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This week was so fantastic. STORY TIME:

We were contacting, doing our normal missionary work business and we came across an atheist. Which is rare here actually but he did not want much to do with us. He was super friendly and was open to talk, and I asked him a few questions to get to know why he is an atheist. While we were contacting him, came a guy named Carlos!  We being good missionaries, included him in our contacts and came to find out he is a member of the church but inactive. We set up a cita with him to visit in his work, and we went to visit him and learned that he has a family but is divorced and some of his kids live in Chile. We come to find out he has a son that still lives with him here, who is 13 years old. His name is Mark! We set up another cita to get to know Mark and taught him a few things. It was super powerful and we got them committed to come to church and Carlos was super excited to get his son involved with us and going down this path with our Heavenly Father. We later started talking with some other members of the church, and it turns out he was actually Branch President of Roma a while back ago and surprised my companion and I. We put a fecha bautismal for Mark for the 29th and they both seem super content to make the covenant with God. I was super excited, because who thought contacting an atheist would give us a baptism???!?!?!?!

Another awesome story. A member gave us a reference of her family that has Alzyhmers. Welllll my companion and I weren't sure what the protocol for a case like that is because she has the disease where she can't remember very much. We came to learn that she does understand some things, if you repeat them lots of times and have someone helping her along the way. We put her fecha bautismal for THIS SATURDAY and we taught her Jose Smith and Baptism and she first said she was already baptized but we taught her that she  has to do it the same way Jesus was baptized, thanks to Jose Smith and the restauracion. It was some pretty powerful citas because she has such a sweet soul, and the innocence in her is just so pure. I felt the spirit pretty strong with her, and I am super excited to see her enter in the waters of baptism. Her name es la hermana Celia Alfaro!!

We also had many awesome noches de hogar, and a noche misional. We are uniting the ward a lot here and I am so excited seeing all the growing and developing el barrio independencia is doing.

This week I was studying Alma 49 and I learned a lot from Capitan Moroni. He was a firm man and always consulted the Lord. He strengthened his weak parts, built up his forts, trained his army. I learned that we have to do the same. Our army starts in the home and our friends, our ward, we have to always strengthen those around us and ourselves and arm ourselves against the enemy that will come to attack us. Because he will come. We can't avoid it. If we were all as firm as Moroni, the depths of hell would be shaken and would not have power over the children of men. I know if we learn from his example and do the same, the enemy will not win against us. There will be battles and struggles, but we will come out victorious if we prepare.

I love life!  I love the mission!  I love Peru!!!!!!!

We also got to go to the beach!!!  We went to this amazing burrito place that to our surprise is owned by a dude from California!  We played basketball, and ate some delicious burritos and brownies and cookies.  The beach was unbelievably beautiful with cliffs and super clean, I definitely need to come back to this place because it made me so happy. We saw some other white people from Switzerland and France, this place was the best.