its so funny, as soon as i feel like im doing something well, i lack something else and have to go back and change that. Before, i was forgetting to repent myself and not just teach the atonement, if not apply it. today i realized, i am repenting, but i shouldnt focus too much on numbers, and need to teach with patience and love and pray to love the new people i am teaching. I just get so frustrated when I think i am teaching something well, and they just dont get it! i feel like its so simple, i just want to ask, what dont you get? why arent you getting this!? its SO SIMPLE!!! But i suppose it wouldnt be so simple if its the first time you hear it, or if you have had years of catholicism pounded into you. one thing at a time i guess. to quote jaffar, patience eiago, patience.
I am headed with my companion to cusco again this week to go sing, but this time, my companion is coming with me!!!! i am super excited, she is going to sing in the choir. This time we are singing for the stake intiraimy, which is the stake that the mission president, President calderon is in, so its supposed to be huge! little bit nervous, but it will be great im sure.
quick proseliting story. so we were looking for antiguos investigadores, and we knocked a door, and a little girl answered and said she didnt live there. i asked when she would be back, and the little girl said she didnt know, and shut the door in my face. now, normally i would just walk away, but for some reason, this irritated me. what did we do to her to have her treat us so poorly? i turned to companion, and said, i am going to knock again, that was rude of her. so i knock again, with a little more force. we hear the mom yelling, who is at the door! what do they want!? she sounds ticked. my pride took off running, and left me stranded on the porch of a ticked off peruvian woman, alone. as i realized what i had done, and start thinking what i am going to say when she answers, right? So she answers, and we put on our best feliz cumpleanos faces, even though we were a little scared. so she looks mad at first, but then sees the badge of power and authority, and her face completely changes! she looks at me and says, do you know clara and hugo in cusco? they are members of your church... they are my cousins. I was still surprised by the change of... feeling? i dont know how to say what i want to say in english dang it, but you know what i mean. bbut in that moment i realize i know the whole family! hugo and clara helped us out a ton in cusco!!!! and we have plans to visit them this week when we are there!!! it was such a blessing because we almost never double knock a door after rejection, but i am soooo glad we did because she invited us to come back and teach her mom, and her son. she doesnt live with her boyfriend, so we{ll see what happens. but it was a blessing from the lord. what are the chances that i would know her cousins in cusco, cusco is big! and that the first words out of her mouth would be asking if i knew them! how cool???!!
Welp fam, the church is true. the book is blue.
