hola mi familia!
thanks for all the emails this week. it has been wondie! i also received like sooo many letters this week. yay!! they are oh so encouraging. and i miss everyone soooo much, that when i receive a letter it is just the most greatest thing in the whole world. hahah i dont know how to describe my feelings, i suppose.
so last pday we went to this place called larco mar. you guys. you MUST look up pictrues. it is the prettiest place. and it is a mall, too, with many american things about it, and that made me so happy. familiarity is really great at times hahaaha. i would have taken pics of it, but my camera died. saad. but we apparently go back a lot, so it´s all good. i will have plenty of pics to come from that place. soooooooo pretty.
haha so i will start off with some happenings this week. not exactly spiritual...
-we were in this house of a lady this week who kept asking us to pray that she would be able to ¨bañarme¨ which means to wash yourself. i was thinking the whole time that noooo really? i must not be understanding this right. but then after the lesson, i asked hna c if that was what she was saying, and she said yes! hahhaahahahah i hesitated telling you guys this story, because in reality, it is pretty sad. haha but that was just sooo weird and i couldnt stop laughing. great. now you guys all think im rude. and it might not even be that funny to you. but trust me. it wassssssssss.
-so hna.c and i get along really well and she tells me a lot of stories. the problem is, is that she tells me stories that she thinks are really funny, but i just DONT. hahahah my fake laugh is just getting faker, i feel. shes going to catch on that i dont think her stories are funny. uh oh dopey.
-i ate my first LEGIT tamale the other day. from off da streets. it was wrapped in this thick green leaf thing (mabes corn? no se) and tied with these planty strings hahaha thats a really terrible description. but it was sooooo goooooood. and fun to eat. and i didnt even get sick after hahah so that is good.
-my rash is getting better! but bad news--it is from my synthetic garments. booooo it is becasue i sweat(ew) so much whilst walking soooooo i can only wear the other kind during summer. boooooooooo. but at least it is better, right? and it isnt fungus or bed bugs.
-you guys should look up a peruano dog. one of our investigators owns one and it was cute, but at first disturbing. i thought it was really sick and was afraid to touch it hahaha but it is basically a hairless dog. like sphinx´s? is that the name. and he was really nice to me. but they look pretty weird.
-everyone is sooooooooo giving here. they give my comp and i stuff allll the time. sylvia always gives us these delicous choco-coconut bars and suckers. and bread. fernando bought us inca kolas. reynaldo bought us tamales. and olvia and jorge always give us really nice treats and bread.
-also, i dont know if i ever told you this, but after my clothes are washed every week, they hang on a clothesline. hahaha can you believe it? it is kind of cute ahhah. but sometimes i miss the efficency of dryers.
-also, there is porno EVERYWHERE here. it is so gross. i feel bad for the elders.
now it is time for the investigators!!
-reynaldo--hna c and i hadnt been able to find him for this wholleeeee last week and we were sooo frustrated. he had missed church the past 2 sundays because he had forgotten, and he just needed to come this week and we were praying sooo hard for that. and our zone had a fast for all of our investigators on friday. and then on saturday. tah dah! we found reynaldo, and he finally came to church on sunday and rmembered and everything! yay!!
-crystal--crystal is the granddaughter of nicolas(the old man i love), and she sat in on one of our lessons one time with nicolas. she is 18 and her mom died a few years ago. anyway, she really wanted to learn more and she is sooo sincere. anyway, this past week, we invited her to be baptized, and she wants to! she soaks up every lesson like a sponge. it is sooo great.
-ariha--this guy is soooo cool. he is 22 and a different set of missionaries were teaching him, but hna c said that they put a lot of pressure on him to be baptized, and that kind of scared him off. we had been trying to contact him these past few weeks, and then finalllly we did!! and he is great. he is super good at the guitar, and when he found out i was from alabama, he played sweet home alabama! hahahha and i sang along. all alone. hahah can you guys believe i sang along? i mean, it isnt that big of a deal, but before, i would have neverrrr done that. it was so fun and great. and then he came to church yestrerday, too! yayyyy!! so i feel really good about teaching him.
--and sylvia-- she is improviing sooooo much!! she loves to research about the chruch and she loves all the hymns we sing with her. her heart is really sofeting. at first, she didnt believe in jesus christ, but last night, she said that she DID after we talked with her about the atonement and why it happened. yayyyyy!!! she is still not so sure about God´s love for her, so mabes pray for her to feel his love for her.
-antoni--man. i was so sad last night. his situation just makes me so sad. he was in a coma for 15 years of his life, and he came out of it only a couple of years ago, and he is like 40 ish. mannn isnt that the saddest?? i was just really sad about that. but he also is unsure about God´s love for him. which makes sense because that would be really hard to reason why 15 years of your life were taken from you. so we are praying for the same thing with him as with sylvia.
okay family fam. you guys are allll sooooo great. i love each of your emails and letters sooo much. keep being great!
con amor,
me
i hope you enjoy! here are some random little pics of around the town i am in. and hugo´s baptism. love all of you mucho!
jillbo
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