{January 27, 2014}

HELLO MY FAMILY 

How are you? 

I'm good. 

It's been another good week, not like awesome, but it's been good! 

we went to campo santon last week for PDAY and it was really cool, we did not stay for very long because it was raining very hard, but it was cool, it's just a big cemetary.

I do not understand the function of this door, but I did knock on it...and no one answered.

I really feel like Huaraz looks like Utah sometimes...or I just forget what Utah looks like. ha 

this week has been like I said good. We have a baptism planned for this Saturday! her name is Kathy and she is so cute! she is 18 years old and she just makes me laugh and she is just so ready!! and so we are really excited for that, and we have another investigator named Rosario and she is really great as well! she is going to get baptized at the end of February because she wants to wait for her boyfriend....so we'll see but she is going to get baptized! 

other then that everything is basically the same, I'm loving it still it's hard sometimes but that just comes with life. 

I had interesting experience because we were teaching Franklin and Astrid (a MA family that we have) and she was talking about how when the end of the week comes she doesn't want to come to church because she's tired from working all week and she just feels like her burden is really heavy with all the stuff of life...so I just start explaining that, she should not look at church as a chore, that we go to church because we have been blessed, and I start explaining how God wants to take our burdens how if we have the faith and we do all that we can he will lighten our burdens, and it probably won't be all at once but I told her the harder we work and the more faith we have a lighter our burdens will feel, and in teaching her I taught myself. It had been a rough week and everyone that we were talking to was really rude or all our appointments were falling through and I was just like WHY?!? but I just need to have more faith and work harder, I know there are people out here and I need to work a little harder and have a little bit more faith to find them, the Lord will lighten our burdens. and I just know thats the truth, so I know you guys aren't just having perfect lives over there so I encourage you to remember that. The Lord is always there, just try a little harder and have a little more faith, and I told Astrid we may never have a day in life to actually do nothing, but if we work hard and put the important things first we will rest one day with God. 

always remember What is more important? 

I love you all and I don't mean to be on a soap box...just sharing what I learned :) 

I hope you all have a great week!!! 

love Hna Winters