Hello family and friends!!!!!
So everything started last Saturday night with a phone call from the sister missionaries. they called us saying that they wanted to marry a family they were teaching this week. But I kind of freaked out because the deadline to turn everything in was Monday, we had two days, two days to do papers and a process that takes at least two weeks. Obviously I told them no and that they would have to wait until next month. Obviously they didn't like that answer so they decided to take manners into their own hands and started calling the whole world to find the papers necessary for this family. Sunday we get to church and they tell us, hey! We got it!!! We got the papers!!! What??? I said how???? Obviously they had a lot more faith than I did. So we said right there and then that we would go to Lima first thing Monday morning.
So that's what we did. Right after I wrote you guys we grabbed a bus with Elder B. and booked our way for an hour and a half to Lima to sign up the family for a group marriage. Now, like i have explained before, Marriages here are super complicated and require lots of papers and certificates. So in Lima we had to go to a government building to take out a certificate, but it was closed.... We were like no.... So we didn't know that to do so we ran over to like the city hall, I guess its called that, to what we could do. It was the last day and we just needed one paper but we couldn't get it because there was no power in the place!!!! But Thanks to God, the lady there told us that we could come back like on Thursday to turn it in. But she told us that we had to come tomorrow so the couple could sign some papers.
So ya we went home and we got back at like 6:00pm. Making all the plans to get everything done on Tuesday and Thursday. So Elder B. went on Tuesday with the family to sign the stuff and got back safe and sound and told us the only thing left was go on Thursday. Whew, were good.
So then came Wednesday, and guess who else came, Elder Godoy from the seventy!!! The Seventy that spoke in general conference in Portuguese!!!! It was awesome!!! the conference started at 8:00am and first he met with all the Zone Leaders and it was super sweet to talk with him and learn some new things. He truly is a man called of God and he gave us a lot of tips to help our zones and receive revelation for them. Then we got together with like 2/3 of the mission. Like 160 missionaries. And President Erickson taught us and Elder Godoy as well and it was awesome. And well Elder Godoy was teaching us a bunch of about the mistakes we make and the traps we fall in and then we asked for one companionship to come up and do a practice with him, to teach a seventy!!!! And then out of no where Elder M. jabs me in the side with his elbow and lifts up his hand. I was like, WHAT! Were gonna teach a Seventy!!! What are you thinking?? And well I raised my hand too. And so he told us to come up, Me, Elder M., and Elder B., to teach him and commit him to baptism in front of 160 missionaries.
In this moment it didn't even cross my mind what I was about to do. But he told us that we was going to be baptized this Saturday but now had decided not to. So we had to fix his doubts and commit him again. So we fixed his doubts and everything. He believed that the church was true, that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and the Book of Mormon was true. But he still didn't want to get baptized. So we whipped out our scriptures ready to share a lot of scriptures about baptism and repentance and then he told us, Elders, wait, just think a little bit, why don't I want to be baptized. And then he taught us that Even though people know that the church is true, if they don't keep the commandments they won't want to be baptized. So we had to find out what commandment he wasn't keeping. Turns out that he was unfaithful to his wife and he had to change it. It was so awesome!!!!!!!! I learned a bunch!!!! WE TAUGHT A GENERAL AUTHORITY!!!!! A SEVENTY!!!! Amazing. So dang cool.
So the conference was amazing and we learned a ton and it ended around 1:00 and right when it ended Elder Blackham got a call from the guys in the mission offices and they said that we had to go that same day to Lima to finish all the papers. Oh no we said. But we acted. We grabbed a bus back to our house, changed, grabbed the papers that we had to turn in called a young man to do divisions, grabbed a taxi and Elder B. and I were off. This was at about 2:30 pm when we left our area heading to Lima. We were freaking out because the city hall was going to close at 4:00 and we still had some papers to do in Lima to have everything ready. So he told the taxi driver to step on it!!!
We got to Lima in like 45 minutes, went to the government building did all the papers and started booking it to the city hall. By this time it was 3:30. So Elder Blackham I started running to get there. Running running and we turned a corner and we realized, crap we don't know where we are. We're lost, and the City hall is gonna close in twenty minutes. Right there I just shouted out, GOD GUIDE US! And started running down the first street I saw. Running Running and running, we pass a lady, ask her where the city hall is and she says, oh, one block that way. THANK YOU GOD. We got to the city hall with 15 minutes to spare. And then the sisters showed up with other papers about 20 minutes later and they let us sign up everything and it all happened. The family got signed up and now they are going to get married and their family of 5 are going to Baptized this Saturday.
This is God's work. We did not have faith and God showed us that for him everything is possible. I was humbled more than ever and I now know that God is doing everything here. We are just his servants.
That was just until Wednesday. A lot more miracles and blessings happened this week. But we don't have time and has Mormon said, just the hundredth part of the miracles and occurrences I can write this week. But I want you to know that this has been a mission changing week and I am very very happy right now. :)
Thank you for all you love and support!!!
I love you guys!!!!!
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