Week 11: When you want to quit walking but keep truckin

This is a hot and tired Elder

SO this week was a crap ton of walking! (pardon the language)

It was actually kind of crazy. We went to Lima to help this member -Karla, and her brother- get the paperwork for seminary. Lima is 15 minutes by bus from our area, and then an hour walk up hill to their house, which sucked! The house was in the middle of nowhere and it was kind of freaky, but we got there.  We ended up getting everything we needed. Thank goodness we don´t have to go back that way at least for a while. 

The next day we had interviews with the President. He talked about our (little) success with new investigators and commended us for our work with less actives. And then this week they didn´t show up --all of them! It was devastating! 

Cementario, it's not just a clever name

But anyway, President left Campamento and the rest of the zone with a blessing that we would have success. And we had even more success! We are above our average of 21 for every week. We have 29 new investigators! It is crazy! 
Elder Giraldo and I have just been praying and praying.  The Lord has strengthened us. We have been walking to the point of like we are on a death march. Where you get to a point and your legs just stop wanting to continue, and you start stumbling, and sometimes you even fall from exhaustion, but somehow... we are able to wake up the next day ready to do it all over again! 
We have been blessed, a lot. I´ve seen it in my Spanish and in my ability to work for the 16 hours a day that we work. 

Elder Giraldo and I are getting along better and this is great. But, we are having little success with our two investigators with a baptism date -Cristina and Stephanie. Cristina is 36, the mom of Stephanie, who is 10. The only day we can meet with them is on Sundays. They have been busy recently and the adversary has been messing with their feelings -the feelings they have had in the lesson when they accepted baptism. They aren´t too interested now and it's sad! But we aren´t giving up. We keep going, we are still trying to teach them the lessons and leave them with the Spirit. 

always a silly side to every day

SO Sunday we had almost no one in church. I had to give a 15 minute talk to about 30 people which was cool. I got through it.  I had people come and thank me after.  I talked about how everyone is a missionary, and that the Sacrament is important for all those who have been baptized. I told them that there are people who aren´t here in church who need this ordinance. 

Mom and Dad note: We think this is dinner - we can identify most of it, at least he is eating well!

Everything is going by faster and its kind of scary. It´s been a month since I left the CCM! Crazy. I hope I´m ready for what comes next. 

Love you guys and hope all is well. 

I know the Lord gives us strength when we are doing his will and living the gospel -love you guys!