Last week we had zone conference and we talked about the consecration. Elder Larson and I gave a training about using our time wisely and consecrated as missionaries.
A miracle that we saw last week was that we were contacting and we contacted a Venezuelan man, and he told us that he had talked to missionaries like us before but he said he wanted to change his life and hear our message so we took out an appointment with him. He doesn't have a phone, so he showed us where he lives. His name is Franyer Garcia. We had a lesson with him and he's 21 and he lives here by himself. Pretty much he committed a lot of sins in his past as a teenager and he feels really, really guilty and bad for doing that, so he wants to be baptized to be clean of his sins. He accepted to be baptized the 28 of March. He lives in a small, concrete brick room with just a mattress on the floor. He is super humble and willing to do anything to draw closer to God. His rent for his room is 50 soles (US $14.55) and yesterday he needed to pay the rent but he didn't have any money. He chose to come to church with us instead, trusting that the Lord would help him find a job to pay for his rent. We had a lesson with him right before church and he told us that he didn't have any money to buy food last night or he didn't have any money at all so he decided that he would fast. I realized that's a different type of fasting where you literally don't have anything to eat and so you might as well fast compared to where we were all fasting and we knew that there was a nice big meal waiting for us from the members. We helped him out after he came to church. At the bakery, they have rolls that are super cheap so we bought him a ton of rolls and some ham to eat. Everyone, please pray for Franyer that the Lord can help him find a job.
Victoria is doing really good and progressing as well. She always cooks us food when we go over to teach her, haha. She's like a little old Peruvian grandma.
Last week we weren't able to have a lesson with Zabdi and her husband because all last week she was studying from super early in the morning to late at night every day for a test that she was going to take. She doesn't live in our area yet but this week her studies won't be as intense, so we'll be able to teach her just fine.
The family Castro didn't go to church on Sunday, sadly. They said that they were getting ready to go in the morning but then the boss of the dad, Julio, called and told him that he needed to work. Usually he doesn't even work on Sundays; it's just Satan being a pain. So we decided to move the date for the kids, Denis, Danitza and Cristoffer to the 21 of March because the family is a little bit slower and they still need to talk to Santa Cena and everything.
Erika is doing good. Her baptism is this Saturday and she's pretty excited. So pray for her that everything goes well for her baptism this week. Also, the daughter of Victoria, she had been listening to the lessons with her mom and we had invited her to be baptized but she wasn't married. We finally had a lesson with her and her husband Angelo this last Saturday and they both accepted to be baptized and married the 28 of March so everyone please pray that the Lord can help them get their papers for the marriage and that they can continue being prepared.
Today for P-Day we woke up earlier and we hiked as a district to a mountain that has a temple of an Evangelist church on the top. It was pretty amazing... the view at least. There was this Peruvian pastor there, and he like wanted to preach to us but we just kept walking around the temple. There was a little exercise area and we went and we pumped some iron on the edge of a Peruvian mountain in a temple. It was a pretty legit P-Day.
Hope everyone has a great week!
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