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Another
week gone by and another happy Hermana here sittin´ at the computer
writing the people I love the most! This week hasn´t exactly been easy,
but I have learned a lot from the experiences we have had!
Monday
we didn´t do too much for Pday, we went grocery shopping and then ate
at KFC, one of the very few American restaurants that they have here in
Peru, the others are in the malls that are pretty far away. Later that
night we had a great lesson with Vladimir and he was getting more and
more excited for his baptism on Saturday.
We talked about the importance of reading the scriptures and praying
daily. Later we talked with Jhon´s little sister who is 14 years old.
She´s cute and receptive, but we haven´t been able to catch up with her
more this week.
Tuesday
we went to talk to Rosalinda and like always there were yet more
friends of her son there so we had a lesson with all of them. The only
problem is that they all live in the boundaries of a different ward
about 3 streets up the hill from where our area ends..bummer! They had a
lot of questions and we are going to try and send the other sisters to
their houses this next week. We had a lesson later with Oscar and the
Bishop came with us. We officially decided that we aren´t going to be
able to teach him anymore because we went to his house and his door was
open and he was watching tv. So we asked if we could share something
with him and he said he had visitors.. but there was no one but him in
his small room.. We´ve never felt super great there so it looks like
we´re going to have to stop visiting him.. After we had a reference of a
14 year old boy Bryan and we went to teach him. He was super receptive,
caught on to everything really quickly and then accepted to be baptized
on the 22nd of this month! Lastly we had to say goodbye to Mabila (the
sister of Sergio) because she is going to Argentina for a couple of
months.. it was pretty sad, but it´s a good thing to know I´ll be able
to see her again in December, because she´s been like a cute little
grandma for us here!
Wednesday we taught some good lessons. We were able to talk to Vladimir again to help him prepare for his baptism on Saturday.
We then had another lesson with a reference of our ward mission leader,
a cute older man Emiliano. He takes quite a bit of time to capture
concepts, but we´re trying to find ways to help him with that. He also
accepted baptism and we are hoping he will be ready for this week, but
if not we´ll postpone it until the coming week! We then had a lesson
with the Jabo family and they are still struggling to have desires to
accept baptism, but this week they invited us for a little mini dinner
and lesson so we will try to work with them then. Then it began to rain,
like actually rain, not just sprinkling.. it was the BEST! I have
missed rain so much! It was warm and raining, so absolutely perfect! We
found an older investigator of missionaries from a few years ago and he
was preparing for baptism then but had problems with working on Sunday.. so we will be starting to teach him as well.
Thursday
we were able to talk with Jonathan and he still doesn´t know if he will
be able to be baptized, he still has some problems to work out with his
family, so we will see how that goes in these next few days. Later we
talked with Emiliano again and then after we had a good lesson with
Bryan. Friday
we found yet another new investigator thanks to a reference. Elibet is a
younger mom who is the cousin of a less active member. She was super
super receptive and was really excited to be able to talk with us, so
I´ll keep you updated with her. We then talked with Emiliano and Bryan
yet again (different lessons) and they are both progressing well. Later
we talked to Cesar and Paola.. we hadn´t been able to find them during
the week and they are struggling. For some reason we are still having
problems with the ID of Cesar. They committed to fast and pray, but then
on Sunday
we couldn´t find them and they wouldn´t answer their phone.. we went to
their house later and they weren´t there so we don´t know what is going
on with them... super disappointing because we love their family so
much! Friday
was also going to be the last interview with Vladimir for his baptism
and we couldn´t find him.. again! Oops! We were super worried and
couldn´t get a hold of him so we didn´t sleep much that night.. or I
didn´t at least.. Can´t speak for my companion ;)
Saturday..
in the morning I called Josefa, Vladimir´s grandma and he was home and
said that all was well, so we went with our District leader to have his
final interview and everything turned out great!! So that day we were
able to prepare for his baptism and everything went really well! He was
grinning from ear to ear when we left the font and I really felt like
everything was going to be ok with him in the future! Lastly we had a
lesson with Jhon and he is struggling a lot with his family.. because
we´ve been focused on our investigators we can´t pick him up to go to
church and so he hasn´t come for weeks.. He always says he will then
doesn´t come. We are hoping to find a good friend for him so that they
can help him to come on Sundays.
Sunday
was the confirmation of Vladimir and he said he felt like electricity
ran through him when he received the Holy Ghost, but in a good way...
super cool! We had some great experiences with our ward mission leader
and then we were able to have a great lesson about the Book of Mormon
with a less active member. We are hoping to help him prepare to go on a
mission, but it´s going pretty slow... and that about sums up my week!
42 really great lessons and lots of new investigators to teach!
Hope you are all doing well wherever you are and
that you will be able to have some great experiences this week.
Something that I have come to learn during my mission is that we speak
with our Heavenly Father through prayer and He speaks to us through the
scriptures. I challenge you all this week to take the time to pray,
thank Heavenly Father for the scriptures, ask Him a question and then
open the Book of Mormon and start reading. I know that you will find the
answers you need in the pages of the most wonderful book ever written.
Take care!!
Hermana Imbler
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