March 30

Well, April is finall upon us here in Peru, and its still devilishly hot haha. We have come close to a couple heat strokes, but thanks to the 4, 20 liter bottles of water that we have, we managed to survive haha. But the work is progressing a lot better recently. We didnt have any baptisms this last month, but that will change in April. We have one for this friday, and then more for the middle of the month. We are really pumped for these baptisms, because we have been dying to have them. We did realize something that we had been doin wrong this last month. With the lack of success that we had, we had been trying to do all the work by ourselves. Contacting everyone we found, and trying to fill our days with appointments. But we lacked one fundamental thing in all of this, and that was the Will of the Lord. We had forgotten to pray before we planned, and every night and morning as a companionship. We forgot who is the person that actually does this work. And as a result, we were shown what happens to the missionaries that forget this fundamental fact, no success whatsoever. As such, for this month we have changed that and set more goals to spend more times on our knees, and listening to what we should do. I had done that the first few months of my mission and received the blessings, but then i fell into the horrible pride cycle and started to rely on my own efforts. And it all started so slowly, and hardly noticeable. But now i have seen my errors and realized how little i can do without the Lords help.
Transfers are coming up soon, and i have this feeling that i will be staying here one more transfer. But at least i will be able to celebrate my birthday with our laundry lady who has her birthday on the 10th! Hopefully i can stay and spend some more time here!
Thank you for the love and support mom. Im going to write you a letter in spanish so you can see that i still dont know it haha.

Les Amo Muchisimo
Elder Washburn

ps. mom, money please for some things at the temple and im cooking for my pension one night haha, and if your sending packages the office moved locations to
Calle Los Agròlogos 368
Urbanizacion Las Acacias De Monterrico
La Molina, Lima 12, Perù