Hi family! I hope you are all well. I hope this has been a great week for you and that you´re enjoying the nice weather! I was telling my companion about how February in Colorado is interesting. 60 degrees one day, snow the next. We´re still just in the steady 1,000´s over here, so that´s nice and temperate.
I just wanted to share a fun thought. First of all, the word in Spanish for bread is "pan." So since my American companion and I speak spanglish with each other, we have basically completely ditched the word bread, and just use the word pan. An example - "That was some really good pan!" Bread doesn´t exist. But I did a little math and wanted to share the result with you. So we eat 2 pieces of bread every day for breakfast. Every day, no matter what, that is what we get. That´s just a normal Peruvian thing. So my companion and I did some quick math and realized that in our 18 months, WE WILL EAT MORE THAN 1,000 PIECES OF PAN. Don´t be suprised when I come home a little bit "happier" than I was before. .... :)
I really want to tell you about a super awesome thing that happened this week. So Luis, the man who is going to get baptized this week, is now actually getting baptized NEXT week. Let me tell you why. -
We have been planning a service project for him for a while. I think I told you guys already that his house is a literal snapshot from the show Hoarders...it´s so dirty and just filled with garbage. So this week on Saturday, we went with the other 2 sister missionaries in our ward, Hermano and Hermana Balbin, and Hermano Pablo to go help him clean. When we first got there, it was kind of awkward because he was obviously kind of embarrassed about how filthy his house had gotten over the years. YEARS is the key word. So we started out slowly, and he was kind of hesitant to let us touch his things. But all of a sudden, his mood completely changed. He got super excited, and just kept saying
"BOTA LO!!!" over and over again, which basically just means "THROW IT AWAY!!!" It was so funny. We just took that as a good sign, and just started cleaning like crazy. He didn´t let us into his "house house" yet, but he let us into the front part - it´s like a little patio room. The two front rooms are what we cleaned. One of the rooms was horrible...you´d pick up a piece of old newspaper or something, and like 47 bugs would fall out and start running all over the place. It was not a super pleasant experience, I´m not going to lie. But it was SO FUN. We just cleaned the crap out of that place! It was so fun. We cleaned for like 3 hours, and laughed afterwards because that wasn´t even half of the mess. It was awesome though. After we finished, we all sat down to share a scripture. We shared a thought, and then we all bore our testimonies and shared how we felt. Luis was pretty quiet, but you could tell he was thinking and listening. At the end, my companion invited him to pray, and he was like, "Wait, first I want to bear my testimony." And he just talked about how grateful he was for what God had done for him, that He had never left him alone. Then he started to pray, and his voice caught in his throat and he just started crying. It was the sweetest moment. All of us had those
tears mirrored in our own eyes, and there were plenty of little sniffles as he prayed and thanked His
God.
We had this great day, Luis felt a real love and change, and then what happens? ......He didn´t come to church on Sunday! What the weird? We were so confused. So after church we went on a little Luis hunt. And he told us he didn´t go because he was sad that Hermana Mack is leaving next week (we don´t know that for sure, but its likely). He said that he has been alone for so long that it´s hard for him to accept that goodbye again. We were with some members, and once agian we had this great lesson with him, and he will be baptized the next week. I´ll tell you more about our Luis adventures next week :)
All is well and I am so happy! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Have a great week!!!
Love, Hermana Scott
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