Family!
Yes, today
was transfers. After 5 months and 3 transfers, my companion Elder Nosa left to
another city called Paita. It was hard to say goodbye but I feel like I’m
ready for a change :) Now it’s just Elder Paredes and I... :) And to respond to
your question if I’m ever going have an American companion, I wouldn’t count on
it :)
My new companion
is great.. for real. He is super funny. EVERY MORNING when we wake up he goes
to the bathroom and comes out, gets into this power stance, claps his hands and
says "buenos dias chicos" (good morning boys) it’s freaking
hilarious. He laughs a lot and he has a sense of humor like me. :)
haha! He’s super open as
well.
Monday a
sister missionary from Mexico made us some traditional Mexican food and it was
BOMB. Seriously why am I not living in Mexico? PS – I’m still sick of rice.
I also made a
package for one of my buddies in my first area, Negritos. I think I told
you but his name is Harol and he got his mission call to Bogota, Colombia so I made
him a package of shoes, a shirt, and a few ties because I know that he doesn’t
have much.... I wrote him a letter and sent a picture with it so I hope he
likes it :)
Tuesday and
Wednesday I basically lived with Elder Yujra and Elder Edwards. We are opening
6 areas this transfer so my companions were super busy buying new things
:) Anyways, we enjoyed ourselves :)
Thursday was
great. I think I told you last week but
every night about 10:15 we walk about a mile to a less active members house to
help push her car into her house. In the
beginning it wasn’t that big of a problem, but we´ve done it every night for
the past 2 weeks and I remember feeling a little annoyed by it... I remember
thinking, I already have a busy enough schedule as it is, I’m exhausted, and at
10:15 every night I honestly just want to take a shower and go to bed.
But then I remembered a Mormon Message called "LIFT". (If
you haven’t seen it, GO WATCH IT) I told
you about it a couple weeks ago and it really touched me. I have been praying
for the past couple weeks for opportunities to serve and now here it is.
It’s amazing to me how God gives us opportunities to grow and become like
Him. But he gives us our agency to choose to do or not, and do it with a
smile or not. I´ve really been putting
for an effort the past couple days to be happy about doing it and it truly has
made all the difference. :)
Saturday we
got the official transfers... I have mixed feelings about staying here another
6 weeks in the office but if God wants me to stay, so be it. :) There
must be more I need to learn. Later in
the night we had a lesson with the family I told you about last week,
Carhuapoma Troncos. They read 9 chapters of the Book of Mormon in a
couple days, WOWW. We had an awesome lesson with them and they accepted
our baptismal invitation. We are super happy for them :) I’ll keep you
updated.
Sunday was
awesome.. Elder Nosa just said goodbye to all the members and they all made us
food and it was a great big party :) Seriously these people are great :)
It wasn’t a
crazy week but for sure a good one :)
I hope you
guys are great back at home, have a great week.
Love youuuu
:) :) :) :) :) :)
-Elder Harris
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