Familia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feliz Dia de Brujas!!! ( as they say here in Peru...happy day of
witches!) It´s so good to here from you all! :) I had heard nothing of
the crazy storm but I am glad that everyone is safe! That´s crazy that
it is worse than Katrina? You all are in my prayers for sure.
It has been quite a week full of a lot of different activities
here in Lima! First off...I have less than a week left here in the
CCM!!! I can´t believe it has been nine weeks! Next time you here from
me I will be in the field!!! Ah! I dont know what day my new P day will
be but I will let you know when I get there :) I am leaving Tuesday
afternoon and because I am already in Lima it should only be a drive of
an hour or so via bus haha.
Ok...So let´s see here...I still LOVE IT here!! So much. I am going
to miss this place but I am super excited to get in the field and teach
people!!! I have found though that this place really is so inspired!
The things we learn here help us when we are out teaching so much and
it´s great!! Ok...so one of the Hermanas here, her name is Hna
Santacruz, she is from Argentina, she is one of my absolute favorites!
She is going to come study at BYUI after the mission! Anyways...the
reason I mentioned her is that we have gotten into the fun nightly
activity of having her tell us a story every night before bed. Its super
funny and helpful because its in spanish! haha yea.. :) Also...another
fun fact, for the past 5 weeks here, my companion and I have been the
only Norte Americana Hermanas here which has been super fun! But this
past week we got two more from Provo. They are both super nice too so
thats good :)
Ok! So last Saturday, we got to go proselyting again in Campoy!!!
Apparently, this city is super dangerous, but being sisters, they put us
in a super nice area out of harms way and it was SUCH a wonderful
experience! We met so many people and taught about 5 lessons in 4 hours!
We gave out probably about 14 pamphlets and 5 Books of Mormon too! We
traded companions for the day again and we also had one of the sisters
from that area there with us. So that was good because I had two latinas
with me! Haha oh spanish... :) Anyway, we started walking up the street
and these two little girls probably about 4-5 said... hey! Follow us
and come see my family! So obviously...we did! Haha. But anyway, it was a
way cool experience! We taught the Family the plan of Salvation and
sung ¨Families can be together Forever¨ with them. The spirit was really
strong and they invited us back again to hear more. What a
beautiful, special family they were! We also taught a girl who was 19
years old who was just SO ready to hear the Gospel, we taught her the
Restoration of the Gospel and about Joseph Smith. She just was so cute
and so ready to hear about Heavenly Father and how much she was loved as
a daughter of God! It was amazing. We talked about baptism and she
really has the desire to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized. It was
incredible.
These people are just SO amazing! I love Peru. Im probably going to live here again at some point :)
Oh! Also...another fun fact that I have forgotten to mention is my
new favorite fruit! They are called Granadillas. Soooooooooooooooo
delicious!!! :)
Last but certainly not least, my spiritual tidbit of the
week...last Wednesday, we had the opportunity to hear from an Area
Seventy-Elder Wadell. He talked about the importance of our call and how
we need to honor it because of who we are serving. He talked about how
when we signed our acceptance to our mission call, we made a covenant
with Heavenly Father that we would serve Him for this year and a half
for all of the time, not part and that we need to honor our calling of
representing Jesus Christ by standing by this covenant. It was SUCH a
strong talk.
I have to go now! But I love you all!!! :)
Con Mucho Amor, SIEMPRE!
Hermana Ali :)
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