Darian/Brallim🌊
The heat has me drinking a lot of sprite (esprite) and pepsi (pecsi). There is a limited edition sugar free pecsi that has ancient incan and mochica figures on the little wrapper thing on the outside of the bottle and I got the Señor de Sipan one this week. He's some ancient figure that ruled this area of chiclayo. Pretty cool. I think the incan culture is really cool. Call me a nerd but I am going to collect every single special edition pecsi wrapper.
The guy finally showed up to fix the moldy wall (4 weeks later). I was joking with Elder Quintero about how he would probably show up, slap some paint over it and call it a day. He showed up at 8:30, threw some paint on it, got paint all over the floor, and was out the door in 20 minutes. Put no thought into the fact that he had gotten paint all over the floor and not even kind of fixed the problem, and that it still looked and smelled rank. Par for the course. Sometimes all I can do is shake my head. I wonder if the ability to just take garbage situations and be like "ope ok well thats alright" that I have developed on my mission will help me in life or just make me complaicent and willing to settle for crappy situations. I truly love peruvians and peru, but things like this make me really really really miss the U.S and the general sense of do stuff right (or at all) that there is there.
I am convinced there is nothing harder than convincing a peruvian that the elders have the same preisthood authority as the members and that us giving blessings doesn't bring more blessings than if the members do it. We have been having a ton of completely worthy, active, incredible members coming to us to have us give blessings to their wives and kids. Our mission president has encouraged all of us to discuss with the members how we are not superheroes and how we are more than willing to give blessings, but that the preisthood they have is the same as ours. Yesterday in the Elders Quorum class the EQ president actually brought this topic up, so it was a great opportunity to talk about it. It ended up with some guy bearing his testimony about how he gave his sick dog a preisthood blessing and the dog was healed immediately and how he did it himself and not the elders so we need to trust in our own preisthood power and not just the elders. Everyone was super hyped about that. No comment. I wish I was kidding.
We ate a bunch of sting ray this week. I don't mind it, not my first choice though. The skin is soft and they kinda just eat it, but its kinda a nasty texture. Its like eating a soft banana peel.
Something I find hillarious (and often times extremely irritating) is that the concept of waiting in line does not exist here. People just kinda pull up and hop right in front. Just about any time we go to the panadería (or any store really), someone will come hauling in, yell "a ver!!!", walk right up in front of everyone, throw coins on the counter and start yelling at the workers what kind of bread they want. Ok, maybe not every single time, but I would say more often than not. Its just another one of those things that all we can do is laugh about.
I realized this week that being an eagle scout isn't going to garuntee me billions of dollars, free school, and whatever job I want like I was told it would. Hard to come to grips with that one. Still thankful to be apart of the eagles nest though. One of the most elite groups out there.
We had a few baptisms this week. One was an 11 year old kid that a couple weeks ago a family coming back to church brought to us and said "elders we want him to be baptized asap". The other one is a 27 year old stud. Exactly what the church needs. His brother is currently serving a mission in Lima so we have been teaching him with his brother on facetime. He is an absolute champion. The BOM played a huge role in his decision to be baptized. I stand almost 17 months into my mission and am yet to see someone read the Book of Mormon consistently, pray about it and not end up getting baptized. It makes missionary work so much easier.
Transfers are this week. It was definately one of my favorite transfers of my mission. Elder Quintero is a lifelong friend. With the baptisms this week we were officially able to complete our goal and baptize at least one person every week this transfer. Hard to complain about a transfer in which we have a baptism every single week.
The sisters that I started my mission with are going home this week. Crazy
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