Week 24 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

¡Oh hermanos, adiós, pues, adiós!

El momento de ir vino ya.

Si guardamos la fe ̮en el gran Dios,

nos veremos aún mas allá.

Más allá, más allá.

¡Oh hermanos, adiós, pues, adiós!

Más allá, más allá,

moraremos con Dios en amor. (Himnos, 88)

Week 23 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

The time is far spent, there is little remaining

To publish glad tidings by sea and by land.

Then hasten, ye heralds, go forward proclaming:

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven´s at hand,

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven´s at hand. (Hymnal, 266)

Week 22 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

Hoo hah, smashers! Elder Woodward here. We´ve had a pretty decent week in Barranco. For starters, Daniel finally got baptized and confirmed! José Luis, our ward mission leader, is a responsible and dedicated leader, and I´m convinced that Daniel´s being left in good hands. Hopefully I can see some of my converts make it to the temple to do the work for their ancestors before I finish my mission. I haven´t been able to take any other converts to the temple so far.

Week 21 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

Hello fans!

Today we had our first interviews with President and Sister Strong! It was a really uplifting experience! What I felt during our first meeting was confirmed: they radiate family fun and Christ-like love. I´m grateful to have such capable leaders.

Week 20 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

¡Habla, causa!

We´ve entered the third week of the transfer! Man, time flies. Last week was interesting. For starters, we found 11 new investigators, breaking our previous record of 9 (which we matched the week before). I guess Elder Perez just has a fire for finding. We honestly could have found more! Sadly, Jack´s dad, who works in the Peruvian National Police, got called to Chiclayo, so Jack moved back with his mom in San Juan de Lurigancho. As far as I know, the missionaries over there still haven´t made contact with him. The good thing is his stepmom is still in the ward, and we´ll be coordinating through her to help him get baptized in San Juan.

Week 19 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

TRANSFERS

have come and gone. I stayed in Barranco (thankfully), but Elder Boyer was transferred to Palao. My new companion is Elder Perez from Guatemala. He´s got about 16 months in the mission, so it´s good to know that there´s plenty of experience and capability between the two of us as we start the transfer.

Week 18 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

TRANSFERS

are about to be announced! Tonight I find out where I´ll spend my last transfer in the mission! My best bet is that I´m staying. It doesn´t make sense for me to go to a new sector for just one transfer and serve a new district. But who knows? Changes are nutty.

Week 17 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

Aight

Well, we´re entering the final countdown of the transfer. This week was incredible! The first good news, as seen above, is that we had baptisms in the ward! Melvin (apparently a girl name; you never know with these Peruvians…) and Deisy got baptized this weekend! I don´t think I ever mentioned them much before, so this probably comes as a bit of a surprise. Deisy got to Peru not long ago from Venezuela. She hopes to bring her kids to Peru soon as well. Melvin is studying gastronomy in a university about a block away from the church. They both rent the same apartment from a ward member, and he was the one who brought them to church for the first time. It was kind of a weird teaching process, but they´re great people and I´m sure they´ll be great ward members. I also sent a picture of the missionaries in the ward, together with our great ward mission leader and faithful ward missionary.

Week 16 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

Greetings, friends! We´ve arrived at Week 5/6 in the transfer. This week´s a little wacky. Today we don´t actually have P-Day because on Thursday we´re going to the temple! So P-Day got moved to Thursday. We also have a multizone conference tomorrow with President and Sister Larson, the assistants, and the zones of Callao and Palao.

Week 15 of Barranco 2, Limatambo

Jola hola! Welcome back to another episode of the mission! We had a great last week! We had four investigators attend church who are now progressing toward a baptismal date! We´ve been working on better church attendance for a while now, so it´s fulfilling to see the fruits of our efforts. We had a total of 9 investigators in our sector who attended church this week! That´s another record-breaker for us in Barranco.