Week 22

HAVE 5 MONTHS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is craziness! But I am here and each day I just want to be here more and learn more and bring more people to Christ. This work is the happiest, most fulfilling,hardest thing in the entire world. I do not want to come home in a year. It's too short.

So story time boys and girls: And maybe not the good kind haha. So we have a problem. One of our investigators is .... in love with me. I know that sounds funny but really! And it got pretty weird the last lesson. So yeah, we are giving him to the elders in our area. We will see if he still progresses. :[ 

Next, welp I kinda had a Terry Wood situation last night.(if you know what I mean).

Also had one of the happiest moments in my mission. We find this less active kid who is 26 and he is way honest and straight up with us (which is the best) and we were like how is your relationship with God? "Bad" he says.  haha welp at least he is honest. So he told us all about how he just got baptized because his family did and he never really felt that spirit that everyone always say they feel. And he wants to know why and how we have faith. So we taught and we taught with the spirit and at the end of our lesson I was testifying  and extending some promises and I looked at him and he was just crying. Ah! He felt the spirit. Then he came to church and in that moment when I saw him in the chapel  I felt something. Probably the happiest feeling I have ever had. It just was just such a  small thing but my happiest moment on the mission. 

 I have realized that there is a big difference in my Spanish when I have the spirit. We gave a couple lessons last week and it just flowed. I was surprised at some of the words I said that I am sure I didn't know before. I love doing this work IN THE RIGHT WAY. That is when the Lord will bless us with his spirit and we will see real conversion.

Our mission president said how he doesn't want baptisms! He wants real growth! There is no difference in a new member and a member reactivated! We are focusing on less active members so much now. 

Peru is one of the only South American countries without a training program for the members yet, But it starts next month! I am so excited because the work is going to grow! It's a plan called "la obra de Salvacion" and it is going to rock Peru.  We are going to really do the work in the right way.

I love you all and I miss you- but not too much! / Hermana Quist!!

By the way, I have decided the baby's name will be Sam ( as in samantha)