20 April 2009--!3 bautismos en Pichanaki!

Hey family how is everything going back home. We had an awesome week. First of all we had changes and I’m still here in Pichanaki with my companion Elder Maldonado. Elder Smith was the only one that changad from our area. I was pretty bummed because he was hilarious, always complaining about me waking him up to early in the morning. He is hilarious. I’m going to miss everyone saying the 2 fat missionaries! Its hilarious because the people here say it as it is. If you are fat they are going to describe you by that. They always say, The dos gorditos  Its pretty funny.
So one of my favorite familias here in Pichanki was baptized Saturday. Walter and Raquel Salazar were baptized Saturday and confirmed Sunday. Elder Gutierrez and Elder Villanueva also had hno Pablo get baptized Saturday. The familia Salazar have such strong testimonies, and we were really led by the spirit to put their bautismal date. It turned out to be the birthday of Raquel. So everything really turned out awesome, and we gave her a photo in a Picture frame as a present for her birthday. We are really working hard to have at least 2 more baptisms this Saturday. Maria Santa is way excited for her baptism. She used to be a strong Catholic, but alter our first visit we gave her a blessing, and she was literally much better the very next day. Ever since that experience she has been so excited to follow. She hasn’t missed church one Sunday, and she can’t wait for her baptism Saturday. It just shows what the power of the priesthood can do when people put there faith in Christ. It was such an awesome testimony builder for me too.
The weather down here continues to be hot, and the people here are working like crazy. Write now is the harvest for coffee, and everybody has their fields of coffee. Pichanaki is like the home of coffee in Perú I think. It makes it hard to teach sometimos because people g oto their fields for weeks at a time, so at times it is a little harder to find people to teach. There are always people to teach though, and the lord is always helping us find those peple. For my 8 lap run I got my time down to 13:16. Its so nice to be able to work out in the morning, I really think it makes me feel better for the rest of the day. Other than that everything is really going awesome.
My companion continues to be alright. I just think he doesn’t have his full concentration in the work so it makes things a little harder He was acting all sad during the baptism because they both wanted me to baptize them, and they even noticed. It really shouldn’t be like that at all, but things are better now. We’re working hard, and we have a lot progressing, and we’re working through the differences. Couldn’t be happier to be in the Lords work, I’m just sad to see time go by so fast. Well I love you guys and absolutely love hearing from everyone. Talk to you later. Chow!

Love, Jon “Elder Lee”