helloooo my wondeful family!!
another week has gone by. what the??? it goes by soooo fast. congrats to sarah and greg for having greyson!! woo hoo!! he's a little cutie. yay! send more pictures, please!
so this week we had a baptism. woo hoo!!! Ariha was baptized and the baptism went great! he bore his testimony at the end of it, and i just know he is going to be a solid member. he is just the greatest. and a lot of the young single adults have been fellowshipping him and that is just what he needs. yay! i am going to try to send a pic from the baptism.
we were supposseeeeed to have the baptism of reynaldo this weekend, but nope. the baptism service was for 10 in the morning and we walked to meet reynaldo to take him to the church, but we wasnt at his house! he went to the beach! what the??? so we waited. and waited. and waited. and waited. and finally at 5 after 10 we went to the church without reynaldo. booo hooo hoooooooooo. we were very sad. but then we got there, and ariha was all ready to go and that good. we finally found reynaldito later that night and i said, "reynaldito--venga aqui" ahhahhahaha but i was serious. so we talked to him and we are having his baptism on next saturday. hopefully. heh.
nicolas is the 85 year old who i just love!!! but he feels that he has to know everythingggg about the church before being baptized. he wants to be baptized, but he doesnt feel he is ready. but he is! we had a really good lesson with him this past week, but all we can do really is pray that he will realize that his faith is sufficient to be baptized, and that the real learning begins afffffter baptism. but i just love that little guy.
fernando is the 22year old we are teaching. his baptism is also this saturday. wooo!! this pas friday, we had a huge, zone fhe where we invited our investigators. we were intorcucing fernando to other missionaries, and i introduced him to hna. shupe, the other north americdan hermana, and i said, "her spanish is so great, huh?" and he was like, yeah. hah. and then hna shupe said, " hna. fleming's is good, too, huh?" and fernando replied with, "mm no." hahahhaha ha soooo honest, this culture. hahah whahhhhh!!! hahahahaha oh mannnnn. one day, fernando, you will see. i will speak PERFECT spanish!! (wont i???)
and then there is sylvia. drum roll please........ she prayed to Padre Celestial!!!!! yayyyyyy!!!! this is suchhhhhhh big news. last night we had a reallllly good lesson with her, and with sylvia, it is poco a poco. little steps here and there. she is one of my faves and me and hna c love her SOO much. she just MUST be baptized. and she loves us, too!! i think that when she shops at the grocery, she buys things specificlaly for us. hahaha because she lives a lone, but she will give us bags full of food. awwww she is just the greatest.
so this week we had a service project as a zone where we went to this street corner and offered to shine people's shoes for free. cool, huh?? haha never have i ever shined shoes before this. but it was fun! buuuuttt...hahaha during this time, 6 differerent nasty middle aged men asked different elders whom they were talking to something like, " what do i have to do to marry her?" and they would point to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. ewwwwwwwwww hahahaha ha so. so. so. grosssss. all of the elders were like, uhhh hna fleming, you need to be careful hahahahahahaa sooo gross. oh the pleasures of being a white girl in south america...
everything is going well here in peru. i hope everything is going well for all of you guys. i miss and love you a lotttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
thanks for all the prayers and for writing me. pleassseeeee dont quit writing me. even if i cant always reply to each of your letters and emails right away, each one means ohhhh so much. i love you all soooo much and i h ope that things are warming up for everyone over there in the states!
love,
hna. jilly frances
attached are photos of me with ariha's cat. i love cats, remember?? and me and hna c at the bautismo. ariha is the one next to me. and then another photo ofME with my favorite snack, Chifles, and a diet pepsi (which are very rare down here, so i was quiiiite happy to find one!!)
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