Elder Torgersen: Priesthood Keys and Break-ins

Well, I`m definitly back in Callao. I think its the only place in the mission where street dogs wander into the church and you have to mop up pools of blood in the chapel during sacrament meeting. Yep, there was a lot of blood. There is an older, double amputee member who had accidently spilled a lot of blood from a bag of chicken all over the floor during sacrament meeting yesterday. I didnt really understand why it happened or why he had a bag of fresh chicken at church, but yeah. Elder Winn just about fainted when he saw it! During the last hour priesthood class we were talking about the keys of the priesthood and the brother from Spain who was giving the class was using Elder Stevenson`s example of being locked out of a car without the keys from last General Conference. The discussion was going really really well and he had everyone`s attention but then an 80ish year old member said, " But if you were really smart you would just break in and jumpstart the car." It made the four of us elders laugh. Only in Callao! In real life it could work, but it is impossible to "break in" to the power of the priesthood without the restored keys. I really enjoyed that talk from last general conference and I am so thankful that the priesthood keys have been restored again to the earth. This morning one of barrio Callao`s investigators called them to tell them that some people were robbing a chapel here in another part of Callao. Crazy, no?

Andre got baptized on Saturday. There was so much opposition but we were able to pull it off. His baptism was supposed to be baptized at 12pm but he lives with his grandparents and they didnt let him leave the house. They dont like the church and are a huge opposition. They gave him a lot of chores to do, so we postponed it to 7pm. It was really good and there were alot of members there. Hna. Claudia came to watch as well! After the baptism and after they had changed back into their clothes the power went out in the church for a few minutes! Hahaha! It was really wierd. Andre is awesome! He is already good friends with almost all of the members. In one year he could go on a mission, and he is thinking a lot about it!

This week we found a new investigator named Jose. He is over 80 years old and has smoked since he was 18 years old but he`s still kickin´. We want to help him quit and he wants to stop too. He used to smoke three of four packages a day ( each package has 20 cigarettes) but yesterday he said that he only smoked 4 cigarettes. We confiscated and got rid of all of the packages that he had in his house to help him quit. I feel like he has a lot of potencial. When he was younger the Peruvian government used to send him on expeditions to explore and map unknown parts of the peruvian jungle and he always wants to tell us stories about living with the indians and stuff like that. He looks a lot like an older version of Mr. Clayton from Tarzan but smaller!

Im glad that you all had such a great time at Young Women´s camp and at the family reunion! I love you all and hope that you are all safe and happy!!