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| Elder Rasband's visit! |
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| Christmas packages from home arriving for the missionaries |
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| Our view out of our high rise apartment |
Cool story from the week:
So President told us he was going to try to get Elder Rasband free for just a sec so we could meet him. on Tuesday, we were in the office, and I had the door open cuz I had let the post office guy in with letters. And I heard a really, really deep voice coming from down the hall and thought, oh no. he´s brought him here, hasn´t he? Sure enough, Elder Rasband and President Douglas showed up to the office unannounced! They walked around to see all the rooms, asked me to take a picture of them by President´s transfer board, and then took a picture with all of us in the lobby of the office. Then he told us a cool experience that had happened to him and Elder Nelson in Cusco over the weekend (everything cool happens in Cusco! I have to get there someday.) And then he left with president to go down south to Pisco to have a couple meetings. It was quiet amazing. He has this incredibly low, room-filling voice that kinda reaches down into your soul and rattles your bones. You can feel the weight of the calling by the way he conducts himself. Very awesome.
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We have had some great lessons this week with a couple investigators who are progressing! We are teaching this girl, Angela. She is 20 years old, and has a best friend from work who brought her to church one Sunday. So we started teaching her. She is progressing right along! She has been very receptive of the message, very accepting of the Book of Mormon. (some people come prepared). She has a baptismal date for the 7th of December. Her challenge is that she works every other Sunday, and can only come to church every week. But she has committed to come each Sunday that she doesn't work, and it is a good start. (honestly, she´s more faithful than most investigators, and many members here. We are struggling with church attendance.)
The other day, I started planting the idea of serving a mission in her head. After baptism, it is our goal. It could work because there are two other girls in the ward about 20, 21 years old who are recent converts and preparing to serve a mission. So we are kinda trying to create some key friendships here... It´s very interesting the strength I´ve found in the youth of this Generation. In my mission, I have struggled to find mothers and fathers ready for the gospel in their lives, especially mother and father together (without any major problems). BUT, we have always been able to find young adults who are responsible, receptive, intelligent, PREPARED to hear the gospel. It has been a wonderful experience to teach them and watch the change that happens in the life, very subtly, but very quickly, from the moment they get involved in the LDS community.
Another kid we are teaching is Jean Carlo. His girlfriend is a member of our ward (similar theme, right?? hmm..) She has brought him to church a couple of times, but we can never teach him because he has no time (kinda a popular theme in Lima. You live in Lima, you work all day every day and HAVE NO TIME.) But we finally taught him for the first time, and he is very spiritually sensitive and humble and quiet (which is odd because he is in the military school). But he accepted the 7th of December as well! With him we have kinda a interesting tactic to keep in touch.
While studying at the military school, the kids get shut in for 2 or 3 weeks solid and they cannot leave and they have no phones or anything. It´s kinda weird. But they do have internet.... SO, we have been emailing him once a day keeping contact and leaving small reading commitments. Like, we´ll leave him 1 Nephi 4,5,6, and the next he writes back to let us know how it went. So we bear testimony to strengthen the feelings he has had while reading, and we give him more reading and commit him to pray about what he has read!. It´s pretty cool! The enemy is always there to make everything more difficult, and nothing ever turns out exactly like we plan it... but that is the jist of it all. He is progressing slowly, reading the Book of Mormon, gaining a testimony little by little. When his girlfriend Mayra can, she helps out to, to keep him going.
Christmas is coming, looks like. We set up a tree here in the office, and we are starting to get a lot more packages than usual for all the missionaries. I´m nervous for the weeks just before christmas, because I don't think we have enough room here in the office for all the packages!
Love you all!! Have fun! Tengan una buena semana!!
So President told us he was going to try to get Elder Rasband free for just a sec so we could meet him. on Tuesday, we were in the office, and I had the door open cuz I had let the post office guy in with letters. And I heard a really, really deep voice coming from down the hall and thought, oh no. he´s brought him here, hasn´t he? Sure enough, Elder Rasband and President Douglas showed up to the office unannounced! They walked around to see all the rooms, asked me to take a picture of them by President´s transfer board, and then took a picture with all of us in the lobby of the office. Then he told us a cool experience that had happened to him and Elder Nelson in Cusco over the weekend (everything cool happens in Cusco! I have to get there someday.) And then he left with president to go down south to Pisco to have a couple meetings. It was quiet amazing. He has this incredibly low, room-filling voice that kinda reaches down into your soul and rattles your bones. You can feel the weight of the calling by the way he conducts himself. Very awesome.
....
We have had some great lessons this week with a couple investigators who are progressing! We are teaching this girl, Angela. She is 20 years old, and has a best friend from work who brought her to church one Sunday. So we started teaching her. She is progressing right along! She has been very receptive of the message, very accepting of the Book of Mormon. (some people come prepared). She has a baptismal date for the 7th of December. Her challenge is that she works every other Sunday, and can only come to church every week. But she has committed to come each Sunday that she doesn't work, and it is a good start. (honestly, she´s more faithful than most investigators, and many members here. We are struggling with church attendance.)
The other day, I started planting the idea of serving a mission in her head. After baptism, it is our goal. It could work because there are two other girls in the ward about 20, 21 years old who are recent converts and preparing to serve a mission. So we are kinda trying to create some key friendships here... It´s very interesting the strength I´ve found in the youth of this Generation. In my mission, I have struggled to find mothers and fathers ready for the gospel in their lives, especially mother and father together (without any major problems). BUT, we have always been able to find young adults who are responsible, receptive, intelligent, PREPARED to hear the gospel. It has been a wonderful experience to teach them and watch the change that happens in the life, very subtly, but very quickly, from the moment they get involved in the LDS community.
Another kid we are teaching is Jean Carlo. His girlfriend is a member of our ward (similar theme, right?? hmm..) She has brought him to church a couple of times, but we can never teach him because he has no time (kinda a popular theme in Lima. You live in Lima, you work all day every day and HAVE NO TIME.) But we finally taught him for the first time, and he is very spiritually sensitive and humble and quiet (which is odd because he is in the military school). But he accepted the 7th of December as well! With him we have kinda a interesting tactic to keep in touch.
While studying at the military school, the kids get shut in for 2 or 3 weeks solid and they cannot leave and they have no phones or anything. It´s kinda weird. But they do have internet.... SO, we have been emailing him once a day keeping contact and leaving small reading commitments. Like, we´ll leave him 1 Nephi 4,5,6, and the next he writes back to let us know how it went. So we bear testimony to strengthen the feelings he has had while reading, and we give him more reading and commit him to pray about what he has read!. It´s pretty cool! The enemy is always there to make everything more difficult, and nothing ever turns out exactly like we plan it... but that is the jist of it all. He is progressing slowly, reading the Book of Mormon, gaining a testimony little by little. When his girlfriend Mayra can, she helps out to, to keep him going.
Christmas is coming, looks like. We set up a tree here in the office, and we are starting to get a lot more packages than usual for all the missionaries. I´m nervous for the weeks just before christmas, because I don't think we have enough room here in the office for all the packages!
Love you all!! Have fun! Tengan una buena semana!!
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