I hope y'all had a good week! This week was a little frustrating but nonetheless good. There isn't a lot to talk about but Last p-day we were bored and decided to hike to the top of the little mountain nearby. It took about 45 minutes of straight incline and haha, I am way out of shape. We had to take lots of breaks to catch our breath, which I want to blame on the altitude. But it could as easily be because I am out of shape and eat snacks every day during study time, my favorite time of the day. After finally making it to the top we felt great! But afterwards my calves and lungs reminded me that I need to be nice to them haha.
I think that is a good theme for the week, climbing a mountain. During the process your body aches and the top looks forever away. Once you make it to the top, adrenaline kicks in and everything was worth it. Right now in this area, I feel like I'm in the middle of climbing a really high and steep mountain. But when we get a baptism here, it will probably feel more rewarding than any other I've ever had.
And with our difficulties, normally I would feel fine knowing change takes time, but when our mission president opened this area he talked with our branch and set a goal for a certain amount of baptisms each month. Well we won't have any baptisms our first month. Also if we don't start seeing success soon, our area will be closed at the end of the year. I don't want to be a missionary who opens and closes the same area. But there is some potential for baptisms in November, so we will just have to pray and work extra hard.
Now to end with some fun facts (not really). This week it snowed twice. Yes in Peru in the middle of South America, we received snow twice this week. Not enough for it to stick but it got me excited to see snow for the first time in a year and a half. Also for p-day today we went a place called Huagapo which is the deepest cave in all of South America. Sadly as missionaries we have rules such as no rock climbing and no swimming. To truly experience the cave you need to bring rope to rock climb and scuba gear to go diving haha, so I guess that maybe after my mission I can come back.
Photos:
1: High on the Mountain Top
2: A look at our area
3: The mountain we climbed from far away
4: Yes... A random goat head i found in the street
*Stay tuned for next weeks letter which will include the photos of Huagapo
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