Bird is the Word

1/30/17 So besides the usual trying to talk to people in Spanish jazz, something very exciting "came to pass" this past tuesday, I'm sure you've all already heard about all of it but that's alright cause I'm gonna talk about it anyways. The church has released a change to the schedules and reporting of all missionaries worldwide. Now we have fewer numbers that we need to report which will streamline things a lot, also our agendas are changing which means I have yet another thing to get used to. And... finally the schedule is completely revamped. We still have to do all the same things, but now we decide when to do them! The church explained that by letting us exercise agency we will be more efficient, and we will adjust to life back home faster when we return. Then again this is dangerous for all the "chambone" missionaries who will probably abuse this (chambone means rulebreaker). But I'm super stoked! we will have to wait til this Saturday to know how this will apply top our mission but still we have less numbers to report now :) anyways I was thinking recently and I realized I haven't really shared experiences (or really anything interesting)... so I'm going to talk a little bit about Peru... here in pucallpa there are 2 major occupations, Motokar driver or farmer. out here in the jungle there are massive amounts of foliage and just life in general. people will claim a piece of land, and basically harvest all the stuff that happens to be there. Kinda interesting, especially the stuff these pèople bring home (like the monkey from last week) and the stories they share are crazy too. There are tigers, giant boas, pirhannas, and of course the craziest spiders you can think of. So far I've only come across the spiders... hoping for more soon :) Anyways for a spiritual message I think I'll just talk a bit about agency. Never in my life have iIrealized the significance of agency more than now. Our agency is really the only thing that god will not control. He can control the entire universe, and yet he leaves us to make the stupidest mistakes imaginable. All of that is just a part of his loves for us, because we learn so much from what we do, and to make it all better, We can completely clean up the mistakes we make through the atonement. (John 3:16-17) it really is a glorious plan... and now all I have to do is put that in Spanish and go tell that to someone within the next hour :) anyways I hope you all have a great week and I hope you will apply the atonement in your lives and make it even better! love ya, Elder Grover

p.s. not many interesting things to take pics of this week, so here's a weird bird we found