I Love This Work

wellllll
i would like to formally start out my weekly address congratulating my wonderful mother on her new position at PHOENIX CHILDRENS! im so proud of you momma. i remember the various times that you have taken me there after stupid teenager incidents, for example when i got staples in my head! haha or my various trips to get my knee checked out. youre gonna be the best nurse ever! working in the hospital will probably make nursing school so much easier in some ways.


well next on my list is congratulating my awesome little bro logan on going to the regional az state tourney for all stars. thats sucha huge acheivment bud and you are an amazing baseball player, maybe even better than me (but we will have to see about that when i get back). it seems like next year you guys are gonna make it again, and maybe youll make it even farther! love ya bud


bro coleton, dont be nervous about seminary, its awesome! for real youre gonna make so many friends there and youre gonna learn a load of stuff about the gospel (name that movie!). for real dude its awesome, and plus if i find out that you dont go everyday ill kill you. and plus you can ride with your amazing senior sista kar kar everyday huh!


i am excited at the possibilty of skyping on christmas. i will get to see malorie and the new baby. that will be awesome. how is morgan feeling ? tell trent thanks for keeping an eye on my little bro's and being a good example to them.


mom too bad you missed being in chicago with marissa and christopher. that would have been sweet if your trip over lapped when they were going to be there. from what i hear it is a sweet place to live.


how is work dad ? been on any fun campouts lately ?


that's awesome that so many missionaries are taking off from our stake.
its seriously the best decision you can make in your life.


well things aren't much different yet under pres. ardila. he's trying to keep things as they are until he sees the need to change stuff. for example, PLE is one of the only missions in the world that doesn't have cell phones, not sure if you knew that, but it looks like the zone leaders are gonna get some pretty soon. SCORE!


umm this Friday ollanta humala enters as the new president of Peru!
kinda nerve-wracking, the talk on sending us out died down so that's good. but we will just have to wait and see! the 28th of July here is like our 4th of July apparently.


well ill give you guys the low down of our week and investigators.
first off this Saturday a girl named Diana is getting baptized, she's awesome! she loves going to primary and is really excited about her baptism. haha funny story, on Tuesday she said she wasn't sure about her baptism and we asked her why. lol she said that her neighbor told her that after her baptism she wouldn't be able to listen to her music or hang out with friends, she almost cried when she told us. it was so cute. of course we cleared up her doubts and now she's as excited as ever.
also this Saturday a girl named Katy (cat-E) is probably getting baptized. we aren't sure yet because her dad is out of town and she needs his permission. haha the other day we were practicing with her about what she was gonna say to her parents. it was really funny, she's so shy so we are trying to get her out of her shell. she's like 16. so ill let you know what happens there.


and last but not least the milagro of the week. well yesterday we were on the soccer court(if that makes sense) between the 2nd and 3rd hours of church and a member called us over. she was talking to a family and said hey elders this family wants to get baptized. haha we were like yaaaa I guess we could help with that. they are awesome, future bishop and missionary in the fam. they are gonna get baptized next month. the hard part is gonna be that the parents aren't married, but they are 100% percent willing to get married. so we will se how that goes. im super excited for them.


well here be my letter to president
Buenos Dias presidente!
Todo esta muy been aqua en Marksville. stamps trabajando mucho con los miembros y capacitandoles. los frutos ya estan mostrandose. muchos miembros han estado invitando sus amigos, y en una manera muy eficaz.
hemos estado pensando en hacer un noche misional donde hacemos practicas con todos pero en una manera divertido para que todos tengan la conianze de que realmente puedan hacerlo, y tambien para darles animos. tenemos muchos investigadores muy buenos y posiblemente 2 se van a bautizar este sabado. tambien hemos encontrado una familia que quiere bautizarse, solo falta matrimonio, pero estan dispuestos para hacer todo lo necesario. la zona tarma esta trabajando muy bien y todas las areas estan encontrando personas. muchas gracias por todo presidente Elder Paolacci
good morning President!

All is well here in Marcavalle. We are working hard with members and trainers. the fruits are already showing. many members have been inviting their friends, and this has been very effective.

We have been thinking about doing a night mission where we do activities with everyone. It is a fun way for everyone to have to come together, and also to encourage them to invite friends. We have many  good investigators and possibly 2 will be baptized this Saturday. We also found a family that wants to be baptized, just need marriage, but they are willing to do whatever it takes. The tarma area is working very well and all areas are finding people.
Thank you very much for every thing president
Elder Paolacci


Thanks to everyone for their constant love and support. I have the picture cds made, I just want to write a couple more letters before I send them. and theres a little problem, no mail system here in la oroya. but don't you fret I will get them there as soon as I can. I will probably send a package when I go to Lima for Zone Leader Counsel next week. so no worries it is on it's way soon.

well I love all of you guys so much! and miss you all, im coming up on a year, crazy huh. its going by so fast, but im loving it more than I thought possible. I love being able to help people realize that this is the true church. the look on their faces when they tell us that they received a divine answer is something I will cherish my whole life. I love this work and I know without a doubt that this church is true and it is the way to true happiness.


love - Elder Paolacci

Congrats Bro !!!

The District

WAHHHHHHH!!!!!
Dang thats so sick! (he is referring to Logan's All Star baseball team winning the district championship) I knew you guys would win it all! haha thats so dang cool. i so wish i was there! the state tourney is seriously gonna be one of the best experiences of your life bud. ah thats so sick! im gonna print this pic out today and keeping it with me. dude im so pumped for you man!


ok well im gonna give you guys the quick spill on my week. monday we rented out a turf soccer feild and played soccer for 2 hours, it was awesome. tuesday, just missionary stuff, wednesday my comp had to go to lima for a dentist appt, thursday we went to tarma and had our interviews with prezi and that night we went to la merced to sleep, friday was the conference, it was amazing. saturday normal missionary stuff and sunday gave a talk, haha it was like 30 minutes.
well im gonna send some pics right now cause im having trouble making a cd at the moment.


I love you guys - keep being awesome !!!
Elder Paolacci

Great Week !!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dylan Paolacci
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 9:52 AM
To: Kristan
Subject: Re: Happy Monday Elder Paolacci
HEEELLLLOOOOO FAMILIA!
im so sorry i didnt write last week. we were supposed to do our email after the temple on tuesday but i got the chance to go to MANCHAY! it was so awesome. i only had an hour so i went to go visit blanca (pensionista) and the fam. it was so amazing. i got to congratulate carla for her baptism (she got baptized 2 days after i left). she is way awesome, she already has an insanely strong testimony and is miamaids president. but the crazy news is that, i dont know if you remember me talking about her brother carlos, but when i got there the first thing he told me is that he got baptized too! and he told me that me and elder vizcarra seriously changed his life. he used to walk around with the gangs in manchay and always got in alot of trouble, fighting, and just not on the right path. now hes going to church every sunday, going to seminary, and who knows maybe he will serve a mission someday. im so proud of him, and really just proud of the whole family. i love them so much, idk why but they have just been so important to me my whole mission. so i figured it was worth the little sacrifice to go see them. i have a pic that i wanted to send you guys but i forgot my cables in the room.
oh ya today i complete 11 months!!! cool huh -well lets see if i can answer your questions from last week -
yes i got your packages with the shirts and stuff, and all the letters i think. i am in love with my packers shirts just to let you know.
well last pday we just were on a bus to lima,sounds like fun huh.
today we are thinking about renting out a turf feild that they have here in tarma and play some real soccer for the first time since the ccm.
um im pretty sure you already know but theres about as many dogs here in the streets as there are people. so about everyday theres a little dog threat, but ive got my ways to scare them away....cough cough(rocks). haha lets just say playing baseball is paying off.
well my pensionistas name is hermana gina. shes awesome, she cooks really well and she doesnt make me eat food that i hate. she cooks all of our meals and does it good. the only bad thing is that she lives like 10 minutes from the house in taxi, so we have to spend a majority of our travel funds on that. she has a family of like 5 or 6. all boys, but they all are older and have their own families now.
haha not sure if i told you but this is probably the funniest branch on the face of the earth. alot of old people that like to talk, imagine a ward full of ingas. they are still lacking alot of leadership and orden, but we are helping them get better.
hmmm so lets see the people im teaching...first off we are working alot with less actives and inactives here and are having alot of success. we have found a couple family members that arent members so we are activating families and baptizing at the same time. one girl we met this week that has a baptismal date is named diana, shes 11 years old. haha shes really cute and loves going to church. we are also teaching a family whos mom was just in the hospital, and they are all gonna get baptized pretty soon.
hmm well anything i need... well if you could it would be awesome if you could send a pack of uno, skip bo, phase 10, and those card games like that.they are fun on pdays and at night when me and my comp cant sleep. um as far as money goes im trying really hard to save, i dont buy as many sodas now as before, but that doesnt make too huge of a difference because they cost like 40 cents haha. but ya if you cant find some of those pilot g2 pens those are nice. and ya just snacks i guess, i loved the graham crackers with frosting, maybe go to costco and get their boxes of skittles and snickers. haha thats what elder madsens dad sent him. just send what you feel like sending i guess.oh except the cliff bars, i have all the energy i need.
so lets see, heres a little summary on the zl conference.we got to lima monday night, stopped by a place that sells ties cheap and bought 2 ties. monday night in the office saw some of my buddies. tuesday morning had conference from 8 to 1. it was insanely long, but learned alot. after that we went to lunch at some chicken restaurant, it was good. after that we went to the temple, awesome as always. after the temple took off to manchay. we slept in the mission home
again tuesday night where we bought our pizzas. and wednesday morning took off to la oroya. this was the first conference of pres, and hna ardila (R-dee-luh) haha. they are awesome, we miss pres. leyva but the ardilas are gonna be awesome too. hna ardila is super nice, like crazy nice haha. so ya im excited to have them as our leaders.
well oh my goodness logan just sounds like you guys are killing it out there on the baseball field! thats awesome i so wish i was there. all stars is seriously gonna give you some of your favorite baseball memories ever. good luck bro. oh and thats sick that the next level is in flagstaff. hope you make it. beat pv north for me would ya if you play them ! Play hard tonight for me and have mom send me some pictures of you. I will be totally cheering you on in spirit tonight and sending you all of my big bat vibes from Peru !!!
Grant told me coleton is getting huge, just make sure he stays out of my good clothes. So coleton what did you decide on as a sport ? Man totally get out there and play Golf. You can use my clubs. Just do it you would be awesome. Then I will have a golfing buddy when I get home.
Karleigh I need to hear about your life. I love you little sister. I cant believe you are going to be a senior in high school. WRITE ME !!!
I bet Morgan and trent are excited about the new baby. That is crazy I will have 2 neices when I come home. Malorie will be old enough to hang with me so that will be cool.
Tell marissa I am excited about their move to chicago. I would love to go visit chicago when I get home.
Dad - how ya doing ?
Please tell everyone thanks for their letters. I got steve & karens card too! Love the support I get from my family. You guys are awesome.
let the grandmas know how much I appreciate them. crazy you havent heard about grandma harpers call. a good lesson in patience. And mom thanks for everything, i love ya. thanks for all the support you have been giving me. i tell everyone i have the best mom in the mission!
 oh ya heres my letter to prezi
Buenos dias Presidente!
este semana ha sido muy bueno. estamos trabajando bastante aqui en marcavalle y estamos ayudando mucho a las personas aqui. estamos reativando y encontrando bautismos a la vez. hemos estado enfocandonos mucho en la manera de solver las dudas de las personas como hemos aprendido en el consejo. mis estudios nunca han sido mejores. estoy enfoncandome much en las experiencias de alma y amulek, y estoy aprendiendo como ser un mejor misionero y compañero. estoy muy agradecido por el ejemplo que ya esta haciendo para todos de nosotros y estoy animado por la conferencia viernes!
Elder Paolacci
Good morning President!

This week has been very good. We are working hard here in Marcavalle and we are helping people a lot here. estamos reativando y encontrando bautismos a la vez. We have been focusing a lot on how to resolve the doubts of the people as we learned in the council. my studies have never been better. I enfoncandome much on the experiences of Alma and Amulek, and I'm learning how to be a better missionary and companion. I am very grateful for your example already and what you are doing for all of us and I am excited for the conference Friday!
oh ya and later this week we have multi zone conference in la merced! i get to see sheridan again, and my hijo parada! (that is the missionary he trained) well i tried typing a good letter this week. i love you all. time is flying, in one month ill have a year out here. i am loving it more than i ever imagined.
love Elder Paolacci
p.s. oh and ya i promise you that pics are on the way. im sure you guys are dying, im so sorry, ill get them done asap.

P-Day

I'm Loving It Out Here

wow I had no idea that had happened. I saw Elder Diaz like halfway through his bus trip because everyone passes through la oroya when they go to provinces.. but ya the assistants called me asking if i had told people what happened to elder diaz, haha i was kinda surprised because i had no idea what was happening, lol but they were convinced i knew something....but i didnt. um im not sure if they want me knowing anything more but when i go to Lima for the zl counsel next week I will talk to them about what we can do. thats really sad and ill do my best to help him out. thank you so much for your love and im sure everything will turn out alright. What a great group of moms we have back home. The strength of our mothers doesn’t surprise us and everyone should be aware what our moms can accomplish when they unite. Thanks mom for all you do.

well about the whole bank thing. i got permission to call chase, but they were not very customer service friendly and didnt help me at all. so ya thanks for helping me keep track of things, should help alot. i figured out i get charged 5 bucks everytime i take money out, no matter where or how. haha i had no idea it would be so lame with all these fees and stuff, we have lost alot of money due to this and im really sorry. but theres nothing i can do about it now, just gotta be smart.

 

haha well that gets rid of the sad stuff.

 

lets see highlights of the week, wednesday was transfers and as the zone leaders in la oroya we are in charge of all province changes. i got to see lots of elders, including elder diaz and elder parada! haha my little boy is going to one of the coolest areas in the mission! hes going to pichinaki (la merced). i was so jealous haha. as far as the zone goes we just had a few, me and choqque are staying together.

 

I almost got killed by a dog, probably time to take out the dog dazer.

 

I ate the graham crackers and chocolate frosting that you sent me, that might be my favorite thing you have sent me lol. you know me too well.

 

haha so thats cool you got to chat alot this weekend with elder madsens mom, haha hes a great guy, he wants me to train or something to play rugby. ha i just said "look at me" and he responds with the best compliment i have recieved in my whole life..."but you got black man calves" lol made me so happy. he also gave me a snickers, awesome.

 

well i have completely forgotten what 115 degrees feels like, haha i tell the people here that it gets that hot in AZ and they freak out, they asked me if people melt, haha the people in provincia are awesome.

 

 well thats awesome that logan is on the all star team, im not surprised or anything. good luck bro and go do some work, all you gotta do is beat north and ill be happy (but if you dont ill still be happy haha). i wish i could be there to watch his games, i miss that.

 

i cant believe eric esplin is already coming home! goes so fast! wow, and tell matt breshears good luck and that hes gonna love latin america.

 

coy only has what like 3.5 months left?! dont wanna talk about that.

 

haha thanks for the pens and sudoku, my comp is on a crazy search for those pilot g2 pens, i told him id ask you to send some the next package.

 

Here is one of my favorite scriptures I want to share this week -

 

alma 44:4 Now ye see that this is the true faith of God; yea, ye see that God will support, and keep, and preserve us, so long as we are faithful unto him, and unto our faith, and our religion; and never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed except we should fall into transgression and deny our faith.

 

this scriture clearly lays out what we need to do to be able to recieve the wonderful blessings that our father in heaven has for us. its a promise and our heavenly father will never fail to keep a promise, we just have to be faithful, and live his gospel and be true to the promises we have made.

 

Another one of my favorite scriptures that I want to share is -

 

Ether 12:12 "For if there be no faith among the children of men God can do no miracle among them; wherefore, he showed not himself until after their faith."

it just shows that we will not recieve any miracles unless we have faith. alot people that lose their faith start to lose it even more because they say that god has left them or they feel he doesnt care, when in reality its really due to our lack of faith.

 

well this is president leyvas last week in the mission. im so glad i got to have him as a leader and a huge example in my life

 

heres my letter to him

 

Buenos Dias Presidente,
Ya pues entonces parece que este es mi ultima carta que le voy a escribir como mi presidente de mision. Solamente quiere agradacerle por todo que hizo para mi, y para todos los misoneros que le conocieron. En verdad usted es un gran lider y mucho mas un gran ejemplo para mi. En mi corto tiempo aqui en la mision usted me ha mostrado muchos atributos que quiero tener, y que estoy esforzandome para tener. Quiero expresarle mi amor y agradacimiento por todo. Sé que usted ha bendicido bastantes vidas, y quiero hacer lo mismo. Siempre me voy a recordar de usted y su firmeza que tiene en este evangelio. Muchas gracias por todo presidente.
Elder Paolacci

 

 It seems that this is my last letter I will write to you as my mission president.I  just want to thank you for all you did for me and for all the missionarys that knew you. Truly you are a great leader and a great example for me. In my short time here in the mission you have shown me many attributes that I have, and more that I'm striving to have. I want to express my love and Acknowledgements for everything. I know you have blessed many lives, and I want to do the same. I will always remember you and your strength which you have in this Gospel. Thank you very much for everything president.

well thats all folks, thanks for everything, i love you all. im loving it out here.

Love

Elder Paolacci

p.s. we have alot of people we are teaching and they are awesome. we have about 4 people with baptisimal date for july!

EMAIL TIME !!!

email time!
well this week was great. started off with a sweet bday. we ended up going to that cave gain but we went like a mile in, it was way cool, also got some pics. so now i think im ready to burna pic cd and send it to you guys. ive been writing some letters and stuff, i just wanna get the best bang for my buck if im gonna send something home. so ya this week was great. we have been working way hard and we have found alot of people to teach. its crazy because when we got here we thought the area was dead, but it looks like we were way off. haha this is seriously an interesting place to say the least.
well heres my letter to presidente
buenos dias presidente!
este semana ha sido una gran experiencia aqui en marcavalle. en verdad hemos tenido bastante exito. es loco como el señor nos ayuda cuando trabajamos diligentamente. hemos encontrado muchas personas que van a tener fecha para julio. hubieran tenido fecha pero no pudieron ir a la iglesia. pero sabemos que este domingo que sigue muchos vana venir.
tambien hemos estado esforzandonos mucho para ayudar las areas en la zona a tener personas con fecha. hemos estado verificando todos las noches y en verdad esta ayudandoles mucho. estamos muy bien aqui en marcavalle y en la zona tarma y estamos animados para trabajar.
Elder Paolacci
good morning President!
This week has been a great experience here in Marcavalle. we have indeed been quite successful. it is amazing how the Lord helps us when we work diligently. we have found many people who will be prepared for baptism in July. They would be ready to set a date now,  but they need to attend church more. but we know that this Sunday after many of them will be attending. We've also been working hard to help other areas around us. I've been checking in with them every night and it is really helping a lot. well here in the area Marcavalle tarma things are good and we are encouraged to work.
well im gonna answer your questions first - yes i got the 3 packages with the thermals. we are encouraged to only listen to hymns here, not really even motab, so dont worry about buring me any special ones.well we arent really sure what its gonna be like when the new president enters, all i know is that we have zl counsel 3 days after he gets here - so thats gonna be i can't believe it is time for president leyva to go. the truth is im gonna miss him, hes an amazing guy.
sultan (the dog) was sick the other day, usually hes like way happy and crazy when he sees us but this time he just walked up to us and let us pet him. BUT after we were walking away a dog started barking at us and sultan came running down the hill and messed him up. haha hes such a cool dog. 
sooo ya thats awesome that logan made the all star team, i bet they will go to state, go pv east, o wait shadow mountain
i cant believe coleton went to efy, he cant be that old yet, and plus he never asked me permision to go so we are gonna have to have a little chat.

im actually really excited to hear about grandmas call, its gonna be way cool


well transfers are tommorow night, BUT im almost positive me and my comp are staying together, in fact there shouldnt be too many changes in our zone. im predicting and hoping that someone from my mtc group comes up to zl. but ya well see
so ya lifes great here in la oroya haha. the mission is going by way fast, but im loving it every single minute of it.
i love all you guys so much and keep being awesome!
love
Elder Paolacci

Officially half way to 40 !!!

Wahhhhhhhhh
ahhh well im officially halfway to 40, is that a bad way to look at it? haha i seriously cannot believe im already 20. i would prefer not to be but heh what can i do. thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes! i am gonna try my best to write a bunch of letters to everyone this week. oh ya about the whole mail thing, the strike is over so it should be safe to send stuff. if they kick us out they wont be doing it for another month or so. so ya its safe to send stuff.
so i guess ill start off with the zone leader conference we had. we traveled to lima monday afternoon, and got there monday night. that night i saw vizcarra, johns, and a bunch of elders i know, oh ya and fogleman with his dang aaron rodgers shirt haha. but ya we stayed up talking until 1 am, apparently thats not against the rules in the zl conference haha.
the next day we went to the temple with president and his wife, which was amazing. after the temple we had the zl counsel.
it was cool, we go over announcements, and rules and stuff that should be made or changed, and then president taught. He's an amazing teacher. dont be surprised if he gets called as a seventy after he gets released.
After the counsel i went on splits with the assistants. it went really well and we taught some pretty interesting people (we were in la molina, the richest part of peru haha). well after the splits we went back to the house and guess whati bought ????
PIZZZZZZAAAAAAAA hahah from papa johns, lets just say it was amazing. my first pizza in almost 5 months! haha i ate a whole xl pizza.
The next morning (Wednesday) we took off back to la oroya, and almost missed our bus. oh and ya i tried to go to manchay but it just didnt work out. maybe next time.
um so ya it was a good week here in la oroya. this weekend we had 3 baptisms, my first baptisms in like 2 months. it was way cool. in our time here in la oroya we have noticed that the branch is a little weak as far as orginization and stuff like that goes, but after the baptisms our respect grew so much for these people because we saw that they are some of the most loving and helpful people that we have met. it was pretty amazing
so ya heres my very short letter to presidente (since I was just with him most of the week)
hola presidente! este semana en marcavalle fue lo maximo. tuvimos tres bautismos este fin de semana y hemos encontrado various personas que aceptaron fecha.en verdad fue una semana muy buena y todo fue por todo el trabajo que hemos estado poniendo. se que realmente vamos a tener mucho exito aqui en estas semanas en marcavalle. tambien la zona tuvo una semana muy buena y los misioneros estan muy animados. Elder Paolacci
Google translate
Hello President!
Everything in Marcavalle this week was awesome. We had three baptisms this weekend and we found people who were looking for the gospel. Many have accepted baptism dates. It was indeed a very good week and we are happy for all the work we have been getting. We are going to have much success here in the following weeks in Marcavalle area. It has been a very good week and are very encouraged missionaries.
　
well today we are taking a trip back to that way sweet cave and we are gonna have more time to go deeper. its gonna be sweeetttt.
well i love you all and thank you so much for being so great to me.
ill try to have the best birthday i can. thanks again for all the bday wishes!
Love
Elder Paolacci
p.s. coleton dont have too much fun at efy, and stay away from the girls.