Hermana Schmid

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Week 68: Return to the Jungle

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 63: Baptisms and Blessings! :D

Week 63: Baptisms and Blessings! :D

Click HERE to listen to a message from Karissa to accompany this week's update. Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Isaiah 40: 28-30 P.Day* (*Preparation Day)! :) Today we decided to relax- I made brownies in mugs and we played card games. :) Luego* (*Then), we had a NDH* (*Family Home Evening) with Otilia (member) and Lucho (investigator), where we spent some time cooking with them and making completos! Good day. :) On Tuesday, we started off with a district meetin

Week 56: El Tambo's Got Talent and The Great Zone Fast 2k17

Week 56: El Tambo's Got Talent and The Great Zone Fast 2k17

Click here to hear an additional short message from Karissa to accompany this week's update. Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Jacob 4: 7 P-Day! :D Today, we took out money for March, cleaned, did Internet, and made pasta with red sauce for lunch! :D Then, we went to visit Loisy, obispo's* (*bishop’s) wife, and sat and talked with her for un buen rato* (*a good time). :) She's just fantastic. At night, we had a noche de hogar* (*Family Home Evening) with Otilia, m

Week 46: 2017! That's weird.

Week 46: 2017! That's weird.

Pensamiento Espiritual* (*Spiritual Thought): Moroni 10: 6 click here for a recorded Message from Karissa this week! Lunes* (*Monday) was district P-day! :D I made french toast. It was a good time haha! We played futbol con sillas* (*soccer with chairs) and volleyball! Then, we went inside due to rain and played Mafia and Signs. :) Super fun P-day! :) Despues* (*Then), we visited Luz Maria, less active, and talked about the power of setting goals to get better each day. :) Ch

Week 40: Oooohhhhh, We´re Halfway There...

Week 40: Oooohhhhh, We´re Halfway There...

Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts): 2 Nephi 4: 15- 16 P-Day! :D We made pizza with Erika and some lady in the mercado* (*market) tried to recruit me to her modeling agency in Lima. Oh, the power of the gringa jaja. :) We then went with their family to Pucara, a little pueblito* (*village) at the very end of our area, to pasear* (*walk) and then to some ancient ruisns* (*ruins) in Huari! It was a fantastic day. I love my Chilca family. :) Despues* (*Then), we en

Semana 38: Feriado y Dias Festivas* (*Week 38: Holiday and Festive Days)!

Semana 38: Feriado y Dias Festivas* (*Week 38: Holiday and Festive Days)!

Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts): Alma 36: 27 Halloween!!! :D Today, Hna Aramayo and I went with Hna Jensen (who just started the mish) and Hna Spitale from Mariscal Castilla to President and Hermana Silva´s house for lunch! We cooked tacos with them and ate with the family. :) Era lo maximo* (*It was the best)!!! :) Despues* (*Then), President Silva gave me a bendicion de salud* (*blessing for health). I know I´ll get better if I follow the food restrictions,

Week 30: Gotta Catch ´Em All

Week 30: Gotta Catch ´Em All

Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts): Ether 12: 4 Last P-day, we went to our investigator, Delsy, to make Pikachu hats!!! We bought the fabric, string, etc. Before going back to her house to make them. They turned out to be really trabajosos* (*laborious), so we ended up sewing and finishing them off at night, but it was a fun time and now we have PIKACHU HATS! :) I´ve made so many manualidades en la mission* (*crafts in the mission), haha. :) Luego* (*Then), we v

Week 29: Blanca Nieves* (*White Snow)

Week 29: Blanca Nieves* (*White Snow)

Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts): Mosiah 4: 9 P-day!!:) After Internet, we traveled to Yanacancha for our District P-day! I put my Italian heritage to the test and we made pizza from scratch in a little electric oven. We decided to make jamonada, salchicha* (*sausage), and palta* (*avocado) pizzas, and they turned out DELICIOUS. :) It took a while due to the little electric oven, but we all talked while we waited. Despues* (*Then), we went and played pool! It

Week 26: I’ve Got the Black Lung, Pop! – Derek Zoolander/ Hermana Schmid

Week 26: I’ve Got the Black Lung, Pop! – Derek Zoolander/ Hermana Schmid

This quote has never been more applicable in my life because I’m in a cold mining town and I’ve got a CRAZY cough and cold. It’s lo maximo* (*the ultimate). :) Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts): “It is given unto you to judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is as plain, that you may know with a perfect knowledge, as the daylight is from the dark night.” Moroni 7:15 “We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do

Week 17: Seguir Adelante* (*Moving Forward)

Week 17: Seguir Adelante* (*Moving Forward)

“To know even one life breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts) for this week: Isaiah 12:2, Alma 29:9 Hola querido familia y amigos!!!* (*Hello dear family and friends!!!) I hope all is well with each and every one of you. Know that you are always in my thoughts and prayers. :) For last P-day, we cleaned the room of bastante teleranas* (*a lot of cobwebs), did Internet, and ate fa

Week 16: El Niño que Vivio* (*The Boy Who Lived)

Week 16: El Niño que Vivio* (*The Boy Who Lived)

Pensamientos Espirituales* (*Spiritual Thoughts) for this week: “Keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever.” Holland, Abril 2016 Conference Last P-day, we discovered we had LOTS of pasaje* (*travel money) left over (spent monthly), so we decided to do more than one fun thing because we had the resources! After internet and lunch of rocoto relleno and flan, we went to Cantarizu to see the Virgencita* (*Bless

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

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

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 11: The Week I got Alva Addicted to Mentos

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

Week 10: Una Elfa en un Mundo de Hobbits* (*An Elf in a world of Hobbits)

Week 10: Una Elfa en un Mundo de Hobbits* (*An Elf in a world of Hobbits)

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

Week Something or other (*Week 9): Libres en Lima* (*Free in Lima)

Week Something or other (Week 9): Libres en Lima (*Free in Lima)

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

Semana 8: Basically Christmas

Semana 8: Basically Christmas

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

Semana 7: Still in Oxa and having Weird Star Wars/Harry Potter dreams…

Semana 7: Still in Oxa and having Weird Star Wars/Harry Potter dreams…

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

Week 5: Cataratas, Citas, Y Mas*

Week 5: Cataratas, Citas, Y Mas*

Querido familia y amigos, Oxapampa is so beautiful. I’m so grateful for the people here, the scenery, the fruit- literally everything is incredible. Last P-day, we got to go to Caterata La Tigre, a fantastic hike ending in a transcendent waterfall! I hiked it in Sperrys, which was maybe not the best plan. We also ate at a restaurant called Feliz Dia, which the elderes here are obsessed with. It really was delicious. We received a list of names of menos activos (less active me

Anarchy Chess/Grande Span,
Pequeñito Glish

Anarchy Chess/Grande Span, Pequeñito Glish

HOLA FAMILIA Y AMIGOS!!! Everything is PERFECTO en el CCM. The food is great, the people greater, the lessons greatest!  I didn’t share this with anyone, but my flight was actually delayed for one day to come here. I was supposed to leave on Tuesday, but I ended up having to leave on Wednesday. At first, I was really upset about this fact, but I ended up being able to spend time with each of my family members individually, including a game of no-rules chess (henceforth

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