Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
1 month.
Well. Right now I am in a fishing village on the coast of Peru. Nothing to unusual but I find myself looking back on this last year with a super nostalgia attitude. So much has changed, and yet in a way everything is the same. 1 year ago I was up in the Andy´s Mountains trying to find people I could help, people who´s lives I could change. I was pretty confused still, but just trying to focus on anyone that wasn't me. Last year I even forgot my birthday. I was studying the day after and realized that my birthday had come and gone with out a wink or sniff. I didn't even remember my own birthday. Life sure has been up and down. I can't begin to express, or put words to the feelings I have. This last year has been absolutely life changing. My life has been flipped upside down, left out in the rain, and dried again in the hot sun like the laundry here in Peru. I have been completely humbled to the ground with a language barrier and enough hospital visits to keep mom worried. But, on the other hand, built up again by love and family and friends that could never be placed by anything else. I can't say what I feel exactly but all I can say is I am so lucky. No, it sure is not luck. I am blessed! I am so happy and satisfied with my trip to Peru. It has changed my life forever and taught me things I could have never learned anywhere else. Over the next couple of months I plan on writing and publishing more of my thoughts about the whole adventure, but for now… before I get on that bus to head to my ¨home¨, I just wanted to ay thank you. Thank you to my Heavenly Father and Thank you to all my love ones. I love you and will see you soon!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
ships passing in the night
Because it has been way too long and I keep missing Jason whenever he is on, I just thought I'd take this opportunity to say I MISS YOU FRIEND. I'll see you soon :)
Monday, December 8, 2008
Christmas CD
Hello My World.
So we came back to Trujillo to re-plan the next couple of weeks, and help some of the zones. I got this idea that I thought could be really successful and help the missionaries find more people to teach. I thought that we should record a Christmas CD. Make a bunch of beautiful gift cards, and as we meet new people we can talk to them about Christmas and the Savior. Then we could give them a gift card and tell them we have a free Christmas CD we would be happy to deliver to there house and share a brief message about Christ. The president loved the Idea. We designed the gift cards… We printed up 6000. I went right to work with the recording of the CD. I had a deadline of 24 hours… so I stayed up all night recording non-stop to finish so that we would be able to burn 6,000 copies the next day. It was quite a job!
The hard things about this whole project… was that by the time I was starting my body was already starting to shut down a bit. That sore I had from the last week in Cajamarca had moved back to my throat. I felt really sick the whole night, and was without strength. I started to get a really high fever but I really couldn’t stop recording. I worked through the whole night. I had horrible pains in my whole body, and could not stop sweating. I really wanted to rest but I knew that I couldn’t. I knew that finishing the CD was so important. If I didn’t finish we would not be able to get it distributed and so many people would miss out about hearing about the Savior this year. There was a point in the night when I just began to pray. I expressed my love and desire to finish the project. Just at that moment I felt an incredible peace. I knew that I was going to have the strength to finish. I began to pretend that my deadline in the morning was the actual birth of the Savior. I imagined how the wise men might feel as they traveled… I pictured what the Sheppard might have seen as the angel spoke as the birth of the savior was announced. I imagined that this CD, or the music I could make would be my gift for the baby. Thinking this way got me though the night, and made everything more real and more special. This really made my Christmas. It is extremely hard to be away from home during the holidays, but I sure found a new appreciation for Christmas and the music. As I walked home from the mission office where I had been recording I was so thoughtful. The night was so peaceful. I am so grateful for my knowledge of the Savior, and this beautiful time I have to serve him. As I lay in my bed that night… I was so exhausted. I could not help but weep. My body was broken, I had a burning fever, but I was so grateful to be able to spend the night praising Christ through the beautiful Christmas music.
I hope that everyone enjoys the Disk. I had a wonderful time making it. All in all I finished in 14 hours. It was all nuts. Now 6,000 people are going to be able to hear free Christmas Music and hear my Testimony and know how much I love the Savior. I am so glad it all worked out.
Everyone check out the Christmas CD and tell me what you think.
Still breathing and singing,
ELDER CALL
http://www.mediafire.com/?zknzz0wwdvw
So we came back to Trujillo to re-plan the next couple of weeks, and help some of the zones. I got this idea that I thought could be really successful and help the missionaries find more people to teach. I thought that we should record a Christmas CD. Make a bunch of beautiful gift cards, and as we meet new people we can talk to them about Christmas and the Savior. Then we could give them a gift card and tell them we have a free Christmas CD we would be happy to deliver to there house and share a brief message about Christ. The president loved the Idea. We designed the gift cards… We printed up 6000. I went right to work with the recording of the CD. I had a deadline of 24 hours… so I stayed up all night recording non-stop to finish so that we would be able to burn 6,000 copies the next day. It was quite a job!
The hard things about this whole project… was that by the time I was starting my body was already starting to shut down a bit. That sore I had from the last week in Cajamarca had moved back to my throat. I felt really sick the whole night, and was without strength. I started to get a really high fever but I really couldn’t stop recording. I worked through the whole night. I had horrible pains in my whole body, and could not stop sweating. I really wanted to rest but I knew that I couldn’t. I knew that finishing the CD was so important. If I didn’t finish we would not be able to get it distributed and so many people would miss out about hearing about the Savior this year. There was a point in the night when I just began to pray. I expressed my love and desire to finish the project. Just at that moment I felt an incredible peace. I knew that I was going to have the strength to finish. I began to pretend that my deadline in the morning was the actual birth of the Savior. I imagined how the wise men might feel as they traveled… I pictured what the Sheppard might have seen as the angel spoke as the birth of the savior was announced. I imagined that this CD, or the music I could make would be my gift for the baby. Thinking this way got me though the night, and made everything more real and more special. This really made my Christmas. It is extremely hard to be away from home during the holidays, but I sure found a new appreciation for Christmas and the music. As I walked home from the mission office where I had been recording I was so thoughtful. The night was so peaceful. I am so grateful for my knowledge of the Savior, and this beautiful time I have to serve him. As I lay in my bed that night… I was so exhausted. I could not help but weep. My body was broken, I had a burning fever, but I was so grateful to be able to spend the night praising Christ through the beautiful Christmas music.
I hope that everyone enjoys the Disk. I had a wonderful time making it. All in all I finished in 14 hours. It was all nuts. Now 6,000 people are going to be able to hear free Christmas Music and hear my Testimony and know how much I love the Savior. I am so glad it all worked out.
Everyone check out the Christmas CD and tell me what you think.
Still breathing and singing,
ELDER CALL
http://www.mediafire.com/?zknzz0wwdvw
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Disponible EP
http://cdbaby.com/cd/jasoncall
That is the link of the CD!
DIGA. We finished the Peru Disponible EP. CHECK IT OUT. Let me know what you think. It is cheap. Im going to start tour here in Peru, I love you all. HOLLER!
Juice
Update SON
Heyyyyyy. Things are great and the time is moving faster then ever. Good news! I found my silver tooth that I had made a year ago up in the mountains in Cajamarca. It still fits great!
So sorry for the delay in writing an actual email. We sure have been busy. So here are the biggest changes. I am not serving in the mission office as teh financial secretary anymore. The last 3 weeks I have been training my re emplacement. He is a champ from Colorado and reminds me of a ton of my friends back home. We had a great time.
Also, in the last week or two I finished that CD i was working on. It has tons of sounds from Peru. I am going to put it online so you can all give it a check out. I feel really good about it, and am sure glad i had the opportunity to record on my last couple of Pdays.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yczd4dimdyd
That is the link of the CD!
So, my new assignment in the mission is going to be "touring artist" for the next six months of my mission I will be visiting all the areas around Peru and playing special devotionals. We will be spending 2 weeks in every stake. The first week will go to contacting leaders, setting up sound equipment, securing a place to play, and then contacting people out in the streets, and doing mini concerts to get people excited about coming out to the real concert. Then we are planning about 500-1200 people at every concert. We want to give a free CD of the program to all the people investigating. The hook is that we will write down there address and go personally deliver the CD to them during the 2nd week. I know it will be really successful because the people just react amazingly to music here. I am so excited. I got a nice thin little camera as well, so I will be taking more pictures. All and All things are amazing. Peru is incredible. One thing I have been trying to do lately is just talk exactly like the people talk. Its an absolute blast. I LOVE IT. Well i love all you and will see you in a jiffy pop... but until then TIME TO WORK!
Dont put Tweenkies on your Pizza.
ELDER Jason Juice Call
So sorry for the delay in writing an actual email. We sure have been busy. So here are the biggest changes. I am not serving in the mission office as teh financial secretary anymore. The last 3 weeks I have been training my re emplacement. He is a champ from Colorado and reminds me of a ton of my friends back home. We had a great time.
Also, in the last week or two I finished that CD i was working on. It has tons of sounds from Peru. I am going to put it online so you can all give it a check out. I feel really good about it, and am sure glad i had the opportunity to record on my last couple of Pdays.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yczd4dimdyd
That is the link of the CD!
So, my new assignment in the mission is going to be "touring artist" for the next six months of my mission I will be visiting all the areas around Peru and playing special devotionals. We will be spending 2 weeks in every stake. The first week will go to contacting leaders, setting up sound equipment, securing a place to play, and then contacting people out in the streets, and doing mini concerts to get people excited about coming out to the real concert. Then we are planning about 500-1200 people at every concert. We want to give a free CD of the program to all the people investigating. The hook is that we will write down there address and go personally deliver the CD to them during the 2nd week. I know it will be really successful because the people just react amazingly to music here. I am so excited. I got a nice thin little camera as well, so I will be taking more pictures. All and All things are amazing. Peru is incredible. One thing I have been trying to do lately is just talk exactly like the people talk. Its an absolute blast. I LOVE IT. Well i love all you and will see you in a jiffy pop... but until then TIME TO WORK!
Dont put Tweenkies on your Pizza.
ELDER Jason Juice Call
Friday, October 3, 2008
happy october!
Its October! You know what that means? ITS THE TENTH MONTH OF THE YEAR!
I hate my weather gadget on my sidebar. Every morning, I check the weather in Reno, and somehow, Peru always has better weather. I'm so jealous. Right now, its a sunny 68 degrees with little cloud coverage. In Reno, its 60 degrees with no signs of blue and a killer wind chill that's sending all the geese away. Yes, I live on a lake with geese, ducks and swans. I hate them all.
WHOA WHOA WHOA X 300. As I sit here, chewing on a red bendy straw, I can say that I am shocked. A duck just flew right towards my window, and just before hitting it, a gust of wind came and made it hit the wall instead. I hope its okay! Okay, not really. I don't care about that duck. I would go out to check but a) ducks are gross, b) im comfortable in my chair, c) i'm happy it didn't hit my window [I am NOT paying to replace a broken window due to the stupidity of a duck] and d) i have three loads of laundry on my bed waiting to be folded. Feld? Feld sounds better than folded.
Dear Jason,
I miss you.
Let's catch up soon.
Love times infinity,
Sueann
I hate my weather gadget on my sidebar. Every morning, I check the weather in Reno, and somehow, Peru always has better weather. I'm so jealous. Right now, its a sunny 68 degrees with little cloud coverage. In Reno, its 60 degrees with no signs of blue and a killer wind chill that's sending all the geese away. Yes, I live on a lake with geese, ducks and swans. I hate them all.
WHOA WHOA WHOA X 300. As I sit here, chewing on a red bendy straw, I can say that I am shocked. A duck just flew right towards my window, and just before hitting it, a gust of wind came and made it hit the wall instead. I hope its okay! Okay, not really. I don't care about that duck. I would go out to check but a) ducks are gross, b) im comfortable in my chair, c) i'm happy it didn't hit my window [I am NOT paying to replace a broken window due to the stupidity of a duck] and d) i have three loads of laundry on my bed waiting to be folded. Feld? Feld sounds better than folded.
Dear Jason,
I miss you.
Let's catch up soon.
Love times infinity,
Sueann
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