Anda Peru

From: Hayley Imbler <hayley.imbler@myldsmail.net>
Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:38 AM
Subject: Sunny in Sol del Pinar
To: Kathleen Imbler , Michael Imbler <

HOLA!! 

Feliz Lunes a todas! He decidido que voy a escribir un poco en español para que los que sepan puedan practicar! Haha.. ok that´s enough! For those that didn´t understand, don´t worry it wasn´t anything interesting! This week has been difficult but I think we are starting to get the hang of our area. Sorry that this email will probably be a little shorter than usual.. We are not going to have p day today because my companion and I are going to the temple on Wednesday. 

Monday.. we went to visit my old zone.. yay!! Haha I was really happy to be able to see Hermana Callejas and the other elders and sisters in Carabayllo. We had a big water fight and then headed back home. Sadly Monday night every single one of our lessons fell through... I really feel like Heavenly Father is testing me... Not sure exactly what He wants me to learn yet, but I´m ready and willing to change if that is what He needs of me. 

Tuesday was a little better. We talked with some less active members, who we are working to reactivate and with a recent convert. Then we had a lesson with Justina, but she told us that the landlord was going to kick her out before Thursday and we couldn´t find her again because on Wednesday my companion had to go to immigrations.. we are hoping that somehow we can get in contact with her to see where she´s at.

Wednesday I was in another area all day with Hermana Schroader.. from my same group.. She lived with Jen before the mission. It was interesting to teach with her, but we had a good day together while our companions were having a bad day at immigrations having to go to three different places.. haha oh well. But at the end of the day I got the best surprise of my whole mission! At about 8:30 we were in the stake building finding our companions again when they arrived. I was talking in a group of people and heard someone say my name.. but pretty quietly.. I turned around and started crying almost immediately. Lizbeth and Jeny two of my first converts were there and they both ran to hug me! They have been going to church in the ward that is in the stake building and not in the other that participates in the Comas stake. I really have never been more happy! They both said that my companion hadn´t given them my email and they hadn´t been able to write me. They now want to do splits with us and I am going to get to spend lots more time with them!

Thursday we had an activity in our area and we did splits but sadly my planned visits fell through and I ended up talking to about 11 different people without the success of entering their houses.. but some did invite us to go back another day. We´ve had a lot of struggles because the investigators that the elders here had, a lot of them don´t want the sisters to visit them.. I never imagined that that would happen.. 

Friday we had only a few lessons as well as Saturday. We have been struggling to find new investigators, but I know this week will be better. We have the mentality to change this area. There is so much potential here that I know if we work really hard this area can just explode! My companion and I are learning so much.. we´re working together and trying really hard to change the things that have been hard for us and make them easier.. Humble ourselves so that our weaknesses can be made strengths like it says in Ether 12:27. I know I´ve got a lot of weaknesses that I need to overcome, but I know my Heavenly Father can mold me into the missionary he wants me to be. 

Sunday was really really slow... We had some interesting contacts though.. One drunk guy told us that he didn´t believe in God and that he was the anti-Christ... I felt like I was listening to the story of Korihor in person. 

Well that´s all folks!! Take care this week!!

Hermana Imbler

Birds that we found in a little chacra.. farm.

2nd photo - -view from my apartment