Hola todas! First of all, Feliz Dia
de Papa dad!! Te amo mucho! Sorry I didn´t write yesterday. For P day we
went as a zone to Chancay, a little town en la playa. We played futbol
on the beach, and I´m not gonna lie, futbol is fun! At least that game
was ha. We had fresh ceviche and Inca Kola and it was super good. For P
day last week we went to a water park called, very originally, Parque de
las Aguas. The park is really a bunch of fountains that you pay to go
play in, so we ran around in the fountains for a while then rode home in
a bus soaking wet. Our last two P days have been with the zone, so they
have been way fun!!
Last week we had Interpol, so we went to the mission
office and met up with other new missonaries to go do a bunch of
paperwork. The good thing about our mission being so small is that I got
to see Hna Madsen, Elder Fankhauser, Hna Bejarano, y Elder Thomas
again! We went over to a capilla b y the CCM and had our teeth checked
and fingerprints done. We are gonna have to go back sometime to do
Immigrations, and they said that would take all day. Fun stuff!
We had a super funny lesson a few days ago with a
reference named Carlos. Carlos is probably about 60 years old. First of
all when we walked in we walked through a cloud of incense burning by
the door and I had no idea what we were breathing. Then we sat down and
Carlos starting speaking English words in sentences that didn´t make any
sense, so I just laughed cause he was laughing. We were talking and we
told him that we serve for 18 months. He said, ¨Do you know what 8 plus 1
is? 9, that´s right. How old was Christ when he died? 33. What do you
get when you multiply 3 and 3? 9, that´s right.¨Ha and also, ¨Do you
know how many bones are in the spinal column? 33, that´s right. And what
happens if you break your spinal column? Yes that´s right, you die.¨Ha
he was hilarious just telling us random facts about numbers. He reminded
me of the dad on that movie about a big fat greek wedding. Everything
is Greek. Haha.
Last night we had a family home evening con the Bishop
and his wife. We watched a Mormon message from Elder Holland where he
talks about no matter how hard life my seem, better things will come.
The Bishop´s wife said that those hard things in life are our mirror.
When hard things come it´s a chance for us to see how our relationship
is with the Savior. It made me think when I go through hard times who do
I turn to first? I really love the message to just keep moving forward,
and all things will work together for our good.
In our meeting with the ward mission leader this week he
told us something that I´ve been thinking about all week. He said that
here in the mission we have the opportunity and power as missionaries to
promise people specific blessings. He said that as representatives of
Jesus Christ, we have the power to promise blessings, and no other time
in our life probably are we going to have that same power. It really
struck me that I need to be worthy to be able to promise those
blessings. And it gave me a greater vision of my responsiblity as a
missionary.
Thanks again for the birthday wishes! My birthday was
great!! I got two cakes ha, one was tres leches and one was chocolate.
I´m glad that even though I couldn´t be with you guys on my birthday, I
got to be with friends and people that I care about. I´ve realized
lately that life is so much easier when we count our blessings!! The
mission, and just life in general. I love being a missionary! I´m just
happy. I´ll get over it I´m sure :)
Hna. Anderson
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