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 

Feliz Ano Nuevo Lozerz

 
1 Feliz Navidad, 1 tear-packed Skype call, 7 days of preachin, and 2198478392 lbs of paneton (peruvian fruit cake) and I am coming back at you from the internet garage. 

I don`t have much time this week but, I do want to say how grateful I am for all your Christmas shout outs and love. I love you guys so much. 

After an emotional Skype call with la familia I am reminded just how blessed I am to have this gospel in my life. The Gospel of Jesus Christ brings us a happiness that we can`t help but share. Happy New Years peasants. 

Spread the good news this year and remember Elder Malloy down in Peru is doing the same. 

Love you folks. 

Elder Lobro 

 

 

Feliz Navidad Peasentz

Okay okay. Feliz Navidad America. 

So I have officially received a complaint via the mother of fellow STG - Arequipa Peru missionary Hermana Holt that my emails have gone down hill. 

OUCH. Right to the corazón

Offense taken. 

So I am officially back in the game / I am going to try because my sense of humor for sure is at an all time low seeing as most of my comedic inspiration is found in Preach my Gospel. 

NONE THE LESS. 

Elder Lobromallo coming at you live this week with my new comp from the jungle, 

Elder Pinedo. We chill. (hasta esta hora) No for real, Elder Pinedo is down in my book.

He is a crackup and we are constantly laughing. 

I have been teaching him English and his vocabulary is as follows:

I need to pee, like now. 

Lets blows this popsicle stand. 

He has no chill. 

Awkward. 

I can dig it. 

Lets bounce. 

Chill yourself.

Sketchy. 

Sorry not Sorry

So basically he knows all the essentials.

This week we had a Christmas party with all the Zones here in Arequipa. I got to see some of the CCM homies/tried to dodge some of the not so homies. We had to put on a some ghetto play in with I originally stared as Elder Draco Malfoy and was later down graded to Kevin Macalister from Home Alone. Dont even want to talk about it. Hahaha. 

EXPERIENCIA ESPIRITUAL:  

Tuesday we were walking down the street and passed a family. Something told me to turn back and awkwardly greet them again. So we did. 

We shared a little bit about #HEISTHEGIFT #ELESLADÁDIVA (I am sure that all your instagrams are spammed with that by now) and planned a day and time that we could swing by again and share more. 

The day we came by to teach her she was ready waiting for us in her patio with drinks and snacks. Like, alright I can dig. Anyways, she said that in all honesty she is not sure why she set up a visit for us to come back, that it was totally out of her character. (welcome to Peru) 

But, she described a feeling in her chest telling her to let us come by and later not being able to explain it.

HOLY GHOST: 1 ADVERSARY: 0 

It was a great lesson and when we ended with a prayer she shared with us her feelings on prayer. She shared that she often prays to the Virgin Marry. Worldly me at this point is mid-eye-roll (ain't nobody got time fo´ the Virgin Maria or her false idols sorry not sorry)  but she continued to explain that she prays to her because she feels that Heavenly Father doesn't have time for her amongst all the other problems that we have in the world. 

That hit me so hard. 

An almost audible voice said to me I have time for her. 

Our Heavenly Father has time for each and every on of us. 

This Christmas remember how much he loves you, remember Porque de tal manera dios amó el mundo, porque de tal manera dios amó ti, que ha dado su hijo unigentio, para que todo aquel que en el cree no se perida ma tenga la vida eterna. - Juan 3:16

He has time for you. 

Merry Christmas family and friends. 

My love for you is so strong this Christmas season all the way from Peru. 

Elder Malloy.