Elder Max Merritt

Sorry for the long email! and a heads up my English keyboard does not translate symbols too well onto the Spanish computer so you might get random ñ, ¿, }, things. DEC 17, 2018 Today was a fun day we got up and had breakfast then went and picked up our refrigerator! Ah I’m so happy because now I can buy yogurt, milk, and my water won’t be hot when I drink it! People do not know how great it is to have one until they go 2 months without one! Haha I know I didn’t! Then we went and played soccer at big Baugua, I scored three times so that was nice! Might not sound impressive but these Latinos know how to play! Haha my idieoma was not as good today because I spoke a lot of English. Eh live and learn. It was nice getting to write today and all our appointments fell through so we went and talked to Julia an Tatiana tonight turns out Tatiana the woman I am baptizing was a model back in the day! She made several more jokes about me marrying her, she says esperarme which is a command a...

Dec 10, 2018 today we got up and I worked out with my rebar and buckets of water, then went shopping and I got a killer bag, and shades. ok they are noting special but i needed them. then we came back to the room and cleaned it, found a spider that I about 5 inches wide! that was cool. we went and met up with the other elders at Moses’ house and we went on a hike to the top of a mountain! it was a lot of fun! Moses brought a slingshot and would shoot all of the bee hives! the bee hives here are massive!!! but they are not aggressive so that’s been really nice! afterwards we got lunch with elder walker and his companion. elder walkers mom sent me a package in the CCM to give to elder walker but I ate all the food... it didn’t register with me that the package was for him until I saw him. I haven’t told him. Haha we taught a few lessons tonight and I snuck in a nap before proselyting! And I got sun burnt again. Love you and say your prayers! Dec 11, 2018 Oh, my what a day! we h...

DEC 3, 2018 Well I'm going to start from where the day actually started, at about 2. I was in a funk all morning, had no confidence in the language... but then my zone leader, Elder Norman, I was talking to him about how Gatorade was my favorite during soccer, and he looked at me so seriously and said, Elder Merritt you are my favorite, do not worry about the language. Just serve the mission and try to learn as much as possible, if you pick up Spanish that is a bonus! You are an amazing missionary! I had not even told him I was angry with the language. He made my day and bestowed confidence back in me! By the grace of God! Oh that's something I have started saying, it means their are no coincidences in the world, we are part of a plan and the grace of God is the little tender mercies in life!  But anyway after that I got a hair cut and it's sooooooooo Latino! But you know I'm Elder Merritt I can pull off anything! haha I look so freaking good with it! In my opinion!...

Nov 26, 2018 Today was a 2 ice cream kind of a day, first I apologize for any spelling mistakes, the Spanish computers here say everything is spelled wrong. haha second I know why Peruvians are the worst and the best drivers, after September their are no laws on the roads so its grand theft auto in this place! people are going point A to B and they do not care how they get there! Today started with soccer with the whole zone so I saw huff and 3 other gringos and was able to speak English! It was so nice! We beat the Latinos in soccer.. pretty proud of that! I got sun burned pretty bad, kind of surprised it didn't happen sooner. Then we went to go get ice cream, awesome! We had dinner at our cook's house, I say cook because I can't spell her actual title, but it's nothing glorious. haha they went home and we went to email, but no one has computers here so we have to go to this computer place and it's weird, all the Latinos play Fortnite. but we ran out of internet ...

Nov 14, 2018 I have scripture study right now so I will type fast! Today we went to the temple and did an endowment session in Spanish! I still love it! This place is awesome! After the temple we had 4 hours of free time so I put on my people clothes and it was the first time I have worn jeans and a t'shirt in a month! so everyone was super shocked to see me! Huff got another package, he got root beer and Coke I asked for some but he dodged my questions. I love you guys goodnight! Nov 15, 2018 Today was a nice day! Typical eggs for breakfast and chicken and rice for lunch and dinner. Physical activity time we played volleyball and that was really fun! I am really loving the scriptures right now! I am flying out to the field soon and I am really excited! A girl from my mission says she lives there and I asked how the city was and she said it's not that great and it's super hot... but the people are amazing! hahaha I am excited! I love you guys and hope you stay safe ...

Oct 30 Well today was so weird, we woke up early to go to the temple we were supposed to leave at 7:30 but no one showed up and we ended up sitting outside till 9 and we finally got there, but a temple session in Spanish is really cool! We got back super late and everything was off today due to the weird schedule, and they have hallway dividers so they can split the rooms up and they must be getting more sisters because they moved the dividers up the hall but did not tell us so our room was on the emails side and we had to take all of our stuff up stairs to a new room and because of that we missed hair cuts, and then we got roped into 2 hours of service and were super late to emails. I am really sick tonight so I am going to bed early good night! love you! Oct 31, 2018 Happy Halloween! we bought al the candy out of the vending machine! Just kidding that was too expensive, but we did dress up in sheets and ties and went trick or treating! I am so grateful to be here! I have le...

Oct 24, 2018 Today was p day and I loved it so much! I wish I came with more typing things because they save so much time! so when I left for the mtc a mom from instagrm mailed me a package to deliver to her son. I thought he had already gone out to the field so I was waiting until I got to Chiclayo to give it to him, well she emailed me an said he's at the mtc, turns out I ate lunch with him yesterday and he is in the room right across from ours! So he had a good laugh about that! and he bought me a drink from the vending machine for all the troubles! This morning we got up at 4 to do laundry before everybody... but the washing machine were already full. We waited and did it later then went back to bed. we got up and went out into the field!Out of 1000 missionaries and 1000s of square miles of zones we got paired up with my companion's childhood friend! It would be the equivalent of serving a mission and going out and spending the day with Sterling or Jared!! They were h...