Going to Puno!

I have a change!!!!  WHAT!! I am going to Puno!!!  I will tell you

more next week!  I want to go but at the same time I can´t say good

bye to Rene and Carolina!  This is the hardest part about the mission

for sure!!

Yeah okay! HOla familia!!!

This week has been one of the best!  I have had the best time with

Hermana Campoverde here.  I think I am going to live in Ecuador with

her and never come home. Haha Chiste!! But gosh I love her!

We have had a great week! It started with a Family Home evening with

Rene.  It was the best!  The kids loved the FUN FETTI cake!!  Pictures

included!  We invited a Hermana that is visiting from Lima.  She is

new here working on her nursing major and doesn´t know anyone.  She is

so darling and single…..soooo we played a little role as a match maker

and invited our ward mission leader…  I didn't think he would come but

he came!  It was the best.  I have never seen Juan with anything but a

soccer jersey and a white shirt on Sunday, but he showed up to the

house with a nice button up shirt and his hair all combed.  It was the

best!  We gave a little thought and then made cookies and then played

a super fun game.  Afterwards we made Juan accompany fiorella to her

house, but disappointingly he did not ask for her number….  It was

great.  Maybe we can´t date but we can sure help others! I love being

a missionary!

WE visited a menos activos named Carlota this week.  We taught her a

really short lesson and then we helped her feed her chickens.  While

we fed her chickens she started cutting wood.  While she was cutting

wood she totally fell asleep!  Standing up and everything!  She is

such a hardworker and she does so much for her family!  She is tiny

but so strong!  We are slowly reactivating her but it is taking

awhile!

This week we have been focusing on contacting and finding new

investigators.  I have loved it because when a appointment falls

through we knock on doors and find people.  This week we went by one

of the people we contacted , but she was just leaving so we decided to

go and try to find another family we had contacted.  While we were

walking up this hill I decided to say a little prayer that we could

find someone to teach in this time.  Well we went to where we thought

this family lived and knocked.  A girl opened the window and we asked

if this family lived here, but she said that she would come out.  So

she came out and said that this family didn´t live here but

surprisingly she invited us in!  and her husband was there.  So we

were able to teach this family.  It was the best.  I know that God

answered my prayer in this moment.  I have been trying to work on

having more exact faith.  So I have been saying each morning…  yah

vamos a encontrar a Nuevo!  And you know what! It has worked!  It´s

amazing what God can do with your faith.  And sometimes we don’t just

find one we find two or three!

Well I am really sad to leave because this week we found another

Carolina.   She lives arriba with her grandparents and she is so

sweet.  We taught her lesson one and she understood it really well!  I

think she has great potential.   While we were up there visiting them

her grandpa walked by and coudn´t stop saying Gringa gringa!! Hahah

we just laughed and  laughed.  Later we took pictures with his cow….

Hermana Campoverde has them but I will send them when I can.

Did I mention that Hermana cooper is coming to Abancay to be Hermana

Campoverde´s companion!  PARTY IN Abancay!

I can´t believe my time is done in Abancay. I have loved every moment

and I have especially loved this change. Hermana Campoverde is the

best. We have become such great friends. Hermana Cooper and Hermana

Campoverde are going to be an amazing companionship and just what the

area needs. Thanks for such great companions. I am excited for Puno!

WHOO! It´s going to be the greatest!

This week I have studied a lot about the Book of Mormon. I have been

thinking a lot about a question that Predicad asks us. Its how has the

book of mormon influenced our testimony of the Savior. I have been

pondering this all week and think that for me the book of Mormon is

everything that holds my testimoney together. It contains the doctrine

of Jesus Christ! It helps me return to my Father and my Savior. I have

truly grown to love that book. I have been trying to study the bible a

little more, but everytime I am drawn back to the clear doctrine that

you can find in the Book of Mormon. How grateful I am for the

Restoration! I love the change in the mission with the contacting

because I feel like we have talked to many people and we have found

ourselves declaring the Restoration a little more. My testimony of

the Restored gospel has grown a lot this week.

LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Emma, Hermana Rene, Hermana Campoverde, Rene's children

New Investigator

Grandpa and the Cow

Celebration!

Hermana Russell and the Cow

Sebastian and the Funfetti cake!

Blind Date with new move in and the ward mission leader Juan!

Emma, Carolina and Hermana Campoverde
strange man in the background

Elders, The Sandbergs, Hermana Russell and Hermana Campoverde

Sweet Companions

Hermana Sandberg

Hermana Hunter, Russell and Campoverde, Tall, Medium and Small

Saying good bye at the bus station