HOLA!!!
Life is still gleaming here in Peru, and i am ready to start the new year with a
bang. Nothing with guns or anything but with work. Funny fact, guns arent
legal here, so everyone just uses knifes. ANYWAYS!!! I am very thankful to
start the year off with a fast. I feal completed regenerated and ready to go
for this year. We have been a little lazy when it comes to contacting in the
street, but we have recommitted to do better this week and the following weeks.
As well as using the members more. They all have become more willing to help
and it really shows in the work when the members are doing the finding and we
are doing the teaching. As for teaching, things are going great. We have a new
family to teach, and we taught them the first lesson this morning! They called
us, and we just dropped everything and went, and it turned out to be a great
lesson with everyone participating. My companion is really good at adapting the
lessons to the smaller kids and having them interact more. Something that i really want to learn, because the people react much better to interactive
teaching than just the same old lesson.
I do have one really good experience teaching this week. We are teaching a
woman named Milagros, or miracles in english, and she is really nice. She
doesnt believe in God or anything, but has wanted to learn. So we gave her the
first discussion and she just drunk it all in. But the best part was when she
asked a question about Jesus Christ, and how he did what he did. My companion
looked at me bewildered of how to answer, and that is when the Spirit took over.
I told her that no one knows how he did it, but know that he did it for her
personally. How he did everything, all the suffering, for everyone one of us
individually. We say that he died for us very easily, but do we really taked
the time to realize that we are the prints on his hands and feet, that such
excrutiating pain was taken for you personally? Think about that, and realize
the great love that the Saviour has for you personally. It will truly change the way you think.

This week has been a little slow due to new years but still very enjoyable. It
turns out, that in the middle of the night there was a party on our roof, and
that was the reason why i couldnt sleep haha. All the youth from the ward were
up there blasting music haha. I didn´t even know! We have transfers coming
up, and i think that i am ready for a new companion or a new area, a little
change would be nice. But whatever happens i will know that it is for the best
and it is what i need.
I still have not received the package, but lets wait one more week, and if it
doesnt arrive then we will know that you gave a great christmas to a peruvian
haha. Speaking of which mom, i used 40 dollars to make these two huge canastas
for two families. The one family that i baptized first, and then the family
that does our laundry. We did it in secret though so no one knows haha. It is
like what we did as a family when we were kids, leaving stuff on the porch and running. Oh the good times haha.
I think that kylee will be married by next year. You can kinda survive freshman
year, but sophmore year is the killer! And letters have been really slow, i
just received the prusse´s letter, and your letter, as well as kims. The mail
is just on and off, but it should come around soon!

All my love,
Spenser