Hi Mom,
So fall is starting?  I've come to only know two extremes - extreme heat and freezing cold ha ha, but that is cool. Timpanogas I bet was fun, sounds like the garden is doing good, that's exciting to hear. What you said is true too, I feel like we could baptize a ton of people but if they go inactive the week after their baptism I don't think that is a convert.  Yesterday we were talking to the couple we baptized 2 weeks ago, and they now have the goal to recieve their patriarcal blessing, and to go to the temple.  It's really great to see members after they're baptized move forward in the gospel. This week we received another talking to from the Mission Assistant.  He told us that we need to baptize more men.  If we only have a chapel full of sisters the church will never progress.  He talked to us about strengthening the priesthood, it was really awesome. He also said the church isn't directed for tradition but for knowledge of the gospel and revelation.  He said someone that is a bishop shouldn't say well the other bishop was like this and so I'll do that.  He said that missionaries should KNOW the gospel.  He said I hope you guys read the Miracle of Forgiveness and The Doctrines of Salvation - all three volumes before your mission! I learned a lot this week. We had a way awesome experiance teaching a family that we found this week.  We brought the recently baptized family with us, and we were teaching and the sister shared her testimony in quechua and I didn't understand anything she said but I felt the spirit really strong.  We invited them to be baptized and everything went well, but Sunday they didn't show up to church.  For once we had the help of the members going to pick investigators up for church and me and my comp were speed walking from hill to hill to bring people, but nobody showed up this Sunday, it was saddening, but some weeks are that way.   Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm a little inadequate as a missionary, but keep I trying to do my best. My new comp is Elder Ramirez from Peru, he is awesome.  We are doing all we can do have results so I know if we keep working this way will be able to see the fruits. Things are good, Love ya mom, Aaron.

HI, Mom

Glad to hear things are going good.  I hope things go well with Brett.  Glad to hear Stormy is doing well.  I've talked to him a few times. Tomorrow is transfers.  I'm getting a new companion, which is cool, I'm excited. So the Assistant in the Mission Presidency has been placed over Urcos.  This Wednesday just in time to start the transfer he is going to come and were going to make a new mission plan and I think he is going to teach us too.  He came this Sunday.  I think he's awesome.  I'm hoping that we can really get some things going here in Urcos. It needs to be a Branch, it's been a family group for 15 years, so yeah, we've got a lot of work to do.  He told us that our purpose as missionaries is to baptize and confirm and we shouldn't set that aside for anything, but because we are also in a family group we also need to establish the church. He talked about having a balance and that the lord wants leaders that learn to be balanced.  He said that there are leaders that are amazing leaders but not very good dads, or amazing dads but not the best leaders in the church.  He taught us the theory of "pressure" that a ball with little holes in it will shoot out the pressure at the same velocity in every hole, and that is how satan works.  He attacks from all sides with the same force.  He also said the law of every action will recieve the same or greater reaction, so that we as missionarys need to push back with the same force or more, it was awesome. So I'm excited for this Wednesday. Things are going good, Love ya Mom, until next week! 

Hi Mom,

Glad things are good, thanks for talking to Alex for me, next week I think I'll be in Cusco and I'll do what I can to go to the post office and send him a letter.  Glad you got to go to the temple open house.  Brother Montgomery has been telling me about it in the letters he sends me every month.  Oh! and I got the package! Thank you very much!  It was funny to see the contrast in the whiteness of the new shirts and the ones I started with, ha ha. Saturday Cesar and Delia were married, and then baptised after, it was awesome!  It was the biggest baptisimal service I've had in the mission! I'm excited for them. I was able to confirm Cesar as a member of the church, that was a special experience. Things are good the changes or transfers are this Sunday so we'll see what happens. I might receive a new companion.  But, say thanks to Jennie and I love you too! Love you Mom, talk to you next week!

Hi Mom,
No, I still haven't gotten the package yet, maybe something happened.  Glad everything is going good.  Hey I got a letter from Alex, but I'm in a place where there is no post office so I can't write him or anybody right now, which is lame, but let him know I got his letter and as soon as I can write I will.  This week went by good, we had interviews with our mission president.   It went well. It's the first time I've really talked to him.  I asked him what he thought of me as a missionary, to see if there are things I need to do better.  I told him, president I have some time in the mission and at the same time I dont have much time left.  He said he is very proud of the work I did in Puno, and that I'm a missionary with a lot of aptitudes with the right attitude, and that he wants to keep seeing me move forward in that way, so that made me feel good. Things are interesting with my companion. He doesn't really like me and pretty much everything I do isn't up to par with how he thinks it should be done, and some other stuff. But trying to take the good out of it.  We did divisions yesterday with two priests that both have less than a year as member.  I learned a lot.  I was trying to do everything as good as I could, and it helped me remember a few things. Things are going good.  This saturday we have the wedding and the baptism, so I'm excited for that. I'm out of time, love you and I'll write to you next week.  Here are some photos!