Hey
everybody!
This week was super awesome, but super crazy! I wasn't able to
write yesterday because we showed up to the Internet place, tried logging on
the email site, but the site wouldn't load. Everything else loaded, just not the
email service, so that ended our pday quite lovely. The entire week was a long
hunt for a new house for a chapel, and-or a new room for us to live in. But
after a week long hunt, we have yet to find anything, the hunt goes on.
One thing I found today in my personal study is D&C 90:24¨Search
diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together
for your good,...¨. I liked it because if we believe and have the faith things
will work out for our good. Things wont be perfect, we wont just receive
everything we need right then. But with our faith things will pass, even hard
things for our good. So if something doesn't go your way, if you don't get what
you need, its not because God doesn't love you but rather, he is helping you,
learn, grow, and everything is for your good. Just like this week we have been
praying hard, working hard, to find a new chapel or house. But after 7 days of
hard work we found nothing, sure its not the result we wanted but its what the Lord needed for us. So keep your head high, search diligently, pray always, and
believe things will work out!
Also this Sunday the family group of Pueblo Nuevo
officially became the Branch Pueblo Nuevo. We are officially part of the
church!! It was super awesome, our mission president came out with the district
president. It was a super awesome experience. There is still along way to go
for the branch but its super exciting!!!
But the week started off good, Tuesday
morning when my companion and I decided to go by some breakfast. We left the
room, went to the store next door, came back and then realized that we forgot
the keys inside our room. But it was ok because our family group leader has a
spare key. So we called him, and he happened to bring the spare key to his work,
so we had no way to get into our room through the door. After some thinking
and processing we went to a member who had a Peruvian ladder, and we climbed up
through our second story window and got in, wasn't sketchy at all.
Another fun
room story, we got back to our room one night, and we found an intruder, a bat
had found his way into our room and couldn't find his way out... Another funny
story of the week is that while my companion was showering I was getting ready
and said a prayer, when I heard the phone start ringing in my pocket. I just
thought it was our district leader and that it wasn't important so I let it ring
through and continued my prayer. But when I finished I looked at who called us
and it was our mission president, I let him go to voicemail.
This week we were
teaching a new investigator who we had just found and we gave him a Book of
Mormon, and told us he didn't have time to read it because he had so many other
scriptures and books to read, then he pointed over to his desk where he had all
the books. But it was literally only the bible. He had soooo many books... 1 ok. Peru also had finals this week, and won both of them. They haven't
lost a game in over 25 games, so they are looking really good going into the
world cup, our hopes are high, Russia here we come!
My companion also went
tshirt shopping this week, so we go into the store, and ask them if they have
any shirts in XL, they bring some out, my companion holds it up to see the
size, and it looks small so he looks at the tag and it says Large. So he
mentions it to the lady that is not an XL because it says its a large. She then
tells us no that's the brand name and that is actually an XL. Then we asked her
how much it cost- she looked at us started saying 30 but cut herself off and
told us 45. Jacking up her price because we were gringos, we left and will
never return.
We also narrowly escaped a very vicious dog, for no reason it
started growling, then full speed just came running at us trying to bite us. I think I ran faster than Usan Bolt, we will never walk down that same street
where the dog lives. Then yesterday we went to a beach called La Grama. Its a
very rocky beach it was super fun, had adventures as a zone. That's about it, it
was the very best week ever!!
Love,
Elder Luke Gruber
OUR NEW BRANCH
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