Loving the new area!

November 26th, 2018

Alyssa didn't have time to write an "everyone" letter this week so I copied a bit from the email she sent me:

I love the new area! I am hiking everyday! So I am pretty sure that I will gain muscle and lose weight! It is colder here and doesn't smell like fish! Woohoo! The first thing I smelt when we stepped off the bus was pine trees!  They don't celebrate Thanksgiving here, but my pensionista gave us turkey without knowing it haha ( I did not think it was turkey.. it didn't look like turkey at all, but yeah..) and then she heard that it was dia de gracias for me and she went and bought us mini apple pies and they were really good! I am SUPER thankful that I was prompted to buy rain boots and bring an umbrella before my mission!!! It rains everyday here! It's like God was telling me that I would be transferred to Huaraz and that I was going to need them! Yeah I will still get packages! They are sent to the mission office and then sent to our areas! I am going to Trujillo tomorrow for council of leaders because I am still a hermana leader! I loveyou so much!! Have a great week!!!

Then she sent these 2 pics :)

My new compañera Hermana Rocha

and my daughter with our matching mochilas!

Changes! I am being transferred to Huaraz!

November 19th, 2018

HOLLLAA!

CHANGES:

 We received changes and I was called to serve in Huaraz! Huaraz is in the mountains and it's cold! Haha I think the Lord really knows me and that I would really suffer in the heat here! Hahahaha Huaraz is also known as its own world.. it's far away from everything and I need to take a bus to Trujillo and then another bus to Huaraz that takes something like 8 hours.... ayayay... in the night too... so that will be an adventure! But I am really excited because everyone who has been to Huaraz has really pretty pictures and I hear it is sooo beautiful! Look it up!! So yeah I will be in Huaraz con Hermana Rocha and we are both going to be the Hermana leaders because presidente is opening up a new area of sisters in Huaraz! We are going to have 6 hermanas! Woohoo woman power!! I am so excited for a change, but also really sad to leave such incredible people that I have met here! .... speaking of.... DAIANA got baptized!! Wooohoooo!! She is the sister of Daniela, one of my other converts!! 

Have a GREAT WEEK!!!!

We found chosen ones!

November 12th, 2018

Buenas Tardes todos!

I hope your week was great!! I had a great week! We found great new people to teach that really are chosen ones! Alsoooo this Saturday Daiana is going to be baptized! She is the sister of my convert Daniela! She is 19 and is awesome!! I am soo excited for her!

This week we found the chosen! A brother called Estefano was one of our contacts. We contacted a park where he was sitting listening to music. We started to contact him and 5 of his friends started to come and he still heard us and said that we should still visit him. We went to his house and we taught The Plan of Salvation. The Spirit was very strong and by the end of the lesson we invited him to be baptized with a date of December 22! He said yes, he wants to improve and change his life! A few days later, we met his mom and she also wanted to listen. Then we were talking to her and she told us about Estefano and how she wants him to change and improve his life with good friends and God in his life. She told us that he told her about us and told of his desire to change. Also that he put his prayer card and Jesus Christ in his mirror and is saying his prayers every night! Wow, how amazing is that? We can help people change and improve their lives, especially when we find the chosen ones who are ready to do it!

-Hermana Juanita one of my fav peeps

 district ZION

-Hermana Nielson (intercambio)

-I showed Hermana Chichipe oreos y peanutbutter! She loved it!

-Pday de Zona! Y helado con el distrito!

-Hermana Esther! Another amazing woman of the Miraflores ward!

Just Pics!!

November 5th, 2018

This is as close as she got to Halloween in Peru!

 Her district :) She is the only American!