Well, life moves fast.
This week, we had a couple crazy moments that I think you´d prob share a little laugh with me upon hearing them.
First, I actually talk with more north americans or english speakers than you would think. We are right in the very pretty, very nice business district of San Isidro, and we walk the streets and usually buy lunch at Wong (like a mini sams club) many days and speak with lots of gringos. The other day we spoke with a guy with a strange accent. Elder Thinks it was Australian, I think it was southern as in Georgia or something. But we are both super confused, and it has been so long since we have last heard accents like that in english, that we cant decide which of us is write, or if we are both wrong haha. But yeah we think he was inactive, because he said he is a member. But we only got to talk for one sec in the street, and we hope he felt the spirit or at least had a moment to remember his covenants. And I got to talk with a hispanic family, pretty sure peruvian, who are from San Fransisco California. The guy started talking to me in slightly broken english on a bus, and then I spoke with his teenage daughter who speaks better; I asked if they were here on vacation, and they told me they were here for a funeral :(, and they did not seem to be super happy. But in just maybe 75 seconds, I got them a pamphlet about the gospel of Christ, and Invited them to go to church there in the states, and they seemed grateful, so I hope it turns out to be something.
Second, I am super tired, because this morning, we had to send off an elder to the airport because he had a flight to ayacucho at 5:15am. But the hermano, or the member who we always use to shuttle elders to and from the airport, forgot and slept in. So we realized standing there in my pajamas at 4am, while taking the elevator downstairs that we were going to have to take him ourselves, so Elder Burgos an AP from chile and I, threw on our plaques and pants and jumped in a taxi with the elder. So i am fairly positive we looked super funny walking around the LIma airport looking like that. But whatever. As we say here, ¨normal¨ haha (pronounced in spanish, but it means the same thing and you say it for ´whatever´) That was an adventrue
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This week Elder Torres, a seventy, is here in the mission taking a tour of all the areas and teaching conferences with president. It is super cool, but stress for all of us in the office, trying to plan everything and make everything work out. One thing he taught us, that keeps getting drilled into our heads over and over again is the need to be a Doer. and not just a listener, or studyer, or thinker or anything like that. We have to move, before God can guide our actions. And one thing he said, which i really liked was something like this. ´I feel that this mission is just on the brink of finding much success. But if there are miracles to be had, and i believe there are, they will come by your hands, the hands of the elders.´ Some thing to that effect. But really it was cool. I enjoyed the conference a lot.
Well...... ya no tengo nada que decir. Los amo a todos, y espero lo mejor para cada uno de ustedes. Por favor, estudien las escrituras más de lo que piensan que sería lo necesario. Escudríñenlas. En mi tiempo acá en la oficina, me doy cuenta de la importancia del estudio personal. Y lo estoy extrañando cada vez más. Lo amo al Salvador, y deseo que ustedes se acerquen más a él todos los días.
Les Amo!
Elder hartvigsen
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