Wouldn't ya know. Milagros

This is probably why the area split, honestly.

As a result of me and my comp working in the area me and Fuentes never worked in, we have found like 22 people within the last 2 weeks. 15 were this week

Guess we got work to do.

Wassup fam!

We had some pretty cool finding miracles this week!

To start off, me and my comp had reached our goal of 6 new people pretty quick. By Tuesday we had reached our goal, and were on cloud 9.

I then had an exchange where everything that could fall through fell through. We attempted to contact one of our progressing people, but he wasn't home. His brother answered, so we asked if he wanted to hear more about God. He's now a new!

Pulled up to the wrong house, and the lady that opened the door was interested 

Then, within the last 10 minutes of our work day, we were gonna knock another door or two, but I had a prompting to ask a guy walking by us if he wanted to hear a message. In the middle of talking about faith, his wife pulls up and also listens. Turns out he's inactive... for a different church . They were really happy to show us where they lived and we got their contact info.

So like 3 transfers ago, I had invited a man to baptisim and he had accepted. After our next contact with him, where he was in the middle of a job so he couldn't talk to us right then, Élder Fuentes said we needed to drop him. Me, not knowing anything, agreed. I had a prompting to go visit him, and told Fuentes, but he didn't want to, so we never did. The prompting has been coming every now and then to visit him.

I finally acted on these promptings, and me and Élder Gavidia went to talk with him. He was still interested, and was so happy to see us. He quickly accepted more visits from the missionaries.

I feel so terrible now. Not that he's excited to see us, but... I can't believe we dropped him.

A couple other things that happened...

- Our Zone Leader and Penchanisto had their  birthdays, and they were on the same day. We had 2 parties!

- Service project where we moved the most massive pile of dirt! Saw so many cockroaches and spiders it was fun

- On the bus ride to Ica (we have multi-zone devotional today and tomorrow) they were playing Ready Player One. In spanish

Pensamiento Espiritual:

(Spiritual thought)

During this last week I was seriously humbled. In both that I need to listen to spiritual promptings, but also that I need to be calm and collected in all times. 

Whats crazy is that I thought that I was sufficiently humble. (I'm not trying to brag about my humility... just analyzing from a perspective of one who was humbled)

And yet, there is always something we can learn.

My invitation this week is to keep an open mind. Sometimes things that happen in our lives make no sense. But if we look at them through an eternal lense, things may begin to make some sense.

Love yall! Have an awesome week!

Élder Bahnmiller 

1. Sunsets in Perú are something else

2. Dog

3. Anti-Bahnmiller (like no one will get this)

4. The gang moving a giant pile of rubble infested with insects!