Aaron

Hey everyone!  I can´t believe that I had just passed my last Christmas here in Perú!  I hope you all had a merry Christmas and were able to remember why we celebrate this time of year.  This Christmas I had a good time talking to my family and also watching the other Elders talk to their family.  And for all of them it was their first Christmas!  How crazy...

This week wasn´t super eventful due to the parties and the festivals.  It was a little bit harder to find people with time on their hands.  A lot of people traveled, others had visiters so it was a little hard to get to people.  We did have a few lessons however.

One of which we talked with the guy that fell through on his baptism..  He said that he felt that he was taking it too fast and he was scared to sin and commit errors after being baptized and wanted to be baptized within 5 years.  We explained to him that even if he got baptized in 5 years, he would still make errors afterward, so we explained the sacrament and the atonement as well.  Afterward, we put another date for Janurary and he accepted.  We will be working with him a lot this week.

The other Elders in my district had a baptism this week which was pretty good.  It´s always good to have a baptism in the ward.

Yesterday we had a meeting with all the leaders of the stake talking about goals and achievments of December and Janurary.  Our ward had the highest numbers for the month of December which was pretty cool.  It always seems that the ward I´m in is the example ward.  They even talked about a goal to have this ward turn into a stake.  I don´t know how long it will be for that, but it will be a while.

That´s about it this week.  Sorry there isn´t a whole lot.  There will be a lot more this coming week I think.  The only holiday is New Years and that´s pretty big here but we will get through it.  Thanks as always for all your support and love! Love you all!