holllllllah!!

it is soooo great to write you this week. yay! thanks to all of you for my wondie emails and letters i receive. and yes, i still receive dearelders, and they are just as good as real letters, but easier... so why not send them, right?? right. dey da besssst.

soooooooo, i successfullly received  my WONDERFUL box from the padres. YAYYYYYYY!! the excitement i felt is oh so undescribable. and i loved seeing the envy on the other missionaries faces...mwhaha!! they all spite me for my letters because since they all have more meses then me, they dont get letters or packages very often. and they keep telling me, just wait hna fleming. your still fresh on the mission. but one day, the mail will run dry.
so i say, let's prove them wrong. who's with me???
hah. ok. that was enough dorkiness for this letter.
but yeah, iLOVED the box sooooo much. the shoes are great!! i was expecting them to be ugly and comfy, but they are cute and comfy!! yay! and i loved the cd of songs and my cuteeeeeee cute shirt!! and my peeps(mmmmmmmmmmm!!) and chex mix. i was the happiest receiving all of these things. yay!! so thank you so so so so so much!

the weather down here is starting to cool off, and i am actually soooo excited for fall and winter. it doesnt ever get superrrr cold here, but just like 50 ish. just nippy enough for little sweaters. and it is much more pleasant to walk in. this whole week i havent sweat very much while walking! yay!!
so, i feel that the language is coming a long miraculously. no, i am not fluent. but i can understand most everything that people say and this week i feel like i crossed a barrier of sorts with talking. hna c and i did a lot of contacting, so i had to talk a lot more. the last time we had a week devoted to finding new people to teach and contacting a lot was at the beginning of my time on the field, so i got to see the improvement i have made a lot more clearly. and it has given me a lot of confidence and appreciation for how much i have leanred in only 4 months or so. isnt that so crazy? ???? and to seal the deal,  when i was waiting for  a computer to open up just now, this guy from the states started talking to me in English, and i shared part of the restauracion with him, and i kept saying words in spanish on accident. hahahaha it was a really weird feeling. but i liked it because it has given me more hope. YAY!! so thanks sooooooo much for all the prayers for the language. they are all really really helping.
so another miracle of this week is for our wondie Fernando Isaac. so he has been having a lot of doubts about his baptism even still. everytime that we asked him how he was feeling about his baptism, he never really showed excitement, and he was still really unsure. so this week, i fasted for him(hna c cant because of her gastritis, which is better by the way. so thanks for those prayers, too) to have his testimony strengthened and to feel better about his baptism. and the next day he felt reallllllllllly confident about his baptism and said that he prayed about it a lot, and he feels waaayyyy more relaxed about the decision. isnt that soooooo great?? fasting is realllllly powerful. anyway, so then he had his baptism interview with our District Leader, who is really great, and they talked together for over an hour! and then after the interview, we found out that he was going to have to wait for another week to be baptized because he has a few more things to repent of and he needs to forgive himself, too. but he is doing soooo great! and yesterday at church i talked to him, and he told me that he LOVED talking with the DL, Elder mendoza, during his interview, and that he loved how humble he was and that he wants to study more about the gospel so that he can be like elder mendoza. isnt that so great??? im so grateful for e. mendoza. seriously. And fernando is so teachable and sooooo sincere, you guys. he is just the greatest.

thanks for a lllllll for your prayers for him. keep praying for him this week, too. he needs them.
we have other investigators, but i will start telling you about them next week, after the baptism with fernando. he's my fave!

well, i love you guys sooooooooooooo much!! thanks for being so great all the time!
love your fave missionary in peru (in the World, let's get real) (also,  yes, i just said "let's get real")