Week 66

Nother good week, Just suffering away, I mean working so hard every day:)

To start out, on Tuesday we had another meeting with the stake president, he is a boss. He comes up with the weirdest analogies and stuff but we got our activity all planned out and it should be cool. We also planned a "White Night" for the 25th of November where we are going to have all of the zone baptisms in one stake center, all together, it should be super cool but it is gonna be rough on me following up with all of the missionaries to see who really progresses and will be able to be baptized that day.  The stake president told us that he is going to write a letter to each member of the stake inviting them to fast and pray for a family that they know that could possibly be baptized and then introduce the missionaries to the families. It should be a super cool thing because the fast really does work! I am excited because after talking to Pres. Amato he told me that I will probably be here for 2 more transfers and I'm fine with that because I will be here to see how everything turns out until at least January. 

Also on Tuesday, I got the package mom and dad sent! it was bomb! Thanks a ton for everything!!

 

On Wednesday we went to the office in the morning to pick-up some supplies for the activities of this last week. We talked to president about an investigator that we have whose mom does witchcraft and he told us not to teach in her house so that is pretty interesting. Lets just say that some weird stuff has happened in her house before...like a long time ago not while we were there. 

 

Thursday we threw up a table in Viña Alta here in our area and had a zone attack and it went really well. We got 50 references in about an hour! We did it right in front of a school when all of the parents were going to pick up their kids. We are going to be contacting them throughout this week. We also got to know Evert´s family this week. I don't know if I told you guys about him, but he got home about 2 weeks ago from his mission and only him, his dad, and his younger brother are LDS. So we went and talked to his mom and his two younger sisters and they are super cool. His parents aren't married because of some legal problems, but we are working on it. They will really need the help of the Atonement of Jesus Christ in their lives but as the stake president said..."that's a sealing opportunity right there!" It would be super cool to see their family be able to go to the holy temple and I would definitely have to find time to come back to Peru to see that take place. 

On Friday we got to go to the baptism of a little kid in our ward because his family asked us to be the witnesses which was cool.  I also started the English Class that night and lets just say it wasn't a complete failure but it wasn't really a success either. We handed out like a total of 100+ invitations throughout the week and we had it posted on Facebook and everything, and over 400 people had seen the invite, but only a mom and her 10 year old son and his two friends and one other girl came. It was kinda sad. But I am thinking about trying again in a couple of weeks. 

Saturday was a cool day as well. We went proselyting with the missionaries in training at the MTC all afternoon. You'll never guess who I met! I took 3 elders with me and all 3 were from Utah and 2 were coming to our mission. But the one was a Poly who is going to Trujillo. So naturally I started talking to the Poly and  I told him his last name sounded super familiar but I couldn't remember why.So like every other Poly he told me he had like 15 uncles and 37 cousins and started naming them off and turns out it was Simeon Matagi´s cousin!!! The football player from Bingham High that signed with USU as well. Idk if you remember him? But it was pretty cool, what a coincidence that i would go with him. I have a pic but will have to send it to you next week. But anyway, later that day we went to Manchay for 2 baptisms and it was such a cool experience because Eduardo´s mom was getting baptized and Francisco baptized her!!! It was really cool! They were hyped to see me and it was cool to see the whole ward again. My comp was hyped too because he was in that area a while ago as well. 

 

So today we got permission to go to Gamarra. It is like a huge outdoor mall type deal idk how to describe it tbh. It is like blocks and blocks of just stores where they sell everything.  We just bought some ties and I bought a hat, it was cool because one of the members took us in his car. And then my comp got his haircut because he is getting ready to go home next Monday. I will probably go back to Manchay this weekend because Elder Macias is finishing as well and I might just go be comps with his comp, Elder Whitby, that is serving there, so that would be really cool. So ya that is basically what has gone on. We are just getting ready for November and the activities we have planned! 

 

PS. Google translate doesn't have Tongan so I hope that dad knows some Samoan. 

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Much Love,

Elder Mortenson