the opposite as me. So he is always eating. And eating a ton of food. But im learning to resist. Okay love you all tons until next week.... Elder Hesselgesser
Pictures:
1. Me in a Cactus
2. Me on top of the hill enjoying the first green thing ive seen in 7 months.
3. Me and two other missionaries Elder Ewing and Elder Peterson that i was with in the MTC we are in the same zone
4. Name tag
5. Me and my companion Elder Perez on top of the hill
6. With my new pensionista eating fruit for dinner
April 4th 2011
Hello Family, Well being in a new area has completely changed everything. It couldnt be more different than where i was at in Lima. I am in a small part called San Vicente in Cañete. Cañete is what you might call a farming town. Its surrounded by farms and many of the people that live here work in the farms. And since there are farms that means that there is plant life and greenery. Which is a new thing for me too because in Lima there was nothing green. Nothing at all. Overall i would say it is a pretty area. It actually reminds me alot of the lower valley. Its got farms surrounded by hills. Im still in the desert so it never rains, but there is a river that runs through the town so its got plant life. The peruvian way of farming is very different than the us. For example yesterday i saw a guy on top of a 10 foot tall pile of hay stacked on a cart being hauled by three donkeys driving down the street. And thats not an unusual thing.
We are pretty close to the ocean here even though i havent seen it yet. And my area is giant. theres is the city and then tons of small neighborhoods of people to the south. Some of these little neighborhood are a half hour or more away in a car. So its deffinitely a change. For the first time in 7 months i was able to see the stars last night. It was really cool. Theres a lot less pollution here and the air is really fresh. My new companion is Elder Perez. He is from the jungle. He is a good guy we are getting along good. The only thing that is a little hard is taking on the duties and responsibilities of being a district leader in an area that i dont know at all. Its a little hard and it will get easier as i get more time here. There are also two senior couples in my zone. Which is really really unusual. Im pretty sure we are the only zone in the world with two senior couples. They are both from the United States so consequently i had American Cake for the first time in a very long time the other day. It was amazing. So that was cool. none of the senior missionaries speak spanish so they are quite dependant on the missionaries to help them out with what they are doing.
Today we are going to go see some ruins of some ancient civilization or something. IM not sure on the details but ill be sure to take pictures. Im doing well and happy to be where im at right now. I hope everything is going well for everyone at home. The heat here is starting to go away little by little. Im actually pretty cold at night. But its still pretty hot durring the day. We are now starting to reach what would be the fall months. Not much new to report this week. Elder Hesselgesser
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Transfer!
Hello Family and Friends,
Well so much has happened this week and weekend i dont really know where to start. Ill start with Thursday. I had a really interesting experience. For the first time in my mission i talked with people from the united states that arent missionaries. We were way up in the hills doing a service project for a family and they had a little medical tent set up and were teaching kids to brush their teach and giving out medication to those who needed it. It was me my companion and the zone leaders that were together doing the service. One of the zone leaders is American so we decided to go and talk to them and see whats up. We started talking to them and it was super awkward. It was then that i realized that ive forgotten how to socialize in english. It was really a wierd experience. But i was able to find
out that they were from Boston and Seattle. There were several students from UW there so it was neat to be able to talk with them for a little while. It made me realize how much i have sunk into the culture here. Its just become normal life for me.
On saturday we had a baptism. It was an 18 year old guy who we have been teaching for quite a while now. It was pretty awsome to be able to finally reach the point when he was able to be baptized. It was all well and good until we arrived at the baptism and none of the bishopric came. There was no presiding authority to be able to do the baptism. So we were scrambling to call the bishop and members of
the bishopric so we could get started. Finally got a hold of the bishop and he was still at work and hadnt bothered to make arrangments so someone could be there to preside. So after about 45 minutes of making calls and getting authorization we did the baptism without them. It was frustrating but what can you do. But we started the baptism an hour late (which is not unusual here) and he was able to be
baptized. His name is Elmer and he makes a living by making coathangers with his uncle. Im going to try and attatch some fotos of the baptism.
Saturday night after the baptism and all that, we got a phone call from the zone leaders about the changes. They told me i was going to Ayacucho which is a zone way up in the mountains and the only zone in the mission thats outside the dessert. But then they called back an hour later and said they were just joking and that im going to Cañete. Cañete is a town south of Lima so i got out of the City. I got here about 10 minutes ago and we came straight here to internet. The part that scares me the most is that president called me to be district leader here. Why? idk. I guess the Lord knows i need to be more humble. So it should be an interesting experience trying to accustom myself to be a leader in a zone that i dont know at all. But hey who the lord calls the Lord qualifies. So im a town called cañete in the part thats called San Vicente. Ive only heard good things and they finished building a chapel here only a few weeks ago so its brand new.
Im really excited about being able to be in a new area again. Yesterday was a little hard saying goodbye to all the families in the ward and the converts and everything. Especially knowing that i will most likely never see any of them again. But its a part of the mission. Thats it from me this week. Im sad to hear about BYUH losing in the championship game, that sounds rough. Im super happy to have the jump rope im using it every day. And i need it too because im pretty sure yesterday alone i gained about 15 pounds. When i told people that i was leaving they all gave me a ton of food to eat. And they dont offer either. They dont even ask if you want it. They serve you a mountain of rice and chicken on a plate and expect you to eat it. But hey its better than starving.
Elder HessMonday, March 14, 2011
March 14, 2011
Hello Family and everybody.
Well not a whole lot new happened this week. I was a little nervous after hearing what happened in Japan. I didnt know if my college still existed or not but sounds like nothing bad happened. Its really sad what happened in Japan ive never heard on tsunamis reaching three miles in shore thats crazy. Its amazing how much power water has.
Anyways not a whole lot new to report. Last monday we went bowling. That was neet. And today all the american missionaries in the zone got together and we cooked eggs potatoes and french toast. It was awsome!. I havent had american food for a long time. And even though it was made with peruvian ingredients it still tasted pretty good.
Its still burning hot down here it should only be like this for another month or so i assume. But im not sure we will have to see. We have some great investigators with great potential. Im really excited about the work right. everything seems to be going pretty smooth. We are starting to get some help from the leaders and the members and its really helping out a lot. Unfortunately i dont think ill be here to see the fruits of it because im almost positive i will be changing areas at the end of March. I would love to hear more details about whats going on in Japan and what happened in Hawaii. And also what happened in California and Oregon. Im kind of cut off from the world here and dont have access to any news. Other than that everything is fantastic. thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
TJ
Monday, March 7, 2011
March 7, 2011
This is the most recent letter I have gotten. He wrote a couple times and accidentally deleted what he wrote. Here is this weeks!
Hello everybody,
Well this week was a little on the difficult side. I got pretty sick on Tuesday and im just starting to get better. I was a pretty nasty stomach infection that had me down and out most of the week. But no worries im doing better now and im taking some magical pills that are helping me out a lot. In the little time that i was able to proselite this weeks some crazy things happened.
The big news here in Lima is there was a rainbow. And concidering that it never ever ever rains here that was a little wierd. The next day we were in a middle of the lesson and there was a small earthquake. then the guy that we are teaching said, I knew that something crazy was going to happen today because i saw a rainbow yesterday. That goes to show you exactly how superstitious the peruvian people are. They are super superstitous. Every body was talking about how the rainbow was a sign of something thats to come. Its all a little entertaining to say the least.
But yeah other than that we have one baptism that is almost 100 percent for sure this coming saturday. Im really excited for it because we have worked really hard with him for a real long time to be able to get to this point. We also have three more maybes for this saturday so im looking forward to this week a lot should be real great.
Yesterday was the last day of carnaval so we dont have to run around trying to avoid all the kids with squirt guns and waterballoons anymore because that ended yesterday. they have a tradition here that every carnaval they pick a tree and hang a bunch of shirts pans and tons of random stuff from it. Then a group of neighbors all take turns whacking the tree with an ax. One at a time. Then when it falls its a mad mass of people running to pick up all the stuff that they want. Its like a piñata but its a tree. And the person that makes the tree fall with their hit have to plant the next years tree and put all the stuff in it. Its funny because nobody can tell me where these ideas started or came from they just know that this is what they do here.
anyways tahts whats going on with me. Its still super hot and it will stay hot until sometime in may from what i hear. But thats allright im getting used to it. Miss you all tons hope everything is going well.
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