Rokin' Perú: Bilingual Blessings

This week has been super fast, but super good. Nothing too crazy though.

On the 4th of July... it was different but I made sure that I enjoyed it. In the morning I had Ana play the National Anthem. After that, we went to drop off Elder Scott at the terminal. The terminal is called the terminal America, so yes, I was in America on the 4th of July haha. Then we worked hard the whole day and at the end of the day I we went up on our roof and lit a few fireworks off, but.. it was the 4th.. I had to. Their fireworks aren’t as fun but they still fly and explode so it was a little 4th of July fun for me.

Me and Elder Scott listening to the National Anthem in the morning on July 4th at Ana's house.

At the terminal America where Elder Scott went for his transfer. In "America" for the 4th of July.

Also update on Victor and Ebelyn.. they're not married haha, but it's alright, they are super animated. We need to start working to help them get married. But they went to church again and they have tons of questions which is awesome. They're so cool. Plus we met their son David too.

Elder Daza's new companion is Elder Mayta from Bolivia.. so my entire district is Latinos now. I'm about to learn Spanish hard core! There isn’t an English speaker within 30 minutes of me. Elder Mayta is from the highest city in the world in Bolivia. When we are freezing at night, he's walking around sweating. Pretty nuts.

Vilma is doing really good. She came to church late this week because she had to drop her son off at the airport, but she came, which was great. We taught her 1 Nephi 4:16-34 and it went really well. She is a great learner and understands a ton. Both her and Jessi are programmed for the 29th of this month for baptism. Jessi couldn’t go to church because she is recently pregnant and a little sick.

On Thursday we made cookies with Elsa. Afterwards I had 3 people ask me for the recipe. My cookies are GOLDEN! I was pretty hyped about that.

At church on Sunday I learned something super cool that I never really realized before. A women was giving her talk and she said that she was trying to learn patience and praying for patience when she realized that when she thought things were getting harder and God wasn’t hearing her prayer, she realized that things weren’t getting harder, rather that God was allowing her to practice her patience and that He really did hear her and that was how He was responding - By making her show her patience and practice it. How cool. We think at times that God isn’t hearing our prayers because things seem to get harder, but that is His way of responding. Pretty cool, I never thought of it that way but it helped me realize that's one of the ways the Lord contests our prayers.

Later that day we found a couple, of which the husband's parents are members. He is super great. He had so many questions! Like, deep doctrine questions, it was so cool. I've never taught someone so profoundly but it's what he wanted to know. He had obviously studied the bible much. He's super cool though and we´re hyped to visit him and he is hyped to learn a lot. Super cool couple, they are Angel and Nelly.

I saw the blessing of knowing two languages today during my studies when I was reading in 2 Nephi 15 (Isaiah chapters) and I came across a word that I didn’t understand which was "betwixt." I looked in Spanish and the word was “entre” which is enter in (in context, enter ye in me and my vineyard.) Ha! I realized how much easier it was to study Isaiah chapters in Spanish. It's actually easier to study things like Jesus the Christ in Spanish as well because Spanish context has less words. Pretty cool. Bilingual blessings. Love it.

Anyway, that’s really all for this weeks folks. We´re working hard and seeing miracles in the people we are finding. Super prepared people. We´re really stoked for that! Anyway, love you all and hope you enjoy your week!

Tu amigo fiel, Elder Rokovitz