lejos de tiiiiii. voy a morir!!

oh fam fam famillllyyyyy!!!! i miss you all soooo much! and im sooo happy  to be writing to you all today. this week has been SOOOOO great!!. also, thanks for all the emails today!!!! ahhhhhh!! my inbox had 23 new emails!! nutsssssssss. you guys are my faves. but also, i dont have very much time to write a letter today. but dont let this keep you from sending me emails. no no no!  i am going to print them out and send each of you hand written emails, of course! wooo!! i mean hand written letters. hand writtten emails dont exist. heh. oh gosh...

anyway, yes. this week has just been the greatest.

first i will start with the not so great news---

ehmmm. so for this past week, the climate has been changing, and things have really been cooling down. and with cooler weather, comes a drier climate, right? so my head has been kind of itchy and ive been scratching it a lot, but i was like, oh, i just need to use more conditioner so that i will moisturize my head better. so i was doing this for about a week, but the itching was just getting worse! so then 2 days ago, i was taking my shower, and i was massaging/scratching like crazy my head whilst shampooing it. and THEN. all of the sudden, i felt this little clump of something in my hair. so i grabbed it with my nails and pulled it out, and there were TWO BUGS!! these black little bugs!!! ewwwwwwww eeeeeek!! so i hopeed out real quick and threw on my towel and was like, hna carazas. what are these things??? and she was like ahhhh!! you have piojos! and of course i didnt know what that was because it is in spanish. duh. and so i searched for it real quick in my journal, and found out that i have LICEEEEEEEEE! and ive had it for a weeek!!! ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! im litchrally soooooo grossed out by myself. and so they have had time to grow big and suck my hair blood on my head, AND lay babies all over my head. ewwwww. and i always have my hair in a bun, so they just nested all up in there. isnt that just the GROSSEST?? but it isnt because i am non hygenic. i think im just about as hygenic as they come in peru. but we have investigators who are NOT. and i think they came from one who has  A HUGE pile of trash outside of their house and hna carazas always leaves me the seat next to the pile of trash. freaking hermana. so yeah. right now the battle against my lice is going on. how embarrassing. so i am straightening my hair everyday, and hna carazas said to me that i now have rotisserie lice. but in spanish it is funnier because rotisserie chicken is called pollo a la brasa, and she said that i will have piojo a la brasa. hahaha. oh man. so gross.

oh kay. time for missionary talk. wooo!

so we FINALLY have investigators with baptism dates!!! por fin! and we have 4 who accepted to a date this weeek. !!!! we are sooooooooooo excited. this week has been soooo great, and i feel like all of our hard work is finallyyyyyy having results. we are teaching this cutest little 78 year old woman named consuelo, and e brought her to church yesterday and she said that she LOVED every bit of it. she was really rich at one point in her life and traveled around everywhere with her husband. but he died about 20 years ago, and she lives by herself now and her kids and family never really visit her. but she is sooo cool and great! and she wants to be baptized. so hopefully she keeps this feeling and we can be inspired with what she needs to hear. she is just the cutest and greatest!!!

and then jhon. ohhhhhh jhon. he is 19 and wAS DEFINITELY being prepared to hear this message. oh my goodness! we gave him a book of mormon on tuesday, and left him a chapter to read, and on wednesday we visited him again, and he had already read his chapter, and loved it!! and told us that he knows it is true and wants to be baptized!! he is just the MOST sincere and great. he has never heard anything about the church, and so this is alllll new information for him, and its what he´s been looking for. oh man you guys. he is just the coolest in the whole world.

and then we are teaching the mom of one of our converts, hugo, who was baptized back in february. and she always reads the chapters we leave her, which is sooooooooooo rare that people keep their committments. but she does and she has become sooo much happier since taking the lessons. we are praying that she will stick with her baptism date, too.

also, there is andres who wants to be baptized, but his work scheule prohibits him from attending church every sunday. that is the onlyyyyyyyy thing that is keeping him from being baptized. so if you can, pleeeeeeeeez pray for little andres. he´s the greatest.

okay, weellllll this is all for this week. hopefully it isnt too scattered and crazy. i was typing as fassst as i can. i love you all so much and miss you all sooooo much!! be safe and keep being great!!!!!

love,

jillbo