#Feliz2K16!!!!!
Wow another year has passed by already??? I do have to say that that was probably the fastest year of my whole life! I cant believe that i come home this year! i hope you all had fun new years!
My new years was super fun actually :) So on the 31st we had to go pick up another sister that had to stay with us for a day. Her name is sister Richin from salt lake. Shes super great :) so there were us three north americans together which was so fun! We had to spend like 4 hours in the office which was not that fun... but afterwards we just went home and got ready for bed. New Years here in Peru is NOTHING like new years at home.... its literally like 200 times better! So yes mother we tried to go to bed at 10:30 haha but it was impossible because there is so much noise! So we just laid in bed and talked until 12, then we heard like a billlion fireworks going off so we dicided to go on our patio thing we had and watch. It was AMAZING. Literally fireworks going off everywhere, in every direction! Disneyland has nothing on Peru on New Years haha! I will send some pictures. I took a video but im not sure if i can send it. I wll try :)
But as for working wise this week was also crazy. I. Am. Exhausted! We wound up finding 9 new investigators this week! The sad thing was is that our baptism didnt go through... His dad couldnt be there so we had to change the date to a little later on this month. But yes he is still getting baptized :) We have 4 baptisms set up for the 16th of this month! Please pray for all of them to work out!
So this week we taught Alex again. We were super nervous for the lesson because of his work of wisdom problems... But we were talking to him and he is honestly doing SO GOOD. He told us about how he has been tempted to drink or smoke but there is always this little voice in his head telling him no. And also for our lesson he invited 3 of his friends to come! It was sooo good! It is sooo cool to watch him defend and testify about the church. He has soo many desires to change. He came to church again and is making a lot of new friends. For new years he left his family and friends and we to the party that the church put on. We are definitly seeing miracles in his life and it is so fun to see how happy he is with himself and his progress. He has changed so much from the first time we met with him to now. He is honestly a different person. The church is sooo true!
We also had cool experience yesterday. So we were out with 2 of the youth in our ward, Wilder and Jackie. They are like our best friends haha :) but anyways all of our lessons fell through so we asked them if they knew anyone we could visit. So they took us to a less actives house. He is 21 years old and is named Andre. When we first got there he was kinda iffy if he wanted to listen, but finally we got him to let us in his house. Then we just told him that we wanted to get to know him a little more and just to tell us about his life. So he just opened up and started telling us everything. He has had such a hard life and he was telling us that this week he has been the lowest of lows. He said that that morning he was planning on committing suicide because he thought that God had forgotten about him and that his life wasnt worth it anymore. But he told us that that same day he got a visit from a friend that helped him and then a visit from us that changed his mind. He told us that thanks to us, he knows that God is watching out for him and does love him and sent us to his house in that moment. We were able to testify about the love that God has for him. The spirit was so strong in the lesson. We were guided on what to say and what to do. In that lesson i could honestly just feel the love that God had for him. I know that God loves him, and thats why we were there, to remind him of that.
Another lesson that really impacted me this week was our lesson with Felix. Felix is our investigator that cant hear or speak. It is super fun but super hard to teach him. But i love him so much! I was thinking about how that happens in the mission a lot... the fact that even when you can hardly communicate with people and they are sooooo different with you, you learn to love them and care about them soo much. You get to see them how God sees them, and not as the world sees them. It is really an amazing thing. So we also got an assignment from the ward with Felix. We will now be studing spanish sign language to be able to communicate with him. I am actually super excited for it haha. We just need to make sure that he understands whats going on before he gets baptized. Drawing, writing and acting are fun and all haha but we need to make sure he really understands the covanenat he is making.
This week we also had intercambios! And i was with Hermana Christianson! It was so good to be with her again and be able to teach with her and just see how we have both grown as missionaries :)
Me and Hermana Sandison really get along so well. This was definitly an inspired companionship. The things that i lack, she definitly makes up for and it just works! People told us that this is an area where you dont baptize and the ward isnt that great and its really hard to find new investigators. Well, we have 5 baptisms scheduled in the next couple weeks, have a great realaionship with the ward, and find at least 5 new investgators every week. ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. :)
Well, that is it for this week. I am honestly so happy. I cant believe that i am in my last months... CRAZY.
I love you all so much and thank you for everything!
Hasta luego!
Love,
Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)
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