Greeeeeetings from lima, peru. oh man i am sooooo tired and oh so so so burnt. it's ridiculous. rihdikoolus. like harry potter would say it. today for pday we went to chancay again, but this time we pretty much just hung out at the beach and played in the water... but not really, because we arent supposed to. we have to act like little kids act when they are at the beach for the first time--stick our toes in, but then run from the waves because, oh no! what if they swallow us! but it was really fun. i think that the beaches here are very similar to california(not that i would know, ive never been to a beach in cali) but the water is cold and the waves are huuuuuge and there are pretty, hugeee rocks that look perfect and beautiful. i really loved being there today. it was one of my favorite pdays, i think. i have pics, but i dont have the connector thing today, so i cant send them this time. sad pants. but next week. promiiisssee. but i got really burnt. ooops. oh well. now i can look forward to all the peruvians this week telling me that my face is red. wooo! "whhhatttt?? really??" that is what i will reply.
okay, so this week has been great. hey! conference was this weekend! wooo!! how did all of you like it?? to be quite honest, i didnt get a toonnnnnnn out of it because well, i had to watch it in SPANISH. boo hoo hoo!! i could understand a lot of sentences and words, and the ideas. but it just wasnt the same. whhahhhhhh. i was quite sad on saturday, because they had a separte room to watch it in english, but the signal was messed up or something, so we couldnt watch it in english. and this is like the first conference in my life where i was just craaavving it. as a missionary, i dont know. it is just different. it definitely made me appreciate conference in english, with their propio voices. hahaha wooops. i mean their own voices. (i ask myself, yes, my spanish is defintley improving. but it is nowherrreee close to fluent, so why do words pop out in spanish? hahaha oh man) anyway. yeah, i felt that it was karma of sorts because in the past, i was like, "cool. conference." but i never really was superrrrr excited. and then the first conf. where i am SUPER excited about it, bam. it is hard to understand. so, i will always be excited about conference from now on. hopefully by the next one i will understand everything if the english tv doesnt work. hah.
but we had our investigator fernando isaac come to the priesthood session and the 2 sessions on sunday. isnt that so great?? he was SO excited about them. fernando was supposed to be baptized a week ago, but he got scared and chickened out because of some of the doubts he was having. but we went to his house on saturday night before the conference and brought him to the priesthood session, and afterward, he was SOO excited. when we asked him how he liked the conferences, he said, " they were excellent. when are the next ones?" isnt that great? so, i feel that he is back on the path for baptism. yay! he is a reallllly great guy. haha and he always tries to talk to me in english. hahah but it is soooo terrible.
on thursday, we had the baptism of anabel--the miracle investigador. it was so great! i cant wait to send you guys pictures from it. she is just the sweetest and nicest and i love her. she is the first investigator that i feel reallllllly close to because she is fluent in english, too, so we have a definite friendship. and her baptism was beautiful, and she invited ALL of her friends to the baptism(who arent members) and we are now teaching a few of them!!! im excited about having her accompany us to teach people in the future, because she is super strong already. woo!!
my companion has gastritis and a bacteria in her stomach, and she has been way sick. :( the work has been a bit slower, but she is from cusco, and apparently cuscanians are known for their hard work(or soemthing? that is what ive heard) so she pushes through it. but as incompassionate as this may sound, it is really slowing down the work, annnnd dat not good. so if you guys want to pray for hna. carazas to get better, that would be cool. thanks my hunnies(like a gangster fromt he 90s would say it)
so something REALLy gross that happened this week. i mean REALLY gross. for me. haha was that the other morning, i went into the kitchen, and we have our brooms and mops in one corner of our tiny little kitchen, and one of our mops is one of those nasty wig mops, or something. like the most unsanitary kind of mop, the kind janitors use. anyway, i saw this thing sticking out of it. anway, it ended up being a MUSHROOM that had grown OUT OF THE MOP. rooted in the nasty mop hair. SO GROSSSSSS. i know. it drove me to gag over the toilet. hahah mabes a bit on the dramatic side, but whatevs. hahahha
oh man. peruuuuu.
FAMILy. i love you all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much and miss you all SOOOOOOOOOOO much. more than you know. i probably say these exact same words in every email, but they are always true. i have pics of each of you on my desk, looking at me during my study time. hahaha at the beginning of my time in the field, i couldnt look at pics of the family without bawling. yes, it is true. rick, did that ever happen to you? or just to me because im a girl? anyway, i dont bawl anymore. and the pics are more of a motivation when i am feeling homesick or feeling discouraged. so, yay! hahah but i really do miss each of you A LOT. but being amissionary is great!! it is really fun and i love most of it all the time. hhaaha
i hope you are all safe and sound in your houses. no one die. i pray for that everyday hahaha but seriously. i do.
so, i never really took this seriously when people said it to me before, because i was a scaredy cat. but im going to say it to all of you now, and i hope you take it seriously--you guys have GOT to share this gospel with everyone. if you have fear, than just study the lessons in preach my gospel, and that will help you with what to say. if i can do it in spanish, you guys can do it in english. wooo!! tengan fe haha
i love you all and i hope you are doing great. as always, thanks for all the letters and emails. they make my weeks wondie!
love,
hna jill
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