Beautiful week in Cusco

February 15, 2016

Hey family!

  How are we??  Its been a beautiful week here in Cusco.  I love

Cusco. Its awesome.  Hermana Borja is also the greatest!  We laugh a

lot even when we have a little bit of stress.  The work is going good.

We are going to rescue a really awesome family and have a couple

investigators with baptism dates. All is well here. 

    This week the Hermanas from Puerto came to visit us.  It was so

much fun to see Hermana Alailima again!  I spent the day with her and

it was awesome.  She has become an amazing missionary…I wonder who

trained her?... haha joking.  But really she teaches so well and I

learned so much from her.  It was good to hear that Puerto is doing

really well.  Lots of my old investigators have baptism dates and she

is getting along really well with her companion.  They were able to

fly to cusco and on the way back we almost missed their flight.  It

was something out of our hands but wow talk about stress.  We ended up

full on running through the airport parking lot.  And then later that

day we were almost late getting home from an appointment so we ran

like crazies to be there at 9.  We made it and i was grateful that day

had ended.

We also had zone conference with our zone and another zone in Cusco.

It was amazing.  President is the best and his talk was perfect.  He

talked about our purpose as missionaries.  Later he talked about the

worth of women and talked super hard to the Elders.  I have the

greatest notes.  We had to give a little training and we were so

nervous.  I think it went good but I called on an Elder and got his

name wrong. It was embarrassing….. I think I am becoming more like

mom…  jaja love you. Anways the conference was awesome.  President

sometimes talks to prepare us for the life after the misión and he

told us that our purpose on earth is to get married in the temple to

our prince charming.  He also said that the scripture about the

natural man only refers to men.  Jaja 

Yesterday was a really rough day.  We had been walking for hours and

hours without finding anyone to teach.  WE had a appointment at 6 with

a less active and his two daughters who aren`t baptized. As we were

walking past a park to go to the appointment someone called us and it

was this less active.  WE were able to teach them and it was a  great

lesson. It was a huge tender mercy and I was grateful that we were

able to find them.  Because if we had passed by with out him saying

something we would have found his house empty.

This week I am trying to have an attitude of gratitude.  THis sector

is very different from Puerto and I am trying to get used to it.  Its

been a little hard but I feel like the Lord is with us.  He really

walks with us everyday and feels exactly what we feel.  I know he is

preparing people that I need to find in this sector and if we are

obedient and do what is asked of us we will find them.   Plus this

week Elder Holland is coming!!

Well love you all!

Con amor, hermana Russell