Elder Decker Lee

CEVICHE

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Whats up everybody this week was pretty good so make sure ya read! P-day, today was pretty fun we got together with a our zone and another zone and played some soccer and all got lunch together. Super nice to hang with everyone. Also got to call fam so that was super nice.

Today i gave my first blessing in spanish, It was for our pensanista bigoria. Shes awesome. That was pretty cool to do in spansish. My comp had to help a little but still was awesome! preistood power is real!! Also had 4 lessons today and all 4 canceled... so street contacting for the rest of the day it is. Anddd we FINALLY got the signiture of a dad who refusedddd to sign off on the baptism form. So our homie Jose is finally getting baptized after 8 months, and 4 sets of missionsries!! Literally a blessing super super crazy procces but so glad we got the signiture!!!

History here in peru happend today. It rained, That was pretty fun even tho it lasted a solid 10 min. New year eve's fireworks's were pretty similar to christmas fireworks but i think they might have been a little louder. Anyways happy 2026. Thats wild to even say 2026. We put some miles under our shoes today, but we found a few lessons so thats super awesome. Today we stopped at a gastation to grab the assentials( Some orange juice, and ding dong cupckakes) and i seen these cars filling up,but they werent using like a gas nozel. So I asked what it was and they said there filling up there cars with propane instead of gas... sounds really safe but anything to save a few bucks..lol.

Today we had the opportunity to go to the peru temple. And man that was so needed. We did a session, and my first one in spanish as well. Super awesome experience I won't forget, the comfort the temple brings is so peacefull. So I wanna encourage you guys to make a trip to the temple this week, you wont regret it!!!! Ohhh and another highlight, our pensanista made some ceviche, man it was sooo good.

Sunday- Highlight of the week for sure! Today was fast sunday and those are always super fun. Today was my first time sharing my testimony in spanish to the ward, and wow. I wish yall could really feel the way i feel when i start speaking spanish and the words just start flowing out and im really able to share what i want to be able to, its got to be one of the coolest things ever. Wherever my spanish missionaries at you know exactly what im talking about and how cool it is!! The gift of toungs is REAL! And i also had the oppurtunity to give another blessing today so that was so so awesome. And another highlight of today was jose got BAPTIZED!!! Super super awesome and the spirit was soooo strong! An awesome feeling to see him so happy and to hear his teatimony at the end!!

Spiritual though- Little scripture i liked from personal study this week.

Doctrina y convenios 84•84

"Así que, dejad que el día de mañana se haga cargo de su propio afán"

"Therefore, let the morrow take thought for the things of itself"

Little scripture i found, but it hit me when i needed it this week. Out here on the mission its really easy to loose focus on the now and look up to the future, weather that be 2 days in advance or 2 years. I found myself not consitrated and not appreciating the now and that bogged down the work and moativation for the day so much. As the week went on I really tried to give the "marrow" no thought. And man it really paid off as far as the people we were able to find and teach. Appreciating the now and giving the now all ya got is hard at times but I know when we do this we will be blessed tremendously.

So i wanna encourage all yall who made it down to the actuall end of the email, to focus on the now, weather it be in good or bad times appreciate them and what lessons and memories theyll have to offer you later on in your life!

Love yall so much, and feel free to email me!

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-Elder Lee