Miracles and more miracles!!

I don’t have much time today! But this week was crazy!! Seriously we saw so many miracles and I think our biggest one was Monica! She’s the Peruvian girl studying medicine here and she is so amazing. We had a family night with a Peruvian family and they made Peruvian food for her and it was so nice! but they also testified of the blessings of the gospel and she was a little worried to be baptized without her mom but she told us yesterday that she has to be baptized the 9th of December and there is no way she is going back. It is so awesome. She is a reference from our ward mission leader and on Saturday he had 7 references for us and he brought them to church. He really shares the gospel even after the mission! 

I did exchanges with Hermana Larsen; she is the daughter of one of my mother’s mission’s companions. We were companions for one day!! Amazing!!

Also I am learning every day that God is aware of his children and everyone is prepared. We are teaching a couple Marcelo and Jocelyn and they are on their way to be married and then to be baptized. The gospel is working miracles in their life. 

We are also finding sooo many new people to teach!! God is really blessing us for our hard work! 

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Hermana Lopez 

P-day we went to Incachaca with our Zone, in the rainforest an amazing adventure!!

 

VIVA PERU!!

To celebrate Peru entering the world cup we moved up our Peruvian investigator´s baptismal date up two weeks!

It was a miracle!! We are teaching Monica she’s our ward mission leaders friend in college and she’s Peruvian but studying medicine in Bolivia. And she is so prepared to receive the gospel. We have been teaching her for a while now and a few weeks ago we set a baptismal date with her. She told us that she would accept it, but still had a lot of doubts. This week we felt like we should move her fecha (date) up two weeks because she is traveling for the holidays, but we had no idea how we were going to do this. So, we taught a lesson with her and she had a lot of doubts on the Book of Mormon. Luckily, there was a member with us and she shared one of her favorite scriptures. Monica just started crying and said she felt something. She was just crying and said she felt so so happy. We told her that it was her answer! And when we moved her fecha up two weeks she said SI! SI! It was a miracle. In her prayer, she just cried and said thank you for showing me the truth. It was literally so beautiful. Heavenly Father truly does speak to us.

Another miracle is that this guy we contacted just came to church in a suite and it was really funny because no one knew he was visiting, but he loved the church. And this other man randomly walked in. He was in tattered jeans and has shaggy hair and he just walked in. We started talking to him, his name is Saul, and we asked how did you come to the church? And he said, I just need the word of God in my life and this is where God lead me.

Wow!! Honestly Heavenly Father knows where His children are. I am so happy we are seeing so so much miracles in Tiquipaya. 

Hermana Lopez -- 

Primary children's feature missionaries.

Our favorite! saltenas!!

 Wall graffiiti in Cochabamba.

Another miracle!!

I am super super super happy with Hermana Bennett!!! She is the best and this week was so wild we feel like we have been companions for forever, we get along super well. 

So, this week I had to go in and out of the hospital to get some tests about the parasites and it was really annoying and I felt really bad about it. wasting time and all that. but we were in the clinic waiting and the lady was like you came too late the doctor isn’t going to talk to you, but I wanted to stay because I didn’t want to go back and all this stuff. and right when I was like this is such a waste of time let’s just go this lady comes up to us and says

Hermanas?? What ward are you two serving in??

Tiquipaya

TIQUIPAAYA?! I have a reference for you!! 

And we were just like what?? Ok?? So, she gives us her brother’s name and says he just recently told me he wants to go to the church. so, she draws us this map, but she doesn’t know Tiquipaya at all so it was all backwards and stuff and we looked for this guy for like 2 days and we couldn’t find him. We would get clues though like we felt like we were getting closer and closer each day, but it was a bit frustrating. 

Then one day we went to visit a lady and she wasn’t there so we were going to go visit someone else and I had this super overwhelming feeling to turn around. So, we did and we went in this giant circle and it was really embarrassing ha-ha but there was this young girl standing in the middle of the road so we contacted her. And she told us her aunt was a member and that she had recently been praying and wants to get closer to God. And then she let us follow her home and we talked to her mom and it was literally the reference we got in the clinic! It was a miracle. The map was so off we would have never found her house, but God put her and us in the right place at the right time. They are incredible!! Heavenly Father knows where His children are.

Other good news I am free of parasites!!

Love you all! 

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Hermana Lopez 

Another amazing experience is that I met Hermana Larsen, she is a brand-new missionary. She is the daughter of my mom's missionary companion!! Incredible!! and now we the daughters are serving in the same mission, same zone and we work together in exchanges.

 

I got my results back and I'm free of parasites!!

A view of my areaTiquipaya