Week 48: The Spirit is Undeniable

 How y'all doing? I'm doing well and I hope you all had a great week!


Monday night we had a lesson with an hermana named Sarita in Esperanza. She's the mother of a recent convert. We went to a member's house to have a noche hogar with them and included her. We asked her to be baptized but she said no because she didn't feel worthy and because of "temptations" she has regularly. We went around the room and shared each of our testimonies. I shared mine with 1 Corinthians 10:16 and the Elder's quorum president shared a powerful testimony. We asked her again, and this time even before she gave her answer I knew she was going to say yes because the spirit was extremely strong and there's no way anyone could have denied it. She accepted! It was already 9:30, time to be in our apartment, but for some reason my comps had another noche hogar scheduled. I was tired and just wanted to go to bed, but whatcha gonna do? They fed us a full dinner of pollo la braza when I was already so full from the KFC I ate for lunch.

Elder Lumbre hurt his knee a few months ago so we had to go to the hospital a few times with him. We were able to see a little bit of the world cup on the tvs there and in other places. I think it's cool but personally to me it doesn't matter who wins. My comps came up to me all sad and told me something bad happened. I asked them if a baptism fell or another missionary got hurt, but they just told me that Portugal lost. I don't really know anything so it's whatever with me. Apparently my relative indifference to who wins is a little shocking to them, but I understand why.

On Wednesday we had another cita with Maria and this time hermana Martha was able to come with us. Hopefully she can come to church and now she has a friend. We had to be in our apartment by 7 because the president of Perú was being kicked out of office by congress. He commanded the police to defend him, but none of them wanted to. A curfew was established for the day so we had to be back even earlier for our protection, even though here in Trujillo I would have been completely fine. But I guess Perú has a female president for the first time.

On Thursday I scheduled a cita with hermana Deisi, an inactive member, after I was told by the Indoamerica elders that Jan was going to be baptized. Jan is the brother in law of Deisi, of whom Elder Macedo and I got the information of when they were there at Deisi's house at the same time as us. We sent it to Indoamerica, where he and his wife live. I didn't know if anything was going to come out of it, but now he's getting baptized! We went over to Deisi's to tell her, and she was excited. I also met her daughter, Eymi, for the first time. She's 10 and we put her on date for baptism on the 24th! Jan will probably end up being baptized that day too, so that'll be cool. Eymi's learning really fast and we're also reactivating Deisi. Now we just need to do the same with her husband.

We had a huge stake activity for the relief society on Thursday as well. Everyone came whether you were a woman or not. The RS had been preparing traditional dances and they performed them that night. My comps, Elder Siggard, and Elder Gómez helped move chairs out from the cultural hall to the soccer field (which is concrete) where the dances were to be performed. It was quite a workout especially when they kept redirecting you to put the chairs on the complete other side of the field when you're already carrying 5 or 6 chairs. Elder Wride and Elder Barrantes also came, and we got some good talking in between us Americans. I don't know if I've shared this already here but Elder Barrantes is one of my best friends out here and I knew him in the CCM too. In October he had a bad fall from the fourth floor of his apartment building to the ground floor, hitting his head on a sink. He cracked his head and was rushed to the hospital. Literally by a miracle he almost fully recovered within 2 weeks, with only a few stitches in the back of his head and pain medications. He is completely fine now and is living evidence that God exists and is protecting his servants.

Anyway not to brag or anything but Pueblo Libre's dance was the best by a lot. Best costumes, best music, best choreography, yeah. Some others were good, but not close to Pueblo Libre. The pension in Esperanza has a really annoying dog named Oreo. That thing shakes its tail so hard it makes a loud thumping sound when it hits anything. He also shakes his entire behind to wag his tail. That and he tries to jump on everyone and he's always staring at me from behind his little barrier on the stairs, ready to jump at me.

On Sunday we saw Eymi and Deisi as well as Maria. Dayiro also came, and it's still dad that his parents don't want him to be baptized. My comps dragged me put to eat breakfast right after sacrament meeting instead of going to second hour in my ward because they told me their pension would get mad. We don't usually eat breakfast on Sunday's because church is at 8. But I guess you have to change things up when you're covering two wards. We went to a little farewell party for a few missionaries in the stake who are leasing to start their missions. One of them is Isaac, who's from barrio Jordan and is going to Cali, Colombia. All the missionaries in the zone love this guy and he accompanied us to a lot of citas when I was on exchanges in Jordan.

I already had a feeling that I was going to be training this transfer, but when Elder Siggard told me that 18 new missionaries were coming, that likelihood shot up to 99.99% in my mind. And we just got transfer news last night and I'm going to stay in Pueblo Libre and train one of the new missionaries! I was also told I'm going to be district leader of distrito Indoamerica. Elder Lumbre's going to train in zona Este and Elder Sanchez is going to be senior comp with a reassigned elder, maybe an American. I'm going to miss this trio though.

We'll see what the next transfer holds! I wish you all a merry Christmas and hope you have a fantastic week!

Elder Jensen

1. At the RS activity
2  Trio #4
3. Death by chocolate
4. Me holding the turkey
5. Probably one of the weirdest facial expressions I've ever done. Don't pay attention to it 
6. Turkey! (Pavo!)
7. The RS of Pueblo Libre









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