Quillabamba!

Hola Familia!!!!!!!!!!!

So I am now in Quillabamba!!  It is pretty much the best.  It is like
Urubumba but it is a lot hotter...which is fine for me compared to Puerto.  My foot is still swollen but not really....just a little bit
and I am working normal pace.  I have to be because.......I am
training!!!  What a change for me and what a responisibility.  It is
actually a good place to start.   Her name is Hna Martinez and she is
from Guatemala and has the most beautiful voice I have ever heard.
She is really confident, outgoing, and the members LOVE her.  She has
been here for one change before me with another trainer, but her
trainer finished the mission and that is when I came in.  So I am
concluding her training and it is going really well.  I only wish she
could share a little bit of that confidence with me sometimes, but I
am working on it.  Oh yeah...and she knows perfect English.  Its
good...and bad :)  She speaks Spanglish a lot.

We are doing a lot of work here and are really super busy with
activities and activating members and we have a goal for 5 baptisms
this month which is high, but I have done it before and we are
teaching really good people who have been so prepared so I have the
faith that it will happen one way or another.  After resting two
weeks, I am ready to go and do everything I can.

Sorry for freaking you out about the unrest but it is what happened
and we are all ok.
David ran a 6 minute mile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Like Dad
said,  "Never in my life did I have a mile with 6 in the minute column."
Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  David says he thinks I have changed a
lot because I am dealing with bugs and all...I guess it's possible.  I
have been thinking a lot lately how time has flown and I am
practically halfway done with my mission.  That freaks me out.  I
don't like thinking about that.  I had a pretty awful dream the other
night that is etched in my mind forever.  I had a dream that I came
home from my mission and that I had nothing to show...nothing to
share....I hadn't changed at all.  I was the same person and I felt
awful.  Needless to say it made me reflect A LOT.  I hope that I have
changed and continue to do so.  There are so many weaknesses I have, it
is overwhelming.  I have a lot to learn and change.

I said good bye to Hna Cuenca this last week!  Ahh! I can't believe she
is done but she gave me a book with all the things that were special
about our companionship and the things we learned together and the
things that she taught me.  It made me cry.  I am missing her a lot
but I know that I can apply all of those things now.

Overall, I am doing great.  Thanks mom for the bugspray.   I will need it
here and I think I will be here for more than one change....I hope
ahah :)

Sounds like Clark is lovin' his trainer which makes me so happy and he
is getting his first taste of how we eat here in South America....lots
and it makes you sick sometimes.  He'll get used to it.  As I did.

General Conference is next week!  I am SO PUMPED I can't wait.  We are
getting all our investigators together and inviting them to come and
listen to a living prophet of the Lord.  I promised one of our
investigators that if she would think of two questions she wants
answered from God and came to one of the sessions it would be
answered.  I know it will be true.  Nothing can beat listening to a
prophet of God and getting an answer to your prayers.  I hope you all
will do the same and that this session can be truly inspiring for all
of us.  Know that we are listening to the same words...just a few
hours apart and in Spanish :)

I love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermana Lindsey