ohhh familyyyyyyy!!!

this week has been o so so so great!!!!!!! you guys, and right now i am oh so excited to be writing you guys. hahhaha oh mannn. ok where to start. where to start...

eeeeeeek! for some reason i am soooooooo high energy right now. but this elder sitting next to me is kind of getting on my nerves because he keeps talking to me, and sorry, but this time is SACRED. dont distract me, fool. i have to write my family. and he is singing along to the worldy music, freaking. hahhahaa actually im just jealous because i dont know the words.

okay, soooooo something funny that happened this week is this: my comp and i were planning for the week and she was like, oh, i have to go to the bathroom. so she went and i waited and continued to work on things. bla bla. anyway, so then i heard a knocking on the bathroom door, and hna. callejas said, "hna! can you help me? i cant get out of the bathroom." hahhahah so i went in to try to open the door. but something happened with the doorknob and it would NOT open. i tried breaking it open and everything!(can you imagine? hhahha) but nothing. and before we knew it, she had been trapped in the bathroom for like 2 hours! and we had a lunch appointment to get to. so we called the zone leaders and i explained everything to them, and they were like, "ok. we'll come and break it down." hahahhahaha oh man. oh, and during all of this, i found out that my compy is closerphobic? i dont know. but she is, and she was like freaking out and she stopped communicating with us, and i was quite worried. but when she told me she was closterphobic, i thought that she was joking. hahahha woops. but she wasnt. woops. so the zone leaders came and kicked the bathroom door open. hahahhahaa ohhhhh man. it was reallllllllly funny. and strange. and awkward? hahahha

anyway. oh--and then we were walking back to our apartment one night this weeek, and we saw this lady walking in the direction toward us, and i turned to my comp and said, im pretty sure this lady is a crazy. and we just kept walking, and when we were passing her, i glanced at her to look at her, and when i did, she looked right at me and growled at me!!! hahahhaha and it scared me soooooooo bad. i wet! hahahha just kidding. i didnt. but i did get really scared. eeeeeeek!!!

so, you know how this past week i was worried about my comp and her disobedient ways? welllllllll, i have been praying soooo much that something would change or that i would know how to talk to her about it without sounding like a know it all (which i have heard other hermanas be like that, and i HATE it), and anyway, i just wasnt saying anything. i was tolerating the things(mabes this wasnt the best idea, but i didnt have any other solutions at the time. . .) andddd. i think it ended up being a blessing!!!! because then she was like, " sister fleming, you know, the people of magdalena reallly need these blessings, and i need to change the way im doing things." but it was more detailed obviously and everything, but she made the decision on her ownnnn!! because she has had other comps who have tried to force her to change her ways, i didnt want to be like that, and that is why i was struggling. anyway, so now it is all good.  and we are making sooooooo many improvements in our sector. seriously. and she is the greatest!!! i realllllllly love being her compy, and im not lying to myself like i may have done in the past with other companions. woooo!!! so thanks for your prayers everyone. they're realllllllllllly helping.

also, WE FOUND A FAMILY TO TEACH. !!!!!!!!!! and the mom and her 2 daughters have dates for their baptism this 14 de Julio and the dad is listening step by step. oh man you guys. it is just the GREATEST. i love them soooo much!! the mom has a brother who lives in the states and he is getting to know the church right now, too, and told her, you've GOT to learn about this. it is helping me in my life soooo much. and so this family has been super receptive to everything. and they are an answer to our prayers--right now one of the things we are praying for specifically is that we can find families that will be future leaders in the church and will be super strong. man, i wish you guys could know all of these people. they're so great!!

oh, and Hug-ito. my little hugo who was baptized back in february finalllllyyyyyyy wanted to receive the priesthood, because i think he finally understood the importance of having it, and you guys, he has changed soooooooo much. and now, we're preparing him for the mission! wooo!! and in this part of south america, the boys can leave at the age of 18. cool, huh?

anyway, oh man. this week has just been sooooooooo great. thanks so so so much for your prayers and for all being so great.

i am attaching some photos of my time with my new compy. she can cook really well and loves eating, so these first 2 weeks together have been alllll about food. hahahhaa but now we decided we need to calm down a bit. hahahaha but one day we made hamburgers that were DELCIOUS. and then one day we went and at picarrones, which are peruvian donuts and are THE MOST delcious. and then we were at this park and took this picture with the chastity pamphlet. hahahaha oh man. it is ohhhh so fun with her.

anyway, i love you guys soooooooooooo much! keep being great!

oh--annnnnd this weekend, Pres. tyler and his wife go back home and we get our new president. eeeeeek!! so this should be interesting... i will really miss our president. he is real real great.

anyway, i lov eyou all soooooooo much!!

love,

me

hiiiiiiiiiii

happy pappy's day, pops!!! and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to the papás!! 36 years is something to be quiiiite proud of, parents. way to go! idaho! (toy story)

soooooooooo i have my new compy. dun. dun. dunnnnnnnn.

and i LOVE HER. yayyy!!!! i loved my old compy hna. carazas. but im realizing so many things that i didnt love about her, too. hahahaha oops! but my new comp is from Bolivia, La Paz and her name is Hna. Callejas. she is real real great. we have shared about our lives and such with each other and she is a really beautiful person and she likes to have fun and enjoy the time on the mission. and she is so GREAT with people. you guys--sister missionaries can be pretty weird and socially handicapped at times. but not my new compy!! yayyy!! it is sooooo enjoyable and non stressfull to talk with her with da people in da streetz. and she told me, "hna fleming. im really taking advantage of this time having you as my companion because everyone wants to talk with us because youre gringa." hahhahaha oh man. personally, that is what scares me most about talking to people. like yesterday, we were teaching this man, probs 50-something. and first he complemented me on my eyes. and then he went on to casually mention that he was single. and then he went on to ask if i was single. and then he went on to ask if as missionaries we had to remain single. and then he went on to say that, well, we never know what the future holds for us, right?

ew. and double ew.

but also, hahhahahahaa. freaking hombres aqui. thankfully my compy recognizes that these are little creepy creeps around here that just because your white think that it is normal to confess their love to you???? that is something i will never understand.

so this week we met with fernando isaac again. yes, he's back! eeeeek!!! we committed him to be baptized this saturday, and our lesson with him was wayyyyyy good that we had. like i said, hna callejas has a way with people and she's super sincere. so im hoping we can get this man baptized.

sooooo i got news that my box is in the office of the mission and that i shoullllddd be receiving it this wednesday. and you know what that means??? NO MORE LICE. i hope i hope i hope. but my poor little companion i think has it. uh oh. sorry.

also, my companion was studying food( i forgot what that major is called. but in spanish it is gastronomia. hahhaa when she first told me, i thought it was about outer space. hahhaha) before the mission, and she wants to coook yummy things for me all the time! but also, oh no! im going to get fatty. oh well. what e'er.

what else, what else.

okay, so if you guys could do me a favor. could you pray for me to keep wanting to be obedient? the only downfall with this companion is that she is really relaxed about the rules sometimes. she has a way strong testimony, but there are some rules that for me are very important and for her, arent. anyway, she's had a sucky past of companions that have basically tried to condemn her. and i dont want to be that companion. sooooooooo....HELP. hahhaaha

also, can you pray that i dont die in an earthquake? supposedly lima is due to have a huge earthquake... like the huge one that comes every 100 years. i wasnt going to tell you guys because i didnt want to scare you. heh. but then i figured that hey, they can pray for my safety! yay! but also, this is also why i need to be obedient--b/c without that, bye bye protection.

anyway. this letter was probs really boring for you guys. so, sorry. and i dont have any photos today. i need to by an adapter to send my pics because the other one i used was of hna carazas.

anyway.

i love you and miss you all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. thank you alllll for my wonderful letters! love, jilly pants

wonderful, wonderful dayyyyyy (7 brides for 7 bros)

well folks, we´ve only got 1 more year to be separated. crazy, huh??? i cant believe that i have 6 months in my mission.

momsie!! happy birthday! i hope it was just grand. i wish i could have been there to give you a big hug.

well, first things first: the lice keep their little dance on my head goin' strong. what the?? this week my wonderful pensionista searched through my hair and found the little nasties walking around, and killed them. thank you, hna. munante. it is really gross to kill them because they make a popping noise. ewwww. im cringing just thinking about it. so when others volunteer to do the killing for me, yes please. also, ive lost all my dignity.  i really hope mom and dad's box gets here soon!!

you guys--we have changes again this week! this change went by soooo fast. annnnd im going to be receiving a new companion. i scared, k? im going to miss my compy, hna carazas a lot. we are good little friends. but also, 4 1/2 months living with the same girl 24/7 is a long time together. sooooo... that is all i will say about that. but yeah. i just pray that me and my new compy will love each other. hahaha eek!

soooooo this week i have been sick. i had a fever one day and had to stay in m y rooom allllll day. soooo boring. but i slept the whole time and rested my bod. but now ive been coughing a whole lot and today i dont have a voice. at all. and all the missionaries in my zone this morning just loveddddd asking me questions because i couldnt respond. dummies. hahahah just kidding. i actually love all the missionaries in my zone a whole lot.

anyway. boring stuff. sorry.

so this saturday we had the baptism of Andrea--the 16 year old. oh man you guys. she is soooooooooo great! her baptism was one of the most beautiful baptisms i have ever been too. a ton of people came and the talks were really great. oh, and both of her parents came who arent members. so she was baptized and then right after they asked her to share how she felt after being baptized, and when she was talking the spirit was soooooo strong in the room, and she started crying, and i looked at her parents and her mom was crying, too which means that sheee could feel the spirit, too. and it was just sooo soo beautiful and great. so yesterday we went and visited her and asked her what her parents thought of everything, and she told us that they are going to come to church next sunday--wooo!!!! and that they are just kind of curious as to what the beliefs are and everything--wooo!!! yayyyy!!!  so we're hoping that they will be the next ones to be baptized. we're definitely going to try to start teaching them.

also, you guyyyyyssss. Elizabeth is just the greatest in the whole wide world!!!!!!!! i wish all of you could meet her. tonight she is going to have her own FHE with her family, she told us yesterday. because she is doing the basic things first, and building her testimony, she is going to be sooo strong. because she prays and reads every day. and then last night, we went to their house have a little farewell for hna. carazas, and she fixed us Papa Rellena, which is this fried potatoe thing with meat stuffed in the inside. oh so delicious! and because this family is soooooo poor, anything that they give us, i feel sooooooooooooooooooooo loved by them. because i know that it isnt easy, you know? AND her son jefferson asked us last night, "so, when is my baptism?" YAY!!! so he is super excited to be baptized too. i just LOVE this family soo so much.

anyway, im attaching some pics of Elizabeth's baptism and of the FHE that we had with the familia Ampudia last week.

i love and miss you all SOOOOOOOO much. thanks always for your letters and emails and everything. i love and miss you all BASTANTE.

love,

hermana jill frances

not to fret young ones...

... you will receive an email from me. hahaha im sure you were all on the edge of your seats waiting... i kid, i kid. but sometimes i like to imagine that you are. hahaha so what? i like attention. hahaha just kidding. mabes.

anyyyyway. today we went to chancay again and it was ohhh so fun!! that is why i am just now writing to all of you. i have pictures to send, but we forgot the little adapter thing, so sorry. no pics for this week, folks. 

but you guys. this week has been ohhh soo good and ohhhhh soooo hard. man oh man. 

first the good--

we had the baptism of dear ol elizabeth this weekend and it was just the cutest and sweetest. We went to her house an hour before to check to see if she needed anything and to see how she was doing, and she was like, ''no no no! im doing great'' and then she couldnt contain her excitement and did this little clapping motion that reminds me of something that mom would do. like, it was kind of spastic hahaha and sooo cute! and she gave us both really big hugs. and then after being baptized she was just sooo happy. and her little son, jefferson, whom we are teaching too, said that he cant wait to be baptized, too. eeeeek!! and then sunday morning, elizabeth was supposed to be confirmed, like normal, but she didnt show up and we were really worried. so after church we went and checked on her, and she said that she got off of work at 7 am this morning and was rushing from work to get to church by 9. but since everyone depends on public transportation here, it isnt the most reliable and she didnt make it back to her house until like 11. and she told us that she felt bad allll morning and embarrassed. awwwwwwww!! i raelllllllly just love her sooooo much. i wish you could all meet her. but we comforted her and said that next week she'll be confirmed, and all will be well. but she is just the cutest. and last week we had an FHE con una family that is super super strong in our ward and have kids around the ages of her kids and it went sooo great. and they invited us to come again tonight. yay!! so she is very excited about going to that again. woo!!!

also, i dont remember if i told you about andrea, but she is 16 and THE GREATEST. oh my word. i love her so much. and she likes the song ''zombie'' by the cranberries and it is set as her ringtone for her phone, and she sounds soo cute when she tries to sing along. ahhahaha. anyway, andrea is reallllly smart and her aunt and uncle are members of the church, and she asked her aunt if she could ask us to take the lessons from us, and duh. of course. and so about 2 or 3 weeks ago we started teaching her, and last week we committed her to a baptism date and the lesson was soooooooooo great. ok, so i dont like to cry in lessons because i feel strange ahhah. but, i was bearing my testimony to her about the restauracion and how she has a lot of faith to have this desire to get baptized, and i just started crying! i couldnt help it. and then hna carazas started crying too. and then she gave us hugs and it was reallllllllllllllllllly great. and she is soooooooooooo excited for her baptism this weekend. she is seriously the greatest. lia, she is way mature and reminds me of you a lot. im just positive that you guys would be friendly friends(said like mom). 

anyway. so those are the toppings of my week. 

the lows--

we visited one of our old investigators whom we havent visited for like 5 weeks, just to see how he was doing. and he when we were talking to him, he was like, ''hna fleming--what?? you still dont know spanish??'' and i just wanted to start crying!!! and hna c was like, what? she is learning a ton. and i couldnt even talk because i was on the verge of tears. hahaha oh man. and then later one i was talking again, and he was like, hna carazas, you really need to teach your companion spansih. SO RUUUUDDEEEE. but you guys, that is just the culture here. people are sooooooooo direct. and rude. hahahha not evvverrryone. but many. anyway, so then i was like, did you reallllly think i was going to learn all of spanish in just 5 weeks??? you guys--i was soooooo mad. hahahaha. but then i coooled down. the rest of the story isnt important. but i just HAD to tell you guys who will have compassion on me! hhaha

but, with that being said, hna c earlier in the week told me that i was talking in my sleep, and i was talking in spanish! hahahaha she said that it was loud and clear hahahaha poor little dear. but woo hoo!!!! im dreaming in spanish!! sometimes, at least. 

another dumby thing that happened was that i spent 6 soles on water. stupid. i didnt mean too. but i felt really dumb, because i can usually buy them for like 1 or 2 soles. 

and i found a lice on my head. a big one live and kickin. what the??? so i hope it arrives soon, the shampoo that mom an dpops are sending me. 

ohhhhh man. my lovely family. i love you alll sooooooooooo much! i dont have time this week to write you back personally, but i loved alllllllll the emails and pictures i received sooooooo much!! i will try to send personal letters soon! also, happy birthday mommy!! i love you soo much!i will be sending a card soon!

love, 

me