Anyway, apart from that, we had a really good multizone training on Tuesday. Two things that I really liked that President Rios said was, “A successful missionary isn’t one who is baptizing every second, but that is the objective.” Also, “Overcome fear with more faith.” It was a really good training.
(Elder Rokovitz is the 5th from the left.)
The next day was a great day! Hit a year in Perú. First off, at lunch the Rosales´s took us to eat pachamanca, which is the food cooked in the dirt. They dig a hole, put down rocks and coal, then after that they put down leaves from a banana tree and then the food on top of that, then more banana leaves, then they cover the whole thing with dirt again. After a hot minute, they dig it up, put it on your plate and boca (mouth). It's super good!
Pachmanca
A special "One Year" mark lunch with the Rosales family. (Nice face Elder Daza haha.)
After that, they kept telling me that their nephew needed a blessing back at home, but I wasn’t buying it. I know them way too good. We get back to the house and I wasn’t going into the house for nothing. I was waiting by the corner and Abraham came up behind and gave it to me like Michael Jordan (an egg on the head). After that I took 7 more eggs! Plus two bags of harina! (flour.) Love it. Took me a hot minute to shower all of that off but we're all good.
Elder Rokovitz after the eggs and flour, with Elder Daza in front and Ana off to the left side.
A little blurry but Elder Rokovitz, Elder Aldea, Elder Mayta and the Rosales family.
** If you are connected to Dawn or Cory on Facebook, there are a couple of fun videos of the egging/flouring on our FB pages.
After that, in the night, we had a little camp fire on the roof...... not saying what we used for the fire..... sorry Mom. It's tradition. (The tradition is to burn one of your white shirts - Mom and Dad's money up in smoke.) It was a super good day! All thanks to la familia Rosales!
The next day I went on an interchange with Elder Diaz who is one of our Zone leaders and who is the son of Elder Alarcon (meaning Elder Alarcon trained him when he was a new missionary) and who is Elder Alarcon's companion again as a Zone leader. Also, he was Elder Harper's companion (Cory's trainer) so we had a bunch to talk about. It was a good interchange.
That night the elders of Alto Moche 2 called me and told me that one of the companionships in my district (of Alto Moche 1) were fighting and whatnot. So the next day I went on an interchange with Elder "H" and we talked for about an hour about his companionship and how to better it and whatnot. It was really good for him. He's got 20 months in the mission and I don’t want him to finish on a bad note. So we had a really good day. We visited Vilma and talked about the day of rest because she said she had to work on Sunday si o si (yes or yes. I've learned that this means exactly what it says. Basically, it will happen, no matter what.) But she said that she already compromitted (committed) to work, but she would talk to them and tell them she can't work Sundays. It went really good.
On Sunday when we were in the third hour of church, I hear my name from behind, look behind and my boy MAGNO entered! Like what?? The whole family came down to Moche to visit Elder Daza and I! It was so great to see them all felices (happy) and whatnot! We talked after church, then we ate lunch with them because they had brought their lunch to eat. It was so good to see them and such a great surprise!
Elder Daza, Magno and Elder Rokovitz
Elder Rokovitz, Elder Daza, Elder Mayta and Elder Aldea
Elder Rokovitz after church.
After that, like I said, we went off! Found straight 8 new people to teach in that day and 16 this week! It's been a great week and has flown by. I'm sure this week is about to fly by even more. It's our last week but we are about to bust our butts and finish on our best note.
Anyway, nothing else. Just lovin' life. Anyway, I love you all. Take care. Be happy. Life's good. Besitos (little kisses)
Tu amigo fiel (Your faithful friend), Elder Rokovitz
Tu amigo fiel (Your faithful friend), Elder Rokovitz
** All photos in this blog entry were sent by others in Perú this week. Cory said the computer was being too slow when he was trying to upload his pictures so we didn't get them this week. He sent the descriptions, so if he sends them, I will add them next week. I understand there's a picture of the "rooftop camp fire"...... not sure if I want to see that though.
Elder Rokovitz with all those eggs..... And I suppose the brocolli is suppose to be Elder Aldea since it's wearing Elder Aldea's glasses and has his name tag.
Something that was super special that these wonderful people in Perú did on the 2nd was to not only make a cake to celebrate Cory's One Year mark, but also to celebrate Cory's sister's birthday, which was on the same day as his year mark. They don't even know Amber but because they love Cory, they also love his family. Two cakes!! One for Cory and the other for Amber, with her name on it. They sang "Happy Birthday" in their very best English for Amber and then again, in Spanish. The Spanish version of "Happy Birthday" is very upbeat and fun to see and listen to. A video of that was sent to us, along with a message from Cory to his sister for her birthday. That video is on Amber's Facebook. We sure love these people and the love they show to our son. Eternal friends!!
