6/26/17 - Goal Celebrations

This week was really so fantastic!!! We baptized Moises and it was honestly one of my favorites for many reasons. His grandfather is a high priest but fell away for 20 years. We started teaching his family and his son, his son's wife, and grandson all want to be baptized. This work is so amazing!!! Moises is 14 years old and is one of the shyest people I know, but he loves us and I love him. His testimony was honestly wonderful and his grandfather was glowing - it was sooo special to see. I love this work and he's already starting to pass the sacrament and learning how to index names. I love this church.

My comp and I get along great. He played semi pro soccer in Bolivia and he balls on people. We played today and we had so much fun - we won both times and I'm getting soooo good at my goal celebrations. We also ate sudi!! It's a giant grub from the rain forest and it tasted like chewy slimy fish oil. Yeah we ate it raw and alive and yeah it squirms and moves around. It's so funny. Peru is the maxmio.

We are going to baptize hermana Marina this Saturday. Please pray for her to feel good Saturday. She is blind and it was so cute having her hold our arms walking her into church. She's 80 and has 8 kids and is from the rain forest. (She's the one who told us all about sudi and how amazing it is, so of course we had to try it!!) She has the coolest accent - it's like Portuguese almost. It's great. 

Please pray for Anna Maria Consila and her son - they are great. Family Consila was going to be baptized, but the dad kept fighting it. It turns out he was lying to us the whole time and yeah, it's getting fun now that the assistants and president are involved. Pray for her and Leonardo, they are some of the best people I have ever met in my whole life. 

Moises' dad is having a hard time- please please please please please please pray for him to be able to be baptized. He's wonderful and he wants to be baptized so badly. 

I think a microwave in the middle of the Sahara desert has a better internet connection than I do right now so I can't upload the video of me eating the sudi but next week I promise you I'll send it. Thanks for all your emails. I love you all!!

Love,

Elder Nielsen