I'm hanging but I'm there...

Hola Familia!!!

Ok first let me hurry and answer your questions. I have not heard anything on my package yet. I    

might this week and possibly next week. When the newbies from the CCM come to the mission, someone said sometimes that they forward packages with the next transfer. Also mom there is a courier that goes to Peru. They have a Facebook page. Hermana Marble was telling me about it. And apparently it is a lot cheaper. One Hermana in the mission gets a package every month from her parents. Crazy. Also the picture you took of my apartment last week is correct. Go through the small window on the second floor and that’s my front door. pretty nasty... jk  I’ll admit it, It does look pretty sketchy. Do not send mail to that address! I will not get it.  Send it to the mission home or to the mission offices. All that information should be on the mission Facebook page. Hermana Marble has a bunch of info and all that jazz on there.

So I’m doing better this week. I’m not fantastic and I probably wouldn’t say I’m good. But I’m taking each day by day and pushing through it. I’ve discovered one thing about the mission this last week and it’s that the mission brings out emotions in a person they didn’t know they had. This last week’s I’ve been struggling a bit with anxiety, it’s been rough because I’ve always been a super tough person and now here I am finding myself freaking out over little things that don’t matter. It’s even worse when my companion doesn’t talk to me for like 5 hours. Ya that really brings out the anxiety. lucky me I’ve got an awesome mission president who has been helping me a lot. And there is a book they gave us at the beginning of the field that’s really been helpful. And again I’m just taking each day 1 at a time.

ok now for all the good stuff. 

I HAD MY FIRST BAPTISM THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luis got baptized!!!! Anyways I know he is gonna be a great member in the church. He’s already started being a missionary! He invited his friend to come to church and he was really happy to have him there because none of his family came for his confirmation. he’s 11 and his friend is 9 and they came alone! I am so proud of him.

Oh and something weird happened this week. My companion got sick Wednesday and she had to not proselyte for the last part of the day because her head hurt so bad. Well the next morning at breakfast she was telling our Pensinista about it and I kinda zoned out for a minute and then I looked up again after zoning out and my Peninista is wiping down my companion with a piece of newspaper. ok weird... well it gets weirder. After she finished wiping my companion down she crumpled up the paper went off to the side and lit it on fire. Did I mention that we are in her house? Which is technically our house too!!!!  ya apparently here in Trujillo there is a disease called "chucaque" its only in Trujillo and you get it from someone who looks at you with strong eyes. (when they glare at you) so basically it’s a curse. These people are very superstitious. Very. It’s kinda funny but can we keep the lighting things on fire for a different place? Like outside? 

Also mom can you send me the lyrics for the song Michael Jackson sings in Free Willy???

Oh and I learned that here "freaking" is a really bad word. Ya I learned that the hard way. We were in a meeting with the ward mission leader.... ya I am never gonna live that down.  Anyways it’s been fun here!!!   

This next week will be better I know it! 

Love you all! 

Love

Hna.McNamara

 

Memories and quotes that keep her going.....

I suspect this is where she lost her glasses.

Holding onto memories....

It’s Been Rough

8/10/2016

Ok, so it’s really been a rough week. Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. We didn’t have a lot of our investigators or menos activos let us into their homes and we mainly spent most of this week walking. Oh and the adventure is I got to fly back to Lima yesterday and get my immigration card. Literally the most boring day of my life but I got to spend some bonding time with Hermana Herdklotz from the CCM. That was pretty exciting! I am officially legal in Peru. 

Now here’s the other adventure of the week. I lost my glasses. Yup you read that right I lost my glasses. Lucky me I have my old prescription. Here’s what happened so I was getting a really bad headache and so I took them off and put them in a case then put them in the side pocket of my back pack. I made sure they were securely in there and wouldn’t fall out. Then I got in a moto taxi and we rode a distance got out at the church and then we went into the church. I went to go grab my glasses and they were gone. Yea I cried. I left them in the moto taxi. Elder McEwin says once you’ve lost something in a moto taxi you’ll never get it back, I’m still praying for a miracle because that was my only pair with the correct prescription but you know..... so that was exciting. 

Sunday in church we actually filled the chapel with people and it was cool to hear a bunch of Peruvian people sing off key it was fun. And there were 3 baby blessings and that’s pretty awesome here. Also my companion thinks she is an investigator. We went to a menos activos house and started to teach a lesson and then the couple started fighting, now usually in this situation we are just supposed to leave and tell that they can counsel with their bishop. Well my companion decided to stay and give some advice and I think it just made it worse. It was literally the worse 45 minutes of my life. Also one of our investigators almost passed out in Sunday school, I was really hoping she was going to have an Alma the Younger experience. Also mom can you send me the lyrics for I can go the distance from Hercules. that’s been my motivating factor this week. Anyways short email because I don’t have much time. 

Love you all!!!

Love Hermana McNamara