20 Years Old!!!‏

Well, I feel old now... Its wierd, 20 years old... wow, hahaha! Well we had a good week. Birthdays in the mission are just like normal days. We have to forget about ourselves and serve others. We have Ward Mission Corelation friday night and the ward misionaries threw a little party for the three of us who had birthdays this week. 

The mission has set new standards for contacting new people. President felt that we werent contacting enough people so now we have to contact at least 15 new people everyday in between appointments. Its been fun. Weve been working really hard. We also had the most baptismal invitations in the whole zone. We had 72 and we blew everybody else out of the water, hahaha! Its fun now. We arent scared at all to talk to strangers in the street and to invite them to be baptized. Its helped us a lot. Ive noticed that that small change has had a big impact on our numbers for this week. They were really high.

This week we had divisions with the zone leaders. I went to Magdalena with Elder Jones, who is pretty cool. We had a really cool experience when we were walking down the street together. So the sisters in Pueblo Libre need to find a new apartment before the end of the month, but it is SUPER Hard to find any place to live in their sector, there arent many places to rent and they are all super expensive. The zone leaders had been looking for days and made dozens of calls to help them out. Elder Jones was telling me all of this when we were on the bus on the way to his sector. About half an hour later, we were talking to a man in the street, when all of a sudden an older guy comes up to us and asks us out of the blue if we needed a place to live. He said that he was renting out 3 rooms in Pueblo Libre and was willing to accept whatever amount we were willing to pay. He said that he could even add furniture to the apartment! It was so wierd, it was a miracle!!! Its so cool when stuff like this happens. For me its a big testimony builder that God is watching out for us.

The last few days Ive been reading the Book of James in the Bible. I really enjoy it and recommend that you all read it this week. Today I read in chapter three and I really liked how verses 1-12 talk about how by mastering our tongues we can perfect ourselves. It explains that the tongue is a small member of the body but has a huge influence, just like a tiny bit in a horses mouth or the helm of a boat can make them change direction.I was thinking about what little things in our lives are helping us stay on the path to eternal life or are making us change direction. Little things like daily prayer, scripture study, family home evenings, and church attendance are simple, but make a big difference in our lives.

I love you all and hope that you all had a great week!!!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central