Hey guys! This week was the best. We finished teaching everything that Rafael needs to get prepared for his baptism on Wednesday. He had his interview yesterday, and he´s all set for his baptism! The only thing is that transfers are tomorrow and I´ve got 6 months here in Rímac, but the thing is that the zone leaders have been saying for a while now that Elder Price is going to move up this transfer as zone leader, and I´m almost positive that´s going to happen too, so I think I´m staying in Rímac for 2 more months! This transfer is 8 weeks long because our new mission president is coming in 2 weeks. Also there is a new address of the mission offices if you want to send letters-- it´s:
Misión Perú Lima Central
Av. Juan de Aliaga 520
Magdalena del Mar, Lima
Lima 17, Peru
So it turns out that on Wednesday we´re actually going to have 2 baptisms because the missionaries in the ward next to us have been teaching someone that lives in our ward boundaries, and now that he´s about to get baptized they just recently realized that he lives in our ward. His name is Luis and he´s about 60 years old. I´ve taught him before in the church building when I was on a companion exchange with the Elders in Leoncio Prado. Tomorrow we have an appointment with him with the 4 missionaries to do the handoff. We called him last night and he said he wants to get baptized as soon as possible. So he´s going to get baptized on Wednesday.
There isn´t going to be church on Sunday because of the dedication of the temple of Trujillo. We are going to be able to go to the stake centers and see the temple dedication broadcasted. But only those that have a temple recommend or a voucher from the bishop. It´s going to be interesting, because the stake centers are going to be converted into temples for a short period of time. We can go with all our recent converts and reactivated members, and the good news is that we´re going to reactivate 7 people this week. So as long as everything goes as planned, and I don´t get transferred to a different ward, this will be the most productive week of my mission.
Last week we met an eight year old in the street named Juan Carlos. He seemed really happy to see us so we assumed he was a member, but he wasn´t. We invited him to come to the church on Sunday with his family. He actually came! alone! When we arrived at church he was just sitting there by himself looking really content, and he stayed for the 3 hours. Later we visited his family and they´re actually a really great family. Two parents (that are married!), two sons, and the sister of the mother lives there too. We taught them all and it turns out that the father was baptized when he was 8 but never came back to church. The mother was going to get baptized a few years ago but they moved and lost contact with the missionaries. They´re a really great family and I can tell that they´re going to progress.
Everything is working out really well with Leeloo, she wants to get baptized now, but she has to wait until the 28th, so she can have enough church attendances. We´ve also got a few baptisms lined up for July. We started teaching Yolanda this week. She´s been to church a couple of times already, but we haven´t had the opportunity to teach her unitl this week. She´s good friends with a really strong family of returned missionaries in our ward, and when we teach her with them the lessons are much more powerful. She wants to get baptized, but she still has a lot of obstacles in her life. Her member friends are willing to help her in every way possible to get prepared for baptism. She has a goal to be ready for baptism by July 11th.
I hope everything goes well for you guys this week. Love you guys!
Elder Jones
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