Hi family,
Thanks mom and dad for your thoughts and advice about accepting change and keeping my head in the game while its my turn, they really helped. Whenever transfers come around, and change comes sneaking up around the corner with its loaded pistol of unseemingly potent personal growth darts,.....Things can be a little uncomfortable for a while. Presidente Risso explained it like tightening a nut, or a wheel to make things uncomfortable for a while but we adjust, grow, and are made stronger by it. So when that time of uncomfort rolls around, you start thinking, perhaps, more about what is happening on the ¨sidelines¨ or not focusing as hard as you should be. All in all, this week has been good. Im just practicing my patience as I try to get to know the area, the investigators, and the branch. (of about 30 people who attend, so that wont be too hard lol, but it is great and we are going to do all we can to help it out). But thank you my beloved parents, youve always known whats best :)
Well, about where I am right now.....I am now in one of the farthest and hottest areas, lol. Its called Bagua Grande. (The ¨Grande¨ diferenciates it from the other bagua ¨chica¨ (small) about an hour away) It is great, lots of ground to cover and tons of people to help. We had to travel in bus about 6 hours to Jaen, and then another hour to our area. My companion´s name is Elder Cabrera, from Chile,(Chile and Peru arent the best of friends so, it can be funny sometimes the reactions we get) But He is an awesome missionary, willing to work and help me out however he can to help me get to know the work here in Bagua Grande. We are part of the Zone Jaen, here in the peruvian mountains. So its green and Beautiful. Today we had one of the coolest Pdays ever; The Whole zone made arrangements to travel to Jaen sunday night so we could leave early monday morning to take a little van/bus about 3 hours into the mountains to hike another 2 hours to a waterfall called The Gocta Waterfall. The third largest(tallest) waterfall in the world. it was AMAZING. We ate lunch near it and me and another missionary we the only ones with the desires to get close(underneath the waterfall) and get completely wet(with the permission of our zone leaders of course). Very fun, and an awesome experience. Hopefully I can send pictures soon :)
Well, Im here, happy and loving everything. Even the tough days are important, they are the ones you leanr the most from right? I hope all is well there. The temple buisness sounds very intense and I wish you all the luck to get everything done. Thank you so much for all the letters, emails, and prayers. I hope you all dont think that your efforts are wasted, your support helps more than you think. Thanks for everything, Love you mom and Dad, keep being the superheroes you are :)
Love, Elder Lonsdale
How was kristas first day of seminary? muwahahaha
