November 4, 2012 Alma 5:62

Hello family!!
Thanks for all your letters they make me smile. The scripture of the week is Alma 5:62. Funny seeing mom as waldo haha. thats a good look. The shawn made me laugh a lot too haha. Thats funny that you say you are a cheater. My companion and I were talking about how everyone at home cheats on fasts haha cuz here the members start fasting after lunch saturday and fast until lunch sunday. But yeah dont worry about me getting enough food. The majority of people eat a lot. haha it is a fight for me every day to try to finish everything that is on my plate. But the food is really good always. This week we went to do service at a little town that is in my area called san carlos. They are just finally getting sewage system in and we helped them this week with that. I got a big blister haha. (see foto) Also made an awesome reference box this week with slits for each organization. We are teaching quite a few familys which is such a blessing. It is really hard here to find two civilly married people that have kids. But we are teaching some and one lady accepted a baptismal date for the 17th but then didnt make it to church yesterday. I have really grown to love soccer. We play every monday and friday at 530 in the morning and it is so fun.  Thanks for all your support and love. Don´t be too worried about the christmas package, if I got nothing id still have a lot more than most the world. I liked the ctr rings you sent last year I passed those all out to kids fast. It would be cool but I don´t know how possible to find HLJ rings. Love all serve all
Elder Hurley

October 29, 2012 Omni 1:26

Dear Family,
So im short on time again sorry but Ill do my best. thank you so much for writing me this week! I got lots of letters from you guys. The scripture of the week is Omni 1:26. Love it. This past week was great. Had interviews with president which is always really great. We had some time to train the zone as well and talked about lesson plans. Jairo, the one we were going to baptized last week, moved out of our area. :( haha we went back to teach him and his family had moved totally, but we found him and one of the areas in our zone are going to baptize him. Our english class is doing really great and we found a kid named jon who told us he wants to join the church. He has accepted to be baptized on the 17th. a really strong member hno mego is in the hospital and we went to visit him and give him a blessing this week. He is looking pretty bad we didn´t even recognize him when we got there. But it seems like he will get better. We completed our zone goal this week having a total of 16 people confirmed in the month of october. It is really exciting because this zone hasn´t had that many in more than a year. Went to the clinic this week with a missionary who passed out played soccer. Sister took took us to papa johns pizza after which was fun. I have been thinking hard about things you guys could maybe send if you want in the christmas package and here are some thoughts. bbq twists fritos that you find in gas stations, a 5 star mead note book 9.5 by 6.5 3 subject porforated, pictures of yall. just some ideas. I love you all with the bottom of my heart and thats cool that courts took the act for the 4th time. I took it 5 times in total. ;) fifth times a charm. Have a great week!
Elder Hurley

October 22, 2012 1 John 4:6-7, 20

Dear Family,

This week went really well. The scripture of the week is 1 john 4:6-7,20. That is so sad what happened to Jett. Glad to hear he is doing better now. Sounds like He is following my example early in life. I too was in a hospital this week. One of the missionarys in our zone told me about pain he had in is lower right stomache. We went to the clinic and turned out he had apendecitis. He had his appendix removed that same night. So I stayed in Trujillo with the office elders. This week we found a lot of new people to teach and we had 19 investigators in church. It was crazy id never had so many people in church. Our neighbor who is a member got really really sick this week and is on life sustaining supporters in the closest hospital. He has one older son that isn´t a member. and 12 other relatives of his came to church who werent members. When I got to church they told me I was speaking. So I prepared my talk during the first hymn. haha. I found some old talks that I had in my suit and my message actually turned out ok. Our stake presidents mom died this week. The cemetary is in our area and we were proselyted by it when she was getting burried. We went over there so I saw how they do burials here. Every stays till she is completely buried. Lots of deaths and sickness happening here and there. how interesting. We also found a little kid this week who apparantly has been attending every week without us knowing he wasn´t a member. He accepted to be baptized this week and his parents are supporting him.  Played some tennis today. There were actually some peruvians on the courts ( which there never is cuz tennis is so foreign to everyone here) but we played some doubles with them and a couple of them were actually pretty good. So fun. Today we are starting up practices for the christmas program in the mission home so that should be fun. Overall I love you guys so much and hope you have a great week! some ideas for christmas package: dr scholls sole inserts, wingers sauce, nutella. You don´t have to get me anything though. Love you guys have  great week!. oh for whitneys song there is a member here that has it on his computer and he is going to try to put it on his facebook or his youtube. His email is omar_5@hotmail.com and my pensionista is irma_ale_2@hotmail.com.  add them on facebook.

love you guys .

Elder Hurley

October 15, 2012 D&C 76:51-53

This week was good.

My sister is married!!!! woo hoo! WHAT A BUMMER that the song I wrote and sent didn´t work. Try putting the sd card in a camera and seeing if it can play. The scripture of the week is Doct. and cove. 76:51-53. This week was pretty good. we are seeing miracles in our zone and have really great missionaries in our zone. This week was stake conference for us and it was really great and spiritual. President turk bore his testimony in it and the spirit was way strong. We started teaching english this week which was cool. just 2 students to start with haha but we will grow. Today was fun pianoed for a while. SOrry my time is totally out right now but I will write a big letter next week. HOpe you all know I love you. Let me know if you get that video watched somehow.  

October 9, 2012 Matthew 7:13-14

Dear Family,

This week was grrreeeaaatt. The scripture of the week is Matthew 7:13-14. Sorry I totally forgot to tell you guys about the second package that I did receive already actually like 2 or 3 weeks ago. I was refering to the 1st package. seems like it got to trujillo but its not there now, not sure, if you could just get the phone number of the lady that is sending it from lima it would make things easy. Conference was awesome.That is cool that the ages have changed. I know I would have had an even more successull freshman year knowing all the things I have learned on the mission haha. in peru that was already the age that people could leave. we are stoked for the new temple in araquipa. I know 2 people that are serving in that mission. So thats exciting. Trujillo temple is actually being built now they are digging and stuff apparantly. Haha. This past week was pack full of meetings. lidership council and zone leader council with president and general conference. General conference was SO GOOD. I think I got more out of this conference than I had in any other previous one. I especially loved the talk from pres. monson in priesthood that says we should not look at people how they currently are, but look at what they can become. I love that so much. Sounds like everything is getting ready for the wedding. thats really exciting. Well today i played tennis. !!! oh you guys are probably wondering why I didn`t write yesterday, P day got changed to tuesday this week cuz there was a country side service day yesterday and we proselited and did service yesterday. But last week my companion and I bought tennis rackets and a few balls and there is a place in our zone with a tennis court. So we went and played today. It was so fun. We  have a lot of baptismal dates in our zone and are becoming more unified each day. Sounds like everyone is happy and doing well. please send lots of pictures of the wedding. I am so happy about it for realls!! Greisy is getting closer to being able to be baptized and we found a lot of new people to teach this past week. Overall life is great.

Elder Hurley

October 1, 2012 1 Corinthians 2:4-5

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETT!!!!!!!!!!

Dear family,

This week was great. The scripture of the week is 1 corint. 2 verse 4 and 5. Well, We did everything we could for greisi and the other girl this week. But in the end they didn`t get baptized. But they still both came to church so we are not giving up. Our zone was sooo close to completing our goal this month. we had 12 confirmations and we had 13 as the goal. ahh so close. Ive been trying to still get that first package you sent me. the package came from lima to trujillo, and I think was from a lady named clamber espinoza but something that would really help is to know the telephone number of the person who sent it from lima. and if possible the number of the recept or guide or tracking number. Ìf you could find that out and let me know I might still be able to get that package haha. This week is full of meetings for me. Tomorrow we have leadership council with all the leaders of the mission and on wednesday we have zone leader council with president ,and saturday and sunday is general conference. I am so stoked for conference!! Thanks for writing me and updating me about little jett. I love that guy. I hope you guys are happy. I am so happy. Happier than Ive probabley been in my whole life. I wanted to invite you guys to share the gospel more. I know there isn`t too many opportunities to share but there still are opportunities. I decided its easy. Before the mish I didn`t know how to share the gospel, just thought it was inviting people to church, giving away an ensign or book of mormon and that was sharing the gospel. But now I have seen the importance of the elders. If you know anyone that is not a member of the church. Just invite them to listen to the elders and see what they say. the worst that can happen is that they say no. I love you guys so much. If there is anything I can do for yall let me know.

Elder Hurley

Auditions for Christmas Pageant October 23, 2012

Auditions

Amazing how many talented missionaries we have.

We had several in to the mission home yesterday,

on their Preparation day.

to Audition for Solos or others parts 

for the Christmas program.

It was very exciting to have them all sing together some 

of the songs we are going to perform.

There is nothing better than to hear missionaries

singing a great song.