This week was
great :)
Monday we
went to this stadium called Tumpis and played soccer :) Fabiam Reto helped us
put up our mosquito nets because they were absolutely KILLING us.
Tuesday we
found a new investigator named Karmen.. she has 7 kids and is about 28 years
old. ha. Welcome to peru. Something super sad also happened...a members
house burned down. Apparently some kid was playing with fire and it got
something else and then sooner than later 2 houses got burned down. The members
called us and we helped haul food and supplies over to their location. My heart
sunk as I walked in their destroyed house... they lost absolutely everything. They
don’t use banks here so all their money, EVERYTHING.
Wednesday
morning we went back early and helped them clean everything up. They gave me a
hammer and we started breaking everything that was still in place so they could
restart completely. We filled the whole house with sand using a shovel and a
wheelbarrow :) It made me think of mulch haha!
I just laughed :) The Peruvians
would walk by and they would say "wow look at how these gringos
work!" haha :) All thanks to you
and pops :)
Later in the
day we were walking down the street and we found a group of drunks... aka all
of Peru. They yelled at us and "asked" us to share something so I
"asked" them to repent. :) We
had a lesson with a member family. I absolutely love them. They have 3 daughters
and they are adorable. Their dad left to Lima because he’s super sick... he’s
going to live there for about 2 months. Anyways, we shared with them to
be like Nephi when his bow broke in the wilderness.. when his family was under
pressure and passing through problems and afflictions, his whole family murmured.
Nephi also had the decision to murmur, or cowboy up and keep moving forward. Like
we know, he built a bow out of wood, armed himself with an arrow, and went out
to hunt. What a perfect example.
Friday we
were visiting an investigator named Leslye.
She’s super cool. We invited her to be baptized and she accepted.
We now have 2 people with a baptismal date :) But for real though, we are
inviting EVERYONE to baptism. WE’RE CRAZY MACHINES. There was another family
that is super super super cool but they turned us down because she’s catholic
and he’s mormon and they want to get married for eternity but she wants to do
it in her church and he wants to do it in the mormon church and it’s just a problem.
So for some advice for Cody, just make it a whole lot easier on yourself and go
marry a nice Mormon girl :)
Saturday I opened
a coconut with my hands. I smashed in on the ground and it took some flesh out
of my right hand but the victory milk inside was even better than the pain
:)
Sunday was
great. Church was great. The members are great :) The members are actually
really willing to help us out here... opening this new area has got them super
excited and all of them want to come with us :) Anyways, yesterday I was pretty
sick. About 5 pm I started to get a migraine and then I got a bad fever but a
little sickness isn’t gonna stop me from saving souls. :) We kept going. :) A couple of the members think I have
dengue from the mosquitos because they are straight killing me but they said it
usually passes within a week :)
On the bright
side, my companion, Elder Urpeque is super cool. I’m loving our time
together. We’re working hard here and
having success. He’s the only member in his family and I always marvel at the
sacrifice that is to leave your family when they don’t support you. So thank
you for all the love and support :)
Puyango is
great. :) It’s hot, humid, and I have at least 40 mosquito bites every day but
I’m loving it :)
I love you guys,
have a great week!!
-Elder Harris
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