3.31.14

Hola a todos!

 I got the loveliest little email from Sister Whiting today. That was sure nice of her to write little old me. Sounds like spring is really in full swing there. That's awesome. I can't believe that Smooch so dang long to calve. It had better be a big one. hahaha. Sounds like Spring break was pretty boring. I think its pretty funny when mom sends me all of her junk job list. I just love it so much. I know that job list well seeing how I was very much a part of those my whole life.

I love our new area it is so great and I just love being with Hermana Grow. We were already best friends and now we can just work together every single day. What an amazing blessing. I miss Rinconada so much. The thought occourred to me that I may never see it again, but it all according to the will of God and how much money I can earn to go back someday :). It is so cool to be in the area that has the temple construction in it. Everyone has questions about that big white mormon building that they are making. It is the coolest to be able to explain it to them about how families can be together forever and how many blessings we can recieve from that big white building. 

Yesterday we had a pretty crazy experience. We were on our way to church really early calling a cab when a lady who was a bit drunk came up to us and struck up a conversation. She had a whole bunch of problems and was on her way to the beach to try to drink her problems away. We tried to convince her to go home but she wasn't interested. After a whole bunch of funny exchanges, she said that she wanted to come to church with us. We didnt really think that was appropreate, but she said that we had to take us to church or she was going to the beach to drink her life away. So we brought her to church. She really liked the Sacrament meeting and was very interested in learning more about God. At the end of the meeting she refused to leave until she could talk to the branch president. She shook his hand and told him that before she found us that she wanted to kill herself, but that we showed her compassion and love and that she was able to see the good in people. She said that we were her angles that saved her. She didn't want to stay for the rest of the meetings because finally she realized that she should go home. She lives about 2 hours away. We helped her to a cab and sent her off. It was the strangest experience that I have ever had in my entire life, but it was nice to know that we had helped her

Julio did not show up to his baptism on Saturday. That was pretty tough again, but we litterally did everything possible to get him there and to preapare him, but he just disapeared. This week we are going to have to find him again to find out what happend. I think he just got scared off by how quickly things were happening. I know that we could not have done anything else. It was 100 percent his decision.

We had a faulty wire in our chapel that made it impossible to watch the womens conference. I am really sad about that but the good thing is that we have general conference coming up soon! We are really getting the people here really excited about GC because, well, lets be honest, it is one of the greatest blessings to be able to listen to the profet of god. I am so jazzed. 

So a funny picture about the bananas is that I picked my very first bananas from a banana tree, but since I'd never done it before, I accidentally messed up big time and not only did I pull off  the ripe ones but I pulled off the entire stalk of unripe bananas killing the banana growing part of the tree. Oops. that's okay though.

I love you all so much.
MUCHO AMOR Y CARIÑO de PERÚ

Hermana CHristensen

Me and Hermana Grow

Me and the wild bananas that I picked off of a Wild banana tree

some very cute kittens that I did not bring home with me because they were covered in fleas. But they sure were cute.