Subject: 19 de mayo 2014
Well how are you all? It's been a while
since we've talked—jaja, like a week.
This last week was pretty great. Lots
of things happened. I don't have tons of time today, but I'll try to fill you
guys in on as much as possible.
So this last Tuesday was pretty good.
Before lunch, we had to run all of our dirty clothes to the lavanderia. The
lady that washes our clothes is super cool. There is only one problem—the
problem is that her house is super far away from our apartment. So we have the
choice of walking in the hot sun hauling our clothes or we can pay for a moto
taxi. They both are pretty stinky options if you ask me. But we decided to
walk. We're missionaries. We really don't have much money. jaja. And then we
went to eat lunch. The lunch we ate on Tuesday was interesting. It reminds me
of when McKay and I used to joke around and say that mom was making "Clear
out the fridge casserole" jaja. But for real. It was rice, pineapple
juice, beef, fried bananas, fried eggs, and sausage. That was a pretty
interesting meal. I had never thought of combining those things before to make
a lunch, and I don't think I will ever think of doing that again. But our
pensionista is actually pretty good. For real!
Tuesday afternoon we had probably the
coolest lesson of the entire week. It was the first lesson that we had with one
of the cousins of Elder I. We left her with a pamphlet of the restoration
before and had invited her to read it and told her that we would be coming back
to talk about what she had read. Normally when we say that, we come back and
the people say that they haven't had time to read. But she had actually read
what we had left her. And she had a lot of super great questions about it. We
were able to teach that lesson to her and it went so well. It was one of the
lessons where the spirit is directing every single word that comes out of your
mouth. And she understood almost everything that we taught! It was such a cool
lesson. Afterwards Elder I and I just had to sit down and analyze that lesson.
It was so cool!
Wednesday probably the highlight of
the day was the service project we had in the morning. We got to move bricks.
Sounds pretty fun doesn't it? I actually enjoyed it! I like sweating out in the
sun. I know. I'm weird. But I like it. And then that night we had a pretty cool
family night with the Bishop. The bishop of this ward is super cool. And it's
super good to be able to work with him. I'm really glad to be here in this
ward!
Thursday we had a zone conference.
Our zone is Castilla, which is part of Piura. So that means we have to travel
to Piura for our zone conferences. The stake center is about 45 minutes away
from our area. It was a super great meeting. Elder G and Elder L are our zone
leaders. They're super great. They talked a lot about the new trial program
that our mission is participating in. We are one of 5 missions that are doing
it. The point of the program is to use family history to help reactivate less
active members and to help retain converts active in the church. The focus of
it is to help less active and converts prepare names of their ancestors to take
to the temple. It's pretty cool.
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| Our zone on P-Day! |
After that they talked about giving
it your all. Elder G talked a lot about not being okay with just being mediocre
because we are representatives of Jesus Christ. We aren't mediocre people. We
are here sharing the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. He said that at the end of our missions they
should have to send medics to retrieve us because we have worked so hard that we
can hardly walk. That made me think a lot. There are lots of times where I work
super hard. But even then, I think there is maybe even more that I can do. And
this conference was the motivation to just do it! And another bonus—I got my
package of Easter candy! Thanks guys!
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| My Easter treats - a little late, but at least they made it! |
Friday was the worst day of the
mission. I woke up super sick and was sick pretty much the entire day. I
probably spent over 20 of the 24 hours in my bed. Luckily it was just a one-day
flu. I don't really want to write about it again. You can read my journal after
the mission. I wrote all about it.
Saturday I wasn't back to 100
percent, but I was feeling good enough to be able to work. Since we didn't get
to have weekly planning Friday, we had to do it Saturday. Another thing
exciting about Saturday is that I was able to teach my first class of English
in the church. It's kind of fun teaching English. Some people actually catch on
pretty quickly. But others just don't get it at all. I understand how they feel
though. In the CCM I was one of those people. I didn't understand hardly a
thing. jaja.
Well anyways. Not much else super
crazy happened that I can remember. And I'm about out of time! Love you guys!
Thanks for everything!
The Church is true. No doubt about it!
Elder Baker
Lauren,
I'm jealous of that picture of a kangaroo eating out of your hand. If you want,
next week I can send you a picture of me feeding some cockroaches if you
want??? jaja Love you!
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