Coming at you live from P-day

Hey guys, 

Coming at you live from P-day.

Sorry I didn´t post last week, we went to the waterfalls. Hecka.

So this week has basically been great. 

We found this awesome family that has been inactive for like 10 years. We came across them and just hit it off! Things have been going so well and they are so happy to be returning to the church! MILAGROS EN MIRADOR. The 13 year old (Lev) is going to receive priesthood tomorrow. Lev is the best, yesterday we were singing Say Something and practicing English after a family home evening (I have a promise with him that if he learns English I will introduce him to one of my sisters)(lo siento sistaz) 

So I am pretty stoked for them! Other than that we are still looking for someone who we can get to come to church! We have had a couple lessons with new investigators this week so FINGERS CROSSED PEOPLE.

Highlights: 

-Presidente took us to a Bull Fight one day at the random! (pictures to come) 

- Mi compañero es mi pata. (my comp is my leg which somehow mean homie in spanish slang) 

Nada mucho! 

Love you guys have a great week! Love hearing from you. 

logan.malloy@myldsmail.net

ELDER MALLOY

paz y bendiciones. 

Hey guys

Hey guys,

So la Madre told me I need to step up my blog game so.. aqui estoy. haha. 

Office news. 

Well I got my own official office plaque, so you could say things are getting preeeetty swanky. 

The office is great. It fun to be able to see what we can do to help the missionaries and improve the mission. Also, not complaining that there is a fro-yo place down the street. #uppereastsideperubenifits 

La Obra: 

WE FOUND THE MOST AMAZING INVESTIGATOR.

I am so stoked, this week was a little ruff. We are basically starting from nothing here in Mirador, so that on top of work in the office just makes the work a little ruff! BUT, we havent let that get us down. 

But yeah, so we were looking for a recent convert who we havent met and havent seen in church but his casa was hecka impossible to find. So we stopped in this little corner market to ask for some directions. Come to find out the most amazing little lady lives there who invited us in and sat us down. She spent like 902348023 hours showing us her kids on Facebook who live in the states and then tells us about her son who served a mission in Spain and is living there with his older brother who is also a member.¡MAS ESCOGIDO! She loves the church and the Book of Mormon but had to stop taking the lessons when she moved to Lima after being diagnosed with Cancer. Now she is here and ready! 

It was such a cool experience after a little bit of a ruff week. I know if we work hard The Lord will take us where we need to be. 

Apartment Talk: 

So living with 6 Elders is super chill. 

Sin embargo, Risk the board game has officially been banded after a friendly pday pass time has resulted in some really awkward silences. (Elder Peterson and I had such a hard time trying not to laugh at how serious it was taken) 

But World War 3 is over and all is well. 

Elder Rossano, Elder Peterson, and I have the best time working together and I am loving where I am at here. 

I love the mish. The 6 month mark is creeping up and it feels so weird. 

LOVE YOU FOOLZ. 

Elder Malloy. 

PS I should have pictures next week

Alright to answer your questions!

Alright to answer your questions! 

- What I deal with in the office is records. So every week I deal with all the baptisms through  out the mission and record and send in the information to SLC. Also I deal with finding birth certificates to help with marriages and things like that. Or like if someone needs to find a record of an old baptism through SLC. I don't know really I find new things that are part of my job everyday haha. Also I work with references. SLC will call me a lot with references from Temple Square, but mostly like if someone meets someone in another area I pass references along throughout the mission. 

- What my day is. 

 

6:30 Every morning we go running across this huge beautiful bridge by our house.

7:30 Then we get about an hour and a half to study and a half an hour to make breakfast. (NO PENSIONISTA! I love being able to make my own food. haha)

Okay, so then by 9:30 we have to be heading the office. Once we are to the office I go straight to work and get all my records for the day filed and work with whatever requests I have. I can usually wrap things up by lunch. 

around 12:00 or 1:00 we go to lunch. We eat out every day because we have to stay close and don't have a pension. My favorite place to go is Mamut or Pura Fruta and get a turkey sandwich and mango juice of a fruit salad. (baha it is ridiculous how nice our area is!)

okay so after lunch I come back and start doing whatever side projects I can find from President or his wife. Depending on the day or help my comp Elder Rossano with his job which is materials. We send out all the boxes and packages and letters and church supplies to every area in the mission. Its super time consuming and we have to cater to all the needs of the mission. (I help him a lot because my job is in the morning and his is in the afternoon) But anyways so we do all that. 

5:00 is when we should be able to leave and start teaching.. BUT it is super hard to get out of the office when we have a lot of work so sometimes we work until 6 or 7 during the week of transfers and newbies. 

But yeah so we usually can have 1 or 2 lessons in the night and end the day like normal. 

Get back to the room at 9:30 and make some dinner and wind down. (its chill living with 6 of us together) 

Our apartment is super nice! It has 4 bathrooms! BAHA. Super weird to be here in the office sometimes but I love it. 

 

New comp?: Elder Rossano from South Carolina! He is super cool. He is 23 and decided to gradate college early when he felt like he should serve. He has 9 months here in the mission.

-My camera. 

NOPE. I don't have it yet but I think it is fixed!

so no pictures this week.. 

Okay yeah. HAHA

LOVE YOU! 

elder malloy.

New P day is Saturday

Okay first thing is first!

my camera broke.. SO ANNOYING!

The update is that I am officially here is the office! I have been training all week but moved out last night. TBH tears were shed saying goodbye to the Ranilla family. BUT all is well.

I love it here and am having SO much fun working with Elder Peterson (one of my best friends in the mission from SLC) and also my new comp Elder Rosano (from South Carolina) who is also super chill.

This week has been kind of weird because we haven't been able to teach much! Which is just a part of working in the office I guess.. But we do get to teach for a little bit usually everyday! Depends on how much work we have. But I really do love being here and working with office stuff. I think The Lord new that I would. ahah.

Uhm, yeah.

Nada mucho!

I am going to talk to president about getting on for a sec Monday to see if you guys emailed me. I know you usually write Sundays.

New P day is Saturday.

WITH MUCHO AMOR
ELDER WOWO

Bueno!

Bueno! 

This week has been so great. I don't have much time to hit you up with all the details but for one.

 

We had the baptism of Hermano Santos! Hermano Santos has seriously been a miracle and a testimony builder for me here in my mission. SO I am super stoked for him and know he is in the right path! 

Two.

I got word that I am leaving Lara! I am headed to work in the office for this next change. (Monday) 

I am going to miss Lara so much! There are so many I will miss here.

 

MY ZONE IS ABOUT TO CUT MY HEAD OFF SO GTG PEEPZ.

 ELder Malloy. 

¡5 Meses!

Feliz P-day amigos.

Hey guys, today marks month 5 here in Peru. hashtag what. hashtag this computer doesn't have a hashtag. hashtag I really should have taken that as a clue not to use hashtags. hashtag past the point of no return. 

Sin embargo, this week has been so great! Santos (investigator of gold and biggest hippie in all of Peru) is so excited for his baptism on Saturday and so am I! 

Before I forget, two shout outs:

¡FELIZ ANIVERSARIO A MIS PADRES FANTÁSTICOS! 

23 years. I love you so much Mum and Dad. I am so grateful to have the best padres en el mundo.

If you see Bobert and Trace-aay give them a hug for me. Being here in my mission has made it so easy to see how lucky I am to have them. 

¡Feliz Cumpleaños a LA MEJOR HERMANITA, PIM! 

Happy Birthday lil Lin. Love you so much! Don't let the h8rz stop you from doing your thang this year. (letter on its way a.k.a should be to Utah by 2016) 

This week,

Tuesday we celebrated "Dia de Los Reys" with Cuy (Guenia Pig) for lunch. We first killed them which was a surprisingly liberating experience. Oops.

      You grab it by the jaw and do this awkward lumberjack swinging motion over your shoulder and thrust it to the ground. I had to do it like 89 times but mine finally died. (pictures to come next week my memory card is in my room) Then we shave them. Literally you can see Satan in the eyes of a shaved guinea pig. I was hardcore toughing it all the way through this whole process. 

I ate it all and pretended it didn't taste like a rat. But my stomach was not fooled and I have not been the same since.. haha. hashtag pray for Logan's stomach 2k15. (another hashtag I need to not)

Other than that this week has been pretty normal! We have been teaching some new people and I have high hopes for these guys! I only have one picture on this memory card and its of Eddy Santiago. He is the best, he drew this picture of Josè Smith receiving the priesthood. I love teaching Eddy and his big brother Diego. 

I love you guys! 

hasta el proximo p day. 

E L D E R 

malloy 

FELIZ ANO NUEVO PEASENTZ

FELIZ ANO NUEVO PEASENTZ . 

 S/O to Heather Holt. Estoy agradecido por su screenshots de mi blog y que esta leyendo cada semana. jaja 

H A P P Y    N E W      Y E A R      G U Y S 

New Year´s in Peru is "locaso" aka the closet word I can find to cray in Spanish. As you know Peruvians have no chill and use ghetto fireworks on a daily basis for no reason. Therefore New Years was off the hook ghettoly dope. My favorite Peruvian tradition so far: For new years they make life size voodoo dolls of people they don't like and they burn them at midnight. BAHA Like so messed up but also the best thing I have ever heard. The Familia Ranilla definitely made one of one of the elders who was here last year, which is yet another reason they are my favorite people on this planet. 

Baha Listen to my life right now guys: 

So we are bumping around in the street because one of our visits fell through and this guys with a cane comes charging at us and I am thinking like shiz man do we run away what is homie doing here. 

But we stand our ground and end up chatting with him. His name is Santos and moved here from Cusco 4 months ago and has been looking for our chapel ever since. Direct quote "I have been looking for the chapel here so I can get baptized." LIKE WUT. I definitely looked up in suspicion of some sort of celestial practical joke. But after a couple lessons with Santos and a Sunday morning in the chapel I am convinced The Lord put him in our path that day. I am so grateful for this opportunity to be a missionary and to literally be a tool in The Lords hands going where he wants me to go knowing he has people ready to follow his plan waiting for us to knock on their door, talk to them on the bus, or my new favorite not run away from them when they track you down via cane. 

other highlights this week:

- it rained. 

- Elder Taysom is coming to visit today. Hecka stoked. 

- I finally learned how to say don't judge me in Spanish. 

- My home girl little sister Abby sent me Christmas nuts from the mall aka heaven. 

- Ceasar passed the sacrament again and we talked a little about a mission! 

other than that not much, I´m still in the preachin bidnezz. 

love you folks.

over and out, feliz ano nuevo.

Elder MaYoy 

ps taking a picture in a field of corn made me realize my similarity in appearance to a scarecrow.. self esteem down for the count baha k 

Elder Logan Brian Malloy
Peru Arequipa Mission
Av. Del. Ejercito 710' . Piso 7,Of. 702-703
Casilla de Correo 1884
Arequipa
PERU