Oh Sweet Service

Hey everyone

So pretty much this week has been crazy busy. we were moving and doing service and hunting investigators and all sorts of crazy business. haha

We just moved pension to another house about 20 minutes walking distance from where we live so now we eat, sleep, and study in the same building... SO NICE... but even though its a lot more convienent we miss the family that has been cooking for us. (if i ever get the chance to come back to peru im going to Morrope and then Cajamarca haha.) I love this family, i would love to take them back to the states and have them as neighbors and freinds forever! haha. 

Our new room is nice, a little bit bigger so we can do excercises now and not be so trapped. our new pension is nice as well, the sister cooks really well, we just need to adjust a little (specially now that we are showering with cold water again...)

This week we did service in an autoshop. One of our investigators works with his brothers on some pretty cool cars and so we helped clean an engine and things like that. They had an old buggy that they had torn apart and they were re-building it again. so we helped out in that. It was really cool.

One of the hardest things about these last few weeks is that we have been losing investigators with baptism goals. for some reason they just disappear and it didnt seem like there was anything we could do. This week however we were findign them all again. and they are all still progressing! I have found that the lord has had a reason for everything, including our trials. 

This week we found one of our investigators who is a youth of 19. so pratically the same age as us. and we have taught him all of the lessons other than the law of chasity. this week when we found him we met his wife (or girlfreind) who is pregnant, and suddenly it became so clear why it was so hard to teach him. We had never thought that he would have a girlfriend or anything like that, for some reason it never crossed our mind, but when we met his wife it just became so clear how we cold help him. He is a great young man with a great desire to learn. He knows the church is true and loves listening to us.

I hope we can help him get married and start him on his way to the temple!

I most likely only have 2 weeks left here in Atahualpa, i am praying that the lord can help me follow through with a few baptisms before i go,

This work is so great and wonderful. Everyday i am more and more amazed at the beauty of everything!

Always turn outward and keep smiling!!

Elder Bunker