HOLA!!! From under the equator!!!
Thank you for the photo’s and emails. I also read one of the Hymns not long ago, “Like Ten Thousand Legions Marching” (#253), very awesome. But your song is sweet too!!! (# 325) I was reading in the book of ancestors stories that was made for me, and there are some awesome stories in there. They had such faith in the Lord!!! We also need to have that faith to follow in their footsteps! There was a quote that I read once that said that we receive as inheritance our name and that to live up to what we receive, we need to make it our own, or something like that, (it was a tradition by me) :) Thanks for the inheritance!!! I’m making it my own!!!
This week has gone well and I am trying to work my hardest here. I know that there are lives and futures to change. We had one baptism!!! Mirko got baptized, and we were waiting for him at 6 in the chapel, when the baptism should have started. But he didn’t show up at 6 or 7 so we were a little worried. So we offered a prayer, and he got there!!! Just goes to show that when we do our part, and then put our faith in the Lord, He will never abandon us. Also, we are teaching a family that is awesome!!!!! On Friday we talked with the father, Rudy, and he told us that he had prayed and that he had received his answer. So we invited him to be baptized and he told us that he had an addiction to playing cards. So we are working with him to help him beat the impulses that he has. They also came as a family to church!!! It was awesome!!!
The other two people that were to be baptized are waiting a little bit longer. Mabel will be baptized on Saturday, and Betty will be changing a few things in her life that are out of order and will be baptized at the end of July.
Winter in Lima is just a little cold and it mists a lot! In Lima we can’t use the motocars, so we walk a lot! We do exchanges if there are members to go with. Right now we haven’t done it often, but are trying to.
Today we are going to the Imagination Park, or Parque de la Imaginacion, here in Lima. I will send you pics this next week.
I know that God is our Father and that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior of mankind. I also know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. Thomas Monson is a prophet of the Lord, and is guiding us today. I also know that this is the only true gospel on the Earth!!! I know that these things are true.
Have an amazing week!!! Hurrah for Israel! Kia Kaha!
Love
Elder GREGORY JOSEPH JOHNSON aka Joe :)
