Hey all! The biggest events of the week we recorded in a huge freaking video that's still uploading so you should all get that hopefully by the end of the day! The email should send as soon as it's done uploading. I apologize in advance for how dead I am in the video, I was pretty dang tired. We also made some videos for Elder Kammerman's little brother the other week during p-day. For his birthday (Elder Kammerman's brother) he asked Elder Kammerman to buy a candy bar and take a video of him eating it. We decided to go all out and add music and make some dramatic videos of him eating chocolate. I'll send those too in this email because they're super small.
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So the video mostly talks about the adventures of Kishkumen. Luke 5:26 applies because after the climax of the Kishkumen weirdness I read that verse in my studies that night before going to bed and started laughing out loud. The weirdness continues, after noticing one of the poison pellets disappeared we noticed two more disappear this morning and another bunch this afternoon. We have no idea how much poison this thing can take. We also noticed this afternoon that it managed to eat peanut butter off the trap that we tied to the wall without setting it off and managed to take the poison off the bread with peanut butter and just ate the bread and peanut butter. This thing is incredible.
Sadly, other than the kishkumen business, nothing much happened. We weren't able to see just about any of our investigators this week for one reason or another. We haven't had the help from the members this week that we usually do so it made it impossible to do much outside of the actual city of Pichidegua. Also Andrea and Oliver didn't go to church this week, though they said they would the night before, so we'll have to put their date for early next change. The happy thing is that she still looks clear for baptism, so it'll still be soon! I look forward a ton to at least seeing pictures if I'm not here.
Quick update, I don't know if you all remember Javier who we started teaching as soon as I got to Pichidegua. We kept teaching him but weren't able to for the last few weeks and it turns out that he went back to drugs and robbing and was kicked out of his house. His girlfriend's mom, who was in Peru, came back and divorced her husband and kicked her daughter of the house because in the midst of the nightmare Javier and his girlfriend ended up selling almost everything they had (except for the house) for food and drugs. So... that just happened. Goes to show that you can't help everyone! But it's alright, they have their agency.
So this week prayer and scriptures have been really good friends. I guess my testimony this week is how important the basics really are. Even as missionaries we have weeks when we feel pretty dang normal and once we re-learn to have meaningful prayer and scripture study everything really turns around. I know that He really listens to our prayers, and if we pray with faith, promising to act, we can really turn any kind of situation around. I also know that we can receive answers and inspiration from the scriptures. I learned to love the scriptures before my mission, but here they've taken an entirely new dimension for me. They're so great! And that's all I have to say about that.
I love you all! Have a great week! Preach the gospel!
Love
Elder Fox
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