So Yamasa is in the MOUNTAINS. I´m SO in love. It is absolutely gorgeous! The only down side of living in the mountains...is there are a TON of hills. I´m getting a pretty good workout just walking to all of our appointments. And the houses are more spread apart, so one day we walked 45 minutes just to get to someones house! But it is absolutely beautiful here! Can´t even believe that I´m living here!
So monday night I said goodbye to everyone. (tear) But I learned how to make arroz con leche with Maria and Mariella, and then somene else gave us pizza and brownies and then we ate dumplings (SO GOOD) and flancocho (cake and flan...yeah thats right. its to die for) But, unfortunately, when I got back to the apartment for the night, I was about to die from eating too much.
Tuesday we went to the office and I met my new companion, Hermana Chamu. She´s from Mexico. We then took our 2 hour drive to our area, but I couldn´t stop telling her how much I loved the mountains (because our drive was through the mountains!!!!) We´re so secluded from everything. I LOVE IT. So the church here is a Branch. Yesterday at church there were like 30 people in total. TINY. But they´re all so great. I love everyone already. But, yesterday we had consejo de rama (branch council...?) and the Branch President was telling us that this next week is branch conference and if 70 people aren´t in church, they micht take away the branch!!??? NAAHHH. So this week we have a list of like 45 less active members that we need to work with.... The leadership in this branch is really young. The president is like 27 and his councilors are like 24 and 22. And none of them are married. I guess this is just way so weird for me. But There´s a lot of work to do here, so I´m excited to get started!
We have to travel an hour and 15 minutes to get to our District meeting in a Guagua...Hot and squishy. haha.
FRIDAY we got to go to the TEMPLE!! It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo perfect. I learned so much and felt the spirit soo strong. But, I have to admit, we broke a white handbook rule to get there....So we took the Metro to get there. My very first time. We were running with the other hnas in our zone to catch the metro and the three of them got on, and then all of a sudden the DOORS SLAMMED SHUT and I WAS NOT ON THE TRAIN. They couldn´t open the doors back up and off when the train with my companion and the other two hermanas. I didn´t have the cell phone and I didn´t know which station we were even supposed to get off at. So I got on the next one and luckily we found each other. But yeah. That was crazy.
Yesterday Niselly got baptized! She´s the cutest little girl! She had been going to church forever but never was baptized because her parents are not members...She had her cute white dress and white shoes for her baptism day and it was adorable! Love her!
I tried habichuelas con dulce for the first time this week! It´s a dessert that is like beans with coconut. It´s pretty good.
And I also tried tamarindo (the actual fruit) for the first time. They make juice out of it. It´s really good!
Well, love you all! Heavenly Father loves you TOO!
Hermana Lawrence
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