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Happy Monday
everyone! I have big news... today is the 16th which means I´m on the
countdown of one year left of the mission! I can´t believe that one year
from today I will be on a plane headed home.. That just means that I am
going to have to WORK WORK WORK in the short time that I have left! I
feel like I have so much more to do here and I really hope I can get it
all done in this short year I have left!
Monday
was Pday.. surprise surprise haha! We didn´t do a whole lot, but that
night we found out that we have to move houses...again! The daughter of
the lady who rents the house wanted a contract and as missionaries we
can´t do contracts.. So we now have until the end of the month to find
another place to live, and let me tell ya, it´s not an easy job house
hunting in Lima and finding somewhere decent. But later on we had a
lesson with Alonso and everything went really well, it´s pretty easy to
teach kids becaue they usually don´t have many objections and are super
willing to listen and learn more!
Tuesday
was a slow day, we had our normal district meeting and then studies. We
went out to work and nearly all of our lessons fell through. It was
rough and as the trainer I had to decide what we should do. Luckily we
were able to have a few lessons with some less active members and try to
encourage them to keep reading the Book of Mormon, praying, and going
to church.
Wednesday:
Service in the morning, we went with one of our zone leaders and our
district leader to meet other missionaries at a house pretty much at the
tippy top of one of the cerros (hill/mountain). We were late and we had
to walk really really far so we decided to take a moto taxi, these
little mini cars with three wheels. It was the first and probably last
time I will have permission to ride in one of those, but it was super
cool! The lessons were lacking again we couldn´t find many people that
wanted to receive us, but we did have a great lesson about repentance
with some less-active members. I never thought I would like teaching
repentance, but it really is so cool and I am so grateful for the
opportunity I have to repent of those mistakes I have made as well as
every other person, thanks to our older brother Jesus Christ.
Thursday:
Another slow day (it seems like we had a lot of those this last week..)
but we had one lesson that was just AWESOME. We found a 14 year old
girl, Alejandra, and she is super excited to learn more. Her mom
listened to us as well but they have a little bit of an interesting
case. Elsa (the mom) is married to someone different than the dad of
Alejandra, so in order to be baptized she needs to divorce her previous
husband and then marry the dad of Alejandra.. that process is about 4 or
5 months at least.. but we are going to try to work with the regarless.
Friday:
Hermana Choque, our sister leader, came to visit and do a 24 hour
transfer to see how well I am working in the area. This day we had 7
lessons.. the most I have had in a long time. We talked with Alejandra
again. We finally found Antony, but he didn´t have a whole lot of
desires to learn a lot more, only 50% of the time he believes in God,
the other no. After that we received a really good reference, Sergio.
He´s about 70 years old, but really wants to get closer to God. We
talked with a less active member Lysette and I shared the experience of
how I will always be grateful to the neighbors that sent the
missionaries to my dad and his family. It was a super spritual and she
committed to share the gospel with her friends and neighbors.
Saturday: We talked again with Alejandra and her family and she accepted a baptismal date for January 4th!
We then had a lesson with Edgar, we talked about the plan of Salvation
and he had a lot of questions, but he is struggling to progress. He
always says "I´m in the process of preparing for baptismal, but I still
need more time". I´ve done all I can to help him, I feel like I´ve
taught him well and he still doesn´t want to be baptized. All we can do
now as missionaries is wait for him to do his part and then help him
again.. so I think we are going to stop visiting him for a while.
Sunday: The classic primary
program! We had 5 of our investigators come to church to see the
program: Alejandra, Alonso, Sergio, Edgar, and Carmen (Antony´s mom). It
was pretty great like primary programs usually are. Later we had our
last lesson with Edgar, it went about the same as Saturday,
and we´ve decided to stop visiting him for a while. It´s a little sad
because he was doing well, but it´s just one of those things that
missionaries have to do.. there are other people waiting for us to find
them. We found one of those Sunday
night. Luzmila opened her door, and we were looking for a reference. I
asked her if we could share something short with her and she accepted.
We invited her to be baptized, and she asked me how much she needed to
pay.. never thought I would receive that question, salvation is free, we
only need to want to follow Jesus Christ and obey God´s commandments.
We´ll see if she continues to progress this week.
Hope all is going well as you get ready for
Christmas this coming week. It´s hot here so I don´t really feel like
it´s Christmas time, but this morning we sang songs in a hospital, that
helped a little bit. Eat some yummy treats for me since the only thing
I´ll be eating is more rice and maybe a little panatone (fruitcake..mmm
NOT) haha. Love each and every one of you. Remember this Christmas what
we are really celebrating. The best gift you can give anyone is the
knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Have a great week!
Hermana Imbler
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