Experiences for the journal!!!! 1-23-2017

Hola Familia!!!!!!

Ya so this week was good for what went on haha. We were able to have a obra misional activity and it was super fun! Except only 8 people came and 4 was my family that recently got converted and the other 4 were 2 members and 2 of their friends. So we were able to talk with them and get some visitas and 2 new investigators. But it was also really sad because the members just werent willing to support the activity. I'm not giving up hope on this ward but they definetly could be a tiny bit more supportive. 

I had a pretty cool experience this last week.  We were teaching a lesson with our investigator called Nurin and we were teaching about the plan of salvation. He had a ton of questions about the ressurection and random questions that didnt really make sense sometimes. ( his mom is israelita) but when we got to testify i felt prompted to give the example of my brother who is blind. I didnt know really what to say so i just kind of went for it and prayed the spirit would help me to know what to say. But i testified that ya my brother is blind and cant do the things he loves to do. but because he has the knowledge of the plan of salvation  he knows that even if hes never going to see again hes going to have a perfect body after the ressurrection. ALl because his savior suffered for him. and after i said that Nurin kind of went really quiet and just kinda said wow thats cool. .... It was so cool!!!!!!!!! But it also helped me to be more at peace with my brother, it really was edifying for my investigator and for me. And i give all credit to the spirit for what i said because it just kinda flowed out of my mouth. yay! 

Also this last week i was studying a talk from Bishop Dean M Davies from the conference of october and i love a few things that he said. "But when the holy Spirit filled their hearts, doubt and reluctance vanished."  (saw this with Nurin) "Spiritual experiences have less to do with what is happening around us and everything to do with what is happening within our hearts" i really thought about this in the lessons. like alot of the times we blame little kids,  dogs, or the tv for why the spirit leaves but in reality the spirit depends on us. we bring the spirit we create the spiritual experiences. It really put my  ind in perspective and i have written in my agenda for every day. "Where is your heart?" SO i can remind myself that right now for them it all depends on me. 

I hope you all have a great week!!!!!! Love you tons and thankyou for all the support!!!!!!!  

Love Hermana McNamara

p.s. I finally figured out how to use the emoji thing here!!!! 

Welllllllll ....... 1-17-2017

Hola Familia!!!!

well I've got about 10 more blisters and 2 more people to teach! but ya know the work goes on! Today I got to go to the temple here in Trujillo and do a session. I honestly took for granted the temple. There is a peace there you can't find anywhere else in the world and I love it!!!! Hopefully I can go again in the mission!!! 

One thing my comp. likes  to make fun of me for is my name. Because Casi or Cassie in Spanish is "almost". She tells me I shouldn't live up to my name because if so I'll  never complete anything I'll just almost get there... hahaha its funny. 

The heat here is absolutely insane and I'm honestly dying a little, I want snow!!!!! haha 

I don't have to much time to write today but I just wanted you to know I'm super thankful for all of you!!!!! you guys keep me going!!!!!  Always remember God loves you and He's got a great plan for each of you!!!! 

ill write a better letter next week!!!

Love you all

Love Hermana McNamara

Hay Calor!!!!!!! - 01/09/2017

Hola Familia!!!!!

Well this week was a little bit harder than the last. We are still knocking doors and contacting people in the street but I feel like soon or later we are going to find the people that God wants us to come in contact with! I have Lots of Faith and I'm just gonna keeping going. Yes ill be honest its a little disheartening and sometimes its hard to get the motivation to leave our apartment because we know that we are just going to be walking around in this absolutely crazy heat. But yesterday we were talking with a member and he gave the ejemplo (example) of the alfalfa plant. He said a lot of people here grow the alfalfa plant here and when its ready to be vended they cut just above the roots and vend the part they've cut off. But to keep the plant healthy and to produce good alfalfa every 5 years you have to remove the roots from the ground, freshen the soil and put in nutrients and replant the alfalfa. He said our faith is sometimes like that. we get so caught up in what we have to do we get disheartened and don't start to produce "good alfalfa" but we can replant our roots. .... now this got me thinking about this area and i don't know how to pull out the roots of this area and put in nutrients and replant it again but I'm going to find away. we are knocking doors, we are contacting but we must not be doing it enough. so one goal for me this week is I'm going to count how many doors I knocked the day before and the next day knock 2 more than before. I know this probably means a lot of walking but it will be good.

IM GONNA REPLANT THIS AREA!!!!!!!!!  

Now that being said yes I am dying of heat here. please send snow!!! haha its hot enough that during our little preparation time we have in the afternoon we take a shower to get all the sweat from the morning off haha. the people here say that its the rain season but I have yet to be pleased with what they call rain. its like 5 drops and then its over. 

Anyways hope you all have a good week!!!! Thanks for all the support!!!!

Love Hna. McNamara

Happy New Year!!!!!!! 01-02-2017

Hola Familia!!!!!!!!


Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!
Hope your parties were great!!!!
Peru doesn't really celebrate New Years very different. The only difference is that there is a ton of drinking and lots of fire works!!!!


This last week has been rough I'm not gonna lie. We have had a lot of lessons just fall through and then others they have flat out said to our face that they don't want to listen. But I'm still being positive. because apart from all this roughness there have been a couple people we have contacted that I think we are gonna be able to help out a lot. First off this last week we met a guy named Demetrio and we sat outside his house for a bit and we learned that while he was living in Argentina he went to church in the Mormon church, but never talked with the missionaries and never got baptized. When he told us that I responded "well hermano this is good because we are missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or we are also known as the Mormons!!!" We had a great conversation with him after and I'm excited to see how he progresses. Also I have gotten over my fear of knocking on doors. Actually I LOVE knocking on doors!!!! why might you ask? well when I'm walking down the street i have a hard time contacting people that i can see because before i even get to talk to them I've already judged them. oh this person isn't ready or this person doesn't look like someone interested in God. But when i knock doors i cant see the person that's going to answer the door, i cant judge them before i start talking to them! It gives everybody the chance to hear the gospel and not let my thoughts of man get in the way. Now that being said i am working on getting over this not very good at contacting people in the street! Actually Demetrio is a street contact! I'm working on becoming more like my Savior! I just want to see all the people how God and Christ sees them. With love. This is my goal for this new year. Work on becoming more like Christ so that I can recognize the love God has for all his children and that way I'm just talking to every person in the street! haha a new years goal I'm actually going to accomplish!


My new comp. is pretty awesome! I think we are gonna accomplish a lot here!


I'm really grateful for all the opportunities I've been given.
Have a good week!!!!! Hope you all have set some pretty awesome goals!!!!!!
Love Hermana McNamara