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 It was a good week. Any week with a baptism is. It is awesome to see kids make this covenant. We are told to focus on youth and inactive familes, which makes sense. All 4 baptisms we've had were kids of inactive families who we helped reactivate. All 3 families are very active now. This is obviously incredible. I really want to see some adults and families open their hearts to our message though. They will come. 

Sometimes the main water line for our street (a pvc pipe) breaks so we don't have water. They usually fix it (tape it) pretty quick though lol. This country never ceases to amaze me. 

We had an extreme rarity this week. We went a whole 24 hours without being fed rice or drinking maracuya. It makes me extremely sad to think that some of you have never had Maracuya. This is one thing that will never be the same after the mission. 

We watched a group of dogs curb stomp a cat in the middle of the road. I don't know why but it was sad (I laughed). Photos attached

The main story would go crazy in Perú. There's always something crazy happening.

They paved the 5 mile stretch of the freeway that was dirt road. We so up! 😹Perú out the mud.

I love how relatable the Book of Mormon is to these people. There is such a rich Incan/Native culture here like in the Book of Mormon. Ancient Incan writings even talked about "a god" visiting them and the dates line up almost exactly with when Christ visited the Nephites. This is obviously not church doctrine, so we just tell people that Christ did in fact visit the Americas after his resurrection, and explain what we know as doctrine. But anyone who reads the book will almost always ask us about this conection. We kinda just give them a solid maybe. True or not, this connection works well for the people so we don't argue it. They almost have me convinced haha. 

On the note of BOM tie ins to peruvian culture, I will finish with a scripture because I need to be better about making my emails somewhat spiritual. I love this scripture because rather the Peruvian people really are descendants of the Nephites, Lamanites, or neither, this verse is a fire missionary verse. 

"And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the Lamanites, they bretheren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls."

Love you guys

Pictures

1. Scary surprise under the door! I hate snakes.

2. AC in Perú (it was 86 in our apartment this night 😖)

3. Busy on the flip phone 🤣🤣

4. RIP lil homie 💔 🕊 

5. Happy birthday Jesus

6. Funny pic a member took at the baptism 😹