Happy December!

Happy December!!! It’s SUPER hot here! I love Decembers like this!! 

 

Feliz Navidad...creative girls!

This week was a great one! We went to Huanta on Wednesday and I was a little car sick after all the switch backs.... but we survived!!! It was a beautiful experience! Then it was Thanksgiving! We ate a beet salad and fried egg thing called a tortilla it is like an omelet.

This is a pecan salad that Hna Nielsen made. She is super talented!

It was yummy. Our pension Solidad is great! We also ate cute little pies that Hermana Nielsen had, super yummy! And to top it off we made no bake fudgies for a family home evening we had!!! Pretty much the BEST Thanksgiving EVER!! Yesterday we had a meeting for family history at the stake center. We got on the wrong bus and went WAY The wrong way!!!! Not kidding, we were basically walking as fast we could to the stake center! We were only 10 min late.... 

 

eating the mini pies for Thanksgiving

Anyway, lately I’ve been reading 

1 Nefi 15-18 (These are chapters too long to post, but  you can read them on lds.org)

The photo shoot wall is in her apartment. Maybe she wanted us to see she really does her hair:)

and I’m loving it!! Really! Every time I open up to read I just get enveloped in the story! I feel like it is so real! I used to not like reading in Español but now I love it. It is an interesting experience to read the book of Mormon in Spanish. I feel it’s somehow cultural too because the people here are their descendants! 

Maybe Thanksgiving festivities or FHE not sure

It is amazing! Some verses I loved and meant a lot to me are in 

1 Nefi 17 3-5, 8 and 15. 

3And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for... 

4And we did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, even eight years in the wilderness. 

5And we did come to the land which we called Bountiful , because of its much fruit and also wild honey; and all these things were prepared of the Lord that we might not perish. And we beheld the sea, which we called Irreantum, which, being interpreted, is many waters. 

8    And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou shalt construct a ship, after the           manner which I shall show thee, that I may carry thy people across these waters.

   15W    Wherefore, I, Nephi, did strive to keep the 

Be Grateful

As we live the commandments Heavenly Father blesses us. These commandments keep order in everything! It’s like if in the US there weren’t speed signs! so Perú--really it’s a good example the driving is crazy here. Without the rules its absolute chaos. I know that Heavenly Father always prepares means by which we can accomplish the commandments and our assignments from Him. I love the gospel and I know the Gospel has been restored to the earth and that God does talk to His living prophet, Thomas S Monson. I know the Book of Mormon can answer any question... it leaves me feeling peace and Joy! 

May we all feel the Saviors Peace during this time of December!!!

Love you!

Hermana Bott