another week in the mission peru lima central. you guys, tomorrow are changes! but me and my companion are still together in magdalena for another change. this is her last change, and then she will return to her home in 6 weeks. isnt that just sooooooooooooooo crazy that another 6 weeks has gone by?? i cant believe it. this change has been sooo fast. so there are 2 north americans in my zone who are going home on wednesday who have ended their missions, one sister and one elder. anyway, i cant lie--all of their talk about home and being in america kind of made me die a little inside. hahaha but seriously. i mean, the mission is great, and i am really enjoying it. but i have grown to loveeeeeeee america sooo much. hahah i feel i am more patriotic now than i ever have been in my whole life. oh, since my comp has had a lot of medical issues, we´ve had to go to the clinic a lot, and here they have the standardized health care, or obama care or whatever it is called. and i have seen how terrrriiible it would be if we had that in america! eeeek! basically the way that we are treated at DMVs or those type of places is how patients are treated at the doctor! it is sooo terrible. yikes yikes. bad news at black rock.
i mean, seriously, i love being here and all the experiences i am having and the people i am meeting and learning to love. it is all really great. but i dont think it is a bad thing to have my appreciation for my own country increase, right?
and of course, seeing how excited the missionaries are about going home makes me miss you guys SOOO much. this is how it will be every change, probs. because people go home every change. oh well. i just can think about it too much, right? right.
okay. sorry about the rambling up yonder. haha
this week has been good, but hard. my beloved fernando is being worked on quiiiiite hard by the adversary, you guys. he was all gung ho about getting baptized this past saturday and he felt good and i fasted for him again. but when we went to visit him friday night, his heart was soooo hard. never has it been like this. it made me want to cry. he has always been wayyy sincere and great. but satan has a hold on him for a bit. i think maybe that hna c and i have focused in too much on him this change. and we have neglected some others. so we are going to leave him for a bit just pray for him, and then we will visit him in like a week and see how he´s doing. but he´ll be baptized eventually.
and then we visited syliva who we hadnt seen in a while because she has been really busy, and when we saw here she had gotten into allllll sorts of anti mormon stuff. and she was convinced that we had been fooled this whole time. im still learning patience and how to react in these situations, and i may or may not have said something along the lines of ´´we have brains, sylvia. we´re not dumb.´´
isnt that soooo terrible??? hahaha oh man. but my comp gave me the look to shut up, so i did. and then i just bore my testimony because i realized that the things she wwas saying were out of love. she was trying to save us. hahaha poor little thing. she is very confused. we will visit her again, but i dont know whats going to happen with her.
and then my cute little 85 year old nicolas. ohhhh man. he is just my fave. i seriously love that old man so much. the evangelistas have captured him with their modern music. dang it. truth be told, there is an evangelist church across the street from our apartments, and their music is pretty cool sometimes. hahah. butttttt for sacrament meeting, it is soooo important to have reverent music because that meeting is sacred and we need to be able to feel the delicate promptings of the spirit. we tried to explain this to him, and tried to remind him of the testimony that he was gaining from our lessons a month or so back. and he is cool with hearing the lessons again. he needs a better understanding of the authority of God on the earth, and how thaattt is the difference between other churches and this church. The church is organized in the exact manner that Jesus Christ organized the chruch. So that is what we are going to teach him.
okay, this is all for this week. i hope that this email isnt totallllly boring for you guys. i feel like it was a lot information this week. uh oh, dopey. but i have attached some pictures for you guys, so hopefully that will make up for any borringness.
there are pics from larcomar and then a pic of our zone, taken juuuust this morning. yay!! so you guys get to see what i look like, today!!
i love and miss you all sooooooooooooooo much! Remember that you belong to the ONLY church with allll the truth that is available right now. it is suchhhhh a blessing and we MUST share it with everyone.
woah. that was intense. heh but serioulsy, our lives are what they are because of the gospel. we have soooo many answers to questions that others dont have, because of the gospel.
i love you all a bunch!
love,
hna jill
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