In Honor of Nestor in Peru

Nestor died tragically in a bus accident. He loved this message. To honor his memory, we wanted to collect all his work in one place. 

"Agape Video Series being developed in Spanish. Big thank you to Nestor and his team in Peru for working on these." Agape is our flagship series on the character of God, and getting it done in other languages isn't easy. Nestor took on this project in 2023.

Nestor 2nd from left at Tabernacles 2024 in Argentina

Below is a transcript of his testimony from 2023. You can watch the original Spanish here, and you can translate the subtitles to any other language.

Testimony of Néstor Acama Quispe

Néstor Acama Quispe is his last name—Quispe from Peru. From what part of Peru? Arequipa. He came specifically to meet us and be with us these days. He misses his family very much, but we have also gotten to know them through video calls. They were able to watch the baptism, so we invited Néstor from the beginning, knowing he was coming, to tell us his story and to enjoy his testimony with him. Thank you.

Well, brothers and sisters, I am truly grateful to God because without him, none of this—me being here—would be possible. As you hear my story, you will see how God has given me two opportunities—two opportunities.

I am one of nine siblings—six boys and three girls. My mom and dad are still alive. They participated in churches from a young age: Catholic, Evangelical, God Is Love. They went through many churches. When I was a child, they used to take me to the Catholic church, but also to the Adventist church, and also to the Evangelical church. So, I grew up a bit confused in my religious identity. It was confusing because at the same time, my dad was drinking on Sunday, but he was also going to church on Saturday.

I come from a dysfunctional family, in reality. There was a lot of fighting, a lot of—that's it—fighting. So, I grew up with a very strong hatred toward my dad. When I reached adolescence, I didn't want to know about anyone, really. I didn't want to know about anyone. I had no friends at school; I was all alone. I was one of the best students in school; I had an intelligence that I don't have now—I'll tell you why, where, and what happened. So, I was at the top of my class in school, yet I had no friends, no girlfriends much less, because I was afraid of women. I would escape, and I had a syndrome of a phobia toward women, specifically.

I finished high school with hatred toward my dad from my adolescence because I saw how he mistreated my mom, how he mistreated us. There was a hatred toward my father. In one of those moments, I thought in my mind that I would want to take my father's life at some point when I grew up. It occurred to me that I should go to the barracks, to the army, to prepare myself for this purpose. And so I went to the barracks, or to serve in the army, as soon as I finished. I was comfortable there, as if it were my home, because I liked exercising, running, all of that—holding a weapon, all of that was my world.

However, a moment came when I had passed the first months of the soldier stage, so they gave me leave. The leave was for 15 days, but the lieutenant told me I had 15 extra days. And when I returned after a month, the lieutenant told me I had 15 more days, but I hadn't asked for 15 days. I don't know how or why they gave them to me. So, I had to return home on leave again.

During those 15 days, I was getting ready. It was a Saturday. I was not going to church; I didn't want to know anything about the church, the Bible, nothing, nothing at all. It was a Saturday. I was getting ready with my sister, and on Sunday I had to enroll to report to the army on Monday. So, on Saturday, while we were getting ready and burning some things that were useless in the house, I think I fell, unconscious. I don't remember exactly what happened. The only thing I remember after that incident is that it was a Wednesday, and I was in the hospital. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday had already passed.

On Wednesday, I remember looking out the window, but it seemed like a dream. Then I woke up completely and realized I was in the hospital. What had happened? I had fallen on Saturday, and they took me in with trichinosis in the brain, then meningoencephalitis, and meningitis. After that, pneumonia. But I don't know which of them triggered my unconscious fall. I don't know. I don't know, but later I had all the brain exams, and there was nothing—there is nothing. But I did have the pneumonia treatment, so I underwent that treatment in some way.

During that time, while I was in the hospital, my mom tells me that an elderly man came in. He was more seriously ill than I was—I mean, he was talking, breathing, but he was very, very grave. He entered a day after me. This elderly man was praying every night, praying and praying. And my mom was crying there close to me, and he told her, "Don't cry. Don't cry because your son will be a minister; he will be a servant of God." And my mom said, "I hope your words come true." The elderly man was discharged before me, and I never met him. Only my mom told me this.

When I was discharged at that time, I went to my aunt's house, who was in a city in another department, Cuzco. She was attending the Adventist Church as a sympathizer, and it was a Saturday. She took me and said, "Let's go, what can you do at home? You can't do anything at home. So instead of staying home, come with me to church." I went to church, and from that day on, I never stopped studying the Bible. I'm talking about the year 2006.

From then on, I attended church. After two months—yes, two months, after one month passed, I was baptized in the Adventist Church. There was a youth camp, and I was baptized there. But I had some ups and downs, like leaving the church—sometimes I went, sometimes I didn't. And that hatred I had for my dad, I didn't feel it much anymore, but in some way, the hatred was still there.

It turns out that when I was in school, I had a dream of studying systems engineering or mining engineering—any engineering. But when I was baptized, all that dream of studying a professional career in engineering disappeared completely. I only saw myself being a pastor. I only saw my life ahead as a pastor. So, I wanted to be a pastor. And how do I become a pastor? I imagined there must be a way to be a pastor. So, I had to be faithful in the church, and I got involved in the church, deeply involved, until one day someone told me, "To be a pastor, you have to study." Now I have to study! And how do you study? Where do you study? I didn't know where to study.

So, the district pastor where I attended church told me, "You have to go colporteuring, and that way you can study." "Okay, great. I'll go colporteuring." So, 2010 arrived. Three years passed. Exactly, three years. At the end of 2009, he told me, "You have to go colporteuring." So, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, I was colporteuring. But actually, after this, I went to the university in 2013 to study theology because I only saw myself as a pastor. I didn't see anything else for myself in life; I only saw myself as a pastor, and that was my dream to achieve.

But when I got to the university, I had lost the ability to retain information. I don't have that capacity to retain information now that I had in high school. And just that year, my dad, my mom, and my siblings were baptized in 2013. They gave me that news when I was in university. I only completed the first year of theology, the first semester, and I couldn't continue because I didn't have money. So, I had to go back to colporteuring. I went back to colporteuring and didn't return to study. I don't know why. I had earned a scholarship, but they didn't give it to me—from the publications department, they didn't give it to me at that time. I got very angry because that year was 2014, and I didn't return. I wanted to return, but I didn't know how. So, I stopped colporteuring and started working. I was studying the church doctrines, and I felt dissatisfied.

2013 passed, 2014 passed, now it was 2015. My dreams of being a pastor seemed to be slipping away because I thought, "I will never be a pastor." In some way, there was a frustration within me that I couldn't cope with. So, I worked for a municipality to save money to return to study, but I couldn't concretize returning to the university.

Well, in 2015, I met my wife while I was in another place. We met for two months, and on the third month, we got married. After we got married, we went to another place to work. And it was there in 2015 that I met a person who started talking to me about the Father and the Son—the begotten Son—but in a very strong way, a way that is not advisable to start with. Well, I think you may have had that experience of being called an apostate or being told you are part of all that. So, when he told me that at the end of 2015, I completely rejected it because it wasn't something that caught my attention, due to the way he was saying it.

I let it go, and I started studying the topic of the Trinity even more to completely refute it. I specialized in the doctrine of the Trinity, all the topics, all the texts, and I had to take out and take out, and so for a year we were with this brother. 2016 arrived, and we continued talking, but right there in 2016, he called me to his house again and said, "Look, let's study this topic of the Godhead." So, I went at 4 in the afternoon, and we were talking until 9 at night with this person. He showed me many quotes that the Adventist Church is a Babylon, he started telling me all this. I don't really know what he talked about for those five complete hours, but I remember him telling me those parts, "You are in the false; you are wrong."

So, at 9 at night, I was walking on the highway, crying, because it had completely touched my heart that I was wrong. And I said there, "Maybe I really am wrong." Up until that point, I hadn't studied the topics of the plan of salvation, everything, well studied. I didn't have much, but there I began to study the history of the Adventist Church. I started studying—I said, "I'm not going to rely on anyone; I'm going to start studying for myself," using the church history books.

I began to study in 2016, and when I was studying the history of the Adventist Church in 2016, 2017, 2018, I found the topic of 1888. And I found, "Wow, something happened here in 1888!" And when I found 1888, I started digging much deeper, everything surrounding 1888. I started looking at the before and after, the reactions, all of that. I was in 2018-2019, and I started to have a fervor, a courage, this very beautiful feeling that I felt from the messages of Waggoner and Jones, from the sermons of Ellen White that are in the 1888 materials.

And then the quarantine arrived in 2019. So, in 2019 and 2020, I fell ill, bedridden in 2020 and 2021—two years. For two years, I was sick in bed. I don't know what from. It wasn't COVID; I don't know what it was. I don't know exactly what it was because I had all the tests, and nothing came back. There was nothing in any part of my body. But there was a message that, even though I had already been studying the topic of 1888, the issue of the Father's character was not yet clear to me. I felt that at some point God would call me to account for all my siblings because my siblings were not firm in the church, they were not firm in the faith. So, I felt that fear completely, and I think it was the anxiety that put me to bed. Very strong anxiety. I started having palpitations, headaches, sweating in 2020 and 2021.

So, I started studying the topic of 1888 more—all the history of 1888, topics from Waggoner and Jones. While I was in bed, I kept studying, kept reading, kept reading. And there I found the books of Robert Wieland, and I read them. They brought me a lot of peace—these materials brought me a lot of peace.

In that, I thought: 1888, Waggoner and Jones brought the message; later, I see Robert Wieland as someone who rescues and follows their messages. And I said, "Who is preaching these messages? Who is preaching? There must be someone in the world who is preaching, because if these messages are the beginning of the latter rain, as it was said, then someone must be preaching in this time, or am I the only one here who is like this and I don't know?" I wanted to find someone, someone else who could walk with me, I don't know, or I could lean on, I don't know.

So, I don't know how, really, I don't remember exactly, but I got in touch with our brother Robert—he is here. But I didn't want to talk to him because I didn't know him at all. I only looked for him to get the number of brother Carlos Hernández. Why? Because I saw brother Carlos Hernández from Puerto Rico doing the translations of Pastor Adrián on some tabernacle topics. And so I said, "He is speaking so similar to J. Waggoner or Robert Wieland," because he brought a message of hope, of peace.

So, I contacted Carlos Hernández, and Carlos told me, "You know what? You can talk more with Daniel," who is our brother Daniel. And I contacted him. I made sure with Carlos to talk to Daniel because I didn't want to talk to anyone who wasn't following the 1888 line. I said, "What is brother Daniel like? What is brother Adrián like? What line do they follow? Where do they get the messages from?" And he began to tell me that they follow the 1888 line. So, Carlos introduced me to this topic of everything about the character of God.

Later, I had the opportunity to talk to Daniel, and Daniel told me, "These are the topics that are on the channel. Get to know them." And when I saw all the topics, well, what I was discovering, what I was finding, was there, but expressed in a way that I could have a clearer understanding of those topics. So, the topic of the Father and the Son—I don't want to know anything about it. It must be a separate topic, because I don't want to know anything about that yet, but yes, about the character of God, the covenants, all of that.

So, I went into the Maranatha Media page, which is in Spanish. I downloaded the books from there, and I read them. As I read, the place where we live with my wife—I didn't tell you that I have three children, a boy of 7, a girl of 3, and another girl of 5—we were maybe not the best, most beautiful family, but not the worst family either. But we were moving forward.

But when I came to know this 1888 message, especially the character of God and all that, it has changed us as a family. It has completely changed us. My wife and I talk, we talk with my children; it has been a very beautiful change in our home, very beautiful. And the topic of the Father and the Son, no, I don't have to know anything, because that must be separate, it must be a topic that has nothing to do with this.

So, I started studying the Divine Pattern, but I didn't know where the Divine Pattern came from, where the Divine Pattern originated. I knew there was a Divine Pattern; I heard that from brother Daniel on his channel, but I didn't know where it came from. So, one day I started thinking about the topics of the Father and the Son, and there was the Divine Pattern. Three months ago, I started studying the topic of the Father and the Son. In these three months, I had to devour all the available materials, and I was amazed.

There was no other way to say it. There was the home that God had given me: my wife, my children, neglected by me. But when I found the topic of the Son and the Father, I saw so much importance toward my wife and my children. I saw how important it is.

So, this happened this year. And today, someone asked me, "Do you have many questions?" I don't have any questions. That doesn't mean I know everything, but everything fit together completely. More than theory, it fit together. My wife and I talked a moment ago. I was saying, "What are you going to tell?" Well, receiving this message has been a blessing for us, a blessing. With those words, I can say that the message we have received is a blessing, not only for me, but for my parents, for my siblings. And today, we gather there in Peru, a group that is just our family for now. But we have a spirit that unites us more than ever before. For a long time, we went to the Adventist church, but we never had the opportunity to feel this way with my wife. Today, we have a home where we can say that God has blessed us.

I told my wife the other day, "I am a man blessed by my Father," and I believe it. But before, I don't know. I was living with a desperation that I am only now recovering from the anxiety that I had. In some way, I still have those after-effects, but I can say with one word: I am the man blessed by my Father. That is who I am.

So, we will carry the message forward wherever we are, and God has given me the opportunity to be his minister, you could say. That's what my mom told me at some point. Well, today I'm going to dedicate myself more fully, full-time, out of season, whatever it takes, to make known this wonderful message that the Father delivers. Thank you for listening to me, and we will have another opportunity perhaps if I have the chance to be here next year.

(The speaker then briefly mentions his involvement with the "Transformado por su gloria" (Transformed by His Glory) YouTube channel and the Agapé materials.)

Host: You went to the right people. Thank you very much. It is truly inspiring—so many years of perseverance and searching. It is important, as it is always said, that the Lord always ends up calling and finding the humble. He said few great men would be used, always with the same disciples, people who in the eyes of others might be worth less. "This one can't; he won't make it." In fact, it's often seen. I felt identified, as I also tried to study theology at some point, and for different reasons, the Lord keeps closing doors and doesn't let you enter there. For a reason, it must be, not to be contaminated afterward, and to allow for a more humble, more sincere mind, and to be able to embrace all these truths. Well, thank you very much.

(The host suggests a break and asks Néstor to pray.)

Prayer (Néstor): Father who dwells in heaven, it is truly a privilege for us to approach your holy presence. It is an honor to be your children. It is also a joy to participate in all your blessings. Every day that passes, every second that passes, it is by your grace and your mercy that we can have the joy of thanking you. Father, bless each of my brothers and sisters who have had these meetings during this week, and especially each of your children who are also on the way. May you give them strength, courage, and may your Spirit, Lord, be in each of us in the same way. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here. It is a miracle that I am here, Father, and you know it more than anyone. Thank you for it, in the name of Jesus, amen.

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The brothers in South America made this video to memorialize him:

It is remarkable how much recording of audio Nestor did. Nestor remarked on it to Pastor Adrian:

Lorelle Ebens found all his sermons if anyone wants to see it:

Nestor's testimony from 2023 was shared earlier in the group - and I went looking for if he had done presentations in the 2024 and 2025 Tabernacles. 

Here is the 2023 testimony (note: transcipt above):
https://www.youtube.com/live/-S7_aVvl4qQ

Here is his presentation in 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEyZ2LITYrk

Here is his presentation in 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr211if_LiQ

Just thought I'd put them here in one place together.

And his YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@transformadosporsugloria9688

It would be easy for his wife to be bitter towards God for what happened. But she told Pastor Adrian this amazing thing, which shows rather than give up on Christ she has laid whole on Him more than ever:

Dear family. I am filled with amazement and joy in abundance. Miluska (Nestor's wife) just told me that she just visited the man who caused the death of her husband. She told him she forgave him and that he is a beloved son of the Father. She also gave him a gift. How powerful is Agape! Amazing

With that we will end this with thoughts and songs. "Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father’s heart....":

Today l am thinking of beloved Nestor. I think of the blessing he brought to so many and the blessing he was to me a son in the faith. I think of dear Miluska and her precious children and my heart breaks for them. I lean my weary head on the breast of Jesus and weep for things l don’t fully understand but l know the blessed hope and l know the love of the Father even if blinded by tears of sorrow. I shall look for dear Nestor in the resurrection of the righteous and l shall delight when he and his family are reunited.