Posts From Perú

A bit of family news.

 This past month David and Sheri were able to have

their third son sealed to them in the Columbus, Ohio Temple.

What a sweet blessing.

Families are forever!!!!

 Preston loves his Daddy!

Also this past month,  Tito asked President Blunck

to baptize him.  Tito works as a security guard at one of our

churches in Iquitos and Larry just assumed he was a

member of the church.  As Larry visited with him

he shortly realized he wasn't a member which led to

a quick lesson and a referral to the missionaries, Elder Villegas

and Elder Bandis. 

Tito was very excited to learn about the doctrine of Christ and the restoration of the priesthood of God.  Afterwards he desired to be baptized

He is a great young man!



Our training this month with the missionaries started off in

Lima.  Lima was established about 1575 by the Spaniards

and still has some beautiful Spanish style buildings

This month our training focused on effective personal scripture

study, proper language, and use of the area book.  The area book

is a record book of the people the missionaries are teaching.  

Zones Wiesse, Canto Grande and Magnolias



Wiesse Elders returning to their area.  Wiesse is

located up a valley from Lima.  It is a developing area with

many unpaved roads, unclaimed dogs and lots of dust.





 Zones Comas, Carabayllo, Independencia and Tahuantansuyo.

All our Latino missionaries are invited to

study and learn English during their missions. 

Usually Latinos are invited to give the opening

and closing prayers at each meeting in English. 

This month the bar was raised a bit and at each training

we invited one Latino to give a 10 to 15 minute

talk about the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

They loved this opportunity.

If questions were asked during the teaching, Latinos were invited to

answer in English and Americans in Spanish.   

Elder Barragan



Elder Bustos

Elder Blanco

Elder Zuniga 

After training in Lima we were off to the jungle cities.

A day in the life of a missionary serving in the jungle.

Each week missionaries give 3-4 hours of service in their areas.

Here a group of elders are digging a ditch.

Everything here in Peru is done by hand.

All the shovels I have ever seen are 4 feet long. 

Generally Peruvians are shorter so no need for long

handle shovels. 

Sister Sosa is conducting the meeting

in Iquitos. 



Zones Secada, Iquitos, Punchana, and 

9 de Octubre 

These sisters were pretty proud to have

won the packages of skittles and starbursts.

Skittles is a hot item for the missionaries.

Great job Hermanas Bowles, Vasquez, Boyer and Alvaer



Zones, Tarapoto, Moyobamba, and

Yurimaguas



Bananas produce twice a year in the jungle.

A big blossom forms at the bottom of the banana

bunch.  My favorite bananas are called

finger bananas, they are about 4 inches long and

very sweet.

The President is with a sweet family that is attending church in Soritor

Soritor is about 30 minutes from Moyobama Peru.  In Soritor

we have a new group of the church that is forming.  In October they

will officially become a branch of the church. 

Zone Pucallpa 

This is a special picture because it shows

all the sisters in our mission.  We had a special

conference for all of them in Lima. They serve 

though out the mission.  Some serve in Lima and many

of them are serving in jungle cities.

We love these sisters for their great faith and desire to serve the Lord.

At times they have the ability to get into doors the elders

can't get into. 

The Lord uses these valiant people to move His work forward here upon the

earth.  We are grateful for each one of them and the opportunity we have to serve with them in this great work. 

The gospel of Jesus Christ has the ability to change peoples lives.

This is one of the great miracles of today.