June 25, 2013

This week was another good week. The time
seems to go by faster all the time, and its hard to believe I'm already
almost halfway done with my time in the CCM! We had some pretty cool
experiences this week. The biggest one was that Hermana Wursten and I
got the chance to teach in the TRC, which is basically just teaching a
pretend investigator but getting it filmed to watch later, and you
teach them just once instead of over a period of time like with our
normal progressing investigators. Only for us, it was different...
every once in a while, in the TRC they have actual investigators, and
that's what it was for us! We taught the nonmember friend of one of our
maestra's. Her name was Maria, and the whole experience was incredible.
She is a Catholic and has a lot of faith, so we decided to talk to her
about the Restoration so she would understand why a new church is
necessary, since she already believes that God loves her and
everything like that. The lesson was a little difficult because she
speaks a lot faster than our teachers, and she didn't understand things
as easily as our teachers do, but that makes a lot of sense and was a
lot more real. But the coolest part was what Hermana Elizabeth told us
after. She said that even though Maria didn't understand everything we
told her, she felt the Spirit pretty strongly and felt very confident
that what we said was true. It was incredible to hear that, and she is
going to be taking real lessons from missionaries in the field! I'm so
excited for her. That was really the biggest news of the week, but
other than that, life in the CCM is still great!

 As far as we know, all eight of us going to Santa Cruz are actually going to Santa
Cruz and not Santa Cruz north. Hermana Wursten is part of
that group. Hopefully that's actually the way it turns out!  

We have new roommates this week. There are only two of them, and they are both
English speaking instead of Latino, which is too bad because having Latino
roommates helps a lot with the Spanish, but they are both nice girls,
so its fun to have them with us. Oh, and did you guys get to watch the
Worldwide Training thing from the church? It was SO COOL! And they had
a ward from Peru represented, so that was so much fun. But really, as
they were announcing some changes to the way missionary work is going
to be run, and as they were really emphasizing the important role that
members have in missionary work, I felt like it was all just so
inspiring. The Spirit was so strong, and I know that this work is
truly the work of the Lord, and it is progressing quickly as He is
pushing a great wave of missionary work, not only with full time
missionaries, but also with members. So join in this work! Find people
for the missionaries to teach! Catch the wave, as Russell M. Nelson
likes to say.  

Elder Christofferson is coming to Lima this
weekend! He will actually be in the church building right next to us
helping with the creation of the 100th stake in Peru, but
unfortunately he wont be coming to the CCM. Apparently his schedule
is just too busy. What a shame.

Love you all!