This week was really good!
Last preparation day we went to Julaca, Elder Cuetos first area, to visit with his first baptism. It is a pretty large family with 6 kids. They baptized the whole family! And they were just the nicest people. We were sitting on the roof when we were called down to a little room. At first I was a little scared because they all stood against the wall as I walked into this room. Once I got into the room I could see the whole family was there with party hats. Everything was green because I am a "greenie" and a "greengo". They told me that because my "father" of the mission, my trainer Elder Cueto, is part of their family, I am part of their family too! If I ever need anything call them and they will help me in whatever way that they can!
This week there was a big strike! Everything was closed for 3 days. It is so hard to work and teach during strikes. No one is in the streets and no one is home. I really don't understand it. Where do the people go?!? I honestly have no idea. But it was fun to just pretty much hang out with a few of the other missionaries for 3 days. We mostly just hung out and watched Mormon movies and Mormon messages on the little portable DVD we have on one bed. Oh the life of a missionary.
We helped out at the hospital this week and it was so fun. There is a group in Lima who has kind of teamed up with the church to help kids with cleft pallets. They give operations for free. Cleft pallets are a big problem in this area - lots of children have them. So we moved boxes up and down for about 2 hours and then finally got to spend time with the kids. That was the best part! They were all so cute it was really hard for me to understand them. We had gone out earlier and bought toys and things for the kids. They were so surprised when we started giving them the toys.
We have been having a lot of success here lately. I am so thankful. All it really takes is work and obedience. We have been wanting to have at least one baptism next month and have been working really hard towards that goal. Isabel and Luis are progressing and they told us about their daughter this week, Maritze. She is a really awesome investigator and follows through on all of our commitments. She came to church with us yesterday and told us she keeps having dreams where she is baptized. She said that she knows that everything we say it true and so we are working with her a lot!!! We are going to ask her to be baptized on the 27th of December. We are also working a lot with Yessica. She brought her husband to the last lesson, and even though he said that he wasn´t interested at all he participated a lot. He even said the prayer at the end of the lesson. The spirit can change people and their hearts.
I love Peru and promise that if you get me the vitamins that I will take them!!
My testimony has grown so much and I have grown so much as a person! The old Elder George was good but I am such a better person now. Okay I am still me but just a little different. Nothing has changed changed, but I have changed. It's really hard to explain.
Lacey, tell Nawrocki that I love her and that I help the little kids with their math in Spanish!
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