Elder Villar

Elder Villar from the 70 came. I will be honest, he did not come to give the mission ear candy. He absolutely ripped into everyone including President Giuria. He was incredibly intense. He shared some stuff though that was really cool. 


He shared how faith produces miracles. Miracles don't produce faith. I liked that a lot. 

He also talked about the parable of the talents from Matthew 25. I absolutely loved this part. He talked about how to one servant were given five talents, to one two, and to the other just one. The three servents went out and did everything they could with their talents. They came back with 10 and 4 talents respectively. The Lords response to these two was EXACTLY the same (verses 21 and 23). He was not upset with the one that brought back only four, because he was only given two in the first place. Elder Villar talked about how as missionaries (and just in life in general) it is the same. Some of us are more or less capable than others. But all the Lord asks of us is that we use our capability that we have been given to the best of our ability. If we do so, as shown by verses 21 and 23, the Lord will veiw our efforts exactly the same. 

He then went on to talk about the servant that just brought back one talent because he hid the one that was given to him in the dirt. We see in verse 26 what the Lords response was for him (not too pretty). He then took us the footnotes in D and C 60 verses 2,3 and 13 which say... 

2 But with some I am not well pleased, for they will not open their mouths, but they hide the talent which I have given unto them, because of the fear of man. Wo unto such, for mine anger is kindled against them. 
3 And it shall come to pass, if they are not more faithful unto me, it shall be taken away, even that which they have.
13 Behold, they have been sent to preach my gospel among the congregations of the wicked; wherefore, I give unto them a commandment, thus: Thou shalt not idle away thy time, neither shalt thou bury thy talent that it may not be known.

I really liked this. He told us how as missionaries and as preople we are just asked to do the best of our abilities and use what we are given. That was really cool to me. The conference was full of eyebrow singers like this. I left feeling pretty motivated.

It is mango season again. Kinda crazy, I was here for last mango season. But anyways, I am in heaven. Out of nowhere this week it seemed like mangos were falling out of the sky. There are carts full of them on every single corner. They cost 1.25 soles a kilo so I have eaten just about 2 kilos a day for a week. If I'm not mistaken that means about 7 ish pounds for 1 US dollar. You might need to check me on that. They are so dang good. Best mangos I have ever had. They are legitamately the size of a youth football. I will be full on them for the next few months. 

Sorry if I rant about fruit in every email. It is just so good here. 

Hermano Estuart (stewart) got baptized yesterday. He's a 20 year old kid, so exactly what the church needs down here. He's really cool. He walks about 2 miles to church. He also quit drinking coffee in order to be baptized. Just a small experience with him this week because I don't really have anything else to write about. On thursday we went to his house to do his baptismal interveiw. He wasnt there and his dad told us he was at his moms house for the night. He doesnt have a phone so we had no idea what to do. We had to get the interveiw done in order for him to be baptized on sunday. His dad gave us a very vague reference of where he lived. An urbanization of probably 200 houses. Luckily we had just left a conference in which Elder Villar ripped on everyone for not having faith 🤣 so we figured we'd put our faith to the test. We walked all the way out there and didn't know where to start. We picked a road and started walking down it. On the way down that road there came estuart right towards us. I was honestly shocked and although it seemed like a small coincidence I thought it was pretty cool and litterally proved what we had been taught. 

We got the baptismal font all nice and ready and a dog got in there and swam around. Perú I guess. 

I had a great week. Could be one of the best transfers of my mission for sure. 








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