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

Sister Turks Blog about Zone Conference April 2012

Thirty-Four of the Best!

We had a few of our closest friends over for lunch today.

Our Zone Leaders were all in for our Concilio.

Our friends are growing in numbers.

Poor Lucy and Alicia had to feed 36 hungry tigers.

The 36 includes office Elders, Zone Leaders and us.

We have five new Zone Leaders joining us this month.

Elders Saldivia, Gamboa, Frietz, Escobar, and Hurley.

Awesome!

Zone Leaders are in training from 9 to 2

then lunch at the mission home

And today...

We went to play!

A little frisbee dodge ball and some soccer

goes a long way.

It's great for stress release and it prepares them

 for another great month.

They are all doing outstanding work.

Their numbers are flying off the charts!

March 19, 2012 Numbers 12: 6-8

 March 2012 Missionary Group

 Tony and Katia March 2012

This week was Grrrrrrrr8. The scripture of the week is numbers 12; 6-8. Love reading your letters. sorry to hear the bad things that are happening and some good. But this week was good. We had two baptisms. Toni and Katia. Katia is 18 years old, toni is 12. They are siblings, Their sister will be baptized this saturday. Their dad is a member. But really really inactive. The baptizm went really well, me and elder beazer did a musical number, i played guitar and we sang lord i would follow thee. I am sending some pictures. Did a couple baptizmal interviews also, Last thursday I interviewed a guy, and from the start he said i don`t want to be baptized yet. Which a baptismal interview never should start like that.. haha. so i decided to interview him anyways and then decide what to do with the baptism. He was the man, knew all the commandments and was willing to keep them all and wanted to be a member of the church, but his biggest fear was the water. He was absolutely terrified to go under water, thinking that someone can`t support him. I gave him an example without water, and i supported him well and showed him it was easy. After the practice he said, `ok ill get baptized tommorrow. But he wanted me to baptize him. He thought I was the only one strong enough to hold him up and support him in the water haha. But our zone leaders told me to do it if it will help him be baptized. So I baptized him, and it went perfectly. I love that guy he was pretty awesome. I sent some pictures. This past week I have been getting a ton of complements on my spanish from the peruvian people here. They tell me the way I talk is really good and that not too many gringos sound like that. which keeps my esteem up. haha. Well, last night president turk called me. He told me even though Im pretty young and only have one transfer as district leader in my area that he has felt a few times to make me a zone leader. So I am now packing my bags to be a zone leader of the Zone Juaraz. My companion will be Elder Brito, who was my zone leader when i was being trained in Otuzco. I am excited for another growing experience, and I know I will learn a lot from elder brito who has been a zone leader for a while. Juaraz is in the mountains and really far away from trujillo. yall can look up so info on it if you want, but I hear it is the most beautiful place in the mission. So im pretty excited. Kinda sad to leave my area here, and the 3 baptismal dates we have, but I know its where the lord wants me in Juaraz. I`ve been thinking bout uncle blaine this week, and how grateful i am that he paid for my clothes. But I just wanted to invite him personally, to watch the general conference this 31 of march and 1st of april. If you can send him my invitation that would be awesome. Also Mom said with your schedules its hard to do family prayer every day, which I always remember that was the excuse when I was home too. But. ya gotta do it. ;) It is a commandment, just like any other commandment, the word of wisdom, tithing, and So i know it is possible to do it. (see 1 nephi 3;7) THanks so much for your support and letters. Send me the usual, haha maybe wingers sauce, or my favorite thing is current fotos. Love all serve all
Elder Hurley 

A favorite post from Sister Turk's Blog

Mommy, Do I Have to Serve A Mission?

Every mother that has ever read this book has wept.

I will never forget thinking about my own son leaving on a mission.

I thought... "How can I not see his face for two years"

It about rips your heart out.

But I think that the hardest part for a mother is really knowing

that it is the end of their boyhood.

Your son... will turn into a man while he is serving his mission.

They come home all grown up with unbelievable

 talents and attributes and knowledge

that they did not have before.

They have experienced things that they will never 

be able to put into words.

Being on this side of the mission

is a very sacred experience for me.

I am involved with them while they 

are feeling things that are unspeakable.

I watch them dig deep to see what they are really made of

and to find out who they really are.

It's like watching a movie in fast motion

as they mature right before your very eyes.

Nothing on the face of the earth can replace a mission.

To serve the Lord full time, for two years

is the most gratifying, educating, sacred experience 

one can have.

At the end of this book... "Mommy, do I have to serve a mission"

the little boy grows up and leaves home and serves a mission

and then at the end of his mission...

He writes home and says

"Mom, do I have to come home... these people need me"

I am crying just typing this.

I understand more than ever how a great missionary feels

at the end of his mission.

It is very difficult to leave after having 

experiences that have changed your heart for the better

and have helped changed peoples lives forever.

President Turk and I have shed many tears as there have been a few 

missionaries that have chosen to leave early.

They don't know what they are missing.

That regret will be with them forever.

But more importantly 

they are missing out on learning things 

that could change the course of their life

and their eternity.

March 12, 2012 Matthew 25:23

Hey there familia ! This week was maravilloso! The scripture of the week is Matthew 25;23. The people of peru are definitely more humble and nicer than other countries. elder waddell of the seventy told us we have a mission of 10 talents. But This past week we had leadership council with the president which is always amazing. There are some pics of it on the blog. I sent a pic of me and my companion with our new haircuts we got today. Elder beazer is the bomb.com. He is finding out so much about himself and he tells me all the time. His spanish is improving every day and our companionship is becoming really great. Changes are next week, but i hope we stay companions to finish off our baptisms. Right now we have 5 baptismal dates. toni and katia this saturday. Katia is 18 and toni is 12 years old. Their dad is a member but really really inactive. and their mom is catholic. We finally got his mom to support this decision, and she has a lot of confidence in us and even attended church yesterday!. she`ll be next to the water. :) we are going to do a family home evening with them tonight. Next week their sister tanya who is 16 is going to be baptized. and the week after that we have an older couple that are preparing to be baptized for the end of the month. I love the relationships I am creating in this area. It kinda stinks, you make really good strong relationships with people, and then you change to another area. haha. But im pretty sure ill stay here again this next change. We are working really hard and are focused each day. We played some futbol today which was really fun. Thanks mom for telling me about max, its always good to hear how he`s doing. and Jett. I want more pictures. it seems like the first pictures his hair was darker but now its more lighter,  but i want to know what more he looks like. I love dad and all his quotes that he sends me. Tell Grandpa how much I love him and am thankful that he took me on that cruise. Tell grandma hurley thank you so much for her amazing example of faith in jesus christ. Tell grandma and grandpa holt for the great example of hard work and dedication to having a big family and sticking together always. I really have the best people in my life and I love you all so very much. One day we will all sit next to God together if we just persevere till the end. Have the best week of your life!

Elder Hurley