Adventistas

 Yesterday our friend Roseli Pakun Wachapa got baptized. Her story is super cool. She is from Condorcanqui and her native language is Awajún. She moved to chacha and has learned spanish and is working here. She works in a hotel. When President Giuria was here he stayed in that hotel and contacted her. He passed us her number and 3 weeks after she then got baptized. So cool. 

Chachapoyas is a town of super strong religious beliefs. If you are catholic you are a strong catholic, if you are JW you are a strong JW. Everyone is very strong and practicing which is really respectable. Lately we keep getting social media references from Adventistas that act like they are super interested. We set up times to meet thinking they are elect people, have super cool lessons with them, start thinking they are super elect, and then they slowly start to contend after 20 minutes of talking. It has happened a couple times lately. I genuinely do not understand. They just waste our time and theirs and it never comes to anything. It is actually funny. They have a few go to strats. First they try to make us feel bad for not having every single scripture of the Bible memorized. Then they spend way to much time trying to convince us of something super obvious that we obviously agree on and acting like it is some new crazy thing that we have never heard up. This week one of them spent lime 10 minutes trying to explain to us why it is important to follow the commandments. I just sat there smiled and said "estamos de acuerdo amigo" probably 25 times. Then they never answer our questions. Any question you ask them they take a 5 second pause and then ask you the exact same question. It is so weird. Contention is not of God and I know that if I sit there and talk to them I will get fired up and that it what they want 

so I just laugh and walk away. We are all sons and daughters of God just trying to be more like him. I genuinely repect anyone that actually practices their religion and loves God. The Jehovas whitnesses for example are so nice. I don't know why Adventistas just decide to wake up every day and go tell everyone they are going to burn in hell for eternity because they go to church on sunday. 

My main takwaway from any time someone contends with us is how true what we teach is. The need for a prophet in these days to lead us and help us understand the word of God. We are so blessed to be lead by prophets and apostles. I feel of their love when I listen to what they have to say. 

We met some scouts. I made sure to tell them I was an eagle scout. They were amazed. 

We went to magdalena to visit David this week and there was a landslide that covered the road on the way back. I figured we were toast but just absolutely sent it and went right over the mountain of dirt covering what was a road. 

I am amazed every day at how many times I see the Lords hand in the work we do. I will be home in under 3 months and it seems like every day the miracles I see seem to be bigger and bigger. The end is so cool. 

I love perú 

Elder Pohlman