week 10/104


















Machetes,

This week I had the opportunity to provide some more service.  This time with machetes! Everyone here cuts their lawn with machetes. It's a lot of bending over and being in the sun. Because it is so sunny here I got a little red.
New food I had the opportunity to eat this week is called papa rellena.  It's chunks of chicken or beef wrapped in mashed potatoes then deep fried.  It's pretty good.

This week I started talking with the motokar drivers.  It's pretty easy but they all try to charge me more because I'm white, pero esta bien (but it's ok).  It's probably better that I don't understand what they say after I ask them to take us for 2 soles. 

This week I changed companions for a day which was pretty cool, but because my area is the biggest in my zone I was a little worried we would get lost. It turned out fine.  Our area is probably 7km by 7km I'll have an exact number soon, but it's really big.

This week we taught 2 families who are so ready to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ in their life.  The one family want us to come and teach them every day, and the other family loves having us teach them.  The husband actually stopped us on the street and told us to come to his place and teach his family.  Both families are very willing to make the necessary changes in their life to better follow Christ and prepare for baptism.

This weeks scripture is Helaman 5:12
And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

With the help of Christ in our life we can do all things and anything that seems impossible can be done through Him.

I miss you all and wish you the very best

este es otro dia en el paraiso (This is another day in paradise)

Elder Porowski

Location: Pucallpa, Peru

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