Aaron

Hey everyone!  Hope you are all doing well as always.  This week was a pretty good one and frustrating one as well.  This week we did a service for a hospital helping them take patients to an operating room back to the waiting room and etc.  There was a special thing called "Operation Smile" or "Operación Sonrisa".  Basically they just help kids that were born with a part of their mouth connected to their uper lip that doesn´t allow them to speak very well.  So we helped out with that this week which was pretty cool.

Also this week we were able to put a baptismal date on 7 investigators!  It was pretty cool.  The only down part is that 4 of them had to attend church the 3 following sundays to be baptized on the date that we put.  They were all committed to come to church, but when Sunday came, they all disapeared...  So there went 4 of the baptismal dates.  Hopefully we can recover them this week.

Another baptismal date we had fell through because his wife doesn´t want to get married.  She is crazy.  We talked to her on Sunday and she is crazy.  She even has a son on the mission and she still won´t get married!!  I don´t know what it is.  And he has no intentions of seperating so he can´t get baptized.

So now we are down to 2!  But it looks like these 2 are going to be able to get baptized if they get permission from their parents which they both say that they have.

So that´s pretty much it for this week. Thanks for all your support and everything you guys do for me.  Love you all!

´´Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.´´  Filipenses 4:13

Hey everyone!  This week was great.  We got a lot of work in this week but along wiht that, we had a lot of activities in the district.  They were great!

First there was a talent show for the other branch.  My companion and I went to support the other Elders and we didn´t have anything to do anyways because everyone fell through on us.  So we go there and we were a half hour late, but we were some of the first people there.  It started and hour and a half late!  I didn´t really mind much because it wasn´t my talent show, but it´s still annoying.  But we get there and nobody really had a talent to show.  So one of the other elders told me to play the piano, so I did, then I left to go eat dinner.  I guess it turned out pretty  good though.

Next, there was a fireside for the young single adults in the district and they asked my companion to play the piano for the hymns and a special number that the members of our branch were going to sing.  He said he needed the music to play it and they finally got him the music like 6 minutes before it was supposed to start.  He tried to play it, but he said they would have to sing acapella because they had never practiced together and they didn´t know when to come in.  He kept insisting that he doesn´t play and he even said that something bad would happen if he did play.  But they went through with it anyway.

Peruvians really don´t know how to sing... It was kind of awful.  It was funny for me though!  And one of the girls, when they got done, said, ´´wow, something bad did happen.´´  My companion came back from the piano laughing so we went outside for a little then came back in.  They were grateful for it though.

We helped build a preschool this week in a small villiage called Pueblo Viejo, which litterally means old villiage.  They don´t have much support from the city so we went to help.  We just cut the grass with machettes.  It was super hot but it was good.  We love doing service here because people never let us help them.

We visited a lot of people as well and a lot of people tell us that they are going to do something but they don´t.  Me and my companion always talk about how people hardly ever fall through in the states and if they do, they call ahead.  It just makes sense... 

Everything is good.  And hot still.  This change is going by so fast it´s insane.  The mission is awesome.  I always see how much I´ve learned in the mission already.  It´s the best.  Love you all!  Thanks for everything!

Elder Augat