Me and my new companion, Elder Torres, from Chiclayo Peru.
Tuesday was fun. As we were in the bus station waiting for all the elders to come in to get them to where they needed to be, I heard a familiar, "CHEEHOOO!!" Coming from one of the buses pulling in. Dang straight, gotta see my boy Elder Johnson! Haha love him. The kid is training so he´ll end his mission training a new missionary. The next day we had consilio (council) which was cool since literally 10 of the 12 companionships of Zone Leaders or Hermana leaders are from my CCM group haha, but consilio was awesome! I'm super hyped for the upcoming month and the stuff we´re about to do. And with my new companion's help, we're gonna MOB!
It was so great to be at council meeting with so many of the missionaries I came out with 15 months ago. We have been "family" since day one.
So real quick about the investigators. We went to Jennifer twice this week (the ones that came to the class in church about the Law of Chastity last week.) We talked about marriage with her using Helaman 5:12 (And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty stormshall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.) She “said” she talked with her husband, but we quickly found out that wasn’t true when we returned on Sunday. On Sunday we started talking about it and they started bickering and fighting about the problems of one another and that’s why they couldn’t get married. I basically, low key, told them to shut up after that because everytime we would say something they would go off again. In the end, we had an amazing lesson about communication and it turned out super good. My companion likes to sing hymns to people (we´ve done it 3 times this week) so we ended with us two singing a hymn. As I was singing I thought, “Man, I would NEVER have done this at home. I'm sure Mom would love to see this one”, haha, but no, we left with a HUGE spirit in the home which was awesome.
Also, we found this kid Irvin, this last week. Wow. He is an Inka Kola! (Quick explanation: There are two types of Inka Kola soda here. One is called, Oro, which means "gold" in Spanish and the other is called Inka Kola. Inka Kola is 100 times better than Oro. Oro is basically a rip of Inka Kola. So when the investigators are straight fire, they´re Inka Kolas.. not gold) Anyway… he's a STUD! He's gone twice to the church in shirt and tie for 3 hours.. like WHAT?? He's the most prepared investigator I've ever met. He´ll be in the water soon. I'll let you know the date next week. But we had a perfect first lesson with him. It ended up being pure revelation because what we talked about was literally what had brought him to the church in the first place. Wow. Love it.
Apart from that, we´ve been walking a lot this week. We decided to find all the golden “antiguos investigadores” (ancient or old investigators) in the carpeta de area (area folder), as well as finding and talking to a bunch of members we don’t know. It was super cool, but LOTS of walking.
Also I had an amazing personal study that answered a question I've had for a while. Dad sent me a talk called "Candlelight of the Lord" and it was amazing. In the talk was the exact question I've had. It brought me to tears to read the answer, right there in front of me. I immediately thanked Heavenly Father for answering my question. It helped so much.
Life's good. Super great week and I'm hyped for these upcoming weeks-months! Gonna be lit!
Te amo fam.
Ya Inka Kola fiel, Elder Rokovitz
Saying goodbye to my boys, Elder Walker and Elder Houskeeper. They came up from Huaraz and I got to pick them up to take them to the bus station.
Our "friend" we found in the street. He was as drunk as ever and was just passed out right there on the street.
Me and my companion, Elder Torres, saying goodbye to Elder Chapman. His mission is over.
Me and Elder Torres enjoying that good ol' pizza we get at council meetings.
Pizza time during council meeting.
The boys, with Elder Martinez in the back.
Me with one of my favorites, Elder Valesquez.
