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