Hola familia! ¿Cómo están? Espero que todo esté bien con ustedes. The Manti Pageant sounded like fun.
Its fun that you took Ray (Chewy, haha!) Well, we had our cambios meeting on Tuesday. It was President Borg`s last one. The whole meeting was just sad, but good at the same time. A lot of the popular and famous elders and hermanas from the mission went home this transfer and gave their final testimonies. President and Hermana Borg also gave their final testimonies. Hermana Borg can hardly speak spanish but she did it all in spanish. Even though her spanish is incorrect, the spirit is always there super-strong everytime she gives her testimony, and that is what is important. We sang our song (yes people were crying ;) ) and had the cambios. Elder Galindo got transfered to Rimac (the super pobre part of the mission with super steep hills). My new companion is.... Elder Ibañez. He is from Concepción, Chile. Its kind of funny because most of the Peruvians hold a 100-year grudge against the Chileans for beating them in all the wars they had. When he tells them he is from Chile a lot of people say "Oh", or turn a little defensive. Its really funny. Our pensionista`s husband, Hermano Arce, is super anti-chileno, but luckily he hasnt been able to eat lunch with us so far this week, hahaha! I didnt know Elder Ibañez before like I knew Elder Galindo but so far we get along really well. He is awesome, super humble, and super smart. He talks to everyone! Which is something that is really hard for most people. Sometimes we just walk down the street and he says hi to someone and if they say hi back he starts a converstion with them and than we end up writing down their address and numero telefonico. He also invites everyone and I mean EVERYONE to be baptized! It doesnt matter if we go to an appointment with a person who has said "no" a million times or if we just bump into someone in the street. We have had a lot of success. I feel really blessed to be with him. There is so much I still have to learn about being a great missionary. Its like all of the companions I get keep getting better and better. We have been working a lot on his english. It is our goal that he will be speaking really well by the end of our time together. He is learning a lot. Sometimes we try to just speak english. These last few nights we have been just laying there in our beds speaking english to each other. Anyway, everything is awesome!
Saturday we went to Condevilla so that Elder Ibañez could baptize someone in his last sector. We took a picture because almost all of the companions that he has had in the mision were there at the baptism so that was fun!
Yesterday we went to the Dedicación del Templo de Trujillo, Perú. It was really good. There were sessions at 9am, 12pm, and 3pm and they were all a little different. We went to the 1st and 2nd sessions. President Uchtdorf said the dedicatory prayer the first time, but the second time he invited Elder Uceda to say it. it was really cool because I had met him and shook his hand just a few weeks ago! I really liked Elder Uceda´s talk that he gave in the celestial room. He talked about 5 ways we can always remember the temple and get our children excited to one day enter:
Yesterday we went to the Dedicación del Templo de Trujillo, Perú. It was really good. There were sessions at 9am, 12pm, and 3pm and they were all a little different. We went to the 1st and 2nd sessions. President Uchtdorf said the dedicatory prayer the first time, but the second time he invited Elder Uceda to say it. it was really cool because I had met him and shook his hand just a few weeks ago! I really liked Elder Uceda´s talk that he gave in the celestial room. He talked about 5 ways we can always remember the temple and get our children excited to one day enter:
1. Keep a picture of a nearby temple in a visible place in your house where all of our family, friends and neighbors can see it.
2. Fill out the "My Family" family history booklet
3. Buy and take care of your own temple clothes. He said that just having them there in your house and carefully washing and ironing them will help us to always remember to go to the temple and stay true to our covenants
4. Keep your temple recommend valid. The temple recommend is a sign of our discipleship and the love we have for God.
5. Attend the temple regularly. Set goals and specific dates to go.
We have three people with a baptismal date. Guadalupe accepted the baptismal challenge for the 27th of June, next saturday, but this morning a few hours ago she texted us and told us that she doesnt feel ready and that she wants to be absolutely sure. We are going to have to go visit her soon!
Tomorrow we are going to go to the temple as a zone. We have to be there at 8am, so that should be fun!
I love you all, thanks for writing!
Love, Elder Kevin Torgersen
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