Mary's 3rd Letter From Peru

Mom, sorry I couldnt answer your questions. It costs money to print
letters, and its so expensive to mail letters home! i mailed a letter
home that will hopefully answer your questions. I am in Escuchaca
right now with my zone and we are going to go see the ruins. I love
it here. I definitely had a man on a bus try to kiss me today and
another speaking quechua freaking kissed my hand, a wet sloppy kiss.
sick. I love the people, I still am struggling with the language and
dont catch a lot of what is happening.

I had to speak yesterday in church and basically called the ward to
repentance. they are not helping very much, there is a lot of
contention and drama in this ward. Basically I talked about christ
and how everyone needs to stop focusing on them selves and turn
outward, and follow the example of christ. if everyone did this, the
problems in the ward would end. but everyone is whining that they dont
have friends, nobody talks to them, but they themselves dont talk to
anyone! so that was good.
we definitely have had the door slammed in our face, one ivestigator
made eye contact with us and ran inside his home and told the people
working outside to tell us he was not home, sooo, that happened
hahaha. We walk everywhere, or take a taxi if we have to be somewhere
fast. last night a columbian made us arapas, which rock.

I love studying the scriptures sooo much, the more I study them, the
more i learn and the more i see the connection between the bible and
the book of mormon. we had a lession with our pencionista maria, and
explained about Noah and why he had to build a ship vs. Nephi. she
thought the book of mormon was copying the bible! also we had an
investigator ask why joseph smith could see god but moses couldnt. so
that was cool to look into and show him the joseph smith translations.

questions - i cant find the answer to these questions so if you could
look into this and let me know, that would be cool. where did lehi get
the preisthood? where is the scripture that talks about christ saying
he cant forget us because we are engraved on his hands, like a mother
can not forget her own child. Where is the scripture that is on the
picture of you (rachel) when you are on your mission, its a way cool
scripture. and, is there a talk or something that talks about the
garden of eden being in the americas, or independence missouri or
something? let me know!