HOOOLLLAAA!
Well hey there everybody,
yet another week has passed, and today... I´ve been out for 2 months!
Honestly I really can´t tell you how fast time flies here. It´s honestly
unbelievable, I promise you that my last P day was 2 days ago. Ok
obviously it wasn´t, but it feels that way!
This last week was a tough one for many different
reasons, but at the end of the day I´m grateful for the learning
experiences I had. The week started off slow and pretty much normal,
except for the fact that I was feeling a little under the weather.
Tuesday night came and I was feeling pretty bad, but was still working.
Thursday we had a meeting with our zone and two others with the
President and his wife that lasted until about 6 pm. I wasn´t feeling
super great during the meeting, but I lived through it, and after two of
the elders gave me a blessing. That night came along and I was feeling
worse so we went home a little early and I slept. The next day I woke up
and let me tell you I haven´t been that sick in a long time. I
literally was in bed the whole day and part of the next. But... the next
afternoon I was up and kickin again. (Hermana Erickson thinks I had the
swine flu that was going around Peru). But thanks to my priesthood
blessing and lots of rest I was able to get back to the work I´m doing
here. So don´t worry about me too much (Mom.. haha)
Saturday we visited Hermana Consuelo. We had given
her a Book of Mormon earlier that week, but she told us that her husband
didn´t want to read it. He said it wasn´t true and that none of the
prophets in it were in the Bible. She didn´t really know how to explain
it to him so she asked us to come back later that day and explain to
him. When we returned, we knocked on the door and Daniel answered.
Pretty much from what I heard was that we kept preaching and preaching
to them and nothing was happening, they still had struggles and nothing
was getting better, then he slammed the door in our faces. I can´t tell
you how sad I was. Consuelo was really my first investigator in the
mission, but she doesn´t want to do anything without the permission of
her husband (significant other...whichever, here it´s pretty much the
same even if they aren´t married). This is our major struggle because if
he doesn´t want to listen then it´s really hard for her to progress.
That night we had a meeting at the chapel with a man
named Americo. We had contacted him on the street and he seemed really
interested. He is the leader of a different church, but wanted to know
more about what we believe. We took him on a tour of the Capilla...
Chapel? And then had a lesson in one of the classrooms. I felt really
nervous the whole time, and both Hermana Flores and I felt after that we
shouldn´t continue teaching him. He seemed to be more interested in the
way the church was organized and the things we teach rather than
knowing if they were true. Almost as if he wanted the structure for his
own church, so unfortunately we won´t continue.
Sunday Alberto came to part of church (the young man
who contacted us in the street haha). Later we went to his home for a
lesson. I didn´t think it was possible, but he literally didn´t have any
church related knowledge. Like Adam and Eve, Noah, Jesus Christ.. he
didn´t know anything. It´s going to be a little difficult starting from
the beginning, but I think that things will go well with him. He´s a
little quiet, but I think if we find him a friend in the ward things
will go a lot better for him in the learning department.
All in all this week was really interesting, many
lessons that were strange, but this week I know is going to be better. I
can´t wait until the next week when I can write again and let you know
how wonderful things are because they always are here in Peru. I hope my
emails make it seem that way, because honestly it´s the best thing
being here serving the Lord.
Hermana Imbler
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