You can be sick or bless the others....

Wow the letter this week was really exciting! You guys have got to calm life down ;) Thank you for the update on Jacie.  Remember I am 60000 miles away and stuff like that freaks me out.

January 27, 2014

You can be sick or bless the others,

So this week started out in Yungay. We went to the cemetery and played a game of soccer. Your son has finally learned to smack talk in Spanish, a quality which they don’t use much in soccer… usually due to the fact you are running so much. Anyway, so I succeed with a GOAL!  You really have no choice but learn to be a good soccer player here with a mouth like mine ;) Then we walked home in the rain.

After such a powerful week last week Satan threw EVERYTHING he had at me this week, and for some days it worked. Monday and Tuesday morning, every single person we’ve been preparing for baptisms canceled all the fechas fell. Everyone. It was really hard. The family took up drinking. Stephanie’s Mom and Ingrid’s Dad changed their mind. Yeah, everything fell apart. Our district leader decided to do a work visit to try and help us out. That night I opened a package of hot sauce with my mouth literally drenching him from head to toe in hot sauce. So funny!

The next day I was sick, after a priesthood blessing I was well… healed, and we proceeded to work. The next day it came back I think just a stomach infection. I was down for a whole day and a half. But don’t worry I’m better now. I took the pills the zone leaders brought and my companion says between the English and then something about my Grandma’s cookies I was pretty funny.  I was out by Friday, I was up and chipper.  We went and built a house with adobe bricks and I made really cute (and useful) folders for our consejo de barrio because they never bring anything. They are improving by leaps and bounds though. Saturday was pretty normal trying to look for new families with little success, and Sunday was a little kick upper.

We have Yurusi and Alexandra preparing for the temple. They have done their family history and then in the middle of church we had a member come back and pull on my arm in tears. The same member who baked me a cake this week because she found out I might be leaving for transfers :) Anyway, we left and I asked her what was wrong. Through her tears she informed us she found out she has cancer and would like a priesthood blessing from two elders of God. It was a very humbling experience. The spirit was very strong.

So I guess the message this week is, you can think about yourself or just go out and serve and watch. You help others and become an instrument for God. I’m doing great with no baptisms it’s given me time to look at what I can do better. :)

Love you all,

Elder grow