Let's
start with monday. After internet, we went and watched the best two
years with a member named Torivio. He's super cool, we usually end up
spending any free time we have with him, and next week he wants to take
us to these ruins that are about an hour away. We're going to ask our
zone leaders for permission, but I'm really hoping we can go. After pday
ended we had a district meeting and I got a birthday package from Mindy
and letters from all of my family, which made me super happy.
Tuesday
was a pretty normal day. We got a new investigator, a woman named Rosa.
We're teaching her and her brother Groberg now, and they both seem
really interested in the church. They both came to sacrament meeting
yesterday and Groberg already has a baptismal date for Jan. 3. Rosa
can't get baptized for a while though, because she's not married.
Wednesday
we were supposed to have a conference with Elder Evans, the director of
missionary work for the whole church. They had split our mission in two
conferences, and he gave one in Cusco on tuesday, then was going to
come here to Puno on wednesday. Unfortunately all of the drivers here in
Puno went on strike on Wednesday, so he couldn't come. There's only
like a 5% chance he'll be able to come back too. We were pretty upset
about that, so we made a cake to cheer ourselves up, which actually
ended up being pretty fun.
Thursday we went to the hospital
and helped out with Operation Smile. I think what they do is give free
surgeries to little kids with cleft lips. We were there for a few hours
and we got to color with the kids while they waited then help bring
patients up and down from the surgery room. It was actually really fun
to be able to get out of our regular routine and do some service, even
if it was in a hospital.
Friday was boring.
Saturday
we had our baptism! It was the coolest experience. We went to the stake
center in the morning to fill the font with Elder Monson, one of our
zone leaders, then at like 2 we went to set everything up. We wanted to
start at 3, but nobody ended up coming until like 3:45 except Nefi's
family which was super awkward... Anyway, we started at like 4 and we
had a couple of ward members give talks, then Elder Thompson and I did a
special musical number of "Yo Se Que Vive Mi Señor". After that we did
pictures, then Cristian was baptized. A member from the other stake
named Nefi baptized him, which was amazing. Nefi does so much to help us
and he's like a brother to Cristian so he was the perfect choice. It
was honestly such a cool experience, the spirit was so strong the whole
time and Cristian seemed so happy to be there. He really has a strong
testimony and has already told us he wants to go on a mission.
Yesterday
at church everything went really well too. We were able to confirm
Cristian, then we had a primary program. It's funny, our primary's only
about 10 kids but it was still one of the most energetic primary
programs I've ever seen. There's one little boy named Brigham who was
singing at the top of his lungs, and started shouting during his part
because he was so excited. It was awesome.
Well that was my week. Hope you're all doing well and can't wait to hear back from all of you.
Elder Thacker
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