Transfers-New Asignment!

Dear Family,                                                                         3-19-12

     Well its been a busy week with lots of work and little results like usual, but we keep pressing on. We had did a "week of perfection", the Zone Leaders told me which is work pretty much our tails off to reach and achieve all of the goals of excellence. Well we didn´t meet them all but we did work super hard this week, every single one of us. We had this week a remarkable 14 new investigators who we are going to be working with the upcoming weeks. (well my companion will be working with ) But my time has come a little to an end here en La Alborada after working a hard 6 months in the area. We have found and help 6 people come unto Christ here in this ward and be baptized and confirmed member of the Church. It’s been a wonderful journey here and I love all the things I´ve learned, I´ve learned tons about Humility and just how to stay focus and through the challenges, keep working. This is going to be a wonderful lesson for the future. 

     Ok the news every ones been waiting for, haha I´m going to SAN DIEGO!!! WAHOO! haha well in the Zone: Prolima, area: San Diego as Zone Leader! I don´t know what to tell president, I´m excited and ready to work even harder and this means time is just going to fly even faster!! I can´t believe it, as Zone Leader, but I´ve been working real hard as a district leader so I feel pretty prepared. In the Zone there are only 14 missionaries so that's a lot better than the 20 that are in this zone. It’s a good area, well from what I´ve heard and the sister gives good food but they tell me I´m going to get fat there so I sure hope not! My companion is going to be Elder Zeas, who is from Nicaragua. I´m honestly super excited and want to give it my all. I know the people we serve will be blessed and I will continue to be blessed too. I really do love the people here in Perú that why I keep knocking on their doors even if I´ve talked to them 50 times before. There is no other work like missionary work on the face of the earth. I love this with all my heart and when I think about when I go home, a lot of times I don´t want to go because I love working so hard and feeling good at the end of the day! 

    Well I love you all and I´ll be working hard in Prolima with my new companion and with my new Zone so keep me in your prayers and I´ll keep praying for all of you!

With tons of love,

       Elder Corbett

Estoy Gastado=I`m Exhausted!

Dear family and friends,                                                      3-12-12
I want to first start off with a question. Why are Sundays the worst day of the week in the Mission? Yesterday was a tiring day. Sundays are always so hard because it’s so disappointing when people don`t come to church and you watch all your baptisms falling. Me and my companion are working so hard here. I want everyone to come unto Christ but its like you talk to them and they love it and you love it and then they just don`t put the importance of it all in their lives. For all of you who are maybe passing for hard times right now I have a couple suggestions. First go say a pray! doesn`t matter how much you might not want to or feel its not necessary, just do it; that is the moment most important that you need to talk to your Father in Heaven. Second don`t worry yourself too much. I think this week I´ve been worrying myself why to much thinking, "I’m a district leader I need to be setting the example and I need to be always having baptismal dates and complete everything......" The Lord is proud of you if you are doing all you can! I felt that this week. I testify that the Lord loves you, don`t get discouraged because you don`t feel your not good enough, You Are. Third, go to work! We don`t always receive answers while we are there on our knees, a lot of times we receive answers when we are working. I felt the answer/peace of God AFTER I worked and did everything I could during the week. Last night we came home after just a hard working week. I did the numbers real quick, all the phone calls and at the end at like 9:50 we just took like 2 seconds to lay in bed and relax, Me and my companion were out in like 3 seconds, in our church clothes still. We were Exhausted and I feel good about that because right now I don`t have any baptismal dates and few people who attended but I know I gave it all I have this week.
Next week is transfers and after working here for a good 6 months I really think I´m out of here...:-(. I love the members of this ward they are so cool and good but as well I think after 16 months in the mission I`m ready for my 3rd area, maybe I`ll only have 3. lol Its crazy the mission. Doing everything the same every single day, I feel that every day feels like an hour and every week feels like a day. and a month a week. But every Month is a years worth of experience if your working!
As well I had a pretty funny story this week but maybe another time I`ll have to tell it. I learned a very valuable lesson and that is, the church is a church of order and we have leaders called with authority for reasons. LOL oh it was pretty funny. Well to everyone young and old I love you! I´m grateful for your prayers I feel the power of them and thank you for them. Know I´m praying for you guys and your success in all your endeavors. Love you!
Love from Peru,
Elder Carson Corbett

p.s. I bought glasses a couple weeks ago, I have no idea why but they look cool on me huh?

Yoshi!

Dear Family, 3-5-12
Well this week went by super fast. Its so true when your mind is in the work time just goes by super fast. especially if you are having baptisms. We had another baptism this week of a young man named Yoshi who has completely changed his life around and repented of a different life before. That’s the beauty of baptism and repentance. Maybe next week you`ll get the pictures and as well I would like a family picture or other people who receive this I would like a picture of your family. I feel after reading these emails you guys have all changed dramatically. So I want pictures. And of this Randy kid, send me a pic so I can pray and know if he should go out with my sister. When we go to BYU together, Kate, before every date those guys will need an interview with me so they don´t mess with my little sister. haha I still remember so many years ago when mom yelled at Kate because she said she liked someone. Wow the times have changed, I don`t feel like these little kids aren´t allowed to get older its just weird. and Brandon going on dates?, I still feel he´s that newly called Deacon. But I love them all. And I would like also like a picture of the ward. I have a picture of me, like a profile picture and I`ll get that to you as soon as I put it on my USB.
Anyway I got to baptize Yoshi and then Sunday during the sacrament meeting they as well called me up to confirm him and give him the Holy Ghost. It was a really special experience for me. We are trying to encourage him to go on a mission in a year and then he will be a great leader in the church. If he puts his mind to it and doesn´t fall he will be a great leader. We talked in ward counsel a lot of how we can keep him active in the church. I´m really loving this ward we are helping them out a ton and loving the time with my companion. We are working hard so don`t worry. If there is anything word of advise I can give you is when you really don`t know what to do or feel bad, PRAY! It may not make the problems go away but your spirit will be full. I know that is true and I know that Jesus is the Christ and he paid for every single sin we have committed. Love you all and hope you all have a FABULOUS week, keep a smile on your face and be firm in the faith and you will see a miracle this week in your life. I know that is true and promise you that.


Love ya,
Elder Corbett

p.s. I should get my package tomorrow. Its at the post office from what I heard a week ago and they tried to take it out but they didn`t have a paper with my signature so couldn´t take it out. Tomorrow I´m hoping I’ll get it! love ya!

I´m a little tired!

Dear family, 2-27-12
Well this week no one wrote me again. We had a baptism and everything but yesterday after it all I was so exhausted and just wanted to know how you all were doing. I think I´m really losing myself in the work because I pulled out my photo album yesterday and felt like I forgot what it was like to even have a family and feel the joy when I was with you all. I missed you guys a lot and hope you all know how important you are to me. I feel I´ve been on my mission so long I talk about love and express and feel the love God has for these people but I miss that family love when we are together. Like I said we did have a baptism this week of a 10 year old, whose name is L. R. He’s an awesome boy and I love him. He will grow up and be a future missionary. I also had a training meeting with the leaders of the mission and we all got a couple training on how to teach better and how we can then teach these things to our zones or districts. I love being a district leader but I´m so sick of disobedience. Let me tell you future missionaries, don´t go on your mission if you really don´t care, because you´ll never feel weight and power of being a missionary. I am having some problems in my district again about obedience and sometime it makes you have to stay up later than usual worrying or waking up early to go visit the houses of these missionaries. Its true what my zone leader told me when I first became DL, "District leaders are like the mom´s of the mission". I´m become very strict now and I don´t like it but sometimes people just don´t respond.
We have another baptism this weekend and someone who is 18 years old. I´m pretty excited. To be honest this ward is going to be a hard one to part from because I feel like I´ve gotten to know the members so well and I´m really going to miss them. I think this next transfer I´m out of here so I have 3 more weeks to do what I can and then leave it in the hands of my companion. It’s interesting after so much time in the same area that’s so small you keep finding people to teach and want to accept the gospel; really everyone has a different time to prepare to hear the gospel. The sad part for me is why don´t they accept it sometimes. It’s sad. I´ve learned a ton this week on how to really use the spirit to teach and how I must teach the doctrine so that the people can receive all the blessing of the gospel not just to try and get them to come to church or try to get them to do things that we want them to do. Its so that they can receive all the blessing of the gospel.
Well love you all and hope this was a wonderful week for you and that I´ll actually hear from you next week.
love,
Elder corbett

Just for the record I did write to him but late. He will get double the next week. Please forgive us!!!

Oh that I were an Angel! Alma 29: 1-2

Dear Family and friends,                                                                                                           2-20-12

     Well another week here in Alborada, we had the same problem like always right before his baptism Yoshi froze up a little but he`s still real excited and he said in two weeks when he finishes his studies he`ll get baptized. We have another boy that’s 10 years old and  part of his family are members that’s going to get baptized this week. The work is progressing, more than anything we are looking for the people and families that are ready to progress in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This week we have found 13 new investigators and a ton of them are super excited to listen to us. We had 8 investigators come to church and they absolute loved it and love how friendly and loving the members are. So remember everyone, you need to be super friendly and care about the people that come to church and that they can feel the spirit and at peace. We have a family that we finally could visit yesterday, we actually dedicated their house and explained a little about our message. They are a reference from their neighbors and 3 of the 4 family members have attended 2 weeks in a row! Its wonderful! We just need to get the father to come, but they really are grateful for the things they have felt.   I feel they are ready to progress and it will be an eternal family! So we are working really hard with the members as well and walking in this heat everywhere, I sweat all day long but that’s the work here in Perù and no one cares or even notices.

      On other notes, No mom transfers were 2 weeks ago. It’s ok if you can`t keep track ,I`ll tell you when I leave. lol But I think when I do leave I think I’ll die in my next area.(Die meaning finish my mission there) after this transfer I only have 6 transfers left AHHH! WOW its going by way to fast I`m too young and inexperienced to have 15 month in the mission. Well I don`t feel to inexperienced anymore,  I feel actually pretty experienced.   feel because of the leadership I`ve been able to have and being Senior companion pretty fast I feel a lot more confident in myself that I can do this without fear and with the spirit!  

That’s the key, always having the spirit! I actually had an experience this week with that where we were on a street of a family that I visited 2 months ago that we talked to once and never could find them again came into my mind.  I told my companion there is a family here that I feel we need to visit. We went and didn`t talk to the mom who I talked to before, but her daughters who are 17 and 11 years old and they listened and both came to church yesterday and loved it and I feel already after knowing them for 3 days they are my friends and I can`t wait to see them accept the message we have for them!

   Here are some pictures of when I went to Canta (the ones with the waterfalls) and then the others are when I did a work visit with the zone leaders and it was a pretty sweet sunset and we had to take advantage of the opportunity!

      I love you all and hope you all know I`m giving it my all here, I only have 9 months left and every time I think about how little time that is I think about all the ways I`ve grown in my mission and how much I love being here and don`t want to leave these people, they mean everything to me! Love your neighbors as thyself because without charity we are nothing!

love ya all,

    Elder Carson Corbett

I´m going to fast more!

2-13-12

Dear family and friends,

I think everyone gave talks yesterday, so did I!! lol but I didn´t have as much time as you all did to prepare! I was preparing only since Friday night when I learned we had talks Sunday. But I was given the talk of 15 mins and was super excited because I hadn´t given a talk in this ward yet, so it had been a while. But my companion as first wanted the 15 min talk and I said if you can name more members names then me you can have it, he didn’t say anything after that! So I gave my talk on of course missionary work, but I talked about how important we are to God. How small we are out of ALL of his creations but how special we are for him and that is the work he does. It’s for all of us, and just for our salvation and so maybe that puts our problems of work and family in order. That we aren´t here for the temporal we are here for the spiritual. Then I talked about what Pres. Eyring said of how we promised to be witnesses of Christ and how we need to be those people that testify of Christ but with deed. I said there are 3 things that a witness of Christ needs: 1. testimony of God and Jesus Christ 2. Live the gospel of Jesus Christ in every aspect of their lives 3. Defender of Truth and good. I hope it really got to their heart the message that I wanted to share with them. I can´t believe how the spirit guided my thoughts because I only had a little time to prepare.

We are working hard with the Ward! We did a fast this week for the ward and we are really seeing fruits,, this has greatly increased my trust in the lord and love to share the gospel in this area. I don´t want to leave like other times I had felt. It’s like we had some members that brought there neighbors and are super interested to know more and then we had another young boy who finally got permission from his dad to get baptized. He will get baptized this month. Its miraculous right in front of my eyes and I know these are blessings of my prayers, fasts, and as well hard work! I love this mission time. I may have only a couple areas but I know this is where I´m needed. Heavenly Father knows me and that when it talks of the people that are prepared to hear my voice it is talking of these people. I love the mission! ;-)

Love from your Son, grandson, nephew, brother, and friend,

Elder Corbett!

I love this kid!!!

Working hard!

Dear Family and Friends, 2-6-12

wow what a crazy Transfer! I´m going nowhere again! So after this transfer I will be in this area for 4 transfers and 1/2. I think I want to get to know a little more of the mission! Haha just think I´ll have 16 months and just 2 areas! That’s a little ridiculous to me! Well anyway the work presses on! I´m going to be working hard these next couple weeks as well with the same companion and we actually have a lot of progress in the area. We had 6 people come to church and so that was way awesome and as well an attendance of 118 which is pretty good for us! We are trying to help the leaders take control of the quorums or groups and as well think about the missionary work that we need to be doing. We are trying to go out more with the members and get them excited to work. We do have one problem here in the ward though and that is I´m ward mission leader LOL. No not really but I feel like I´m doing everything that the ward mission leader does. We are trying to get out mission leader to recharge the batteries and go back to work in his calling.

Oh the other sides, we had a investigator named Ana, who at first didn´t want anything to do with the church she Catholic and as well attending another little church group but she likes our teachings and came to church yesterday after a couple of weeks visiting here. It was pretty cool to see here there when we walked in to Sacrament Meeting. I then taught the Gospel Principles lesson and realized that I love to teach! I feel like I´ve become an effective teacher that involves everyone in the lesson and makes sure everyone understands. We learned about agency yesterday! Well besides that me and my companion are trying our best to get along and work hard. He´s un interesting guy and hope everything goes well this next transfer with him!

Ummm and think that’s all I love you all and thank you for your support and love. I know this work is true, I know the church is true and God has given us commandments for our happiness and protection that make us free!

Love,

Elder Corbett

p.s. How did BYU do in football and hows it going with there basketball game this year?