May 13th, 2013

Hey family! Wow it was actually way better than i thought to talk over skype to you all! Dad, you broke the glass in the table? hahaha. awesome. the good news is i dont think it'll be that hard to replace. So cute the pictures of Boston and Maddie, and the new baby!!!! and David and Amber, your son is soooo cute! It was good to see Brent and Josh, and linda and John, and Mariela, and everyone!!! its crazy to see how much has changed, but yet the house looks exactly the same. but with bushes in front jjaja. mom, you are soo cool. i didnt know you could play destin's bass! thats sick.

Funny story time. So i was pretty stressed out and had a head ache for like, two days straight. and my pensionista did something i have never heard of, so she was rubbing my head, and i was loving it, but then, out of nowhere, she grabs my hair, and pulls it so hard, it makes a suction sound as the scalp separates from the bone... apparently its supposed to help with stress... i started crying because i was so surprised, have you guys heard of that before?.. they have some interesting remedies, they arent too big on medicine here lol. My pensionista is so cool. she is one of the pensionistas in the mission... actually, all my pensionistas have been awesome. 

Welp... still working hard. I was talking to a returned missionary not long ago and mentioned i had a few weeks left, and she said, "ah entonces le falta mucho." o sea, she said ah you still have a lot left. I thought about that. Really i think there is not much time, but there is a LOT to do. activities to plan, people to activate, and investigators to baptize. Basically invite people to christ. haha, two days ago we knocked a door and a lady came out, said she was catholic, and if we came back she would "punish" us. what? really? that was a first, we just laughed about it because she was clearly elderly. i have learned to laugh at things i probably wouldnt have laughed at a year and a half ago. All we can do is invite, and do our best to represent Christ so people can feel his love through us, but at the end of the day, they have to take the decision and act on that. no one can live the gospel for you.

ps. Here are my flight plans.

love you all tons. 

Hermana Swartz

***Basically, so you all know, her flight plans show that she leaves Peru May 28th in the evening, flies to Atlanta, and then arrives in Salt Lake August 29th around lunch time. :) SO EXCITED!!!