Hola Mi familia y mis Amigos!
How was your week?? I hope all is well! Here is what happened this week here in the mission....
- Wednesday we had our monthly meeting with Stake President Gomez, Presidente Rasmussen, and the Zone Leaders. As we got to talking, the meeting rounded out that our ward, Ramon Castilla, needs some help. The numbers in our area have been the lowest and Hna. Apeña and I have been working super hard. Presidente Gomez and P¨resident Rasmussen agreed that the members needed an intervention! They made plans to come and visit our ward council and do a bit of training. Hna. Apeña and I are both so grateful for the help they offered.
- Thursday came our final District meeting of the transfer. It was all about recognizing the Spirit and I learned a ton! There was one scripture that I really liked in D&C 9:7-9. I encourage you all to go look it up, ponder, and apply it in your lives! :)
- Thursday night came ward council. Hna. Apeña and I had to do divisions to go to an appointment and attend the council. Presidente Gomez and Elder Iglesias (Zone Leader) were present with the sole purpose of observing and then teaching t}how to make it better. Wow Presidente Gomez gave an amazingy}ly inspiring, correcting lesson on how to help real people and be effective. I felt the spirit and had even more desires to get out and work, and he wasnt even talking towards me!! I sure hope the ward applies what he taught!
- Friday we went seeking out people because the ward had to cancel the Noche Misional. The Lord had a hand in our acts because we randomly dropper by the visit an invesetiagtor, Daina, and she was actually home! She received us and once again the lesson was super spiritualy. She is afraid to come to church just yet, but both Hna. Apeña and I feel the spirit so strong with her that we are sticking with her, we are going to help her lose her fear and make the decions that she needs to in order to help her cute family!
- Saturday the Lord gave us a miracle! We had a member with us in the morning, a miracle in and of itself, and we wanted to make good use of her time. our appointments fell through so we were stuck. Hna. Apeña felt like maybe we should look for the reference that we received from a member the ote}her day. So thats where we went. She was amazingly home and let us in. We taught her and her mom and her niece and they were wonderfully attentive! Esepcially the 14 yr old niece. I know the Lord directed us there to their house at that moment besuace the day before, Hna. Deysi the reference was in a motorcycle accident with a moto and was ready to hear what we had to say. It was a good experience!
- Saturday afternoon, We showed a recent convert, Hno. Arturo, how to reserve his family names to do the work in the temple. We were helping him with his family tree on FamilySearch and he asked how far back goes my family tree. I told him that we should go look. We opened up my account and I started going back, following the paternal line. Want to know just how far back it goes....? 940 A.C.!!! Some queen or something that died in 940 A.C.!!!! Hno. Arturo and Hna. Apeña and even me we were all shocked! Truly family history work is inspring and so super importnant!
- Saturday night came the big reveal.....CAMBIOS!!!!! Now I am Tambo Grande 2. Talara was beach, Ramon Castilla city, and now Tambo Grande is the country side, fruit farms and all that. Every differnt life style possible, thats my mission! My new companion is Hna. Sucari. She is 25 and has 6 months in the mission. She is from Lima and actually finished culinary school before coming the mission! She is a licensed chef! Tambo Grande is a branch, but a strong, growing branch. Our room is nice and simple and we live in the home of a member. I am super excited for this new change!
- Sunday night, after taking tons of photos after church and being pretty content, Hna. Apeña took me to a surprise party put together by the ward and Hna. Apeña! It was super sweet and I felt the great love from and for each of the members there.the ward showed such love and helped me realize more and more that it isnt the baptisms or rescued members or any other number that counts. It is the people one impacts and loves. It is the example one sets and effort one gives. Now I feel more prepared to keep working hard, even when it seems impossible and sometimes uneffective. I am eternally grateful for that lesson. It is always hard to say goodbye.....but the Lord sends us where He needs us!
- Today we had to be at Eppo at 8AM. I have sooooo much stuff...It ws a real sturggle getting it all down the stairs...but we made it. I always love seeing all the other missionaries!! We then took a giant van to Tambo grande, an hour away. I unpacked and got myself settled. As I did all that, Hna. Sucari was doing some cleaning and then used some brown bananas to make something called jugo de platano con leche. IT was my first time trying it and it was good. Super different but good! Then guess what! We had to return to Piura so that we could use the internet because the internet in Tambo Grande is crazy slow. So we made the return trip. To be honest, I am a little carsick and nervous for another ride back to Tambo Grande!! LOL But it has been a good day!
Well, that is my week! Went by fast! I love you all so very much and hope you have a fantastic week! Be good! Hasta la próxima semana!
PS the photo is of me and my new comp!!!
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