Wednesday, May 15, 2013

May 13, 2013 - Mama's Week


Dear Familia,


Our Mother's Day skype visit May13, 2013 from Legua, Peru
Yeah,  so yesterday was a great opportunity to be able to see ya guys!* Wow! everyone is doin great! So I'm gonna try my best to not make this letter to long, or to short! haha 

First off, thanks for all the support that you guys give to me! That really makes the difference when you're a long ways away!  So I'm doing good as you could see from yesterday. I'm excited and keeping up the work as always.  So lets get down to business. First off, I was thinking about what Tanner told me and what not. I'm sure I'm gonna move out, but not till January. I'll be way too rushed with only 2 weeks getting home, plus I've got a lot of studies to catch up on. 

Tanner Wooden visiting with his best friend after 2 years and 5 months May 13, 2013
So for the past week, it was good and full of work. We were able to be effective and actually able to bring investigators to the church. The family that we're working with right now is great, and we believe that everything will go good with them. The mom is called Maria (just like all the women haha). She's great and has a really good attitude towards everything. She knew missionaries like 40 years ago, but she was going to a Catholic school where it was prohibited to talk about other religions. But here we are 40 later. Wow right? Yeah, so that's the biggest news. we're getting ready for a muti-zone conference that's going to be this Friday, so basically this week is gonna fly by. 

So that's about all the news for this week. I forgot the memory card to the camera so you won't be seeing pics this week, but don't worry, I'll keep ya covered for the next week k? So if there are any questions for me, hit me up, and I'll answer them the next week.

Nick seems like he's doing great. and it"s crazy to see that Scott's done with his mission. Wow!  Yeah, I'll be done in no time, just gotta keep it goin big!!! 
Elder Nick Pinegar & Elder Alex Pinegar talking together for the first time in a year - May 13, 2013

Love you guys with all my heart, and just know that Ive always had y'all in my mind. You're my support!!! keep stayin fresh!!

Love,
Elder Pinegar

*Note from Mom: It was soo good to see Elder Alex on Mother's Day. It was tough making a skype connection--but after an hour of trying, Alex was finally able to find an internet cafe that had a viewable connection. He says he’s forgotten how to speak English—but he did alright for our Mother’s Day call. He was able to talk with Nick after a year. The skype call wouldn't work, so he ended up calling him on a land line. We're sure that was a happy reunion. 
Alex should be coming home the 2nd week of August--he is still having his dates figured out. He serves as a co-senior companion as of now with another missionary who will also go home the same time as him. He lives in the house chapel (the small church) and doesn’t really belong to a branch—but a house church---so even smaller than a branch. He said they average about 30 people at church each week—and had 6 investigators this past week—which he was so excited for. Hopefully they will turn into a branch in the next 3 months…though he doesn’t know if he will end his mission there or not.