Aaron

Hey everyone!  I hope you are all doing well!  This past week was crazy for me!  But it was awesome as always.  We had a lot going on such as finding new investigators and our last interviews with President Harbertson!  It was a full week!

First off the interviews with president.  Before we went into our interviews, he talked with all of us in general.  He talked about a bridge that is pretty close to Cusco called ´´Qeswachaka´´.  If you look at the picture (attatched) it has four big ropes made of straw.  He compared each one of these to the motto of the mission which is Vaya SOLO (go alone).  It doesn`t really work in English so that`s why I wrote it in Spanish.  But each letter means something in SOLO.  Servicio, oración, leer, y obediencia (Service, Prayer, Read (Scriptures), and Obedience).  He said that we need each one of these to help sustain us in our lives.  He also compared the river to our lives so that with these four things, we can sustain ourselves to get accross life.  But not only that, he also compared the two big ropes that are up higher that we can hold onto to keep ourselves balanced.  He said that we need to hold on to the word of God and our covenents to keep us balanced.  It was an awesome conference.

I`m a little sad to see the mission president leave because he has helped me a ton but I`m excited to see how I can work with the new mission president.

Apart from that we found this girl called Shami.  She is 18 and from Sandia (jungle).  She had a friend that left on the mission recently this past week in Puno and he had introduced her to the church inically.  When she moved to Juliaca for studies, she found a church and luckily that day we were having our interviews so we were all in the same chapel.  She understands a lot and is really prepared for baptism.  She is really open and loves to hear more about the gospel.

This week was awesome but there is always room for improvement!  I look forward to working hard this week!  Thanks for everything!  I love you all!  Hasta Vernos...