Well,
this week has been an emotional rollercoaster. Some really amazing things
happened, and some really not amazing things happened.
Lots
of citas (appointments) fell, Napoleon and his wife didn't go to church, and just
the normal difficulties of the mission all piled up this week. Tuesday night
kind of set everything off, but that's all I have to say about that!
Good
news. On Thursday we had a mission conference with elder Montoya (from the area
presidency). The WHOLE mission was there-- except Cajamarca. It was
awesome!!!!! I got to see almost all my friends(: President and Sister
Marble started everything off really well, then Sister Montoya spoke (also
really good), then Elder Montoya ended. Wow, it was incredible!! One of the
things I really liked is that if the people recognize us as representatives of
Jesus Christ, they will keep their commitments and progress faster. That’s
something I’ve been thinking about since then. How we act and think and plan
identifies us as representatives of Jesus Christ. It was so awesome to be
almost all together as the whole mission to hear from this inspired
leader.
Saturday
we had another capilla abierta (chapel tour), just as good as always, and more
brownies from the Bentley's (the senior missionary couple here).
This
morning we went to the temple!! That was such a blessing to feel the peace of
the temple and be in the Lord's house. All ya’ll that live
close to a temple and have the liberty to go to the temple whenever you want,
aprovechen!! (take advantage)
To
explain the subject line: (the translation would be dishonest kids) we went to
see one of our investigators that cancelled on us last week to see if we could
visit her. Her 6-year old son answered the door and this was our conversation
(in Spanish)
us:
hey! is your mom home?
him:
no, she's gone
us:
can you go ask her when we can come back?
(he
goes running off, and comes back)
him:
she's busy
us:
we just want to talk to her for a minute
(he
goes running off again and comes back)
him:
she says she's coming
(30
seconds later she comes to the door)
I
love the children here and their parents that teach them to lie to the
missionaries. They make funny stories though.
I
hope everyone has a good week back at school, lots of love from Peru!!
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