Week 39, Puerto, Peru

Hi Mom, 

Glad things are going good.  Cara is doing great, and that's sweet Brennan is progressing in scouts.   Well it sound like things are going to change a lot back home during this year - we're already in February!  Oh yeah, that picture of the skulls is from a zoo we went to. Things are going good down here.   Tomorrow is the start of a new change (every 6 weeks) and I'm going to stay with my companion.   I'm feeling that we're going to have a lot of success this change, so I'm really going to work hard.   This last change we were able to help some less active families and get some new investigators that we're praying will feel and decide that they need to be baptized. I'm pretty sure this will be my last change here in Puerto so I want to leave my sector a lot better than I recieved it.   This week we a had a few experiences that I'll always remember!   First:  One of the families we're teaching, (we were teaching the mom, Inocencia and the daughter, and the mom was telling us about a lot of stuff that has happened in her life and things lately, and my companion and I both felt that we should ask her if she wanted a priesthood blessing, so we asked, she said yes.  When we went to give her the blessing (oh yeah, were in the front room) this way scary,
back from the dead looking lady - like seriously she looked like she just left the set of a scary movie -  walked up to the front door and was staring at us through a hole -  just standing there watching, pretty earie, and the dog, which never barks or anything freaked out, and jumped through another hole in the front door and scared her away, so that was crazy. 

Second:   After we gave her the blessing we went to her neighbor's house because she told us that someone in their family was really sick, so we should go.  It was just the mom and her son (the mom is about 60 years old and the son 28) and her son was laying in the front room on a bed, seriously looking like he was going to die, just lying there very skinny,  no will for anything.  We started to talk to them to find out what happened, and I seriously got one of the strongest impressions I've had to give someone
a blessing.  We told the mom that we are representitives of Jesus Christ, and that we have the authority to bless people through the power of God and that through their faith and the will of God they can be healed.  We asked her if she would want us to give her son a blessing, and she said yes.  We asked her son Yhon (John) if he has faith in Christ and he said yes.  We gave him a blessing, and since then he's been improving in his health!   That was an experience I'll always remember.  I hope we can keep visiting them,
so they can recieve the gospel.  I'm out of time.   Love you guys.  Talk to you next week!!