...well, my new area iss AWESOME.

we opened the area after some time of not having missionaries so the members are just extremely happy to see us. they are a branch but the chapel is one of a kind and the members are so involved with the work of the Lord that we will be able to harvest lots of fruit here(example:we havent proselited a minute without a member with us!) my companion is from lima and is 25 years old. were happy to be where we are and have already had great experiences being guided by the Spirit. i cant explain how amazing conference was again and hope all could enjoy the words of the prophet and apostles. it is ridiculously hot here im the furthest north companionship in the mission. my area is CHEPEN and its pure rice fields up here. our investigator who we are going to put a baptismal date with tonight is named ana maria who is about 25 and has come to the branch on her own 3 weeks in a row and is showing a great desire. keep her in your prayers. all have lots more to tell you next week but the city im in is awesome because its small but has everything a big city has. im buying a harmonica today and thats gonna be my new thing i think ha. love and miss you all. take care and keep me in your prayers as i do you all. thank you so much for all the letters heidi nikki stacie peter shelly and fam. i feel like a woman when people pass my computer in these internet cafes and im teared up but i really enjoy the spirit of all your letters, especially dad

DAD:thank you for everything and the kind words that honestly keep me going. keep your focus on studying the scriptures and all your worries will disappear. hope you have been able to pray together with mom wwhen you get the chances and also share your love for her. she needs the motivation from her eternal partner and i just want to thank you for the GREATEST example ive been able to look to my entire life.
MOM:every little email note that i read of yours makes me cry and feel a warm comforting to hear your loving words of care. i wish i could and would have shown and expressed my love for you more because i cant much now but i want you to know that if it werent for you, your example, your love, your care, your watchful eye, your good cooking, and your daily help in staying in order from school to church, i would not only not be here, but possibly in a dark hole facing big problems. i feel so strongly your kind spirit although im far from you and i cant hold back the tears right now. love and miss you mom

I know that the pain and the struggles that I encounter only strengthens me!

well its very great to hear from you all. miss and love all of you very much. this last week was so much better because we worked, worked, and worked some more. found a great couple THATS MARRIED!!!!(1%of couples in peru are married) and some great younger men who are single and ready to prepare to hold the priesthood of God. obviously we wont have baptisms this week due to conference but we are going to travel to trujillo to watch it in a big stake center so thats exciting. sounds like audreys birthday was a blast and the kids in vegas are happy and healthy which makes me happy as well. hard to hear that grandma has to suffer even more with health and hope that you can all continue helping them. im so thankful to a family(brothers and sister in law included) who are such great examples to me and live the gospel as the Lord nos manda. i keep you all in my prayers day and night and hope you do the same for me. very thankful for the wonderful experiences i have on a daily basis and am thankful to you dad for you wonderful emails siempre. i dont pass a moment when i dont wish you were here with me to be able to share your strong testimony because i know it would help the poeple here so much to see the way the gospel blesses families. keep up your hope in the crisises that are taking place back home in work and the community especially you mom and dad so that the Lord can bless you as He always has. Hold strong to the basic things you know such as praying daily, solo and as a couple, studying your scriptures, and obeying the commandments to the last little ones that seem to slip our mind from time to time. those run of the mill answers that we respond in our church classes our that way for a reason...because if we just focused on that we would not have to suffer the way we do at times. i want to share my testimony that i know the Savior lives and loves each and every one of us. Our Father in Heaven also desires that same success as parents do for their children and he gives us the formulas for happiness through the living prophet Thomas S. Monson. I love this work and know that the pain and struggle i encounter only strengthens me. I promise all who read this as a servant and representative of the Lord Jesus Christ that if we heed the counsel of our leaders, study the scriptures and pray daily, and strive to live the commandments, we will be blessed more than you can imagine.
i love and miss every one of you and hope you can be uplifted by my love for this work and the Book of Mormon. until next week!
-Elder Kyle Favero Nichols

THE BIG MIRACLE - March 15, 2010

o love to hear all the news. hope pepper comes back! i love to hear that you've been able to get more on top of your RS lessons. i think if we focus on our church callings more we are not only more blessed but more in tune with the spirit which is something WE ALL need. we don't eat in the members houses, we accept little snacks if we are passing by but its not too sanitary here so we´re advised not to. we have now been training all the members in the new plan that Elder Tom Perry presented and its helping us not knock doors and work solely with member references. its not totally in effect yet but we are seeing a change and will see a lot more success every day. but as far as my news for you all...my companion has improved a lot after interviews we had last week as a zone. the mission also just completely reorganized and we had emergency changes last week and we went from 13 zones in the mission to 9. i like it better because our zones were getting smaller. THE BIG MIRACLE:so last week the plans for manuel and lucy were to get married friday an hour north in guadalupe where it was gonna be cheaper and not too far. thursday night came along and we were waiting to give them the last instructions on were they needed to go with their witnesses and we call the elders up in guadalupe and they tell us that the mayor who has to realize the whole deal hadnt returned from his trip to lima but that he would friday afternoon so saturday morning would be better. we let manuel and lucy know all that and manuel had asked for friday and saturday off of work and so friday he had nothing to do so us 4 elders went with the mission leader and an awesome convert of one month (mario) went and helped all morning til 1 making adobe so they could get the most out of the lost time from work. friday night comes around and the elders up north call us and tell us that the mayor didnt know anything about it so he wasnt liking the idea, and monday would be the soonest he could realize the marriages. we didnt know what to do so we panicked and called our zone leaders asked if there were any mass marriages in trujillo saturday(13th of march) and 30 minutes later they said the soonest in anywhere in the mission would be the 20th in trujillo. at 10:30 we all decided to kneel down together the 4 of us and say a prayer to ask for the Lord to help us find a solution to this problem so that Manuel and Lucy could be blessed and not live in sin. we kept calling and got permission to call old areas and ideas we had and in the end after 92348752093 calls we heard of a bishop in Las Robles ward in trujillo who had a friend who is a registrator (dont know if thats a word in english). so we call him although its 11.30 and his wife said he was sleeping but to call at 7 in the morning. so we go to bed a little sad but still with the faith to know there was a way. we all wake up, exercise, and call at 7 in point, and the guy like nothing says, yeah sounds good i can do it at 11 in trujillo in the Esperanza Stake Center(mind you esperanza means HOPE!) we call right after to our zone leaders with the good news, and then up north to tell the elders to rush down to us to give us the papers that we had sent there for the marriage and they got here at 10 with everything. we rushed to manuel and lucy and they went and got ready and we sent them off at 11 when they were supposed to be in trujillo...but we called the guy who was gonna do the marriage and he said it was fine he would arrive at 12. we thought everything was good then, and we relaxed enough to eat lunch, then headed to the chapel to fill the baptismal faunt and what do you know, Satan didnt give up! the water stopped at about 10 inches and there was no more...so we thought, we called the sister who does cleaning and she came and miraculously fixed the pump so that we could continue filling it and in the end it got about 3/4 filled when he finally got baptized. just want to share my testimony that i know that Satan and the opposition is real, and that we need to keep up the faith and be diligent until the very last moment! hope you can all enjoy this short story and feel my gladness. love and miss you all.

Great and Amazing News - March 2010

so first the great and amazing news...Yuliana was allowed to get baptized on saturday after 3 weeks of struggles and her 22 year old sister who is inactive more or less, came to the baptism with the mom and signed up for institute classes and has been coming to church the last 3 weeks and staying all 3 hours so we are happy about that. but even BETTER news, Manuel Alexander Herrera Segura is getting married on Friday in a town like 50 minutes north because theyre doing a mass marriage which only means like more than 3 but its just investigators from areas around here ha. they are the most humble people! they live in a little like 8ftx5ft thatch house with plastic on top and eat only rice and sometimes beans but always plain. manuel is only 19 and doesnt know how to read because he comes from deep in the mountains and never went to school but hes learning know JUST THROUGH THE HYMNS AND BOOK OF MORMON. hes the greatest example to me and works hard making adobe brick to save his money and progress in life. they have a lot that they just bought for like 25 bucks (30 meters by 10 meters) and they only came here 4 months ago with nothing! theyre amazing and cant wait for you to meet them in 2 years. its so cute cuz their two little daughters are always excited to see us and last night we went and sang in english happy birthday for the daughter who turned 6 and i sang for dad and spencer as well! dont worry EVERYONE in paijan knows it was your birthdays cuz i was celebrating all day. but then Lucy, the wife, told us this morning before coming to internet that she talked to her neighbor and explained the gospel so were going to teach them this afternoon! cant explain how great they are and will be happy to show you pictures of them next week. as far as the work outside of that goes we have another baptism for the following saturday 20th of march for a 20 year old girl Ney so keep her in your prayers so she can prepare and continue praying to know the truth. i still struggle with my companion but i know the Lord is giving me the strength to not get upset or say the wrong things but its sad because he doesnt progress with his attitude and his patience is extremely little and although all our leaders have tried helping him he likes to think in his way and trust in himself but i know with all your prayers as well he will be able to humble more and i will too.
also some news, we now live with the other 2 elders from the branch in our own house thats new and made of noble(brick and cement) material. but its far from our area so thats the only downer but its a lot more calm and the Spirit can dwell more easily there so im happy. im gonna send a picture of the baptism with Yuliana(short) and you will see Elder Martinez(in white) who is in his first change in the field, My comp, and Elder Gonzalez from Guatemala. The taller girl is Maritza and was their investigator who got baptized.
hope all is well at home, miss and love you all and cant wait to talk to some of you in 2 months. you are all kept in my prayers especially grandpa bob and you mom and dad! i love you so much and cant thank you enough for all that you do and have done for me, from feeding me, to allowing me to enjoy the blessings of the gospel in our home by your obedience and worthiness to invite the Spirit.
and dad we dont have couple missionaries, but if you didnt hear our new president who comes in june, is from Draper, Utah and is named Elder Turk. also peru is getting 2 new missions...Cusco y Lima West and the 1st counselor of our mission presidency was called to be president of the Cusco mission. pretty cool!
bryan and i, the son from where we used to live, cut that tree down with pure machete until the trunk and it took 3.5 hours

I am better off here than anywhere else in the world at this time in my life!

good to be informing you again! our room was nice and fullof water for a few days this past week. last week it rained three days straight where it NEVER rains so just imagine all the houses and the chaos with the people! we were on top of roofs all of the first day helping people and gained good friendship and confidence with lots of people through that and amid the problems still had 4 investigators come to church! the Lord is so amazing and doesnt let you down EVER if youre doing what youre supposed to. i have been able to realize how little i am in this work that i am doing and how easy my part is! sarita is getting baptized saturday and were now teaching the other 19 year old son who is great and i love how were working step by step with this family. melissa and sarita filled out the paper to start SEMINARY!!!! im so happy for them and they are different people now with personality and unlike before leave their house now to participate in all the activities. i gotta headback to my town now but ill email you peter from there and as well the little note to uncle marc! hope you all keep me in your prayers and you all need to pray hard for grandpa bob and put all your trust in the Lord that he will help grandpa because our help is little in comparison to the Lords´. hope all is well at home with you all family and friends, miss and love you with all my heart, but am better off here than anywhere else in the world at this time in my life¡CIAO!

THE GRAND RESPONSIBILITY WE HAVE. . .share the gospel!

so for all you back at home, the Lord has blessed me a ton and the best convert ive ever seen in my life is now going to get his papers to get married from the pueblo he is from so he can get baptized, we had 4 people in sacrament meeting, plus another that came for the last hour, and i was able to see the amazing 15 year old miguel make a sacred covenant with Heavenly Father. dont think i could ask for anything more! im still in paijan with my companion elder takishita but the first week already flew. this past sunday the 4 of us elders spoke, which makes twice in 3 weeks, and i talked about the grand responsibility we have as members to share the gospel and how it is that we can beat the fear of sharing our feelings with others and ways to open the door of sharing. it was great, i kind of went direct with them to start with Jacob 1:19 and then told them they wont have to worry if they do as Alma 6:6 says and pray fervently for the opportunity to share. this coming weekend is the district or stake conference and the 2 zones that are incorporated in this stake will be doing a big special musical number and all the meetings our president is talking so its going to be AMAZING! im stoked. anyways, keep me in your prayers as i do you in mine. especially for Hermano Renee, su hija Melissa, Manuel(most humble guy on the planet!other than my brother Tyler), y Julio.Thanks a ton for everything mom and dad, brothers and sisters, i thank the Lord every single time i pray for the wonderful family i have. you are what keep me going. love and miss you all! ill be sending letters these next 2 weeks with pictures!

JANUARY 11, 2010 so for all you back at home, the Lord has blessed me a ton and the best convert ive ever seen in my life is now going to get his papers to get married from the pueblo he is from so he can get baptized, we had 4 people in sacrament meeting, plus another that came for the last hour, and i was able to see the amazing 15 year old miguel make a sacred covenant with Heavenly Father. dont think i could ask for anything more! im still in paijan with my companion elder takishita but the first week already flew. this past sunday the 4 of us elders spoke, which makes twice in 3 weeks, and i talked about the grand responsibility we have as members to share the gospel and how it is that we can beat the fear of sharing our feelings with others and ways to open the door of sharing. it was great, i kind of went direct with them to start with Jacob 1:19 and then told them they wont have to worry if they do as Alma 6:6 says and pray fervently for the opportunity to share. this coming weekend is the district or stake conference and the 2 zones that are incorporated in this stake will be doing a big special musical number and all the meetings our president is talking so its going to be AMAZING! im stoked. anyways, keep me in your prayers as i do you in mine. especially for Hermano Renee, su hija Melissa, Manuel(most humble guy on the planet!other than my brother Tyler), y Julio.Thanks a ton for everything mom and dad, brothers and sisters, i thank the Lord every single time i pray for the wonderful family i have. you are what keep me going. love and miss you all! ill be sending letters these next 2 weeks with pictures!

SO NICE TO HEAR YOUR VOICE - joy to our ears!

End of December 2009 -so my zone leader is still in my area with me and we are working hard and just ended a fast today in which we were able to see some improvements. we decided to practically start from scratch and found about 6 great new investigators who are all related to members and i have made some large improvements on little aspeects of the work and administrative things as ive had the companionship of elder burrup with me! thanks so much for all the wonderful motivation and great news from home! i feel so much more calm and happy after being able to hear from you all. to my dismay we still havent gotten our packages and wont at all this week, at the earliest next monday or tuesday so thats that. not much else to let you guys aware of. im good and the diahrrea crept back which im a little bummed about. just sweating it up like crazy in paijan and had two women come to church yesterday who were gonna put baptismal dates with tonight! mari y marcela!!! keep me in your prayers and i will be doing the same. love and miss you all and hope all is well at the homefront.¡CIAO!Elder Kyle Favero Nichols

IT's YOUR BIRTHDAY, IT"S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! April 24, 2010 will be the BIG 20th bday -

I am sure you will do something extra fun in PERU to celebrate

Dad and I will be in UTAH like we were last year -

Stacie is graduating from BYU and she deserves a little fan fare!

SO THINK OF HER WHILE YOU ARE CELEBRATING FOR YOURSELF!

We will never forget how much joy you brought into our life from the very first moment you were HERE in our home and as a member of our family. THANKS for all of thesee wonderful experiences and memories and we know you are who you are and in our family for all of us to learn from each other.

WE LOVE YOU ELDER KYLE FAVERO NICHOLS

BE YOURSELF and you will be amazing!