

Week 77: Changed for Good
Click HERE to listen to Karissa's last voice recording from Peru! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Helaman 10:4 HELLO ALL! :D anyway. Today's email is going to be a little bit different. First, I'll contarles* (*tell you about) my semana como siempre* (*week as always)... but then comes algo especial* (*something special). :) P-Day* (*Monday- Preparation day)! :) Well, today was a normal tranquilo* (*quiet) P-day! We ran errands, printed pictures, and made oreo a


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 68: Return to the Jungle
Click HERE to listen to a voice recording from Karissa accompanying this week's update! Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): 2 Nefi 22: 2 P-Day* (*Preparation Day- Monday)! :D I’ve officially been in Huanuco for one week now! Todavia no me acostumbro al calor, jaja* (*I am still not used to the heat, hahaha). We went to lunch and then went de compras* (*shopping)- printing out pictures, eating ice cream, and going to the artesan's house for some recuerdos* (*souvenir


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 35: Ice-Skating, Christmas carols, and Paneton
Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spirtual Thoughts): Alma 57: 21 P-day! Today was spent yendo de compras* (*going shopping), and we decided to buy a paneton and some hot chocolate! :) It´s a Peruvian Christmas tradition, so we put on musica de la Navidad* (*Christmas music) and celebrated a few months early. :) It's been especially cold this week, so we figured it was fitting! Chistoso era* (*it was funny). :) We visited our investigator Alex and had a noche de hogar* (*Family Ho