Lovin` the Mish in Libertad
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Welcome to February, the hottest month here in Peru and the beginning of water carnivals every Sunday. If you walk in the streets on Sunday
it is pretty likely that you will get wet. Luckily for us I think the
kids have a little more respect for missionaries, but we will see how
that pans out the coming weeks!
You will never believe this, but this week has been even
better than the last... We weren`t able to do divisions this week, BUT
we ended on Sunday
with 42 lessons!! We beat our record by 6 more lessons and without
doing divisions with the sisters in our ward. My companion and I really
are so unbelievable happy! Hard work really brings not only blessings
but makes a missionary extremely happy!
On Monday
we went to visit Victor, but he didn`t end up being home, so we visited
his niece who is a less active member (she came to church on Sunday.
yay!!) Then we went to visit a lady who had told my companion she only
went to church once for the Elders.. haha because they are good looking,
pretty funny! Her sister received us and we talked about some different
things. The first lady asked me how long I`ve been in Peru because I
didn`t know how to speak Spanish.. the first time I`ve heard that one..
really cut me deep for a little bit, but later I realized she didn`t
want to listen to us at all, so I don`t really feel all that bad, and I
know from experience that the people can understand me. We also found
another new lady who has a little baby girl. She has a lot of faith, but
she has been hard for us to find again, so this week we will be looking
for her!
Tuesday
was our busiest day of the week... we ended with 9 lessons!! I never
thought I would teach so much in only one day, but it really was
wonderful! We came home tired, but grinning from ear to ear. We talked
to Silvia who is an older woman. She is really sweet and always receives
us, but she is lacking (like about a million of our investigators)..
marriage. We are struggling to find the husbands of these really great
women, and if we do find them, sometimes they just don`t want anything
to do with us. We also were able to have lessons with quite a few of the
less active members that we are teaching which was great. We spoke with
Jonathan about repentance and faith again and he`s been really
struggling. We are just waiting to see what happens this next week with
him to see if he will continue with his desires to be baptized. We are
praying lots for him. We also were able to have a lesson with the little
brother of Jessenia (who also came to church on Sunday.. really happy Sunday).
Wednesday
we had a really interesting lesson with a younger guy Ivan, he seems
like he really is looking for something that he has been missing in his
life. We were hoping it was the gospel, but turns out this week he moved
to Ankash to explore a little more and try to find himself out there in
the jungle.. very poetic really if you think about it. He gave us
little origami flowers when we said goodbye. Hope the missionaries over
there can get a hold of him, or when he gets back the missionaries here
in Libertad will go looking for him. Later we talked with some friends
of a cute girl in our ward, but they both live really far so we are
going to have to pass them off to other missionaries... Later we talked
with Veronica and Wilfredo, and we learned that they also aren`t
married.. I guess someone wants us to help these people get married.
Later we talked to Cesar and Paola and they told us that they really
want to get baptized and married! The only problem they`ve had with
marriage is lack of finances. We´re going to try to do an activity to
help them out.
Thursday
was pretty slow because we had our Ward Council and Jhon`s interview,
but everything went pretty well! We were able to talk to the Jabo family
again and Maribel (the mom) committed to try to come to church. We also
talked to Cesar and Paola again and they committed to pray together to
see if Joseph Smith really was a prophet.
Friday
we found the son of Veronica and Wilfredo, Christian. He was really
receptive and I think he will progress a little faster than his parents.
He is about 22 years old and his prayers were really sincere. We then
found Victor again and talked to him about the Book of Mormon. He said
when he was really little he always saw one of the same books in his
house and wanted to read it, but when he was finally old enough to read
it he couldn`t find it. He promised to read it, so we will see how that
goes. We also talked to Paola and Cesar about the Book of Mormon and
they were really intrigued and said they would read it together. We`ve
been visiting them every day so we can keep the adversary from attacking
them too hard.
Saturday
was a day full of lessons with less active members so not a whole lot
to say, but we were finally able to explain the Book of Mormon to
Holger. At first he didn`t want to put in the effort to read it, but at
the end he said he would read it if it really would help him to find
answers to his questions.
Sunday
was a good day!! Jhon, Jessenia, and Antony came to church. Jessenia
had her baby blessed. Maribel, Aaron, and Chiara also came to church
(The Jabo family). We only lacked the dad.. he`s going to be a little
rougher, but.. we had a really powerful lesson with them Sunday
night, so we will see where that leads. We also were able to have a
really great lesson with Cesar and Paola.. they couldn`t come to church
because Cesar was really sick, he had a fever and had to have some
shots.. super sad. But our 2nd counselor in the stake presidency offered
him a job so that he doesn`t have to work on Sunday. The lesson was just full of the spirit, and we are going to visit them again today!
That`s all I have time to tell you all, but it
really was a fantastic week. We are seeing the hand of the Lord in many
aspects of the missionary work. My testimony grows stronger every day
and I really know that this is the TRUE gospel of Jesus Christ. I`m
working every day to try to be more like Him. Hope you all have a
fabulous week and always remember that by small and simple things great
things are brought to pass!
Hermana Imbler
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