Scary experience on the combi

It was another exciting week. We were able to find some new investigators and our others are progressing pretty well. 

We were able to find the perfect investigator who driving us around in his moto taxi. He had a lot of questions for us and we were able to set up an appointment to visit him during his break. He knew the Bible in and out which actually helped us a lot. Our 2nd lesson we only taught a little about the Plan of Salvation and gave him a pamphlet. He came back the next lesson with a whole page of a sketch pad with a diagram and what he learned from it and it was all correct. It will probably be the most impressive thing I see on the mission from an investigator. We were able to get him to church and he loved it. A member actually asked him if he was baptized because he was participating so much. We hadn't invited him to be baptized yet because we hadn't taught about it yet but his answer that he will be soon so me and Elder Shumway freaked out a little bit. We just hope that he is married because that is a big problem here of people living together but not being married.

A scary experience we had this week was in a combi (little transportation bus) on the way back from a district meeting. A tire exploded and we were swerving all over the road and almost ended up in a ditch as we were trying to stop. All the Peruvian ladies were screaming and crying which didn't help but we eventually stopped safely. Then we had to wait on the side of the road for another combi to come by.

Today we had a soccer game against another zone which was fun but it was to make it to the Copa Piura next week. It's a big tourney between all the zones but we had to win to go because our zones are so far away. We ended up losing but they still might let us go. I also might have broken my wrist playing because I was going for a ball but ended up falling and slamming against a wall. It hurts to do a lot of things with it but I'll see how it feels Thursday and ask Hermana Rasmussen on Thursday during the Christmas Party in Piura. Other than that all is well here and we´re hoping to have multiple baptisms these next few weeks. 

Love, Elder Smith