Good ol Mexico!- May 14, 2012

Hey everyone!

It was absolutely wonderful to hear from you for mothers day! What a thrill it was to hear your voices!
First of all my new companion is Elder Mattarp from Guadalajara who has a remarkable conversion story.  Long story short his left his house at 13, lived in the streets for 4 years washing windows and working at burger king, some members took him and basically adopted him, was baptized, and is now serving as a missionary. Wild right! Hes a great missionary and I'm excited to get to know him more and about his experiences. But life is going well, the work is progressing. Unfortunately he cant walk very well because he had an accident in his last area but we are making the best of it.

We are working with a man named Vincent who works with one of the members here. For a start, he is learning how to pray. I mean what a privilege it is to know that we can communicate with our father in heaven at any moment! What a blessing it is to see a change in people’s hearts as they draw closer unto the lord through prayer and study. 

This past week we visited an inactive sister of one of our bishops the other week who was sick and asked for a blessing. Her husband also asked for a blessing that he could find work to provide for his family. We offered the blessings and continued on our way.  For the first time in all my time here, she was at church on Sunday, happy. She came up to me just thrilled as ever which really just made my day. But her husband wasn’t there, so I asked where he was and she replied with excitement that he had been called out for work! Oh what joy I felt in this moment. How happy am I to know that the Lord supports those in need! I know that we are never given more than we can handle.  As president Monson says, who the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies!

I thank all of you for your support and love, take care this week and enjoy each day! (And those in Hawaii, I know its really difficult but please try your best.)

Much love, as always

Elder Peine

Our district

Now thats a boat for ya

Some cute kids at a ward activity

Our giant zone (which was just barely split into 2)

 Elder Larson heading off for his new area

Bishop in a hammock

Just Pictures

Mon, Apr 30, 2012

 Companion at the dentist

The night of Ramon and Guadalupe's wedding!

Just finished cleaning out a well of some new members (don't worry mom is wasn't deep)

Ramon's morning baptism!

Little boy drinking his cup of noodles (it was leaking from the bottom)

Cute portrait

Pack of cows taking a stroll through town

What a great week! Love you all, hope all is well! And enjoy the cool weather for me, I forgot what that feels like!

Love,

Elder Peine

This letter was from April 16th

I'm going to be writing later but I figured I send you some photos of Saturdays baptism. Her name is Yanired and is 8 years old, she is highly intelligent and has a great smile! Anyway talk to you later!

much love,
Elder Peine

April 30, 2012

Hey fam,

This week went well, a little chaotic, but well. I only have 8 minutes. So we had a baptism Sunday morning at 7 in the morning right before church. But Saturday night we had to fill up the font, by hose, which was taking forever so we got one of the youth to come over and watch it until it finished. When we showed up in the morning at 6:30 it was about half full and was looking pretty gross. But the bishop showed up, who had the keys to the font faucet, and we filled it up rather quickly, added some chlorine (I think) skimmed of the top and we were set. I will have to admit this was bad planning on our part, for not talking to the bishop earlier about everything. But we had the service and all went well. Ramon is fairly shy but he is a good guy who wants to the right thing. His mom who isn't a member showed up and they had a special moment together after his baptism.

Also a youth (well not so young) will be leaving for his mission Wednesday and he bore his testimony in Sacraments meeting and some of his family members did as well. His dad isn't a member but he came to church, well groomed, to see his son off. This was a surprise to my companion because previously he had been very against the missionaries or coming to church. But after the meeting he was very kind and asked us why we hadn't come to the farewell party the night before. We honestly told him we didn't know and wish we could have been there. So he invited us to come over this Tuesday to see his son off for one last time.

I hope all is well in Hawaii and with the whole fam, I love you all. Changes were today but neither my companion or I were changed out, so another possible 6 weeks with Elder Larson, which I'm totally fine with, we get along well and enjoying the work.

Love,
Elder Peine

March 26, 2012

Hello all!


I’m in my new área with Elder Larson from south Jordan, from Bingham high. He’s a great missionary, just as happy as ever, really gets along with the people well. He does magic for the kids and they love it. This area is right along the ocean, well the Gulf of Mexico. So I get to see the beach. To get to district meeting we cross a river by ferry over into town. Most of the streets are sand and we do a lot of teaching sitting next to palm trees. There are two wards in this area and we are the missionaries for both, so we are in church for 8 hours every Sunday. We are excited for conference. It is probable that an investigator (Ramon) will get baptized in-between seccions.


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Hey East High Elders!


I love to hear how are of you are doing out in your missions. It makes me so happy to know that there are people out there learning from your examples. This people will never forget you. As for me I’m down in Mexico by the beach and loving it. I am so lucky to be in an area where I’m sure parts of the book of Mormon took place. To be able to tell people that this is the account of their ancestors brings it even closer to home. I have seen the power of the Book of Mormon taking affect in the lives of the rich, poor, old, young and everything in between. When people get lost in life, feel depressed, lose hope, or don’t know where to turn, the book of Mormon has the ability to heal, council and consol. I am thankful for the hundreds and I’m sure thousands of people who have sacrificed everything to bring this book to pass. It truly is sacred and I am developing my appreciation for it more and more every day. Keep smiling east high, be yourselves and cherish every minute. Be like escalators, constant, steady, always rising.


Con mucho amor,


Elder Peine

My New Area

my companion elder larson and I my first day in the area


Our ward mission leader who owns an internet cafe


Home sweet home


Out in the town (yeah I dont know how long my shoes are going to last here)5 Passing by the church as we are off to do laundry