Nola :D

Everyone.

Wow. its been a great week. 

I have a story.

We have an investigator who is getting ready for baptism. and we are so excited. his name is orlando and his wife is named  eli. Eli is a member but is less active. 

Eli is a very strong woman, but very quiet. Her and Orlando are the poorest family i have seen here in peru. they live with only 4 walls of straw adn have a floor of sand. Eli this last week told us she needed a blessing of health adn so we gave her a blessing and afterwords she told us that she and orlando  had been talking. Elli is really sick and she said the doctors said she needed surgery but she told orlando that they had no money and they needed to trust in the lord. so they made some decisions. Her and Orlando have decided to turn their lives around. they are going to get married, attend church, and pay tithing (even though they have nothing) and orlando decided he wants to be baptized. We are estatic. We are hoping to see the Lords hand in their lives.

I know this story is breif. but i wanted to share it because it is such an example of faith to me. this young couple have nothing but they have decided to give everything to the lord. I wish i show everyone one in the world what miracles are taking place here in the mission feild. 

Im sorry this is so breif but i have one other experience to share.

This week we had our english class. and we have decided as a companionship that we want to strive to teach a gosple principle as well as english every time we have our class. but we want to do it in way not to scare people away.

This week we learned christmas words.

As we were teaching i was struck with an idea. We were approaching the end of the lesson and i told everyone i wanted to share a neat thing about the english language. I explained that the english language is a combination of many different languages.

I then wrote the word "Christmas" on the board and explained that there were two parts to the word. the first "Christ" and the second "mas": "mas" is a spanish word that means in english "more". 

I then began to explain that when one says Christmas in english, they are really saying More of Christ. And that whats Navidad (or Christmas) really is: it is to have more of the spirit of christ in our lives. The room grew silent and the spirit entered. and i could tell what i was saying was begining to sink in.

I hope we all can remember this christmas what christmas really means. More of the spirit of christ.

I love you all

Always turn outward and keep smiling

Elder Bunker

ps i have a new baby sister!! Nola sadie! cant share all the details right now. but heidi can explain more. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D