Have a fun time at the beach!

Wow, have a fun time at the beach. Sounds like fun. We will have to go
again when I get back. The fourth of July Parade and balloon launch sounded
fun. Im glad none of you got hurt. We were going to celebrate here and
order pizza but then we forgot that we are supposed to fast dinner saturday
night until lunch sunday morning, so we will have to celebrate today. We
also have to celebrate because Chile won the Copa America! Haha! Our whole
ward is anti-chileno and everyone gives Elder Ibañez a hard time.
Especially since Chile beat Peru on Monday. When Peru is playing there is
nobody in the streets, and the people in the streets are glued to the
television screens that are in stores and restaurants. Its kind of funny
but it was hard to make appointments and visit people because everyone was
watching futbol.
Congratultions on your ordaination Tristan. Thats really exciting, now you
get to go to the temple! I`ve been talking to Christian Wendelboe and he
said that he will look out for you. He said that he has been talking to you
too.
Hermana and President Larson made a mission blog. It is
larsonsinlima@blogspot.com. They are going to put all of the mission
pictures there that they take of us.
As for this week`s proselyting, it went pretty slow. We werent able to
visit the Guzman family and they didnt come to church. We are going to go
find them again this week. The highlight of this week though is that we got
to go with the ward to the temple. The ward took us, all of the YM and YW
and all of the new members to do baptisms for the dead. We were able to
take Cintia, Carmen, Billy, Carlos, and Pilar. Carmen and Pilar didnt go
inside, but stayed outside with us. The temple is super important in the
process of conversion. They tell us that we should bring all of our
converts to the temple within 3 months of their baptism. THose that go to
the temple soon after their baptism are way more likely to stay active in
the church.
Yesterday we had a meeting with the new President and his family. They seem
pretty good. I am excited to see what changes they are going to make.
I love you all,
Elder Kevin Torgersen

We made chilean "completos" with Hermana Coset and Alex.

Oh yea, President Packer passed away this week. Its really sad and President Larson says that Elder Scott is really sick too. We should pray for them.