New Room!!

Dear family,                                                                                                                  6-25-12

     This week has been awesome, with a lot of distracts but really awesome. We had our multi-zone conference which went so well. It was really inspiring from the president, we talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon, how to find people to teach, and teaching better the commandments because lots of people here in Peru don´t pay their tithing, and that keeps them from the blessings of the temple. I wrote a talk about the importance of the Book of Mormon and about how God has prepared the Book of Mormon for these times from the beginning! And it’s so interesting when I went to look for scriptures, the book throughout testifies of itself. And it was a pretty sweet talk and then I wanted to give it at the mufti zone and I wasn't called on! :-( But that’s ok I learned a ton, and now I have another awesome talk ready for when I need it! ;-) I also learned that in training you learn 25% preparing for the training, 25% in the actually training, and then 50% of the training you learn after applying what you learned. I guess we could compare that to as well General Conference. 25% preparing to hear the prophets and apostles, 25% listening, and the 50% applying what they have told us. So look at how much of the lesson we are losing if we don´t prepare before or if we don´t apply it after 75%. That’s a lot we can learn and a lot of faith we can build. So prepare, learn, and apply! 

      Ok as well this week we moved houses!! WAHOOO Finally!! I´m so happy in our new house I feel so much more comfortable and clean. We have our privacy and a super nice family! I love this place and it nice that I can walk around the rooms with just my socks and they don´t get all dirty! :-) We feel the peace but we have been super tired these last couple days because we have been packing and things at night and not getting to bed until 12 or 1 in the morning and then waking up at 6:30 kills ya a little after 4 o 5 days. So today will be a nice day, after playing soccer we will go and rest! There are also people in the house that aren´t member so we are going to teach them! Our pensionista isn't a member and she was taking a ton of lessons from the missionaries a while ago. almost got baptized but didn't, so now it’s time, I think we came to this house for a reason because there are a couple other things that were going to happen if we didn't move in there. So life is good, the Zone as well is getting way better. The goal every week of contacts is 70 for every companionship and all but 2 areas made it, and the lowest number of contacts was 62!! There are 8 companionship in the zone. And yes I´m zone leader still, me and my companion are the zone leaders. Our companionship is the zone leaders! It’s pretty cool to be zone leader and fun to work with all the missionaries on work visits and things like that! 

      Well I hope everyone has a B-E-A-utiful week and love every minute of every day, and all that sunshine because we are getting less here, during winter all cloud cover every day without rain, its sad! :-( 

         Love you all,

            Elder Corbett

 p.s. put in the package cereal (that cereal that was always our favorite, put that in the box) and hot chocolate.

 p.s.s. What happened to the bishopric emails every month?!? I love those!

Let it Pour!!

Dear Family,                                                                                                     6-18-12

     Well it’s been a good week, we had transfers and it was a good transfer. We did have 3 baptisms this week and a sister that’s preparing to be baptized, maybe with her son. So she is super ready and really awesome, she actually contacted us, he name is Adela. I feel like everyone we have visited this week is super prepared for the Lord and is ready to receive a baptism in their lives. I have showed my companion all the people we have been teaching and there are alot that are progressing. :-) 

      So my new companion is awesome, he speaks English and is way cool. I really feel like I can be myself around him and we can express how everything is going. Elder Guerrero from Costa Rica, but as well before his mission he lived like a year with his uncle in Miami FL. So that’s where he got his English down. It is fun to talk to him and he´s down to earth. I´m so excited for this transfer and for the great work we are going to have to do in this area. 

     Ok so if you want to know dad what its been like with our "pensionista" its like this, we eat every meal with them and they have that wonderful restaurant. But what been happening is we live in a part of their house and the president in the last zone leader conference talked to us about how we needed to switch to a better room because he´s seen our room and there isn´t the much privacy and so we went to them at the beginning of the month and told them the president asked up to switch and from that point on we really started looking and making the changes but the mom of the family took it all the wrong way and didn´t want to talk to us, we were very polite but she didn´t want to hear more because the missionaries have been there for a super long time and things like that. But now we talked to here this week and she now doesn´t want to know anything about the church. She has decided to abandon the church and she said because of the member of the ward but then we talked about reading the Book of Mormon and she said absolutely not going to read. It’s so sad because they were super active for years. Its sad to see how someone who has years never gained a true testimony. I´m sad for this family and wish they would come back but they have decided no. :-( at least we are still trying to rescue their son thats 20 years old and get him to come back, he is like a best friend to me too, so I can´t let him loose his eternal life like that! so that’s been a huge problem we have been having but besides that everything is going GREAT!!! I´m really going to love these next transfers.  

      Well to answer your question mom, I only have 5 months left and so just Candy from the states would be awesome in the package!! And with you guys coming out, I was thinking the same thing, just come out the same day of transfer, Tuesday the 27th. that would be awesome! 

    Love you all and my letter next week will be spiritual!!

       Elder Corbett

   p.s. WAHOO 19 months!

New Companion!!

Dear Family,                                                                                         6-11-12

     Well this week has actually been a little slow because of a little bit of problems with our pensionista. She doesn´t talk to us that much, but we are switching houses this week, our new apartment is so sweet!! I´m excited, we have 3 baptisms this weekend, we did a fast with two of them this week to help them with the word of wisdom. A day after the fast he asked us "when is the next fast, I want to do it again, I felt really good even though I was really hungry!" it was really special. So we are working with Wilder, Rosalia, and Jose. Their Awesome! 

      My companion is leaving tomorrow! He is going to have another companion from my group and I´m going to have another companion from his group. His name is Elder Guerrero, he´s from Costa Rica, so that cool. I don´t think I´m ever going to have a companion from peru! lol crazy huh? Well we will just be seeing how everything goes this week with the baptisms and transfers. We have another area in the Zone opening up so that will be cool. Time is going by really fast. 

     I talked to Sis. Dorius about you guys coming out and she said she hates it when parents come out to pick of there missionaries. NO JUST KIDDING, she said she loves it and they as well would like to maybe go out to eat with you or have a family night with them. I thought that was awesome, and so she told me that you would come out as close to the finishing date as possible or maybe a couple days before. I finish the 27 of November and you guys could maybe come out 24 the Saturday before or something like that. So that’s a little bit of an idea from all of you to make plans BUT i´m not to worried huh? lol love you guys.

        I love you all and hope everything is going good! I pray for you all every night in my personal prayers and miss you all!

    Love,

            Elder Corbett

Enjoy life!

Dear Family,                                                                                                     6-4-12

     Well this week went very well. I hope everyone is doing so very well. I love you all, and thank you all for the updates. I´m so happy to know mom is walking and recovering quickly. I just want to tell you all, to relax and enjoy life. I´m enjoying so much the mission, I feel its not difficult to teach, to speak, to invite people to come unto Christ. Its just something I do and love! I get the HUGE privilege to see people change their life and its amazing to be a part of this work. I love you all and you´ll get a better email next week. I´m super busy as well and this week end by so fast. I went to sleep Monday and then I woke up and it was sat. time is going by SO FAST!!! I can´t keep track. Its really really crazy!! But that’s how life is, year after year goes by! well Love you all and keep enjoying life. We have 1 baptism planned for every Saturday for the next 3 weeks so we will see how the people progress. They are all so amazing, we are teaching so many people right now!!! 

   Love you all,

        Elder Corbett!!! :-)

Time just flies!

Buenos días a todos,                                                                            5-28-12

      Wow I still haven´t heard anything about mom? how is she doing? 

      Well this week just flew by so fast. I feel like its Monday and then the next day is Friday and then Sunday and then I´m writing you all again. The mission is amazing. We had a bunch of lessons today and we are teach a TON of people, So many we can´t keep track of them all. Its actually a little sad. In the other part of the ward they had 4 baptism, it was a family (mom, son, daughter, and cousin). I was with the Elder from that area two weeks ago when we invited them to be baptized. It was really powerful and they have past many hard challenges to get where they are now. But they made it and are happy!! We are preparing a couple people to be baptized the 9th of June, a mom and her son, and as well a bunch of youth. They are awesome and its going to be a lot of work to help them but God can prepare them, if they do there part. Last week when the Mom(Rosalia) came to church she asked me how to pay her tithing. She willingly knowing a little about the church paid her tithing without us even teaching about it. I showed her and she paid her tithing, very wonderful woman of faith.

      Well we ended this month with one baptism but oh how awesome this convert is!! he is something super special!!  I love this kid and I´m going to do all I can so that he can be a missionary!! he received the priesthood yesterday and stayed for all the classes and since his baptism has come in jeans with a white shirt and tie! its awesome because I think that is the best clothes he has. This week we have our zone leader council which is going to be good. I don`t have anything else to report just that everything is going well, enjoying the time I have here in Peru and the Mission I have been given. :-) 

    Love you all,

           Elder Corbett

The Peace of the House of God

Dear Family,                                                                                                                 5-21-12

      How is mom doing? I haven't heard anything yet? Well I hope everything is well and mom you are recuperating quickly from the surgery. I had a lot of great experiences this week. We have actually had a lot of good references this week. The members have called us and told us that they talked to someone and had their information. And they are wonderful people. I had one of the most powerful experiences Saturday with feeling the spirit in my entire mission. 

       First I want to talk about going to the temple, that was such a great experiences. I know I felt the spirit and received personal revelation. I know my Heavenly Father heard my prayers. I learned so many new things this time that I didn’t know before and those things are now helping me in my mission. As well I learned a little bit of some of the things I need to do after the mission. Specific names that came into my mind that I need to help reactivate into the Gospel. While I was in the celestial room right before leaving I saw a triple combination there on a table. So I went over and looked up a scripture, Jacob 5: 71 (a scripture that a good friend wrote me in a letter) But this time when I read it, it had a different meaning. This was the last time I had to go to the Temple before the close of my mission and so now these last 6 months are the last time I will EVER have this same opportunity to serve in a mission like I am doing now. The mission is unique and very fast, I need to now go serve in the vineyard with all my might for the last time. I will serve my whole life in the church, but I may never serve 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 2 years, and especially never again with the strength God has given me as a young adult. I know I have been prepared for this time and these days to serve in Peru. I know these areas (though few) are the ones god has called me to. 

       Ok now this week we received a reference from a ward member that lives in the market in the middle of our area and super close to the church. He called us and we passed by to pick up the reference. We went Saturday to her house to talk to her. She didn’t have anyone there in the  house to be with us so we took her over to the house of a member really close. She told us about her religious background and some of the things we wanted to know. We also talked to her about what she could receive from this message and gave the message of the restoration but only the part with Joseph Smith and his vision. It was what she needed to know, at the end she said that when she went to the market she was going through alot of trials and hardships but to know that someone cared so much about her was something very special to her, that someone listened and helped her in her life. She said when she went and talked to this member (and she went to the market only to do her daily shopping) is was one of the best morning of her life. At the end of the lesson she started crying of happiness. The spirit was testifying to her of the truth and I could feel so strongly the love Heavenly Father has for her. she said she was praying to Jesus Christ to show her the way. I know God loves his Children, and God answered her prayers through a member of His church. I gave a talk last Sunday on being a witness of God everywhere so we can invite the spirit into the lives of those around us. I know that if we all are witness of God and simply look for times to testify of God, there are so many. I love you all  and pray for you and thank God for your support. I know the missionaries have millions of members everyday praying for them and what a privilege it is to be one of His representatives today!!!

   Love ya all,

       Elder Corbett

p.s. I received the other package as well now, thanks so much I love you all!!! Team Corbett "We can do hard things" 2012

p.p.s. the photo: when we received money last month from the bank, everyone received like 2 times more than they needed. and so we are zone leaders returned this money to the offices. but I had on my desk like 3000 nuevo soles. it was crazy!!! So i took pictures. lol

I love my family!

Dear Family,                                                                                     5-14-12

     Wow I can´t explain how nervous I was to talk to you all yesterday, I probably had to go to the bathroom like 10 times during the day I was so nervous. (no joke) But as soon as I started talking to you guys it was like yesterday we saw each other. Its way better to use Skype and see each other that try to talk through 3 telephones. I loved it, it was a blast and privilege to me. Well time is going by so fast. I can´t even explain. 

     Well we had a baptism and confirmation this week, his name is Quinto Upiachihua Tananta (try saying that 10 times fast). He chose me to baptize him and it was a wonderful opportunity for me and the moment he left the water he just had a huge small on his face. Before his baptism he was a little timid and didn´t say a lot but he has grown a lot since the first time we met him. After the baptism he got up in front and told everyone how he was feeling and he was so happy, he´s 18. He is going to be a real strong leader. We don´t have anyone now with a baptismal date and so we got to get the batteries running hard and make up for a lot that the zone lost during Mothers day.

      As well this past week we went to a couple leadership training meetings that were 2 days long. The president is so full of the spirit right now. We are going to be super busy, if a zone leader isn´t busy he isn´t doing his job. I´m sometime just over whelmed but this is all a great experience for the future. 

       Wahoo, we get to go to the temple Thursday so that’s going to be very special and I´ll be there praying for you, mom, I just want to say I love you so very much and you are the best mom in the whole world. I hope I can have a wife one day that’s as good as you have been for dad and us. That’s what I´m looking for someone who will take care of the kids like you took care of us. I started crying during priesthood yesterday because we talked about prayer and just remember saying family prayer every night and how that brought revelation to the family, and then as well when you would come into our room every night and say a personal prayer with us. I know I´m the person I am today for the things you did when I was growing up. I will NEVER doubt that you love me and that I can feel happy and protected at home! Happy Mother’s Day!!

       Have a great week all of you and I loved seeing you and it will be just a short time till I see you all again. The Gospel is true and blesses the family!

   With lots of love,

       Elder Corbett

Our handsome Elder Corbett on Mother's Day

This is a screen shot Mariah took of our Elder Corbett.  It was a little stressful at first because we all didn't have the same program to talk to each other and we got the time wrong.  Peru is smart like AZ and don't do daylight savings so we were thinking he was on the EST and he was an hour later than us all.  It turned out to be really fun because we all visited on Google + or Skype for that hour we were waiting and until Carson got on.  Then Logan, Abby and Heidi were the only ones that could see him but we could hear them all.  Then they got off and we got to see him for the last 15 or so minutes.  Heidi is in AZ for the summer and she was at my niece Darenna's house and my sister Deanna (her mom) was there too so it was a bonus to see them too.