Hola
familia!!!
I
love you all so stinking much! so i have started to get a little mail
which is nice so thank you so very much!!, But probably dont send anything to
peru anymore, since I’ve only got two more weeks! Can you believe it?! I’m so
excited to leave. I mean i dont know spanish, but i am just ready to go out and
share the good news!! I’m so sad about not being able to get chichis awesome
blanket. I wish i wouldnt have left it!!! but I”ll buy one when i get to
bolivia. Also I’m happy to hear about how well Tali’s tests came back! I hope
everything works out for her hearing. i pray about it lots everyday. Also good
luck with school everyone!!!!
Ok
so wednesday we got to go on a tour last week because all of our latin
companions were gone so it was just us gringos. I am really bad at bartering!!!
this lady was trying to sell me something that i didnt want, but she lowered
the price so i bought it anyways. My President laughed at me haha. It was only
like 2 US dollars but still. I need to get better. I did buy a cute headband
though! People collect different things from countries. Would it be weird if I
collected headbands?? Anyways it was way cool. I am not allowed to send
pictures this week I dont think or I’d show you. we visited the capitol and
like there were so many people interested in the gospel! but we didnt really
bring stuff like books of mormon!!! booo... Seriously everywhere we go,
everyone is just ready for the gospel its insane!!!
Thursday
we got our new district. I have only one companion and its Hermana Kimes! Its
really fun because we are funny together. our whole district is Latino which
has been fun. Of course they all beatbox and say que en el Mundo by now. They
think Hma Kimes and I are hilarious. Well everyone does so whats new. There are
only 6 latina girls, and 10 Norte Americana girls! Its waaaaaay different than
last time, but we are having fun. Its just usually in english which is weird.
haha. two elders in my district are from Bolivia which is way cool! plus most
people are serving there, so thats awesome.
Friday--
this day i got selected to sing in the choir for when Elder Christopherson
comes! well seeing as theres only 16 girls thats not that wierd haha. theres 8
girls and like 30 elders in the choir. ha. Its exciting though. Also this
day, i was looking out my window and an elder from my old district told me to
watch. He did this cool thing where he jumped upside down onto a pole. sorry i
can't really explain it. He calls himself spiderman haha. But, he dislocated
his shoulder. the moral of the story: dont be dumb- God is less likely
to protect you from something you could have easily prevented yourself
haha. But God does protect us a lot here- i could fill twelve letters with
stories about that from the days we go out into the field!!
Saturday--
unfortunately we didnt get to go out to the field because we had all the new
people come in. But I did have a cool experience in a practice lesson. I
learned that for me, when people say just open your mouth and the spirit will
guide your words doesnt mean that you should just start talking and you will
magically have words to say, all though ive tried that and its awkward. ha. to
me, it means, just use all the words you know, dont worry about it just say
what you want to say, and the spirit will use what i know to get through to the
people im teaching. it was a powerful experience.
Sunday
everyone got sick but me, because i have oils and all that good stuff.
Seriously, a lot of people are still sick today. Some people have started
believing me and taking my oils, and they are getting better. I kind of feel
like Moses with the Serpents. Ive got a way to heal everyone if theyll just try
it! ha.
Monday
all of my roommates and companion were sick, so i was the only girl in class.
when i first got here i really struggled to understand when people talked to me
one on one. when hma kimes was around and i knew i could trust that she was
understanding better than me, i would be fine. but as soon as i was being
counted on to understand, i'd freeze up a lot. But ive gotten so much better
this last week!!! So i'm really happy about that. But because I’m in a latin
district, i am probably going to have to be a ´senior´companion for a norte
americana girl on saturday... which will be interesting seeing as i cannot
understand people outside the CCM because they talk super fast and quiet and
barely move their mouths. I’ve been told that that is just the way people talk
in Lima, and that it should be better in Bolivia. I just hope saturday isn't a
disaster. ha.
Tuesday
was pretty fun for our district. We had the lesson on stress, which i
already had in Provo. but it was way funner here in Peru. In provo, we had to
run up and down 7 flights of stairs three times. i was hurting for a couple of
days after that. Here, we did like all these relay races and stuff at 8 at
night and it was super fun. ha. But its good that they teach about stress here-
your first week is way hard. your first day out is terrifying. But the second
time, things just get great. So you just have to have that 20 seconds of
courage or that just do it once. Its way hard, but after that first time, its
just a blast!!! I seriously love Peru so very much and going out and teaching
so very much. Except, my companion was trying to talk to someone at
the store today in spanish. And well they said please stop talking to us in
english, we dont understand. so.... yeah. its tough, but those moments where
you see someone feel the spirit makes it worth it!!!
love,
Hermana Black
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