So we live on a rooftop. It's awesome. Every morning I wake up I just go a few steps out of the front door to say hi to the world. We wake up to the sunrise. It's gorgeous. Then when we study it gets really hot...
Okay, so we have a new pension too. She treats
us like queens. I'm going home fat I guess. Haha. Good table manners is eat
your huge mountain of rice every day. Ugh. Not like I ever am able to. But
she's learning fast- :)
Transfers tomorrow. My companion will be
Hermana Utley. She's North American. I don't know much else about her.
This week my companion and I were walking down
a passageway by a park and some houses. We walk by this guy sitting on his
doorstep, and we walk past him. The Spirit is telling me to contact him. So I
look at my companion to tell her. Hermana Maydana in the same moment looks at
me and asks, you too? Yup. So we go contact him. Renzo. 18. Really cool. Really
low key guy. He reminds me of some of my high school friends, down to his form
of dress. I, of course, made the contact super awkward. See, that's my trick,
make them laugh at my awkwardness and then I somehow have their trust, and
then we turn it super spiritual. We ended up talking a bit about the plan of
salvation. We talk about how everyone has a purpose in life, and that through
prayer, we can really know what Heavenly Father desires of us. It just ended up
being really cool. I can't wait to go teach him again. I think he'll progress.
He's a good listener too. That's weird for Peru.
We found Kathy again. I don't know if I ever
wrote about finding her. But she was an investigator 5 years ago I think. She's
going to be able to start to go to church at the end of March. She already has
a testimony of the church and very good memories of the elders who taught her a
ton. I think she should be able to get baptized pretty fast once she can go to
church. :)
The family from the sierra (mountains) actually
live in our new building we live in. We live on their roof. I know they're
from the sierra because one, they always keep their door to their apartment
open, two, there are always random grains and fruits sitting on tarps in random
spots in the building. And three, their way of talking. I love it.
One sister who is in Cajamarca had to come down
to Trujillo. She was in my area before. We did intercambios for the evening,
and I went to one of her inactive converts with her. It was amazing. She really
helped Doli a lot to understand the restoration. The truth is I had no clue how
to help Doli. But Hermana Harris showed me how, and now I know. Yay!
We got another recently inactivating recent
convert, Carlo, to come back to church after two months. After Sunday school, I
asked him how he feels being in church again. He said it feels like home. Carlo
is so funny. He was evangelical before, and he's really good at preaching
actually. It's fun to take him to lessons. But it's even nicer to see his own
personal conversion.
Alicia is a less active since her baptism at 11
years old. We've taken the apostles' recent counsel to treat less actives like
investigators. We found she has a lot of doubts about the restoration and there
being only one true church. We're encouraging her to pray because she has a
very good personal relationship with God. I think helping her with the
restoration will help her see that she needs to come to church. She's super
sweet and loves the Book of Mormon. She just needs to progress a bit
more.
Spencer lights up so much when he sees us now.
He's like a kid. We watched mormon messages with him this week. He loves it. He
finds so much joy and love in the gospel. I feel the spirit so much working with him. He's turning his life completely around. Just to get him to church.
But he really is developing his testimony. He has such childlike experiences
with prayer and reading the scriptures. Just simple experiences. But I find
that those can be the most powerful. He was so happy to tell us that God
answers his prayers this week. I am genuinely so happy to hear that. God does
answer our prayers. Every single one.
We have another old investigator back who I
taught once at the beginning of my time in Primavera. he's been in Cajamarca,
but he came back this week. We're starting over with him. We retaught the
restoration and it amazed him. He really feels the spirit. He also completely
needed it. It all seemed so new to him. He's super busy during the week, so I
hope that doesn't keep him from progressing... But weekends are free. yay!
Rosas and Susan are killing me. I don't know
what to do with them. Susan honestly isn't progressing much more. She prays and
reads, but does not come to church. But Rosas seems to be warming up. But he's
so weird. He always goes off on his dreams and he loves talking about Revelation
(the book in the Bible) too much. He can't seem to stay on track.
My companion told me a few days ago she wanted
to go home. Poor girl. So I got to convince her to stay on her mission. So much
testifying to my own companion. That was an interesting experience. But by the
end of the day she had decided that she does need to stay. She's just tired of
not having success on her mission. I got to pull out a note Sister Fraser (who
served in Morgan Hill 1st ward) wrote me before I left for my mission that has
been able to help me. It helped my companion a lot too. Missionaries have an
influence that goes beyond their own mission. I love that. :) I love that I got
to see that too. There's so many people waiting for us. So many.
So to see what transfers bring tomorrow!
Have a great week!
Love you all!
Hermana Brogan
No comments:
Post a Comment