Dear Family and Friends,
You guys are the best! I have received so many emails from you guys and please keep sending them! I promise I am writing back, but I can only send one email a week (aka to home) and so you have to wait for me to snail mail back. The good thing is that the mail strike is OVER!!! So I sent a bunch of letters off last week and I should finish writing back to the rest soon. So be looking for a letter in the next week or 2. There are only a few people I haven't written back yet and unfortunately, I won't get to them today. It's 10am right now and at 12:30, we need to have eaten lunch, gone to the lavenderia (to give our laundry to be washed) and then finish email and be at the church to go to the chacra (it's a farm, with monkeys and fishing, and completele jungle). We are going as a zone! So all 16 of us and then the family who owns the chacra.
So the weather this week is locaso. AKA CRAZY!!! It was SUPER hot at the beginning of the week and then as the Peruvians here would say, it is now FREEZING! But, that pretty much means it's cloudy and it's cool outside. I definitely would not say cold. Haha. I still am in short sleeves. It's supposed to be cold today and tomorrow as well!!!! :)
Fun story! I LOVE banana bread and I attempted to make it this week. So we go to the store and they don't have sour cream. I don't even know if it exists here and what it is called if it does exist. BUT, not important, so we make the batter and then realize we don't have baking soda. Well, here they don't use baking soda to make things rise, I think they just use yeast, but I don't know. So then we go to put it in the oven of the family we live with and the oven isn't working. Well.... our last option was the microwave. So hey, why not try? So we did... um, it wasn't awful, but it was weird. It was like a pancake sort of, but more dense.
So, Saturday, I completed a month here in the field!!!!! My companion bought me pollo a la brass! It was delicious. So we had a fiesta in our room eating our food and talking and laughing, and then to planning and sleep! Or.... so I thought. At 10:30, bedtime, our district leader called us and said that the President of the Branch just informed him that we are speaking in church the next day. UH..... WHAT????? I have to speak in Spanish for 10 minutes without preparing anything? And we were already getting up a little early to pass by a family to go to church with them and help them in the morning be ready to go to church. Yeah, so I was up kind of late figuring out what to say. I am so grateful for the help I received from my Heavenly Father. It was not the best prepared talk, but it went really well. Minus the fact that I went to share a scripture and so I open my scriptures up to the complete wrong scripture and read almost the entire thing and was thinking uh...... where is the part where it talks about tribulation? And then I look at the reference at the top and it wasn't the right scripture. Haha so super funny, but the rest went well and I was able to speak in Spanish! Which I knew I could, but in front of everyone at sacrament and it's not a conversation, it's me talking the entire 10 minutes.
Last, we are visiting LOTS of people and almost all need to get married, but I want to share about one family in particular. Delsy and Richard and their little baby Amy Luana. Delsy really wants the happiness the gospel brings, but she is only willing to do what her husband is willing to do. So basically he is the backbone and we are working with him lots. He always says that he has a super hard heart and that it's hard for him to change, but he really wants to change. Whenever he prays, he prays to have his heart changed. I am grateful for some of my weaknesses that have become strengths here. I can say things that are really sharp sometimes and a little too direct. But here, he has needed it. We always are super bold, but say things with love and at the end he always says thanks for saying what you said because I am beginning to understand why I need to change and how I can actually do it. He is slowly progressing! They came to church Sunday and were so excited to be there. They were super attentive and asked really good questions. I just love being with this family. I can feel the love our Heavenly Father has for them and he is helping them along the way. We are working with them to put a date to get married. They have been together like 7 years and have a baby and he wants to wait until he has bought his own house to get married. I had to be direct with him and say ''Look, you made the decision to have a baby with Delsy. If you were ready to make that decision, you are way past being ready to be married and your little girl that you love, she deserves to have her parents together and married.'' He was silent for a while after that but then said, yeah you're right. He's still not quite ready to commit, but he'll get there. I know it. We talked with him about taking one step at a time and so that is what we are doing with him! I am super excited to tell you how everything goes with them! We have an appointment with them tonight and I'll let you know!
Well, that's all the time I have for today.
Love you all!
Hermana Carly Jo Lang
Ps. Email me if you can. carly.lang@myldsmail.net and don't forget to send me your address because I can't respond to your emails.
Also, if any of you have time, I'd love to hear your testimonies about the gospel or if you're not Mormon, just about your belief in God and how you know He exists. Love you all!
Pss. This is my address.
Hermana Carly Jo Lang
Perú Cusco Mission
Jerón Ricardo Palma
Manzana A Lote 2 4to Piso
Urb. Santa Mónica, Cusco
PERU
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