Week 9: Welcome to the Jungle!

Friends and Family,

This may be a little shorter. I typed everything and then it all got deleted somehow. So I’m shorter on time.

How are my emails? Am I boring you all to death? What do you want to know more and less of?Are they too long?

My mission consists of Madre de Dios (where I am in Perto Maldonado), Cusco, Apurima, and Puno which is SUPER cold apparently. So a little bit of everything. Heaters don’t exist in any of the areas that I serve and so if I’m somewhere cold, it will be REALLY cold. Here, we don’t have hot water which is normally just fine, but it can get pretty chilly here and then cold water isn’t so fun to shower.

So last week we didn’t go to the chacra because we didn’t have time. But we went to La Havana. It is complete jungle there. SUPER pretty. We learned a lot about plants and such in the jungle and there are pictures from that that I am sending. Then we played soccer and the Americans won!!! Aka my team J

So question for you all, what do you do when you have a hard day?

So about the people I’ve met!!! Richard and Delsy are a couple with a baby. We keep teaching them and they are very slowly progressing. We taught him about prayer and how he needed to pray to know if this were all true. He then says, I want to know it’s all true, but I have a lot of doubts. I told him that when we pray and ask specific questions, we receive specific answers. He then says, oh goodness, this is going to be a long prayer tonight then. Haha But we have another appointment with him today!!!!

Carlos and Marta, they are a couple who have been taught by MANY missionaries before us. They know everything. They are slowly progressing. He has doubts about baptism but we went to their house for lunch yesterday and we talked with him for a while. I may have jokingly baptized my companion with my water bottle (she didn’t know it was coming) But I explained that if we don’t do things in the right way, then it doesn’t really count. I have great faith that he’ll come around. His wife wants to be baptized, but won’t do anything her husband won’t do.

Fransisco (this is different than the other one who was already baptized) He has the same first and last name though. He is going to be baptized this month! And!!! He and his girlfriend are going to get married. The only thing that weirds me out is that he is 56… and she? Yeah, she’s my age exactly. Kind of weird. But they’re happy and he’s super excited.

Also, thanks for the package and letters I’ve received. I have loved each and everyone and each has helped me when I needed it.

So quote of the week, Me: Do you attend any specific church?

Guy: No, I don’t go to church

Me: Oh why don’t you go to church?

Guy: Because I’m Catholic

…. Haha someone please explain this to me!!! J

Anyways, Scripture for all of you Matthew 16:25 ‘’For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.’’

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week and that you can see the hand of God in your lives.

Love, Hermana Carly Lang

PS. You can use Dearelder.com to write me as well, but when you use that, write the date so that I know when you wrote the letter. Or… you can just email me because that’s probably easier for you.    carly.lang@myldsmail.net