On A Treasure Hunt...for members

June 25

Dear Family
     Hey how's it going?  Well things are still going here.   Its' a great deal hotter here in Jayanca than it was in the city, but its a lot of fun here.  We are in Lambayeque today.   It's a little town between Jayanca and Chiclayo.   It's been interesting running around out here.   It's a pretty area here, but it's tough working.   We don´t have much member support.   We have lots of members who are nice and love to help us, but only a couple have real testimonies of the church.   Even so, our "Little Group" will be changed into a branch this next Sunday and we will finally be able to get organized. We have been running all around for the last few days trying to update a branch directory.   We have almost 200 members we found and about 50 of them are active.   Still, I like it here.   We have been running around the last few days trying to figure how to organize the group here in missionary work. Hopefully we are almost to the point that we can start working really well.  The last 4 or 5 companionships that have been here haven´t done much with the group for about the last 2 or 3 years The missionaries here have done work with lots of baptisms, but little help to the "Group" and so the people who were baptized have gone inactive.   For the last 2 weeks our assignment has been to strengthen the branch and probably will be doing the same for the next couple weeks at the very least.
       I feel like my other area in La Victoria was preparing me to come here.   We reactivated 50 people in my last area. Literally, my first Sunday in La Victoria, we had 104 people in the church and my last we had 153.   Out here I hope we will be able to reactivate 50 more. 
     It looks and sounds like all is going good back home. I hope all goes well with James. Ha ha,  you might have to bring Mason out here if you come to pick me up after my mission.  Here in Jayanca we see big green John Deere tractors everyday and he would love moto taxies.  They really look like something from Mario Cart.   I am glad mom is keeping up with the other moms on the missionary blog... and yeah,  Elder Hemsley is in the Zone out here but not in my district.   With the other Elders and sisters that mom mentioned, I was in La Victoria, but my zone was Chiclayo Peru.  I was on the other side of the street from them! 
     The work out here is progressing.  I have to run out to two other towns this week to activate a few members so that Pte. Risso can put a few more missionaries out here.
     Well, all is well.   Tell the family "hi".    One scripture that comes to mind for a thought for the ward, would be the need for the Book of Mormon with the Bible. We need the two. The scripture is 2 Nephi 3 : 12,  it talks about how both scriptures are together to confound false doctrine. Really, every christian church in the world has the Bible, and there are millions of them  and no one really knows what is true doctrine..   Only one church in the world uses the Bible and the Book of Mormon and that is ours. Because with the two, you can´t really argue or misinterpret the doctrine of Christ. 
     So my English is about gone, but I hope you can translate this. I love you all  and I will write again next week.

Love,  Nate