More of That Pioneer Spirit in Peru

This past week has been one of the most fulfilling weeks that I have had in all of my mission. Elder Cruz and I worked extremely hard and the Lord blessed us in so many ways. Ever since I bore my testimony of Modern Day Pioneers, I have kind of put that as my motivation to keep on keeping on and to find those Modern Day Pioneers today. The Lord showed us quite a few of them and they have already had a huge impact on me and the way I look at the way the Lord really is guiding his work.
Last week while I was in another area dong a work visit with one of our district leaders, Elder Cruz made a contact with a man, which at the end of the day, didn´t think to much of it. A man who had been drinking approached him and began to express some of the problems he was having with his family and work. Elder Cruz invited him to church and made an appointment to visit him the next day. We arrived at his house and surprisingly he was there waiting for us. We listened to him for a few minutes and Elder Cruz and I both felt that what we had planned on teaching him wasn´t going to be what he needed to hear right now. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and let him with the commitment to attend church. He and his wife came Sunday afternoon and stayed for the entire time.
We visited them last night, and I left their house we such a strong feeling of thanks and joy its hard to describe. He told us that before meeting us he felt as if there wasn´t any hope for him or his family. The only thing that brought him peace was by drinking. He said that after our first visit with him, when we entered he felt as though his house had filled up with a good feeling and that when we left, we seemed to have taken that good feeling with us. He didn´t know what it was until he entered the church and he felt it again. Raul and his wife Edith are making the sacrifices to get married at the end of September and they already feel the need to get baptized. The Martinez family has that pioneer spirit about them and are making huge strides in their progress.