Families are the best

Hey there family! I hope you are all doing well. This week has been super great, our area is progressing and changing so much. It´s still pretty cold here in Lima, but what really is a bummer is that it´s really humid. I feel like it wouldn´t be as cold if it wasn´t so humid. But that´s okay.

I wanted to share a sweet experience that we had yesterday. Remember how I told you about Nancy? We have been teaching 2 of her 6 kids, Jesus and Roberto. They are super great, but super shy also. They don´t talk very much, but they really like our visits. They seem to be understanding everything that we are teaching, and they are starting to open up a little bit more. Roberto is 15 and Jesus is 13. Roberto has been getting a lot more involved in the church and going to all of the activities. It stinks because Jesus is a little bit more shy and hasn´t really gotten very involved, and he wasn´t going to church for the past few weeks. Roberto went 2 Sundays in a row, but Jesus didn´t want to go. This week, we had a really good lesson with them both, and they were asking questions and talking a lot more. Yesterday, we went to their house to pick them up with a lady from our ward, Patty, and her son Sebastian, who is their age. Jesus was the first one to walk out of the house - he finally went to church!! It was so exciting. They became friends like right away, and Jesus and Roberto really actually had fun in the classes with the other Young Men. It was so sweet.

The best part? We all sat down together in the sacrament meeting, Nancy, Jesus, Roberto, my companion and I, and all of a sudden another one of her sons, Julio, walks in and sits down next to us too. He is a member of the church already, but is inactive and hasn´t gone to church for years. It was such a sweet moment, I couldn´t help but let a few tears out. It was just a sweet moment when a broken family could be all together to feel God´s love. 

Families are the best. We are always taught that we should always look for FAMILIES to teach, because we were put here in families to learn and grow and progress TOGETHER. 

This week is going to be really good, I´m really excited. It looks like we´re going to be having exchanges next week, we´ll know on Tuesday. It´s possible that they kick me out of Canadá, but we´ll see. 

I hope you have a great week, I love you and I will be talking to you soon!

All my love,

Hermana Michelle Scott