LIMA NORTE!!!
You will not believe me, but i seriously woke up with the thought in my head, because i was pumped to hear about bretts call, and I thought, How cool would it be if he went to Peru as well, because my comp was always teasing me that hed come here to sur, but then the north mission just came into my head, and I thought, wow thatd be sweet if he served in peru north. I am not kidding I had that thought this morning. Brett, youre supposed to be there, because the spirit of truth wittnessed it to me also!!
This week, I:
Drank hot kuhl-ayhde. This hermana in the ward on saturday actually made us this unreal three course meal that seriously was fantastic and could have been served in any latin food restaurant in utah county. for realz. so good. But it was accompanied by hot kool aid, so just thought I'd let you know. (most of the juices are served hot which i really don't understand, but this one was pretty good)
Did an ollie on a skateboard in my echo boots. We were walking home saturday saturday night from the chapel and we ran into our investigator Franco, and his two skater friends, but the crazy thing is, I actually know how to skateboard... But anyway we had a great experience where we were able to just chat and become friends with his friends with strengthened our relationship´, and helped build another with Estiven y Jón, and Estiven came to church the next day with Franco!! crazy right!! NO wrong. Not crazy, because the truth wins always. Gana, La verdad.
Had a very sweet experience with a special child of god. in an intercambio with another elder in the zone, I was up in the hills in his area (which will blow your mind, by the way. the older people up there only speak quechua, and I only know like eight words in quechua (mikuy-food yaku-water miski-delicious ñujancaniutahmanta-I am from utah) and my companion knows like 15 more, so thats cool ha. but anyway the houses up there are as small and poor as you could imagine, i.e. the people have practically nothing. (another story, we were in this one house, and taught a lesson in a tiny room with a dirt floor, to 3 people, one crying baby, one wild puppy, one kaniving cat, 5 or 6 guinea pigs that crawl around in the corners and make strange grunting noises, two very scraggly teenage roosters, and a loro verde (green parrot) that sat outside on a post and kinda yelled at us for a while. and all the animals are free roaming, yeah ....estraña.)
anyway, at another house, late that night, we met a family with this one girl Natalí, who is I think 15 or 16, and is a little mentally slow. But she really is a sweet girl, and I am more than likely the only gringo she´s ever seen in her life, or maybe if shes seen more, It'd be another missionary, and so she would not stop talking to me and asking me how old I am and everything ( like everyone does. It will actually be nice when i am 20, becuase then maybe people will believe me when I tell them how old I am...) But my intercambio companion was getting really frustrated with her, (and keep in mind he deals with her all the time) but I had a really sweet experience, when I was sitting next to her in the lesson, and I realized with the assistance of the spirit of the Lord, that this girl had a powerful spirit. Heavenly Father let me feel just for a moment of the size of the spirit sitting next to me, and it brought me to tears. It was awesome to think of some valiant heavenly warrior in heaven, sent down to a dirt-poor, slightly dibilitated body in a dirt floor shack in the hills of Ayacucho, Peru. And that is her test, to see how well she does. Awesome
By the way shes doing well, she reads the bible and the BOM all the time and has a ton of the books marked up, I saw, and I believe it. What a powerful spirit.
Anyway, Im reading the book of mormon again, 50 pages a day, and I'm set to finish in a few days so thats awesome. Please read you guys. there are gems everywhere, just not out in the open. (Did you know that Alma the younger, when much older and the high priest of the church, and right about to encounter Amulek, was visited by the same angel who appeared to him as a rebellious teenager and called him to repentance. this angel told him how blessed he was, and gave him another assignment. i didn't know that before this morning!! cool!!
The church is true. Christ lives. I testify of this, because I have felt the power of the Holy spirit of truth, testify to my heart mind and soul, that these things are true, and they need to brought to the people of the planet. I know they are true.
Elder Hartvigsen
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