

Week 75: The River Incident of Kotosh
Click HERE to listen to Karissa's recording to go with this week's update. Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): DyC* (*D&C) 128: 22 Pday* (*Preparation Day)! Today, we went de compras en la mañana* (*shopping in the morning) and then I made french toast for lunch! :D Then we headed over to Kotosh for our district Pday! We played lots of volleyball, took pictures, and walked by the river... resulting in the camera of yours truly being dropped and falling into the RIVE


Week 74: Summer MIRACLES. :D
Click HERE to listen to a message from Karissa to go with this week's message! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Mateo* (*Matthew) 18: 4 Pday* (*Preparation Day) was spent in Casa Tambo! :D Oh, how I LOVE being able to come back to El Tambo once a month. :) We went and bought recuerdos* (*souvenirs), went to a district pday to see Bernales and play volleyball in proselyting clothes, visited Bertha and Cristhian and Loysi and Obispo! :D SUCH a good day. :) Tuesday


Week 73: Rojo, Blanco, y Azul* (*Red, White, and Blue)
Click HERE to listen to Karissa's voice recording to accompany this week's blog update. Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): John 20: 27 Pday* (*Preparation Day)! :D Today, my new comp, Hna Orellana, got here! :D She's from Ecuador (my third comp from there!) and has 5 months in the M.P.H.* (*Mission Peru Huancayo) :D We spent most of the day making sure all the hermanas traveled to their new areas and watched some church videos with our pension! Luego* (*Then), we


Week 72: Go, Diego, Go! :D
Click HERE to listen to Karissa's voice recording for week 72! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Eter* (*Ether) 12: 4 P.day de Distrito* (*District Preparation Day)! We cooked a traditional Bolivian dish as a district and ate before heading out to Kotosh, ruins of an ancient temple! It had gorgeous views and we got to see the famous manos cruzadas!!! :D Luego* (*Then), we traveled back and visited Kely, converso* (*convert), and watched Meet the Mormons! She just


Week 71: Backpacking Across the Mision Peru Huancayo
Click HERE to listen to a short voice message from Karissa this week! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Mormon 5 : 23 Huancayo! :D I got here to mi pueblo* (*my town) and mi frio* (*my cold) in the early morning! We spent the day visiting- I went and saw Hermana Dymock before lunch! She's my favorite. :) Luego* (*Then), we visited Mama Loysi and had keke and I played her accordion! :D Then we went to Cristhian and Bertha and talked with them!:D Ah they're just th


Week 70: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAlameda where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.....
Click HERE to listen to Karissa's weekly message - this week a personal message that she shared with an investigator! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Mormon 8: 22 Checking in from windy Huanuco! Realized this week that the Oklahoma song just works PERFECTLY for mi nuevo pueblo, jaja* (*my new town, hahaha). :) Today was p-day de zona* (*zone preparation day), and we went to a recreo* (*recreation field) and played games! We played ultimate frisbee with a footbal


Semana* (*Week) 69:Â Prepared People
Click HERE for Karissa's voice message accompanying this update - she sings this week :). Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Alma 44:4 P.Day* (*Preparation Day)! :D After internet, we went and bought ingredients to make pizza and oreo no bake cookies with Marcia, our pension's daughter! :D We cooked, talked, and laughed. :) Luego* (*Then), we went and visited Charo, a contact from the other day, and got to know her! Turns out she's our pension's good friend! :) We


Week 66: La Alameda, Huanuco!
Click HERE to listen to a message from Karissa accompanying this week's update! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Salmos* (*Psalms) 27: 14 P-day! :) Today, we decided to go to Loysi's, where we made chocolate chip cookies and helped her clean her house! :) It was really fun and relaxing. Luego* (*Then), we went out to work! And a little boy that always bugs everyone came up and kicked me. but hey! We got to the cita* (*appointment) okay! :) We visited Otilia, memb


Week 62: MILAGROS.* (*MIRACLES.)
Click HERE for the voice from Karissa's recording that accompanies this week's message. Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Alma 7:5 P-Day! :) Today was my day of cooking. I made flan and caramel sauce in mugs and pancakes (in the sandwich maker ;) )! We also bought maple syrup to go with our pancakes and WOW was that delicious. Do not take that stuff for granted. :) We decided to play card games the rest of the afternoon and relax. :) We then went to Otilia, member


Week 61: He Lives!
*Click HERE to listen to Karissa's voice accompanying this week's update. Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Mosiah 16:9 P.Day* (*Preparation day)! We spent it with Hna Dymock. :) WHAT A BLESSING. We made grilled cheese sandwiches, made oreo postres* (*desserts), played Phase 10 and talked for años* (*years)! :) Oh, how I had missed her. :) Luego* (*Then), we picked up Hna Dacayanan and Hna Esparza and went to Lesly's (member) for our last goodbyes. She's going on