April 23, 2012 - Its p day again!!!

Hey mom and dad! thanks so much for the letters! I love to hear how you  guys are all doing!  I am doing good and we had transfers today....And there is no change for me or my companion.  I am still here for 6 more weeks... I wanted a change to be honest but its okay I like the area at least...  This week also I had entercambiars with an elder from Utah which was pretty nice!  It is just so nice to be able to communicate so easily without any problems.  haha i miss having normal conversations.  But its okay I guess.  I am learning a lot here.

 

Also I officially hit my 6 month mark!  Can you believe it?? I burnt a tie with the elder from Utah but it was just a paper tie. i didn´t want to burn a real tie.  Plus its a lot easier to burn a paper tie.  I took some pictures and stuff so hopefully I can send them to you in the future.  i wish I could send more pictures.  I t feels like I have been on my mission my whole life and home is like a dream! Its really weird.  I miss you guys like crazy!

Here in Argentina is starting to get cold..I am not liking the cold haha but its not horrible just quite yet. I still need to wear like a light sweatshirt on most days.  Not to bad though.  I hear it gets pretty dang cold here so I am not looking forward to that.  i always forget its backwards and that its just starting to be summer there! How weird!!  also today I bought a fake nike watch today for like 50 pesos which is like 12 dollars. haha I was pretty pumped about that!!

 

And Dad about my birthday you don´t have to get me anything! That MP3 player is more than enough!!!  I do need a new journal pretty soon though like next 3 months or so.  Do you remember like the small binder kind??  I can get a cheap journal through the mission but its not very nice if I need to.  And Dad  I don´t know what to do for your birthday coming up!!! I want to send something but I am not sure how and I don´t know if I would trust it anyways.  I am not sure what to do! I will figure something out! haha

 

Well I better go and write everyone else now but I love you guys so much and thanks for all the support! You guys mean the world to me! I have the best family in the whole wide world!!!  Without a doubt!  I love you guys so much!  I miss you guys so much! take care! hasta luego!

 

Con amor x 43 zillion!

Elder Peck

April 16, 2012 - Week number 26...

Mom and Dad!!

Also thats awesome that return missionary talked in church! I always loved listening to return missionaries.  It was always cool to see how they changed and everything.  Taiwan would be quite the mission especially with that language.  I can´t even imagine.  So how is Uncle Brads fish and chips doing??  Is he still doing that? Hes down with learn key then? What happened there??

 

Well this week was a pretty good week I suppose.  We finally got water and light on thursday.  You really don´t appreciate that stuff until you don´t have it.  It is so nice to have water!  It kind of felt like camping again.  My apartment is pretty nice though compared to my last place thats for sure.  I want to send pictures to ya but I don´t know when I will be able to.  Also this saturday we had 2 baptisms!!!  The girl I invited to be baptized a few weeks ago named Florencia and an 10 year old boy name Laureano.  Laureano´s dad isn´t a member but only because he is trying to get divorced from his old wife.  But he seriously is so inspiring.  He is trying so hard and has been trying to get divorced for awhile.  I wish you could meet him.  Really he is so cool.  He gave a talk at the baptism and just cried. I just love seeing what the Gospel does to people.  It is so inspiring.  I wish you could meet them so bad but even if you did you wouldn´t be able to talk to them.  haha Thats the sad part.  But yeah we had 2 special baptisms this week which I was pretty excited about.  It makes everything worth it.

 

 Also this week I have been working on fixing my suitcase.  I don´t know if you remember but the handle broke last transfer.  It was the part with the mechanism and everything.  There was a part stuck in the little tube and after working on it off and on when I had a few minutes I finally got it out.  Then I got some epoky stuff to glue and duck tape and got it all fixed! I was pretty happy.  I just hope it lasts! I Think it will though.  Transfers are this monday so we´ll see what happens.  Its always nerve racking but I am excited to see what happens.  So next email you will find out I guess!!!  And by the way this Thurday will be my 6 month mark in the mission! Can you believe it?? The first marker!  Its like running the 1 mile race and finishing the first lap!  Now just 3 more to go. haha  I think I am going to burn a paper tie instead of a real tie because I don´t have any I want to burn!  I let you know what happens next week.  Well I love you guys so much and I hope everything is going well! Thank you sooooooo much for all of the love and support!  I couldn´t ask for a better family!  Love you guys!!

 

Con Amor X 40 zillion

Elder Luke Scott Peck

April 9, 2012 - Wow what a week!!!!!

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am so happy that Little Louiston Russell Peck is born!!!! How awesome! He is the cutest baby ever.  When I see him he will be walking and maybe even talking a little bit.  Isn´t that crazy?  I wish I could see him!!  I am so happy he is healthy and Heather too. I wish I could call Mike and Heather and tell them congrats but I guess an email will suffice.

 

Also thanks so much for sending that package! I am so excited for it! Sorry for all of that work to put you through to do all of that. I really appreciate it!!!  I am so pumped for it.  

 

Now for my crazy week here!  Well some funny news a member in my branch gave me a video call "Mi nombre es Peck" Or "My name is Peck" haha its about a boy named Michael Peck! haha  When I get home we can watch it but I thought it was pretty funny.  Everytime I see her I say Mi nombre es Peck.  Also Yesterday we had a baptism for an 8 year old boy we have been teaching. It was pretty neat and a lot of family were there.  We have been teaching him for a while so it was good to see him get baptized.  Hopefully next week we will have even more baptisms too!  Also one interesting thing I learned is that some people here think we are spies and when we were walking in the street one guy yelled Espies or spies to us! haha It makes me laugh.  It guess it would be kind of weird to see a chileano and an American walking together.  They don´t really like Americans or Chileanos.

 

Now for the crazy part...Well Thursday morning we woke up and it was a little cloudy and overcast but nothing to out of the normal.  And so we have a pretty normal day and we are teaching this girl at our house with her family and a member and a huge storm hits.  Like bad!  Bad enough were I am like I really don´t want to go outside.  It seriously looked like a hurricane or something.  The trees were moving like crazy, it was dark, tons and tons of rain, and super super windy.  Then the power went out and it lasted for like an hour.  It was a way violent storm.  And so we left and got home and come to find out it was like a tornado, hurricane, monsoon, or something I don´t really know but a ton of our area is without light right now and we can´t go into it at night.  And actually we haven´t had power or water since thursday either which is horrible.  Its just our apartment too on our block! Who knows how much longer its going to be until we have water and electricity too..  Its annoying.  I don´t mind not having electricity but without water is horrible.  We have to shower at other missionary´s pensions.  Its pretty annoying!  But this storm took down so many powerlines and knocked over trees into houses.  It has been pretty rough on a lot of houses here.  And actually my district leader was like in the middle of the tornado and like almost died, if a bus hadn´t picked them up they would be in bad shape right now I think.  He told me their area is like destroyed way way bad.  Its crazy thats for sure.

 

And so its been kind of annoying not having water or power.  The other night my companion wanted to go teach someone in the area without light and I told him I don´t want to go in there because its super dangerous and plus our President said not to go into areas without light.  He was pretty mad at me and kind of went off on me.  I don´t care though I am not going to be stupid.   That area is a little sketchy even with light!  Íts pretty nuts here at times. haha  Gotta love it though! Always on my toes.  But really its not too crazy and I am doing just fine so no worries!!  So this week has been kind of out of the ordinary!!! 

 

Well I love and miss you guys like crazy! You are the best family in the world! I love showing them pictures of you guys and they are always like your parents are soo young!  Your mom is really pretty and your dad is hansome! I am always like yeah they are the best!!  Well mom and Dad I love you guys like crazy!!  Thanks so much for all of your love and support!!!  Keep on being awesome!!!!  Until next week!!! Tengan un buen día!!

 

Con amor X 36 zillion

 

Elder Luke S. Peck

April 2, 2012 - Love you guys!!

Hey mom and Dad!

Man I love hearing from you guys! You guys are the best and thanks so much for your weekly letters! I bet its hard to write sometimes so thanks!!  Hey thanks so much for getting the MP3 player and everything all together! That is so awesome! You should let me pay for it! Thats too much! Thanks for the support though it means a lot! That is going to be so nice.  I´m excited and I hope it gets here! And thanks for the Peanut butter as well! I told one of our investagators about you sending peanut butter and they were like how did you do that? I thought you couldn´t do that! And I was like yeah it made it here just fine.  So I say risk it again!  I am about half way done with my journal (Like a mini binder) so in the future I am going to need another one but right now I am fine!  Also Old Spice and hair stuff is always good but I am good for awhile since I just got your last package! Sorry I feel like I am send orders to your guys! Thanks though it is greatly appreciated!

So did you guys like general Conference this week???? I was so pumped for it!!!! It was dang awesome! It was kind of weird to see live shots of Utah though haha. Luckily I got to watch it in English too which was good.  Well the first session I had to watch some of it in spanish because something was wrong with tv.  Here we have to watch it at the rec center which is kind of far away but it was okay but we were on the bus a lot this weekend.  It was weird watching it in english for 2 hours and then stepping back into the real world with spanish and buenos aires. haha It was cool though.  After the last session one elder was like well I guess vacation is over now haha.  It was pretty funny.  Its such a blessing to be able to listen to the prophets in our time. I was so excited and I can´t wait to  read it in the Liahona down here.  We didnt get to watch the Priesthood session because it was too late in the day.  Here we watched it at 1:00 and then 5:00.  Kind of different.

Thanks for the recipe dad and the ideas for workouts! I think I am going to do them.  I have been doing  push ups and crunches and mason twists and stuff.  Its a pretty good work out if I do it right.  But I want to mix it up so that will be good.  And thanks for the food ideas too. My companion has been teaching me a little bit how to cook and today I actually made a pizza!  It was okay but edible so I was pretty pumped!

Sorry its really hard to write to you guys because I am at this computer place with kids playing on the computers and they are sooooooo loud!!!  But anyways I am so touched that Grandma and Grandpa Peck are giving me money! That is too much! She doesn´t have to do that! That really just shows how awesome they are.  They are so giving!  Tell them how much I love and appreciate them will ya? I will write them too!  Seriously that is just so touching.

This week was a pretty good week and actually we went on splits so I went with members of the ward which means I was in charge of leading the lesson.  I was pretty nervous not going to lie but it went just fine and I invited the girl to baptism and she said YES!!! It was the best feeling ever.  She was ready so I kind of expected her to say yest but still I was nervous.  The gift of tongues is real I swear.  Sometimes I don´t know how I explain stuff.  Its like when I need to talk I can.  Normally I am not that good.  I can carry on a conversation with my companion and some people but its still a test but its starting to get a little easier so thats good! I still lack a lot though. Thats funny what Doctor Chamberlain said! And Dad you are exactly right about what he said.  They use Vos here instead of TU (meaning You) so thats why it was cool haha.  But yeah this transfer is half way over already I can´t believe it! 

well Mom and Dad I love you guys so much! I am going to write you more but I hope you guys have a great week and always remember how much I love and miss you guys! I think about you guys every day!  Love ya guys!

Con amor,

Elder Peck

March 26, 2012 - Love ya mom and dad! You guys are the best!

Mom and Dad!

hey thanks for the letter like always!! For real your letters help so much!!  And I always dream about you guys! I can´t tell you how many times I have dreamed that I was just about to say good bye to you guys to leave to the MTC. I always have those dreams!  And I´ve got good news! I recieved your packages! Both of them!!!  I got one with pictures and letters and pictures of Christ and all of the other good stuff! Thanks so much! I should be set on Razors for the rest of my mission I think now.  Also I got the package with Peanut Butter! Oh my gosh that stuff is like gold! I am serious I have eaten half of one already.  I love it! And those reeses are the best!  Also the news paper you used to wrap it with was pretty dang awesome.  I´m not going to lie I read a few articles just to see what st. george has been doing. It was way cool. It made me miss you guys a ton! Thanks for all of that stuff though for real. It was all the stuff I needed.  Especially old spice, razors, peanut butter, flossers, pictures, etc.  Thanks for spending $50 a package! thats way to much thanks so much!

This week I have been sick again...I hate it so bad! Its not horrible being sick at home because I can just relax and watch TV or something but on the mission I can´t really do that.  I don´t like to stay home because I feel guilty so you just kind of have to tough it out.  Luckily I had those new vitamin pills and I am starting to feel a little better luckily.  Also this week we had interviews from President Stapley (mission President) and man he such an awesome guy. He is a man of God you can just tell.  He helps me so much! Seriously.  He told me a story about when President Boyd K Packer asked him to come over and look over one of his talks before Conference.  Seriously I wish you could meet him. He is from Summit, Utah just North of Cedar City.  He is so cool.  Also this week I saw something you are never going to believe...a Walmart!!!  A real Walmart!  I live pretty close to the Capital and so there is big stuff like that here! I wanted to go in so bad! An I have heard there is peanut butter in there but its kind of expensive and its not American brands but I don´t care! Hopefully I´ll get a chance to go in it.  Its not in my area unfortunately. 

 

Hey I´ve got a few requests for ya.  How do you make pancakes from scratch and easily? Do you know any easy to make meals?? Because literally for the last week my diet has consisted of microwaved hot dogs and sandwhiches. haha  I think I am going to get sick of that soon so if you know any easy to make meals please let me know!  Hey before you send me a package will you tell me?? There are some stuff I will probably need!  I was wondering if you could send me a little really really cheap MP3 player with church, EFY, and Disney music with my money or something.  I have reallly missed music. Lacy can help you with it!  Also maybe a little speaker that takes batteries like the normal AA I think.  If its to much work its totally fine! Thats one think I wish I would have brought.  Tell me what you think about that? Thats a really big request and I don´t want to trouble you to much.  Oh and if you send packages it might be a good idea to put pictures of Jesus on the box or the Virgin Marry!  Just to be safe.

 

But I have thought about you guys a lot lately!  You guys are always in my prayers and I miss you guys like crazy! I wish so bad I could talk and tell you about everything.  All the time I think I wish my family could be seeing this.  This is quite the place good or bad! haha  I love it though.  Well Family I love you guys so much and thanks for the packages and the support! You guys mean the world to me and nothing is more important to me than you guys!  Its true our family is the best and I am realizing that more and more each day! Love you guys!  Talk to ya in a week!!!

Con amor X 32 Zillion!

Elder Peck

March 19, 2012

Today is my 5 month mark! Can you believe it? Another month! time is so weird on the mission. I can´t even describe it.  It feels like I have a ton of time left though.  Its alright though.
Now this week has been a pretty crazy week.  It seems like when there is change or something hard going on I think about you guys a lot. I thought about you guys a lot this week! I always have dreams that I am with you guys and I am about to leave on my mission and then I wake up and realize I have been gone for 5 months already! Its kind of hard sometimes. But its all good.  My new companion luckily likes to work which i was worried about. So thats good.  I haven´t had too much trouble with him yet.  He only speaks spanish.  He is really helping me with my spanish which is good.  for the past week I have basically only spoken in spanish.  He has me teach a lot too which is helping me but really intimidating at times because its really hard to teach let alone in spanish.  but its getting easier.  I am feeling more and more comfortable in my new area.  My new area is a lot more city and I´m actually pretty close to Buenos aires the city.  So there is a lot of city.  I like it.  It is more dangerous than Luis guillon but I´ll be safe.  There is always a lot of people in the streets though its kind of different except by our apartment.  Its pretty nice where are apartment is I think.  the apartment is super nice compared to the one luis guillon.  bigger too.  sorry my grammer and stuff is so bad this stupid keyboard is hard to type on..Anyways if you have any questions let me know about the area!
Yesterday we taught this guy after lunch with him and he UFC on the tv.  Oh man was it hard not to look.  for real.  I saw who was fighting and it was rich franklin Vs Forest griffin.  I wanted to watch it so bad but I resisted luckily.  He is a super chill guy.
But just know that everything is going good hear.  I had to bear my testimony in church yesterday without any warning which is always fun. It was okay though.  But yeah I´m getting more and more comfortable here it my area. I think I am going to learn a lot in the next 5 weeks.  
Well I love you mom and dad! Please know I think about you guys everyday and please know how much I love you guys! You guys are the best parents in the whole wide world!!! Keep on being awesome! :)
con amor X 30 zillion
Elder Peck

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