Tuesday
We had a lesson with Moises, he's been inactive for over 10 years
and his wife is not supportive of us coming or of him coming back to the
church. We taught lesson 3: the gospel of Jesus Christ (faith,
repentance, baptism, gift of Holy Ghost, endure to
the end) and he was more focused than he's ever been. Usually he's
flipping through his hymn book or Book of Mormon and it's frustrating
cuz he doesn't seem to pay attention. But as I explained the importance
of church attendance because we can take the sacrament,
he really seemed to pay attention and think about it. Because of his job
he can't come to church till after conference, so we'll see what
happens. That night we went by the house of a girl we've taught once. She wasn't home so we knocked a door down the street
but they weren't home either. As we turned to leave, the girls brother
called to us and told us to go back. The mom came out and said her
daughter wasn't home but that she wanted to listen. We started on the
restoration lesson, and after I explained how the
gospel blesses families she started crying and told us how they'd had a
happy marriage and family for 20 years and her husband recently had an
affair.....so we talked to her about that and tried to help and comfort
her. It's cool how the Lord leads us to people
we can help, hopefully we'll be able to keep meeting with her to help
her overcome this challenge.
Wednesday
Carla had her baptismal interview and passed!! We were super excited, and she was excited too.
Thursday
It rained!!! like super hard, but only for about an hour. But we
had to wear the super ugly rain boots we had in the apartment. But it was
so much fun, I was in heaven(: also, Carla texted us to say she was
super nervous and wanted to postpone her baptism......so
we went and visited her and shared a scripture and asked her to pray
about it.
Friday
I went to Lima to get my visa, and got to go with Hna Clark and Hna
Lee, two of my best friends from the CCM!!!! It was literally the best,
we had so much fun talking about everything that's happened in these
last 10 weeks. we went to immigrations and filled
out papers and got our cards, then went back to the airport and had Papa Johns (the first real pizza I've had here, it was awesome), and then me
and two elders from my zone flew back to Cajamarca. It was super sad to
say goodbye to my friends again, but it
was amazing to see them again!! I got back at 6 and we went to try and
visit Carla but she wasn't home...
Saturday
we talked to Carla, and she decided to postpone her baptism...we
were both super bummed, and hna Delgado will probably be gone by the
time she gets baptized. but the elders in Banos del Inca are in our
district and they had a baptismal service for three
people so we went to that to support them, and that was cool. But it was
sad to not have our own.
Sunday
A lot of things worked out to lead us to a member that really
needed to talk to us. She and her husband are pretty young and seem like
the perfect couple, but apparently they're having problems. We listened
and shared what we could without actually giving
counsel. I love her a lot and we're praying that they figure things out. I also gave my first talk!! It was about the blessings of the temple
and I thought it went pretty well. Although I forgot to take my
scriptures up so I had to improvise a bit...but I can
tell that my Spanish is progressing, the gift of tongues is real!!!
I know that this church is true and that Heavenly Father and Jesus
Christ know us personally and love us. We have a living prophet who
receives direct revelation from God, and we have the only full and true
gospel of Jesus Christ. So all y'all who know
that too, go share it!! Like Sister Oscarson said, "we have the greatest
message of hope and help the world has ever known" love you all!
Lunch at Bembos in the
mall
A rainstorm - finally!
This is the son of the member we live with. And yes, that is his natural hair. He's like Harry Potter.
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