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Another
week gone by and today we will find out transfers! Can´t believe yet
another 6 weeks has passed by so quickly! I´m a little bit nervous for
what will happen, but I know that the Lord will put me where he needs
me!
This week has been WONDERFUL! Haha ok I feel like pretty
much every week of my mission is wonderful, but hey that´s how it should
be right?? Hmm.. where to start... How about from the beginning..
Monday...We
went to visit Alonso´s mom and she told us that her friend´s dad just
recently passed away. We shared the message of the Plan of Salvation
with her and gave her a pamphlet so that she can share it with her
friend. We´ll follow up with her this week on how that went. Then we had
Henry´s baptismal interview and........He didn´t pass... Ok JUST
KIDDING! Everything went really well and he´ll be baptized this Saturday!! I really feel so blessed to have been able to see baptisms 4 weeks in a row, it´s truly a miracle!
Tuesday
was a day full of lessons (my favorite days.. teaching for hours is
amazing, if you can believe it). We were able to visit Romelio, his wife
is a member but they haven´t been able to get married because of
troubles with documents.. darn, but we´re hoping that they will come
soon! But they live on the hill so we had to climb a bunch, when we got
there they had a rooster and 3 other chickens.. so if you know me I had
an anxiety attack.. because they were just running around wild..but I
survived. Then we had lessons with some less active members and Sergio,
who is doing great by the way! We then went to visit Flora who was to be
baptized on Saturday..
she was doing really good and was super excited for her baptism! Then
to finish off the day we had a lesson with Miguel Angel who is also a
less active member and he told me that in the U.S. it´s like insanely
cold right now? I had no idea... oops! Don´t get updated much on weather
over there! Hope ya´ll are staying warm!
Wednesday
we went to visit a reference of less actives and we found Rosa, she has
pancreatic cancer as well as something else and isn´t doing too well,
but we were able to share with her about the power of prayer and brought
her some comfort. We then found a reference that we´d been looking for
for sometime, an older man Manuel. He accepted our visit and then came
to the baptism on Saturday,
but left when he found out it was the church of his brother, I guess
they don´t get along too well.. Later we found Holger and Jessenia who
we´ve been teaching, she´s less active and he´s an investigator.
Everything went good and they promised to come to church on Sunday.. (but.. didn´t come, after calling them and everything..)
Thursday
we had lunch with Flora and her grandson who is 16 years old. We were
able to teach him a lesson and he told us he would come to his Grandma´s
baptism! Then later on we were able to have a really good lesson with
Henry. In the closing prayer he asked that everything would go well with
his baptism on the 18th. It made me so happy! He pretty much acts like a
member already, we are feeling super lucky to have met the people we
have met here in Libertad! We then had a family home evening with a
family who are less actives and we talked about covenants then played
some games. It was a really great night!
Friday...
One of our slower days, but we were able to have lessons with the
Bishop, his first counselor, his second counselor, and the ward mission
leader. Talk about a lot of support in one day. We found a new sister
who is less active and were able to help animate her a little bit, but
then she didn´t come to church.. sad day. Then we had a family home
evening with another family who are less actives and we talked about
eternal families.
Saturday
was a full day! We talked with Sergio again and he said he wanted to
come to the baptism of Flora.. he is doing so well I just can´t believe
it, it makes me SO happy to see him participating in everything he can!
Then we found two new investigators who we taught a lesson, but then the
second time we went back they said that they can´t listen to us anymore
because they have their own religion.. maybe one day! Then there was
the baptism. It was beautiful and lots of the members came to support
Flora! That night also it rained more than I have seen here in Lima...
but still not nearly as much as what we have at home.. by a lot I mean
it´s the first time I felt real rain drops here! Then we taught a lesson
to Jonathan and everything went well, he promised to talk to his mom
about being baptized, and to come to church.
Sunday..
in church only Henry showed up, we did a lot to help others, but no one
else came. That means that Jonathan will have to be baptized the first
week of February.. In sacrament meeting we found out that Sergio is
going to recieve the aaronic priesthood, I almost cried, a true
convert!! Then in the afternoon we had a ward activity where us and the
members left in companionships to visit the less active members. Sergio
also came (seriously he is the best little 78 year old man, super
converted, even though he only had two weeks of lessons before his
baptism). We did divisions and I left with Kathleen (yes mom she spells
her name just like you!) she´s 24 and she loves practicing english with
me.. she´s pretty much my best friend in the ward haha. We talked to
Gladys about the Book of Mormon and she was really interested. We then
went to visit Holger and Jessenia and they weren´t there so we had a
lesson with one of her many cousins that lives in the house. Jhon, is 24
and was really receptive and had a lot of questions, at the end he
prayed and thanked Heavenly Father for sending these sisters to help
me.
And that was my wonderful week! Hope this week can
be just as good! Now I´m off to transfers, so the next week I will let
everyone know what happened. Remember always to pray, prayer is one of
the most powerful things we have and one of the most beautiful. Our
Heavenly Father has a lot of qualities, but one of them that we
sometimes forget is that he knows how to listen, and he will always be
waiting for us to talk with him.
Love you all!
Hermana Imbler
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