Week #16 - Granados

HOLA

This week, Diego´s baptism fell through. He has issues with his health, and has been worrying about the water affecting him for over a year now. This week we thought that he was feeling good after we shared some scriptures with him, but he ended up getting nervous days before his baptism again. 

I´m sure he has other worries that are on his mind, but we´re hoping and praying that God will bless him with another opportunity to exercise his faith. Being baptized with his illness will only help him strengthen his faith that much more, to see that God has not ceased to be a God of miracles. 

Not this week, but the week before, a member in the ward asked if I could teach a piano class to children ages 6-12 in the ward, since I´m the ward pianist. I accepted, because I love the kids in this ward so much. Pretty much, I was super nervous because I had never taught little kids piano lessons, let alone in Spanish. Luckily, all went well and pretty smooth, until I realized that I totally taught the letters of the notes on the treble clef wrong... haha it was pretty embarrassing. But I corrected myself and helped the kids fix their notes. And to help them memorize the spaces for the notes on the treble and bass clef, we created phrases:

Treble Clef (right hand): Fui A Comprar Estrellas (I went to buy stars)

Bass Clef (left hand): Ayer Cada Enano Gritó (Yesterday every dwarf screamed/yelled) Pretty funny.

Hermana Cahuapaza and I are super excited because we get to visit the temple on the 13th of this month!! Also, we got a call from the Hermana Leaders, saying that because they won´t be at the zone conference this week, they would like us to give the training message for them. As a pretty new missionary who´s still in training, this kind of surprised me, but Hermana C told me she thinks I´m going to be Hermana Leader soon and need the practice haha. I´m really excited for this opportunity and that God is pushing me out of my comfort zone. If He knows I can do this, then I can do this.

We didn´t see Luis Ramos at church this Sunday or the past Sunday which was really sad, because our lesson with him went super good and he showed great interest in attending church. During our weekly planning we talked about him and what we could do, and in that moment, he called us and told us he didn´t attend church becasue he was in Lima visiting his friend whose dad just passed away in a car accident. It was the same friend that was with him when we first met Luis by his motorcycle. While it was super sad to hear this, we told him that we would pray for him and his friend and that all would be okay. We set another day to visit him and he ended up not coming, but we know God will help guide us to visit him again soon.

Tuesday night at around 12:30, I woke up to the creaking of our bunkbed and realized we were experiencing a pretty intense earthquake. Hermana C completely jumped out of bed and left the room, and I just sat up in my bed (I´m in the top bunk) and said: ¨where are you going?!¨ Haha, the earthquake lasted for around 7 seconds, but she was pretty startled. I should´ve been more startled as the foreigner who has practically no experience with earthquakes! It turned out to be a 5.7 earthquake, which is the strongest I´ve felt here.

I love you all, and hope you look for the miracles, big and small, that God blesses you with everyday because of your faith. 

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Hermana Doney