Ummmm.....November 25th

 Well this is awkward. So I dont know why, but I guess we have permission or something, as to why I am writing for an hour now at 8 at night. I dont know, but oh well I have some explaining. So today I spent all day in Chiclayo because my companion was giving permersion by the president to visit some of his converts. It was good though, because I got to have PIZZA!! I had to pay for it, and it was expensive but it was worth it. They had Mcdonalds and KFC also. Until about an hour ago when I had rice again in Ferreñafe.

Last week, we did go to a party for a recent convert, for her birthday. I was so excited for some cake and ice cream, but instead they had chicken and rice...shocker. They had cake but they brought that out after we left. However the chicken was probably the best chicken I have had here.

Now I really dont have anymore time, so I will talk about Elder Nelson next time.
Happy Thanksgiving
Tupanchis kama wawa

Nov 25th---Sorry

I am in chiclayo right now using some members crappy internet. I will explain more when I have time. maybe in 2 weeks, because next week I kill my companion so I might not have time again. So for this week all I can say is happy thanksgiving hopefully you have fun and eat a lot. I might ask for something to eat other than rice but have fun and love you all.
Tyrone Mufasa
Tupanchis kama wawa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!-November 18th

Happy Birthday to my favorite mother tomorrow! Hope you can have a little fun without me there. We have a member whose birthday is tomorrow, so we might stop by if we dont have anything. Also I will be celebrating by listening to the words of our apostle Russell Nelson, who is visiting our mission on Wednesday. I have known for almost a month but we are a little excited for that. Hopefully he will be speaking in English, or else I wont really be celebrating. He is going to be speaking to every missionary in the mission. All 250 of us.

Things here are good. The kids really love me even though I dont talk to them. I wish you could see the 3 sitting behind me in this cafe trying to read and understand what I am saying. Everyone down here wants to learn english, so my companion makes me teach every Friday at 7:30. I have done it 2 times now and it is not very good. Last friday we had a meeting with just all the white boys with in an hour way of chiclayo, and we talked about stress. It was good, because I go to see all of my peeps from the CCM and share experiences, and in the night the stake had a fiesta (party which down here means dancing) and for the first time in the life I was not told to GO and dance, but yet I was told NOT to go and dance! I almost cried!

That has been one of the hardest things so far, is to adapt of how to deal with stress. Because in the US, when I was stress or mad I would play some music, go on a drive, watch a movie, go dancing, or beat on my pillow. But here I have no car, cant watch movies, no music (except for what I hear in the street) I cant dance, and I dont always have my pillow. But it is all a part of this process of learning.

We are starting a little branch in my area in a small town called Mesones Muro, mainly because we dont have any more space for people in our chapil so that is more work to be done. Other than that I dont really have anything else to say. Just more knocking on doors, walking, teaching, and eating rice everyday! I am on companion exchange right now so I dont have my camera so next week I plan to send pictures. Hopefully you all have a good week!

Though for the week: Why dont pen marks come out of white shirts?

Elder Tyrone Mufasa Chanchino
Tupanchis kama wawa

Nov 11th-2 Months Down, 2 More 2's To Go

What up Gringos? I am writing you all, on this happy veterans day which we obviously do not celebrate down here in peru. but Happy Veterans day. My companion needs to go to chiclayo so we are going in the afternoon, hence why I am writing earlier.

So I guess that my explaination last week, was not good enough and people want a little more. I am living a room of a house of a family that has 3 girls and only one of the girls is a member, and that is because my companion baptised and converted her. The food down here is super risky as far as what we can and cannot eat, because of that I do not cook a single meal. We pay someone (the mom that we live with) to make us food everymeal. She is called our pensionista. Also with the food, I am certain that I will gain weight here because I cant eat the healthy stuff. I cant have cervesa, lettuce, pig or strawberries and some weird stuff I dont know. So I eat rice every meal exept for breakfest. and we eat a TON of meat. mostly chicken. Which is why I think a lot of us get sick is from the meat. To be honest I am terrified of my pensionista, she is a big (I mean big) lady that never smiles, even though she only come up to my armpit.

The baptism last week was good, Elder Fernandez and I cleaned the whole church before, luckily it is small. Then we had the baptism, I didnt do anything for it but it is was fun. Then after she tooks out to eat. It might suprise you, but we had chicken! Surprise!

So far in this experience my nerves has been getting pushed to the limit. Because of a couple of things. 1. I hate starting things late or being late to things. and the latino culture does both of those. Por exemple the baptism was suppose to start at 4. we took pictures at 5:30 and the service started at 5:45. 2. I hate being touch unless it is by girls, even then I dont like it sometimes. but they touch so much here. Especially since I am white and they think I am the shiz, even though I dont understand what they are saying. 3. I am not patient, but this work requires a lot! So  needless so say, this experience is a hard working, fun, frustrating, emotional experience. until next week peace out.

Elder Tyrone Mufasa Chanchino Olsen
Tupanachis kama wawa

Thought for the week: Would Nephi had been faithful and good if Laman and Lemuel were not so "wicked"?

Nov 4th

Well another week down. Things here are getting a lot better, 1. received my church credit card, so I now have money. 2. I understand a lot more spanish which is perfect. It has been pretty much the same as all other missionary weeks, You knock on doors, teach some lessions, get some doors slammed in your face. one thing that was different is that last week we had a mini ccm. Where everyone that was preparing to serve a mission in the stake joined a missionary for a day. I was so excited until I was told that they were splitting up my companionship for it. So I had 2 latinos with me and my comp had 2 different ones. And I was suppose to show them how to teach and such. Yeah that didn`t happen since I don`t know spanish. I just told them they it was there day to learn, and that I don`t want to talk at all. So they taught everything. It was great!! Yesterday we taught all day with miembers too. Today we went to a different town that is in my area like 30 minutes away. and hiked a mountain, with a couple of miembers (this hiking experience was better since I didn`t have my broken foot this time). Then played soccer for like another hour, overall it was a good day and week.

Some people have been wondering what it is like here so. It is really hot! which scares me a little because the hottest months here is december and january. I am living in a very very dry desert, so there is a lot of dust and wind too. It was pretty funny, a familia was trying to explain to me lightning and thunder. because it never happens out here. they were so scared of it. I don`t know how they really get water for their crops.

As for some good news, I will be having my first baptism this saturday. So that is cool. Some more things I have learned. 1. Latinos are very loving, so loving that it freaks and bugs me some time. 2. Dad`s grasshopper would be in heaven here. Because that is like the biggest car here. 3. Wear sunscreen.

pictures
1. Everyone that came to the mission chiclayo from the ccm on the same day with the president.
2. My children that I took care of in the ccm the night before we left.

Though for the week, read DyC 84 and think of how it can help you, especially vs. 77-89 they helped me in the past week.

Until next week With love Elder Tyrone Mufasa Chanchino Olsen.
Tupanchis kama wawa

Oct 28th-Viva Peru

First thing first happy birthday Chantel, and happy halloween soon. Well have no fear (mom) I am alive for now! I don´t have much time but I will try to write as much as possible. Well we went prostylising again the saturday before we left the CCm and that sucked because I didnpt get a latino companion that time. It was me and elder henry taking on the world. But we actually did really good, and got a lot said and done. I flew out to Chiclayo on Tuesday morning, I only had 2 hours of sleep, but we got there intruduced ourselfs meet our new companion then left to our areas. Down here they only allow 50 pounds per person. So I between my 2 bags I had to have 23 kilos. So I left some stuff in the airport and CCM, and the church paid some more extra.1 reason I was excited to leave the CCM because there was some purple drink that I hated and we had maybe once week, but I have had it about 5 times since I have gotten here in my area.My area is a town called ferreñafe with my new companion who is elder fernandez, from Chile. I am his last companion so he will be going home in 5 weeks. He is teaching me a lot of stuff, but is also making this very hard for me in multiple ways. There has been a carnival outside of my house for the past week and will go until thursday, but it is for a catholic saint of milagros, so I have not gotten much sleep becaus they have also had some late concerts.

Some more things I have learn, 1. Catholics know how to party 2. it is a lot easier to teach the gospel when you actually know it. 3. same as number 2 only spanish. 4. Latinos love to hug 5. I will know that when I am done eating rice for lunch and dinner I will be done with my mission.
I dont have much time but have fun, now that I am alive for now and that you guys should have some fun.

Tupanachis kama wawa
Elder Tyrone Mufasa Chanchino Olsen.

This Is It Yo---Oct 17th

So I didn´t have time last week to say very much, so first off, how about conference!?! 30,000 more missionarys in only 1 year. Strange to think that I have joined in that movement of this work. My favorite talk was definity the black guy elder Dube, and then Uchtdorf from the same session. Um, another thing of sadness was when an elder from Price Utah went home, we got along pretty good and he knew a whole bunch of my friends from Helper.

So they have decided that they are going to start teaching portuguese here in 3 months. So they have started to build another building for all of that, which sucks because they ruined the volleyball court enable for them to build. So after I got my haircut last time, the elder said that it still looked cute, so that creeped me out even more so I got my haircut even shorter. Now everyone thinks I am 24 and bald, so I don´t think that is a good thing.

Since so many people here still speak the native incan language, we have been learning a little bit of it also, not a whole ton but enough for us to laugh about it. Today I had to show a whole bunch of the newbies around town since I am considered pro and know everything (false). But I went through the whole session in spanish for the first time, and I actually understood a lot of it. Since this is the last time I will be writing, I will say some things that I haved learned while I have been here these are no order of importance. On monday I made a deal with a Latino (since we can´t have bets) that my district of gringos would beat his district of latinos in soccer (I figured why not since we haven´t lost yet) the deal was that whoever lost would give the other person a 5 minute message. You could probably tell by the picture who won.

1. Learning a whole language in 6 weeks is really hard, 2. The church needs to buy better toilet paper. 3. Being district leader sucks a little bit, but is also very fun. 4. Even though your name is Elder Ruiz and latino, doesn´t mean you now spanish. 5. The people of Perú is very short.  6. You can never get sick of rice, chicken, over crowded buses, hugs.

1. me infront of the thing
2. Massages for life
3. Me in the city of Lima