Hey there,
So
this week was good but sucked as well. We both got SUPER sick and were
out of commission pretty much the entire week. I'm a little bit worried
about my health. I pooped blood twice last Monday and then later in the
week I was throwing up and I've had diarrhea since like Tuesday. Today I
think I'm finally recovering but the blood thing kinda freaked me out.
It hasn't happened since Monday though so I think I'm okay. Now I'm just
working on being able to eat again. Every time I eat it just kills my
stomach, like probably the second worst stomach pain I've ever had
(first was when I was in Andahuaylas for one day haha). I didn't eat for
like two or three days last week. The
mission office said they could get me diarrhea pills but that was it. I
seem to be getting better now though. It might be a good idea to get an
American opinion though. I don't trust Peruvian doctors. EVERY Peruvian
thinks they're a doctor too.
We did have a baptism on Saturday and it was great! Pictures aren't working today so I'll send more next week.
I do have two cool experiences though:
So
in church last Sunday a lady in our ward brought a friend that was a
preacher for the Seventh-Day Adventist church. He's a really nice man.
Anyways, I teach gospel doctrines in our ward, and he was there. I
taught about prophets. It was kind of on the fly but it ended up being
okay. After the lesson this preacher dude hung out until the others left
and then asked if I could "answer some questions for him." He ended up
just showing me a bunch of scriptures in the bible about prophets to try
to contradict me, but none of them had any relevance and they weren't
even contradictory. He didn't Bible bash very well cause he fell asleep
during the lesson. Anyways, he showed me those scriptures and then a
couple others and made an off-handed comment about how there's lots of
people living in darkness and don't know they're being deceived and some
other hoopla. I just listened politely and then thanked him for sharing
those with me. THEN, a guy in our ward came to me and asked for a
blessing of health. He had an earache and kidney pain and had had
pneumonia a week or so before. We said it was cool and shut the door to
give him the blessing. The preacher stayed to observe. We explained to
him how the blessing worked and then Elder Wimmer did the anointing and
I gave the blessing. In the blessing I felt the spirit so strong, and I
felt it tell me what I could say. I said "I bless you that your body
will heal. I bless you that you will lift yourself from this chair and
leave this room healed so that you can be an example to all of us in
this room that Christ lives." After the blessing, he stood up, gave us a
hug, and walked out with a smile on his face. After the last hour of
church I asked him how he was. He told me his ear had no pain. God had
healed him. It was an incredible experience. It may have been something
small like an ear ache but to me it was a huge testimony builder, and I
knew that I wasn't the one who had been decieved as the preacher had
said.
The
other one happened on Monday evening last week. There's an Elder here
in Juliaca who is one of my best friends from the mission. He had been
having some problems and wanted a blessing. He felt like he couldn't ask
his companion because his companion didn't have the spirit with him. He
said he's disobedient and he never prays, so he came to me. I gave him
the blessing and listened really hard to the spirit (the details of the
situation aren't important for now). After the blessing he said that I
had said some things that were word-for-word out of his Patriarchal
blessing. Pretty cool. It was a great spiritual experience.
That's
about it for this week. Have you sent that package yet? I was thinking
that maybe having some granola bars or cliff bars or something would be a
good somewhat healthy snack to have while walking all day. Something a
little on the healthier less greasy side would be good in addition to
some treats. Whatever you feel though.
Love you all!
Elder Tate
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