Monday February 6, 2012

Hola familia!!!!

how have you all been? i have been working like always but still hoping
that transfers today dont bring some sad news. but i guess only time will
tell. my relasionship with my companion is growing and at long last i feel
like we are working like we should be. i would be very happy it we both
stayed here we finally found our rythem.

we were out contacting one day and we got to a house of a lady named flor
paz we didnt even have time to knock on her door as she flung it open and
invited us in. now i have met some amazingly kind people here in peru but i
have never been invited to enter a house without first saying something. so
to start off i was shocked and then she told us a story and i went from
shocked to amaized. she explained how she was listening to jehovas
witnesses too but that she had a dream and didnt know what it ment. she
explained how in her dream she was in the kitchen cooking lunch when her
little boy came to her with a book from the jehovas witnesses, he asked her
to study it with her. she told him to go sit on the couch and when she had
finished she would come out and they would read it together. she said the
next thing that happened was someone knocked on the door and her little boy
came and told her that it was the "Hermanos from the church." she asked if
they were JW and the boy said no two men in white shirts. she came out of
the kitchen and the "two men" had left. she then saw the JW book was being
ripped to shreads by her dog. as she went to scold the dog the little boy
stopped her and told her that god had a different plan for her and that
plan wasnt in the JW church. . . . the next day we showed up at her door. i
finally found someone with a dream experience!!! :)
Haruko diaz is going through many trials right now with her baby. she said
that the fetus i forming wrong that the organs are forming outside of its
body. and obviously if the baby is bad the mother will be sick too. whe
havent been able to visit her lately because she has been in and out of the
hospital and when she is home she is on strict bed rest. i have to say i am
kinda worried about it. we were able to go and give her a blessing so at
least that will help her. but as we were there we were able to meet and
talk to her parents. and all i can say is, i have some awesome parents. her
father didnt even want to be in the same room as her, his exact words were,
"if she wants to remain part of this family, she knows what she has to do
(or in other words, abort the baby." and her mom was caring for her just
because she knew that if she didnt no one would. man people like that make
me sick. and everyday i see more and more that we live in a sick world.

i got to put my chef barbosa skills to use again and for a experament it
turned out pretty good. i am making a list of things to cook when i get
home, so you better start preparing your stomach because who know how well
it will turn out. well fam it is off to see if i am leaving or staying. i
wish they would tell us before we write that way you could know where i am
going to be this next week. but always remember that no matter where i am i
love you all and i am working as hard as i can.

Elder Landon R. Welch