Celestino Baptism

Alrighty well I will fit a weeks worth of experiences in a short time period of 15 minutes. This week we were able to get a lot done with our investigators. We have been working hard with the Celestino family and this week we were able to baptize the youngest of the 3. Here name is Danna and she is amazing!!! After her baptism she gave her testimony with her family there, she said that she had felt peace and calmness and that she knows that this is the true church and that she wants her two older brothers to be baptized as well and to be able to feel these things as well. Then she explained that she wanted to have an Eternal Family and that she wants to be able to live with each one of them again. If I were one of her brothers I would have asked to be baptized in that very minute. After the baptism one of her brothers went up to Elder Sayas and said that he wanted to talk with him again (he had his interview last Sunday but didnt feel ready yet.). We are making plans so that we can see him baptized this week and we can see the family changing their lives and making small steps to eternal progress! 

Today in P-day Elder Vidal and I were in charge of the activities that we were going to do as a zone. First we played chair soccer where if the ball hits your chair you have to sit down and last man standing wins. Then we palyed a couple of rounds of a game called signs, then a round of scum. Then finished the day with Pollo a la brasa with Inka Kola Pong, which you can see in the video. It was a great day and it was a good zone united activity. 

I am happy and healthy and excited to be here and to have another week to do Gods Work, I hope that everything is going well with you guys and hope that you can see the Spiritual experiences of the week! 

Love you guys,

Elder Hyde

Rejection

Well this week has been hectic. Running all over the place getting everything straight and trying to help everyone to get to church. We are doing good, this week was full of lots of rejections and lots of people not progressing. This week the Celestino Family had their Baptismal interviews and it looks as if 2 will get baptized this week!!! We are trying to work with them so that they can continue progressing and feeling of this love for the gospel that they have felt in these last couple of months. I am super excited for them and hope that this will help the older brother to straighten up so that he can be baptized a little later on!! We are working hard, and seeing a little of the progress we hope that we will see more this up coming week! I love you guys!

I know that I am the worst at this, I need to find a way to write more and to keep you guys more informed. The good thing is you wont miss it as much because there are three Elders now! (not the big topic anymore ).

President Russell M. Nelson visits Lima Peru missionaries and members

Te damos Señor nuestras gracias por un profeta.  Tu profeta.  Nuestra profeta.  Presidente Russell M. Nelson.  Profeta, vidente y revelador.

Well this week has been crazy I am going to put a little bit of the letter I wrote to President so you can at least see a little bit about what is happening with me.

Well this has been an interesting week for us. We started out with lots of fire we had a work visit with Gamarra 2 and Elder Lewis came to our area, we went out to go change the world and we talked with everyone and they were all rejecting us and all of our appointments were falling through so we decided to contact our three people after an appointment fell through, like we had in our focuses for the week! As we were contacting I get a distinct impression to talk to a young man that was 15 years old. We talked with him and started asking him how he was and if we could teach a lesson with his family, he said that he would need to talk with his mom, who just then and then was getting home from work. He called her over and she came looking concerned and asked if everything was alright, we explained the situation and asked if we could share something with them and she rejected us the first time but we insisted and she accepted. We then were able to teach a family of 4 and later on in the lesson their friend came and sat in on the lesson as well. That was our spiritual experience and testimony that if we talk with everyone we will find the elect!   

The visit with the Prophet was one and only. I was happy that we made it and that we didnt get lost like the other buses, we may not have been the closest to him but it was a great experience! I felt so priveledged to be able to see him and to hear his powerful words. I know that I can be a witness of his words and his calling as prophet. I will testify of power and of the ways that he can bless the lives of all our investigators. 

I felt that it was a meeting that will mark me forever and will help me to become the missionary and the person that God needs me to be in these moments of my life. I felt that he answered my questions and that they know what I needed in these moments. I know that I felt the spirit and I felt of the urgency to go and preach the gospel to everyone that we can. I felt that they really do love God with all of their hearts and they will do all that they can to help us on the way! 

I am going to apply the things that they taught. One of the topics that I enjoyed was that he said that in 3 Nephi 12:48 that even Christ wasn’t perfect until he had returned from heaven and was a resurrected glorified being. The thing that we needed to do was not worry so much if we had made a mistake we just need to keep on going until we are perfect! I also liked the teaching to realize my divine potential and work towards attaining it. It was something special to hear and have the blessing to model our lives after you and sister Stauffer and I am going to do better at that. I have listed a lot of the things that you both do and am praying each day for some of those things so that I can be more like you guys later on. I promise to keep striving and doing all that I can even with the things that I have been feeling. We are going to set higher goals in contacting and achieve them as well!   

We were able to see the Prophet and his wife, Elder and Sister Stevenson, President Falabella and his wife, Elder Montoya and his wife, and Elder Held and his wife and the 5 mission Presidents in Lima. It was a wild experience, starting off with us almost not making it on time some of the buses got lost thankfully not us but a lot of the buses got there a little late. We sat on some of the last seats so we were far from him but it was a great experience all the less. 

We got to hear many of their teachings but the best thing was when the Prophet talked about 3 Nefi 11-30 and about every single chapter and some of the doctrine and revelation behing those chapters! I think that I have to say that sister Nelson was the best or second best speaker her talks were amazing and trully inspiring. I am so happy to be able to explain about the experience that we had, I wish that I could do it a little better than I am right now. 

I know that I can testify of the Prophet stronger than ever and explain the things that I have felt as I heard his words! I know that he is the Prophet of God and that he receives revelation for each and everyone of us. I went with a couple of questions and I know that each one of them was answered. I will always testify of his power and of the way that he can and will direct our lives. I dont know if I will be able to explain everything that I felt there but I know that I felt of his love, his guidance, the power of his calling, and the truth of his words. That is about all I can send for this week I love you guys lots!!!!

Hello Family,

Well it was an ineresting week for us! It was really difficult because we got rejected so much... I havent been rejected like that in all of my mission. I think that I have been here so long that everyone just believes that I am Peruvian, so no one is all that interested or maybe I am just losing my touch! The good thing is that I havent lost my ability to get over the hard things fast. This week is going to be amazing we are going to work so hard to be able to baptize a great family, then we will have our Zone conferences on Wednesday or Thursday, and then Saturday we get to have a great visit from our beloved Prophet President Russell M. Nelson in person. I will definitely have a lot to say this next week!!! I am so happy to hear that everything is going so good in your lives and that everyone is growing up without me! Congratulations to Grant for making it through CCM and to Gavin who is leaving this next week here! I am so proud of you guys and hope that you enjoy it as much as I have. I am so happy to have such an amazing family like you guys and for the opportunity to live this life at your sides!!! I love you guys more than I ever have before, which is weird becuase I havent been this far away before... I hope that you know that I will do anything and everything that i need to do to help you guys along and to help us all be a big happy family again! Thank you guys so much for your love and for everything that you all do for me, I love you guys to death!!!! Keep up the great work and keep on striving to be better everyday! I am routing for each and everyone of you!!!!

Cuídense,

Elder Hyde (ide o heidi)

You Can Only Imagine what is happening here in Peru! I am going Crazy!!!!


Hola 

Well this week has come and gone in a flash, This week we had consejo de mision where all the leaders get together and talk about how the mission is going. It was a good experience for us we were able to learn a little bit more about how we are going to help the new missionaries to be more prepared for the things that are to come. We have been trying to figure out the best way to teach them what we have learned in the last year with President and we talked about all of the things that we have learned together and about all of the things that we have gone through together. It was a good but there is a lot more that we need to do in order to get to where we need to be! 

I am good sorry about the email. I had technical difficulties. It kicked me out 4 different times so it erased my emails....

I will write it down so that you can see it next week!!!

Hello family,

Wow what a week...

Alright well I got a call on Tuesday Saying that we would be going to the temple the next day and that I had about 2 and a half hours to coordinate everything. That I needed to get food for Sister Coke that is alergic to gluten. Schedule entrevistas for temple Recommends, find transport, get everything ready as far as money and teach Elder Vidal how to get to the Hermanas house so that they could get to the Church safe. We also had to prepare a breakfast and schedule the routes and everything. It was tough work organizing those 14 missionaries in an orderly fashion and with millions of questions and things that were asked we finally got done at about 11 with calling and scheduling everything and I didnt go to sleep until about 12am. Then we woke up at 4:15 to get ready and go get everyone woken up and to the church. With all the streets blocked off and everything shut down it was rough trying to get to the appartments. After all the stress finally died down we were rolling into the heavy traffic at about 6am. I unfortunately wasnt able to sleep with everything rolling around in my head. The good thing is that I got it cleared up enough so that I could have a great experience in the temple. 

Everything is going good here in Trebol. We are enjoying everything here. Elder Vidal is really calm and loving, really laid back so I have to make all the decisions again... I dont know why President thinks that I should be the decision maker when everyone knows that I am a very passive aggressive person... Everything has a reason I guess! We are working hard and trying to change the lives of a couple of the families that we are working with namely; Celestino Family, Carlos Osorio, Avaros Family, Cerna Family, and Junior Tuesta. If you could keep them in your prayers as well it would be much appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!!