Week 64 - Climbing the Mountains to find people, a visit with a Jaguar

The Jaguar

Buenos Dias!

This has been an awesome and chilly week here in Los Baños del Inca. Last week I wrote about hope and I think we are already starting to see a lot of the fruits of really trusting in the Lord's promises and doing our part. Hope. We have been putting a large emphasis in losing ourselves in the work, forgetting about ourselves, and trying to get rid of anything that might distract us from what really matters. It is not something easy to do, but one just needs to put their Faith in our Heavenly Father's plan that if we are obedient to his commandments than everything, no matter what happens during the journey, will turn out for the best. 

This week we were able to find 19 new investigators which truly is a miracle when we think about the hard times we have had the past couple of weeks finding new people to teach. We decided to follow an impressions we had and go proselyte more in a neighborhood that is waaaaaaaay up the hill, where the cars do not arrive late at night, and it gets more than a little cold. Although making the decision to visit more by this neighborhood, called El Inca, means that we would have to suffer a few long hikes in the cold and rain, the fruits of these labors and trusting in God paid off with finding new families to teach. We went up to the Inca looking for the names of a few old investigators and less active members in a hope of finding them and working from there. The problem is that when you start getting into the more rural parts, there are no addresses so we were aimlessly knocking doors asking if they knew X person nearby. Nobody recognized these names which is a real strange occurrence for these Peruvians who usually spend their whole lives in the same neighborhood. Well nobody recognized these names, however, on two occasions it was as if we were truly guided to these houses. We would go knock a door, ask for a name, they would have no clue, and then basically the next door we knocked was one the people we were aimlessly searching for. It was amazing. A true miracle that came to pass because we put into practice a little bit of hope. 

This week on a less spiritual note we went as a zone to a tourist site here in Cajamarca called the Granja Porcon which is basically a giant zoo. The zoos here in Peru are a little iffy as far as the habits and cages go so we had some nice close and semi same encounters with a Jaguar and some lions. 

All is going great here in Los Baños del Inca, and everything I know will work out for the best if we just put a little bit of faith in God's promises. 

Love,

Elder Vassau