Dear Friends and Family,
So last Monday was really boring, it POURED… so we stayed inside and cleaned and took a nap and I wrote some letters. But it helped relax us for the rest of the week.
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| Cesar, Brigham, my companion and I at the birthday. |
So dumb moment of the week… the Lady who cooks lunch for us, Yesi, we couldn’t go, so we told her to save it for dinner. We went by for dinner and it was her Aunt’s birthday, so she gave us our lunch for breakfast the next day and then we ate dinner with all of the family. Well……. Breakfast the next day. It was omelettes and rice in styrofoam. So, I thought, oh, I’ll put it in the oven to warm it up. Well, I clearly was not thinking and haven’t cooked in SOOOOOOOO long that I just put them in the oven with styrofoam and ALL…. Then we began to study. My companion looks at me and goes, how did you put the breakfast in the oven? I panicked when I realized what I had done and ran to the oven. The styrofoam had melted some and shrunk… Uh oh! But, breakfast was safe!
So other awful thing that happened is right now is Carnavales… aka a fiesta where people throw water and other sorts of things… I’m not really sure what they celebrate, just that things like that happen. So last night, we are waiting at the bus stop and making a few phone calls and a group of drunk men dressed up in the native Cusco clothing pass by and squirt us from head to toe with foam………… REALLY???? Who does that? But we then ended up going back to our apartment to change. It was awful. Not super excited about being covered in foam.
Well, a lot has happened this past week. It was a rather tough week. We planned really hard and we had a ton of appointments set up that we were really excited and we had members planned to come with us for each of the appointments and you know what happened? Almost every single one canceled. It kind of shot my excitement level. But we still had some cool things happen.
Yaneth. We found her in our area book and decided we should visit her. We still aren’t really sure how to help her. I know people can change, but I kind of have a little bit of fear to talk to her spouse. We are praying to know just exactly how to help her. But, the cool thing is she recognizes God’s help in everything. We asked her if she could come to church this Sunday and she says, this is the great thing, normally my spouse doesn’t work, but he didn’t have a lot of work this week and so he said that he was going to work on Sunday. Also, my sister is coming in to town and she said she would watch the kids for a few hours so I could have a few hours to myself to do the things that I need to do and relax and so everything has worked out that I can go to church Sunday. She also said that before she was attending AA meetings for rehab but now can’t leave her kids to go to the meetings. She said that just when this happened and she felt like the temptation was too strong, that we knocked on her door and that we give her just enough strength to continue on. She really wants to follow God, and is slowly solving her own problems to change her life. She says that she already feels happier than before and it’s thanks to God and also to us for God having sent us to her.
SO yesterday was the last stake conference with President Calderon. We dedicated the stake building and I got to play the piano! It was great and the spirit was so strong. President Calderon spoke and talked about how when they were establishing the first stake in Sao Paulo that President Kimball went and couldn’t find a stake president. He then asked about a certain man and found out that he was inactive. He went to visit the man who when he saw President Kimball, tried to put out his cigarette and such. President Kimball then said to the man, God has called you to be the next stake president. Which then of course the man said, but I’m not an active member and I am not worthy and have done things that aren’t in accordance with the church. President Kimball said, that may be true, but God has still called you. I then thought about how imperfect I am, but yet I am called as a missionary to preach His gospel. This man obviously wasn’t worthy at the time, but he shaped up and became the stake president. Heavenly Father qualifies those whom He calls and He has helped me in all of my imperfections to be worthy, to be the servant that He wants to serve. I challenge all to not think in your imperfections when you are presented an opportunity, but to accept it and work to be qualified to serve.
I hope all is well at home and where ever you all may be. I send all my love and you are in my prayers.
Con Amor,
Hermana Carly Jo Lang
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| The sign we found... I wanted to know if they would actually punish with this, but I haven't tried it out to really see. |
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