Bakeries, Baptism and Angels

What is up everyone!!

This week was pretty slow, so I'm not sure what to write about. A couple of times this week we had the opportunity to serve in a little bakery. It was fun to see the process of a bakers life because ever since The Hunger Games, I've always been a little interested haha.

This week was pretty humbling though because a lot of our appointments got dropped. Also 3 or 4 of our investigators said they would come to church Sunday, but didn't. But we had our first baptism this week and it was super cool! His name is Brando and he just turned 8. It was a missionary baptism, because his parents died and they weren't members. He's living with his aunt who is a member and he endured all of our lessons (including the law of chastity, which is hard to teach to an 8 year old) and got baptized!

One creepy/cool thing that happened this week, is that one night I was sitting up in bed and talking in my sleep again. I was kind of mumbling and my companion asked what I was saying. Apparently I turned to him and said we don't have to do much because we have angels helping us. I don't remember any of this because I was asleep haha, but he said it was in super clear and fast Spanish. So apparently, I can speak better Spanish in my sleep. But that's either super creepy or cool depending on how you look at it. The more I think about it, it is so true here in Perú. Most people are really open to the gospel and new investigators drop into our hands without us contacting. But that doesn't mean we can be lazy. So that's a wrap of my week. If any of you need anything feel free to hit me up! I hope life is treating y'all well! Also sorry I forgot my camera so next time I will send double the photos!!!

Love, Elder Corbett

La Fábrica

Wow this week was super busy and went by way fast!

Tuesday we had a multi-zone conference with the president of our mission. Then Wednesday afternoon, I went on an exchange with one of our zone leaders. He is from Idaho and it was super fun to talk with him in English and about American stuff. It was a two day exchange and kind of felt like a missionary sleep over haha. Friday afternoon I was back with my companion.

Some cool things that happened this week was that Wednesday morning I got to work in a Peruvian factory! There are a couple members who work there and a couple investigators too, but the rest are non-members. The dad of one of our investigators owns the factory and he let us do some service there. The factory makes ovens and things similar to Camp Chef. While working, I thought that exactly a year ago, I would have been in AP Physics class doing an experiment with Aliki to find some relation between two things. Fast forward a year and I'm in a factory in Peru. What a difference a year can make haha.

Then on Saturday we played soccer with the factory workers in this field nearby. The goals were literally tree branches tied together and held up by rocks. It's been fun to get to know the workers and hopefully we get to teach some of them! Anyways my companion is from Argentina and really good at soccer but for some reason I got picked before him. I got nutmegged a couple times and that was embarrassing, but I scored a couple goals to make up for it.

Anyways the work is progressing really well for us! We had 7 investigators at church and I think we have 5 or 6 with baptismal dates! Huancayo has been really cool and the past couple days it has rained a lot. But I like it because it never rains in Logan.

To leave you all with a small spiritual message, yesterday I thought a lot about the Christlike attribute of Hope. A couple days this week I was super frustrated with Spanish and not understanding. But yesterday I read in Preach My Gospel that hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill his promises to you and when you have hope, you work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance that all things will work together for your good. I need to work on this a lot and I hope that you all will improve on this because we are at our happiest when we have hope. Anyways I hope life is good for all of you and I love and miss y'all!!

1) A pic with one of our investigators (age 11 I think) and 3 of the cutest funniest kids

2) The weirdest fruit I have ever eaten. You just slurp up the inside and chew the seeds. It is super weird but tastes pretty good.

3) View of sky with Peruvian houses

4) Multi-Zone Conference

A good week

This week was more normal, but was pretty good. Two of our investigators have baptismal dates which is dope. The majority of our investigators are under the age of 20 which is fun. Our two investigators with baptismal dates are 7 and 18. The one that is 18 has taken English school and knows English so when we taught our lesson with him, I taught in English and my companion taught in Spanish. It was really fun and he is the first person I have extended the baptismal invitation to. The spirit was strong in our lesson. It's amazing what teaching in a language you completely understand can do.

My Spanish is coming along, slowly but surely. My companion said that the other night I was asleep but sitting up in bed and it seemed as if I was talking with someone. The crazy part is that I was talking in Spanish! A person talking to someone in a different language in their dream reminds me way too much of a scene from a horror movie so I don't know if I should be freaked out by this or happy haha. But it's fun being a gringo (someone from the states). All of the little kids love to say hello and bye to me, and love to try to speak in English. Every conversation they ask how I'm doing and how old I am. It is funny.

Shout out to Logan High and USU football for picking up dubs! I miss Logan but Huancayo has some dope things that Logan doesn't. For example almost every street corner has these little pastry shops. You can get way good pastries for super cheap. The other day I got a good size piece of chocolate cake for 1.5 sols which is about 60 cents I think.

There are also some gross foods as well. The grossest thing I had this week was milk straight from the cow. My cook asked if I like milk from a cow. I thought all milk was from a cow, so I said yes. Wrong answer haha. Three mornings in a row we had milk from the cow for breakfast. No amount of sugar or Nesquik powder could make it taste good. But all is well I told her I don't like it so now she gives me the canned milk.

Also in Peru or probably any Latin country, there are a 16,579,631 street dogs. At first I hated all of them because they are ugly and there are a ton of them. But deep down they are really nice dogs. (Well most of them. I've only thrown rocks a couple times and have only been attacked once). I've related this to how God sees us. We are all dirty, crazy, Peruvian street dogs, but God doesn't see us as this. He sees us as the dog we could be with a home and some grooming. Man judges man for what they see now and on a first impression, but God has an eternal perspective and doesn't see us as that. But sadly I'm human and at night times I still believe that every dog is of the devil. Today was my first zone p-day and it was fun to see some of my friends from the CCM. Anyways until next time. I love and miss you all a lot!

Love,

Elder Corbett

1) Pals from district Nefi of the CCM

2) High quality photo of high quality people

3)Selfie game with a statue I found

Welcome from Huancayo!!!

Wow so much has happened the week. I could write 89 pages about it, but I will keep it short and sweet for y'all. ;)

The last week of the CCM was filled with mixed emotions. I was sad to leave all of my new friends, but happy to leave because some of the teachers there treated us like babies. Anyways, our bus ride to Huancayo was almost 9 hours, but it was the nicest bus I've ever been on. 8-ish of the hours we were driving through the mountains. There were some dope views. The road was a little sketchy just because we were in a double decker bus and the road was similar to switchbacks on a hiking trail. A couple people threw up, but I felt great. We saw a lot of llamas (I counted 74 but there was definitely more), and surprisingly in one of the mountain lakes was a flock of flamingos.

The night we arrived and the next morning we had orientation classes and then around lunch we met our companions and found out our areas. By the way our lunch was Pizza Hut, and after being out here for a while it tasted like straight heaven.

Anyways my first area is in Huancayo city, and the region is called Mantaro. It's not the center of Huancayo, but it's pretty close. My companion is Elder Arias. He is from Buenos Aires Argentina and is 27 years old. He is actually the district leader also, so now im 4/4 for having comps be district leaders. Anyways Huancayo is dope! Whenever I'm feeling homesick or tired or whatever, I just look at my surroundings and think, I'm in the middle of Peru, no one around me knows English, I know a little Spanish but I don't really understand a lot of what anyone says, there are 8 billion homeless dogs around me, WHAT AN ADVENTURE!

My pension makes really good food! There is this one meal that is so good. It's green spaghetti noodles with grilled chicken. Also they eat a lot of fried rice here. And in the mornings we have a bowl of cereal (giant corn puffs) but instead of milk they use different kinds of yogurt. When I first got here, I didn't like it, but now I love it! And I think it's pretty healthy. Also for breakfast we have bread with a kind of bologna or something. I have had some really good food here, but also some pretty gross food that with every spoonful, I thought in my mind I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. haha

One funny story I have is that on my first day when we were contacting a car broke down in the middle of the road. We went and started pushing the car. Instead of pulling off to the side of the road , the guy had us push him to a service station. So my companion and I pushed a car down a crazy Peruvian road with cars honking at us for about a half mile. It was dope and I got my exercise in for the week haha.

One of our investigators is named Carlos. He is 27 and super cool. One day we read the Book of Mormon with him but in English because he wants to learn English. It was fun for me but also a struggle trying to explain to them what thou, thy, thee or shalt (I call them biblical words) mean with my Spanish vocabulary. But it was nice to speak English for a little. Another lady we teach knows Quetchuan so every time we talk with her she gives me Quetchuan words. A prayer they have in Quetchuan is Ama Yuya, Ama Keya, Ama Sua. That is not how you spell it but how you would pronounce it with English. It basically means No lying, No being lazy, and No stealing. Anyways that's all I have for this week I love and miss you all so much!!❤

Elder Corbett

1)Welcome to Huancayo!

2) A view of the Andes during our bus ride

3) My companion and I with Carlos

4)My companion and I with our Pension who makes rico food