The Right Place at the Right Time‏

Buenos días familia! I love you all! This week went by fast. 

We spent two mornings sanding and painting Maicol´s house. It was a lot of hard work. All of the new concrete walls had to be smoothed and the old ones had to be chipped and sanded off. Then the fun part was actually painting. Now it looks really good! It was a complete transformation, and just in time for his Grandma´s birthday!

They were all really happy and we won a lot of trust with the family. Maicol´s stepdad came out to help the second day and he started telling us that he is a member too, but very inactive! Thats cool! I want to help him come back to the church. I want to help the whole family! Maicol wasnt able to go to church cause he had to help his grandma go to Barranco. I was a little disappointed to be honest. There is so much opposition here!  He passed his baptismal interview and and got him excited for the 30th of Abril. He told me that he wants me to baptize him if I dont get transfered tomorrow. Yep, I already have 6 months here in Santa Beatriz. Elder Weir does too. It´s probable that we are both going to have changes but I think I´m gonna stay to finish training Elder Patterson.

This week we had several experiences with being at the right place at the right time and seeing the Lord´s hand in our lives. I´m gonna share two of those experiences. The first happened with an older lady named Evangelina. We knocked her door looking for her daughter but she wasnt there. He talked to her for a few minutes at her door about when we should come back to find her and then I felt impressed to just ask her if she would let us in so that we caould pray and share a message with her. She surprised me by saying that we could. She opened the door and let us in. She was watching "Little House on the Prairie" in Spanish and I thought of you, mom! It was the first time that I had seen it here in Peru. Anyway, we started talking and she mentioned to us that she never lets any strangers into her house. That surprised me because she had just let us in so I asked her why she let us into her house. She thought a minute and said that she didnt know and that it must be for something! It was so cool when she said that. I told her that I knew it was for something! 

The last experience happened last night. I dont know if you guys remember hearing about Julio Mendez from about 5 months ago? We visited him and he wanted to get baptized and he came to church with us and then he disappeared. That all happened months ago and we had lost contact with him. His phone stopped working and he lives in the 4th floor of an old university and works until 11pm eveyday except sunday. We thought that he was avoiding us and that he had blocked us on his cellular. I felt impressed to go look for him last night. We went and the university was locked up and his phone didnt ring so we just started yelling his name up to the 4th floor window hoping that he was there and that he would hear us. After a few minutes a head popped out and then disappeared. I thought that for sure he had seen us and then hid himself really fast, but I had hope that he wpould come down to talk to us. About 5-7 minutes passed and Elder patterson wasnted to go but I told him, "Patience is a virtue young grasshopper!" Hahaha! Then Julio came down and was super excited to see us. He welcomed us up to his house and said that we couldnt have come at a better time. He is going throught a lot of really tough challenges! He told us that he had no doubt that we were sent to him last night by God!! It was soo cool and I was so happy to finally find him again!!!

The other elders had a baptism on Saturday. Hermana Teresa is a sweet old grandma and is going to be an excellent member!

I hope you all keep having fun and being obedient. Read you scriptures everyday! I love the scriptures!!! Be good!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central

Service! -Painting Maicol´s House‏

We had to sand EVERYTHING before we could paint. It took two days to finish, but now it is SOOO much better.

Election Week‏

Hola familia! Sounds like yall had an awesome spring break! Things have been interesting down here too. So yesterday there were no church meeting because it was the Peruvian national elections and apparently it is illegal to have any organized event or gathering 24 hours before and during the entire day of elections. We couldnt even contact in the streets or anything. We could only go to scheduled appaointments and if they fell through we had to go back home. It was a really wierd Sunday. Now its been two Sundays in a row since we have had sacrament meeting. We are all excited for next Sunday!

On Wednesday I had three baptismal interviews, which made my day but also completely filled it up because we had to go all the way to Barranco and back. I love interviewing people for baptism. I get to hear their conversion stories and learn what had the biggest impact on their testimony. They are always spiritual. I interviewed a sister who used to have problems with drugs and alchohol and the law of Chastity but now has completely changed. I saw in her a complete 100% change of heart. I know that that is something that only the atonement of Christ can do. Nothing else has so much power to make people better and to strengthen them.

Speaking of Barranco, well a few weeks ago some elders in my district got put into quarantine in their room because apparently one of them has tuberculosis. So now they are going to test the whole mission. They started with our zone cause thats where it started and we just took the second test this morning. Im not worried though because we all got vaccinated before the mission. Its all kind of a secret so so shouldnt tell anyone but its something cool to write about! Hahaha! It makes the mission sound more adventurous!

We also started chopping down a big tree outside a member´s house. The first day we started we only had two meat cleaver knives that Hermana Cris, our pensionista, lent us. Then the next time we went we got a machete and it went a lot faster. We still have to go back and finish but a lot of neighbors stareted coming out and getting mad so we called it off for the week.

We got Maicol a job with some members who have a store close to the church so he is really happy. Its just going to be harder to teach him cause now he´s working and studying and doesnt have much time. He still wants to get baptized though and is going to go to church this week. Last time we went to see him I could see a difference in him too. He is changing. Its so esciting to see! 

We are also teaching Bianca, who a family member of one of the other elders. We have taught her several times and she went ot church once. Now she wants to be baptized and everytime we teach he a commandment she is willing to make any sacrifice necessary to fulfil it. She has so much faith and has a huge desire to change her life.

I know that the church is true and that the restores gospel changes lives! I love it! I love you all!!!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central

Service- Tree Choppin´‏

Upgrade from meat cleaver to machete!

General Conference was Awesome!!‏

Well I really loved this General Conference! It made me sad to think that this was my last one in the mission.  There were so many great talks that I loved so much. I know that we have inspired prophets and apostles who lead and guide us in these latter days. We were all super excited to hear the announcement of the second temple here in Lima. It was a complete surprise. Ever since I´ve been here I´ve heard rumors and theories from members and missionaries that they were either going to make the current temple bigger or build a new one, but they have been saying that for years and nothing ever happened, until now!! All of us gringo missionionaries got to watch conference in english in a separate classroom in the stake center on a little TV. When the prophet announced the new temple we could hear the gasped and excited voices from all of the faithful members in the chapel. It almost brought tears to my eyes. Even as I sit here writing this and thinking about it, it brings a powerful feeling over me and almost makes me want to cry. The Work is progressing here in Perú! There is a huge need for a new temple. The current one is frankly too small, and too overused by members who come from all over the country to recieve its blessings. A second temple in Lima is a testimony to me that what we are doing here in contributing to this part of the Lord´s Vineyard. I felt really bad that Maicol and Bianca and our other investigators, less-actives, and converts all cancelled at the last minute and werent able to go to the conference and I was really sick and tired of people not being obedient and always failing us. Its something that happens your entire mission and I was just about sick with it. I was wondering why it isnt easier and why people just cant understand? When the prophet announced the new temple I felt better. I know that even if there are challenges and we feel like we arent making a difference, we really are. I know that we are laying the foundation to a great work. We dont know yet where the new temple will be built exactly, but we are all super excited for it. I loved how so many leaders taught us about temples and blessing of the priesthood that we can enjoy thanks to the restoration of the gospel, church, and priesthood authority of Jesus Christ.

Just for an update, Maicol still wants to get baptized but he has to go to church at least once more before we can do it. He wasnt able to go to the conference becasue of a training meeting he had and next week there are no church activities becasue it is the Peruvian national elections so he will have to go on the 17th to get baptized on the 23th. He is really cool and he testimony is slowly building. I know that he will get baptized I just hope that Im still here to see it!

I hope you all have a great spring break and thanks for always writing! 
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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

So Many Miracles!!!!‏

This week was probably one of my favorites that I´ve had here in barrio Santa Beatriz. Jahairo finally got baptized and it all went really well! The baptismal service went well and there were a lot of members there to support him. Even his mom showed up. She has had a really change of heart. A few months ago when we would go look for Jahairo and knock his door several times a week his mom would always get mad and sometimes be a little rude to us, but now everything is different. She is so thankful for the change in her son. He is a completely different person and she is amazed. I really wanted to make sure that the baptismal service went well because she told Jahairo that she was going to go and if she liked it maybe she would think about getting baptized as well. We visited them yesterday and she is super nice now. Jahairo was very prepared to be baptized. After I baptized him and we changed he shared his favorite scripture so far from the Book of Mormon. It was 1 Nefi 10:19-20. It was so cool how he was able to relate it to his own life and bear testimony of the truthfulnes of the Libro de Mormón. It really made my day hearing his testimony after his baptism. 

This week I was contemplating about miracles. What is a miacle? When do they happen? What causes them? A miracle is an unexplainable occurrence caused by the power of God, they depend on the faith of the people. I realized that miracles happen every day. Every time that a person learns that the Book of Mormon is true or gains a testimony it is a miracle. Every time that someone repents and recieves the forgiveness of their sins it is a miracle. Everytime that someone gets baptized or goes to church it is a miracle. Miracles are all around us, they happen eveyday. We just need eyes to see them and ears to hear them. This week I feel like I was better prepared to recognize the daily miracles and tender mecies of the Lord that he blessed us with everyday.

We had a little scare this week. President called me and said that there was a new missionary that was having a lot of troubles and that wanted to go home. He has a huge hill in his sector and was physically exhausted. President told me that after our baptism he wanted to make a switch so that I would be with the struggler and Elder Patterson would go to the hill becasue Elder Patterson is super happy and excited. We were really sad, but Saturday night President called and said he was going to call off the emergency change because the other elder was doing better. Wheeww! We are happy about that! Oh yea and Elder Patterson´s birthday is on Wednesday!

Last night we visited two new investigators who were being taught by Elder Weir and Elder Membrillo. They are cool and the sister, named Bianca, told us that she wants to get baptized. She aleady had a Book of Mormon and told us that one day she was fighting with her ex-husband and was crying and extremely upset. She sat down and saw her Book of Mormon and remembered that the missionaries had told her a little about it. She opened it up and started reading. She said that what she read was exactly what she needed to hear. It helped her alot. Bianca went to church yesterday and is excited to go to the conference next weekend!

We visited Maicol as well this week and he still wants to get baptized but didnt go to church yesterday. We are going to see if he wants to come with us to General Conference .

Im really happy that you all had a great Easter. Here the whole world celebrates the "Semana Santa" which is a catholic holiday to remembe the last week of Christ´s life. I was asked to teach the Principles of the Gospel class in Sunday School yesterday and the topic was The Atonement. It was the perfect topic for this week and really helped me remember the real reason that we celebrate this holiday, not his death, but that He has risen! I know that he lives and I am extremely greatful for the atonement of our Savior!

Love you all! Keep going to the temple! Have a great week!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central

A testimony by the Spirit‏

Well, this week was fun, Elder Patterson and I are both learning a lot together. He is learning how to be a good missionary and how to speak spanish, and I am learning how to be a better leader and example. 

So these last few weeks we have been visiting Jahairo and he has been preparing himself to be baptized on the 26th of March! He was pretty excited and more sure about that date than the other ones in the past. We have been visiting him everyday this past week to help him get his answer and commit to the 26th because we have been teaching him for several months now and he always worms himself out of his baptismal goal even though he says that he would like to eventually get baptized. So Elder Patterson and I went one day to go teach him and we were planning to teach him about temples and family history, but he started to tell us some of his doubts and I felt the impression that he didnt really understand well enough the concept of the "forgiveness of sins," so we started to explain it to him again. We had him read several scriptures and then he read Isaiah 1:18. He read it out loud, then paused and read it several times to himself and then he looked up at us and asked, "what is happening? I feel sometime different, like a warm nice feeling that is entering my heart. What is this feeling?" We explained to him that what he was feeling was the spirit. It was the first time that he had felt it like that in his whole life. It was soo cool and he was soo excited! After that the was even more sure about his baptism on the 26th! The days went on and he told us that he was going to give us his 100% sure answer about his baptism on saturday, one week from the 26th. I prayed so hard that he would commit 100% to the 26th. We went to go visit him and he started to talk and told us that he didnt sleep all night because he was thinking about everything. He decided that he did want to get baptized but that it wouldnt be the 26th. He decided that it would be best on the 18th of June for some reason. After he said that I decided that we werent going to leave his house until he committed to the 26th because I knew that he was ready and that he had recieved his answer, he was just scared. He told us everything, all of his fears and doubts and we helped him a lot and after about 2 1/2 hours he finally commited to the 26th. He went to church yesterday and the bishop announced his baptism on the 26th at 6pm. The whole ward got super excited because almost all of the members know him becasue he has been investigating for so long. It helped him to feel more sure about the 26th too. We are super excited for this Saturday, he is going to be a great member.

 We went to the temple with the ward again to help with the baptisms for the dead for all the youth and recent converts. I got to be the guy who sits at the desk and puts all the names under the camera and marks them off, again. So that was fun. I love going to the temple.

 Oh yea, Elder Patterson´s twin got his mission call to the Colombia Bogota South mission so thats exciting too!!!

Do you guys remember how we were teaching Maicol? He wanted to get baptized and went to church two weeks and then moved. Well last night we went to his house and he told us that he moved back and that he wants us to visit him again. I am excited to teach him, he is really cool.

 I love you all and pray for you everyday!!!!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central

This is Donny Del Castillo, and his wife, who knew Tristan in Russia! He was his ward mission leader!

 This is us with Kevin an member who always accompanies us who got baptized a year ago, and Giovana and her husband Diego. I interviewed Giovana a few months ago for her baptism and now her husband is investigating the church. He is really catholic but really cool and he went to the temple with his wife and waited for her out in the gardens while she was inside. I know that he will be a member soon!

 This is us with two of the bishops kids at the temple

All The Way From New Zealand!!‏

Wow, its been an awesome week! We had cambios on Tuesday and I´m training a new missionary! It´s super exciting. When they told me that I would be training I was wondering what country he would be from. Maybe Perú, Colombia, Bolivia, maybe Utah... But nope, my new companion is Elder Patterson and he is from New Zealand!!! We are thinking that he is probably the first missionary from New Zealand here in our mission. Its pretty exciting. He is super excited and willing to learn and that helps me a lot. He has an accent that makes him sound like an Australian. He also used different words like the Brittish use to call things.  It´s been fun this week too but different. It´s wierd being with a new missionary. I´m used to teaching a bit and then looking at my companion to let him teach and take turns like that, but now I just look at my companion and  nothing happens because he doesnt know and I keep teaching, hahaha! I pretty much have to teach the whole lesson but I am surprised how fast he is learning. Everyday he learns so much and his Spanish is improving. His mom is a Peruvian from Lima but he doesnt know how to speak Spanish very well yet. It is fun to be able to help him. I am really greatful for this great opportunity to be able to train a new missionary. Its giving me the opportunity to go back to the basics and to re-learn everything. It reminds me a bit of when I started the mission a year and a half ago. Oh yea, this week I completed 18 months in the mission! Its going by so fast, too fast.

On Thursday we had the big meeting in La Molina with Elder Robbins of the Presidency of the Seventy. It was great. He talked a lot about how to get along with another person, especially a companion or future spouse. I know that I need to prepare now to be the best husband and father that I can possibly be. We also got to see Elder Holden and Elder Allen so that was awesome too!

Friday morning the zone had a contacting activity in our ward, which means that the whole zone came to talk to strangers in the street. We had a really cool experience. Elder Pearce and Elder Cancino were in our sector and they contacted an older man. We just happened to be closeby and they presented him to us because he lives in our sector. After about only two minutes of getting to know him he recognized us as the Lord´s servants and immediately brought us to about ten of his friends who live or work in our sector. He would just bring us to someone, tell them that we are missionaries and ask them when we could visit them. He even started contacting random strangers in the street to get them to listen to us. It was great! I havent ever had an experience like that. We made an appointment to go visit him on Wednesday to get to know even more people! He says that know that he is retired he dedicates himself to God´s service. 

Well, I hope you all enjoy the Cultural Celebration. Be sure to record it or something because we arent going to be able to watch it.

I love you all!!!!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central

 We found this and other giant spiders at the bishops house doing a service project.

The bishops wife and his little kids helped us catch it. It was a nice break from taking apart furniture to move upstairs.

Servicio‏

Two of the packages you sent finally got here!!! I got those green insoles and a Christmas stocking with some candy! It made my day, thanks a lot for sending it to me!

Well this week there was more opposition but also a lot of success! The zone leaders called me to do an intercambio with them this week and I got to go with Elder Paredes from Bolivia. He has been here in Limatambo for a very long time, over a year in two different wards in the same stake, and he is going home next change. I learned a lot from him. One thing that I noticed is that he always looks for ways to serve people. We were walking down the street and a man and an old woman were taking big baskets for fruit out of a taxi and carrying them into the house. I would have probably walked by but we stopped to help them and we were able to contact them and gain their confidence. Elder Garcia and I were able to go back the next day and teach them. I realized that service plays a huge part in missionary work. Most old people here are super catholic and dont want anything to do with us but by first serving them they saw that we really want to help them. Many times during my mission I have just gone straight to the point and tried to teach the gospel but now I know that they need to understand that we really care for them before they will really listen to us. Service is everything here. I wish that I had learned that earlier.

This week the four of us elders went to help the Del Castillo Family get ready for their son to come live with them. We helped move furniture and paint the walls. I am excited to meet him because he knew Tristan in Russia!!!

This is the last Pday of the transfer. Cambios are tomorrow. Its very likely that Elder Garcia is going and I will stay, but we dont know anything for sure until tonight.

Keep praying for us and look for ways to serve and share the gospel with others!

I love you all!!!
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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Misión Perú Lima Central

The national stadium, which is in our sector

My district 

The zone Limatambo 

 Elder Garcia´s birthday the bishops family egged him 

like every Peruvian family does on someones birthday!

 and the giant beer building outside our house. The Peruvians love their beer.

Oposición‏

Wow, so here we are, the four of us elders from Santa Beatriz in a hot, sweaty, crowded internet cave surrounded by hardcore gamers, a screaming baby, and loud worldly music. Hahaha, but its worth it because we get to talk to y´all!

Omar got baptized this week, he was an investigator that I interviewed on Friday. He was prepared, but i think that he was a little scared because he wanted to push his baptism back a week. He was set on it. It was a miracle because just a few hours before his baptism was supposed to start he made the decision to do it!

Time is going by too fast! The office told me that I will be going home in August, i think it will be the 24th or something like that. I counted down the months and we are close to 6! Wow it scares me a lot to think that my mission is coming to an end so fast, but i dont like to think about that, I just want to keep working!

Well Jahairo stood us up this week and never showed up to church yesterday so we dont know whats going to happen with him. We are thinking about leaving him for a little bit. If we give him a little break he will be able to feel the difference in his life from when he was reading the scriptures, going to church, praying, and listening to us. Santitos went out of town and we werent able to visit her either. Honestly, there is sooo much opposition in this sector. Yesterday not a single investigator came to church and I was pretty sad about that. We tried everything to get them to go and several promised that they would be there and they never showed up. We found a new awesome investigator named Maria Esther. We invited her to come to church and I called her Sunday morning and she said that she was already dressed up and ready to walk out the door. We sat there outside the church waiting and waiting and waiting and she never showed up. We called her back and she said that as she was about to leave her house an old friend came by and needed help urgently so she had to stay and help her. Ahhh!!!, the devil works so hard against us sometimes. It was disappointing. 

Yesterday after lunch we went out proselyting and we contacted an old man who was sitting outside his house. He was old, had a long scraggly beard and only had one eye, the other socket was empty. We started to talk to him and he wanted to read the Bible with us. He started to read several scriptures like Ezekiel 14:21 and was telling us about the immenent destruction of the earth. It was wierd but we taught him that it was false. We invited him to be baptized and he accepted. We are going to go back on Tuesday to see if he is going to progress or not. 

The 10th of March we are going to be visited by Elder Lynn Robbins of the Presidency of the Seventy with three other missions we are excited for that!

Transfers are a week from tomorrow. We are going to see what happens. Everybody keeps telling me that they think that I´m going to train. That would be fun!

The picture is from two or three Pdays ago when we played Carnavales as a zone!

 I love you all!!

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-Elder Kevin Torgersen-

Sunburn‏

It doesnt look as bad in the pictures but we all got burned last week when we went to play volleyball at the beach

 -watch tan

The Book of Mormon Power‏

Well, it was another good, fast week! We had fun and a lot of stuff happened. We taught Jahairo several times and he started reading the Libro de Mormon again, and he showed up to church all by himself yesterday. So far he´s read up to chapter 6 of first Nephi and when we asked him about it he explained perfectly everything that happened with Lehi and his family leaving Jerusalem and then Nephi and his brothers going back and their journey in the wilderness. As he was explaining what he read it was like a little movie was playing through my mind. He really likes reading now, he just never askes God if it is true after he reads it. He says that he´s scared, scared to get an answer from God that it´s true. He´s scared to change. He says hes always felt like he doesnt want to belong to any specific church but if the Book of Mormon is true then he would know that ours is the true church of Christ. Now we are focusing on encouraging him to pray to ask God if it is true so that he can commit to a baptismal date. 

Yesterday we went to go visit Santitos for the second time. We havent been able to visit her since last week because after her last session of Chemotherapy she got really sick and weak and couldnt recieve us. We went to give her a priesthood blessing and when we were on our way I called her to remind her. She said at first that she wasnt going to be able to recieve us but then she said to hold on for a minute. I heard her put down the phone and then nothing. After about a minute she picked up again and asked how soon we could come and that she needed us. We showed up and she was super excited to see us. She said that she knew that she couldnt say no to us because she feels something special about us and the church. I know that I was the spirit that bore witness to and softened her heart so that she would recieve us yesterday when I called and not some later day. She told us all of the invitations that have brought her to want to learn more about the church. Besides her friend in Argentina she said that she keeps making contact and bumping into people who alway invite her to learn more about our church. She doesnt believe in coincedences and knows that God has put all of those people, including us, in her way. We had a super awesome lesson with her and gave her a blessing for her cancer and treatments. She was so sure when she accepted to prepare herself to be baptized on the 19th of March which is only three weeks away! At the end we gave her a Libro de Mormon and she was soo surprised and so happy and thankful that she started to cry. All she could say was, "thank you, thank you, thank you." The spirit was soo strong, and she could feel it. She could feel that it is true!

I sent a lot of pictures from the museum that we visited last Pday. Its the Arqueology and History Museum in Pueblo Libre and it was really cool. We didnt have time to see it all.

This morning we went down to the beach at Larcomar and played volleyball and soccer on the beach with the zone. I´m pretty sure that we all got sunburned but it was lots of fun! We forgot to take a picture though.

At church yesterday, Señorita Castañeda´s mom came up to me and gave me a big bag of american candy and some letters! I was soo happy!! She was really nice and we were able to talk for a bit. She is here in Peru for a few weeks. Say thanks to them for me!

Happy Birthday Mom!!! I love you lots!!! Have a great week!!!

Thanks for all of the letters and emails! It looks like a lot of fun at home and in Hurricane!

Well, it was another good, fast week! We had fun and a lot of stuff happened. We taught Jahairo several times and he started reading the Libro de Mormon again, and he showed up to church all by himself yesterday. So far he´s read up to chapter 6 of first Nephi and when we asked him about it he explained perfectly everything that happened with Lehi and his family leaving Jerusalem and then Nephi and his brothers going back and their journey in the wilderness. As he was explaining what he read it was like a little movie was playing through my mind. He really likes reading now, he just never askes God if it is true after he reads it. He says that he´s scared, scared to get an answer from God that it´s true. He´s scared to change. He says hes always felt like he doesnt want to belong to any specific church but if the Book of Mormon is true then he would know that ours is the true church of Christ. Now we are focusing on encouraging him to pray to ask God if it is true so that he can commit to a baptismal date. 

Yesterday we went to go visit Santitos for the second time. We havent been able to visit her since last week because after her last session of Chemotherapy she got really sick and weak and couldnt recieve us. We went to give her a priesthood blessing and when we were on our way I called her to remind her. She said at first that she wasnt going to be able to recieve us but then she said to hold on for a minute. I heard her put down the phone and then nothing. After about a minute she picked up again and asked how soon we could come and that she needed us. We showed up and she was super excited to see us. She said that she knew that she couldnt say no to us because she feels something special about us and the church. I know that I was the spirit that bore witness to and softened her heart so that she would recieve us yesterday when I called and not some later day. She told us all of the invitations that have brought her to want to learn more about the church. Besides her friend in Argentina she said that she keeps making contact and bumping into people who alway invite her to learn more about our church. She doesnt believe in coincedences and knows that God has put all of those people, including us, in her way. We had a super awesome lesson with her and gave her a blessing for her cancer and treatments. She was so sure when she accepted to prepare herself to be baptized on the 19th of March which is only three weeks away! At the end we gave her a Libro de Mormon and she was soo surprised and so happy and thankful that she started to cry. All she could say was, "thank you, thank you, thank you." The spirit was soo strong, and she could feel it. She could feel that it is true!

I sent a lot of pictures from the museum that we visited last Pday. Its the Arqueology and History Museum in Pueblo Libre and it was really cool. We didnt have time to see it all.

This morning we went down to the beach at Larcomar and played volleyball and soccer on tha beach woth the zone. I´m pretty sure that we all got sunburned but it was lots of fun! We forgot to take a picture though.

At church yesterday, Señorita Castañeda´s mom came up to me and gave me a big bag of american candy and some letters! I was soo happy!! She was really nice and we were able to talk for a bit. She is here in Peru for a few weeks. Say thanks to them for me!

Happy Birthday Mom!!! I love you lots!!! Have a gre