Hey family! wow so much to tell you all! first off, my shoes are really truly broken this time. both pairs, the sole is broken in half. i can still use them. but water comes in and i have replaced the inside on both pairs, but its not going to last long. and i still have 6 months of hard work! the straps are broken too. Do you need me to send a picture, or can you just go to missionary mall and they have the receipt on record. Peru is kind of rough on shoes. So i am not sure what we can do, but if you can find out.. that would be great.
Christmas... This year i have to call on Christmas eve, I can call at any hour. I am thinking at five my time... not sure what that means your time... does that work okay? I HAVE AN HOUR!!!! woot! ahhh! so awesome. Ill make sure i have enough credit.
Alright, so awesome rachel and chris are bck! how awesome. How cool! I hope you all have an awesome christmas! cant wait to talk to you all. oh, JILL! happy birthday! hope your birthday rocked chica. love you tons.
Destin! Freaking cool about your investigator! that is so awesome. I will pray for her, wow, how aweful, but how cool that the lord has really prepared her to recieve the gospel and she will bwe able to see all her family again, and the lord will bless her for her obedience. The gospel rocks
Alright this is whats happening in peru. We had a baptism on saturday, David got baptized!!!!! He is awesoem. So we go to the church, and there is no water to fill the pila bautismal, so we go to the other church, and there is no water there either! So we think, hey! lets go to the river! so we go to the river, and it was with waves of like, 4 feet because we are in the rain season. Really, it was moving boulders the size of the metro, and sounded like thunder. so we thought... huh. But David was determined to be baptized, so we went to the pool and it was a really awesome baptism!
Also, Beder who i have been teaching since i got here, in september, finally accepted a baptismal date! It was a miracle because his mom wouldnt give him permission, but his dad got here and we talked to him and he talked to the mom and they agreed! Beder is soooo awesome, when i got here, i once said that if i accomplished nothing else, but helped beder get baptized, i would feel like i have done what i had to do here. and now he is getting baptized the 29th, and i really really feel like i had to come here to find him. He is awesome, he told his mom, Mom this isnt the church of some guy, its not just any church like the baptist, or catholic, or maranata, its THE church of Jesus christ, and i am going to be baptized in it. Wow, so powerful his testimony.
Also we found someone named Andres, He rocks. 6 months ago he fell from the 2nd story and smashed his head hard and had to have brain surgery and now suffers from short term memory loss. He cant remember anything he did the day before. He started crying because he has lost all his friends because they all tell him he used to be funny, he used to be a certain way but now he is different. some friends. anyway he is 21 years old, and wants so much to be healed and to find christ in his life. its awesome. I am expecting it to be something like the movie 50 first dates... we are not sure how its going to work exactly, haha but he is awesome and we are going to do our best.
we are working hard with the less actives, and they have given a ton of references! Also a great way that an elder told us to find new, is an activity with the youth. They made missionary badges for the youth, taught them how to contact, teh lessons, how to challenge people to get baptized, and sent them out in companionships, and they knocked doors, they challenged people to baptism, they contacted their friends, and took out return appointments! They have no fear whatsover, and now the missionaries have tons of references! how awesome! We are going to do that in our branch in the next week, or two weeks.
Basically i love my companion, i love quillabamba, i love the people i am teaching and i dont want to leave quillabamba at the end of this transfer. i know i have 3 transfers, but it feels like 1 and i want more time here! but we will see what the lord has planned.
Honestly, serving a mission is the most awesome thing that has ever happened. I lack soooo much... especially patience. But I can not imagen my life with out this time serving the people here in peru and serving the Lord my God.
i love you all, Merry christmas!!!!!
Hermana Swartz
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