Baptism! 11-11-13

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 "Y" was baptized and it was beautiful! Hermana Moody put me up to speaking in front of a lot of native Spanish speakers and I experienced quite clearly the gift of tongues and the guidance of the Holy Ghost. That. Was. Amazing. I wish I had more time to go into detail, but let's just suffice it to say that through faith all things really are possible.

The bishop's wife, "M", is a classic Peruvian bishop's wife. Very sociable, very emotional, and very enthusiastic about singing operatically.  We sang her favorite song as part of the baptismal service. 

Hermana Moody and I are working with a great base of investigators and really happy here in Puente Piedra. We brought a family of young women and their mother to church yesterday and the ward was SO welcoming and sweet! So pray for they might be baptized. Because they are fantastic people.

OH yes! And we have been living in the same dreary rat hole for the past 14 weeks and FINALLY we are going to move into a much better space! President Archie got back from his training in Cuzco and looked at this new cuarto for us to rent. We saw him, Hermana Archie, and the Zone Leaders as we were leaving our pensionista's house and he told us that they are going to have a kitchen area and curtains put in there as well. As women, well, we are unabashedly and stereotypically thrilled to have some cooking space. 

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

There's a young man in our ward, "Mi", who is our perrito (puppy; aka he loves us) and likes to tell us jokes. He animatedly told me a few days ago that he had a dream that I was sitting on a bus with three young children who were all my own. The oldest was named HALLS ( as in, the cough drops. They have those here.) I don't understand why these things happen.

I also was asked on the spot to direct all the Young Men and Young Women in a musical number in church yesterday. It was Llamados a Servir (Called to Serve) and they sang it very loudly and joyfully, sooooooooooooooo although I have this thing against the unprofessionalism of leading anyone over 12 years of age in a musical number in sacrament meeting, I got over it. I love those kids so much.

Alright, well, I am running out of time and unfortunately this letter was really poorly written. SO I'll just send you all some pictures (beginning with some which I failed to send last week) and hope to hear from you all! If you get a second, write down your testimony and send it my way.

De Peru con amor,

Hermana Hewitt

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Quote of the Week

"So, I bought this piece of chocolate from this guy with one leg on the bus, and LOOK! IT HAS INSTRUCTIONS IN HEBREW!" - Elder Avery

He really never fails us.

Oooookay I just realized that I have no time. Pictures from the baptism next week PROMISE (Unfortunately… or fortunately… I was out of town and didn't have the chance to post Lexi's email from last week until now… and she sent the pics this week so… there you go! :-)

Also, if you happen to have a red velvet pumpkin left over from Halloween

SEND IT TO ME