Hoooooooolaaaaaaaa,
So,
yes, it happened. I was transfered to what is very very likely to be my last
area in the mission. Guess what? I`m back in San Juan de Lurigancho! about 10
minutes away from my old area. So that’s exciting. My new companion is Hermana
Sanchez from Mexico. Funny story, we were supposed to be companions back in February,
but then all the weird changes happened and I ended up training Hna Aquino, and
she was put with another hermana in the zone. So we`ve been in the same zone
together, and I already loved her which was nice. Also, it looks like we were
meant to be companions! And I am excited for the opportunity to work with her.
So now I am in barrio villa hermosa, in la estaca Magnolias. During transfer
meetings one of my friends told me that my area could be called the ``celestial
kingdom`` of the mission, mostly because of our pensionista. It’s true. This is
my first time really having a pensionista and its great! La Mamita Charo is so
wonderful. We live like four doors down from her family and we are there every
morning for breakfast, and every night we read from the Book of Mormon with
them in their family, so we are always there. It’s almost like being part of a
family again :`) que trunky. I`ll have to tell you more about them and their
story in another email, It’s awesome.
Ok. I have so much I
want to tell you, so little time! I hope everything that comes out makes sense.
One of the nice things
about transfers is that sometimes you ``inherit`` baptism dates. This weekend
we had two baptisms :) And the elders in our ward had one as well. Cool story.
Our first baptism was el Hno R.. A couple of years ago he was addicted to
drugs and was arrested by the police. And crazy enough, it was the son of my
pensionista that arrested him. (he was inactive at the time, and the sisters
before me helped to reactive him) well, now, R. completely changed his
life around and was baptized this last weekend, and guess who baptized him? El
hno I.! (my pensionista's son) how crazy is that? It was a really beautiful
baptism service. The other one who was baptized was A.. His wife has been
a member for about a year, but he didn`t want to be baptized and kept putting
it off, but he finally accepted and was baptized this weekend as well. The
elders baptized la hna C. Her and her family are my new favorite
little family. We went and visited them with the elders my first day here, and
yesterday as well. They live at theeee top of the hill, almost as far as you
can go up. I had to almost crawl on my hands and knees to get there. crazy.
anyways. Her husband was a member, but had never been active. They have three
little kids. Their oldest is seven. When the elders got to their house and
started to talk about baptism and that they needed to be married, their little
daughter looked at her parents and said something along the lines of, that they
were breaking Gods law, and that they needed to be married so that God could
bless them. Her parents looked at each other and were like, well, why not? They
were married last weekend and carmen was baptized this weekend. :) And they are
super excited about being members and living the gospel. I love love love their
little kids. I am going to try and send a picture. Yesterday after church I
taught them how to play ring around the rosy. :)
I know I had more to
tell you but I want to send pictures so I guess I’ll end. I`m doing really
good, happy in my new area, loving the mission! And I promise I`m not trunky ;)
hahaha.
Love you all! Que tengan
un feliz dia! ciao!
Hermana Shelton
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| Hermana Shelton and Hermana Sanchez |
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