Hermana Schmid

HOLA TODOS! Me encanta escribiendo ustedes cada semana. Es lo máximo. ☺* (*HELLO EVERYONE! I love writing you every week. It is the best.) On Wednesday, the super largo viaje* (*long trip) to La Merced from Lima began. Long ride, little food, and lots of people trying to sell us everything from Asian ginseng miracle tea to butter. We got back to La Merced just past 6 and met our zone leaders before I got to meet back up with Alva! She was with the hermana lideres* (*leader si

Although you didn't get to hear from me yesterday (thanks to literally being in a car for 12 hours), you get to hear from me today! YAY! Last Pday, we went to Villa Rica and it was by far one of the mejores dias* (*better days) yet. We met up with Hnas Keeler and Cruz (my favorite humans) in their cuarto* (*habitation) and dropped off our stuff before all of our distrito met up at the sisters´ pension for... PIZZA and 3 liter bottles of inca kola! It was pretty fantastic. Our

Este semana fue bien chevere* (*This week was really cool). Just so good. Oxapampa remains lo maximo* (*the best)! Last P-day was full of frustration. We went to internet en la manana* (*in the morning), and the linea failed twice, so we were incredibly frustradas. However, a trip to Feliz Dia and a functioning internet changed that! We also started doing something where for each frustrating or negative thing that happens, we come up with five positive things. That’s been sup

Just so you all know, this is the THIRD time I’ve written this letter. The Internet keeps crashing here, so I’m really hoping it goes through this time and doesn’t crash. I’m still in Oxapampa, but now I’m no longer in trio - Hermana Cadena left for Castilla, Huancayo on Wednesday, but Hermana Alva and I are still here! It’s been great, she’s always so funny and I’m super agradecida to have her as my trainer and compi. Last P-day, fuimos a Chontabamba, a neighboring city to O