Moving the Work Along

Wahoo! I like to hear that the work is progressing in CA! Good stuff with the baptism (So I totally spelled that baptismo and didnt realize it until much afterwards) and the endowment session. Way cool.

I´m feeling a lot better healthwise, I think the mission nurse finally found some pill that is helping out a lot. Idk if that means that Im healing up or if its just not hurting anymore or what but for now I´m good to go.


So this week we were able to play a 7 on 7 gringos vs latinos and total win for the gringos! haha the latinos were not not so happy that we beat them lol. The main reason that we scored on them so much is becuase they didnt have anybody that played goalie so we´d just fire at will and I´m sure if they woulda had a better goalie they woulda beaten us.

This week we were climbing our wonderful (not) hills and we passed by a guy who was chipping away at the hill side to expand his house. So we offered to help him, which he accepted and we helped him and his brother chip away at stone for an hour and got a lot done. Afterwards we presented ourselves and left them with a Book of Mormon to read. They gave us lunch too! Here in Arequipa that means a for sure baptism lol. So we were pretty excited. The next day we came back and committed the guy (Victor),his wife (Yeny) and his younger brother (Miguel) to baptism for the 10th of Sept. Unfortunately Victor and Yeny are not married and have a 2 year old child, so we will talking to them about that soon. (like todayish) But anyways we came back on saturday and Victor was being all like tough-guy-not-wanting-to-recognize-the-spirit type, but Miguel and Yeny both comitted to come to church and so he changed his tune. We got them to church the next day and they loved it so much that they didnt want to leave after it was all done and they wanted us to come back asap to visit them. So we got another apt. today and we will teach them about the importance of marriage in God´s plan.

So remember how we have been working with all these kids that belong to this "gang" haha, we are now working not only with these kids but with their parents as well. Actually most of them are single mothers so that explains in part why they dont have so much control over their kids. But they have been able to recognize the difference in their kids lives so they are really taking what we teach pretty seriously.

Lets see other big news, as a mission we baptized 155 people this month which is awesome especially since it was a 4 week month and not a 5 weeker.

We had a FHE with a lady who almos got baptized 8 years ago in Chile with the RS president, and it was a very powerful lesson. We have been trying to get this lady to understand that God is calling her and she needs to do her part in the calling. We watched the movie "Only a Stonecutter" and we think that she is finally understanding that God doesnt expect us to just passively accept what happens to us, rather we should be actively trying to do evrything possible to fulfill with what God wants us to do.

Other than that this week was kind of a blur, but we did work hard and we have been having a lot more success finding people to teach this week.

Anyways I´m outta time again but I love you all and I love all the letters :)

Elder Patrik Connole