November 18, 2024
Hey fellas! How are y'all doin! How's the cold weather treating you??
Well this week here in Perú was amazing! Honestly not much happened, but the stuff that did happen was amazing as always!
Last pday we didnt really do much! Drove to Urubamba, ate some Chifa (just chinese food), and chilled at the church there until 5! Also got my first haircut in Perú. Dude was mad chill, the cut was nice, and only 12 soles, which I think is a pretty good deal!
Basically the rest of the week nothing happened that was too special! We worked hard, and got all of our key indicators (goals for the week) finished by thursday! This was good and bad, because obviously its great that we finished our goals early in the week, but my comp kinda took that as though our week was completed! But nooo buddy! So i made us go out and try and do a little more work, but yea that was a bummer.
Also it rained for like 4 straight days here, and stopped right before the baptism! What a miracle! And then continued after it naturally. And if you remember we have a hole in the roof, so the kitchen was like completely flooded! We could basically start fishing for dinner now hehe!
Had a great missionary night had some good discussions with the members and somehow they got on the topic of how they need to be better examples and show up on time to church, and to be more inviting to new people! Basically chastized themselves which is good they recognize where the need to improve!
Then on saturday we had the baptism of Luciano!! Love this kid, hes amazing! Hes 13 and only his mom is a member. The rest of his family is catholic, and they have been pressuring him trying to not get him to be baptized and sayin stuff about the church and all these things! Very proud because he was able to ignore all that and make one of the best decisions of him life! That would be hard tho if all your family was agint you.
After the baptism and cake and what not (his mom threw a big party!!) We had English class. 3 people stayed after the baptism for that which is the most people we've had at English class, and they kinda just decided to make it a vocab class and asked me random words to translate for 2 hours! And then after that we had a FHE with a family and so we ended up staying at the church for like 8 hours that day.
Sunday was good but seemed kinda lazy, which was partly my fault. There was some hurt feelings of a member from our branch president and so that was dumb. Luis keeps coming to church which is awesome so idk what going on with him!! I'm hoping for the best and that he'll get baptised.
Anyways kinda interesting week.
Oh crap forgot to say we had transfers and I'm staying here in Calca!!! Yayayayay. Élder Grillo is too, but we're getting another, Élder Fort, so it's gonna be a trio. Honestly not looking forward to it. Trios are dumb in my opinion, but I just need to have a good attitude about it.
Spiritual section:My spiritual though comes from "Act in All Dilligence" from Pres. Henry B. Eyring.(2010) Basically I encourage everyone, (espescially fellow missionaries, or people with callings in church) to read and study this talk! Its amazing!
And i think it applied to me and my companion this week! Basically he talks about how after the savior was crucified, he said "It is finnished" and then proceeded for three solid days, to go preach more and help people gain their salvation in the spirit world! What a powerful testimony! This week after we completed all of our goals wednesday night, we might have thought our work was done, but no! We still worked hard and were able to give good lessons and find people afterwards! And have a baptism!!
#putyourshouldertothewheel
Good week this week! Really crazy that first transfer here in Perú is done! Only 13 more and im finished with the mish!!
7 days more
- Élder Bailey 
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