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Today marks 20 months as a missionary. Time flies doesn't it? 

We were driving back to Chachapoyas late at night after zone conference. We passed through a super dark pass in the middle of the mountains and there were hundreds of fireflies flying around the van. It was really cool. 

Perú beat bolivia this week. smokin dat bolivia pak 🤣🚬📈 glib 

We weren't able to work much in our area this week because we were in Jaen for a few days, and then the other days we had to film videos here for Facebook. One thing that was really cool is that we were randomly asking people in the street to help us with the videos and one lady accepted and acted for us in the videos and turned out to be really receptive actually. She is now a person in teaching.

We had a crazy lesson this week. We traveled an hour to Magdalena to visit David our miracle guy. 10 minutes into the lesson he got a call and went outside. 15 minutes passed, 30, an hour. We called him and in classic peruvian style he said hed be back in 2 minutes. 30 more minutes passed. If we hadn't traveled a whole hour to get there I would've left for sure. After about an hour and a half he came back. He told us how an insane miracle had happened. Someone he had had arguments with for years showed up out of nowhere to make things right. He was so excited to tell us how our presence and the changes he is making in his life is leading to huge miracles like this. Then he told us that to celebrate they had drinken 2 beers 😐 lol. We shared the word of wisdom with him and he accepted on the spot and said how he needs to stop drinking and how he knows it's the right thing to do. We finished with a prayer on our knees (something I have never done before in lessons). It was one of the wildest lessons of my mission. 

A bunch of people were weirdly agressive towards us this week. We got texts telling us how we are going to be damned for having Sunday be our sabath day, people ignoring us in the street, throwing our contact cards on the ground, and one guy actually slamming his door in our face. It was the first time that someone has agresively slammed a door on me in my mission. I have thought a little bit about all this contention and realized that the spirit of contention is truly deadly. It takes a bigger man to listen to someone yell at you and insult you, your precious believes and your way of life when you are sacrificing to serve them and just turn the other cheek. But that is what Christ did. I am trying to be like him more and more every day. 

The prophets that wrote the Book of Mormon never had the Book of Mormon as we have it today. It was written for us. For our time. That Book is powerful. It has the power to change lives. Let is change yours. 

The small things (prayer, scripture study, ministering, fasting, repentance, taking the sacrament, etc) are all really easy to do. They are all really easy to not do though. But that fine line has huge consequences, both for good or bad. 

This speach is incredible, we studied it as a mission and it has changed my mission. Find it in english and listen to it. He talks about the fact that the small things are easy to do, but also not to do. It is about living with real intention. Super good.