Tuesday we had a multi-zone conference with the president of our mission. Then Wednesday afternoon, I went on an exchange with one of our zone leaders. He is from Idaho and it was super fun to talk with him in English and about American stuff. It was a two day exchange and kind of felt like a missionary sleep over haha. Friday afternoon I was back with my companion.
Some cool things that happened this week was that Wednesday morning I got to work in a Peruvian factory! There are a couple members who work there and a couple investigators too, but the rest are non-members. The dad of one of our investigators owns the factory and he let us do some service there. The factory makes ovens and things similar to Camp Chef. While working, I thought that exactly a year ago, I would have been in AP Physics class doing an experiment with Aliki to find some relation between two things. Fast forward a year and I'm in a factory in Peru. What a difference a year can make haha.
Then on Saturday we played soccer with the factory workers in this field nearby. The goals were literally tree branches tied together and held up by rocks. It's been fun to get to know the workers and hopefully we get to teach some of them! Anyways my companion is from Argentina and really good at soccer but for some reason I got picked before him. I got nutmegged a couple times and that was embarrassing, but I scored a couple goals to make up for it.
Anyways the work is progressing really well for us! We had 7 investigators at church and I think we have 5 or 6 with baptismal dates! Huancayo has been really cool and the past couple days it has rained a lot. But I like it because it never rains in Logan.
To leave you all with a small spiritual message, yesterday I thought a lot about the Christlike attribute of Hope. A couple days this week I was super frustrated with Spanish and not understanding. But yesterday I read in Preach My Gospel that hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill his promises to you and when you have hope, you work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance that all things will work together for your good. I need to work on this a lot and I hope that you all will improve on this because we are at our happiest when we have hope. Anyways I hope life is good for all of you and I love and miss y'all!!
1) A pic with one of our investigators (age 11 I think) and 3 of the cutest funniest kids
2) The weirdest fruit I have ever eaten. You just slurp up the inside and chew the seeds. It is super weird but tastes pretty good.
3) View of sky with Peruvian houses
4) Multi-Zone Conference
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