Well I guess I’ll just tell you a
little of how my week went. Well, first off, last Monday was our zone P-day and
we went to some ruins above a little town that are called Machu Pitumarca. They
were really cool; we just had to climb up a mountain to get there. They
basically look a lot like a bunch of other ruins I’ve already seen but it was
kinda cool because they had 2 peeks of ruins. Also everything is still yellow.
We also found some kinda kiln or something that looks like a face with its
mouth open. I’ll send you a photo of that.
On Tuesday, we just had a conference
with the president of the mission which was really good. He talked a lot about
cleaning out our cups interiorly to be able to be better teachers in the work.
At the end he showed us a few power points of his mission and of his life after
the mission. It was a little trunky. Especially because he was showing some
pictures of missionaries who have ended and what they are doing right now. I
saw a few photos of some of my old companions and other missionaries that I
knew. Then we had to travel back to Sicuani that night to be able to be in our
sector as soon as possible.
On Friday, we saw a rally race pass
through Espinar because Espinar is one of the checkpoints in which they had to
stop. We started by watching the winners get into the plaza in Espinar. We then
walked way out of the city where they were taking the times of the cars as they
were arriving into the city so they were going their fastest at this point. That’s
the most people from Espinar that I’ve seen in one place since I’ve been here. We
didn’t have any appointments that day and needless to say that basically no one
was in their house so we used the opportunity to also contact a bit. However, I
forgot to put on sunscreen that day and we were in the sun for quite a long
time and I got burned on my face and arms pretty bad. They are now peeling
terribly.
However, on Saturday, we had our baptisms!
Woot! For me and my comp we just baptized the mom and daughter of the Yuca
family and the other elders here had a baptism as well of a girl who is about
14 years old but has been going to seminary for quite a while. It was a pretty
dang sweet day. Also that night the Young Single Adults had a movie night and
asked us to help out in contacting news who were there. However, it was a
disaster because the sound system they brought didn’t hook up to the projector
and so they only had very quiet sound coming from the projector.
But that’s about all that happened
this week. Oh yea, also we started teaching the parents of one of our
investigators. However, the mom doesn’t really understand very well when we
teach in Spanish so we had some members with us in a lesson we taught to be
able to translate what we were teaching to Quechua to help the mom understand
better. As far as the daughter of them who we are teaching, she is progressing
really well but she needs to get married. We were able to talk to her boyfriend?
(I can’t think of how to call the partner of someone who’s not married in English).
Anyway, he seems to be understanding really well what we are teaching and we
think that we will be able to have them get married here in a few months.
Elder Halverson
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