Familia
I am not receiving Clark´s emails. I don´t know if you can forward them to me but I don´t think it is against the rules. I just can´t respond personally back to him in a separate email...all my emails have to be in one :) It sounds like he is doing really well though. How are you doing Dad? David, thanks for the sweet thoughts I am feeling lots better. I go back to Cusco today for a check up but I feel fine now that I have the diet I have to follow and I finished my medications, so all is well. Mom, thanks also for all you do. I am so grateful for your thoughts and prayers in my behalf.
This week was great! We had one baptism yesterday, and it was the best. Alex is 19 years old. I will send a picture next week of the baptism. Our mission leader in the branch wanted to help decorate the room for the baptism and he tore a bunch of pictures out of the Liahona and made letters out of cardboard to welcome him in. It was really sweet because Alex was baptized but his family was not present because they don´t support it, But he made the decision and it was special how his friends and the mission leader tried to make it even more welcoming for him. It turned out great.
If you look at the title of this email, it is necessary don´t you think? If I have one more dog try to kill me I don´t know what I will do. At least my skirt didn´t rip this time. Why can´t we all just be friends ;) Also, I ate another really weird fruit that I probably shouldn´t have eaten but it was so weird I just had to try it. Its called pakay...and I have no idea how to spell it but it is this gigantic green tube looking thing...it is like a pea pod but hard on the outside and much much much larger. You crack it open on your leg and inside you find huge black seeds with this white furry stuff protecting them and you eat the white furry stuff...weird no? But the white furry stuff is held together with a sweet tasting gel...it is really sweet and really yummy. I wasn´t too fond of the fur though........:)
This week Presidente Calderòn came to speak to us and it was really uplifting. A lot of his teachings focus in on the numbers but this time he focused on us as missionaries and how we feel and we all felt really uplifted. He talked about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and asked us all to bear our testimonies of how it has affected our desire to be missionaries and how it affects who we are and how we can better apply it in our life. I learned a lot. He also talked about how important it is to always have a positive attitude and that we all need to learn how to smile in the mission and we all need to just wake up and be happy!!! in every moment. It was great
Well, time is up but this upcoming month is Carnival in Peru which means torture for the missionaries. For fun, people throw water and chalk on each other throughout the day and it doesn´t matter if you run or what they will get you. Seriously....oh boy here it comes.
Until next week
Hermana Lindsey
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