Hola,
Hope everyone had a great week! As I say every week, this past week was
packed with work! Elder Uceda (from the Quorum of the 70) landed yesterday and
today we are having some meetings with him. We have almost all of the
missionaries here in Cusco which was a whole lot of work for me but overall
everything is working out as planned. We are really excited to have him here
and it was awesome to meet him personally.
Other than his visit I want tell you about some exciting news for us.
So we have been working super hard with changes this past week and literally
changes are the busiest time for us. But, my Companion, Elder Ordoñez, and I are always super
determined to get out and teach. Although it was difficult we got out as much
as we could and worked as hard as we possibly could. At the start of July we
had some pretty solid investigators but not a whole ton of them. So throughout
the past month we have been finding and teaching so many new people. When we
started July we put of goal of getting at least 1 person ready for baptism by
the end of the month and have been striving to complete our goal. Though we are
teaching families and so many different people right now, no one has progressed
to a point to where we have actually felt it was necessary to set a baptismal date
yet. With the month ending we have been hoping to get at least someone ready.
Praying each day and striving our hardest, we found a new investigator this
past week names Julio. Julio is 19 years old and has recently moved into our
area from another city in Perú and has had a really hard life. When we met him,
he told us how happy he was to talk to someone because he has felt so lonely
the past while and has passed so many struggles in his life including being
essentially kicked out of the house.
So after living on his own for the past while, we contacted him and had
a visit with him. The visit with him was honestly one of the best I have had in
the mission. The Spirit was powerful as we testified to him that he never
needed to feel alone because the most perfect man had been left alone to suffer
for him so that he didn’t need to feel that. With tears in his eyes he accepted
to message of the Restoration and all that we taught him. At the end of the
visit as we closed with our testimonies, we felt the strong prompting to invite
him to be baptized. Not more than a second after we asked him, he immediately
accepted the invitation and said he would do all he can to learn the things we
are going to teach. We put a baptismal date for the 19th of August and are planning
on working as hard as we can with prayer and fasting to prepare him. We are so
grateful to the Lord for guiding him to us and literally blessing us with the
ability to complete our goal for the month of July at the very end of the
month. The interesting thing is that in Spanish the name Julio literally
translates and means July in English, which I find very interesting.
Anyway other than that, this past week was honestly packed with
meetings with President Herrera and just trying to work every second possible.
We had our P-day on Saturday again because we have the Conference with Elder
Uceda today so we decided to just take the time and play some sports. President
Herrera and his Wife were in the office getting things ready for the Conference
and just doing various things so we played some sports with his daughters and I
even taught his girls how to dribble a basketball! They are Super Cute and love
my ATM tie, I don’t know if you remember seeing pictures of that from a while
ago but President Herrera lets me wear it because of my job and his girls love
the tie hahaha. They always come up and pull the money out of it and they are
always sad when they come to office and I am not wearing it hahaha!
In closing I just want to bear Testimony of the reality and the
Divinity of the Savior. As mortal people we cannot fully comprehend how large
his work is. Sometimes we think we understand his plan pretty well but let me
tell you that we can barely grasp it. The Lord knows why we go through certain
things and why things can’t go as we always want them to go. I love him and
know that he is preparing me more each day not only for those that I will
Teach, the Companions I will have, but also preparing me for a future that I
don’t even know yet. I Testify that this work is a reality and that each day it
changes me for the better.
Love,
Elder Fawcett
Teaching President and Sister Herrera's Girls to Play Basketball!!!
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