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!
