IN THE FIELD

May 7, 2012

Hey everybody well I'm in the field, we left the CCM at 5:30 am to get to the mission home by 7. I

'm going to miss the CCM, but I was so ready to leave. I made tons of great friends and I know I will see them after the mission as well. The mission home is in northern Lima. We got there and we had about 3 hours of meetings to get everything figured out. After meeting the president and his wife we had the meetings then ate pizza then met our companions mine is Elder Jorge Cifuentes from Guatemala. He is 15 months out on the mission. My three buddies went straight to the jungle they are the first missionaries to be trained in the jungle Elder Brown (mi lo mejor amigo), Elder Gneiting, and Elder Neilson. Elder Price (amigo) and Elder Anderson (amigo) are in Lima as well. So is Stringham. I am in the zone magnolias and the district of Villa Hermosa. I am the only gringo greenie in my zone, there are two other greenie,s but they are Latinos. Our area is just a neighborhood, only houses, houses on top of houses. Our pentionista is Hermana Chara. She is about 60 and hilarious always cracking jokes. It is awesome, her family is great. She makes us breakfast and dinner we have lunch appointments everyday with members. We always have appointments and always have backups. We walk everywhere and climb a few mountains. We ride motoscooters to other areas to meet with other missionaries. One elder in my zone is Elder Kepner, he is 21 months out and is from Indiana so I thought mom would get a kick out of that. There is an elder in the office of the mission home named Elder Hendricks, he is 18 months out and he went to Mountain View. So I don't know maybe Bree knew him or something. Anywho we have two investigators with a baptism date. Hermano Juan y Hermana Bentia, they are both like 100 but they need to be married first. So we are working on their marriage papers so they can be married on Saturday in the morning then baptized in the afternoon. They have no money they sell snacks on the street and every time we meet with them they give us a treat and they won't let me not take it. They are some golden people, they have been interviewed and have been to church and are ready. Also we have another named Velissa who is a single mother and is progressing very well but is scared to accept a date. She thinks that a date this month or next month is too soon. We have given her all of the lessons and I know she has felt that it is right. We watched the restoration movie with her yesterday after church to get her more exited. We have others progressing but there are too many to name. I only have two ties from home left hahaa. I traded all the others so I have a pretty hefty set. We have a lot of ward council meetings, the ward is very involved which is great because that is one of the main focuses of the mission. My companion gets stressed out easy, but I don't understand what is going on so I bet I would be too haha. One thing when you send me letters don't write Elder on them because it makes it difficult to get them from post office. Also send giant envelopes rather than boxes.When you send packages you need to declare the value NEVER! declare it over $100 because the church needs to pay $200 to get it out, If I need anything of value just transfer me money. Never send me money or high value items. Also if you send me a package send me some more ties from savers/DI. Some sick thick vintage ones, but make sure they have the tag if possible because it makes it less of a target to be stolen at the post-office I NEED TO KNOW WHERE PETER MOLNAR IS GOING ON HIS MISSION so tell me when you get the chance. We can Skype on Mothers Day.!!! but i need to know Bree's Skype account!!!! I will be calling tonight around 7 or 8 my time so like 8 or 9 your time I think. *only for five minutes* so we can figure out what time for Mothers Day. So be readyI will be calling dad's phone.

Tell my friends to write me

Sy Woolstenhulme

Ave. Carlos Izaguirre 124

Independencia

LIMA 28

PERU

Anywho the church is true

I love you

I'll call you guys tonight.

He added this in a separate email on the same day.

My first area was a 45 minute bus ride from the mission home. My companion is from Guatemala and he is the district leader as well. We live in a upstairs apartment of a lady I don't know. Our pentionista is hilarious! We walk everywhere and we ride motos to the other districts we have lunch appointments everyday with members and our pentionista cooks for us breakfast and dinner. Our chapel isn't big, but it isn't small. Our area is very dusty and has a lot of small streets.