November 20, 2017 – Week 60!

This week has been great! I don't have tons of time, so I hope I get everything in!

Well, to start out, yesterday we had a great day of assistance, because a young man came to church with us for the first time! He had heard the missionaries before, and he told us directly that he wanted to get baptized! He came to church as well, and stayed for all 3 hours. It will be awesome to keep teaching him! Jarol is his name.

We also have been teaching a family that is a part member family. The parents are less active and the kids aren't baptized. We had a great lesson with them, and it was all thanks to a cousin who is a member and came 3 hours in car to help the kids go to church in the morning and give us the reference! We had a really spiritual lesson yesterday with them, and I feel that with guidance from the spirit, we can help the family to be sealed later on in the temple! It would be so amazing! Baptism comes first though for the kids, so it will be a goal to help them take that first step!

We also participated as missionaries in a Face to Face for Young Single Adults yesterday for the 1st time. Usually missionaries don't go to those, but it was great to be able to go! I saw SO MANY PEOPLE from the 1st 2 wards here in the mission, and was able to say hi to many of them! It was such a great emotional feeling to see them. It's like seeing friends after so long, even though it's only been a month or so. The Face to Face was great too. So much great counsel and help from Elder Oaks and Ballard. Even though it was a broadcast from Utah State, the counsel given helped us and our investigators! Questions there answer questions here. That's the great thing about the gospel. It's a worldwide help. There is no exclusion whatsoever!

We've also been helping our investigator Mayri progress towards baptism. We've had to move the baptism for a few weeks in advance, but I know that when the time comes, she'll be very prepared to enter in the waters of baptism!

This week was great too because it was a week of new investigators! We were able to teach 14 new investigators this week. The goal was 10. It was honestly the most amount of new investigators that I've had in a week in all of my mission! Now the trick is writing the names down and information about the lesson, and being diligent, so that the information isn't lost and these 14 people can keep progressing. It's difficult, and it's on thing I'm trying to get better with (memorizing and remembering names), but it's possible! The help and guidance of the spirit is real and it's necessary on a mission (and after as well).

Oh yeah, and Peru classified and is going to play in the World Cup next year, and I won't be able to watch it, but GO PERU! :P

Also, this week we saw a MotoTaxi that almost fell over from turning a corner too fast. But it didn't fall, and it just looked cool haha.

It's the last week of the transfer this week. Time has flied so fast. I hope that this next transfer will bring good results as well, even if my companion is transferred (which I hope doesn't happen because he's awesome!). 

Always follow the guidance of the spirit. Stand ye in Holy places, and be not moved. It's great advice we all can apply.

This Friday the Church will release a new video for #LightTheWorld, so I invite all of you to share it with friends and family! Think of ways you can Light the World this Christmas season and serve others in a Christlike manner!

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Bruner

a pic of the sun on one side and the clouds and not as clean air on the other

PIZZA RAUL. The missionary tradition in Lima Central

With the Capuñai family

With the Huayta family

after the face-to-face event in IRU (instituto religioso universitario or something like that, in front of my last sector. so thats why so many people i knew were there)