Hermana Beyonce

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this week has been way good and hard too...only because i have met like amazing people here and some best friends and a few of them left for their missions last night so i was super bummed. its all good though. i havent told you a ton about my district. they are the best people in the world. seriously everyone is amazing. i am gonna miss them so much. we are having a pretend christmas so im pumped about that. only 6 days till xmas!!!! hahaha yes thats how bored we are...gotta keep it exciting. 

but this week was sweet cause we went proselyting again. everyone in my district got paired with latinos except me...i got paired with hermana harper who is 2 weeks behind me and suuuuuper chill. i love her. but i was confused cause i was supposed to be like the latino in the situation. and i was like uhhhh i dont speak spanish too well. but it ended up working out cause we had a teacher come with us hermano chavez. such a baller. he is an unreal teacher and missionary. but some way cool expeiriences happened. the first was we were walking one day and chavez was like lets turn around and we randomly took a turn and then ran into this guy. we told him we were missionaries and he said he has been inactive for 10 years. he said he was baptized by 2 sisters and when he saw me and harper walking he thought of them and said we were the angels he has been searching for. it was soooooo rad.

then we saw this lady sweeping outside her house. such a humble house they had nothing. but we went in and her daughter was there with her son. we taught them about the restored gospel and she goes i have one question, why be baptized?? so we told her to follow christ and to be clean and then chavez looked at me and said invite her to be baptized. i was soo nervous hhaha but i memorized the invite in espanol. so i just threw it down and she said yes. what the heck i was dying!!!!!! so we are for sure sending the missionaries to her. they all agreed to go to church the next day too.

this week i have really noticed that its not really me doing anything. i barely know spanish and pretty much just smile hahaha but the spirit is the best missionary around and god has truly prepared these people to hear the gospel. they are starving for this message!!! its sooooo coooool. makes it all worth it. i love the ccm but i feel like i am reaching this point where i like cant learn more until im just thrown into it. i will still work hard and everything dont worry but im just getting antsy to kill it in the field. i know the first few months will be extra hard but spanish is starting to click and im just gonna do my best and rely on the lord.

this week we watched a devotional by bednar to missionaries. it talked about the attributes of christ and turning outward instead of in...if you guys have a chance you should look it up. it is unreal. sooooo amazing. and i have realized that there are so many times that i turn inward and turn selfish rather than being like christ and turning outward. so thats my goal this week and pretty much my mission to really just forget myself and serve!!!

playing harry potter

my running partner hermana chil left yesterday so im way bummed but i think some girls in my district are gonna run with me so im pumped for that. me and moir are gonna make a workout for the week using the stuff jenni has sent me. i freaking love activity time cause it is like my one hour of brain freedom for the day.

also my comp jameson is an unreallllll singer. she sounds like zoe deschanel and so after activity we have 30 min to get ready and for 20 min she sings and i just dance in our hall way. haha i sound sooooo nerdy saying that but ya gotta do what ya gotta do!!!!!

anyways thats pretty much my update for the week!! life is great. the best days here are ice cream days so i live for that. im learning a ton and realizing just how much better i need to be so i can be ready for the people in quito!!

   

ps. everyone send me your addresses cause im trying to write letters but i have no addresses!!!!! love you all!!!

yo se que el evangelio de jesucristo es verdadera y bendicire su vida cada dia!!

love always kar

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hey hey everyone!!!! ahh thanks for all the love. gosh i feel so loved everytime my email loads because i have just letters and letters. it makes up for the rest of the week cause mail here sucks!!! the only letters i have gotten are from john cause he is in south america. so i dont thnik the dear elder things are working to well but ill keep you posted!! hopefully this week!!!!

 

so this week has been way great!!

 

first im gonna start with what i have learned.

it has been hard cause with my lack of vocab spanish words everything is so simple. but my comp and me were talking about it and that is actually so amazing because the gospel really is simple. i think sometimes life can get overwhelming and confusing and confusion is not apart of gods plan. simplicity is the way. its like there is a god or there isnt and clearly there is!! anyways that has helped me alot. also i have learned to just be bold and confident. i dont conjugate everything correctly but the spirit doesnt have a language!!! so when im teaching im just like what the hekc and i just go for it and even though its wrong grammer it doesnt matter cause testifying is testifying!!! that being said though. spanish is getting easier. its starting to click pretty good for me. granit i have suchhhhhh a long way to go. but i can pretty much go into a lesson and somehow put some words together that make sense. the funny thing is i only know gospel words. like in the real world i am gonna be in trouble. but ask me to testify or say a prayer. man im all over that!!!

 

our teacher told us this rad story this week about this kid that wanted to go home. but they were proselyting and teaching this guy and he brought in three chairs for only 2 people. and they were all conrfused and he kept saying that there was a thrid person there. she said it was an angel with him. we were all bawling it was soooo sweet. i have the best teachers here. seriously they are like on point allllll the time.

 

okay some funny stuff that has happened this week...my comp hurt her leg so she was icing it and had this bag of ice but it melted to water. and she through it to the trash but it exploded like a water baloon all over the wall and our teacher bro bejar was just like que en el freaking mundo. oh my gosh we were dying casue it was in his latino accent.  he is hilarious. were teaching some people to say funny stuff here. like this latino girl learned how to say sucks to suck. i was dying. the latinos are way way cool i love them!!!!!

Hermana Moir

 

the ccm is not bad though. it gets repetative but i am loving my personal study time. i never knew how much i would love to read the bom. and also pops i started reading jesus the christ. oh my doctrine. its so deep  but i am learning a ton. i try to do a chapter or 2 a day of that. im on 6 and just realizing how bomb christ is. i seriously cannot wait to meet him. and i cant wait to meet mary too. what a boss!!!

 

how we feel sometimes in the CCM

dad im gonna read all those talks this week. i just took pics of them. but thanks sooooooo much for them!!! i love the talks so keep em coming!!!!

i hope mom and kristy are doing good!! it was weird having them here cause i was like ahhhh i could see them right now!!!! but i hope they are safe and i know they will love peru. i just wanna squeeze every peruvian woman 24 7 cause they are the cutest people everrrrrrrr. 

Que en el Mundo

hahaha que en el mundo is pretty much the saying here at the ccm. just what in the world.

 

this week has been unreal. hard but soo so good.

 

ill start with the hard...there is no other way to describe my feelings here then the word humbled. i seriously thought i was on top of the world when i left...but then i got here, cant speak any spanish, cant communicate my feelings, and on top of that i dont know like any doctrine haha. yesterday i was seriously struggling with this. but i just said a prayer that i would have an answer of why i am here and how i can be better. cause like 20 times here i have questioned why i am speaking spanish. i cant say anything!!! i was outside doing personal study and we have these teachers here that help us during that time. and this stud of a guy who served in ecuador came over and just sat by me...hermano anorga. and somehow in broken spanish we talked a bit. he asked me what i was doing and i said im reading preach my gospel from cover to cover cause i havent even read this book and i am supposed to be teaching it to others. i was just frustrated with myself for not preparing better. and he gave me the best lesson about doctrine and principles. he said doctrines are truths that dont change and principles are truths that we can do or change if that makes sense. and then he asked about laws. and we talked about commandments. then he said i know you are here for the principle. he said you have so much love to give the people and that is so much better then being on a mission because its a law or because you think it is what you are supposed to do.  he said you can know all the doctrine but with no love you will be an awful missionary. and even if you have just a little doctrine and tons of love you will be amazing. it was so cool and i felt so much better.

 

okay the good part of the ccm is though is that i seriously dont think i have laughed harder in my life. i have yet to be sick but i am sick with giggles. like not kidding 24 7. my teachers tell me to focus like 5 times a day and i am focused im just laughing the whole time. its cause the things people do here are so funny and i think they are only funny cause im stuck in this box called the mtc and cant get out so everything just becomes hilarious. for example. we have this elder, elder roos. and bless his heart he is the sweetest guy. cant speak one word of spanish though i pray for him every night. but our district leader was asking if we could wear flip flops to play volleyball during activity time and elder roos goes umm i dont wear flip flops...my mom tried to buy them for me and i was like mom i dont wear no thongs. oh  my gosh i seriously spit out my water. i was on the floor laughing. stuff like that happens everyday. its the tender mercies up in here haha.

 

my comps...okay hermana jameson is a life saver. she is seriously the tightest girl ever. we get along sooooo well. i love her to death. my other comp. hermana saenz i kinda wanna punch sometimes because im pretty sure she is here to flirt with boys. i wanna die. she is always late and not focused and it sucks cause me and jameson will be killin our lessons and then she is not on the same page. i know i need to be patient but its hard. im so glad i have jameson though.

 

so saturday was nuts. we have been here 10 days and we went proselyting in lima for 5 hours. just me and my comps and we had a teacher go with us. so we just knocked tons of doors and intercoms and said our shpeel that we memorized in espanol and then she would take over once we had no idea what was going on. but we got in two doors and gave a sweet lesson and the people asked me to pray both times!!! i was freaking out. but it went well!! my prayers are super repetative cause i have no vocab but honestly spanish is rough but i am starting to do good with it and put sentences together on my own. we taught a 20 min lesson last night with no notes. thats whats up.

but this guy we taught jose on sat was so cool. he said he felt peace and you could tell he was just ready for the gospel.

 

i got this sweet quote from this girl here about why pres hinckley said girls need missions. he said that they are being prepared to be mothers of gods army. its a super sick quote so look it up. i feel like this time is definately not mine and i owe it to the lord and to my future fam to just kill it out here.

 

life is real good though.

thats all for this week.

peace and love everyone. work hard play hard pray hard

 

karl