I’m really, really, REALLY sorry!
This marks three weeks that I haven’t written anything actually interesting to let you all know what’s going on. But now that I’ve stopped fighting informes and things like that I’ll finally have some time! So let’s see… What’s happened lately?…
First, I guess I must be super trunky because I’ve had three dreams about going home so far! In each one of the dreams I always feel like it’s a little weird that I’m home, but I never know why until I wake up! The worst part is that these are the only dreams that I seem to be able to remember! (Normally I don’t remember anything from my dreams!)
On April 28 we had an actividad misional which we called La Noche de Frutas (Fruit Night)! As the name implies, we invited everyone to bring a fruit (and because Peru has so much variety, there were a lot of different ones!) and that was their entrance ticket. From there we took the fruits and we had some games for them to play, like one where everyone is at a fiesta and there’s one person leading the fiesta (as in the leader does something and everyone else does the same thing). There’s someone who goes outside before the “fiesta” starts and when they come back in they have to guess who’s the leader. There were others, like the classic “Ensalada de Frutas”, where everyone has a fruit name and whenever the fruit is said, everyone with this fruit name has to switch chairs with someone else. There’s one person in the middle who tries to steal a chair every time a fruit name is called. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pictures of the games– my companion and I were too stressed about why none of our investigators showed up!– but I got a picture of the fruit salad we made with all the fruit the people brought (and my companion preparing to eat it):
Now, why a “Noche de Frutas”? Well, the objective was to explain about another fruit that we have, one that the ancient inhabitants of the Americas used in their daily lives for hundreds of years. It’s first recorded use was around 500 B.C. and it’s liked by many but depends on the person. This fruit is…
… The Book of Mormon! (Or, because I’m in Perú, El Libro de Mormón!)
The Book of Mormon is the fruit of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s the evidence that Joseph Smith, the one who translated it, was a prophet of God and that the Church is true. It helps us to understand the Bible because they were both written by ancient prophets, but on different sides of the world. (If only more investigators had shown up to learn about it!)
… And then I’ve run out of time AGAIN! I’ll keep writing more next week!
— Elder Schroeder