January 12, 2015

Well, this week has been fairly boring. We had changes today and everybody was convinced that Elder Thompson's leaving, but it looks like we're going to have one more change together here in Llavini. I only have a couple of experiences I wanted to share.

Last week I wrote about a less active we've been visiting named Guillermo. Well, we've started teaching his daughter-in-law, who's not a member. We've met with her a couple of times and she seems really interested in the church, especially in eternal families because her husband just died about a year ago. A couple of days ago we had a cita with her and Guillermo sat in with us. We taught the Plan of Salvation and at the end Guillermo shared his testimony and it actually brought him to tears. I was so amazed by the power of that moment. If I had any doubts about the Gospel, they vanished right then and there listening to Guillermo share his testimony. It was amazing.

Also yesterday one of our zone leaders, Elder Yepez, left. He's finishing the mission and went early to Cusco. This left our other zone leader without a companion for a couple of days, so he's in a trio with us. It's been a little weird, but he's helped us quite a bit in our lessons. Especially last night, we had a cita with Adelia and we had to drop the bomb on her - That is to say, the law of chastity. It's always scary teaching that lesson since nobody here gets married or anything, but with Elder Monson there with us we were able to handle it really well and she completely changed from "No, I'll never get married" to "You're right, marriage is important and I'm seriously going to consider it." We were so relieved after that lesson, and I think she really is going to seriously consider this. I'm excited for her.

That's about all. We've got a big conference this sunday so hopefully I'll have something more to write about next week. Until then, I hope you're all doing well, and I love hearing back from you every week.