Service "Rocks"

August 25, 2014

This week started out rough! We had a service project. The family Haro had called us and their son had a work project and asked us to help… it was moving rocks. Rocks the size of small piglets... No, that’s not the best comparison, they were rocks the size of..... Well on a scale of 1 to Elder Grow’s sense of humor ;) it’s a 7.9 (My sense of humor has shrunk considerably with Spanish:) We had to move some so big we had to get at them with levers and sticks. Anyway we rocked it ;) There are so many good rock jokes that just don’t translate.

We then had a work visit to Paramonga. It’s another lugar here in the district. I went with a new gingo Elder in the mission. We said a prayer before we left, that we wanted to find a family, and we wanted God to show us that family by putting their baby in a carriage. They had to be married and family de 3. So we left y poco despues I’m talking 4 doors down, we saw a baby carriage! We took off running AND…. it was a doll :P We looked like idiots but we knocked on the door and out came a kid about 12 years old. We talked to him and he called his mom who’d been married for 18 years and was living in this house as a family of 3!!!! Her best friend is a Mormon and had invited her to come play volleyball with the ward that same Friday!!! MIRACLES!!! It was like a Rocky Balboa moment if I’d ever had one.

We returned to our area and we taught Raul Estrada a lesson. To symbolize the plan of salivation we needed a string so while I was teaching, my companion slipped off his shoe lace... almost unnoticed:) anyway he has accepted a fecha for this 13 of September and CAME TO CHURCH this Sunday... wait for it... EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first investigator I’ve ever seen do that... he came before the president of the rama or the members!! It was glorious.

The next day we had a capacitacion with the president and pizza, because we had reached the meta! It was great! Then I challenged everyone to a hot sauce contest... your son has grown considerably and it came to the point where no one will challenge him. It’s like the phrase, NEVER GO UP AGAINST A SICILIAN WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!! Never challenge Elder Grow... but someone did... Hermana JIMENEZ, a Sister missionary who comes up to my waist, from Mexico......... 11 spoonful’s of hot sauce latter and 5 spoonful’s of red hot chili pepper... I lost........ I lost to a sister missionary.... it was extremely painful to an hermana... but well when she started crying and still wouldn’t stop I had to give up (not counting my own tears). My first lost in 1 year.

Then we had our first computer class of pativilca branch and we didn’t have any internet. I was really bummed so I played with the cables a bit... (jiggled and yanked jiggled and yanked) and said a prayer, but nothing. I walked down the hall and there was internet, in a matter of seconds God had answered my prayer. We had a great lesson with Enzo Perale but he’s too busy with elections to really have time for us. Then we went to church. Walking from church a member called our name. A Johevn who’s family had always lived in the other area, and so we never visited. Their dad is blind and their mom, a less active, but we stopped by wondering what they’re doing there. Turns out their being separated. We had a great lesson and put a meta that they’ll pray together as a family. We then had a great new lesson from the family Liz Siancas they’re both professors in a catholic church, and their familia are priests for the catholic church but they’re fabulous and promised to read the book of Mormon.


I’m doing great cambios (transfers) are here today well see where God sends me. Woke up this morning at 4 am to go to the local market to offer service to a less active but the night guard, an 80 year old man with a stick wouldn’t let us in… but yeah, I’m doing great :) God answers even the smallest prayers. We just have to be willing to accept when he doesn’t. :)

Love,
Elder Grow

(As a side note, just as Elder Grow was about to log off the computer for the day, he recieved word he is to be transfered to Lima!)