It rained every day this week. After about day three I gave up on hair and makeup. It always started out looking sunny but then it would randomly start pouring rain in the middle of the day. One day it showered and we got soaked to our underwear. If you can imagine us running the streets, just drenched that about sums up my week. We have really great investigators that lent us clothes so we could still teach without going to our apartment because it is really far.
We found a really great family of five kids this
week and taught them the first lesson. They were so excited especially
the father. It was one of the best first lessons of my mission. I hope I
stay in this area to teach them a little longer.
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| Two zones of sisters in Huancayo |
I had a really bad week of men this week. I got
asked on two dates, asked if I was interested in marriage, called baby,
precious, love, all sorts of stuff, and a 35 year old man invited me
over to his house but he didn't want my companion to come. He said he
would make me dinner. All of them say they will come to church and want
to know where it is. My companion and I have started including in our
prayers that we will be able to discern between those people who really
want to hear the gospel and be able to avoid those who have other
motives. I know that I have been protected by the Lord many times.
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| On the mountain last Pday |
My Spanish is getting a lot better. I'm starting to
think in Spanish and dream in Spanish. I had one last night. It is a
weird sensation that I can't explain to anyone who has never learned a
language before. I occasionally make mistakes though. My worst one I
think was one time when we were at an investigators home talking about
an experience and I wanted to say that I was embarrassed. Estaba
embarazosa. But there are two words that are really close in Spanish,
embarazosa which means embarrased and embarazada which means pregnant. I
used the second one and told them that I was pregnant. Luckily my
companion was there to explain otherwise it would have been a whole lot
more embarrasing. :)
One night this week we were contacting near a park
and a really drunk lady came up to us and practically threw herself on
us. She was crying saying that she wanted to change and she wanted us to
pray for her. So we prayed for her in the park. She told us that she
wanted us to meet her son and told us her address. To be honest she was
really drunk and we didn't think much of it but the next day we were
waiting for the Elders to show up to one of our appointments with us and
as we were waiting we realized we were on the street of the drunk lady.
We somehow remembered the address and found the home. It looked like a
little barn more than a home. But we knocked and a boy who was about ten
years old answered. We started teaching him. He was the most
intelligent ten year old boy I have probably ever met. We asked him
questions like if he knew how Jesus was baptized. He said yea, first
john the baptist was teaching the people and then he said another man
would come who was better than him and then Jesus searched for him to
baptize him....It was a lot more detail than that and he was quoting
scriptures. We asked him if he knew of any prophets and he went on for
like 15 minutes about prophets of the bible. He said he loved to read so
we said great we have a book for you. He was excited about what we
taught him and I am excited to go back and teach him. It was a miracle
of the Lord to be guided to his home.
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| We have a really nice apartment. Its super nice. One of the nicest I have seen here. Its about 200 soles a month or 70 dollars. |
I'm doing great. Love you all. Hope you have a great week.
Con amor,
Hermana Rhoten
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