May 9, 2012 Zone Conference Sister Turk's Blog

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012

Another FULL Day...

We were with the Zone Leaders all day.

Just look at them...

SPECTACULAR!

They had training all morning...

Special Musical Number.

Elder Escobar has been holding out on me...

Who knew that he played the recorder really well.

He was in the office with me for months and I did not know this.

After training.... they dropped in at the mission home for lunch.

Today Lucy made them giant tacos, they were more like burritos.

and she made them homemade cinnamon rolls.

I love them to come to the mission home.

They love to look at the blog books.

And here are four new Zone Leaders...

Elder Brian, Elder Mamani, Elder Mecham and Elder Cornejo.

Welcome Gentlemen... You are in a League of Extraordinary 

Leaders of Men.  They possess the Priesthood of God.

They are called of God and whom God Calls, He Qualifies.

These new ones are really Qualified.

After lunch they all changed their clothes and went out

to four different chapels

for service projects.

This week was fantabulous! hows my beautiful family? Im excited to talk to you guys on sunday. I am not sure what time it is there, especially with daylight savings time, so ill tell you my hours of availability here in peru. we have church from 2 till 5 here (peru huaraz time) so i can talk at 10, or 11 (here) or at 5:30 here) i think that should be like 7 30 there but maybe its like 3 30. the latest i can probably call is 6 15 my time. the call can only be 40 minutes long. I will call you guys. tommorrow (tuesday) or wednesday i am going to call the house phone for a pre call. it will probable be during the daytime, hopefully someone is there to pick up this time haha. but if nobody does, plan to receive my call at 6 o clock pm peru time next sunday. when i call these week have the hours best for you guys to tell me. This week was great. scripture of the week is alma 29:9-10. That is so awesome that you guys had 2 baptisms there! haha. a lot of my baptisms here have been to complete families too, really, the lord prepares the people who has part of their family as members already. I never thought I would use the party favors and cake mix that you sent me. but we found a way to use them! last monday we celebrated our 20 baptisms in april. we even baked up the cake! it was a fun time. we found a really prepared lady this week. a single mom who has two kids of 12 and 8 years. we only taught her once, and the first lesson she accepted to be baptized with her kids. we are hoping to get them baptized on the 26 of may. but we have to prepare them still. we are having a family home evening with them tonight with the stake presidents family. our investigator that was progressing that week we found drunk this week, which was sad, but we aren´t giving up on him. our other golden investigator may have moved to a different city. which stinks, but yeah. well this week I will be in trujillo for 2 days, tommorrow we have a council of all the leaders and wednesday a council of just the zone leaders and office elders. so ill prob show up on the blog this week. keep your eyes peeled!. Thanks dad for checking my bank and guitar. to answer your questions, we usually just have a little room with a bathroom and desks, nothing too fancy. but here in huaraz we live in the upstairs of a member family, and the mom/wife is our pensionista, so it makes it really convenient for laundry and eating. It is cool having elder Terry, beazer, and armstrong in our zone. Elder Terry is finishing his mission here and will be going back to highland on the 10th of june. happy birthday mom!. he´s been a zone leader the past 9 months and is finishing off here as senior companion. I hope courts had a blast at prom. Prom is always fun. i trust matt to take care of any boy problems :), since im not around. I cant wait to talk to you guys on sunday. Have a great week!

From Sister Turks Blog Leadership Conference May 2012

Some of the Best of the Best!

What a beautiful day with all of these beautiful people.

I feel so blessed to serve along side

of these missionaries.

This is the Leadership in the mission right now.

They are some of the Best!

We had Gladys Knight and the pips singing the special number.

It was Fantastic.

It was really Hermana Avendaño and her backup Elders.

Elders Aburto, Yat, Canaan, and DelaFuente

These are our Hermanas Asignadas

or the Assigned Sisters

They are beautiful inside and out.

and a picture of the whole group

Here are few photos of them all practicing...

Can you find yours in the mix?

April 30, 2012

This week was Great!.
The scripture of the week is 2 Nephi 33:10-11.
I love nephi. or nefi. But really this week was awesome. finished off the month of april as a zone. the most baptisms that huaraz has ever had in one month here was 14. we had 14 as our goal for the month (we had 11 month of march and wanted to push out more) we animated like crazy and the whole zone was really diligent and obedient, and we made an all time record of huaraz, of 20 confirmations in the month of april. It was pretty awesome and we are going to celebrate today with the zone. We found some awesome new people. The key to missionary work is finding people that God has already prepared. We found this one lady whos name is ayde. She is really interested and has been searching for a church to attend. She and her 8 year old daughter both attended church yesterday and we are going to do a family home evening with them tonight. our goal is to have her and her daughter baptized the 12 of may. We have also been helping this older man to overcome alcohol, his name is zeberiano. he was preparing to be baptized for this saturday, but we think he might of drank on saturday in the night, we still need to check for that. but he came to church yesterday too which was awesome. had some interchanges this week, I went to Yungay, which is a little mountain town like an hour from here to interview some baptismal candidates. They dont have a church their or a baptismal font, but we made a font out of rocks in a river. We actually made two fonts, in two rivers, haha. the first i sent a picture, but they ended up getting baptized in the other river that had more clear water. sorry there is no picture. We also did service in the plaza of carhuaz, weeding and cleaning it up. Im glad mom made me weed all the time growing up. haha. on the way back there were these girls from peace corps visiting from the united states. It was weird to hear english haha i just heard them chatting behind us. We talked to them and contacted them, so we might teach them this week. This week was a little crazy with changes (transfers). We thought elder brito was going to go, but he is staying here in huaraz for the last change of his mission. i get to kill him. I think this is the first change of my whole mission where I haven`t had a drastic change. But we have some new elders coming to our zone which is exciting. Including Elder Armstrong, who was my companion in the MTC, he`ll be a district leader. and also my last companion elder Beazer is coming to our zone too. Also an Elder Terry, that you guys might know, I knew him before the mission, and we`d ride the bus together to school, he is also finishing his mission this change. He lives on the opposite side of 6000 by the rocks in the dip  ( kind of by where those polygamists used to live). will be great having him in our zone too. It was great hearing from you guys. I always love your letters. Thanks so much!. Im sending a little gift for jett today. let me know when you get it. Love you guys!

Elder Hurley

Homemade Pizza by Elder Hurley  and

 Pizza and Elders April 30, 2012

 Snowy mountain above Juarez

 Homemade font out of rushing river!

April 23, 2012 Moroni 10:32 - 33

Hey fam fam.

This week was magically delicious. The scripture of the week is Moroni 10; verses 32 and 33. 

32 Yea, ^acome unto Christ, and be ^bperfected in him, and ^cdenyyourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and ^dlove God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be^eperfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

 33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye ^asanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the ^bblood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your ^csins, that ye become ^dholy, without spot.

 Had two baptisms, Edison and Jhover, they are two really awesome kids, one will be receiving the priesthood soon. tonight we are going to make pizza with them and their family and have a family night. The water was freezing cold. haha jhover didn´t want to enter. but they both got baptized and confirmed, now we are just focusing on their dad more and the whole family will be unified (their mom is returned missionary inactive.)

 Wow I am really short on time, so i am sorry this has to be brief. But this week was great, my birthday was awesome. My pensionista surprised me with an amazing cake.

 Did a service project with my companion this week, sent a pic of the result. 

 I also got your birthday package this week. So im loving that. Im not sure what all is for my pensionista but im guess the 4 hand towels, hand sanitizer and maybe some pens? well ill give her that. but wow its a big one!! lots of delicious fatty stuff. just what i need! Also played futbol on my birthday, and today we played for a long time too. I love it.  I am really gratefull for our family, we have always had so much love for each other and been so close. Thanks for everything you have all done for me. Mom was asking about Rachel a little, I got a letter from her this week, and she is going to stay in provo over the summer. I am loving the winger sauce, the chocolate covered stuff and everything else you sent. You guys do way too much for me. I love you all. thanks for writing I love reading your letters each week and seeing pictures of my family, it was amazing to have that whole stack of pictures!! thanks so much. Have an amazing week!!
Elder Hurley

April 16, 2012 Happy 20th Birthday to You Christopher!!!

HOLA QUERIDA FAMILIA!
hey there family. it sounds like you guys had lots of fun in hawaii!!! well today is pretty much the best birthday of my life. cuz i get to serve the lord! 
the scripture of the week is 1 Corinthians 11:14. Dad will love this one. 
Well it was great hearing from all of you. and thanks for the pictures!! I love seeing pictures of you guys. I always enjoy current pics of Jett too cuz he is changing faster than all of you combined. This past week was pretty awesome. the traveling assitants Elder Hargis and Elder Picket came this week to Huaraz. Elder picket was asistant to president when i started the mission in otuzco, i prosylited with him in otuzco and salpo when i was in my training. Elder Hargis was my zone leader in los cedros and is a good buddy. it was cool to see both of them again. well we started visiting this family this week. a sister who is a returned missionary but inactive. don`t know how that happened, but her husband isn't member and the kids of her husband aren't either. They are a great family, Edison is 13 and Hover is 11, and they have a lot of faith and want to be baptized. they have attended church quite a few times before, and we are trying to teach them every day this week to prepare them for baptism this saturday, we are teaching the dad also who isnt member. yet. i think he`ll be baptized too. Overall the mission is really good and I continue to learn knew things every day. We have also been working on trying to activate some less active families, which for me is almost as good as a baptism. I love you guys so much, this is my first birthday without you all, but I feel your prayers and feel closer to you than i have been before. I sent some stuff for the Hurley children birthdays, hope you get it!. The packet hasn`t arrived yet. but maybe this Saturday! I did get a letter from grandma and grandpa holt! THanks grandparents! It was good to hear from them. Tell grandma Hurley thank you for the money, i'll try to put it to good use! Well have a great week! I love you all!

April 9, 2012 D and C 19:16-19

Hey family!!
The scripture of the week is D and C 19:16-19.

 This week was great. We went to trujillo. Two bus rides through the night there and back. But concilio was really good. Excited nervracking all at the same time. I was asked to give the commission. I pulled it off pretty well. We played futbol and frisby dodgeball. I love futbol. Really it has kind of always been my least favorite sport but i grow to love it more each day. This week we had an unexpected baptism. a little boy that goes to church on sunday with his sister who is a member. We taught him, had his interview and baptized him all in this week. hes only 8. and a little crazy. but part of his family is member of the church so it was good to baptize him. Sometimes its weird to baptize little kids haha, but then i remember i was also baptized at 8 years and i turned out ok. But it was a good experience. Today we went to this cool place as a zone called llanganuco. I took a lot of pictures, but just sent the ones i took of me cuz i figured you guys would be happy to see me rather than pictures of mountains and water. It was fun. we all went in this little bus thing and brought lunch to eat there. That is crazy that you guys attended elder hannemans ward! haha. I saw him this week at concilio. cuz hes a zone leader too. he has family that live in alpine too of kids that went to lone peak. Ill have to tell him you attended his ward. thats so cool. I also went up with one of the district leaders this week in a place called Yungay. it was cool cuz this week is semana santa, and everyone was making huge images of jesus christ on the streets and different places with flowers and other colorful things. They almost have a branch in yungay, but are currently having to travel to the ward in caraz like 20 minutes away, which is hard to move the work along, cuz it is hard enough to get people to church when there is a chaple in their town. haha but they should have a little chaple house soon. Its so great to hear from you guys, i hope hawaii is awesome. Have courts pray about what she should do. Im pretty sure i talked with my teachers and they were fine if i made it second period a little late. but when i did it started at 8.00 in the morning. I sent some stuff this week. hope you get it. I love you guys so muich have the best week of your life!
elder Hurley