Elder Tyler Kohlert's Blog

General Conference BOOYYY!!! haha kinda for us!  Well we got to watch the satuday sessions... in spanish hahaha. So i got about none of it. We put on the subtitles but i dont know if you guys have ever used them, they are trash. Like they dont make any sense and theres tons of spelling and grammatical errors you can barely read them. It reminds me when Mom trys to talk to Siri by putting it right next to her mouth and it just dont understand and spits out random words ahhaha. Anyways 2 hour church is great, I love how the churchs focus is really moving to the family! its great!  We didnt get to watch sunday general confernce cause it was election day here and so no one does anything all day, we didnt even have church to watch general conference, super funny!! So thats what we are doing next week is i think the entire ward is going to watch general confernce or something all together i dont know, spanish is confusing hahah. Also I heard there were like 12 temples announce...

Sorry this email is super confusing... I think at least Well, this week started off completely wrong hahah! Sunday to Thursday all we did was knocked doors and went to appointments(which none of them were home!!) so we knocked more doors! Everyday we set goals on how many lessons we want to teach and new investigatores we want, and we were setting pretty high goals, and every single night we had 0 of everything hahah. The absolute worst haha. AFter like 3 days of just knocked doors and being called a Demon Hell Spawn (from what i understood) by some old lady, and just our investigatores not showing up for appointments, I started to get a little angry and frustrated at God and my companion and he wasnt happy either hahha. We werent talking much and we just started working harder and harder every day until we were completely exhausted. I was praying constantly for help  with just the mission life in general but wasnt recieving any answers!! After one night of just complete failur...

Well, I thought id never get this far hahah... I am finally in Lima, Peru! It was a huge adventure to get here. So we left the MTC at 12:30 for our flight which was at 430. We sat in the airport on our bags for like 2 hours and then finally boarded. But right before the airplane left the gate they said we popped a tire or something and the landing gear was broken hahah! so we sat in the airplane at the gate for 2 hours, they didnt fix it so they had us get off and we sat at the gate for like 5 more hours, yeah it sucked I know. A bunch of missionaries started teaching the people that were on the plane with us. After 5 hours we got on the plane at 10ish and flew to peru. We landed at 4ish in the morning. Right out of the airport we got on a bus and went to the police station to do fingerprints and visa stuff. After 3 hours there we went to a immigartion office where we sat there for like 4 hours. Whats funny about this office is, that its literally in a parking garage. Like its a circle...

Dear parents of the missionaries, We are sorry that you haven’t had any news from your sons until this moment. The reasons are, the missionaries that came from the Mexico MTC had their flight delayed and arrived in Lima at 4am. They are required to complete paperwork the entire day with immigrations in Peru. They are not permitted to work as missionaries until this is completed. The Area office manages these arrangements with the government. Therefore, we will not actually be meeting with the missionaries until tomorrow. The missionaries that were at the Peru MTC arrived in the mission today, and all of them are fine. They are working with temporary companions today and will join the other missionaries for their initial training tomorrow. They all will be writing you tomorrow when they go to work with their new companions. Greetings, Elder B Personal Secretary Perú Lima Central Mission Hello Family, ive been in Peru for 2 days and have a long s...

Howdy Buck'Os!! Well this week has been kinda alright!! Its my last week in the CCM before I got to Peru and be completely humbled because of my spanish!! This week we received our flight plans and ill be heading out of here on Monday at 12:30 in the Afternoon! Which is a blessing from God cause almost 70% of the missionaries leave at like 3am, so itll be nice not have to take a redeye flight. Today I packed all of my things to go weight them and prepare them for our flight. Then we had to unpack so we had cloths for the rest of the week, so that really wasnt productive. This week in invited one of our "investigators" to be baptised, and of course he said yes cause Elder P and I are just the best teachers in the entire CCM. Our other investigator is kinda mean, or i just think that cause i dont like our morning teacher. I dont know what it is about her but she gets on my nerves sometimes... also if i remember right, she looks like the Spider off of George and the Gian...

One Month BBBBOOYYYSSS!!! This has been the slowest but fastest month of my entire life!! haha Wednesday we had our first offical PDay where we didnt go to the temple. So pretty much isntead of being in class for 12 hours, we just played sports and ate food for 12 hours. Which was way awesome.  These best thing all week was probably just plaing frisbee with these Caps that we take off the giant 20 Liter water drums. You can fling them like 15 yards to each other, its about the only thing keeping us sane here... I think!! We played Dodgeball with them.. it got pretty violent and one point where we just started throwing them as hard as we could at each other hahaha. We said Goodbye sunday night to the best district our zone has ever had... besides ours. They were literally the goofiest people in the entire world. Its was kinda a sad cause they were like the only people nice to us.  We had some devotionals again on sunday and tuesday, i dont remember anythin...

Mornin!! hahaha Well, i dont remember where i left off last week so imma just start with the temple trip on wednesday. Every district does 2 temple tricks while they are here and they played us dirty cause we went our first 2 weeks, so pretty much we have nothing to look forward to for the next 4 weeks. But thats alright. The temple was way cool untill i got to the start of the endowment session and realized i forgot the name and my headphones stopped working. So pretty much I had to listen to the entire session in all spanish. I think i almost fell a sleep like 4 times. hahaha The rest of the week weve just been learning and teaching investigators 2 times a day. The only thing i look forward to are the meals that are still pretty bad... except costco pizza on tuesdays hahaha. Also my Afternoon teacher, Elder G is super awesome, he loves us and jsut wants to have fun with us while teaching. When we walk from the classroom to our Online Class we play a game where w...

Sup Guys!! I'm gona start of by saying sory if my speling is terible hahaha. these keyboards you cant use the same key twice in a row. So hopefuly you can read through it.:. sory!! hahaha Well, im trying to think of ecverything that has hapened this week but realy nothings hapened. Just been learning spanish and gospel doctrine all day everyday!! Wednesday we went to the temple and did an endowment session in spanish! we had headphones to listen in english but we were so tired and I also found out that the parts where you have to talk are even harder in spanish! hahah they are already hard enough in english as is!! haha Its was super awesome to go though, felt the spirit a ton. Sunday we had a devotional that i forgot what it was on, sorry. I forgot to bring my note book so i cant read any of my notes from it... but i promise it was way good. Tuesday we had another devotional which was a LIVE devotional from the PROVO MTC. Christofferson taught, it ...

THOMAS, YES!!! There are 2 ping pong tables... okay sorry promised I would start my email like that. Well, when I got to my gate at the airport there was only 1 other elder. His name was Elder L... I think. So pretty much all 257 missionaries in my shipment showed up on Tuesday and it was just me and him on Wednesday. So when I arrived at the Mexico airport we had no idea what to do cause it said in our packet to look for other missionaries... but there weren't any. So we walked around for like 30 minutes until a guy walked up to us and asked us if we were lost in Spanish. Being so nervous at the airport I didn't understand him so I just said no. He laughed and said come with me, I'm from the CCM. He drove us through the city until we got the CCM. We arrived and were told to email our parents at these computers and then wait for instruction. But after we finished our emails we just waited for like 30 minutes before anyone even came back. They did a little instruc...