August 10, 2015

Hey all! Sorry I couldn't write anything last week, we ended up painting the sister's house all day and we were only in internet long enough to write President. I've got nothing but time now though, and a couple of stories to tell.

A couple of weeks ago Elder Montero and I were walking down the street when a drunk guy stopped us. That's always a good time. So we start talking with this guy and he's telling us how much he wants to change his life. He told us all about the problems his drinking had caused, the biggest one being that his wife was about to leave him and take his daughter away. He had no idea how to handle these problems either, so he just started drinking more to try and forget about them. Obviously that didn't help much. So he sat there in the street pleading us to come over and help him out. The next day I went over with Elder Flores, our district leader. The guy was still kinda drunk, but I feel like the lesson went pretty well. We have another appointment with him this coming week, and we're going to see what happens.

That was the only thing out of the ordinary from two weeks ago that I could remember, but this past week has been insane. Basically all of the branch leaders have been traveling this week, so we've had to do a bunch of stuff for them. We taught seminary this week, taught all of the classes in church yesterday, had to make the program for sacrament meeting, etc. It's been stressful, but at the same time we're having a lot of fun with it. For example on Friday we couldn't teach seminary because there was a baptism and we had invited some investigators. We couldn't find a replacement either so we actually ended up bringing the whole seminary class to the baptism. We filled 3 rows haha :) I'll try to include a photo if Elder Flores will pass it to me.

On friday and saturday some gringos came with this awesome service project. The people here are all fairly poor and sometimes they can't afford to go to the doctor and do basic things like checkups. So there's this group that comes and offers things like that for free. This time they checked everybody's eye sight and gave out free pairs of glasses. They were there 2 days, met with about 1,000 people and the whole time we were there contacting and explaining more about the church. We met a ton of people there, not just future investigators but less actives as well. Between Elder Montero and I alone there were 87 contacts between those two days. Super cool!

Big news! Today is transfers, and I'm leaving Quillabamba. My new sector is a tiny little pueblo called Choquehaunca and my new companion is named Elder Blancarte. I leave tomorrow, so next week I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Love you all! Write you next week!