Well the sweet and dreadful transfers happened last week... luckily me and my companion are staying another transfer!! My area here has been a real stick in the neck and frustrating, and brown. Not counting how much of a baby mission it is with food cooked for us for two meals and laundry done and folded by someone else... I've been trying to find the good here in where I'm at. Like the food 
But trying to teach people who don't want to do anything we ask them to, can really getcha. People's agency is important to God, but sometimes I wish I could just get people to keep their promises... But God has a plan, a plan that is so perfect that even his most rebellious and disruptive child cannot stop the joys we have waiting for us after this life. This week was real boring and we have mostly had lessons with people who we are dropping. It's hard to look at your work and say you're doing a good job when there really isn't anything to show. But at least the food is bomb
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This past week I was reading some of my earlier journal entries arriving here in Peru and I came across something that really stuck out to me so
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT: Lately I've been wondering what the point of this life is and why each of us experience challenges. For example why does God let bad things happen to good people and why doesn't he stop bad things from happening. Well, here's my take.
To me the difference between us and God is like a seedling and a grand oak tree. From an outsider's perspective it may seem like neither of these two have any similarities for one is tall in stature and firm in its roots while the other is suseptable to the wind and can be crushed when pleasing. Well If you didn't get it already God is the grand oak tree, and each of us, his seedlings.
At first we have no similarities but somethings extraordinary happens when a gardener roots the seed into the ground. This process of gardening is the beginning step and represents our struggles and trials, like our life here. Too many times people have a short view of what these struggles do for us, this is why President Nelson asked us to "Think Celestial." Why does the gardener push the seed deeper and deeper into the ground, when he was perfectly fine up above. Well because Jesus, our gardener wants us to become grand oak trees to have fruits and joys like God and secondly the seed really wasn't fine where it was. The sun was ready to scorch and burn us to ash.
There is safety in these moments of struggle because we constantly have a gardener who watches us and guides us up towards the sky where the sun has no sting and we can overpower and even use it. But this process requires us to be rooted, uncomfortable and placed in difficult situations. The ground is where we find strength and nutrients. Without this nutrients and strength our trunks would weaken and become shaken to the ground in harsh winds. This is how we stand Tall like Oak Trees from Seedlings of humble beginnings. Our destiny is like that of our father, only if we allow the growth to happen inside this life. En el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen.
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OK so for all my peeps ready to see some flicks of Peru here we Go!!
Little ceasers
with the crew!
Found some really cool looking star wars
house. Shout out to Carter who also found one!!
Day of transfers
out in the field taking some aura flicks with the moon
Found some green
in the area so had to take a picture
Family Home Evening w members!
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