Monday, May 28, 2012

"she's out of our haiiirrr"


that is a reference from monsters incorporated, in case you didnt know. and i am using it to refer to my lice. i believvveeee that they are out of my haiiirrr.  haleilujah! i hope they are gone. i havent found any, but i think that the eggs stiiiill remain. little reproductive nasties...

anyway. hiiiiiiii!!!! i am always ohhhhhhhhhh so excited to write you guys every week. but mostly to receive your emails. da best. pleeeez dont ever stop writing me. i would cry. hahaha but seriously.

so this week has been ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so great. where to begin, where to begin.

last week´s pday: we went to parque de las aguas which has a bunch of water fountains and has a laser water show thing. it was actually realllllly great and cool and peaceful. i dont think i really liked that kind of thing before the mission, but i really enjoyed being there. and there is this one section of fountains that the people can play in, but i didnt want to "play" in it because that would mean that i would get wet, and it is kind of cold at night here now, annnnd we were all wearing our proselyting clothes. but you can go into the middle of this fountain without getting wet, but you have to move fast and skillfully--uh oh dopey. 2 things that im not. but i tried anyway. and right before i reached the middle, i FELL, right on ma backside. hahahhaha normally i would be scarred with embarrassment. but i wasnt embarrassed at all. hahaha my dignity here in peru doesnt exist. hahaha and then my freaking companion pulled me into the fountains and the other sisters too. freaking. but then it ended up being really fun and all of us played like little kids in the fountain. i attached some pics. oh, and there is a pic of me and hna. santiago. she is my fave, and i hope that we can be comps in the future.

alllsooo, we had a lesson with the son of Elizabeth, Jefferson. he is 8. and we taught him about prayer and how the relationship with God is sooo important, and then we asked him if he would say the closing prayer, and Elizabeth taught him how to pray and helped him along! it was the greatest cutest thing in the whole world. Elizabeth has come suchhhhhh a long way. and this sunday we announced her baptism that it was this saturday, and she couldnt stop smiling. and once again, during sunday school, she was taking notes the whole time. you guys, she is seriously soooo great. i pray that she will stay active in the church and everything because it is going to bless her family so much. they are soooo poor. whenever anyone is ever sick in that house, im always scared because they dont have the money to go to the doctor. but she has a family in the ward now who is going to care for her.

on saturday was the baptism of Consuelo, or Lucia. hahaha Consuelo is just a nickname. but everyone calls her that, right? but after being baptized she refuuused to respond consuelo. only lucia. hahaha she said, i've changed my religion, so i have changed my name. Consuelo remains in the water." hahhaa she's the greatest. and in the closing prayer, the person called her consuelo, and she corrected him in a loud whisper, "lucia!!" hahaaha she is the greatest!! i attached some pictures from the baptism, tooo.

oh man you guys. it was just the greatest.

oh, annnnnd yesterday night, this big family from utah came and performed orchestra-type of music in our stake, and they are traveling to other parts of peru. anyway, one of the daughters was going to share her testimony and needed to have someone translate it into spanish... and they chose ME. ahhahahaha i was oh so nervous, but thankfully testimonies are the words i know. who knew 5 months ago that i would be translating in front of a lotttt of people. not me. thanks for the prayers, peeps. i am ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh so grateful.

you guys, this soooo cool to be a missionary. i know that for me and my testimony of the gospel, i HAD to serve a mission. thanks for all of your support and your prayers. i love all of you soooooooooooooooo much. thanks for loving me. i love an dmiss you all SOOO much.

love,
jill frances







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