Baylee - April 11 2016

April 11 2016

Hola Mi Familia y Mis Amigos!!

I hope this week went well for everyone! My week was also pretty great! Here is what happenend...

- Monday evening, Hna. CArrera and I found an awesome new family! Well, a mom and two of her sons. The moms name is Darrina and she is so receptive. She listened attentively and understands the things we teach her. She felt that Spirit and even accepted the baptismal date that we propsed. And she wants us to teach those two tlittle boys that were there and also her husband who had been at work at the time. LOL and after the lesson, we offered to do some service to help them out, and she was the first person in my whole mission to actually let us to do something to help! LOL she askedc us to help her 9 year old son with his homework project that was due the next day!! Well, that was an new one!

- Tuesday, we taught one of our awesome recent converts, Hna. Mey-Lyn. We taaught her a lesson about missionary life, how it is and what our rules ouare and such. She is in mission prep nd dead set on serving, so it was a pretty fun lesson to teach. We read from Preach My Gospel and also the Missin Handbook. It was definitely a special lesson! 

- This week we afound another new investigator, a single lady named Ita. Ita from Iquitos! Iquitos is the jungle, like the Amazons. Real deep in there and she has some crazy stories! LOL She told us a bit oabout the beliefs of the people there, like demon animslas that can turn into humans and steal your soul,m or something like that! LOL but she is real great! When she was 8 until she was 10, her and her parents were investigating the church. She never got baptized, but she remembers a little bit. She told us she has lots of doubts and is really cnfused, so she is ready to read the Book of Mormon and learn and find her own answers. She is awesome!

- Wed. morning, the two Districts that went to Canhaque last week met up to prepare a skit for the coming Stake talent show. LOL we came to a decision to do a skit about the everyday life of a misionary in the Perú Piura mission. It si such asilly little skit! We laughed tons! We have decided us 12 are the group of secrets and combinations because we keep having our own activities without the rest of the Zone!

- Wed. evening, we had our monthly meeting with the Stake President. We went over all of the important details of the missionary work in the stake. It is always very interesting to be involved in big meetings like that...LOL I still feel a little out of place!

- Thursday was our monthly leaders meeting in the mssion home with Presidente Rasmussen and Hna Rasmussen and the other assigned leaders in the mission. We learned a ton! One of the biggest points discussed was about the need to ask for references , receive references, pass references to other areas, and ask for more references. References are huge for us as missionaries! So I encourage all of you to thnk of friends and family members who need the Gospel in their lives and suggest that the visit with the missionaries or give the missionaries the directin to their house, help your loved ones find this reat truth!

- Friday we had our Zone meeting to tell the Zone all taht we were taught in the Leaders Meeting. LOL Hna. Carrera and I took a moment to really burn the missionaries in our area about the references because sometimes we get lazy. The faces of all those missionaries were priceless! We also sang happy birthday at the end to two misionaries, Elder Machaca and Hna . Howell. Hna Carrera and I had made a pudding layered dessert and we all enjoyed a good moment! 

- Friday afternoon, we had  lesson with Hno. Danny, who I have mentioned a few times this week. We read 3 Nephi 27 with him and talked about how the words of Christ in the chapter app`ly to him directly in his need to make a decisiona dn follow the Lord. Then we took a risk and asked him to join us in a special fast so that he could receive his answer. He agreed! He even knelt sdown with us right there and said the prayer to start the fast. His prayer was awesome! He truly has the desire to know the truth and follow our Savior!

- Saturday and Sunday were very different...This weekend were the presidential elections here in Peru, and there are laws against having religous meetings or even giving out cards or pamphlets. So satruday, we worked ike normal except we couldnt knock on doors or give out anything! Then Sunday, we didnt have our Church meetings and were asked to do weekly planning in the morning. Then in the afternoon we had to be in the room by 4 PM! Wht?? It was a crazy different, pretty unproductive week end. Hna. CArrera and I used the extra time to update our area book! LOL

- Today, we had  zone activity. We just all came together at the Stake Center and played volleyball, soccer, and then (Jace you are going to love this!), we played around the world Ping Pong! LOL It was so silly! Like 10 of us runing in circles around the Ping Pong table for like an hour! So fun! :)

Well, that was my week! It was pretty great! The pictures below are of Canchaque, the cool `place we went last week! I love you all sooo much! I know this Gospel is true and that the Lord hears and answers our prayers! Cuídense! Hasta la próxmia semana! :)

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