Hello everyone!
This week was a little weird. On
Tuesday we had a Seventy come down (Elder Evans) and talk with all the
missionaries from my mission (except the missionaries in Puno because he
also went down there). Anyway, that lasted all day and he focused on
teaching us about getting new investigators. It was really good but I was just
super tired by the end of it. Also in my room we had elders from Puerto stay
there which was funny because for them Cusco was freezing but it’s normally hot
for me.
Anyway, other than that on Saturday
night the young single adults had an activity for our stake where each ward did
a traditional dance which was pretty cool to see. But you’re right, people here
don’t even know what Thanksgiving even is. However, we explained it to my
pension and she is going to make us a Thanksgiving meal. Also today for our
p-day all the American elders are going to have a turkey bowl football game.
But yea this past week we didn’t
have a baptism. We will have one this Saturday though. Oh so I want to tell you
about this crazy investigator we had to drop. So there is a little drugstore by
us where we buy all our toiletries and one day we contacted the lady that works
there. She told us that would be fine because she likes to learn new things.
Anyway so in our second lesson we invited her to read the Book of Mormon and
pray about it so she can know it’s true. She then told us that she already
knows it’s true. That was a little weird so we asked her if she was willing to
change the things in her life to follow the true gospel of Christ (baptism).
She then told us that she couldn’t change the things she was born with (because
she is Catholic). So we told her that she didn’t really know it’s true because
if she did she would want to change her life. She then told us again that she
knew what we were saying is true but she couldn’t change her "roots"
as she called it. So we thought maybe when we teach lesson 2 she will
understand it better. So we came back a week later and taught her the plan of
salvation and at the end we asked her what kingdom she would want to go to and
she told us the Terrestrial because getting to the highest was too hard. Anyway,
needless to say, we talked for about an hour trying to explain everything to
her but she still didn’t get it. So we told her if she wasn’t willing to try it
out, there was no point in teaching her. But yea it was just weird. I didn’t
think I would find people who believed the message but then not want to change
their lives.
Well other than that we just went to
some Inca ruins this morning (finally) called Saqsaywoman (sounds a lot like
sexy woman), but it was pretty sweet there. We took some pictures with llamas.
But yea that’s about it for this
week; we are about to head out to eat some McDonalds and then play some
football. Well, I love you all very much and I hope you all continue to do well
back home!
Elder Halverson
No comments:
Post a Comment