Elder Preston Bruner

I am at the exact half point of my mission right now! CRAZY! Well, this week has been huge and filled with good experiences and so I'm just gonna write and write and hope I can fit it all in. Last P day was crazy. Elder Morales almost lost his USB. But thankfully nobody stole it in the hour that we'd been gone from the internet place, so that was a miracle. The big highlight of the week was Elder Oaks coming to visit us and 2 other missions. We all met in the Molina Stake Center to have the meeting, which is right next to the MTC here in Lima, so I got to see a little bit of the outisde! It's awesome! We all took busses there, and arrived at about 10:40, and had to wait until 2 for the meeting to start. It was all worth it though! Elder Oaks, The presiding Bishop Caussé, Elder Montoy, and Elder Robbins (presidency of the 70) were all there and they all spoke, as well as the 3 mission presidents from Lima Central, West, and North. We also got to shake their hand...

Heyyyyyy again. So. There were transfers. And... I didn't get transfered! I'll be here 6 more weeks. It's my 5th transfer here in Las Brisas. I've been here since March, how crazy! There's always a reason for everything though! I'm glad to be here! So this week has been good! We had our district meeting on Thursday, and Elder Birnbaumer is our new District Leader! He's awesome. During the meeting, we made goals and we'll be doing an activity to develop a Christ-like attribute this transfer. It'll be awesome! We also had more lessons with some investigaotrs that we had this past week. One lesson we had with Danilo, and it was awesome! Danilo had been baptized before, but not confirmed, so now we'll be teaching him again and baptizing him after he gets married! His nephew has been going to church with us for the past 2 weeks, and he's 8 years old, so if he gets baptized the same day as his uncle, he'll be a ward baptism. Oh...

Wow, I've been in the mission for 11 months today. How crazy!!! Time really flies when you work and focus on the mission! I've gotta now keep my focus as I pass the year mark in a couple weeks. Wow this week was full of things, and I hope I can remember enough to put in the email! Last P day was interesting as we got our hair cut, because as we finished, we explained that we were missionaries and the person cutting our hair had lots of questions, so we sat and talked about the gospel a bit. Even on P Day there are opportunities to share the gospel! We also found a new investigaot this week who had talked with the missionareis before but had lost contact for a while and has been looking for the missionaries. His name is Raul. He doesn't have a home, but that doesn't stop him in his search to find the gospel and live it. He talked to us in the street and explained his situation, and even though he doesn't have much, he told us about what he did have, and ...