I think this week I felt more guided by the spirit than any week my whole mission. It just seemed like we were always in the right place. There were multiple times when appointments fell but other people in teaching just happened to be walking down the street of the appointment that fell. On thursday we had Cuy (guinea pig) for lunch and there is 0 meat on those things so we were hungry after. We bought bread and talked to the girl working in the panadería and she turned out to be super interested and now is a super cool person in teaching. We had a lesson in a park and were teaching about prophets and the lady had doubts. Out of the blue an absolutely awesome member walked by. We asked him to share a testimony and he shared a beautiful testimony. One night the last apoinment fell and at 8:45 with 15 minutes left in the day we walked into a farmacy because it was the last place we could find someone to contact because it was raining. The person working turned out to be someone that had met missionaries before. We contacted a guy in the street one day that gave us a super vague reference to get to his house. The next day we got in a taxi and told the taxi driver where we were going. He took us out into the countryside to a group of probably 30 houses. The second door we knocked just happened to be the guy we were looking for. We had a super awesome lesson with him and were able to find a taxi back to chachapoyas so we didn't have to walk all the way back in the dark. I could go on and on about all the super cool moments when I felt like an instrument God's hands. Missionary work is cool.
One thing I have been thinking about lately is confidence/trust. A lot of what we do as missionaries depends on our condidence/trust. I have full confidence that we can be guided by the Spirit to the people that are waiting for us. I have full confidence that if someone reads the BOM, prays about it, and applies what they learn, they will be baptized. It really makes our job a lot more simple.
We had an emergency meeting as a mission because aparently the church is worried about threats against american missionaries in Latin America due to the deportions going on in the states. I personally don't think it will escalate to anything here in my mission. I have heard that in Lima things are getting a little scary in some parts though.
We met a super cool inactive member. She gave us a bunch of free Chirimoyas because she has a Chirimoya farm. They were so big. Chirimoya is the best fruit on earth. She also came to church on sunday and brought her nonmember friend.
This transfer has been one of my favorites. I absolutely have loved my time with Elder Arellano. I have never talked to so many people. It is the first transfer of my mission that nobody has gotten baptized. That has been a little hard to swollow, but at least I feel 100% certain that I did everything in my power. At the end of the day thats all we can do...
We were teaching a lesson this week litterally inside the evangelist church during their saturday morning meeting. We could hear the meeting going on and we thought their chappel was next door but it turned out it was attatched to the little house we were teaching in. A couple of their members walked in and just stared at us. It was crazy. We then invited the lady we were teaching to be baptized and she accepted. Evangélicos in shambles.
On saturday we had english class. Because the chappel is a rented house sometimes the landlord is in there. He is not a member. He is a big problem because he always gets everything all dirty because they are doing construction above. On saturday him and all his boys were in the chapell with 12 packs absolutely hammering beers. We had no idea what to do. They ended up leaving and going outside. They posted up right outside the door and were hammering chelitas. It was not a good look for our non member friends that came to the english class and saw a group of drunks posted up right underneath the sign of the church throwing back tragos. Happens. It will be cool to see in a couple years that the members here have their own beautiful chappel and don't have to deal with garbage like the landlord drinking in the church.
Yesterday 5 people that we had contacted in public this transfer showed up to church. We hadn't had 1 contact come the entire transfer but then yesterday a bunch showed up. After all the time we have spent doing what felt like hopeless contacting, that felt really good. It was a super spiritual meeting and everyone that came loved it. Then they got to stay for the second hour and learn about Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdry and the translation of the BOM and got their brains boggled. I'm sure they still felt the spirit though.
Love you all
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