Hola Familia!!
I hope
life is going great! I'm so glad it’s Pday! Thank you so so so so so so so much
for the candy and notes in my suitcases!! It was the best to find all that as I
was unpacking! I’ve read all of them multiple times, they’re the best!!
Let me tell you about my week. Last Wednesday, we took pictures, did laundry, emailed family, and went to the temple! The temple was awesome!! It’s really small though, we barely fit 28 people in the endowment room. And some of the temple workers are tiny! There was one lady who couldn’t have been over 4’5”…but it was great! Maybe you already heard this from grandma, but I ran into the Perry’s from her ward outside the temple!! Crazy! They were picking up their son from the Iquitos mission, and I just happened to run into them at the Lima temple!
On Thursday, Elder Rasband came and spoke to us!! All the missionaries from Lima Sur and Lima Este came so our auditorium was packed! We all got to shake his hand, as well as Elder Godoy who was there as well. We sang I Know That My Redeemer Lives and wow, that was pretty powerful to hear a room full of missionaries and an apostle sing that! His talk was super good, and his wife and Elder Godoy and his wife all gave testimonies too. It was such a cool experience! That night we had our last lesson with Alejandro and taught about the Word of Wisdom. It went really well and Hermano Quintana said we did great!
On Saturday we started teaching our new investigators, Bryan (Hno. Cajo) and Emerson (Hno. Quintana). Emerson is super super catholic and whatever we taught him he said he didn’t believe, and he was just not open to anything…so that was interesting. Bryan just doesn’t believe in God, but he’s more open to other ideas.
On Sunday, our church meetings were super good! I love Sundays here because everything is in English, and we get to watch a church movie. At night we watch an old MTC devotional, so we watched one from Elder Bednar from a few years ago. It was INCREDIBLE. He talked about feeling the spirit and how to know if what we’re thinking is just us or if it’s actually the spirit. He said, Quit worrying about it! Do what you’re supposed to do, be faithful, and the Lord will guide you. He also told some really incredible stories, but I don’t have time to tell them. He did tell a funny joke though. He was talking about how it’s hard to get past the Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon, and how we all get stuck there. So a guy carried around a pocket sized book of Mormon, and one day, this guy came up to him to mug him, shot him in the chest where the Book of Mormon was, and the bullet stopped at the Isaiah chapters jajajajaja! I thought it was pretty funny.
On Monday during Physical Activity, Presidente and Hermana Moore came out and played soccer with us! It was super fun, and then some Latinos came and played too, and it was just way fun!
Yesterday Elder Moscoso from one of the quorums of the 70 came for our devotional. All of the Americans did a musical number ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’ except in Spanish, but it was so awesome! It was kinda hard to pay attention to his talk because he spoke in Spanish so we had to wear headsets while someone translated. The parts I got were really good though.
That’s pretty much been my week, but I’ll tell you about some other stuff real quick. My district is awesome!! It’s Hermana Webster and I, Hermanas Johnson and Allen, and Elders Vergara and Mortensen. We all have a lot of fun together and get along super great.
The other day I had a piece of cake that literally looked like a sponge…It was neon orange with some neon yellow stuff on top and it jiggled. It didn’t taste too bad, but it was super weird, I wish I had a picture. The alfajores (cookies) here are AMAZING and yesterday we had kind of a donut thing with dulce de leche in the middle and sugar on top. There are also these ice cream treats called Sublimes and (almost) all of the Americans LOVE them. They´re so good!
Also, there’s a saying here that’s ‘que piña’ which kinda means ‘whatever’ or ‘just my luck’ and Hermana Moeaki (from AF) and I think it’s super funny, but it’s slang so we’re not really supposed to use it. The translation is ‘what pineapple’ so we just say that and it’s super funny! To us anyways..
It’s kinda funny because our days are PACKED with classes and study time and everything else, but I feel like there’s never enough time to do everything I need to…it’s kinda frustrating, but the days are starting to go by quicker, and I’m learning a lot. Next week we’ll be the Avanzados!!! Crazy… anyway, I hope everyone is doing well! Sorry for the lack of pictures last week, hopefully it’ll work this time…Much love!!!
Let me tell you about my week. Last Wednesday, we took pictures, did laundry, emailed family, and went to the temple! The temple was awesome!! It’s really small though, we barely fit 28 people in the endowment room. And some of the temple workers are tiny! There was one lady who couldn’t have been over 4’5”…but it was great! Maybe you already heard this from grandma, but I ran into the Perry’s from her ward outside the temple!! Crazy! They were picking up their son from the Iquitos mission, and I just happened to run into them at the Lima temple!
On Thursday, Elder Rasband came and spoke to us!! All the missionaries from Lima Sur and Lima Este came so our auditorium was packed! We all got to shake his hand, as well as Elder Godoy who was there as well. We sang I Know That My Redeemer Lives and wow, that was pretty powerful to hear a room full of missionaries and an apostle sing that! His talk was super good, and his wife and Elder Godoy and his wife all gave testimonies too. It was such a cool experience! That night we had our last lesson with Alejandro and taught about the Word of Wisdom. It went really well and Hermano Quintana said we did great!
On Saturday we started teaching our new investigators, Bryan (Hno. Cajo) and Emerson (Hno. Quintana). Emerson is super super catholic and whatever we taught him he said he didn’t believe, and he was just not open to anything…so that was interesting. Bryan just doesn’t believe in God, but he’s more open to other ideas.
On Sunday, our church meetings were super good! I love Sundays here because everything is in English, and we get to watch a church movie. At night we watch an old MTC devotional, so we watched one from Elder Bednar from a few years ago. It was INCREDIBLE. He talked about feeling the spirit and how to know if what we’re thinking is just us or if it’s actually the spirit. He said, Quit worrying about it! Do what you’re supposed to do, be faithful, and the Lord will guide you. He also told some really incredible stories, but I don’t have time to tell them. He did tell a funny joke though. He was talking about how it’s hard to get past the Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon, and how we all get stuck there. So a guy carried around a pocket sized book of Mormon, and one day, this guy came up to him to mug him, shot him in the chest where the Book of Mormon was, and the bullet stopped at the Isaiah chapters jajajajaja! I thought it was pretty funny.
On Monday during Physical Activity, Presidente and Hermana Moore came out and played soccer with us! It was super fun, and then some Latinos came and played too, and it was just way fun!
Yesterday Elder Moscoso from one of the quorums of the 70 came for our devotional. All of the Americans did a musical number ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’ except in Spanish, but it was so awesome! It was kinda hard to pay attention to his talk because he spoke in Spanish so we had to wear headsets while someone translated. The parts I got were really good though.
That’s pretty much been my week, but I’ll tell you about some other stuff real quick. My district is awesome!! It’s Hermana Webster and I, Hermanas Johnson and Allen, and Elders Vergara and Mortensen. We all have a lot of fun together and get along super great.
The other day I had a piece of cake that literally looked like a sponge…It was neon orange with some neon yellow stuff on top and it jiggled. It didn’t taste too bad, but it was super weird, I wish I had a picture. The alfajores (cookies) here are AMAZING and yesterday we had kind of a donut thing with dulce de leche in the middle and sugar on top. There are also these ice cream treats called Sublimes and (almost) all of the Americans LOVE them. They´re so good!
Also, there’s a saying here that’s ‘que piña’ which kinda means ‘whatever’ or ‘just my luck’ and Hermana Moeaki (from AF) and I think it’s super funny, but it’s slang so we’re not really supposed to use it. The translation is ‘what pineapple’ so we just say that and it’s super funny! To us anyways..
It’s kinda funny because our days are PACKED with classes and study time and everything else, but I feel like there’s never enough time to do everything I need to…it’s kinda frustrating, but the days are starting to go by quicker, and I’m learning a lot. Next week we’ll be the Avanzados!!! Crazy… anyway, I hope everyone is doing well! Sorry for the lack of pictures last week, hopefully it’ll work this time…Much love!!!
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