Hello everyone!
Well, this week wasn’t too special
either. We had a bug or something go around our zone but we all got a little
sick. I’m not sure what caused it but I couldn’t really leave bed for the first
2 days and then the third day I was just weak from not eating plus my bum hole
was like a broken dam. Speaking of which, this allows me to tell you the thing
that made me laugh this week. So one of the elders here was also a little sick
in the stomach and I think it was Wednesday night as we were walking home from
dinner and he just demolished his pants like 2/3 of the way home. He was very distraught
to say the least.
Speaking of fires, we also had a
little fire here in the outskirts of town. However, it’s a traditional thing
people do here each year. Plus it’s so cold and high up here the fires can’t
survive for very long. But it still looked cool at night.
But yea with my comp, he had to go
renew his visa in Cusco. He told me that I’m going to have to go next change
some time to start the work to cancel mine... :/ kinda a weird thought.
Also, speaking of baptisms, the dad
of the family we are working with is back in town and so we are planning on
putting a baptismal date with him and his wife (because she wants to get baptized
with him even though she’s ready now) in October. That’s kinda far away, but
unfortunately, because he works in a mine, that’s the closest date we can put
with them. But at least we can have a goal with them. Also, with the other
daughter, she told us that she wants to get baptized in September so we are
also going to put a specific date with her. We also had a new investigator this
week. It was funny because he came up to us last Sunday and told us that he had
a friend who told him about the church and he wanted to come check it out. Also,
he is learning English because he wants to move to Australia for the work of
his wife. We were only able to visit him once this week due to the sickness
that has been going around but he seems like a pretty sincere guy who is interested
in the family teaching of the church. Also, he said that his wife is a member
but hasn’t attended for a while now. Oh, and his name is Luis. I still don’t
know his last name, though. But that’s about all I have to say on what’s going
on here more or less.
As for the rest of your questions,
something that made me sad this week is we got word from the bishop that the
mom of a really strong family has been apostatizing a little bit. Apparently
from what he told us, she has been saying that we shouldn’t go to the temple
and has been encouraging her older children to live with their
boyfriends/girlfriends without marriage. However, I am a little skeptical on
these claims on her. Ever since I have been here, she has only been helpful
with us in finding new people and building the ward. Also, she let 2 of her
kids go to the temple with all of the youth. Not to mention her oldest daughter,
who is our pensionista, has a goal to get married to her fiancé by the end of
the year. However, they have been living together for a while now and already
have 2 children. But they also are excited to get sealed in the temple as well.
To me, it seems like the bishop probably heard rumors and wants it to get
verified or something. But if it is true, that would be super sad.
This week I could probably feel the
spirit the strongest with that new investigator, Luis, we have. When he was
telling us about his desires to learn more, he just seemed really sincere about
it and I could really feel the spirit in that lesson. Something I learned new
this week was my pensionista’s dog (Benxis) gets really bored when there is no
one else to play with him. Normally me and her "husband" are the only
ones to play with him but I’ve been sick and he fell down some stairs a few
weeks ago and he broke some toes so he can’t really use his foot at the moment.
Also, as far as my testimony, I just
want to testify about your little quote [“It’s
easier to avoid temptation than to resist it”]. Through all of my personal
experiences I have had throughout my whole mission and also through teaching it,
only a thousand times. But I can really testify of the strength that comes from
that and now it’s gotten a whole lot easier to avoid temptations when they
come. I don’t remember who gave this example but I’m pretty sure it was one of
the apostles when he said he just got into a habit of humming a hymn when
temptations came (however I don’t hum). But it’s true, after a while you just
build up a wall of resistance whenever it comes from just avoiding it so much.
But yea, I think that’s all I got
for this week but I’m glad to hear from you and I love you all very much and
until next week!
Elder Halverson
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