Here's some sweet pics from this park in Huancayo we went to last week!
I dressed up like a Peruvian!
Our weights!
Hey Everyone!!
SO I have some advice about life that I want to give to everyone, and some cool stories but first I'll tell you my funny stories! Yesterday my companion and I were walking down this street and I turn around and I see this sheep BOOKING it!! This thing was so fast!!! About 5 people were chasing after it! So as missionaries we help people, so I started running as fast as I could after it!! Everyone on the street was dying laughing!! Because this thing was faster than me!!!!! But yea after about a 1/2 mile, we finally tackled it to the ground!
This week my companion and I fasted (fasting= where you don't eat food for 24 hrs, but its basically a 24 hr prayer :) but fasting for our investigator E.! She has classes Sunday mornings and in order to be baptized, she needs to come to church 3 times. Her baptismal date is the 21st of September! So this week she was expecting to have class, and we were expecting it too, but yesterday during church SHE showed up!!!! Because her professor got sick or something... or stuck in a rain storm! But yea she made it to church!!! I know God answers prayers through fasting!
This week I really just realized that my mission can help me out for eternity, and for those of you not serving a mission right now, I know this can help you out with your life right now too! The truth is, our life's greatest work, our life's greatest creation is ourselves. Our lives can be our greatest creations in this life. We have so many decisions to make, but in reality our choices are limited- we can either make choices that have the quality of light and good, or of darkness. And with every good decision we make, every decision that consists of light, we can become more like our Savior Jesus Christ, the most perfect man to ever live. With every problem, trial, suffering, contention, temptation, wrong doing, or anything that just stinks that happens to us in this life....we have the opportunity to react (act) with the teachings of Jesus Christ, the attributes and qualities of light (patience, love, charity, hope, honesty, humility, diligence, mercy, integrity). So this is my challenge to you, to use your God given ability to choose, of agency, to just react with the qualities of light and of good! It's the only way we can learn to develop these traits when bad things happen to us, or we are forced to make a decision between bad and good, between light and darkness! I can promise you as you develop the attributes of our Savior Jesus Christ, attributes of patience, love, service, integrity, hope and everything good....your greatest creation in life...will BE YOU!
Anyways! I really hope everyone has a good week! The things I learned about are in this speech/talk called "The Fourth Missionary" (by Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge). It's awesome, and can apply to everyone!
Love you all!
Love Elder Baca!!
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