Week 4 in Ttio, Cusco

It's been raining a ton lately I hope California is getting more sun than we are. This week was very good! We are teaching a 9 year old named Alfio and he will be getting baptized in two weeks by his dad which is super cool. Lots of part member families in Cusco so that's what we are going to start working with, we've been frustrated lately because we could contact all day and not find a single person, so we've decided to not waste time and work more effectively by really pushing members to help us out and give us references, we don't get a ton but it's way more effective than knocking doors when absolutely no one wants to hear anything. 

Cusco is very successful but we work with very rich investigators (I went from the poorest part of the mission to the richest) and lots of people here think they have everything they need in life which is pretty hard. I'm not the type of person to care about numbers and stuff, I just work my hardest but when the numbers don't show it's kind of discouraging. There's an 80 year old man that has been going to church for like 15 years in our ward but hasn't been baptized yet and I was so confused about that so I went up to him and said that lots of people are being baptized the 18th of March and you should be one of them and he was like oh yah sure. I honestly think no one actually asked him if he wanted to be baptized hahaha. Pretty hilarious, he knows the bible from cover to cover and just loves to "bible agree" with us. We call him the Isrealite cause he was a giant white beard and a cane and speaks Quechua English and Spanish. Being able to speak English here is hilarious, the people love the language so everytime they see one of us white missionaries they have to practice and it's probably my favorite thing in the world.

 People here are so accepting, the Cusco flag is a rainbow because this city literally has everyone and tons of languages and different cultures. "La Ciudad por Todos" We live with a family and one of the sons left for his mission in Chile this week and I have never seen parents so sad, Mom I hope you were all good cause oh my gosh that broke my heart. It was weird to see the parents point of view and I honestly think it's harder for them now to see their kids go to a different part of the world, but it's awesome:) Did splits with my homie zone leader Elder Haws on Thursday and we got to see the groundbreaking of the Arequipa Peru temple, Cusco next please:) Hope you all have an awesome week! p.s. we found a lion