My first month and a half has come to end here in Peru. But i will continue to
serve here in Viña con Elder Estrada, so i am super happy right now. Also, we
have been blessed this week with a baptims!
We have been teaching Maria Reyes for almost a month now, and she has always
been very interested in the gospel, but her husband really isn´t. He says that
he wants to change but hasnt done anything to change. We had given them the
invitation to be baptized on saturday, but Maria said that she wanted to be
baptized with her husband so we thought that the new date would be on the 20th.
Well, this week we met with her and she had been focused on saturday this whole
time! So we rushed to teach her all the principles so she could be baptized. We
were able to teach everything and get her to the stake center on saturday for
her baptism. I had the glorious opportunity to baptize her. After i baptized
her she gave me a big hug and couldnt stop saying hermano. It was such a
beautiful moment for all of us.
She was then confirmed on sunday, and had the biggest grin on her face the whole
day.
We have had some fun here with all the work. Last week we went to a giant park
that had bumper carts and these cool houses. We spent part of the day taking
eachother out on the carts and then enjoyed lunch. Which was my first hamburger
in a long while. It had an egg, and french fries on it, but i didn´t care, i
was super hungry. And it was GOOD!
Also, i am becoming more friendly and accepted by the members in the ward. They
are actually trying to learn my name and its hilarious. Most people call me
elder Wafer. Eh.....i guess its close enough haha. I told them that is
lavarquemar in spanish, so i think that they are taking that one instead of
wafer! Also, i had the opportunity to be thrown out of my first house on
wednesday. Elder Palomino and I were teaching some ladies in there house. They
allowed us in and we began the lesson. We got all the way up to prophets in the
first lesson, when a man walked through the front door. He looked at us and said ¨Who invited you in here!?!?! GET OUT!¨ So
we grabbed our stuff and headed for the door. He continued to yell certain
things at us. My favorite was when he said that i was trying to steal his niece
and take her to america. That was funny, and i started to laugh a little bit.
But we just laughed all the way down the street from it.
Things have been great, and we only see a bright dawn ahead of us. Thank you all
for your letters and love. Kara i got your package and thank you for the letter
and cookies. They are GOOD!

I love you all,
Elder Washburn