So it´s been a really interesting week.
Monday-We were playing soccer at the chapel and then elder Lafleur went with one of the zone leaders to look for a ping pong ball. In their colectivo, the driver drove a redlight, and then 2 blocks later, an angry man that was at the interseccion cut off the colectivo and got out of his truck with a metal bar and started wacking in the windows and yelling wordy dirds. Elder Lafleur and Elder Valencia were in the back and are both perfectly fine.
Thursday evening, we did exchanges with the zone leaders. I went with Elder Gomez. We really don´t have much going on in our area, but we started asking for referrals from everybody and quickly found a lot of really cool people that are ready to let us in and listen! So we´ve been applying that better and finding lots of people!
Sunday morning I went with elder Gomez to visit one of the most inactive people i´ve ever met. He was baptized several years ago, and since then, went inactive, started going to another church and is now in the process of creating his own church. So we went to visit him, and he was sitting out with another pastor friend chilling and they greeted us really well. They are both super nice. Sat down to talk, and asked if we could share something and start with a prayer, they said ´"oh yes a prayer would be great, you guys do the first one and then we´ll do the second when you leave, and nothing weird, just a normal prayer." So we did and then we asked a few questions to see their idea of authority and the gift of tongues. It was really interesting. We had very little time and they talked a lot so we weren´t able to share much, but to finish they wanted to give us a blessing, so we stood up with them, and the pastor friend held out his hands and told us to put our hands in his, close his eyes, and repeat the words he said. I looked at elder Gomez not knowing if we should. and then we did and what we repeated wasn´t weird but i don´t remember what he said, then he started talking a couple sentences in the gift of tongues and a couple sentences in spanish and was probably going on for about 5 minutes, then he let go of elder gomez´s hand and came over to me. Put a hand on my chest and a hand on my back and started pushing me forward and backward in a circle and kept saying stuff. Then he went over to Elder Gomez, put his hands on each side of his head and then blessed his legs. Then all of a sudden it was over and we were walking out. Way interesting. Elder Gomez pointed out that the things of God are simple and plain. It was a really interesting experience. When we got home for weekly planning, our companions each gave us blessings of strength.
On Friday to saturday morning i did intercambios with elder Fernandez in ugarteche. It was good to go over and see how things are there. They are working well with the members. There are several returned sister missionaries that help to make sure they work hard haha.
On saturday, we went to a peruvian barrio and went to contact a reference and the man there let us in. and they were just then starting a class of Catakeses (catholic sundayschool) with two ladies that had come from different parts of town. One of the ladies was really quiet and reserved and the other was really friendly, we started talking with them. The friendly was a profesor of music and had brought a tiny little electric piano with her to play. I asked her if i could see it and played a little bit of beethovens pathetique which she liked. So we were conversing and getting to know the young couples that had come and the ladies that were there to teach and then the quiet lady started talking, and in a fairly respectful way told us she had seen a big lack of respect in mormons before and asking us why we come from other countries to disturb the culture that has been there so long. She didn´t even think we were Christians. So we had the opportunity to correct her mispercepcions, and then we shared a quick scripture with them thanked them for their time and hospitality and went on our way, as we were leaving the guy we talked to at first asked us to come back next saturday earlier.
Last night we went back to the peruvian barrio and talked with toonnnnns of people and asked everybody for references. We found lots of people and had a lessons with a lady, Senora pancha that we met. She is way cool and we´ll be going back to teach her later this week.
So it´s been a fairly crazy week, but great all the same. We are working, hoping and praying to be teaching a lot more this week. I love it here! Wow, and I´m so grateful to my parents and all of you for you´re prayers, love and support!
Love,
Elder Fullmer
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