Anda Peru

From: Hayley Imbler <hayley.imbler@myldsmail.net>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Bright in Bayovar

Ok, it`s not really bright, but...... This week has literally been one of the most jam packed and beautiful weeks of my whole mission!!! After transfers we learned that Hna Zarate and I would be continuing as companions so we put some new goals in our area.. and boy did we pass them up! We have been SO blessed this week that I don`t have enough fingers and toes to count them all! 

Monday we headed to the market to do our usual P day shopping to prepare us for the week.. we then had a lesson with Javier! He now has gone to church 3 times, is reading his Book of Mormon, and is super prepared for his baptism, we are only counting down the days! We then had a lesson with Arlleth (our recent convert), Janet (a less active sister), and then Eduardo.. we had a great lesson with him about the plan of salvation and then at the end he accepted baptism!! From being really cold to now having desires to be baptized, and we really are so happy! But this is only the beginning.....

Tuesday we were able to head out in the morning because we didn`t have transfers. We had lunch in the Bishop`s house and then after we headed out with him to look for some less active member`s houses. He helped us find one and we were able to start teaching Evelyn`s son Anderson who is 12 years old. We visited two little old ladies that were a little bit on the cold side, but friendly enough to receive us. We also visited Magno, the husband of a member, and we talked about baptism, but he still doesn`t want to put his part in to receive a testimony by going to church and reading.. so we`ll probably stop visiting him for a while. We taught some recent converts and then headed home for the night. 

Wednesday we had our first lesson with Rubi.. she is the wife of a less active member who wants to return to church again.. and she is really great! She has a lot of desires to learn more so that her family can be united in the gospel, does it get better than that?? We taught Javier again and he was really excited about the part he had read in the BoM.. Then that night we found a single Mom and her daughter, who is a little more interested, her name is Lesly. (Sorry I`m shortening everything up a bit more for lack of time). 

Thursday we had our district meeting. We set goals so that every companionship in our zone could marry and baptize a family in September. Our zone leaders promised us that if we didn`t let a family pass by us in the street that we would be blessed with success. 

Sorry I`m out of time.. but really this week has been AMAZING! Just for a recap we ended the week with 50 lessons and 27 new people to teach.. lots and lots of families just like the zone leaders promised. Really the promises of the Lord are promises that are always fulfilled. I am so grateful to be working here in Bayovar and for all the wonderful blessings that my Heavenly Father has shown me. Take care this week! Hopefully the next week I will have a little more time to write more detailed. I love you all!!!

Hermana Imbler

Scriptures for the week:

1 Samuel 16:7 

2 Nephi 9:51