Every week it gets a little
bit harder to remember what´s happened this week because they all meld
together like none other. But it sufficeth me to say that it was a
pretty swell week.
Oh I know! I´ll tell you about Julio!
Oh I know! I´ll tell you about Julio!
So
we haven´t had any new investigators in weeks and we haven´t been able
to find any of our progressing, so we decided to go through the area
book and just contact a bunch of antiguo investigadores. And one of them
was Luigi. He´s a younger guy who had a baptism date but couldn´t quite
get over his WOW problems. And I guess the whole time while they were
teaching him, they wanted to teach his pop too, but Luigi always said
that he would never accept the gospel or anything. So they didn´t teach
him. Bummer. So we went to find Luigi and who answered the door? Julio!
His father! We told him about the English classes we offer and he was
super pumped about that because he wanted to learn what his sweatshirt
said (It said "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off
today") And then we told him that we were missionaries and had a message
about Jesus Christ and then he just went off about how much he loved
God and wanted to learn more about him and how he knew there was a
purpose in life and he prayed to find happiness and all this cool stuff
and we were just like Wow! And so we wanted to set an appointment with
him and he was like well I´m super busy, can I just come to church with
you on Sunday and we were thinking "Heck yah you can come to church with
us on Sunday get baptized while you´re at it why don´t ya!" Like can
you say Investigador de oro?? Because I sure can. So Sunday rolls around
and we´re waiting outside the capilla for our investigadores and 10,
20, then 30 minutes pass, and no one. We had called so many people and
stopped by houses to get our people there. But no one. And we were
especially bummed about Julio. So we go through sacrament meeting, and
gospel principles class, just normal. And then someone knocks on the
door of the gospel principles room. And its the son of one of the
members of the Stake presidency. And he says that there´s a man outside
waiting for the Hermanas. And Hna G and I were like,,, um kay. And we go
out, AND THERE¨S JULIO!!!!! WE literally almost started crying. Because
we had been fasting for our people to come to sacrament meeting! AND
JULIO CAME!! well a couple hours late, so he wasn´t actually in
sacrament meeting, but hey I´ll take it! He apologized for being late
and said something about how he couldn´t get there on time because there
was a fiesta and a car and I´m still unsure about that whole part. But
he came and stayed for the rest of the meetings and participated like a
regular ol latter day saint! We were so happy. And everyone was saying
"What? That´s Luigi´s dad? I thought they said he would never come!"
Yeah it was a little bit of a miracle. He´s a super swell gentleman and
loves to talk and just wants to learn. I think we´ve got a real shot
with this one!
Ok one more short story and then I´m gonna
upload photos because I haven´t done very much. Last night we went to a
family home evening in the home of a less active. And gosh
that house gave me nightmares. The walls were plastered with cupids,
there were toy Elmos' everywhere, and dolls. Dolls. DOLLS! Just
everything that you would picture in a horror movie about kids or
something. Terrifying. I have a picture of me and one of the dolls. it´s
a baby. I´ll send it.
Oh one more funny thing about Puno.
They have the worlds largest amount of hair salons on one street record I
swear. And they funny thing with all these peluquerías is that they all
have pictures of like famous people as their models as if those people
had actually been there. There´s ones with Hilary Duff, Linsdey Lohan,
even Beyonce. I just think it´s funny.
Well for my spiritual
thought this week, I´ll share something I read in my personal study this
week. It was about Joseph Smith and how it´s so easy these days for
people to fall away from the church because of the things said and read
about Joseph Smith.And one thing Elder Neil Anderson said was that we
need to fasten our own spiritual oxygen mask before we can help others
with theirs, otherwise, we´ll be caught in the same trap. And I know
this to be true because if we are not continually striving to strengthen
our own testimony, we will not and we cannot help others. And so what I
say is the same as Elder Anderson. Learn for yourself. It´s the only
way to help others and to stay strong for yourself.
Well I´m
out! This internet cafe is playing a bunch of american music and it´s
kinda stressing me out. Like right now it´s Pumped up Kicks. Weird.
I Love you all and hope everyone is just dandy! Keep being awesome and SHARE THE GOSPEL!! Thanks!
Hermana Rust
The color was naranja by the way....
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