The Swimming Pool of the Dead

Hey all!

Here's a couple updates really quick.

This morning we visited the largest cemetery in the Americas (which is in Nueva Esperanza), where there's this random swimming pool that happens to be owned by a member, so we have keys.

We need prayers for Justo and Nilda more than anything. Still super-duper desirous for the baptism, it's just her cancer and stuff that's keeping them from coming to church.

I love my life, I'm super blessed to be here. This week was a bit rough for getting to teach lessons, but we're in amazing spirits and working super hard.

We got to go to the beach again, to pick up a bunch of trash in Mormon Helping Hands pinnies, it was sweet.

Love you all! Sorry if I haven't responded to your emails.

Elder Child

Re: Life is Wonderful

Oh bahaha the PS is that a bird did its business on my face and my suit the other day. It's a testament to how the Lord changes people and the Spirit is with the missionaries, because I was just able to laugh it off, no problem. I realized afterwards that that probably wouldn't have happened before my calling as a missionary.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:26 PM Elijah Child <elijah.child@missionary.org> wrote:

Hello my dear friends and family,

This week was amazing. Kinda hard, because we walked a ton (which is mission code for we didn't get to teach a lot), but it's so incredible to be a missionary here and get to serve the Lord.

For this week's newsletter we're going to do some highlights on the people we're teaching. Your prayers are always welcome and appreciated; we see miracles out here and I'm sure tons of it is answers to prayers.

Justo and Nilda are married and progressing a ton. They have super strong testimonies and want to get baptized, they're just being held back because they haven't been to church much, because she's got cancer and it makes life a little nuts. They're so cool, he just takes notes every time we teach him a lesson. The last time we met with them we just talked about how the Book of Mormon could improve their marriage (there had been some struggles) and the Spirit was so so strong.

Mirella, Karol, and Lilu are recent finds, a family, and they're wonderful. Progressing fast (Mirella's been to church TWO SUNDAYS STRAIGHT!), and super great. We're working on getting them to read the BoM and keep receiving lessons.

And looks like we're cutting the list there because time is ridiculous here haha

Love you all! I'm really doing wonderful out here :)

Elder Child

Life is Wonderful

Hello my dear friends and family,

This week was amazing. Kinda hard, because we walked a ton (which is mission code for we didn't get to teach a lot), but it's so incredible to be a missionary here and get to serve the Lord.

For this week's newsletter we're going to do some highlights on the people we're teaching. Your prayers are always welcome and appreciated; we see miracles out here and I'm sure tons of it is answers to prayers.

Justo and Nilda are married and progressing a ton. They have super strong testimonies and want to get baptized, they're just being held back because they haven't been to church much, because she's got cancer and it makes life a little nuts. They're so cool, he just takes notes every time we teach him a lesson. The last time we met with them we just talked about how the Book of Mormon could improve their marriage (there had been some struggles) and the Spirit was so so strong.

Mirella, Karol, and Lilu are recent finds, a family, and they're wonderful. Progressing fast (Mirella's been to church TWO SUNDAYS STRAIGHT!), and super great. We're working on getting them to read the BoM and keep receiving lessons.

And looks like we're cutting the list there because time is ridiculous here haha

Love you all! I'm really doing wonderful out here :)

Elder Child

Crazy and Wonderful

Don´t have a ton of time to write, this week has been amazing. We found 11 new people to teach, which is like huge blessings.

Your Peru momnt of the week is that it´s totally normal to pass construction guys on the street throwing bricks to each other. And not just on the ground either, that´s how they get the bricks from the ground to the third floor scaffolding. Also lots of construction guys are drunk.

Annndddd, time. Church is true! This work is wonderful, amazing, and so so so fun. And hard. And worth it. I love my life and all of you guys!

Elder Child

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