Today is
June 22, 2015. This week was pretty good; it was a little bit slow again. I
have a few other things that I am going to send in an email, but I am going to
try to talk about some fun things, I suppose. We got to participate in a temple
dedication. The Peru, Trujillo temple was dedicated yesterday and on Saturday
was the cultural celebration, so the Stake broadcasted it to the Stake Center
and we brought investigators and got to watch the broadcast of the cultural
celebration.
(Just so you all know, this music in the background is from a
Comvee that I am in with a bunch of other missionaries coming back from a ruin
called Sillustani.) Hopefully I will be able to send some pictures, but I feel
like God doesn’t want me to send pictures home because it never works.
The cultural
celebration was really cool. It was just a bunch of really cool traditional
Peruvian Dances. Pres. Uchtdorf and Elder Bednar came to see it and do the
dedication. It was really neat. We got to see it. There weren’t any other
church meetings afterward.
So, I have
mentioned our investigators J&C and their sons. They are progressing like
crazy. The first time we went to visit them we gave them the introduction of
the Book of Mormon to read and asked them to pray every day as a family and
they read the introduction and prayed every day as a family. The second time we
went we asked them to start reading the Book of Mormon for 15 minutes as a
family every day, and so they did it and they are still doing it. They have
come to church twice – in a row, and they have come to a bunch of activities and
they are doing awesome. So this week we
gave them a baptismal date for August 8. We put it so far back because they
aren’t married yet. We are trying to set that goal with them right now. We have
an appointment with them tomorrow, so we are going to talk to them about
marriage and help them set that goal. We aren’t going to set a wedding date for
them, but they have already accepted a baptismal date, so we are going to
challenge them to be married before that date. It was
really cool – we challenged them to be baptized and at first they asked if
there was a date a little further back than August 8 and when we asked them
why, they said they weren’t ready. We told them if they keep doing everything we
ask them to, then they will be ready. They said, “If the two of you believe
that we can be ready by then, we will be baptized on August 8th.”
That was pretty neat. They are a good family.
The other
couple that we have been working with is still going to go talk to her parents
in July about them getting married. I think it is kind of silly because they
are like in their 40s and they have 2 kids; they might as well send them a fax
that says, “Hey, we got married.” But, it is cool, I guess. They do not want to
change it, so we are going to work really hard with them to make sure they
actually do it. They are starting to come to activities, so we are hoping to
kind of get them rolling again. We had a good lesson with them yesterday about
eternal marriage and temples and sealings, and they seemed to really enjoy it.
So we are going to be focusing more on that and help them realize that as long
as they aren’t married they are missing out on blessings. We kind of told them
that last night. We told them that we love them so much that we don’t want them
to lose those blessings; that is why we always talk about it. They took it
really well and they said that we have helped them realize things and helped
them put everything into perspective. They are so good. We asked them if they
were nervous or worried about getting married, and they said no, that they were
still planning on going to talk to her family in July.
Those are
the big things for the week. It was a little bit slower week. There were a lot
of appointments that fell through and it was kind of a rough week, but it’s
okay. We have talked about what we can do better to improve our work and our
companionship and everything and we are hoping that this next week will be
really good.
We went on
splits this week and my companion had an appointment with Chanel and he said
that he has prayed and felt like he wasn’t ready for baptism. He didn’t come to
church and hasn’t been reading his scriptures, so that is probably wise. The
next time we meet with him I am going to help him realize why he is not ready –
it is because he isn’t keeping his commitments and he didn’t come to church
last Sunday and he probably is not reading the BoM everyday and doing the things we
have asked him to day. If he isn’t doing those things when he prays for an
answer he isn’t going to get an answer. We are going to try to help him put
that into perspective and get a new baptismal date. We aren’t going to have any
baptisms for this change, but it’s okay because we have a few that look really
promising for next change.
We found
some new investigators this week that seem pretty promising. We have gotten our
ward missionaries to start picking things up again. We had a few good meetings
with them, then it kind of fell, and now it is starting to pick up again. We
have been able to have mission correlation a couple of times. We had a our
Noche Alborada and it was really good. J & C came and L &
M came. They brought their kids as well. We had some less actives there.
Elder Wimmer bought some piñatas and filled them with candy. We gave a little
lesson. It ended up to be a lot of fun. We had three pinatas – after the first
piñata broke, they all went crazy to get the candy, even the adults. They all just rushed to get the candy each time.
We planned
that one ourselves because the ward missionaries didn’t come, but we had ward
correlation yesterday and we were able to get assignments out for the one this
Thursday. People said they will bring friends and investigators, and that will
be good. They also
rearranged our ward boundaries so now we go to church at 10:00 instead of 2:00,
so that will be way nicer than before. We are looking forward to that.
Not a lot of
other things happened this week, unfortunately. I feel bad because I keep saying
in these recordings that things aren’t happening. It probably makes me sound
lazy or like I am not working, but I promise we are doing everything we can. We
reevaluate every day to see what we can do better. Lots of things have fallen
through this week, but we are trying to build it back up. I am just hoping to
be able to lift it back up. It’s the last week of the change here and I am
hoping to leave the ward stronger than when I got here, or have one more change
so that I can fix things here.
That is my
week. To finish I just want to send a big ol’ huge HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, Feliz
dia papa to my sweet daddy. Happy Father’s day, Dad, yesterday, hope it was
good, love your buns, you are my hero, and I want to be just like you in every
way.
Also, I want
to send a birthday shout out to Hilary and to her baby boy, Legend, this week.
Hope they were good and that there was lots of candy. Give Legend a whole bunch
of candy and soda and stuff that he isn’t supposed to have and tell him it is
from me because I am the cool uncle.
That’s about
it. I love you all. Hope all is going well.
Until next
time . . .
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