Super P-day

This week was awesome but only cause Tuesday was a conference and Wednesday we hung out in the mountains playing games all day. They split us up into teams and we did a ton of fun stuff ending with a big soccer game. Seeing President Herrera kick our butts in soccer was a good time. Very enjoyable/relaxing/fun day. 

As for the work I'm actually just very frustrated haha. We have so many investigators but it's just not their time I guess. I'm trusting in the Lord because I know everything is according to his will, I'm learning a ton, mostly about patience, with my companions and with investigators. I'm very tired and frustrated but I can't even explain how cool and humbling the mission is. I can't explain it at all. 

Changes are next week! I felt like I just told everyone that changes are coming up, it goes by soo fast. So I can understand ALMOST everything now, I'm very good at understanding people but when it comes to talking it's a lot harder for some reason, but I love this language, it's gorgeous, I listen to hymns and church songs in spanish cause they honestly sound better to me in Spanish. I also love meeting people from different parts of South America, every country has a different accent which is super funny, and now that I'm actually able to understand it's super funny to talk to them, I think the accent from Argentina is my favorite. Me and my companion always imitate it. Anyways I hope you all had a good week! I'm loving the mission, it's pretty dang hard but pretty dang awesome. Love you all! (The last pic is with the grandparents that I practice my Quechua with)  

I totally forgot it was Easter

Today will be a weird day, we get to write our families but we have to go back to work for the day, this Wednesday is our super P-day with half the mission, super pumped to see my homies from the MTC. Roxana doesn't want to know anything now which was very very very disappointing, this happens a lot here, we find an awesome person who wants us to visit them and after like 2 or 3 visits they just dissappear or tell us they don't want anything to do with us. We have thousands of old investigators in our area folder haha. 

BUT, we are teaching a guy named Jose Luis, he has mental problems that make it hard for him to talk about what's on his mind, it's kind of like Autism. We have to repeat what we say like 3 times and very simply so that he can understand it well, I love it, my spanish isn't perfect so being able to talk slow and really go over what we're saying is amazing, he's insanely smart and an awesome guy. He's planning to be baptized at the end of the month. His mom tells us that he can't be baptized cause he has problems and he doesn't understand, but that's a bunch of bologni. We feel the spirit and he bore us his testimony and how he can feel the love of Christ in his life when we come to visit, at first I was also hesitant, I was thinking that maybe he just doesn't understand but recently we've been able to see what he's truly thinking and feeling. He really does want to change his life. He's an awesome person that made me open my eyes to those who struggle with that kind of problem. 

So we've been teaching an 8 year old girl to prepare for her baptism, she's not an investigator but her parents asked us to teach her the lessons and oh my gosh was it a blast. This family is amazing, they're all recent converts but their testimonies are so strong. Mercela was baptized on Saturday (there's pics)  

This week was semana santa and I totally forgot that Sunday was Easter so now I'm upset. We ate a ton this weekend and no one in the city worked. I hope you all had an awesome Easter and a good week, I'm doing very good, I don't fit in any of my pants anymore, I'm forgetting English, my testimony's growing everyday, and I'm tired:) Have a good week!!!!!!!!!!!!

6 Months and going strong

I'm reading all the emails from the missionaries and everyone's saying that this week went by super slow and oh my goodness I agree! Cusco slowed down this week like crazy, who knows why but man I'm loving this city, our sector is hard!!!! haha  

Contacting doesn't work but we're doing our best, we talk with everyone we can, we help everyone we can, and we try to bring the spirit to everyone in Ttio. We received a reference this week and as usual this person didn't exist, when we asked the lady who lived there she said oh yah I don't know who he is but I'd love to join your church! I thought I dreamed it in the moment like in the movies and I just heard it different or something but nope it was real how cool is that. We'll be visiting with her (Veronica) all this week! If you guys remember Alfio, his mom has now started receiving the lessons which I can't even explain how excited I am for that, all I want to do is teach families but that's something really hard to do here, super super excited to continue teaching Alfio's mom Liliana. Ttio is a hard sector of Cusco, but I know there's little miracles hidden everywhere we just have to keep working.

 So I'm trying to learn the impossible language of the Incas called Quechua. Just like in Yunguyo all the old people spoke Aimara, here in Cusco they speak quechua. I'm convinced the Lamanites spoke it too. A member who speaks English gave me an english to quechua dictionary which is like impossible to find cause it's all spanish to quechua. So I'm gonna try to talk with the grandparents that live in our building, I love the culture here it's crazy awesome, if you're planning a trip to some country please come to Cusco it's so dang good. So grateful for it. When I'm homesick I just have to remember where I am and how blessed I am to be here. 

I hope you all have a good week!!!! Next Monday I will write you all but that Wednesday we're having a super p-day with almost our entire mission and president Herrera that'll be sweet. Please pray for our beloved Prophet! Love you all!

Showers exploding

Awesome week I don't have a lot of time cause we were at a waterfall in Urubamba the entire day so I'll just send a ton of pictures. This week our shower exploded and almost set are bathroom on fire, the showers here are not very intelligent at all, they're heated by electricity... so it's kind of like a death trap standing in water heated by electricity, I've probably been shocked about 6 times from hitting my hands on the shower head cause it's so low too. We had a member come over and fix the shower so now it won't shoot sparks and fire which is something I'm happy about now. 

General conference was awesome I hope you all watched it, I got to see it in English which was sweet. Roxana is progressing and wanting to learn more every time we visit so I'm happy about that. I get to translate a ton here in Cusco, tourists always see that I'm white when I pass by and ask me to translate for them, which turns into a contacting oppurtunity, in English;) 

LAst Monday we were sending letters and people from Israel asked me to translate so they can send their bags to Israel, only one of them spoke English so it was cool to see three languages being tossed around, very cool experience to see that we can communicate even when there's soooooooo many languages and cultures. I'm having a blast, Urubamba was gorgeous, biggest mountains and valleys I have ever seen. I hope you all had an awesome week! I hit 6 months in the mission tomorrow..crazy!