WATERFALLS

January 21, 2013

Hey everybody well we finally got to go see some waterfalls so that was a fun trip you know getting on the edge of a giant waterfall remembering all of the wonderful times I've cliff dived in lake Powell with such a desire to throw a giant back flip off the rock. Then watching a 15 year-old Peruvian jump in. I understand a bit how Jesus felt when Satan tempted him on the top of the temple in Jerusalem, ha-ha well not really that tempted. But anyways we went to Tarapoto on Wednesday to have our interviews with the president. Pres and I had a great long talk about my branch and all the progress we have accomplished. I expressed a concern I had to him about the next change as it will fall right before the weddings we are planning. I told him I was willing to stay in the area even if that meant one more change with Bustos and for sure at least one change after in order to teach the next missionary the area. So I might be having a nice 9 months here but we will see how these families progress. We are teaching tons of families. Angel and Delicia Chavez are trying to get married so Delica can get baptized, but are having couple problems. Manuel and Maria Atocha and their daughter Katty are trying to get married and baptized, but through family problems are not and they haven't come to church. The Salazar family comes to church all 5 of them, but they have yet to accept a baptismal date. They don’t understand that it is an act of faith not perfect knowledge. Lee and Marlene Mendoza are super Catholic, but are so very great they are still deciding if they want to continue receiving the lessons or continue being Catholic. We couldn't find them this week. The Suarez family is a complete family as well with three kids that are amazing, but at the same time don’t want to accept many things for their catholic roots. They are very great and are reading the book of Mormon but aren't praying or coming to church. The hardest obstacle is that the people just simply do not come to church and we cannot baptize anyone if they do not come to church. It is impossible. So more than that we have been teaching real well. I had a lesson with my zone leader and I was all like I’m going to show you up dog so I just killed the lessons that day and we taught the Atocha family and we talked all about forgiveness and repentance because that’s all they do is blame everything on each other. That’s why they don’t want to get married so we had a little family intervention and they all said sorry and that was real great. We were like, "ya going to come to church tomorrow" and they were like yea and then they didn’t come so yea fuiste entonces. We went to Yantaló on Saturday, it is a little pueblo that is like 10 km from the edge of our area. It was sweet we knocked two doors and found two complete families we are planning on setting aside more time for that area. All is well here not much to say still hoping for a miracle baptism. Love you all.

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