Elder Jones week 77

Hey guys! Glad you all had a great thanksgiving! Wow I think I really miss pad thai, I don´t even remember what it tastes like but I remember that I really liked it haha. Everyone looks so different in the pictures. I had a great thanksgiving. We went to Bolivar to interview someone for baptism, but the sister missionaries could never find the person when they went to pick her up, so the interview didn´t happen, but we met a man from Cajamarca with his grandmother and they told us that they had been robbed in Callao and they needed money to return to Cajamarca. We couldn´t give them money but we offered to buy them food because they supposedly hadn´t eaten anything since the morning. So we bought them food and we got back to the apartment at 9:30 and we weren´t able to eat anything for dinner on thanksgiving. But it didn´t really bother me because I wouldn´t have known it was thanksgiving if I hadn´t asked last week hahah. 

On Tuesday we went to ChacraRios to study with Elder Martinez and Elder Yates, and afterwards we went to the institute building where the family history center is. They work there a few hours a week. We called Mario and asked him if he wanted to come over and do some family history. So he came, and now he has almost his entire 4th generation full and he found two of his great great grandparents! He was so happy because his family is big on family history but no one could find the names of those two great great grandparents. Now he has a lot of names to bring to the temple. On Wednesday we had our meeting with the stake president and President Larson, and while we were waiting outside the church for the meeting to start, Elder Montoya contacted a young man in the street. His name is Alejandro. He said that he lived two buildings away from the church and that he always wanted to belong to this church. So the next day, Thursday, we taught him in the church and he said he wanted to get baptized but he had to ask his mom. On Friday he came to mutual, and had a great time. On Saturday morning he came to a baptism with us with his mom, and he really enjoyed it. His mom gave us permission to teach and baptize him, but she doesn´t want to listen to us because she goes to another church. On Sunday he came to church for all three hours. Today we are going to have a family home evening with Elder Godoy and his family and Alejandro is going to accompany us. The have a son, Taylor, who is 16. On Tuesday he is going to play football with the ward. I am so amazed at how prepared Alejandro is and how willing he is to sacrifice so much of his time to pursue something that he beleives to be right. We hope that his family supports him. 

On friday we weren´t able to do very much proselyting because we were  busy doing administrative things and other bits of service. We were happy to serve but at the same time I felt a little bit overwhelmed because we are expected to find and teach people in our own sector as well as help out the other missionaries in the zone, and I felt like I wasn´t dedicating enough time to service in our sector. At the end of the day we were walking back to our apartment, and a man who looks like Wayne Rooney stopped us asking us if we had a book. He said that he had a friend from Utah that had told him that Mormon missionaries would visit him within the week. We gave him a book of Mormon and he said that this was the book that his friend had been telling him about earlier that day.  He told us that it couldn´t have been a coincidence because he never gets home from work at this time. We told him that we don´t normally work around here and that we could send him the missionaries that do. He was so amazed, and he felt like it had to be from god. It was a good testimony to me that if I complete with my assignments to serve I will be doing what the Lord expects of me. 

I hope you guys have a great week!