Update for July 2015

July 6, 2015

Hello Everyone!
On my birthday we went and ate lunch with Percy and his family. It was really great to see him again. 

Eating Tacos on P-Day

They threw eggs at me in the morning and at lunch. Haha! I can really say, that my birthday was "eggcellent!"

ROUND 1

ROUND 2:

 Tomorrow we're going to Huancayo for the leadership council and I know that they're going to throw more eggs at me.. They said they want to set a record and throw 100 eggs at me so lets see how that goes…

AMARILLIS

TIRED OF DOING PAPERWORK.

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July 13, 2015

We had a really good week this week and stayed super busy. We found a lot of new people to teach, we got a family to come to church that hasn't come in 4 years, we went to Huancayo for leadership council, and we had interviews with President. It was so tiring traveling 6 hours to Huancayo Tuesday and coming back on Wednesday and then interviews on Saturday, but in the end it was a great week.

We have an awesome investigador named Edu he's 18 and has a friend in the mission in Mexico. His dad died a few years ago, and he really liked the plan of salvation. He should be getting baptized pretty soon and he already talks about wanting to serve a mission. He's just a super awesome and prepared person to get the gospel in his life. 

3 Dads and 3 Sons

The area we're in is pretty tough, it's small and just a bunch of little old ladies that live on the hills and speak Quechwa and almost no Spanish.... hahaha! I've learned so much Quechwa you'd all be very surprised. It sounds like all the made up Spanish words I used to say before I started my mission… haha!

 At leadership council all the zone leaders and assistants that I had egged on their birthdays got their revenge on me together with 30 eggs at the mission home.. They started throwing the eggs at my back and a lot didn't even break just bounced off my back and it hurt so bad leaving me with welts all over my back... Other than that part it was a great experience :) haha 

I love and miss you all tons hope yall have a good week!

ROUND 3

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July 20, 2015

Hello Everyone!

Last P-Day we got to go to an area called the 5 lakes. Here are some awesome pics I took.

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July 27, 2015

We had a really good week!  This week we had 2 baptisms! Kadu and Edinson two brothers were baptized on Saturday. Kadu is 18 and already wants to go on a mission and he comes with us everyday to go to appointments and teach. So he's a super awesome convert. 

Yesterday we went to the jail to go visit his friend there, and he's already given us other references and we've found more people to teach thanks to him. He's awesome!

Kadu our recent convert!

 I read an awesome scripture this week in 3 Nephi 6:13 that says

 13 Some were lifted up in pride, and others were exceedingly humble; some did return railing for railing, while others would receive railing and persecution and all manner of afflictions, and would not turn and revile again, but were humble and penitent before God

I love this part of the Book of Mormon. Right  before Christ comes to the americas the people start to divide in classes and some people were humble and some weren't. The nephites who grew up in the right principles and traditions of their fathers, weren't truly converted to the gospel like the lamanites were, and the lamanites were all converts! They grew up in the wrong traditions, but truly repented and had a testimony of their own. I also love how the principle of turn the other cheek was taught here before Christ even had taught it on the other side of the world

Mathew 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And to understand it even better, we have D&C 98:23-26

23 Now, I speak unto you concerning your families—if men will smite you, or your families, once, and ye bear it patiently and revile not against them, neither seekrevenge, ye shall be rewarded;

 24 But if ye bear it not patiently, it shall be accounted unto you as being meted out as a just measure unto you.

 25 And again, if your enemy shall smite you the second time, and you revile not against your enemy, and bear it patiently, your reward shall be an hundred-fold.

 26 And again, if he shall smite you the third time, and ye bear it patiently, your reward shall be doubled unto you four-fold;

I know that we need to be humble and patient in all things, and I invite all of you to do so as well, so that we can all be truly converted to the gospel and live what we teach and claim to be true.

Love Elder Pincock

Update for Month of June 2015

June 8, 2015

This week was a lot better than last week! We should be having a baptism this Saturday his name is Kevin. We have another baptism scheduled for the 27th his name is Hans. 

On my birthday July 4th we're trying to plan a wedding and another baptism so things are really looking up. The guys name is Juan for the 4th and he's living with a girl that's a member so they need to get married before he can get baptized. We've already became great friends even though he's pretty crazy but he's super funny. 

We've been having a lot of less actives come back to church lately and yesterday 230 came to church which was a new record! This month should really be a good one with a couple baptisms and some less actives rescued. 

The dedication of the new temple in Trujillo is in like 2 weeks and we get to watch the transmission so that should be a cool experience. 

Everything is going great here! Love and miss you all tons have a good week!
Elder Pincock

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June 15, 2015

This week was awesome! Everything went super well with the baptism of Kevi! and Yes 

it's Kevi not Kevin.. haha I know it's a little weird, but his baptism was awesome and 

everything turned out great! 

We also rescued two less actives and now they're coming to church again.

This week a general authority visited our stake conference Elder Calderon from Peru 

and it was awesome getting to listen to him. Saturday we had two sessions and yesterday 

was the final one. It was a really good stake conference.  We had so many people come

 it was insane! 

This Sunday is the temple dedication for the temple in Trujillo so it 

should be another good special week. 

Also,this week are the transfers, I highly doubt I'll get transferred and I really hope not 

because I'm really happy here, but the rest of the zone should be having a lot of transfers 

so we'll be super busy this week figuring all that stuff out. 

Everything is going great in our own area and I'm super happy here in my area! 

I love and miss you all tons and hope yall have a great week!

Elder Pincock

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June 22, 2015

Well this week was very crazy and stressfull for me. I ended up getting transferred 

which I wasn't prepared for at all and didn't think that I was going to be transferred.

I came back to the same zone where I just was 3 months ago as a zone leader in 

Amarilis with Elder Moraga from Nicaragua. 

I was honestly really upset and angry with my transfer because I really didn't want to 

leave my last area I was happy there and wanted to finish my mission there. 

I didn't understand my transfer and was confused and that is what was the most 

annoying thing. So I was really angry about it until I talked to one of the assistants 

who made me feel a lot better about my transfer. 

They sent me here to try and fix some things because the zone is really bad right 

now we don't have very many obedient missionaries or much hard work going on. 

I've been here only since Wednesday night and I've already had to make a lot of

changes in the zone. So hopefully things will start getting better soon.

I learned a valuable lesson this week. I know that our attitude really does change

everything, and I needed to repent for having such a bad attitude about my transfer. 

I found a scripture that really helped me change my attitude and get through this 

week. In Philippians 2:14-15 

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, 

in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in 

the world;

I know whining and complaining doesn't ever help anything. I tell a lot of  "investigadors while teaching that my dad always says that two things aren't allowed in our house. 1. Excuses. 2. Complaints.

I forget that valuable lesson for a little bit this week, but it's totally true. We are free to choose our own happiness or sadness. People think that they can't choose to be happy, but it's a lie. Its up to us and only us if we are happy or if we aren't. 

I love and miss you all tons and hope yall have a good week.

Throwing Eggs at Elder Toomey for his Birthday! One for each year!

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June 29, 2015

Well this week went by super fast and was hectic but great at the same time. We had  P Day in Ambo last week, my old area, and I got to see Percy and some members that are my friends there so that was pretty cool! We had a good time. 

We had a special zone meeting with President Henderson on Wednesday, and then on Friday we had a multi-zone conference with Elder Waddell from the 70 and it was super cool getting to listen to him. 

The conference was going to be from 3 to 8 but he got there late and we didn't start until 4 and at 8 we had a special meeting with him and all the zone leaders. So that was pretty cool getting to talk with him more one on one. We was super poweful when he spoke and I learned a lot of really cool things from him. 

We had 4 investigadores come to church yesterday which was awesome. We're teaching 3 brothers whose dad died a few years ago, and they really like hearing everything we have to teach.  So we're going to be working a lot with them and helping them understand the plan of salvation more so they can be more at ease with the death of their dad. 

Our area is super small, and is pure hills. Every lesson we go to we have to climb up a huge set of stairs, just to go back down and climb up another set for the next appointment... haha It's a pretty tough area, less than 100 come to church, but we have a few good investigadores so hopefully things will be getting better soon. 

Love and miss yall tons have a good week!

Elder Pincock