Workin'

Well it's been another great week here in Cajamarca!                          

Monday

We went to the Hermana leaders’ pension’s house for lunch and we made chocolate chip cookies!! From a mix, and they weren't as good as at home, but still. Hna Delgado and I went with Hnas Canizales and Sellan and took a tour of the church of San Francisco. I think it's where the Spanish held the funeral for the king of the Incas, Atahualpa, after they killed him. Then proceeded to conquer the rest of Peru. Kind of the motto of Cajamarca is "donde todo empezo" (where everything began). So really it was the end of the Incas and the beginning of the Spanish...it was cool though and reminded me a bit of touring churches in Europe. All in all it was a super fun day.

Tuesday

We had a lesson with Antonette, an investigator who's had almost all the lessons, but we just found her like a week ago. She wants to be baptized and she's 18 so she can choose for herself, but her mom wants her to read the entire Bible before she gets baptized to make sure it's the right decision....so we're trying to figure out what to do about that. She’s awesome though and has lots of faith

Thursday

We had a lesson with James and Violetta about the law of chastity again. I studied for them during personal study and we decided to talk about obedience and how much we can be blessed when we obey the commandments. We challenged them to pray about a date to be married and they said they would. I think we were able to be direct but loving, and we had a lot of help from the spirit. We have another lesson scheduled with them so we'll find out then if they did or not. 

Friday

We had a really good lesson with Carla and Hernan about celestial marriage and family history. Carla seemed really interested that we can do work for the dead, especially for family members. She's still praying about a baptismal date, but she's doing really well and I can tell she wants to be baptized, but she just wants to be sure.

Saturday

We had a get together at the ward mission leaders house as a going away party for Hermana Canizales. It was super fun, we had lunch and talked for awhile. hna Delgado and I also learned the dance the other missionaries made up to the song "workin" by David Archuletta and jamesthemormon so that was fun. It was fun to be with the missionaries in our ward (zone leaders and sister training leaders), they're super fun to be around, and familia campos is super awesome. 

Sunday

We had to say goodbye to hna Canizales :(  super sad...the power was out most of the day, and we can't proselyte at night if there's no power. It came back on at dinner, but then went out again. We were supposed to have an FHE but rescheduled it and went back to our house. It was super super dark and a little scary...we went upstairs to where hna laura lives (she makes our breakfast) and hung out with them. The power came back on, but we didn't want to go back out again in case the power went out again. We watched a video about the life of President Monson that was super awesome and had popcorn. It was super fun! President Monson is so amazing, what an example of service and complete loyalty to the Lord! I'm so grateful to have a living prophet who can receive revelation from our Heavenly Father. 

I hope everyone has a good week, especially with school starting!! I love you all!!

 

Sis Delgado - Anna's trainer