Week 52 (May 15, 2017)

ZONE HIKE!

Skyping on Mother's Day :)

Happy 1 Year!!

Well I hope yesterday everyone had a wonderful mothers day! And it was so fun and so amazing to talk to you guys (my family) yesterday! What a special treat.  And well after we skyped we went to work and literally the rest of the night we basically just street contacted because everyone was either not home or really busy... gotta love holidays haha but oh well.

This week was a pretty normal week.

For Pday last week we climbed a mountain! actually it was just a hike up a really steep hill, but it was basically like climbing a mountian! but it was so cool to see all of Independencia, which is the department we are in now (like a city but the city is Lima and has different parts to the city. Its confusing even now haha)

a member this week asked us what we wanted to eat for lunch with them, from any country too, so I asked if she could make chili, and so she looked up the recipe and we totally ate chili! but it was really different with white beans and instead of ground beef was chopped up meat. and she put it with a side of rice haha because we are in Peru.  but thats ok, it was still chili :)  It reminded me of when Ally ate chili in Chile haha, but seriously I am forgeting what we actually normally eat at home.

But this week we have continued to work with Claudia, Miguel and Jhonaton.  Miguel went to church and we had a mothers day activity where actually quite a few people non members came! Including Miguels wife. who is super evangelista but she seemed to have enjoyed the activity, so we will see what happens with her in the future, but I think weve finally gained her trust :)

Claudias uncle past away this week end so she was busy with the funeral and everything, so didnt come to church this week (out of town) which we totally understand.  She will hopefully be baptized May 27 with Jhonaton who is still doing great. He is 15 and thinks a lot. So we are trying to help him recognize that when he feels peace, joy, hunger to learn more ect (which he told us he felt all those things while reading the book of mormon) this is gods anwser that it is true. So we are trying to help him relize that too.

I hope you all know that I know this church is true with ALL MY HEART!  And we have difficult times so our faith can be tested and so we can grow and progress in this life. So keep calm and carry on. Keep going, keep enduring, the lord is on thy side.  And all will be well.  Obedience to the commandments = Blessings! So if you want blessings, obey :) its really not that difficult.

I love you all to much! thank you for your amazing examples to me!!

Love, Hna Smoot