First and foremost HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had chambios! and I got hooooked up! President closed my old area so now there are only 2 missionaries in our ward, not 4, so our new area is our entire ward including my old area!!! I get to live right next to the chapel. Finally it's not 40 minutes away and my house is easily 4 times the size! I even have a walk out balcony and a walk in closet!!! I also have 2 pensions (cooks) hahaha yeah it's nice. I got my new comp and he's also from Bolivia. For those of you keeping track at home I'm 3 for 3 Bolivians here in Lima and the funny part is they are all from different parts of the country. His name is Elder Limachi and he's so funny. We have a good time.
We have been working really hard but for 4 days we hit absolutely nothing. We contacted some old investigators and one of them told us he doesn't believe in God anymore. Great. The other day a recent convert came with us to teach an investigator because she lives alone with her daughter so we needed another man. This guy is so crazy. He's 75 and you never know what he is going to say. It's seriously like walking on broken glass because sometimes he bears the most powerful testimony and other times he talks about his work schedule or about how we shouldn't eat a lot of fruit because it says not to in the New Testament... what?. lol Finally after a difficult few days my comp and I were walking and started talking to a man who had come to our church just because he was interested, not because he was invited. We taught him and he is excited about getting baptized the 11th day of March!!!
We went over to Jessica's house, single mom with 5 kids that I mentioned last week, at 7 on Sunday night. When we walked in she was so happy to see us but to our surprise there were 7 ward members already there visiting and laughing with her!! I love the people here! Jessica inspires me and I love my ward.
We had a ward party and man, it was probably the funniest ward party I have ever been to. Our assistant to the ward mission leader is legit the funniest person I have ever met. He has 2 phones because he likes phones and he always always always always has headphones wrapped around his ears but never in them. He is always covered in paint and the top and bottom part of his shirt is always open. Anyway, he brought a cuy, a hamster, and we were going to play a game with it. There is a big circle of cardboard boxes and we drew numbers. When the box with the cuy in it gets picked up the cuy runs into another box and if it's your box you get a soda. Really great right? Yes, except it's slightly warm here in Lima and when he picked the box up nothing happened. Everyone was all excited and then... nothing. It turns out the cuy had a heat stroke and died! All the little kids were soo sad.Gotta admit it was so funny.
We are learning about President Hinckley and wow what a man. One thing I am trying really hard at is trying to be more positive in all that I do. It's hot here but at least it's not like unbearable. Yea Spanish is hard but it's not Finnish (shout out to my sister Jenessa who served her mission in Finland). I was praying for help and came across this scripture in Philippians. I want you all to read it and think about how it applies to you.
Philippians 4:11 and 12
Have a fantastic week. Everyone please pray for my grandma who had a stroke this week. Also please pray for Jessica and Reynaldo and for Segundo and Anna Lusuia and her daughter and all the people missionaries all over the world are teaching. I love you all and may my GOD be with you until we speak again.
Love,
Elder Nielsen
Love,
Elder Nielsen
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