After writing on Pday I left the internet café and
as we were walking around, roaming the streets of Mollendo I noticed that ahead of me about 20 feet was
someone that appeared to have one
hand. Normally when I think I spotted
someone with one hand, it turns out they were
just scratching their back. However this
teen had a green shirt wrapped around his arm, so I just went for it and said "hey, do you have one hand?"
Boom,
right there a relationship of trust started.
He was born with one hand
as well. He was a shy little guy but we
had a nice conversation that ended after I took a photo with him.
It has gotten pretty calm over here in Matarani, but the national police haven’t
stopped their little gringo
comments. We decided to actually go over
and talk with those that say hello
to us and call us gringos, it turned into a nice conversation as well that ended with a photo. I have always wanted to take a photo with them and their riot shields but I’ll
settle for the latter.
Besides these two photos, this past week was
long. Appointment after appointment fell through and members have just not
been contributing. I have seen the adversaries influence in the life of
the people I have talked to but I
realized two things this week, perhaps I knew them before but this past week I’ll (as they say in Spanish)
gave an account to the things I
learned:
1) God Loves the people of Peru, all of them.
2) For one day, a normal person could not do what a Latter Day Saint missionary does every day if they did not soundly know that this is the only true church upon the face of the earth.
If I did not care about either of those things I
mentioned above, my life
would never be the same.
God loves you.
The church is true.
Elder McCook
Words of the week: joven-teenager
dar cuenta- finally realize
defecto de nacimiento- birth defect
God loves you.
The church is true.
Elder McCook
Words of the week: joven-teenager
dar cuenta- finally realize
defecto de nacimiento- birth defect
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