Kuelap/David Caro

Last week we went to kuelap. It was a blast. The only gondola in perú is there. It goes through some of the prettiest mountains I have seen down here. The ruins were cool. I love learning about the culture here. Perú has so much cool culture. 

I found a place that sells maracumango juice for 1 sol. I think in the highest level of exaltation maracumango juice comes out of the faucet and chirimoyas grow on every tree. I want to go there. 

The work is picking up a little bit. We have three baptismal dates and a couple people with a lot of potential. We contacted a girl named Katy in the park a few weeks ago. She was interested in English classes. She came and we shared a super breif spiritual thought about families and how they are eternal. She teared up. It turned out her grandpa had just passed away. She felt the spirit strongly as we shared. She came to church the next day. Then accepted a baptismal date in our lesson with her that evening. We have met with her and her mom throughout this week. Her mom is super interested to, and said that if Katy decides to be baptized, her and her huband would like to as well. She has a date for the 29th, and we are hoping the rest of the family will make the same decision to all be baptized the same day. Her parents and brother went to sacrament meeting yesterday as well. All of the time we have spent contacting is paying off. I had been a little bit beat down, feeling like we were wasting our time and not seeing results. But this week my eyes were opened and I was able to see a mountain of miracles and blessings. Pray for Katy, Zamara, David, Gloria, Elizabeth and Marco. 

David, the guy that I wrote about last week that we miraculously found that lives in an hour from here came to church yesterday. One of the coolest things about teaching latinos is that they often receive revelation very vividly. In South America the people often have vivid dreams, see visions, hear voices and see angeles. I think it is really cool. Anyways, David has been receiving vivid answers to prayers through his dreams. This week he had dreams about the temple. On sunday he had to leave his town at 6 am to get to church. He said that he was having a dream about someone hitting him with a broom and telling him to wake up. He woke up and it was 5:55. He got dressed, called the combi and got here in time. After the meeting we met with him and he accepted a baptismal date for March 30. I can't even describe how cool it has been teaching him. From just happening to sit next to him in a combi, to seeing him receive answers to prayers, and now travel over an hour to get to church, it has been one of the coolest experiences of my mission. 

We are going to Jaen this week. I'm hyped. That place is madness. I'm pumped to drink some coconuts, see some old people from my time there, eat some chifles, listen to the inspired words of my mission president, and kick it with other missionaries. 

I love this work. I love the peruvian people. It is cool to think that these people in the remote Andes mountains with one little branch within 3 hours and the people in Salt Lake City with temples scattered throughout the valley will receive the same Lord when he comes again in glory. He will come. May we all prepare to receive him in that jouyous day.