I am amazed that the house sold already! Wow that is absolutely nuts! Like WHAT?? 13 days? That is so cool, I'm so happy for you guys! That's such a blessing how that all worked out. How cool!
First off, you have to forgive me for this letter. This week was a great week but nothing too crazy happened. We found a bunch of new investigators this week though.
Yesi is doing great. Elder Aldea and Elder Daza visited her when I was on an interchange. She wanted to go to church Sunday but couldn't. She told us she would be there but thought it was at 9 at night, not 9 a.m.
Eli traveled these last two weeks so we haven't been able to visit him, but we will this week!
I've gotta give a shout out to our pencion's family. They're just such a great family. They love us and care for us like we are their own family. On Wednesday they took us out to this really great restaurant and they just love us and treat us as their own!
The four of us elders with Jose Luis and Ana and their family.
Outside of the restaurant with Jose Luis and Ana (in red) and their family. They treat us so well and we love them so much.
During the week me and Elder Scott had an interchange haha, love that kid. We had a good lesson with a less active family, met a guy who teaches cheerleading (never seen that here) then at night we did divisions with the mission prep class.
Interchange with Elder Scott.
For the mission prep class, I was one on one with a recent convert, Cristofer, and he was a straight stud! We didn’t get in any houses for the 2 hours we were going but he was super strong for only being a member for 1 year. You would’ve thought he had been a member his whole life. And he's also the only member in his family. It was a great day. He bought me a Gio burger afterwards.
The four of us elders with the two young men in our mission prep class.
Me with Cristofer. (I'm going to have to ask Cory if that was some kind of giant catapillar on the wall or something on the camera lense or what.)
After the interchange, Elder Daza (that was in my area with my companion, Elder Aldea) told me how good Elder Aldea did and how great of a missionary he is. Then he told me how good of a job I've done with training him. That made my day, for sure!
On Friday we ran into Elder Johnson's old "stalker" in Trujillo! Here it's custom for men to greet and… disperdir women, (I can't quite figure out the word "disperdir" but I'm coming up with translations like "waste", "dissipate", "throw away") and women to women, a kiss on the cheek. The crazy girl.. who was like 17 years old, first asked for a Book of Mormon, then spoke to me in broken English and was like shaking the whole time, she then tried to give me a kiss on the cheek! NOPE!! I ran! So yeah, that was cool.
Also this week we taught Maritza twice. And her husband, Alexis, was home this week as well, which was awesome because we shared of the Family Proclamation to the world. We then taught about criando (raising) your children in the luz de cristo (light of Christ). It was so perfect! All 4 of them came to church for all 3 hours!! It was so great. We were stoked about that.
Me and Elder Aldea with Maritza, Alexis and their children.
I really am so greatful that you always prayed with me before school. I really have come to understand here the unity it brought in us. I didn't know at the time, but you knew, and did it out of love for me. I'm truly grateful for that. I really am! I have used that example as well as us getting together everynight before the first person laid down for bed, to pray as a family, in many of my lessons to help people grow stronger. I love you and want to say thanks for always loving me and being such a great example!
We did find Melissa and Juan on Sunday. We found them at Juan's mom's house. Melissa had eye surgery and Juan's phone got robbed.. so we hadn’t been able to find them home. But! We will be going to them this week.
All is well here. Sorry for the short letter. But it's been a super fast week and we've been working hard, but not too much exciting to write about. I love you all. I love my dad. I hope you all had a great Father's day, and I hope you have a great week! Cuidense mucho, que les vaya bien, chao, besitos! (Take good care of yourself, bye bye, kisses!)
Con amor, Elder Rocobitz (Our last name is always mispronounced - He's probably just spelling it like he's heard it pronounced lately.)
Me and my "son" on Father's Day at church. They did this for pictures of dads on Father's Day.
Elder Daza, Elder Mich, me and Elder Aldea waiting to get our hair cut.
We went to the Huaca again (different zone.) Our tour guide is in the front with the tan hat on.
Me and Elder Daza
At the excavation site of the ruins.
The mural of the myths. This basically proves the Book of Mormon and the Celestial kingdom. As you can see, they are divided into 3 parts. The top is for "the Gods and Kings", the second is bascially things on this earth now, and the last is the others and the devilish type of things. Plan of Salvation? Three grados de gloria?... sorry forgot how to say that in english (Three degrees of Glory.) You can see behind me the original mural that has been found in the excavation. It's original from 400 b.c.- 800 a.d.
In this picture you can see a man being crucified, (Straight up. It looks like a red "Y" behind him with the bird on the right side) that is not common and never was common here in the Americas at that time. Jesus Christ?
Here in the "earthly" part of the 3 divisions. you can see the sun, the moon, and the stars (The moon is the big red curve, with the sun above it and the stars below it, representing the three degrees of glory.) This is in the middle of the whole mural.
Me and Elder Daza with our tour guide.
The Zone at the Huaca.
Me with Rolomo. He's a savage. I love him.
