this week, we had the training meeting for all 150 new missionaries! and guess who was asked to do the musical number! thats right, THIS GIRL! (see mission blog for pix)
it was a cool experience. President brought his very own guitar for me to use. yay! except, he didnt bring his capo.... and the song i prepared.... which happens to ONLY be in the spanish hymn book, and happens to be about missionary work.... requires a capo. so.... after some thinking, and sould searching, i tapped into my inner peruvian and got resourceful. i MADE a capo out of two pens and two rubberbands. you can see it clearly in the picturebelow. sweet huh??
it as sweet. then we all had PIZZA! like REAL papa johns pizza! it was like a slice of home. what a blessing
this week, we invited another friend to be baptised, and it too was quite the experiennc. let me tell you about sandra. she is 11 years old, has been to church every sunday for a month with her little neighbor friend, but her parents would not give permission to be baptised. so we could not teach her :( but after lots of prayer and fasting, one last sudnay she told us some good news,. a MIRACLE really. she got permission! turns out, after talking with her mom, little sandra refused to eat, bathe, go to school until her mom said she could be baptised. now THATS WAHT IM TAKING ABOUT!!!!! way to go! now we are teaching her, AND her mom! sandra will be baptised this saturday°! WOO HOOO!
also, in this little girls 'home' (i put it in quotes, cause its not quite a home.... its a shack. made of tin, and a tarp and wood. it breaks my heart. there is just enough room for a bed and a table for the kitchen.)
the first night we went to teach her, we arrive at her 'home' and the first thing i see is a giant picture of porn. and i thought,.... um ok... how the heck are we supposed to bring the spirit with THIS in our face? so i said a little prayer, and before we started the lesson we were ripping that terrible thing to shreds! PHEW! releiff. adn the that is when we committed her to baptism! MIRACLES! also, durring the lesson, i counted 7 guinie pigs running around. she LIVES with her food. that is strange. 7! not in a cage, but EATING their left over food.... so strange. so sad. but i admire this 11 year old spiritual giant.
also this week. hna human got sick! she was sick for about 3 days bless her heart. we did our best to take care of her. but on day 3, we had some appointments we could not miss.... so ..... you know what that means. one of us had to go on splits with a ward member and, well, do what we were called to do. adn that person.... was me. i was SO SCARED! me? by myself? i havent even finished my training yet! i cant fill time speaking spanish by myself! no way no way no way! well..... after giving myself a pep talk and saying some pretty sincere prayers, i acted in faith and went out. me and the member. we had 2 lessons, conteacted , and made new appointments. adn i understood every lick of spanish anyone talked to me. it too was a MIRACLE! its funny, cause as soon as i got back, my spanish was so-so again,. it was like a veil had been lifted for those 3 hours and i was able to fulfill my calling. it was a neat experience.
also, next week i will have a total of 6 baptisms in my time here in peru. amazing! ill report on those next week. love you alll! im excited to read your emails! printing them off today. xoxoxoccon amor
hna Gonzales
let me explain my sexy sox and sandles pix.
those are called 'yankees' and they are made of tire! and they last for YEARS! adn yes, i have my very own pair. more and more peruvian every day. yayay!
all the real (poor) peruvians have them. and now,,,, so do i.
AND they were only 4.5 soles! waht a steel. what a steel.
and ive never liked the sox and sandles look.... actually i loathed it. just goes to show missions change ya.
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