5/22/17 - At Least 400 Cockroaches

This week was honestly so crazy. It all started as we left internet last Monday. We were talking and walking back to the house, planning the rest of the day, and I felt soooo strongly we needed to talk to this old man. His name is Pablo and he was like "sure come over in an hour." He lives in what looks like a junkyard - it's just garbage and dirty clothes and wood and I had to bend over inside and both my shoulders were touching the sides of the walls. We sat down and started teaching and the wall to my left appeared to be moving. The single light bulb didn't cast much light but as I looked more closely it turns out that it was crawling with at least 400 cockroaches. Yeah. I prayed so hard to keep my cool and yeah I did thankfully. Bugs don't bother me but it was unreal! hahahaha. He was being taught by missionaries over 20 years ago and he moved and lost contact with them. People would come to his house, like Jehovah's Witnesses and other churches and he would defend the Book of Mormon and kick them out of his house. He won't drink because he knows it's a commandment so he keeps loosing construction jobs. Yeah, it's like if you don't drink you aren't a brother so they fire you, but he says he can feel the love of God in his heart so it's alright. He is sooo excited to get baptized and he came to church and is doing just fantastic.

We are also teaching this cute blind grandma named Marlina. She is so funny and she has the sickest accent from the rain forest. She goes to church 5 times a week already and she's sad that we don't have more meetings but she came and she loved it - it was so cute. 

I weighed myself and I'm 88 kgs, When I got here I was 104 kgs, Oh Peru. 

All in all I'm doing great! Please please please pray for Cesar Preciado. He's having a really hard time stopping smoking but together we can! Also Marin has his baptism this Saturday. Please pray that no pasa nada. I love you all and I'm so excited for Dahlia -  if you know her she's leaving in 1 1/2 weeks for her mission and if you don't know her, well you're missing out! 

Love,

Elder Nielsen