Just so you know, I am an obedient missionary, but I just
so happened to see the last 12 minutes of the World Cup yesterday. We
walked into the house where we had our lesson, and it was like 4:00
in the afternoon here, and the game had started at 2, so we thought
that it was already over. But when we walked in our investigators were
glued to the TV, so we watched the last little bit of the game with
them, and we saw the goal! It was kind of cool, it was the first time
during the whole World Cup that we´ve actually watched part of it, so we
weren´t really attached to either team. But the goal that Germany
scored was honestly pretty sweet, I kind of wanted Argentina to win, but
that´s probably just because I hang out with South Americans all the
time. But it was pretty cool! The Germans are still partying I bet.
Anyway, we´ve had a really interesting week. The
baptism we had planned didn´t end up happening. Usually, that´s a huge
bummer. But this is actually a good thing, and I want to tell you the
story.
So the girl who was going to get baptized is named
Camila. She is only 10 years old, but she is the bomb. Her mom is a
member of the church but is inactive. The rules of the mission are that
the child of an inactive member can´t get baptized unless they have the
support from another family member, someone who will be able to take
them to church every Sunday.
In Camila´s case, she has support from her grandparents because they
all live together in a 5 story house. (Yes...Perú is an interesting
place.) We´re working with the whole family because the two grandparents
live there with 4 of their own children, all of which are inactive in
the church. It´s a little crazy. But the two grandparents are active!
ANYWAY, so Camila was going to get baptized on Sunday,
but she wanted her uncle Moises to baptize her. It was really sad
actually, because when we told them that he couldn´t, both Camila and el
Hermano Moises were really bummed out. But since he´s been inactive for
so long, he can´t do certain things in the church until he´s active
again. So one of the Elders was going to baptize her.
I´m really bad at telling stories....
But on FRIDAY,
we had a lesson with Hermano Moises and his wife, Hermana Luisa and
their two kids. I literally love this family so much, they are so fun
and so awesome. We decided that we were going to watch a movie with them
about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. We had to leave early because
it was 9:30
and the movie still hadn´t finished, so they finished it without us.
During the whole movie, both Hermano Moises y Hermana Luisa were super
into it, asking questions and saying "Oh, I remember that!" It was
really cute to see how excited they were.
...So on Saturday,
the next day, the bishop told us that we weren´t going to be able to
have the baptisms because the water was literally frozen and they
couldn´t find the water heater. When we went to go tell Camila, she was
obviously really sad, but Hermano Moises got this little look in his
eye. He said "Why don´t we just wait one more month for the baptism?"
They started talking about how after seeing the video of Joseph Smith,
they stayed up late talking about how much they missed the church and
how they had really felt the spirit during the movie. They told us that
they had decided that they wanted to go back to church, and that Hermano
Moises was going to do all that he could to be able to baptize Camila.
The next day (Sunday/yesterday)
THEY WENT TO CHURCH!! Hermano Moises already talked to the bishop, and
they are going to start the process of returning to the church. And
Camila´s baptism is temporarily postponed.
What I´ve felt the past few days is that really,
this church is true. We didn´t do anything...we just turned the movie
on, they watched it, and THEY felt the Spirit. THEY felt the real desire
to go back. We literally just brought the movie to their house.
I am always amazed at the Spirit that I feel when I
talk about Joseph Smith. When we teach, I really know that these things
are true. We get to see so often how the gospel REALLY, literally
changes lives.
More next week. My companion´s name is Hermana Sullca, mother. Sorry I forgot that.
HAVE
A GREAT WEEK! Have faith in things that are true. Believe in miracles!
And believe that there is someone bigger than us in charge.
I LOVE YOU!
All my love,
Hermana Michelle Scott
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