This week was soo great! Elder
Lazaro left, and it was sad to see him go, but Elder Arrington and I are having
a great time speaking English together :) I finally feel like I can really,
really connect with one of my companions.
On Tuesday we felt impressed to knock on a door, it was strange
to us that the lady that received us wasn’t quite interested in our message. When
we feel prompted to knock a door, usually God always provides someone super
prepared. We asked her if she knew
anyone else that would like to hear us and she told us that maybe her mom. She
gave us her direction and we immediately went to her moms house and knocked on
the door and found a huge family crying in a big circle. They let us in and told us that their 37
year-old daughter/sister had recently passed away and they just couldn’t stand
the pain. We brought hope to them as we shared
the plan of salvation… God prompted us to knock the door to lead us to that
family. He works in mysterious ways..
Oh my word, Wednesday was nuts. We had a district meeting in
Tambo Grande which is like a city about an hour from here. We thought there was a bus to take us, but
nahhhh.... no car, nothing... so how did we get there? :) We all smashed into a
moto taxi and took a 2 hour ride to Tambo Grande... the meeting started at
10:30, pretty sure we arrived at 11:30. Haha! But it was quite the adventure,
we passed through 4 rivers, banana and rice fields, contacted some Indians on
the road, but best part was that the police stopped us and asked the moto taxi
driver for his papers. Of course, he didn’t have them, no one here in Peru
does. We walk over to the police officer
with our Bibles in hands and start preaching to him that Christ forgave, and he
should too..... AND HE DID!!! Hahaha! He let us go for free!! Ahhhh! It was one of the top 10 moments in my life
for sure.
Thursday we went to Morropon and helped Cucha make some
algarrobina :) I’ll send a pic :) She also wanted to be nice and made us some
lunch...... rice and fish....... yummyy.............. my
favorite................ *shakes head*
Friday we get a text asking if we would come back to Tambo Grande
to do a baptismal interview.... soooo we went back, got there about 10:30, and
the investigator hadn’t arrived yet. So we
waited, and waited, and waited... they never got there.. so what did we do? Just went back to Chulucanas... we basically
wasted the whole morning traveling... for nothing!
We had a mission night at the church and it was LEGIT!! We
watched a video about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and it was amazing! All of the members wanted us to give them the
video... a lot of the members shared their testimonies and it was a very
powerful night. I wish you guys could have
been there. :)
On Saturday we were walking down the street and this
little kid kicks me this soccer ball because everyone and their dog plays here
in Peru. He called me Elder, and I asked
him how he knew us? He told us that he went to church before, so we asked him
to take us to his house. We ended up finding
his mom, Graciela Julca. She opened the door and was super surprised to see
us... she asked us, "How did you find me here? I just barely moved?” We just smiled and said "God sent
us." Haha! I guess she’s been less
active for about a year and now were gonna baptize her husband and son. BOOYAHH!!
Around 8 pm we were walking down the street and in the shadows
we hear "Gringos!" We
approached the dark man and ask him why he called us? :) His name is Rommell
Nina, and he’s a drug addict that lives on the streets. He was pretty
messed up when we found him, so we started to help him and we explained to him
how much God loved him and how much He wanted him to change, how it’s possible
to become clean again. He was shocked by our words , speechless. We invited him
to come to church with us and he agreed, but didn’t have any clothes to wear. I
looked at him in the eyes, and said "I’ll give you mine". He looked down, then back at me and said
"I see Christ in you... You have a light that surrounds you". We picked him up in the morning at 8:30 ...
he had no roof, no door, nothing, just a mattress and the clothes he was
wearing the night before. He washed himself with some toilet water and i let
him put on my white shirt and pants, and we went to church. :) He stayed all 3 hours , and loved it. He told
us after that he was planning on killing himself on Saturday night because his
girlfriend cheated on him…but that our quick visit in the street persuaded him
not too. He told us after church that he
had no desire to kill, rob, or do any of it again.... it was a true miracle.
We’re doing all we can here in Chulucanas... working hard,
inviting everyone to be baptized... we’re happy, truly, truly happy :)
love you guys!!
-Elder Harris
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