Monday, August 19, 2013

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Hayley Imbler <hayley.imbler@myldsmail.net> wrote:


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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