A loooooooong week

Un buenas tardes a todos! I hope everyone is doing great and enjoying the fall weather back home. Down here in Peru it is starting to warm up and it is getting very hot. The sun burns like crazy here and when I don't put on sunscreen I get burnt! 

So this last week was a little long and a little challenging and we didn't have as much time to work in our area as we would have liked. Elder Nye, my new comp, is a real funny guy and I am very glad that he is my companion. 

Last week I went and got my wrist looked at and turns out that I still had a broken bone in my wrist from when I dislocated it playing rugby and it hadn't healed all the way. Tissue had just formed around it and was holding it in place, is what the doctor told me. But that part of my wrist hasn't bothered me for ages. It was the part in front of my thumb that was pretty swollen. The doctor is having me receive an MRI tomorrow to be able to see if I tore any ligaments or if there are any smaller fractures in my hand. 

Last week we moved rooms and that was sure something. There were these huge dressers that I have no idea how the elders before us got up into our room, but we totally wrecked the walls of our apartment taking them down the stairs so that was fun and the owner of our old room was micromanaging us as we were moving out and so that annoyed all of the elders, haha. 

View from Jackson's new apartment overlooking a park.

We found this lady last week that wanted to get baptized but in the end something has happened and we'll have to see. Luana, the 10 year old little girl that we were teaching, was told by in church by someone that she couldn't sing reggaeton songs in the church and that she couldn't wear short shorts or something like that and she got discouraged and now she doesn't want to get baptized. Her mom Paula, who also was going to get baptized with her, doesn't want too. We think it was more of just getting a little discouraged and that's all and we are going to visit them and help them get back on track. 

This Saturday is the baptism of Yamira and we are super excited just because she just already looks, acts, and talks like a member of the church. It's just so amazing to see how much she loves and trusts the Lord. She understands so much of the B of M and it's just going to be awesome to see her baptism. If everyone can please pray for her daughter, Betania, that the Lord can touch her heart and prepare her to be baptized that would be great. 

Jackson's Zone.

Michael is doing ok. He has been a little faulty with some of his commitments and coming to church on time, but the family that is helping him is amazing so that will help him a lot. Please pray for him as well. Cesar is doing good too, we are just trying to help activate his mom now. Angela and her daughter are doing great as well. They are participating in the activities of the church and they are loving it. Angela still has a couple of doubts about being baptized so if everyone can please pray for her as well and also for her son Diego so that he can be baptized as well. Have a great week! 

The pizza place almost got Jackson's name right, ha ha.