Lima - Post 2

EARLY morning arrival at
The Buenos Aires Temple

June 3, 2014

Hey everyone sorry for not emailing for a while.  Things have been pretty crazy these past few weeks.  SO 2 weeks ago I got emergency transferred to this little town called Lima (NOT lima peru).  It´s pretty for from everything.  But it´s cute and I love it!  My companion is Hermana Weitl and I just LOVE HER!  She is from Washington and got baptized almost 2 years ago.  She has such a fire and will to do this work. She has only been here in Argentina for 6 weeks and I´m training her.  So I´m her mission mom :)  We get along SO WELL!  I'm positive we will be friends forever! 

Last week we went to the temple. It was so amazing and it was something I really needed, even if i didn´t know it.  I was able to see all of my previous companions minus Hermana Salazar who is back home in Honduras.

The Elders we work with and
the Ward Mission Leader

As for the work here in Lima.  Lima is a tiny branch and we meet in a rented house on Sundays.  The Elders are the counselors to the branch president and we are primary helpers.  There are few active members and the attendance sundays is around 20 people.  There is a lot of work to be done.  When we first met with the branch president I asked him what his vision for the branch was.  He said to have a church building so we talked about what we needed to do to be able to reach that vision.  

Pedaling through Lima

We also ride bikes here.  It´s really nice.  Also here everything closes at like 12 or 1ish and opens back up at 5 because they take the siesta here.

As for investigators we find alot of people but they either fall through, don´t progress, or just don´t have any interest. We found one really great mom named Mirta but she didn't come to church and fell through on us so we will see what happens there.  Yesterday we found another mom named Griselda.  At first she was like "No thanks but we already have our church" but I shared a bit about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.  She said they moved here about 6 months ago and have been going to her church for only 4 months and have always been looking for a church where they feel comfortable and is right for their famnily.  She said she would read the Book of Mormon and go to church.   I then invited her to be baptized on the 28th.  She said if she knows that this is the church for them she will most definately be baptized!  I was a little shocked because at first she was just going to blow us off, but it is so important to teach with the Spirit because the Spirit testifies of Christ and the Truth, and that is what changed her and made the difference.  Man I love what I do every day!

SO yeah things are going great and I´m loving the work.  Sorry I haven´t been doing so well with keeping in touch but now that things have calmed down a bit I will do better :)  LOVE YOU!

Hermana Allison Scarlett

Lima Sunset

Sister Weitl and I on the bus ride to the temple