Rejoice the Lord is King!

~ Felices Pascuas ~

I love my Savior, Jesus Christ.

I rejoice in His glorious Life, Death, Resurrection, Atonement... 

He is the King of Kings.

I want the world to know that I testify through

study, prayer and living the gospel and witness after witness

that He is the way the truth and the light.

I will stand by Him Forever.

His ways are always the Right ways.

Today the world wants you to think that

the laws of God are outdated

and that you are even unloving if you are following the ways of God.

They can twist anything now to make 

sin feel okay and the right way.

He has warned us about living on the earth in these last days...

Timothy Chapter 3

 1 This know also, that in the ^alast days perilous ^btimes shall come.

 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, ^acovetous, boasters, ^bproud, blasphemers, ^cdisobedient to parents,^dunthankful, unholy,

 3 Without ^anatural ^baffection, ^ctrucebreakers, ^dfalse accusers,^eincontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

 4 ^aTraitors, ^bheady, ^chighminded, lovers of ^dpleasures more than lovers of God;

 5 Having a ^aform of godliness, but ^bdenying the power thereof: from such turn away.

 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly ^awomen laden with sins, led away with divers ^blusts,

 7 Ever ^alearning, and never able to come to the ^bknowledge of the^ctruth.

I want to walk in His light always.... I want to testify of Him Forever...  I want to be with Him and like Him... I want to stand in Holy Places...

I love Jesus Christ and pray that I can show Him my love by how I live my Life!

Earthquake Tremors....

We had a really strong tremor today.

President came running into the bedroom

from my office and both of us were

yelling... Earthquake!

My bed was moving and his chair was bouncing...

I will never get used to these things.

It's bizarre.

I looked it up and it was a 5.6 on the Richter scale

just off the coast of Chimbote.

No damage just some very strong movement.

Exciting News...

Elder David A. Bednar

of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles 

will be coming to Trujillo for a Mission Conference.

Our missionaries will be able to be taught for

several hours from this great one.

He will be coming in about a month.

Our missionaries will be preparing by reading

several talks by Elder Bednar

and some other assigned reading.

He will also be looking in on the Temple Construction.

To Infiniti and Beyond.... Well, to El Niño

President Turk was out there today in the field working

I mean out there...

He was 45 minutes outside of Viru

in a little place called El Niño

He was with Elder Barrios and Elder Soto

In between Virú and El Niño there is a castle

that dates back to pre Incan times.

It's funny because you can drive by a field of crops and out in the middle

is an important ruin that is still not excavated

and the crops are growing all the way around it.

They use every bit of land right up next to it.

When I see all these ruins not excavated... I want to grab a bunch of people

and get going.  If I was in charge of this .. I wouldn't be able to sleep

until it was finished.  I feel this way with every one of the

houses here too.  I want to get a team of my missionaries 

and just finish house by house.

I am a land developer/builder's daughter.

But more importantly I want to teach every family the gospel

house by house.  And that is what our calling is here.

It is the most fulfilling and joyous thing I have ever done

in my life.... 

The world is starving and needing truth more than ever....

 “A missionary is not planting something foreign or even new into an adult or a child. 

Rather, the missionary or teacher is making contact with the Spirit of Christ already there. 

The gospel will have a familiar ‘ring’ to them” 

If the world will listen they can know for themselves that the true

Gospel of Jesus Christ is Restored to the Earth

And it is the way back to our Heavenly Father.

A person is capable of receiving spiritual guidance before 

being baptized and confirmed. 

This spiritual influence begins with the Light of Christ, which

 “is given to every man, that he may know good from evil”

Little News Flash.... New Assistant!

We were on a road trip early this morning with our 3 Assistants

Yes... it's that time again...

Elder Zarian has been called as the new 

Assistant to the President

to take Elder Mecham's spot.  He is being trained by

Elder Mecham for a couple of weeks before changes.

Elder Mecham is heading out to work hard

for a few more months.

Hopefully he can train....  He needs to have a son.

The way the numbers are going though

he might have to train a daughter or better yet

twin daughters. Not really... but it is a tricky time in all missions

I hear, not having enough Sister missionaries 

to train the flood of new ones coming.

Elder Zarian is the middle child in his family.

He is from Eagle Idaho... They raise 'em good there in Eagle.

Elder Zarian is a Zealous missionary.

We are excited to have his excitement, energy

and expertise in the office.

He will be a great leader to all that are here.

 President and Sister Marler... You will love this new Assistant.

We will have him up to speed on everything before you get here.

 We left Elder Zarian and Elder Mecham in Chimbote to work

there for a couple of days.

Thank goodness because we had to bring Elder Sancé

and his companion Elder Sato back to Trujillo with us 

and straight to the clinic.

We thought he had appendicitis and he is working 

in Cachipampa.  Not a great place to get appendicitis.

But we got him here... he was checked over and it

was negative.  They will run a couple more tests

but we were not going to risk him up in the mountains

with a bad side ache...  better safe than sorry.

We also stopped and saw our little Sandia on this trip.

This time we knew her name... the missionaries went and found her

and asked her her name and met her family.

Her name is Anna Christina and she is 11 years old

and she is so happy.  I love her.

Her family has invited the missionaries over.

I told them today that I could give them a million dollars

but it would be worth nothing compared to what the

missionaries could give them and teach them.

We will see her a few more times before we leave.

We had a wonderful conference with the missionaries

in Chimbote.  I am going to put up their pictures tomorrow.

It is late and we are still receiving health phone calls

and we just finished the birthday phone calls.

Happy Birthday Elder Cook...

You are the Best!

Chimbote Photos tomorrow... Beautiful Group.... Thanks

Elders Elescano and Randall

Elder Randall has been training Elder Elescano

who is waiting for his visa to Bolivia.

They are doing very well together and in fact

Elder Elescano asked President Turk if there was any way that

he could stay in our mission and serve in Peru

and not go to Bolivia.

Oh how we would love to keep him and all of those waiting for visas.

You bond very quickly to these great young ones.

While they were out teaching today...  a young man who was a member

came running out in the street and asked if they could come and give

his grandma a blessing.  She had just traveled down from the mountains

and was very sick.  The missionaries were so happy to help.

There was a very sweet spirit there in the room.

Oh the peace and power that come with the Priesthood.

The family was so thankful.

President loves the time he has to talk about

family and the work with these companionships

as they are walking form appointment to appointment.

The elders asked president about his family growing up

and he told them that he had two siblings that have

both passed away and he is the only one left.

Each of these Elders have lost a brother too.

They shared sweet and tender experiences 

with each other.

They are so thankful for the answers the Gospel teaches 

about life and death and eternal life. 

We are thankful for our testimonies on life after death.

Pensionista Conference/ President's Birthday Party

We love to have President Turk celebrate his birthday with the 

women that we honor and love so much.

Our Pensionistas!

President Turk was shedding a few tears over these wonderful ladies.

 Day in and Day out... they serve and serve and serve our missionaries.

We had our conference in the church and walked around  the corner

and sang "Happy Birthday" to our President in the Mission Home.

He was surrounded with music and love 

from these wonderful women.

And alot of great food from our own pesnionistas...

Lucy and Alicia!

Because it is our last Pensionista conference I had a fun raffle in honor

of my father.   He always had door prizes

at his parties...  It was a fun addition.

 Oh the sweet stories these sisters could tell....

They are the moms, psychologists, cheer leaders, nutrition specialists, 

nurses, cooks etc... to our missionaries.

We Love Each and Every one of these Special Ladies!

And an added bonus today...

Ex- Elder Briones was in town and got to celebrate with his President

and a bunch of his old pensionistas.

He's been traveling our mission for the past week.

It was so nice to see him.  Of course we put him right to work

and he jumped in and made everything better.

We love you Elder Briones!

He was just another Elder from the office today...

working hard to make everything run smoothly.

We can never thank these Elders enough.

Happy Birthday to the Love of My Life....

Honey, maybe we can have a quiet dinner alone tonight

YES?

Oops the phone is ringing off the hook.

It's hard to be so loved...  isn't it President?

President's Birthday

We are celebrating President Turk's birthday with all the 

pensionistas again....  It's perfect

Here are a few questions I asked the President last night in bed..

Favorite food as a child -  Spaghetti

#1 song played on your ipod -  Gabriel's oboe

Favorite quote -  "You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be"

Favorite day of the week - Saturday

Favorite sound - Grandchildren's voices

If you could learn to do anything -  play the piano

Name of your autobiography -"Building the Kingdom of God"

The last movie that made you cry - Les Miserables

Happiest Birthday Honey...

It's going to be a Great Day!

Out and About...

I am still trying to catch up on everything I missed when I was gone.

I know that some of you don't care about 

these pictures but these Elders and their families care.

President was out with Elder Flansberg and Elder Calvas

this past week.

 He told me that they taught a lot of lessons

and that theses missionaries were so prepared for each 

one of their investigators.  I love this!

 To take the time to prayerfully and specifically study

for those you are teaching is powerful

and the key to great teaching.

The Lord truly helps those that help themselves....

You have to follow the pattern and the steps to

be a fantastic teacher... then the Lord can pour out
His spirit to testify to truth.

Thank you Elders ... now enjoy some fruit on me....

No strawberries!

Huaca del Sol y la Luna

President Turk took the office Elders on their preparation day

to the ruins.  More than half of them had not been

to see them.  It was a perfect day.

 This is one of the symbols that adorns
the Temples of the Sun and the Moon...

It is the called the destroyer...  I don't think I will get any china

made with this face.

But I would love china made with these faces below....

 The Elders are always fascinated with all of the rituals

and beheadings and ceremonies that the tour guides talk about.

My son-in-law Landon,  just finished working for the Fender Guitar Company.

It is the company with the world famous guitars played by 

 Eric Clapton and all the great ones.

Landon had a great experience working for Fender in the finance department

but it was on the north side of scottsdale and 

Landon and Molly just bought a home in Gilbert.  

He was spending so much time on the road.

He was blessed and found a great job five minutes from his home.

This will help with three babies 3 and under.

Anyway, he stocked up on guitars and a few of the t-shirts

 so I brought some for the office Elders.

They were all sporting their new Fender shirts for the big field trip.

The office Elders look great...  but even better, they are great

through and through!

Office Tour

This is a video that the office Elders made for President and Sister Marler....

Six Degrees...

President Turk was out working with Elder Pesantes and Elder Sandiford yesterday.

Elders Pesantes and Sandiford work in Intendencia

The President and the Elders were visiting this family  

that were baptized about a year ago

The brother and sister have been on mini missions for us.

Now they are both going on full time missions.

This family was baptized by Elder Armstrong and Elder Llatance

And Elder Armstrong was with the Stake President and President Turk

in the evening meeting.... 

President Briones is the brother in law to President Turk's Counselor

Miguel Rojas.

It's always like six degrees of separation in the mission...

always connections.

Elder Sandiford and Elder Pesantes

thanks for the great day.

Line Upon Line....

On my way to the states for my Dad's funeral,

I was caught in a huge line at the LAX airport.

I have never seen such lines.

I had a connecting flight to catch and not very much time.

I said a little prayer... and was moving with my luggage to the back

of the line, when all of a sudden one of the workers grabbed me 

and said that we needed to form another line....

She pushed me up near the front to form the second line.

There was a large asian man that saw what was happening 

and he followed close behind me... chanting

"Yes, keep going, keep going"

We bypassed so many people I couldn't believe this luck.

or was it luck...

As we were now closer to the front waiting in line

the man from Hong Kong right behind me pointed to my name tag

and said... "What's this all about?'

I told him that I was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ.

He asked me a few more questions and then said...

Oh, you are the church that sends your handsome young men

into my country to steal our women...

I laughed... there were so many things wrong with this statement

and then I looked at him and could see that he was very serious.

I told him that I have been working for the last three years of my life

with over 600 of these missionaries...

These young men and women give up their social, educational,

financial and family needs for two years to 

invite others to Come unto Christ.

 I told him that I have never met finer young men and women

in all my life.  All they want to do is Serve, Lift, Love and Teach others

about our Savior and His amazing Gospel....

Great things happen because of these

young men and women.

When I was about in tears...  He said

"Wow, you have persuaded me to listen to them."

There was a young woman standing next to us listening to everything

I was saying and she said...

"I lived with a mormon family for a summer...

I have never met nicer people.

I am going to listen to the missionaries too."

There is such a craving for truth...

When people find out that what they hear about the Mormons

usually is false they are interested in the truth.

People can feel the light... they want more light.

And let me tell you that it is beautiful beyond belief

or I would not be here.

I testify that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is on the earth.

I am so grateful to be a part of this work.

We have to open our mouths and share it every day.

This great work will keep rolling forward...

.. Line upon Line.