September 14, 2011

Dear Mom, 

That sounds like a pretty cool weekend and that you got to listen to some really cool talks in stake conference. I got to have another cool weekend as well. We got to go out and do regular missionary work this saturday it was so awesome. We just went out and started contacting and knocking on doors like I will be in the field every day. We had a missionary from one of the Lima missions lead us around he was such a great example of a missionary. He always made me talk in every lesson and to the people that we were contacting. Our area had to be one of the hardest ones that they threw us new guys into, it was seriously on the side of a mountain and we hiked all the way to the top house just to teach people and it was worth it we gave out all of our books of mormon that we were given to give to people and all of our pass along cards and almost all of our pamphlets on church principles. So we had a lot of success but my companion and I did not reach any of our goals so we were kinda sad until we got back and saw how everyone else did we might have had the most success out of all the people from the mtc we got into more houses and contacted more and taught more lessons so I was really happy about our successes. And you can tell dad that even though we walked up and down mountains that I still did not get behind the missionary that had been out for a while so i guess i already know how to walk really fast. The sad thing that happened this week is my latin companion left to go out into the field. Im going to miss the guy and I hope he does really well.  I am going to attach som pictures for you to look at.

Love,
Elder Hendrix

September 7, 2011

Dear Family,

I actually like to write my letters in english it reminds me how to write because sometimes I forget and spell things half in spanish and half in english. It has been a really crazy week we got to go out of the mtc this last Saturday and actually walk the streets of Lima Peru and talk to less active members. It was really crazy at first I thought that they were just going to drop us off and let us go where ever but they gave us a guide. The lessons were crazy because I could not understand the Spanish that the people were saying they were talking so fast. I did teach a little when I understood what was going on. We taught three lessons and it was really cool because it sounded like they were going to go back to church. We even got one of the ladies that did not feel worthy to go back to church cry because she was so happy. My companion did really well and it was so cool to here him preach to them. That is cool that the roof is almost done I bet things have been really busy at home and I forgot that last weekend was even a holiday for you guys. I miss elder berries and american foods now. We had spaghetti one day and hamburgers another day and they did not taste that good but everyone is just happy when it is not rice and chicken. And they don’t give me any money yet I have to wait until I get to the field so I am being frugal with my money. All of my teachers are returned missionaries so it helps they know what they are taking about and know the gospel very well. I’m sure that your lesson was fine anyway even though you didn’t read a lot of related materials you don’t need to be hard on yourself. Well tell everyone hi and that I am not dead Love you,

Elder Hendrix