CAMBIOS!

Well transfers came again really fast. This past week we had some pretty cool miracles. So there was a couple that we had contacted in the street like 3 weeks ago to come to church but they didn't seem too interested. Then a week later they found us and told us that they had gone to church but no one was there and it was because there were elections on that Sunday where no one was allowed to have any type of religious meeting. We told them that  they should come to church again and we talked to them a bit more but they told us they weren't married and that they didn't really have plans to get married so we just wrote down their number to call them. 

Then last Sunday, the mom came with two of her kids so we wrote down her address and we thought they lived in the area of the other elders in our ward so we passed the reference to them. During the week the elders went and taught them and they accepted a baptismal date and it turns out they actually do live in our area. So last Thursday we finally coordinated a lesson with them and we got to visit them. They are the family Castro and there's the dad Julio, the mom Delsi and their kids Denis 14, Danitsa 13, Cristofer 11 and Tiago 2. This sunday they came to church but arrived a bit late. We talked to them after church and we talked about marriage and they both said that they want to get married and baptized. They said how they know it is time for their family to get baptized and it is time for them to get married. They just are a bit slower because they are from the mountains. They look like straight descendants of the Incas which is pretty awesome. Their shade of skin is a bit darker and they have a heavier facial features. But that was one of the awesome miracles we had. 

For a service project, the missionaries washed the moto taxis for free.

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We also have a family of Venezuelan potentials that we are working with. Magali the grandma, Andreina the mom, and Genesis the daughter. They are all single moms which is a little sad but they have about 3 months here in Peru and they are super humble and want to change. They used to go to an evangelist church so they know a lot about religious stuff. We invited them to be baptized and they said they wanted to see how the church was first because they were already baptized in another church. 

So we invited them to come to church and they said they would come and they did. Our church starts at 2:30 but we tell everyone it starts at 2:00 so that they'll come on time. We told them it started at 2:00 as well, but they came at 2:00 on the dot and they beat us to church and they were the first ones there. They thought that they had missed the meeting because no one was there, ha ha. Usually everyone starts piling in at like 2:40. Even the bishop shows up at 2:3,0 haha. But we feel super good about them because every time we have gone to visit them this past week they have given us stuff to eat so that's a really good sign. We found them because a less active member from Venezuela asked us to come over to her house to give her and the grandma Magali a health blessing. Everyone please pray that the Lord can touch their hearts and prepare them! 

Making pancakes at Alex and Patricia's home.

Erika and Margot are doing... well ok. We had coordinated with both of them to come to church but neither of them came. We passed by after and the mom of Margot told us that her dad had taken her to another part of Peru. And with Erika we don't know what happened because she didn't answer her cell phone or she wasn't at her house either. So please pray for them as well! 

We had transfers and my companion is going and Elder Larson will be my new companion. He has only like 5 months in the mission so he's a younger guy and he was in my old zone in Santa Clara and I had already done splits with him so I already know him a bit. 

Well I hope everyone has a good week!