Week 64- The only thing constant in life is Change... Yup... Transfers are here.

Jadira (the best cook) and Matias and my companion and I



Ahi de gallina... my favorite


Dear Friends and Family,


My desk!

So I am being transferred to Ttio… it’s the other zone in Cusco. My new companion will be Hermana Enriquez from Ecuador. She is super sweet and Hermana Espinoza trained her!!! So I will start off with expressing just a little bit about how I feel.

Last night, they told me that I was being transferred. I was terrified. I was going to be training a new sister to be a sister leader, opening a new area, AND on top of it all, I was going to be living with the only 2 sisters that don’t like me. I was NOT excited at all. So much that I didn’t sleep actually and felt sick to my stomach.

I sat down and thought you know what? God loves me always. I have no clue why I am going where I am going or the lessons that I need to learn, but that I need to trust Him completely. He loves me enough to give me the experiences that I need to be the person that I want to be. Last Wednesday in our district meeting, we talked about success. One of the things was that the key to success is to realize that the only thing constant in life is change…. Ok… Challenge Accepted!!! I decided that I am going EXACTLY where I need to be and suddenly I felt calmer. I realized that everything will be perfect. It always is!


 Hna Parraga and I

My new agenda














me

Yesterday evening, I had the chance to talk with Sister Harbertson. She asked me about Conference. I, of course loved it! But… we had planned to have investigators come to every session (there are 4 of them) and they kept canceling. We got to the last session and NO ONE had come. And, my Dad had said that my old stake president would be speaking and hadn’t spoken yet. The intermediate hymn was soon to be coming up and I thought, ok… no one has showed up and I feel discouraged but if my old stake president will speak, everything will be fine. Well, the intermediate hymn was ‘’Called to Serve.’’ I started to sing but didn’t get very far before I choked up. Time goes by way too fast and this was my last conference here in Peru and here I was singing the song that says exactly what I am doing. I was called to serve the Lord. In the middle of the song, a family we had visited walks in and one of our other investigators. I was shocked!!! My heart filled with such warmth and I knew God loved me in that moment. Then right after the song, my old stake president spoke and home didn’t feel so far away as I looked at my ring that my sister serving in Hawaii, my mom, and I all wear. It was a tender mercy. After talking about how I felt about conference with Sister Harbertson, I just cried… and she cried with me too! I felt like she was telling me the things my mom would say if she were here.



 snow angel

 It rained last night, but up
in Saqsaywaman it snowed a little.... :)

All I can say this week is that I am so blessed. Life is hard and it isn’t always what we want, but the Lord is aware of you and loves you!!! I hope you can all experience His love this week as I have felt it so much recently! I love you all! I have such wonderful, beautiful friends… and life is perfect… as it always is!

Love Always,
Hermana Carly Lang
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 Yo, Hna Parraga, E Ortuño, E Mamani