Well I don't have to much to report on this week. Last week was a bit slower. Sadly, Juan didn't come to church and we haven't been able to find him or get in contact with him so that kinda sucks. He's pretty cool so please pray that we'll be able to find Juan. So tomorrow are transfers. My companion is going to the zone central. My new companion is from Brazil again, haha, but he speaks perfect English. I think that I am going to take advantage of this opportunity to learn Portuguese. His name is Elder Muñiz so I'm pretty pumped to work with him.
I am very grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ in my life. A tip that I heard from Elder Bednar was to take a cover back Book of Mormon and start from the beginning and mark everything that has to do with the Atonement of Christ with a marker until the very end of the book and then you take a blank sheet of paper and write a one page summary of what you learned, fold it up and stick it in the book. Then you get a white piece of tape, put it on the spine of the book and write Atonement 1. Then you do the same thing again with another Book of Mormon. After you write the second summary, you take out the summary from the first book and compare the two summaries. Elder Bednar said that it is amazing what you will have learned from doing this. He said that you can do this with any question you have. I started doing this and it is amazing how many things are referenced or talk about the Atonement of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon. I am so very glad that we all have the opportunity to use the Atonement every day to become even more like Christ and improve as people.
Here are the photos from William's baptism last week.
This week we had the baptism of William. It was pretty cool to see William get baptized finally. He told us how from the first moment that we talked with him that when he heard that he needed to baptized like Jesus Christ he knew that our message was true and that he indeed needed to be baptized like Jesus Christ. He is the most chosen person of the people that I have baptized. He asked me right before his baptism if he could baptize his dad as well that day, haha. I told him that he had to wait to go to the temple but it's just cool to see him excited.
This past week we also received a referral named Juan. Juan is 20 years old and he's pretty chill. He has had a tough life as his mom died when he was younger and his dad left him and his 3 siblings to grow up together. He also got in a gnarly work accident and his hand got all chopped up. He's got some scars on his hand but he went to a primitive church before or something so he's already a pretty spiritual person, and he accepted to be baptized the 6th of July. I won't be able to upload the pictures from William's baptism this week so I'll try and do that next week. Hope everyone has a great week!!
So this last week I had the amazing opportunity to see Elder Bednar. He came to Limatambo and all of the Lima missions were there. We got there pretty early and got some really close up seats. We were all expecting him to come and give a talk but he did it way differently and he asked us questions instead. We had all read 4 talks from him before he came and we talked about those, and he asked us what we learned. He taught us a good way to teach our investigators with the way that we ask them certain questions and it was great.
All of the missions down here in Peru baptize a lot but sometimes we struggle with retaining a lot of the newer converts. He gave us some good revelation through asking us questions and it was just super fun to see him. We got to see a different side of him that you don't see in general conference so that was fun too.
This last week we found a Venezuelan lady, Jenny, and she's here living with her daughters and granddaughters. She accepted to be baptized on the 29th of June. Sadly we lost Alexander the other Venezuelan. We had a lesson with him last night and all he wanted to do was argue with us out of the bible so we told him that when he was ready to be baptized to call us.
My companion, Elder Bittencourt is very smart and it's fun teaching with him. He is a convert from when he was 15 and he just knows how other people think, so he's able to teach in a very sensible way that helps the other people understand why they need to be baptized.
This week we will have the baptism of William so that's going to be awesome! We had to move the baptism of Kati and Saif because they didn't come to church again which was a little frustrating.
I hope you all have a good week!
