May - 2016

Week 15: Casi la Muerte* (*Nearly Death)

Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual thoughts) for all of you from this week: Alma 7: 11-12 “May we maintain the courage to defy the consensus. May we ever choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.” – Monson “There is no life sho shattered that it cannot be rebuilt.”- Uchtdorf This week was a fantastic and difficult one, filled with ups and downs. La vida misional, realmente* (*Missionary life, really). :) But no se preocupe* (*no worries), all is well here in Ox

Week 14: La Gripe* (*The Flu) and Rolled Ankles

It was a pretty good week in Oxapampa!! Pensamientos espirituales for este semana* (*spiritual thoughts for this week): “Be not afraid, only believe” by Uchtdorf, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of.” – Hamlet, DyC 58:27. Last P-day, we couldn't find a combi to predicted Catarata La Suiza- so we went to Los Pinos, a fantastic adventure hike to lots of pine trees! It was a chévere hike, and we played cards and got eaten alive by bugs- normal normal. ☺

Week 13: Adelante como Elefante!* (*Forward like an Elephant!)

This week was one of the best weeks yet- complete with the news that this will be my third transfer here in Oxapampa and today is officially my three month mark! It’s gone by way too fast to even comprehend. Some spiritual thoughts for the week: DyC 64: 33-34, Alma 36, DyC 6:34 :) Lunes*! (*Monday)! Today was a tranquilo tranquilo* (*quiet, peaceful) pday here in Oxa with just the four of us Oxapampinos! We cleaned, did internet, and went shopping for snapback hats in the mor

Week 12: “I’m not an owl!”/ Let Change Be Your Quest

Buenas, amigos y familia! I hope this week was amazing for all of you- for me, it was both incredibly difficult and rewarding, but such is the work. I can’t complain. Spiritual thoughts from this week: “Weaknesses become strengths, challenges become opportunities, trials become triumphs, and adversity becomes an adventure in the service of the Lord.” “Let change be your quest.” “Love is a daily decision.” Loving your life is something you have to choose every day- choose to

Week 11: The Week I got Alva Addicted to Mentos

Fantastic week- it went simultaneously quite rapido y lento! Raro. Pero bien.:)* (*fast and slow! Rare. But well.) Last Monday was a very long day. We biked 30 mins to Chontabamba (the Oxa elderes and us) and went to Rancho Victoria, where we met loros* (*parrots) that said "Hola!" when we walked up (bien asustante, jaja!* (*while frightening, hahah!)) We also saw horses, trouts, tortugas, and a sloth! We talked to a worker there named Gina and found out she lived close to th