Elder Crump

Wow this week was so so crazy!  Being a zone leader is like a whole different thing!!  We are constantly doing paperwork, driving around to all the areas visiting the elders, and their investigators as well as familes!!  Here in Tarapoto everyone is a branch there isn't wards or stakes just 4 branches. The branches are ran by the mission.    Which means... us!  So crazy!  Also, we have another zone called Yurimaguas that is about 3 hours away that are now apart of our zone!  So we have to go visit them as well!  Seriously its so insane, but i love it!

 

This week we had our district conference with President Blunck and his wife!  It was awesome!!  We had the assistants stay with us for the weekend because we had interviews with the president and his wife!!  Plus we had a massive baptism the same day!!  Talk about a lot off weight getting thrown on my shoulders!! haha  It seriously was so so crazy!  We ended up baptising like 9 people!! Our investigator couldn't get baptized but this next week on the 10th he will be, along with 2 other familes that we found and a couple of teens.  November will be our month of success!! Im stoked!!

 

  The jungle is so so different i love it!! Even my accent is changing to the charapa.  I say things like Eldercito, y hermanita, ya pues hermanita haha its very different, but I love it!  The people here are so humble, and so amazing! So welcoming!  Haha I am afraid of he jungle girls, its getting to be very hot here and the hotter it gets the crazier the teenage girls get!  Plus less clothing...oh boy definatly not in utah anymore!! haha but dont worry our pensionista kicks them away!  Whenever they want to come talk to us or try and flirt she throws water on them! and yells at them!! haha  i love that woman!! 

 

So I cannot belive that I have been out for one year.... seriously time isn't even real anymore!  Plus guess what when the assistants were here they had 3 packages for me!! So on my one year mark i got the camel!!  haha plus all the ties from Trev, all the candy, the pictures!! Thank you so much! The elders all about died when they saw the pictures of Corinne and Brady!! haha plus one even said Brady was good looking....ya im a little worried about that elder... haha just kidding but seriously... haha so things are so crazy we have so much to do all the time!! But i seriously love it!! I loved the pictures of Hud bud y Norah  you guys got some cute kids!!!

I'll be sending some more pictures later!!

 

I love you so so much!! thank you for all you do!!!

All my Love,

ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP

 

Elder Collins

Well hey,
Im a tired boy...We have been working with this family (the chavez family) for awhile to get them married and baptized. We finally get all their papers done and documents and paid for all of it and the night before we go to their house and they tell us that they made up their mind and that they are going to wait to get married because they wanted to buy nicer clothes for their wedding and have a reception and what not! Haha ya i dont think so! We married and baptized them both! Elder Mar one of the other missionaries came with me to teach them in the night to help them realize why they are getting married. The dad was tearing up at the end because he realized after waiting years to be baptized but never could because of problems with his papers and marriage that the lord finally provided him a way to get it done. His wife was being stubborn all the way until she entered the font saying she didnt want to be baptized. After she said thanks for calling my bluff and helping get baptized. We also baptized the girlfriend of a kid who is getting ready to leave for his mission in the next month. Well i officially have more than one year! So funny stuff the day of the wedding i started feeling sick and by the night i was feeling pretty bad so we went to the clinic at like 10 at night. The doctor just said i had a fever gave me a shot in my butt to break the fever some pills and sent me home. The next day i was worse but i still baptized the family. (thats why i look like bad in the pictures.) So we went back to the clinic with another doctor. This one was better turns out i had strep. So he gave me another shot in my butt for the fever and the right meds. Im all good now! (mom please do not call the mission or anything like that im fine!) Thats pretty much how i spent my one year mark!! Hno Sesinio (the husband of my pension) gave me a blessing, and was watching out for me. He started crying in during the blessing because im like a son to him. It was cool. Well thats about it....loves reg

Elder Collins

My family

Wow crazy stuff crazy stuff..I have one year! Its gone by pretty fast I cant believe it. Well it was transfers this last week, im still in the same area, I heard from 3 different people that I was changing but I guess that was a lie. Didnt really think that I would though. Well this week has just been all running errands and making calls to get birth certificates to marry this family we have. I have never had such a big problem marrying someone before. Ya nick got transfered to Tarapoto in the jungle. I hear its small but the most beautiful of the jungle areas. We have a new gringo in our zone. Makes me laugh to realize how bad your spanish is when you first start out, also because mine was way worse. This week I realized im not having as many spiritual expiriences as when I first started my mission. I need to be humble! Thats why I love love LOVE Ether 12.27 I always tell people here that my dad tells me to humble myself because if I dont the Lord will help me. Funny thing that you wrote me about prayers Dad because I was thinking this week that I need to pray in the morning more like I used to. Get on my knees and just ask what should I do today! Im going to do that again now! Well im grateful for all of you and all that you have done for me this last year! Ive learned so much and my testimony has tripled! Thank you for your prayers, letters, packages, advice everything! Im so proud to have the parents and family that I do! Cant believe I have a year.  Love you all have a great week! love reg

Elder Crump

Family!!!

I am so so happy!! It has been such a crazy week!!! So Like I said, Im finally In the jungle!!  Seriously Tarapoto is so beautiful!  Im so excited in a couple of P days were gonna go to the waterfalls!!  Outside my window is the jungle!  I hear animals all night!  I love it!  It normally doesn't rain here, but this month is when the rain comes!  It's so nice, because let me tell you it is blazing hot!!!  And when the clouds come in, and its starts to pour its like and answer to our prayers, and i start doing the rain dance! haha seriously I love it here!!  I was in Lima WAY TOO LONG!! 

So my comp is from argentina and he was actually in tahuantinsuyo in the same area like 4 months before me!! He is so awesome! He has been out for about 15 months!  He doesn't really have his accent, but its still there!  So it was hard to leave tahua and my pensionista cried along with my peruvian mom, and grandma!!  It was rough, but every month we go back to lima for a zone leader conference, so i can see them then!! 

So im super sorry i don't have too much time to write.  We have to write all these informes, so it like takes up my time!!  But all is good!!  Yes there are spiders, bugs, snakes....ugh...but i have only seen the girl kind...oh boy  im nervous!!  Anyway seriously, i love it here!! Its insane!! My pensionista is named luzmila, haha she is so funny but sassy, haha.  Sorry i really got to go, but i promise next week i will write more!  Oh yeah ps, this week we got three investigators preparing for their baptism!  I love the jungle!!!

Elder Collins

Wow baby sounds like your all turning into hipees or something! Haha You all look diferent which is crazy. Thats cool that Myles is starting mission prep classes and kind of weird too. Had a good week this past week. Went by super fast. I worked really hard getting papers together for marriages. We had a baptisms of a little teen girl who is our next door neighbor. Just decided to talk to them last week and well we baptized their daughter and the parents are getting married on the 26 and baptized the same day. Well today is transfers! Hope Pres. will finally send nick to me again. He´s got to leave that smoggy lima air! Well i just got told that im staying here its not official yet, I Just walked into the computer room and another elder said he saw the changes and told me. I guess E. sanchez is going to lima for his last change...that kinda of sucks. The guy whos moto i helped is awesome! I love this family. I told them if im going to be here for thanksgiving that i would buy a turkey, they are excited about that. Ah man! is Dakota ok? Do they know whats wrong with him. I couldnt imagine having migraines all day. Hope he gets better. So facts about Iquitos the city of Iquitos is busy. There are a ton of motorcars and motorcycles. The shops and stands are all really close together. But there isnt as many stands with tourist stuff like there is in mexico. I think that it is a little hard to teach people here about God. Everyone prays to him like he is a monster or a robot. It´s a good feeling when you here someone pray to him like a father. There is too much crying and shouting and hallelujahs from the evangelist. 
Well dont know what else to say, So we are going to go look at the transfers and stuff right now so ya ill let you know everything next week!
Hope all is well much love♥♥♥ Reg

Elder Collins

Hey family!
Well conference was just fandantastic wasnt it? Nothing like conference being a missionary. Pretty sure its more exciting than christmas. They had started that 18 year old rule about two months ago here but i didnt know they were going to make it world wide! And i had no idea about changing the age of girls to go. Cant lie i wanna see myles! 4 years would be a long time not to see your brother. I liked Elder Utchdorfs first talk the most. They were all super good though, Elder Holland has given a similar talk to all the missionarys in the Mtc and all of the elders have a copy of it. Its illegal to have but its a super good talk. I think that he realized that everyone wants to hear that talk so he just figured he would share it with everyone this time. I applied every talk to my missionary life. But with elder Uchtdorf i liked when he talked about enjoying the ride and being happy now! Also when he said we are too busy complaining about the size of the peanut package and we dont realize that we are soaring through the sky! Well this week was pretty good, i worked really hard. We lost one family that we were teaching but gained 4 others so thats pretty good. I could fill and see blessings from the lord this week with finding these familys. haha one is our next door neighbor. I never knew that they had talked with the missionarys before. But long story short i sent their papers to be married in yesterday. Also i found out that Sanchez was contacting in my area and was teaching a family in my area!(his comp told me). Well we just went to visit them told them we are their missionarys and then i told sanchez that they are in our zone and we should be helping eachother out anyways. Haha. It was a good week. Cant lie though conference made a little trunky..with all the pictures of the mountains and the fall trees and what not. Also because i watched with Elder Richardson in English. Well i hope your all well, much loves too all! love reg

Elder Crump

Oh boy, was conference so so so great!!!!  FIRST OFF WHAT THE HECK!!  GUYS CAN LEAVE AT AGE 18!!!  How crazy, but awesome is that!!!  And girls......what are we going to do......my plans are ruined!!  haha but seriously!!! ahh!! Holy Cow, it is still blowing my mind!!  Haha, I was dying when I saw the kids face in the crowd when President Monsen announced it!!! 

So anyway, i loved conference!! It was so great every message was so powerful!  I'm not going to lie, my two top favorites were From Elder Quinten L Cook, and Dallin H. Oaks.  When they talked about the family and how those who harm their familes will have their judgement coming for them!  It seriously meant so much!  So many people here have terrible families.  Husbands who beat their wives and children.  Parents who don't even care for their children, and thousands of women crying over the mistakes of their Husbands, or Boyfriends.  Wow, it was powerful. "Every man will be hold acountable for every tear he makes his wife shed."  "And those who harm a child, it is better for them to have a milestone hung around their neck and have them drowned in the very depths of the sea."  WOW, it just shows how important the family is, and it gives us peace to know that God will have his judgement!  I am so grateful for my family, and my inspiring parents who are the examples every parent should be!  Thank you mom and dad for everyday teaching me how to become more Christlike.  I notice that being out in the mission, conference goes so fast!!  And I end up taking like 30 pages of notes!!! haha  I love it!!  I think its the first time in my life that i actually watched all 5 sessions!!  Man I was missing a lot growing up!! Saturday morning and the afternoon sessions are so powerful!!  If i can give any advice, watch all the sessions!!!  I seriously regret not doing it when i was growing up! 

So im glad to hear all went good for Hudson, and Bren's birthdays!!!  Haha i cant wait to see pictures!!  Ps  i still havent gotten the package with the us open hat!  Ill keep and eye out!!!  So how is everyone doing!  I seriously love hearing from all of you!! Im so happy all is going well!! 

The Cuy was delicious!  First off we had to catch the cuy, then we had to kill them, then we had to drain the blood, then we had to skin them, then after that we fried them up, and ate them!!! haha just kidding but that is how you do it, but we didnt have to kill them!! Thank goodness!! haha but seriously they were so tasty!!!!  Im resending the photos this time!!  hopefully you get them!

If you could send the little book of mormons like the english version you sent!  Also if possible will you send Zebra Pens. Ask Landon Lowry's Dad what they are if you cant figure it out.  They are small and perfect, and i ran out!

So this week was great! A little difficult because Saturday and Sunday we have the most success normally, but we had conference!  haha it was worth it though!!! 

Hey guys i love you so so much!  We have changes next monday!! Im freaking out, but whatever happens, happens right, its all Gods work!

All my Love,

ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP

Elder Collins

Well...ya.
So this was a hard week. I felt some serious pressure. Our zone was going to break the record for baptisms in one month with 40. Sadly one of my baptisms this week wasn't able to get confirmed because she had a family emergency and wasn't able to attend church to be confirmed. I feel bad that it happened but there is nothing i could do about it. Elder sanchez(the district leader) is all bugged about it. He is an awesome missionary and works hard but I have never in my life met a more prideful person. I learned about some stuff he was doing just to get more baptisms so we could reach 40 and for me its not ok! I wrote the president about it. Stuff like baptizing little kids without permission from their parents, paying for marriages, baptizing people who still have problems with the word of wisdom, baptizing without them attending church first and stuff like that. Really for me that is incredibly wrong. I know im not baptizing like him but the family we baptized this week is already receiving important callings and his are having interviews because they smoked in between their baptism and confirmation. Its incredible that this is happening and nobody has done anything about it. Sorry I feel like every week I have a problem! I promise most of the time im really happy and I do love it here! Apart from that my comp. and I had a great week baptizing the mudarra family. We also are working hard to find more families. We found 3 new families this week that hopefully will progress.I cant believe its oct! thats nuts!! Well I love you all. Also this week I accidentally drank coffee, hope I dont get sent home! haha loves Reg

Elder Crump

My dear family and friends!! how are you all?  Oh boy this week was so so great!!!!  I hope you all had a good week too!!  First off i want to say...HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENDON, AND HUDSON!!!  WOW YOUR GETTING SO OLD!!!  Not you Bren, you're still young, Hudson he's practically a teen!!  haha but really I hope you have the best birthday!!! I love you guys!!!

 

So your Probably wondering what is the Familes, Baptism, Winne the Pooh, and Cuy...  haha oh i will explain...just you wait!!! First off lets begin with the families!!  We found two new families this week!!  One was a contact that i had like 3 months ago!!!  For some reason i was flipping through my old planners, and i saw his name... I remembered that he never was home, but I was like hey why not, so we went, and he was there!!!  And was so so excited to see us!!!  Finally!!! haha anyway right away we started talking about how he really wants to change his life, along with his wife ( by the way they are married!!! very rare here!)  And my comp did awesome and started to read in John Chap. 3 and he fell in love with this scritpture he straight up was like what do i need to do to be baptized!!! haha so we explained and he accepted a date, haha he actually put the date!!  haha  so he is preparing, and wants to be baptized so bad!!!  His wife she wants to change, but isnt as excited as him!!!  The next family was the son of the investigator we have named Leonardo.  At first his son  didnt want to listen or even talk to us!  But within these past 3 weeks, he has seen a change in is father and wanted to know what it is!  We taught him, and along with his dad commited to be baptized!!!  So we have a bunch of dates set for the 21st, but it all depends on them and their attendence!!!  Like I said, it really was such an awesome experience!!!

 

SO now the baptism... Danny is a reference we received from the ward.  He is 13 years old and comes to church alone.  He has made friends and love the church.  I don't think i said to much about him, because i didnt want to jinx it!! haha but yeah he was baptized and my comp got to do his first baptism!!! I am so proud!!  He's growing up so fast!! haha  Anyway this kid is so funny!!  He doesnt really show too much emotion!  haha he never smiles you will see in the pictures, but that all changed after he got baptized!  He was grinning from ear to ear!!! It was awesome!!  Plus we are teaching his mom as well, but she wants to wait for her husband to make any decisions...but he is stuck working in Iquitos... i think ill send the reference to Reg, and he can baptize the dad, and I will baptize the mom!! haha

 

Next Winne the Pooh this ones for Shay!!!  They had a carnival here and i saw him and i just had to take a picture!! haha  love you Shay!!!

 

Finally the Cuy....Cuy is Guine Pig....Yes....i finally did it....I ATE GUINIE PIG!!!! HAHA it was so good!  Seriously, i wanted more!!  I have been telling everyone that i wanted to try it but no one would make it for me!!!  But then an Angel finally came through... The bishop's wife!!! haha it seriously was so good!!! haha but dont tell Weston he used to have a gunie pig as a pet!!! haha

 

Well i love you guys so much!! I hope you guys have the greatest week ever!!!  Mom I'm glad you got to enjoy your girl's trip!  Dad dont you worry next year ill be there with you for all the games!!!  Bren, Hudson  Happy Birthday!!  I love you all!!

 

All my Love,

ELDER NICOLAS COLLINS CRUMP