yesterday we went to a place called ¨Cumbemayo¨ which means weaved river. Its a stone forest that was a place of adoration for pre-Incan people. The intelligence that they showed in making the little creeks work is crazy. their canal systems are so advanced that they had water move uphill. they had altars where they sacrificed animals, and they had a portal where they passed from this life to the eternities and they inscriptions in the stone are awesome they believed in the 3 degrees of glory and the highest had 3 glories in itself which historians make things up to explain but thanks to the gospel we can understand and secure the truthfulness. leading to the portal there are 2 staircases, one thats normal sized with large steps(wide) and the other is very skinny and tons of small steps, and supposedly those who did good things in their life were on the straight and narrow and entered there, and the other was for those who didnt do the which. it was a great experience and beautiful and we got into the van to head back just as the rains started to pour.
anyway, this last week we struggled a little with the people that were planning to be baptized, who had even passed their interviews, only 1 was baptized of 4, but we ended the week all finding awesome families, and that is the recent new focus in the mission...all the companionships holding a medium of 8 families a week teaching and we are all there, and now that we have met the goal, we can see progress and that they are accepting. Especificamente, the familia Chavez Huamán are doing awesome. The dad who suffered an accident about 5 years ago is way catholic(doesnt mean much, especially after sharing the Restoration) and he lives 45 minutes away in a little pueblo watching over their terrain and comes on the weekends but sometimes just saturday afternoon til sunday morning, so its been hard to meet him. so at last we went to teach the mom Rosa who we had met a few days before and taught, with Julie and Veronica the 2 daughters who have been coming to church the last 3 weeks, and with the Lord´s hand, the dad Concepción had arrived(Friday night!). we had taught the Restoration to the mom and daughters thursday night and they understood it PERFECT and prayed and knew it was true, so we got to the dad and he tells us about how hes devout catholic and is gonna die catholic and we just started teaching away and the mom and daughters helped us teach him(it was the lesson we dream of as missionaries ha). as we progressed in the lesson he began realizing the way things really were and the thing that struck him the most was when we talked about the Priesthood and the authority of God. he was amazed and so happy telling us that in all these years he had never heard of such a thing, but that it is so important and necessary. from then, he was more interested than ever, and by the end when we asked him if he believed the Church of Jesus Christ had been restored to the earth by the prophet Joseph Smith, he gladly said yes. But as necessary, we explained to him the importance and need to pray to ask Heavenly Father if it was so, and as we explained the correct manner to pray, he was stunned(like any catholic) and was like ¨Now this is what we´ve needed to learn our whole lives...how to really communicate with Heavenly Father¨ and then continued to joke and say that Heavenly Father must be upset with him and not want to listen to him now that he´s repeated the same thing for so many years. all in all, we are seeing miracles as we focus on only finding and teaching whole families, and i am loving this work more than ever. Hermano Concepción gave me much more reason to appreciate the Priesthood and as well i have been able to realize how much the Lord loves each one of us by restoring His Church and Gospel to the earth. Now as members, if we don´t share it, we´re keeping all those who don´t have the knowledge we do from feeling that same love from Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We all know how much we benefit from the restored gospel, and i invite you all to meditate such, and analize what you are doing to show your gratitude to the Lord for those benefits.
Love, Elder Kyle Favero Nichols
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