Every year there are many different kinds of exhibitions held in Lima, the capital of Peru. From September 24 to October 8, we participated in a nearby exhibition. During these 15 days we displayed the posters of Falun Gong exercises, and many pictures of the Chinese and overseas practitioners practicing the exercises, participating in group study and attending experience sharing conferences.
During the exhibition, practitioners offered voluntary teaching of the exercises and distributed flyers to visitors. Dafa is so immense and has such mighty power. Many touching stories took place at our booth everyday.
Salute!
On September 25, I came early in the morning to our booth to get everything ready. A gentleman and a girl passed by our booth in a hurry. Suddenly, they stopped. It seemed that they were attracted by the pictures. I went over and greeted them and handed a flyer to them. I told them that Falun Gong is a cultivation practice that improves both mind and body. Then I told them about the location and schedule of the exercise site. The gentleman stood up straight and made a salute to me. He said he was determined to learn Falun gong and left the booth in a hurry.
Pelida from the mountains
Pelida came from the Puno Mountain. She learned Falun Gong on the first day of the exhibition. After she had learned four sets of the exercises, she told her friends to come with her to learn about Falun Gong. People from Puno then actively came to ask for flyers and wanted to learn Falun Gong.
Pelida came to our booth whenever she had time. She helped us to distribute flyers and said she would like to learn Chinese. The first phrase she learned was "Falun Dafa" and she wrote down the Chinese characters. At the end of the exhibition, I gave her some flyers and a copy of the Spanish version of Zhuan Falun and promised her I would go to her hometown to promote Dafa.
Lovely little Daniel
Little Daniel is five years old. On the first night he came to our booth. His little finger pointed to Master Li's picture and the Falun emblem and he kept asking questions. With my limited Spanish, it was hard to answer him. I could only tell him "this is Master" and "this is Falun". Little Daniel was very anxious to know more. The next day when he came again, I understood a little more of his questions so I handed him a piece of paper and a pen. He immediately started to depict the letters and the characters of both the English and the Chinese "Falun Dafa" from the flyer very carefully. Then he dragged me to teach him the exercises. From then on, every time he came to our booth, he would flip through the Dafa books on the table. He asked about the name of Master Li and wrote down "Falun Dafa". His mom told us that he likes Falun Dafa very much. I gave him a poster of the Falun emblem, and he was so happy that he embraced it tightly in front of his chest. He pressed his hands in front of his chest (Heshi) respectfully to me before he left.
Two policemen
During the exhibition, there were policemen patrolling around frequently to keep everything orderly. The peaceful atmosphere from our booth had influenced the whole block of the street. People were very friendly with the people in their neighboring booths. On one of the days, two policemen came to our booth and looked at all the pictures and showed a lot of interest in Falun Gong. I told them that I have just practiced Falun Gong for less than two years, but I have benefited a lot from it physically and mentally. When they heard that I did not smoke or drink alcohol, one of the policemen became very excited, he held my hand and said "Excellent! Excellent!" I said I was not the only one; none of the 100 million Falun Gong practitioners around the world smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. I told them that all Falun Gong practitioners strive to follow the principles from Zhuan Falun, which are Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. They started to read Lunyu on the first page and said: "Very good! Very good!" When I told them about Jiang Zemin's suppression of Falun Gong in China, they opened their eyes wide and could barely believe it.
An elderly Chinese man
Almost all of the visitors who came to ask questions and learn Falun Gong were Peruvians. One day, an old Chinese man came to our booth. He held my hands and told me he came especially to visit us. I demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises to him and explained things to him at the same time. He watched and translated to the Peruvians around us. Afterwards, he learned four sets of exercises and told us he would practice Falun Gong. He said that for such a good exercise to be suppressed by the Chinese government, Jiang Zemin would not come to a good end. He encouraged me to tell more people about Falun Gong.
Falun Gong is like a brook that has flowed into many people's hearts in Peru. On October 8 alone, 30 first-time learners came to our practice site, not to mention those who come everyday. In the city of Lima, the most popular topic in Chinatown is Falun Gong. We distributed 13,000 flyers in Spanish during the exhibition. We also sent out 250 copies of "the Real Story of Falun Gong" to Chinese restaurants. For the last two months, we have been continuously adding 100 copies of Minghui articles into the Saturday Chinese newspapers. Although there are not many practitioners in Peru, everyone has acted as a particle within the Dafa. We all cherish this unprecedented precious opportunity. We will remember the teachings from Master: "Validate the Fa with reason, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and offer people salvation with benevolence", and put in more effort to promote Dafa.
