Justin had a good week. "Worked a ton. We had about 27 lessons in total. A lot of our investigators finally came to church. Normally we have 5 or 6 come, but his week we had 15! The chapel was full. We now have 12 people progressing towards baptism. And we are baptizing a little nine year girl this Friday (helping the primary grow).
His companion Elder Gil, pronounced Hill, had to go to Lima today to do his visa stuff. " He had to leave at 3 am this morning! So I had to wake up and walk him over there ( it's about a 5 minute walk from the house) and I didn't feel like walking around the dark Peruvian chollo filled streets at 3 am, so I woke Elder Crisanto up and made him come with me. When we walked downstairs to get out of the house it was dark and we kept bumping into people sleeping and the couches. When we were trying to open the front door, we saw mamarina (the crazy grandma) walking towards us in her night gown with a huge 2x4 ready to kill us because she thought we were breaking in or something. She started screaming for her daughters and coming at us with a stick. We got out of the house pretty quick and ran. She is crazy. ( Justin sent us videos of the "crazy grandma" and she really is crazy! She has come after the elders with a saw in her hand in broad daylight! For some reason she does not like the missionaries and always tells them that she wants to kill them. Yikes!) I have been wondering why she is up at 3 am wandering the house. Probably talking to her friends. She sees people. When we got back to the house, she completely barricaded the front door so we couldn't get in. We had to knock until Sonia came and opened it up. This morning when we were leaving, she was sitting in front of the door reading her Book of Mormon in English and had me read a bunch of stuff. She said we "the Mormons" were ruining their families life and taking their beds. Haha. She is a member." I neglected to tell everyone about this lady and Justin's life living under the same roof as her!
At Justin's 6 month mark he noticed he overcame a huge hurdle....... the language barrier! " I realized yesterday that I really don't speak much English at all because no one else knows how. But I don't ever feel that claustrophobic feeling like I can't understand or can't communicate with anyone or get across how I feel or what I say. It just feels like normal now, just talking. I don't really have urges or crave to speak English. So I guess that is a good thing. I guess it means I can communicate fine in Spanish, but of course there is still a long ways to go." Finally, Justin's biggest hurdle and frustration is conquered! When he comes home, he'll have to learn how to speak English without a Spanish accent. As he likes to say, "What a hoot!"
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