

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 18: Basically Little Old Cholitas
Pensamientos Espirituales for este gran semana:* (*Spiritual thoughts for this great week:) Lucas 15* (*Luke 15) Alma 57: 26-27 “[Gospel tenacity]: no matter what, continue to have faith in God and His promises, and do what is right all the time, regardless of who knows.”-Evans, Ensign Junio* (*June) 2016 Last P-day, we cleaned and did Internet and then had absolutely no clue what to do, so we wandered the little stores, bought and ate chocoton, went around the city taking pi


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 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