Atalaya Week 5!

Hola everyone! I'm still alive! My new companion is great! Her name is Hermana Villanueva and she is from Lima, Peru. I was a little worried about having a latina companion because I wasn't sure how well I could communicate in Spanish when I'm not just talking about the gospel. The answer to that is, with a little bit of pointing and gesturing and a sound effect here and there I can generally get my message across. Also pretty much I have the area memorized (well, the parts that we've worked in). So that's pretty great. I was able to get us on the correct colectivo and to Ramos Mejia to the offices just fine the other day and I also got us home and home from San Justo. I did not get us lost on the way to church on Sunday or on the way to the Ciber today. This makes me happy.

This week we did not have a baptism. The Familia Diaz went on vacation until around the 21st then we have stake conference the 28th so they can't be confirmed then so we have to wait until the 5th of March to baptize them! Agghhh! But, one way or another, they'll get there.

On Thursday we were supposed to have correlacion and consejo de barrio at 7 and 7:30. Well, the Bishop's mom was in the hospital so it got cancelled and we had no plan b after 6:30. So, we contacted for about two hours and we passed by the bishop's house because he lives next door to someone we were teaching, so Hna Villanueva got to know him a little before Sunday. We found a lot of great people. One of which is really great. We saw him and it was about 8:45 so we thought okay we'll do this one last contact then off to the pension. We approached him and introduced ourselves and he said "I was just thinking about God". That day he found out that he has some sort of problem with his heart and he hadn't told anyone in his family yet because he didn't want to make his wife and kids sad. He asked if we could come back to teach him on Friday because he didn't want to disturb his family. 

We went back on Friday but he was busy helping his wife finish up the stuff she needed to do before she went back to work. We told him we would come back later and teach him. We passed by last night, but just that day something had happened with his electricity and his brother was over and they were fixing it because they didn't have any lights. He asked where our chapel was and when he could visit there so we left him a targeta with the address of the church and the horario. Later that night, we had walked down his street and then like ten minutes later when we were a few blocks away and we heard someone call out to us behind us we turned around and it was Alejandro. When we had passed by his house eon our way to somewhere else he had a thought come to him that he should give us his number so he found his phone and ran in search for us. He told us he just felt like he should give us his number in case we need to call him and that way we can also make sure he's home and available before we come back to teach him. I'm very glad that in this world where so many don't want to listen to us, there are people like Alejandro who need the message and are being prepared for it.

That's life in Atalaya this week! I love you all! The Gospel's true, God loves you!
-Hermana Cheever