August 13, 2018 (Week 45)

We've been having a good time in all the pueblitos out here.  It is quite interesting to see the church out here, of course the church is the same and always true in whatever part of the world, but the people are sometimes interesting...

For instance we arrived at one of our food appointments to find the member coming back from the veterinary clinic with his sick dog, but later his dog began to get better and he explained to us how he knew he couldn't give it a blessing, because he didn't yet have the Melchizedek priesthood, but instead he fasted for three hours and that seemed to do the trick.

Another member told us he built an altar where he offered sacrifices in the form of his artwork he does of Jesus; I often wonder how they come up with some of these things.  Anyways, in other news we've had a good miracle with another family of investigators; we've been teaching Hermana Kenia for about a month and she loves the Book of Mormon, but her husband was never there in the appointments.  But on Friday he approached us asking how god could help him with his health and work problems, and we were able to teach him how the Book of Mormon can help him with all of those things, and now we are able to teach the whole family together and they are much more willing to progress!

We've also had a good zone conference where we concentrated on the power of the Book of Mormon and the three different parables of the lost sheep, the lost money, and the prodigal son and how they apply with less actives and old investigators, very very powerful!

Anyways we're just chugging along down here, thanks for all the love and letting me know how each of you guys are doing!

-Elder Varney