Sept 29~ Baptism of E.

Hey Everyone!!! 

SO we baptized E. last week!!!! FINALLY!!!! It was such a sweet experience!! My companion baptized her and I confirmed her a member yesterday in church and gave her the gift of the Holy Ghost.  Definitely was super nervous before the confirmation to do it in Spanish, but I felt the Spirit so strong and everything went perfect! SO happy she got baptized and I was able to help her come unto Christ!  Definitely learned how to be patient and to just rely on the Lord because He can work miracles!:) 

In other news-- health wise this week was not good!!!!  Had a huge allergic reaction....and a D attack for 3 hours straight one night!!  But I'm happy and fine!  I have lost 25 pounds in 2 months! hahahaha Crazy!!!  I'm 157lbs right now!  But everything is going good.  I can't believe I have almost been out for a solid 4 months!!  And by the way, for all my friends and family...go read the book Search For Happiness. It's amazing and explains everything about our religion perfectly! 

But thanks for your prayers and your thoughts! Tell the Sneebs to write me and that I'm super proud of Ewee in baseball and everything and Ellie too!!! My stud hermanors menor!! Love you so much Mother!  

Love you all and remember that God loves you all as well! Have a good week! Go eat some food for me!!! 

Love Elder Baca 

Sept 22~ 16,000 feet!

Something out of the swamps of the LOTR!

Bacacito!

Que tal Todos!! 

Hope everyone had a good week! Yah so today for Pday we (my zone) hiked Huaytapallana!! It was so fun! So we took a bus about a hour and a half (from Huancayo) to the start of the hike and then hiked about 3 miles to the basin at 16,000feet of the glacier mountain Huaytapallana! (the peak is over 18,000ft)  It was so beautiful!  I don't really have that many good pics because it was snowing the entire time but yea it was so sweet!! The basin of this Glacier mountain was so sweet!! Definitely love my mission because we can do things like this!! We have the jungle with water falls, mountains with snow, and the city as well! And the middle of no where areas as well.  But the weather here lately is so weird.  It's hot during the day and then at night it thunder storms!! Seriously the most rain and thunder I have every seen in my life.  Everyday! 

This week was a super good week for my companion and I!! Hoping that our investigator E. gets baptized this Saturday!  And oh, also gave another 20 min talk in church about how members can bring people to Christ. Yea but everything's going good!  Can't believe my cousin Elder Tasker is only a short windey bus ride away!! 

Love everyone!  Thanks for the support!  Hope everyone has a good week! 

Elder Baca

Sept 15~ Gladiators?

 

 "Fighting" my comp in the ring of death 

Huancayo

Buenos Dias Everyone!!

 Yea so last week for P-day was so fun! We hiked up this mountain /hill that overlooks Huancayo!! But after we hiked for about a mile and a half, we found this field! It looks like a Gladiator Colisiuem or a place for sacrifices! hahah It's so sweet! We do so many fun things for P-day! Next week we are going to this mountain with a ton of snow and its one of the wonders of Peru, its called Huaytapallana. Google it!! Yea but anyways on our hike back we found all these rocks with all these sweet carvings on them! So Pday was so fun and I'm excited for next week.  Today we are making tacos and kites, and then flying the kites!

SO this week the President of our area from the Seventy came and gave a conference about the importance of members in missionary work...and how this is a new time to do misisonary work!  The next day President Uceda (of the Seventy) did interviews with 4 missionaries from the mission...and guess who was one of those 4!! Elder Baca!! hahah It was definitely an amazing experience having an interview with a Seventy!! Anyways I hope you all have a good week! 

Love you all! 
Elder Baca

Sheep Tackling with the Fourth Missionary

Here's some sweet pics from this park in Huancayo we went to last week! 

I dressed up like a Peruvian!

 Our weights!

Hey Everyone!! 

SO I have some advice about life that I want to give to everyone, and some cool stories but first I'll tell you my funny stories!  Yesterday my companion and I were walking down this street and I turn around and I see this sheep BOOKING it!!  This thing was so fast!!!  About 5 people were chasing after it!  So as missionaries we help people, so I started running as fast as I could after it!!  Everyone on the street was dying laughing!!  Because this thing was faster than me!!!!! But yea after about a 1/2  mile, we finally tackled it to the ground!  

This week my companion and I fasted (fasting= where you don't eat food for 24 hrs, but its basically a 24 hr prayer :) but fasting for our investigator E.! She has classes Sunday mornings and in order to be baptized, she needs to come to church 3 times.  Her baptismal date is the 21st of September! So this week she was expecting to have class, and we were expecting it too, but yesterday during church SHE showed up!!!!  Because her professor got sick or something... or stuck in a rain storm!  But yea she made it to church!!!  I know God answers prayers through fasting!  

This week I really just realized that my mission can help me out for eternity, and for those of you not serving a mission right now, I know this can help you out with your life right now too! The truth is, our life's greatest work, our life's greatest creation is ourselves. Our lives can be our greatest creations in this life. We have so many decisions to make, but in reality our choices are limited- we can either make choices that have the quality of light and good, or of darkness. And with every good decision we make, every decision that consists of light, we can become more like our Savior Jesus Christ, the most perfect man to ever live.  With every problem, trial, suffering, contention, temptation, wrong doing, or anything that just stinks that happens to us in this life....we have the opportunity to react (act) with the teachings of Jesus Christ, the attributes and qualities of light (patience, love, charity, hope, honesty, humility, diligence, mercy, integrity). So this is my challenge to you, to use your God given ability to choose, of agency, to just react with the qualities of light and of good!  It's the only way we can learn to develop these traits when bad things happen to us, or we are forced to make a decision between bad and good, between light and darkness!  I can promise you as you develop the attributes of our Savior Jesus Christ, attributes of patience, love, service, integrity, hope and everything good....your greatest creation in life...will BE YOU!  

Anyways! I really hope everyone has a good week!  The things I learned about are in this speech/talk called "The Fourth Missionary" (by Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge).  It's awesome, and can apply to everyone!
Love you all!

Love Elder Baca!!

Sept 1~Cows and The Cause

My companion in the middle.

Buenos Dias from a little internet shack in Huancayo Peru!! 

Hope everyone had a good week!!! Ya so this week, I'll start off with the food I ate.  Cow heart, cow liver, sheep meat, and a bunch of stuff I don't really know what it was!!  But yah, this week I was probably more sick then anytime on my mission so far!!  Let me just say I was in the bathroom for almost 3 hours one morning...hahahah!  Crazy things- I had a drunk guy come up to me and start yelling at me and cussing me out telling me I was stealing his money!! hahahahahaah -idk!!  But we have some really good investigators in our ward, two cousins ages 18 and 15 and they have a baptismal date the 13th of September!!  SO we are working with them!!  My companion and I have been working really hard everyday! We literally get doors slammed in our face or people just don't want to listen, but it's all about finding that one person. SO that's what keeps me going!  Anyways, I made it through my first transfer in them mission!! WHOOH!  

But yah- I really hope everyone has a good week!! Here's some pics from my hiking last P-day! Love you all!! "Missionary Work, is not a program...it is a CAUSE"

Love,

ELDER BACA

Ellie went to the temple!!!!!!!!!!!!! What!!  Oh my gosh I miss the temple so much!!!! SO PRETTY!  My hike was like 15 mins!!! haha but still was pretty!! Just know I think about you guys a ton!! HOW AMAZING! my family is, and especially my parents, parents in the gospel.  I truly love this gospel, and the blessings and direction our family has received through it, are eternal.  Thanks mom seriously for just being the best mom ever, the mission is hard, but the blessings from this gospel are eternal!!  And I'm so happy I get to help people for 2 years receive and feel them!!  Love you Mom! Have a good week!