So we had a great week! I´m sending pictures right now of our Pday last week. We ate guinea pig for the first time on my mission! It´s actually really tasty. I thought it would be like the chicken here with a lot of fat, tendons and cartilage, but it´s basically all meat! Even the skin was really good and I usually can´t eat the skin on chicken. The best part was probably the head. I ate the eyes and the brain and the ears and basically everything else. I have a video of me eating the brain that I can´t send because it´s too big, but i´ll have to show you some day. Just so you guys know, Little Ging... tastes really good.
So we had a lot of great spiritual experiences this week. On Monday we were walking in the street to an appointment and a woman stopped us in the street and told us that she wants us to visit her and her children. She said that she had received the lessons from the missionaries years ago and her ex-husband is a member. So we came back another day to teach her and her children with Sister Tasaico, the Relief society president, and we had a really great lesson. It turns out that her life events are almost identical to Sister Tasaico´s life events. The spirit was really strong in the lesson, and she came to the conference and she had a great experience.
So news with Eugenio and Doris, we have news about their marriage. We found them a lawyer! Someone from Elder Price´s old sector in Magdalena who is a lawyer offered to help them try to get married for free! And that´s a big relief for me because I have no idea how to get people married in Perú and all I could do was talk with ward members, and they would all give me advice on what to do, but no one knew exactly what to do. But now that that is getting taken care of I feel less of a weight on my shoulders, because honestly I´ve never met two people that want to get baptized as badly as Eugenio and Doris. They´re progressing so well. The second counselor in the stake presidency lives in our ward and we had a family home evening with them and Eugenio, Doris, and Sofía this week.
We´re preparing Isabela to get baptized soon. She had a goal to get baptized this Saturday the 11th but family problems arose this week which complicated things, but I´m certain that she can get baptized this Saturday. She is progressing so much and it´s obvious that a mighty change has been brought to pass in her life. That is one of my favorite parts of doing missionary work: seeing the change that one undergoes as they come closer to their Heavenly Father and make covenants with him, from the door to baptism. It is a testimony that the feelings and changes that were brought to pass in my own personal conversion weren´t coincidences, but something real, something true for everyone.
Also we actually met a British family this week. They´re from London. We were waiting for someone to open their door because we had an appointment with them, and across the the street on the 2nd story of the building we heard someone say in English, and in an English accent. "Look daddy, white people". We turned around and we saw two of the whitest kids I´ve ever seen and their parents were there. We started having a conversation with the parents and they´re from London but the dad´s family is from Perú and they recently moved here to Perú to run a foster care. We couldn´t come in because the mom was feeling "a bit ill" but we talked from the window. The mom told us that we "look a bit smart today" and we had no idea what that meant but apparently it means that we were dressed in white shirts and ties. We´re going to visit them this week.
I really enjoyed conference. I learned a lot. I need some time to reflect and apply what I learned. I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Jones
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