Week 65- God is good ALWAYS

Eating pizza to say goodbye to Elder Mamani who is now home.

Dear Friends and Family,

This week has been crazy. With transfers, there were a lot of sisters staying at our apartment. There were mattresses all over the floor and such. It was a lot of fun being able to have a HUGE sleepover in the mission, but I was super excited when everyone left too and we could have some peace and quiet.

So to start off, I am still in Cusco, but now in another stake. I am in the Ttio Ward and there are 4 of us in this ward.... 4 sisters actually and we are all sister leaders. The Bishop hates that we travel a lot, but luckily we have already won him over. HE LOVES my companion and I. He decided to divide the ward in 2 areas. He told us that he wanted us to work in his area and then called us Sunday and went out with us for 3 hours showing us houses and gave us a bunch of potential investigators. It was a really successful day yesterday despite all of the challenges.

Making my mom's orange rolls.... I didn't have a
rolling pin, so my hair mousse was used and then
to make it not stick to the pan, we used teaching
records (we didn't have any other paper.)

This week, I have been VERY aware of how much my Heavenly Father loves me. My mom has always said, ''kill them with kindness'' and I would like to say that there are NO problems whatsoever between the 6 of us sisters living together, we actually get along really well. BUT... it was a bit awkward at first. One of those moments where you walk into a room and can tell that people had JUST been talking about you? That is how I felt when I moved into the apartment, but now we all laugh and talk at night. I think it's one of those things that goes along with the gospel. ''By your fruits, ye shall know them.'' I just had to prove that all of the gossip was wrong and hopefully it stops!

The other blessing is that I have a really good District Leader who helps us out a lot. He really is concerned about us as a district and tries to help in whatever way he can. His companion was Emergency Transferred here and the nice part is that he is one of my friends from Puno... Another blessing.

So many members are giving us people to visit and the Bishop helps out a ton... another blessing.

My companion and I walk around all day just enjoying to the fullest being missionaries. We get along great.... another blessing.

One of the elders in my district, Elder Cuadros, IS FROM CORDOBA (Barrio Las Flores)!!!!!!!!! We talked about Argentina for like 15 minutes while everyone else got bored with our conversation... another blessing to have that connection!

 It hailed on us... LOTS

Well, last night, we visited a family. The Aguilar family. They have been members 4 years. They don't come much and when they do, they go to their old ward. They want their youngest daughter (9 yrs old) to be baptized. Also, their nephew was there and at first said he was Catholic, but was super polite and stayed. After the lesson, he said, ''would it be alright if I came Tuesday when you come back also?'' Another blessing.

We had a zone conference and we had to try and
keep all of the balloons in the air... we failed.

The last blessing may not seem as exciting to you guys as it is to me, but one of my goals is not only to be able to understand and speak Spanish, but to be able to translate it! SUPER hard, because you have to think in Spanish and talk in English or vice versa. Well, Friday we had a mission conference and there was a new sister from Utah, Sister Smedley. She had about 2 days here in the mission. President asked if anyone could help her out and just point out the scriptures at least or whatever they could. I raised my hand and was able to translate for her... almost word for word (sometimes the grammar came out a little funny or there would be a word I couldn't remember in English) for about 5 hours... I will say though that I felt like I was in Argentina when thinking all day in Spanish literally gave me a headache. Translating for 5 hours for the first time literally gave me a headache, but I really feel that the Lord has blessed me in my desires and that HE is very aware of the things we desire and need.

 My companion and I (Hermana Enriquez)

This week, I felt His love and saw the blessings.

God is good always. I don't remember how you write that in Hebrew, but it is my little sister Cassidy who always says that and it is something that I have realized. God is good always, just sometimes it's harder to see it.

I hope that this week you can all see that God is good always.

Love,

Hermana Lang