Hola! Well this week was a little crazy. A lot of stuff happened so ill try and paint an accurate picture of what happened. First of all on thrusday mornings we do service for three hours. This thursday we helped dig a new out house for a family because theirs was full. Yeah a lot of the houses here dont have running water. Anyways it was aobut three feet deep and 8 feet deep when it collapsed on elder bearnson and burrined him up to his waist. So next week we have to go back and dig a new one. We also filled in the old one which was a real stinky process.
Anyways, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Haloween in peru is wierd. There was a lot of parties. But almost none of them had anything to do with halloween. WHen people here have parties they build a giant tent in the middle of the road blocking the entire road. Then they playm music loud enough to hear throughout the entire city of Lima, And they dont stop until exactly 6 in the morning. So two nights ago theyhad one right outside of my apartment so we didnt really sleep much that night.
Two nights ago we were walking to an appointment when a disabled lady in a wheelchair asked us to push her home. Of course as missionaries we agreed. What she didnt tell us was that she lived at the top of a super steep hill with no real road leading to it about three miles away. It too me and my companion together to be able to pull her up the dirt hill backwards in her wheel chair. I was extremely scared because i about lost my footing a couple of times and had i of done so she probably wold have gone rolling right on down to her death or extremely seriouse energy because she would not have been able to do anything. Yeah crazy stuff.
My health is great I was blessed to be sick in the CCM so i havent got sick in the field yet its been really really nice. The funny thing is that this place has got a ton of Jehovas witness missionaries. So we kind of have a silent battle with them. Yesterday we saw some talking with one of our investigators so we just waved at our investigator as we walked by and she smiled and waved back it was kind of funny but yeah.
The language is a processs. Little by little its improving i jus to be patient and dilligent. I just feel really akward when somebody is talking to me and i have no idea what they are saying. Its really easy to get a little discouraged out here but its also easy to be happy if im focused and doing what i need to be doing. Thanks for all the prayers I appreceate it!
We have a boy of 13 years old that should be baptized this saturday im really excited for that he is a great young man and ready to take the steps in his life to follow Jesus Christ. Yesterday my companion baptized a lady that adopted her son away to the united states when he was barely a couple months old. Her son knew nothing of her except that she lived Peru. He was called to the Peru Lima South mission and one week before he went home he found her. So we got to see the end of a pretty awsome story yesterday. She is a way cool lady. Super nice. But it was a crazy story to hear.
Anyways thats about it. We are working hard and are hoping for a few baptisms in November we have to with a date right now and hopefully more to come. There are a lot of flakes here. When we set a time to teach they dont show or are gone. But thats an easy way to weed out who is ready to hear the word and who is not i suppose. There are a lot of crazy religous demonstrations in the streets here its wierd. They carry around giant statues and stuff with bands playing and like pray to them. I dont wanna judge but its a little wierd. Anyways miss everybody hope everything back home is going well Love Elder Hesselgesser
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