estas engordando!

Another great week here in Cajamarca!                                                    

Monday

We went with some other missionaries to Santa Apolonia, you go up a million stairs to  a church with a huge cross, then up more stairs to the top of the hill to look out over all of Cajamarca! It's really cool, it was beautiful up there!

Tuesday

I had a really rough morning, feeling sad and homesick, but then in the afternoon we found Nora! She's an old investigator and was super open and asked questions, and promised she'd read the Book of Mormon we gave her. It was an awesome lesson and we're hoping to have another one soon. That really showed me that the Lord answers prayers and that He will pick us up when we're feeling down.

Wednesday

We went to another old investigators house and taught the restoration, but when I asked her if she'd read the Book of Mormon, she straight up said no...that's never happened, and I was pretty surprised. She's catholic and was very nice, but doesn't really want to change. #rejection

Thursday

So we were at the house of some older members, and after the lesson, he said, 'Hermana Stevenson, estas engordando!'......thanks hermano....I'm going to have to start eating less bread and rice. It was funny though, cuz people talk about that all the time, and they say that a lot to hna Delgado. We had a super awesome lesson with Susana at the church. It's been awhile cuz she's been out of town, and Carlos is in Lima for another month, but it was good to have a lesson with her. We had the keys to the chapel and went in, but before the lesson started, the security alarm went off! We didn't know the code to shut it off, so we called the zone leaders like 5 times before they answered and they came and turned it off. kinda funny

Friday

We looked through our area book and found the teaching record of someone that said 'Golden investigator'. So we were like sweet, lets go there! So we knocked, a lady opened the door, and we barely had time to say hola before she closed the door in our faces....so we just laughed and walked away. Maybe we'lll try again later. We had a  lesson with Carla and went over the baptism interview questions. She did really well, and we're planning her baptism for the 17th!! super excititng.

Sunday

One of our investigators, Julio, came to church! He's older and we're not sure how much he understands, but he has a friend in the ward, so he went to Sunday school and priesthood with him. His friend told us that he loved church and wants to go again next week!!

The primary kids also made us super cute notes, so that was cool to get those.

I hope everyone at home is doing well!! A quote that I really like is 'the great thing about the gospel is that we get credit for trying, even if we don't always succeed.' by Elder Holland. I like that alot, because if life was based off our success, we wouldn't get very far, especially in missionary work. So keep on doing the small things (scripture study, prayer, going to church), and keep trying, and the lord will be patient with us and bless us. Love you all!!