Hey! So my new area is in
Rimac! The only other Zone with houses on the side of hills! except
these hills are a lot taller and the houses reach a lot higher up. My
area is completely flat though but I have a really great view. My new
companion is Elder Membrillo, from Trujillo, Peru. He has even less time
than I do in the mission! He`s also relatively new in Rimac so niether
of us know very many people here.
My ward is the best. Rimac 2nd ward.
The people are all so nice and the leaders know what they`re doing and
know their responsibilities. They have an efficient ward council.
In my mission I`ve always met people that remind me of people from home
and the Relief Society president is exactly the same as mom.
I really
like my new area. It`s a lot calmer and quieter. It reminds me of Italy.
The people aren`t suffering as much here and there`s a lot more
infrastructure. It`s not rich, but it`s more comfortable. We have
activities in our ward every week and two days a week we offer classes. I
teach English lessons one day and piano lessons another day, while my
companion teaches guitar lessons, and one of our recent converts, Angel,
is a professional artist and he teaches art classes. The church has a
piano but no one knows how to play it so now I play piano in sacrament!
There are so many people to teach here, and it`s almost impossible to
not teach with a member here. Every morning this week we`ve had to go to
the hospital to get some tests done for my companion because something's
going on with his stomach and no one knows what. I really hope he
doesn`t go home because he`s such a good missionary. So yea, I`m really
happy here. This week was mostly getting to know people.
There`s a young
woman in our ward that has been investigating the church for over a
year and has wanted to get baptized but can`t because she doesn`t have
the permission of her grandparents who she lives with, and basically the
goal we`ve had is to start to gain the trust of her grandparents, and
the grandpa really likes music and coincidentally he has a keyboard and a
guitar. So when we visited them yesterday my companion played something
from the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the guitar and I played "Clocks" from Coldplay on the piano because that's the only song I know how to play
without sheet music, and it turns out that he really likes American
music, and he wanted us to play more and we told him that we`d like to
play more but first we have a message we`d like to share with you and
your family, so he sat in on a lesson with us and later we played more
on his keyboard and guitar and he`s going to come to church on Sunday!
So I think the most important thing I learned from this is that
missionaries aren`t robots and everything we do has to do with building a
relationship of trust. Also thanks to Jacob West for teaching me "Clocks"
on the piano.
I`m really excited to be able to serve here. This
computer isn`t working very well so I`ll have to send pictures next
week. Also I finished the "My Family" book with pictures and stories and
everything and I feel really good having that completed. I hope you
guys have a great week!
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