Experience Speech

Experience Speech

Beginning:

I had been living in Paradise for 7 months, in this little town called Urubamba in the Sacred Valley of the Andes Mountains at the foothills of Machu Picchu and I had officially decide that Peru is the most beautiful place on the planet.

And then one day I got that letter that every missionary either really dreads or really looks forward to saying I had been transferred. And I had been transferred to a place called Juliaca. Now I’d heard of Juliaca before and what I’d heard is that it is the complete opposite of Urubamba in every single way. And what I learned about Juliaca is that that is 100% true.

(show pictures of Juliaca and talk about dirt, dogs and garbage. Then awesome people)

Introduce Benavente family

Talk about P-day

Then they took us to lunch

Feelings and experience eating chicken with them

The happiness they had

Read scripture

Blessings the family received

Life is still hard

But the Benaventy family taught me something important that day, that blessings come to those who serve and to those who obey.