Hello!!!! Friends and Family and everyone else ;) Good morning and welcome to an amazing week! Today, I was thinking a lot that his week is about general conference and I wanted to leave an amazing title to this email... but it´s just not coming to me!
This week we´ve been seeing a lot more miracles that are here! Some of these have been the following:
Walking through the street on a rainy cajamarca day when out of the blue this man stopped us in the road. He called us by Elderes and explained that he had been looking for us for a really long time. He had moved here to cajamarca and had been listening to the misssionaries before, but lost contact! He´s been looking for missionaries to listen too so that he can come to church!
We had an amazing service were we walked into the house for a lesson, but he was building something for his wife. He almost told us he wouldn´t have time when my companion and I offered to lend a hand. It took up a bit of our time, but now the whole family will be listening to us in the following week! It´s the parents and they have 3 kids and an inlaw. They are all a bit older the children in their 20´s and 30´s. It´s a few families put together. After the service they told us we´re welcome back whenever!
Last but not least we have been teaching a family that has had major problems progressing because the father/husband doesn´t want to get married... He has changed so much this week! We just sat down and read the Book of Mormon with him every day. He´s smiling more joking more and we´ll see what else will happen.
Funny momment: I´m in charge of getting all of the packages that come up to cajamarca to the missionaries! And one of the funniest spanish mistakes I´ve ever made was saying, who needs book of mormons? ¿Quien necesita libro de mormones? Now wherever someone needs those they ask, can we have the book of mormons?
I love you all so very much! You have absolutly no idea ;) Something so important to remember is to look for the potential of the person and not who they are in the moment. If we do that our lives are a lot easier. I´m also pretty sure that our Savior had to do the same. With his apostle peter he struggled to get him going, but peter turned out to be his prophet. We also see the examples in the book of mormon when people rejected the prophets, such as alma the younger, and later turned into the greatest defenders of the truth. I love this work and I know that it´s true! Just keep smiling Keep praying!!! Love you all so much!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDIE!!!!!!!! You´re 11 ;)