Feliz Pasqua!

familyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. oh how i missed you guys this holiday season. . . it didnt even feel like Easter. Maybe it is because I am in the Big city and there is less humility. I dont know why. But nothing was that big of a deal. They have the "Semana Santa" or holy week...but it pretty much doesnt mean anything haha except for everyone is out of school and work on Friday and a lot of the little stores are closed.  And everyone vacations so no one is home to contact. And yes pops, everyone parties. it is just another grand excuse to have a kegger hahaha the drunks were a riot. yikes yikes. they scarey, k? hahahha que mas, que mas... Oh, one plus side was that there was WAYYY less noise. HOLLAR.  i like quite, and since a lot of people left the city or were suffering from hangovers, no one was in the street. so it was free from loud horns honking and such. mmm mmm! so, the family that lives beneath us (they are a part member family and we rent our room from them) had us over for lunch on saturday, and hna carazas and i helped prepare the lunch. it was really fun! but you'll never believe what i ate. dun, dun, DUNNNN. so, i was asking what everything was, and then we got to this meat and they told me the name, but i didnt know what it was. and they said, oh, it is just a part of a cow. and then i asked what part, and they WOULDNT tell me. they said, "just eat it. its good. doont worry about anything else." Coma, no mas. hahaha so i was a bit worried. . . but i tried it, and it was SOOOO good. so so so tasty. so i was like, "it's good. nowwww will you tell me what it is??" but they made me finish my plate before telling me. anyway, i ate the KIDNEY of a cowwwwwwww. never would i have thought i would like the kidney of a cow. but it was sooo good. when they first told me what it was, i thought they said it was the bladder and was pretty grossed out. hahahahah so when i realized that it was the kidney, it wasnt as bad. but still, it's pretty weird, eh? haha so this week we had a REALLY great lesson with our investigator, Fernando Isaac. I just love that little guy (literally, and affectionally). We had a lesson at this member family's home, and it was so nice to have a setting where the Spirit was already there super strong. It made teaching so much more effortless, and the lesson was reallly really great. Fernanado has had a lot of doubts about baptism and comitting to a date. But at the end of this lesson, we committed him to this upcoming saturday. wooo! So if you guys want, pray that his testimony strengthens this week, and we can get him into the water this saturday. He needs allllll the prayers he can get. We have been trying to find new people to teach. This week we have been struggling with that, so starting tomorrow, we are going to start trying some new things. if we're not teaching, it is hard to feel the purpose of missionary life. So, something that I have been learning SOOO much about myself is that i am dannnnnggeeeddd prideful. soooo danged prideful! hahahah it is riduculous. i hate being corrected by people and i hate not knowing what is going on. I hate being wrong. Mom, Dad, is that how I was as a kid? I feel like it was. This week I have struggled with having nice thoughts about a lot of people and I have been sooooo wrapped up in myself and in doing things in spite of people that are around me that are getting on my nerves. hahahahah so christlike, right? so this morning i studied pride and it is my goal this week to be more humble when I am corrected on things that I do and say wrong(it happens EVERY day. multiple times). i was studying our of Alma 5 and this chapter is just perfect for me. i love studying the scriptures in Spanish because i have to read it much more carefully in order to understand everything, and i get sooo much more out of every verse. it is just wondie. well fam--thanks again, and always, for always writing emails and letters to me. every week. its great to hear from each of you and to remember my family a million miles away still loves me even though i cant see thier faces and hear their voices. *tear you guys are the best! i love you all sooooooooo much!!!

 love, hna. me

also, when i said i love that little guy about fernanando, literallly and affectionally, i was referring to his size, not that i literally love him... hahah oh dear.

here are the pics from the baptism of anabel! enjoy! 

here are some pics of Chancay last pday. the elder is one of my little friends, elder lopez. he likes to practice his english with me. he is great. the pics of the cooking include some pics of the kidney..mmmm! and me cutting open a potato(sooo interesting!) ok. g2g

bye!

jill