Cheesy Pics and Hiking / CHRISTMAS

 I hope all of you had a good week! This week we did a tonnnnnn, Last Monday night we caroled in the plaza and we'll be doing it again tonight, it's a blast because caroling is not something normal you do here haha. You already get looked at weird for being white but while singing it's even better, but we had some success we got some people to join and stuff like that so it was really cool. We also went and did service at a preschool and also sang to the kids, they LOVED it, we taught them the true meaning of christmas and how to sing Wish you a merry christmas. We've been trying to find different ways of contacting people instead just the good ol door knocking, so this week we played basketball with a bunch of kids, super fun but my gosh Sicuani is just in the clouds, there's no air and you get tired in like 4 minutes, still not used to it haha. We've also just been walking into stores with the Light the world on the tiny DVD player every room has in the mission, (I call it our missionary laptop) It's been working pretty well, people love talking about christmas. We're still teaching English  twice a week, and gospel principles which I actually haven't done yet on my mission so that's new and really fun. 

I also did splits this week with my good ol friend Elder Haws, this is like our 3rd time doing splits in the mission which is hilarious, out of all the people in the mission Elder Haws is just somehow always my leader haha, but anyways we were teaching english the other day during splits and we got a call that their window had blown off from the second story (it was raining super hard) and it had hit the street, we came back to the house and thankfully no car or anyone was hurt. So after finding that out it was pretty dang funny taping up the window peru style with scotch tape. Good time.

So we have an investigator named Fanny, she's about 14 years old and we set a baptismal date with her this week! For the 30 th of December, at first she was terrified (reminded me of Sara) But we came back a couple days later and she feels totally fine now which I'm super grateful for, she's been to church a million times and loves it and is also super smart and just knows everything, like many missionaries say, she's a golden investigator. We're going to be working a lot with her this week! Hopefully, this week is insane haha. We're still visiting Jennifer a lot and she actually came to church yesterday!! She's super cool she's just still trying to find that answer and receive that testimony. 

Elder Austin and I are having a blast, it's nice to speak English a ton cause half the Americans in the mission are in Sicuani haha. We will be going to Cusco on Wednesday!! It will be our mission christmas party with all the zones that are somewhat close to Cusco, (we're 3 hours away) We're super excited cause every zone has a "musical number" and ours is just a lip sync, with a dance;) Hope you all have an awesome Christmas!! I know I will cause I get to see my fam!:)

p.s.  We went hiking today