Week 37

Wahooo, happy happy 10th Birthday Grant!! I hope you have an awesome day, whatever your up to:) And on Thursday, enjoy your beautiful birthday mammacita Bonita!! Hunter, thank you so much for the family pictures!! I cannot believe how big everyone looks-especially McKay!! Santa Vaca, everyone looks all grown up:) 

 

My companion and I with the other companionship of Hermanas that are in our district randomly talked at a belorio on Monday night. A woman in the ward passed away and the RS prez asked us if we could talk about the Plan of Salvation. There were about 30 to 40 people all squeezed in the house and the casket and loads of flowers were in the main part of the house. We each took a little part of the Plan of Salvation to talk about and it went really well! We didn´t know the Hermana before she passed away, but it was awesome to be sharing such a beautiful message with so many about how we´ll be able to see our loved ones after they die. 

Yesterday, both Jose and Luis Galvez received the Priesthood!! Jose will probably be blessing the sacrament next week:) Luis has been super busy and stressed with all these projects that he has to get done, so we´ve been helping him finish a bunch of different print-outs for various activities and dances that he´d been hired to design and have. 

 

We´ve been continuing to visit loads of less-actives and have been seeing MANY fruits of our labors!! So many came to church yesterday, Flavia and Marlene for the 1st time and for all the meetings!! hooray:) One part-member family came yesterday, Vanessa Y Jose. Jose is less-active and we´ve been teaching Vanessa for quite awhile now. They have twins and a little toddler. Except they´re not married and he doesn´t want to tie the knot...but they all came to church yesterday!! Little, by little:)

We visited Marlene and her son Hart yesterday with Jose and like always, asked if there was anything we could do or help with. She looked kinda puzzled for a minute and mentioned that the fish tank needed to be cleaned and that Hart hadn´t done it yet...haha No one EVER takes us up on our offer to give service, so we were pretty excited. haha we took each of the 8 fish out of the tank, one by one with our hands. they all chilled together until after we cleaned the glass tank and brought them back into their cleaner home, one by one.  it was so random & so fun! couldn´t help´but just CRACK up as the little fish squirmed around when we were trying to fish them out (haha get it?) to clean it. the best part was that while all this was happening, Jose was taking pictures. and after, I said ahora un foto con los padres de los pecados. pecados=sins. padres=parents. common mistake folks:) haha we were cracking up for so long. 

 

 

Had intercambios this week, which was great to see a different area and the chance to work with a different missionary. Except during personal study, we got a random phone call that we needed to head to the chapel in centro near the institute building for an activity with FSY. For the strength of the youth, aka. peru´s efy. and hna. bedoya that I was with and hna. allred that my companion was with are sister training leaders and needed to prepare for the activity with the youth. so we switched back until the meeting, then switched again for the rest of the day. haha it was such a cool opportunity that we had to be with the youth!! they were all super pumped from the week-long spiritual experiences that they were having and friends that they were making. we did a practice with them about how they could naturally and easily talk about the gospel with their friends or invite them to activities. I loved the group that my companion and I were with, they were such sweet young women with a desire to serve the lord and share the gospel. 

 

One of the main directors of FSY served his mission in Trujillo ages ago, when there was only one chapel in Trujillo and now they´re be a temple here next year!!! His Spanish is still pretty spot-on, except he looked at my name badge and said mucho gusto Elder Boody......haha WHYYYYY does everyone call us Elder/Elderes? alllllll the time, people scream out Elderes and we just ignore it and say Hermanas! por favor! let´s get the gender right people.

So yeah our sister training leaders have such an awesome room! its huuuge, they got a hook-up cause their pensoniesta´s mom owns it and no one was living there. separate room to study in, 2 bathrooms! man I was living the dream for 24 hours. she has such an energy to teach and I admire her love for these people. and their pensoniesta lives on the level beneath in the apartment complex, which is so nice to have so close! she gave us ice cream with our lunch-haha. Laureles 1 has got it goin´ on! 

Trying to find new investigators, cause all of the ones we have are old and not really progressing:( 

Today we´re making anticuchos with the zone (chichka-bob) style meat and playing volleyball! watching emperor´s new groove too! haha should be awesome. 

I keep forgetting that Johnathan Erickson served in my same mission! Obsipo Freddy de la Lavanderia says hi! haha what areas did he serve in? maybe we know more people in common:) 

Love you all so much and hope all is well! Man its so hot here, but I love the sunshine:) and the breeze makes everything just so beautiful. I know Jesus is the Christ and that God lives! The gospel is so incredible, it makes me so happy!