Aaron

Feliz año everyone!  I hope your new year was better than mine!  Not that anything was wrong with my new years, just that all the fireworks woke me up in the middle of the night.  Oh, and then my zone leader?  He told us to come to the roof and we had to see all the fireworks.  I was so tired I didn´t want to get out of bed, but I did.  There was a ton!  There were more fireworks than the 4th of July in the states!  The only sad thing was that it seemed like it was a bigger holiday than Christmas!

After watching the fireworks for about 2 minutes we all said happy new year and went back to sleep.  The next day, it was impossible to teach people!  They were either all drunk, or hung over.  Even the members were gone to see family.  We only had a few lessons that day.

The rest of the week I can´t really remember all that well.  I don´t know if I told you this last week but we have a baptismal date with Jhon!  We were also able to talk to his mom a little bit and she seemed very receptive and nice as well.  But yeah for all of you who asked about John Wayne, even the Peruvians say something about that.  Especially our mission leader.  But we are excited!  The only problem is that he needs to attend church every week to be baptized on our set date.  But he came yesterday!  Seems like everything is going good with him!

We had a couple of visits with Mario and Lucia (deaf) this week which were pretty cool!  The first time we went by it wasn´t a cita fija, or a set appointment.  We just went by to see how they were doing and they let us in.  We were able to share a scripture with them and a little bit about prophets.  We talked about 1 Nephi 3:7 and how Nephi was able to recognize that Lehi was a prophet called by God.  They are less actives so they kind of understand the concept but we asked them if they believed we had prophets today and if Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God and they said yes.

Lucia was also feeling sick so we were able to give her a blessing and explain how they work.  They can´t hear anything but she was super excited.  When we left we set up another cita with them when we could come back and watch the story of Joseph Smith.  It had ASL so they could watch it and understand it.  We also remind them of church every week but usually only Mario comes.  This week they both came!  It was really cool.

Also this week was a lot of work.  We helped some Elders move into their new room then the Hermanas into the Elders old room.  It took a little while but we got it done!

That´s about all I can remember about this week.. Thanks for all the support everyone!  Love you all!

Elder Augat