I love Cañete

Miracle of the week! Hermana El (A member) came with us. Please pray that we will strengthen our relationship with the members so they will want to come proselyting with us. We can’t do it without them. I love you!!!

I have prayed more here than ever before. I see the Lords hand in my life every day! My Spanish is getting better. I have started getting my R’s yaya!!! And at first I could not understand a thing but now I have started understanding more it’s awesome. My Heavenly Father loves me. I struggled emailing last week. I am very happy to be here.

This has been a fantastic week!!! Last p-day we went to the beach in Mala and played ultimate football and threw eggs at each other!! It was so much fun! I had egg everywhere!!! Then the elders kept throwing them after the game was over haha so I had my first official spa here in Peru. I love the people here!!! Seriously they are amazing! hna Jessica is the branch pres. daughter and she came proselyting with us until Friday when she left for Lima for school. But she will be back on Sunday to visit! Yay! We have had to clean our investigators out because they weren’t progressing. Pres. Douglas wanted us to focus on praying to find las escogidas, or the elect and that the elect be families and adults, because that is who the foundation of the church needs to be built on. It’s easy to baptize children and harder to baptize families but they will last longer. So every single prayer this week I prayed to find the elect. And guess what, we found a lot!!!!!!! It has been an amazing tender mercy from the Lord. On Thursday night we contacted in the street down by our apartment and we found so many families which have the Light of Christ in their eyes and have amazing potential. Last night Hna El, (she is a member and has been a member for 3 years and is so strong. She was born to be a missionary!!!!) helped us contact so many people. She is like 45 or 50 and is seriously amazing. She is so happy and bubbly and knows literally EVERYONE in Cañete. So, pray that we will have successful lessons this week. We have a lot of nuevo investigadores (new investigators) this week and want them to progress!!! On Thursday we had a multi-zone meeting with Pres. Douglas. We learned more about obra salvation which is using the members and missionaries here together to increase the work of salvation. Here, it is hard for the people to retain their membership so we are working with them. The members though are awesome. Oh ya, we had a great lesson with keti and alex, they are not married but have a cute daughter that is like 2 and we had the restoration lesson in a members home, Hno and hna Cast.’s house, and we ate homemade popcorn. Oh so yummy!!!! It reminded me of grandma Petersen’s when I was little and she would pop us popcorn in a big pan!!! So good! Anyway, the lesson was good. We watched a movie of the restoration and they are so strong and recognize they have the desire to change. The restoration is so important because it is what sets us apart from any other church. The Doctrine of Christ will baptize people but the Restoration will convert them. Right now I’m working on learning to teach the restoration better. I have the first vision memorized in Spanish!!!!!!! It’s awesome and so powerful!!!! The 2 most important parts of the restoration are the apostasia and the restauracion because without the apostasy there would be no reason for a restoration. Because Heavenly Father loves us, he restored His gospel. That is why I am here, in Cañete, to share this, to serve, serve, serve, and to love, love, love.  1 nefi 3: 7 is so true. Heavenly Father doesn’t give us any commandment unless he allows a way to accomplish it. I know this Gospel is true and Heavenly Father loves all of us. I love it here and wouldn’t be anywhere else in the world. The center of Cañete is awesome it has parks all around and is so pretty. 

Some things you should try eating this week, I enjoyed them

1 caywa (we think she means Causa) rellena (potato dish)

2 melon drink. its just water and cantelope blended together

3 smoothie with carrot, pina, papaya, lemon, condensed milk 

Today for p-day we are going to dormido leon it’s a beach I think not sure

Random stuff:

the mercado and mercadia is so awesome. the fruit smells and looks so good. But the meat oh that’s another story. i want to laugh every time I see it it’s hilarious and I have to remind myself I’m in Peru J

Missions are awesome woohoo!!!!

I love you,

Hermana Bott