I
have been doing well and things are looking so good here in the work of the
Lord. We had 2 baptisms this last week Adela and her son Renzo! They are so
cool and were so happy. A young women came to the baptism (we are teaching her
family) and after said she wanted to be baptized, and so she is preparing for
the 27 of July. Everyone here is preparing for the independence day of Peru. It’s
the 28 of July and they do like marches and things like that! It’s kind of
cool. Everyone here is as well finishing the half year of school and so after
this Friday everyone is going to have time for a couple weeks.
Well we have one investigator that’s really special right now for us,
Lissy. She is 16 and lives with her parents there at the house and then her
cousins, aunt, and uncle live in the second story. The family that lives in the
second story are all members and preparing to go to the Temple. She took
lessons from the missionaries a while ago but now she wants to be baptized
after a while going back to the Catholic Church. But as soon as she told her
mom she wanted to be baptized all Hell broke loose this last week. Her parents
at first said that if in 3 weeks she wanted to be baptized still they will
support her. She came back after 3 weeks and told them that she still wanted to
be baptized but they did not keep their promise. They yelled at her and took
away a lot of her privileges. She was very sad and had no one there with her.
We have been communicating with her through letters. It’s been actually kind of
cool, it’s like a secret love that you try to send love letters and find time
to secretly meet. But it’s that she can have the support she needs. And she
told us even though her parents beat her for the decision that she took, she
now reads her scriptures everyday and is always praying!!! She is very strong;
she wants to partake of the fruit and can´t. How great full us must all be to
have the families we have. I hope I have a wife one day that is strong through
all the trails to come out and say as Lissy wrote us, "one day I will be
able to say to everyone that this Gospel is true!"
Love you
all,
Elder Corbett
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