Hello
family!
This
week as been awesome here in the good old ccm! This week as been really busy so
i hope i can get everyhting that i want to say in this email. yeah things have
been going great around here. classes till 9 and a lot of spanish study and
personal study! i absoultely love personal study! my soul truely hungers for
the words of christ! it is amazing. i am already half way through the book of
mormon!! i dont think i have ever read this fast before! but i love the stories
and have learned sooooo much new things in those holy pages! it anyone does not
have a testimony of the book of mormon....get it now! it will truely bless your
lives and will bring happiness and much joy! We have been playing lots of
fútbol here and ultimate frisbee. yes my skills in both are improving each day!
haaha the lations sure put up a good fight in the soccer games and in frisbee i
dont think i have ever played a more competitive game with the missionaires!
hahah it is way fun! the spanish here is coming along just fine! i am able to
talk a ton and understanding more and more each day! WE have had progressing
investigators here in the ccm and elder ellsworth and i teach it all in
spanish! it is so cool....i am going to try and hit the highlights from this
last week really fast! alright one of the best if not the best experience this
last week happened on saturday! we got to go proselyting for reals! we headed
out to Lima East into the ghettos hahaah. the driving here is absoultely the
craziest thing i have ever seen! lanes and lines dont mean anything and
honestly driving around here is who has the most guts. hahaha i couldnt drive
here at all! we got dropped off at the church building there and then got
assigned our areas. elder ellsworth and i were accompanied by our teacher
hermano porras and we went knocking door to door. haha i dont think i have ever
seen more dogs in my life! haha they were everywhere! As we were knocking doors
we got to teach a lady about the BOM and the prophet jose smith adn the
restoration! she didnt seem that intesested but she told us she would call us
later..idk. but one experience that really hit me and really has strenghtend my
testimony even more was when we got to teach a young man named Diego. We
knocked on this door like 4 times and as we were leaving this 16 year old kid
comes out and asks what we are doing. my first impressions of him were i
thought he was just going to tell us to go away but as we introduced ourselfs
and we started talking with him we asked him if he had any questions regarding
religion. I testify that this son of god was spiritually prepared to meet us
missionaries. his question was so sincere and innocent that it made me cry
later just thinking about it but he asked...so i always hear about god the
father and jesus christ but do i have a heavenly mother?....we bore testimony
to him that he did and we got to teach him aobut the BOM and the restoration of
the gospel. we also touched on prophets too. my perception of this innocent 16
year kid changed instantaniously and i wanted nothing for him than for him to come
unto Chirst and receive salvation! I absoultely love this people down here! and
i have only been out 2 weeks. all i wanted to do was share testimony with
everyone! and that is exactly what elder ellsworth and i did. we would start
out the conversations and go as far as we could with them and then hermano
porras would take over for a little bit and then we would finsih them and bear
testimony. i have never been so happy! except for when we beat red mnt. in
football. hahah jk actually i found an elder here who went to red mnt. he just
got here so we are getting along just fine! exchanging stories and such! small
world! anyways i have learned so much about this people and this gospel. for
this is truely gods work and he has called me here to peru to preach unto this
people so that they may be brought into his fold. this people here is
remarkable. for whether they agree with your message or not they will hear you
out and that allows the spirit to work on them. yeah we did have a lot of doors
slammed in our faces but we got to share this message with some amazing
individuals. haaha everyone here is catholic! haha but thats alright. President
alison...one counsel in the branch presidency here said that because everyone
is catholic here... we wont be changing their religion...we will be building
upon it and improving it. i really hope something comes from our labors that
one day! i also testify the gift of tounges is real. for on saturday as i bore
my testimony with those humble people i was using words that i have never even
heared or thought of before! as you open your mouth the lord WILL fill it. god
is truely mindful of our needs and the desires of our hearts. what a neat and
wonderful experience! i just want to get into the field so bad!! On sunday we
got to listen to devotionals from elder richard g scott and elder holland. I
felt the spirit so strong!! i love listening to our prophets speak! we had a
very neat experience here. some of the elders here are really struggeling with
the spnaish and getting really discouraged and they asked for blessing from
their comps. it was such a spiritual experience and such beautiful blessings
were given! i love feeling the spirit like this! yesterday i got to play with
sister cardon in our duet. we are playing prelude and a special musical number
which will be great! we are playing how great though art! such a pretty
arrangement! mom this is specifically from sis cardon....thank you so much for
making weston play the violin. i loved playing with him!....anyways. Today for
pday we got to go to the temple!!! it was so awesome! the temple here is very
small but goregous! it was need to do everything in spanish!! loved it! we got
a little time to go and shop around for some stuff which is always fun!
especially here in peru! haha i feel bad for those who are in provo! haha jk.
well i am so glad everything is going so well at home! keep the letters coming!
mail here is so wonderfuli just want to share my testimony with you guys. that
i know my savior lives. this is is gospel and i am called here for a reason.
all i desire is to teach this poeple the restored gospel of jesus chirst more
than anything in the world. i want to learn spanish so that i may speak to them
and allow the spirit to touch their hearts. i pray that god will allow me to
share my testimony of jesus christ with everyone that i meet or see! i also
desire that all my brothers and sisters come unto christ and recieve a
remission of their sins through the atonemnet of jesus christ! i love this
people and i will go forth and do his work with all my might mind and strength!
i
love you all so much. tell all those who wrote me things Thank you so much!!! i
loved it.
till
next week...
Elder
Birtcher
The
Lords servant amongst the Lamanites
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