Hello Everyone,
well this week has been a bit rough here for us in the mission, but we are pressing on and never giving up.. i am called to remember quotes from a jeffery R Holland talk that i heard recently... he said... Salvation NEVER was Easy, and to help others receive what it is that Christ gave us we have to feel and experience a bit of what he felt while he was suffering for us!.... at times the mission isnt always the easiest but it is never too hard that i want to quit!
This week....
this monday after we had finished pday and had returned to our work as usual we were just leaving from dinner at our pensions house and leaving for the park to contact a reference that we had just received.... side note. where i am in peru people drink from 6 am to 6 am every saturday sunday and monday and missionary work is harder in these days....
we were just leaving from our pensions house and at the corner when we heard a moto flying around the corner... there were 3 drunks in the moto and they yelled some insults at us from a distance when we noticed that they were getting closer.... i heard the driver yell, para te, te voy a robar, which means stop i am going to rob you and when i turned around to see what was going on i saw my comp just out of the way of the moto and then it hit me! haha i got ran over by a bunch of drunks... the wheels passed over my leg and i fell. when i was down the passangers in the back of the moto grabbed me by the backpack and tried to rip it off me, when they failed they deceided to take off but still had a hold of me thinging i would let it go.... i was dragged a bit and i heard a rip then they let me go and took off...
my comp ran over to me and was came to check to see if i was alright... my backpack had ripped and they had let me go without getting away with anything...my leg hurt and i have a cut of my shoulder where the moto slammed into me but other than that the lord was looking out for me! we werent far from the house of our pension so we went back and let them know what had happened. i should have taken a picture i was covered in dirt and mud but i was safe and thats all that matters.... we took a moment to cool down and relax for a second and then got back out to work... this accident proves to me that the lord is looking out for us as missionaries. he is blessing us and protecting us from all forms of danger...
last week i forgot to tell you why i sent home a bunch of pictures that had the name mikayla!!!1 the daughter of our pension was preganant and just had her baby saturday!!!!! they told me that i could pick the name!!!!!!!!!!! haha i was so happy! they said as long as they liked the name that i could pick it! and there was only one name that came to my mind! MY BABY SISTER AND BEST FRIEND! woot woot! i love you sis! i told them that i had chosen the name Mikayla and they had never before heard that name and they loved it! so there is a new member to their family that proudly carries the name of you Mikayla Rae!!!! anyway that was why i sent those photos home last week...
this week was a bit hard for us because we had 4 baptisms all for this sunday and saturday 3 of them fell through, let me explain...
saturday we were visiting a young man named Viton who is ready to be baptised and super excited about the church. We had just finished the last lesson with him when we were speaking with his mother who is evangelica... or of a another faith and she told us that she didnt feel he was ready to be baptised and she didnt think that since he was baptised once he needed to do so again. it was a hard topic to discuss with her because i didnt want to offend her and straigh up tell her that her baptisms isnt valid, being the senior comp and trainer is hard some times... you are the one who is required to speak at times like this when your comp doesnt know what to do.....i have learned a lot to rely on the promptings of the spirit and they are so real and strong in my day to dad life.... i told her that i would like to come back and explain more to her and that we would be having another baptism this saturday and we asked if he could be baptised that day, she accepted with the fact that we return and explain more to her.... tomorrow we will be returning putting all our faith in the lord.
Vilma our other baptism for this week disapeared sunday morning when we passed bu her house to go to church with her. her grandma is really really catholic and doesnt love us lets just say, when we passed by the visit her, her grandmother wouldnt let her leave the house! she is 19!!! haha and has 2 kids and still her grandmother has so much control! she told us that she wouldnt be leaving the house with us and to come back another day!!! i was so frustrated! but i know taht these tings happen for a reason and that soon she will have her time!
Darwin another young man of 14 years that we are teaching was all ready to be baptised this sunday too but saturday night he was walking home....no one here wears shoes only sandals....and there is trash everywhere... and he stepped on a broken glass bottle because there is no lights he couldnt see, and he cut is foot open and had to go to the hospital! haha so he couldnt get his foot wet which makes baptism a little bit difficult! haha
i have learned that satan works in many ways and that no matter how hard we try he is always fighting just as hard as we are to destroy what we are trying to build... i was a but disheartened for a bit but i realized that no matter what the battle goes on and its just that we are in a battle....
well we did have one baptism this week of Nicolle, she is a young lady that was prepared before us to be baptised and it only took the right set of elders to preform the baptisms.... it felt good to see my companion baptise his first convert in the mission... being the trainer at times i feel pressure to be successful so that he does well and learns well in his mission and feels like he is being successful.... i made a goal to allow him to baptise each and every one of our investigators for these next 3 months we are together unless there are more than one at once we can do it together. but i want him to be able to experience it as much as he can so that he can continue to work with great excitement and love for this work! Elder Arboleda is a great Elder and we will accomplish a lot!
well thats all i have for you! i love you all and wish you all the best!
love always,
No comments:
Post a Comment