Come, little children, and I will teach you about the many wonders of FEET.
Feet help us to walk! Feet help us to run! Feet help us to swim! Feet can be ticklish or feet can be stinky. Feet help us to stand tall and do our part. Feet are useful for doing lots of good, healthy things. But guess what else I have learned in my great amount of experience, children? Feet can also nearly break your missionary companion's collarbone and knock down broken bathroom doors when your missionary companion is stuck inside because the niña forgot to tell her the KNOB DIDN'T WORK.
Well, Hermana Moody's collarbone is still intact and I am no longer cowering in the corner of a smelly, baby blue-tiled bathroom without soap.
aaaaaaaaaaaanyway
We taught a lot of people about the Law of Chastity this week and it was beautiful. I really love teaching people about the commandments of God! Because as we learn about His laws for us, we are given the opportunity to change our lives and receive unimaginable blessings from our Heavenly Father. If you don't own a copy of Preach my Gospel, go buy one.
ALSO...
We have three MARVELOUS people to baptize next Saturday!
(Just a little note - I recently received an email caution from an LDS Missionary Moms email list I am part of that recommended that names of investigators and other types of identifying information should not be posted on missionary blogs for their protection and privacy. Anyway... so I'm going to just use initials to identify people Lex is working with. I hope that's ok with everyone. :-)
L. is a miracle. He is the 21-year-old brother of some long-time inactives who recently we have begun to bring back to church, and one day he just up and decided he´d like to start doing what Heavenly Father wants him to do. He talked about the church to his member grandma, and she told the Elders, who told us that he apparently was asking to be baptized! So we met and started to teach him, and he really truly loves the gospel. I enjoy teaching him because he is so receptive and he asks questions and soaks it all up and keeps his commitments and likes church and is AWESOME.
We are also going to baptize N., a young mother of 2 toddlers who has decided it's about time she changes her life as well. She's phenomenal. She struggled to keep her commitments for some time and then recently we taught her about the Law of Chastity and it was like this huge epiphany that she really can repent and know that the Lord will forget all of her past sins. It has been a stunning experience to watch her grow and begin to really love the teachings of God.
Y. is the 15-year-old cousin of N. We have taught her on and off for several weeks and she progressed at the beginning, but then stopped just before her best friend, A., died a few weeks ago. We had taught A. and her family, all less actives in our ward, a few times and A.'s passing away was very sudden and very shocking. It has taken an serious blow on Y. and for awhile we had a difficult time reaching her. But this week Hermana Moody and I felt very strongly that we needed to try again to open Y.'s heart and invite her again to be baptized and start her life anew. We pleaded with the Lord for guidance in everything to do with our dear Y. and met with her several times, doing everything we could to help her recognize her answer. She prayed about Joseph Smith and about being baptized, and she said she knows it's true (she's also been sharing the gospel with several mutual friends of A. in recent weeks) but just wasn't sure if she was positive about being baptized so soon. We invited her to continue praying and we did the same, and after church yesterday we talked with her. We presented her the news that N. is going to be baptized on the 9th of November and immediately a light came to her eyes and she told us she would love to be baptized the same day. I know that the Lord is watching over us and guiding our work. If we hadn't decided to teach N. the Law of Chastity and invite her to be baptized on the exact day that we did, neither of them would have received the answers they needed and they wouldn't both be cheerfully preparing for their baptisms.
I feel my Savior's love.
There are only a few problems in my life right now.
1. Stressed about cambios. I really would like to be here for these baptisms with Hermana Moody. BUT we'll see what the Lord has in store.
2. Being eaten alive every night by something in our tiny room. My ankles look leprous and I have never been one to deal well with itching. BUT we are looking at a new house with the zone leaders today and if all goes well we will be moving into a much cleaner, more comfortable space very soon.
3. Everyone thinks I'm a big creep because I saw one of our zone leaders holding his companion's suit coat up to his face and then I (being the wildly intelligent and thoughtful individual that I am) took the coat from his hands and took a big whiff, ATTEMPTING to be funny and imitate what I saw him doing.
Problem? He, being Peruvian and confused about gringo humor in general, didn't understand my joke AT ALL and right in that moment, Hermana Moody turned around to see me sniffing the zone leader's jacket and just stared at me as though she had caught me chewing on the ear of one of the street dogs.
AGH. BUT hey, at least I make some people laugh.
4. Feeling like the Peruvian women are trying to kill me or ruin my chances of ever being beautiful again. See the picture of me with a clean plate... (Lex sent pictures this week, but they wouldn't load properly and couldn't be opened so they are not on this post. :-( )
I had just finished a MOUNTAIN of arroz chaufa because the Elders told us that Hermana Aranda would cry if we didn't eat the three hundred pounds of food she gave us. Further evidence of this maldicion...
Our pensionist LITERALLY TOLD US THAT OUR FOOD WAS GOING TO KILL US.
She's one of the good friends who stabs from the front.
BUT it's all for the better. Look like a whale=get less whistles and cat calls in the street.
Plenty of resolutions. Everybody's happy.
Quote of the Week:
"The dead are calling you!" - guy in church, trying desperately to animate the members to do baptisms in the temple.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
De Perú con amor,
Hermana Hewitt
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