Some Big changes are coming

so there have been a lot of changes in the mission as of now... right now im with one of my old companions still in lima peru waiting to leave for bolivia. my companion finished his mission and now im in a trio still in my same area just kinda showing the new missionaries around. but as of today president elmer has told be that the visas have been approved and that in this week we will be going back!! finially! a lot of these pictures that im sending are from when all the bolivia missionaries went through the temple with president, when sister elmer cut our ties because we are finishing here in this mission and when we out to eat at a few places like chilies!!! and i think a few other, like another baptism. well now not being a zone leader just really means that now i have more time for internet!! woot. right now im just waiting for a few days more to fly off to bolivia and im soooo excited to goooo!! i have been waiting for nine months and finally the time has come. so ive got so much time right now i really dont know what to write.well im companions again with an elder i trained, elder benavides from columbia again, staying with him and his companion just for a bit. but everything is going really well right now, and i hope you liked the pictures. love you all happy father day dad!!

DyC 31:3-6

elder chase park

i might call home when i fly to bolivia


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blessings

welp another week down in the mission, and the time is still flying. this past week went well again our zone is still baptizing and right now in the mission in lima we´re the zone of excelency, which just means we have the most baptisms. i don´t really like how president makes is know cause it makes a lot of missionaries feel bad. yesterday we gave a blessing of health to a little girl (really adorable) who was like two, she had problems sleeping in the night but before the blessing she was really sad and shy, then after the blessing happy and healthy from what it seemed she was pretty much changed completely right after the blessing. it was really amazing to see how fast the power of christ works in children, how alteast how much faith they have. but for for me that was a little cool special experience i had. at the end of this week we´ll have another baptisms, possible two and this thursday we also have a conference with president snow in the peru mtc so i´ll see trev harpel again, then in two weeks i´ll be shipped off the bolivia as a civilian in peru!! but i´ll try and send pictures next week, i don´t really have to much time right now sorry.. but thanks for all the e mails, pictures and support! love you all! and miss every one. tell the wests roystens and brittany and jackson i said bye too and that i´ll miss them a lot! elder chase park
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hey hey this past went pretty good, im sending pictures of my companion and i teaching english in school and also when we had interviews with president.. and yes mom i did get the package!! thanks so much for all the garments ties and especially the pants and socks, i for sure needed them.. this past week went by really fast we´re still doing pretty good and should have a few more baptisms in this coming week. as well its still probable that i´ll be going back to bolivia still in june, but mostly just excited to eat my easter candy right now!! but all is well, i´ll try and take more photos to send home next week and before going to bolivia i´ll send a package!! woot.. hey jeff whats up, when are you planning on leaving for your mission? love you all.. no time again, sorry!!

welp this past week went pretty well, in the zone we had 3 comformations one from us and two others, the next week we´ll have about nine more in the zone.. three from us and six from another companionship.. so we´re starting to baptize a little bit more, but right now we still have have about 13 more who could get potentially get baptized in may who are progressing really well, we just have to work with them a little bit more.. but all is well, as far as bolivia i´ll probably be going back in june, around moms b day!! woot!! but before that i´ll have a year in the mission by may 14 and even before that i get to call home for mothers day!!!! wooooooot!!! but the pictures you guys sent were awesome, everyone has changed, not so much with dad, maybe it´s just cause mom looks younger in every picture i see.. or maybe it´s cause she a pro rock climber now(nickname mountain goat!) but also i´m still waiting for my package, i know it´s close and i´m sure it will be here by the next week. but thanks for the e mails and pictures they help a ton and next week i´ll send some pictures as well i was wondering if someone could get me alex´s mission address for me or even his e mail for the mission. but thanks for all and i love you tons... until next week. elder chase park

ok so this past two weeks went kinda crazy.. i had the emergancy change with elder sum and had to train him for two weeks till the real change came (feb 11th), after the two weeks i was called with the change to another zone called maranga and the ward is called precursores.. but also with some more news ive been called as a new zone leader, which just means me and my companion are just leaders over all the missionaries in the stake, and so far its pretty cool. i actually like the new ward a lot, the members here have helped us a ton and weve been finding new investigaters left and right, as well we already have a batism planned for this saturday.. but as far as my new companion goes, his names elder gallardo from mexico and hes got 20 months in the mission and already a lot of experience as a zone leader, so hes pretty much teaching me how everything is as a zone leader. but as well this past week was a little hard with the change and trying to figure out our new zone and new area, cause my companion and i were both called as new zone leaders so we have to rely a lot on the members and the missionaries who already have a lot time here.. but were finding our way to the old investigaters from the elders before.. but as well my area is huge, its actually two areas in one, and it has the ocean.. but what i guess i like most is that its pretty cold here and the weather is almost perfect. but all is going good im enjoying my new companion, sector, zone, and all the missionaries in the zone too are awesome we just have to focus on march and find those who are waiting to get baptized in that month.. but i hope im giong to see tons of pictures next week, ill try and do the same, and all is well still working hard, proabably harder then ever now.. and the days just keep rolling.. love you all and have fun in disneyland without me!!.... oh and hey jeff whats up bro..> > love > elder park>

exodus from Bolivia

rest assure all is well and nothing bad had happened to me. First off i´ll start from the beginning of the week which turned out to be normal and all was well and the week went on. (bagio is my area and el torno is my city its smaller than bagio, it´s really close to la guardia) We were supposed to have zone conference with president on Friday morning and everyone showed up as normal not suspected anything to be the matter. But then president showed up and said that we we´re going to be doing some different things. He gave us a little lesson and some food and said that we we´re supposed to leave our houses today but nobody recieved the call, and we have had inside days many times before when things have been crazy like this. But this time it was worse, we were in our houses from Friday until Sunday and couldn´t leave but i had enough food and water to last until Monday. Sunday morning we were told we could go to church as normal and then return to our house at 2 to wait for the zone leaders call, but we didn´t have church because of all the problems in our area. So we called the offices and they just told us it would be better to wait in our houses until two... so we did and got the call that all the north american elders were leaving to peru the next night and to clean out your houses. Also since i was leaving my campanion was being transferred to another area and that our area bagia, el torno is being closed. I gues Sunday sometime in our area there were two deaths and a blockade a little bit farther from where we were living( not between our house and the city). There have been blockades before but this was worse and thank heavens it wasn´t between us and the city. So all the north americans have their things packed and are in the mission house and we are all waiting for our flight out of here tonight. Right now im still in bagio but about an hour away from my area, but still i haven´t seen anything that would cause any danger any elders yet. From talking with my district leader he told me that all of those who are close to finishing their mission will probably going home earlier and all the other elders who are going to peru will be going on splits in the missions of the center of lima, south, north, east, and west missions altleast until things cool down and the american emassedor comes back to bolivia. (from what happened to past closing missions to north americans) But if not all the missionaries with more then a year will be going to the states on a reassigned mission and all those who have less then a year will be reassigned in somewhere in south american. But none of this is sure, the only thing i know is that im leaving for peru tonight and that i haven´t been in or seen any dangerous situations, but have just been hearing that everything is going crazy in santa cruz.