so first the great and amazing news...Yuliana was allowed to get baptized on saturday after 3 weeks of struggles and her 22 year old sister who is inactive more or less, came to the baptism with the mom and signed up for institute classes and has been coming to church the last 3 weeks and staying all 3 hours so we are happy about that. but even BETTER news, Manuel Alexander Herrera Segura is getting married on Friday in a town like 50 minutes north because theyre doing a mass marriage which only means like more than 3 but its just investigators from areas around here ha. they are the most humble people! they live in a little like 8ftx5ft thatch house with plastic on top and eat only rice and sometimes beans but always plain. manuel is only 19 and doesnt know how to read because he comes from deep in the mountains and never went to school but hes learning know JUST THROUGH THE HYMNS AND BOOK OF MORMON. hes the greatest example to me and works hard making adobe brick to save his money and progress in life. they have a lot that they just bought for like 25 bucks (30 meters by 10 meters) and they only came here 4 months ago with nothing! theyre amazing and cant wait for you to meet them in 2 years. its so cute cuz their two little daughters are always excited to see us and last night we went and sang in english happy birthday for the daughter who turned 6 and i sang for dad and spencer as well! dont worry EVERYONE in paijan knows it was your birthdays cuz i was celebrating all day. but then Lucy, the wife, told us this morning before coming to internet that she talked to her neighbor and explained the gospel so were going to teach them this afternoon! cant explain how great they are and will be happy to show you pictures of them next week. as far as the work outside of that goes we have another baptism for the following saturday 20th of march for a 20 year old girl Ney so keep her in your prayers so she can prepare and continue praying to know the truth. i still struggle with my companion but i know the Lord is giving me the strength to not get upset or say the wrong things but its sad because he doesnt progress with his attitude and his patience is extremely little and although all our leaders have tried helping him he likes to think in his way and trust in himself but i know with all your prayers as well he will be able to humble more and i will too.
also some news, we now live with the other 2 elders from the branch in our own house thats new and made of noble(brick and cement) material. but its far from our area so thats the only downer but its a lot more calm and the Spirit can dwell more easily there so im happy. im gonna send a picture of the baptism with Yuliana(short) and you will see Elder Martinez(in white) who is in his first change in the field, My comp, and Elder Gonzalez from Guatemala. The taller girl is Maritza and was their investigator who got baptized.
hope all is well at home, miss and love you all and cant wait to talk to some of you in 2 months. you are all kept in my prayers especially grandpa bob and you mom and dad! i love you so much and cant thank you enough for all that you do and have done for me, from feeding me, to allowing me to enjoy the blessings of the gospel in our home by your obedience and worthiness to invite the Spirit.
and dad we dont have couple missionaries, but if you didnt hear our new president who comes in june, is from Draper, Utah and is named Elder Turk. also peru is getting 2 new missions...Cusco y Lima West and the 1st counselor of our mission presidency was called to be president of the Cusco mission. pretty cool!
bryan and i, the son from where we used to live, cut that tree down with pure machete until the trunk and it took 3.5 hours
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