Welp everyone I can't believe I am already writing my weekly it feels like I wrote my last one yesterday! The mission is like that sometimes. They say that days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days. Kind of trippy not gunna lie haha. But all is well here in Cusco! We had a Multizona (Zone Conference) between the 2 zones of Cusco and it was super cool! We learned a ton and planned a trip to a place called Calca in the Sacred Valley. Super pretty and completely covered by mountains so it was even cooler!! We spend the day Friday there preparing to do "Open Doors" at the church and contacting the people that lived there. We went back to Cusco for the night but returned all day Saturday to do the Open Doors at the church. I'll attach pictures below of the church but man if you were inside the walls you would not even begin to think it was a chapel haha.
Our Investigators are doing INCREDIBLE and people keep falling into our hands haha!! I started an English Class program for the entire District of Cusco which is the entire mission and we had a member contact us and give us a ton of references to his friends!! We then went looking through to find out which people we could contact from the paper records and we found this guy who was the only member of his family and his mom had a date to be baptized but never was... so we called him and he is the SAME GUY that gave us a bunch of references!!! Basically through this 1 member we have doubled our teaching pool! We also got referenced by a relative of one of the Branch presidents and the entire family wants to be baptized soooooo things are looking great!!! We also have plans to put 5 other people on date for baptism that we are teaching. We are just trying to get solid lessons with them first. SUPER COOL!!!
I was reading the Bible in John (because it's awesome) and Christ answered one of Nicodemus' questions by saying "Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?" The reality of it all is that no matter who you are, where you have been, or what is happening in the world, the only place we will be able to find the answers to the things we are looking for is through the scriptures and prayer. Those two things literally create our life and give us the information necessary to continue. SO INCREDIBLE!!! Now I know that I'm living this life full of gospel stuff but the people we teach aren't and this is what we tell them to do and it WORKS!! We think of the word "convert" as someone who is fresh in the church who just got baptized but in reality I became a convert long after my baptism because I came to an understanding that what I was reading and had been taught was the truth. My invitation is to do all you can to know all things under God so that you will be the most prepared for the things we won't be able to expect.
Love you all and hope the life is moving smoothly!!
PICTURES!!
1. My super Stressful presentation to all of the leaders haha
2. We went contacting at the top of our area and welp... the view
3/4. Our drive to Calca through the fog
5-7. The church and baptismal font haha
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