July 18, 2013

¡Hola!

Can you believe I've been out for a month! So crazy! And I only have 12 days left in the MTC. But I officially love Peru! The people are awesome and I have a neat experiences everyday! This week my favorite experience was proselyting! Usually they split companionships up so there is a latino sister in each companionship but we have so many North Americans that we just had to go alone. The spanish was kind of a struggle but it was such a neat experience. The people here are so kind and loving. And they are almost always willing to listen to us for a minute which I'm sure isn't true in other missions. In all me and my companion talked to ten people and eight of them agreed to let the missionaries back. We also were able to give out all 4 copies of the Book of Mormon they gave us and about 12 pamphlets. One thing that was kind of crazy is we went proselyting right under the hill that's on my cover photo on facebook. The first person we talked to was one of my favorites. His name was Ignacio and at first he was very quiet and gave us one word answers but by the end he was laughing and joking with us. We talked to him about the Book of Mormon for probably 30 minutes. And he was actually the one who asked us where he could learn more so I guess you could say it was a very good first experience. We also taught a lady named Beatrize who at first told us she was busy. We asked if we could give her a pamphlet though and she agreed. When I gave it to her I asked if she believed in eternal families and she said no. My heart broke for her but we were both able to bear our testimonies to her and she ended up letting us in to teach her! It was really cool and we were able to make a time for the missionaries to teach her. It was really humbling because the floor in her house looked about like the sidewalk. A sheet seperated her front room from the rest of her house and there was no furniture. The people here are just so humble and loving!

 

Another place I love talking to people is the temple. The ladies who work there are so cute! Most of them are about 5 feet tall and they are so good to us. Whenever we go they have to bring out multiple dresses trying to find one tall enough for us and then after we put one on and come out the usually make us change because they´re to short. They always just say "mas alto, mas alto" whenever they see us. We also have to where the mens slippers because they don't have enough of the womens sizes for us because their feet are so small.

 

We also went to migration this week. I'm officially legal now. Migration was about an hour away which was cool because we got to see more of Peru. We went into the major part of the city and got to see the Palace and the Palace of Justice. Both buildings are so pretty and look like they're straight from Europe. The traffic was even crazier there though then it is in La Molina. And people literally walk down the middle of the streets when the cars are stopped selling drinks and candy. We also passed their soccer stadium which is huge!! The actual migration part was pretty boring though, it was pretty much like a really busy DMV in spanish.

 

Apparently there was an earthquake this week but we were out playing volleyball and didn't even feel it so that was to bad. I also got a pretty good black eye playing volleyball. I dove for a ball and another Hermana went for it as well so my eye hit her knee. We told the President the ball hit me so he didn't think we were getting to competitive though. Haha sshhh it's a secret.

 

I hope things are going well for everyone at home and that you're enjoying the sunshine!

 

Love,

Hermana Benson