Video of Church in Oropesa

A Day With The Police

So the other day my partner Eli and I were in Oropesa and decided to get something to eat. As we were eating we ended up talking to the guy that owns the menu. He ends up telling us about this crazy possessed 25 year old guy in the town and tells us where the Priest for the Catholic Church lives. So we end up finishing and walking toward the Priest’s house. We knock on the door and the Priest answered. We started talking with him and asked a few questions. After about 10 minutes he tells us that he’s got something to do in 5 minutes so maybe we could talk later, so we went our separate ways. We ended up noticing that the big Catholic Church was open and we walked in just because I had never been in one especially here in Peru. As we walked in we noticed we had just walked in on them starting mass and here in Peru it is rude to walk in and then walk back out. We sat in the front row as people started piling in behind us. The Priest entered also and started singing with the nuns. My partner Eli loves to take pictures and record things so he pulled out his phone and started recording them singing. Right in the middle of the mass the Priest walks down in front of everybody right to our seats and asks if we are recording. We answered “yes we are.” He then asked for the phone, so we handed the phone to him and he lectured us in front of everyone saying how disrespectful we are and we are hypocrites and we can’t change their culture. After this he proceeds to take the phone and give it to one of the nuns. At this point Eli and I are kind of stunned at what was happening. There are tourists all over Cusco taking pictures, videos and recording things. After everyone walks out of the temple, the Priest comes back to us and starts lecturing us more. We tried telling him that we were not doing anything with bad intentions but he just said, “I don’t believe you.” He ended up getting a police officer to come and ask us questions and escort us out of the temple. The police officer turned out to be a real nice guy. We ended up having to give our info and have pictures taken of us. I also decided to smile during the pictures. The police officer ends up telling us to be careful because the Priests here in Peru have authority over the police and the president. He told us that if he was angry enough with us he could have sounded the church bell and people from all over the town would have come to beat us up. I’m glad that did not happen. But I thought the day went well and God defiantly helped us out. After, we went to the possessed guy’s house and talked with his mom and prayed with her and over the house. We are going back on Tuesday. We are praying a ton for this. We would appreciate if you could also pray about this and that God would equip us with what we need and that we would believe with 100% of our hearts that God can do it.