¡Hola a Todos! (Hello
All!)
Our work continues…but we don’t have anything really
out-of-the-ordinary to report…so this post will be short!
On Sunday evening we were able to watch the recent “Sharing
the Gospel” world-wide broadcast over Zoom with the missionaries in Lima. It
was fantastic! Since we knew our Zoom broadcast was going to be translated to
Spanish, we listened to the broadcast earlier in the day in English … so I
(LeAnn) could understand what was being said. Yes, I’m still struggling to
understand Spanish … and yes, sometimes I want to curl up in a ball and rock
back and forth … but then I remember my kids (and siblings) who learned Spanish
(or another language) for their missions, and they didn’t have a built-in
translator (Lane and Google Translate) and they somehow managed. So we press
on.
We’ve been quite curious about Peru’s recent presidential
election (June 6) but it looks like the results are still being contested. So
no news there yet. We are hearing reports of some political demonstrations …
hopefully things will calm down once the new president is announced.
In my scripture reading this week I came upon this passage
in the Book of Mormon which sums up nicely some of the most basic reasons we
send missionaries out to spread the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ:
“ … that it might go forth throughout all the land, that …
people might be convinced … that they were all brethren, and that they ought
not to murder, nor to plunder, nor to steal, nor to commit adultery, nor to
commit any manner of wickedness.” (Alma 23:3)
¡Que tengan una semana
súper fantástica! (Have a super fantastic week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
Working with the missionaries!
Teaching English with one, and coordinating missionary housing issues with the other!
We remember when Alden and Jaron did the same thing when Alden gave his homecoming report at the same meeting that Jaron gave his farewell -- years ago!