District Leaders Found Me Profoundly Inspiring

Well, we found a room to live in. We're also teaching the owner of the

house. Sweet! I think she'll progress. :)

We were in the middle of contacting a family of members who recently

moved here for vacations, to contact their non member mother who

actually lives there, when a couple came up to us and basically

demanded that we teach their children right now. And we were already

about to enter into this first family's house, and the zone leaders

were coming in exactly 15 minutes to look at the room we found one

block away. So we ask for the afternoon, and they said no, now! So we

said after this cita. We basically go in already trying to leave the

house while trying to be polite and get to know them and just set an

appointment for the next week, then we go to this other family. The

parents are busy so they leave us with their kids (9 and 7 years old),

and we teach them prayer. After teaching them, we ask them to say the

last prayer and they recite the padre nuestro and the ave maria. Poor

little brainwashed kids. We need to teach them better. They gave us

rosarios (in english, rosaries?) too. Oh my. Buuut, the mom studied in

an adventista colegio, but doesn't like that they speak bad about

other churches, and she and her spouse are married, baptized catholic,

don't identify with any church, and a he's a lawyer and she's a

psychologist. I'm stoked! We're going to teach them ALL today! Yay!

We taught Italo for the last time this week. Crazy kid. He's moving to

Lima. (All my investigators move to Lima. It's the worst.) But he

came to church for the second time yesterday and promised to go to

church in Lima and read his whole Book of Mormon in the commute to and

from work. We reexplained the restoration yesterday because he's got

some wild questions. (They're actually good, valid questions, just

ones we don't get a lot in Peru), and he's gone from agnositc to

definitely believing in God. Progress!

Spencer! He's a less active just out of rehab (alcohol and drugs). We

found him with beer walking down the street when we were headed home

one night. We were on the phone, but I left it with my comp to finish

up talking while I convinced Spencer to not avoid us. He's obedient,

so he stuck around, and then when he hung up, we convinced him to pour

out the beer onto the street. At first he said no. He wanted to go to

a park and think. So we told him we'd go with him, and he poured it

out in that very moment. It felt very victorious. I was super happy

about it! Then we went and talked to him about how God loves and

supports him and how he needs to pray and read the Book of Mormon in a

nearby park, and walked him halfway home. The next day his parents

said he had come straight home. Sweet!

We had an awesome first lesson with Ismael's dad. (Ismael is a

convert). His dad believed us right off the bat, and really felt the

spirit. He works sunday though. So it will take a bit of effort, but I

think he'll get there. :)

Rosas committed to come to church! Miracle! BUT then a relative came

and the family didn't come to church. Next week we should have Susan

and Rosas at church with their four kids. Much praying will be needed.

And that. :) 

It's been a good week. My district leader wrote something

I said up on the board during district meeting as a quote. Awkward

moment. I'm really not so profound, don't they know that?

Have a great week!

Hermana Brogan