Anda Peru

Happy Monday family and friends!! Let me just tell you that this week has been full of miracles and I really am just so happy! So this almost always happens that I don´t have nearly enough time to write, but I will try to pack it all in here quickly!

Monday.. pday and we watched Mulan! It was pretty awesome to see a normal movie after such a long time! We were all dying of laughter like little kids. Later that day we went to visit Alicia.. she still has a lot of doubts and doesn´t undertand the whole don´t worship idols thing.. we´re working on that one..

Tuesday we had a lesson with Juan.. he pretty much teaches himself when we are there.. he´s an older man but understands literally everything that we teach him. He´s only lacking the part of going to church on Sunday.. we´re praying this week he will finally go. Then we talked with a sweet old lady Liduina... she has trouble understanding concepts so we have to work slow with her.. but we will see how things go. Later we talked with Bertha and Candy.. they have been investigators for about a million years now.. ok like 3 months, but they just don´t want to follow through with their assignments and they still haven´t come to church so we are thinking we might have to drop them for a while. That night we had a FANTASTIC lesson with Karina and her ¨husband¨ Jhony. We taught the restoration and at the end of the lesson we talked to them about marriage.. they accepted and if all goes well with bringing their birth certificates from the jungle they will be getting married June 19th (my one year mark). They are so prepared and my companion and I really feel so lucky!

Wednesday we had some good lessons, but it was a little slower. We are teaching a family but only the two daughters who are 12 and 10 are excited to go to church and listen to us.. we still only know their aunt and uncle.. their dad is pretty hard to find.. but we´ll see how that works out. Later we talked with Aida.. the new convert that we baptized when we first arrived.. she is now 2nd counselor in the relief society and doing great!! 

Thursday was slow again because of weekly planning, but we did talk with Juan again and he said he would go to church.. although he didn´t show up with the member that went to pick him up.. darn! That night we had another lesson with Jhony and Karina and talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy. Jhony usually works Sundays but he said he would do all he could to be at church. 

Friday we started practicing for the musical number we will be doing for Elder Oaks when he comes the next week. I am super excited to be accompanying my zone on the piano. At first we started out really quiet but after some encouraging words and a short story I told we were able to sing with more power. I´m super excited!!! Later we had some good lessons with investigators, but the most special was the last. Cecilia is progressing so much.. she still hasn´t been able to make it to church but she has so many desires to keep learning. She said since we have been teaching her that she isn´t afraid of things anymore like she was before.. and she told us that she wanted to make reading the Book of Mormon a daily habit.. we are praying lots for her.

Saturday was a day like I remember in my old zone.. 8 lessons!! Almost all of them were with less active members but we finished off speaking with Karina and Jhony one more time before Sunday. We talked about the Book of Mormon and Jhony accepted a baptismal date.. Now if everything goes as planned their wedding will be the 19th and their baptism the 21st of June. We are SO EXCITED!! I feel so blessed to have met them and be able to teach them!

Sunday.. Karina, Jhony and their two kids Jhoyka and Jhony Jr.. came to church!!! That was really the highlight of the day.. and the week. To see them all together at church. Now we are just praying, praying, praying for their birth certificates to come. 

That´s all for the week! Hope you all have a wonderful week and remember how much I love you all!! Take care!

Hermana Imbler

(p.s. here is a picture of me, my daughter (hna callejas), and her daughter (my granddaughter Hna. Juhl from Michigan.. I´m a grandma!! Haha)

Hayley trained Hermana Callejas, now Hermana Callejas is training a new Hermana.

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