Hola!
So, we guessed right! Hermana Agle and I will be staying
here together In El Olivar for another transfer! Actually, only two people in
our zone changed this transfer. Our President doesn't like changing
people around a lot because he wants us to just get comfortable with where we
are and get to work, not using a lot of time to adjust to a new area/new
companion etc. Anyway, so Hna Agle and I are together and we'll probably
stay together for a while. Which is totally fine with us because we get
along great and work well together as missionaries. :)
We've had a pretty good week this week! We are teaching a
couple of families right now which is the best. We are teaching a family
of a missionary from our ward. He is serving in Argentina, but nobody
else in his family is a member. So we are teaching them but they like to take
things slow. We're trying to help them realize that they don't have to
know EVERYTHING before their baptism, but it's a slow process with them.
We're hoping and praying for a baptism with them before the end of
October. Also we are teaching a family that is a reference from recent convert,
so that's cool. They're progressing really well but we've had a hard time
getting them to church. Actually, we've had a hard time getting most of
our investigators to church, because church starts at 8am (whose idea was
that?) haha so we get up early and spend our early morning on sundays knocking
doors and waking people up, haha. It's defintely an adventure before
church every Sunday.
We're teaching another family as well that just keeps
growing! Every time we visit them, another nephew or grandma shows up, haha.
So that's pretty fun.
This week we did another service project with some Elders in
our zone which was really fun. We cleaned the man's roof, which is always
interesting. The roofs here are just like the backyards/garages, meaning
there is just lots of STUFF up there. And dust. Have I mentioned
how dusty Lima is? They have little fly/bug things here that are just full of
dust. You can just kill it with your hand, and there aren't like guts or
anything, it's just dusty and just kinda blows off your hand. Really
weird haha. Anyway, so we cleaned and sweeped his roof. Sweeping in
Lima is kind of like bathing a fish, what's the point? haha but we still had
fun and helped him out a lot.
To answer your question dad, there are 5 religions in Peru.
Well, in Lima. Catholic, Evangelical (is that how you say it in
English?), Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and Christians. Everybody is
Catholic by default. The other churches didn't really start growing until
probably about 30 years ago so everything else is pretty new. There are
always a TON of JW's and evangelical missionaries out preaching. And then
there are "Christian" churches which is cool but we're Christians too
so whatevs. Anyway, mostly everybody here has heard of all of the
different churches and doesn't really know what to do about it because they all
preach different things and have missionaries out all the time. It makes
me think of the time of religious excitement before Joseph Smith restored the
church and how confused he was. Luckily, we don't have to restore the
church because it is already here, we just have to go preach it and bring it to
the people that have been prepared to hear it!
The church is true! My testimony grows every single day.
It's so cool to see the hastening of the work every day, and how the Lord
has prepared so many people. Go out and be missionaries! Hurrah for
Israel!
Love,
Hermana Jones
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