Week 47

I got my package today! LO MAXIMO! It's really the best. I looooooove new clothes haha. And my glasses... I'll have to get used to them....but I think I like them...yeah I like em. I look like a hipster. The only in Peru. #Unica

So this week has been all calm no bad news haha. But the riot will start up again the 19th! But evryone always says that so I don't believe anyone. 

These are the famous Aquaducts there are 16 and they where built in the times of the INCAs sooooo long ago and they still have water. it was so sweet. I love it when I can take aloooooooooooooot of photos. 

Pres Douglas came to Nasca this weekend and lets just say through  a couple of experiences I've grown alot these last 2 days. ( having to do practices in front of everyone and being so nervous then having pres douglas calm me down and get me over my public speaking fear.) We had another interview. The best 5 mins every 3 months. It is indescribable the revelation I receive everytime. So we talked about weaknesses and how if I didn't  have this public speaking one I would have had another like a sickness or a temper. And God gave this to me and I have to get over it and it all depends on my faith. I can't write all what I learned or what scriptures he shared but I can just express to you how blessed i am to have the guidance of the holyghost in my life to guide me through everything i need help with. We also talked  about how I can be a better leader and it came down to just trusting in myslef and the things I know. He said ¨You are trained, you are studied in the scriptures, you have the talent to teach, you are wise, now you need to just have confidence in these things you have and trust that you can help these other people.¨So thats what im going to do. no doubt. CONFIDENCE IN CHRIST. 

I love you guys and my companion  is awesome. She is very funny and she is always protecting me haha even when I don't  need it,. Also i am going to make her talk more. leave it all in silence until she talks hahah She is such a good missionary and I can't wait till she can train!

Thanks for all you do! You are the best family inthe world!!!!!!!! 

Hermana Quist

Week 46

Earthquake? What Earthquake, I'm pretty sure there was one in Chile but not here. We felt it, but just a little temblor. Chicitito. Don't worry the Riot is also over. They say they are going to start again on the 12th. I went to Lima and came back fine at 4 in the morning and woke up at 6:30. Lets just say my exercises0 that day consisted of laying on the ground moving my arms haha. 

CONFERENCE! It always fills my soul with this Peace and Spirit that is special to conference.  I tried to look for you guys but didn't see anyone sadly! (Cameron - what happened I thought you were going to run up on stage and hug the prophet ?haha) We had 4 investigators actually come to the conference and WOW ¨You can put your money on the prophet!¨haha

The best though is BRYAN. This kid is the best! He is 24 and he has been searching and investigating, but everytime we invite him to baptism, he says No. That he is not ready. Well he is ready now! We taught him the Word of Wisdom which is important. Also the Law of Chastity because I think, if someone is searching for an answer through the Holy Ghost and they aren't living these commandments, they aren't clean, then the Holy Ghost is not going to talk to somone who is not clean. So yeah we had an intense lesson on Alcohol and everything and he was like...Well great I was invited to go drink tonight but not -?I'm just going to be bored all night haha. I was like GOOD! Anyway he came to this farwell of another elder and HE BORE HIS TESTIMONY! Then he came to choir practice with the YSA and he left to go teaching with the elders some  lessons! Whaaaaaa! In the last 2 days he has progressed so much! He is sooooooooooooooooo going to accept the baptism invitation tomorrow! He is the best! I love finding and teaching people like him and seeing the process of real conversion!

Life is good. It's just a continual proccess of being humbled and having to change things and trying again and again and again. Especially with the local leadership here. They are just so new. We are never satisfied here. It's a pretty crazy life and it's hard. It is. Just because there is no rest. But it's so fullfilling and I am lucky to be here. I hope I don't make it sound bad because  I think it's better then you think. It's so great here. Especially the food! And the missionaries and all the members! Also the best part is the NEVER ENDING PERSONAL  REVELATION, COMFORT, AND GROWTH!  I am always learning and coming closer to the scriptures and the Savior. MI ALMA ES LLENA Y NO PUEDE EXPRESSARME COMO QUIERO! TAMBIEN ESTOY AGREDICIDO QUE SE ESPANOL Y DIOS ME HA BENDICIDO CON UNA FAMILIA  TAAAAAAAN BUENASASASO!. NUNCA VOY A OLVIDAR ESTAS COSAS. 

Hermana Quist. 

Week 45

I got letters in the mail fom MOM, ALEX, and Quinn! Thanks! Also Aylse! Thanks guuuuuuys youre the bessssssst. I travel to Lima and then to Ica these next weeks so....greeeeeat. It really hinders the work ya know? But what can ya do when youre called hahahah

So awesome ..welll maybe not awesome story for this week. There is this member who is a recent convert and she is a little rooted in her old ways still. Any way she was with us and the missionary married couple the Fowlers and we were having a great spiritual lesson about the Book of Mormon with another lady that is WAY Catholic but we were making progress with the spirit. But then The new covert starts to talk and the first things she says is ¨the Catholic church killed Jesus¨.......crap haha. Our lady was so offended. Then the convert even continued to talk about how the Book of Mormon is better then the Bible. It was SO bad. We were all just looking around at each other like oh no what do we do haha. Luckly Elder Fowler straightened things up and then with tears and a great testimony from Sister Fowler -the lady agreed to read the Book of Mormon.  But oh was it rough.....she is not coming with us again to our new investigaters haha.

So update on the Strike - Monday was the worst and after that we couldn't leave our apartment for a couple days for our protection, but now it's better. It was so crazy we left to use the internet and there were people burning tires and throwing rocks and there was no way for the cars to get by. So we walked and it was so scary like walking in a war zone! The elders we all protecting us from the miners. Also there were police outside our house almost everyday. About 300 of them waiting to see if they needed to beat up some miners and kill some more people! So fun! I was secretly loving it and don't worry - I repented.

I love all of your videos thanks. It's great to see how great you guys are! I love my family so much and I love my life! We have the goal this week to have 6 people with a baptism date! yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keeping the work going! 

Week 44

So go look up the news about Peru and see what's going on here. A national Riot! El Paro Nacional de Peru! So I'm in Nasca and it's all about the mining business here. The government wants to take away the mines or somthing I don't  understand and all the miners are rebelling! So it's calmed down these last couple days. But they keep saying we can 't leave to work...then later they are like yeah it's fine. BUT today it has been worse. The miners have come from Lima, like 20,000 of them and they have blocked the roads and no cars can pass. They are burning tires and throwing rocks and stuff. We gotta go to Nasca central today so the elders and us are going to try and walk because no cars can pass. I'll keep you updated! #soexciting #dontworry

Anyway we had 2 investigators that were going to get baptized, then their dad said NO! So sad really. But now we had 5 new investigators come to church yesterday and I see some good potential! LOVING IT!

VIVE EL PARO!!!  The Riot Lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will try to get better photos today hehehe

Good luck grams and gramps! I wish I had you guys coming here! 

I love you all and I love the Lord! Look at this sweet quote I found!

¨My mission pertenece al senor. Con todo mi corazon doy mi energia y mi tiempo al Maestro proque le amo. Por lo tanto voy a mirar cada dia como si no fuera mia pero suyo. Voy a tratar cada minuto de su tiempo con el respeto y el enfoque y la dedicacion que le merezca¨RusslleM. Ballard

¨My mission pertains to the Lord. With all my heart I will give my energy and my time to the Master, becuase I love Him. Wherefore I will look at everyday not as if it is mine, but His. I will treat every min. of his time withthe respect and the focus and the dedication it merits.¨

Love, Hermana Quist

Week 43

So scary news first and then spiritual stuff! So there are more bombs and extortion. My new convert had his door blown out 2 days ago and now he can't leave at night time, so we can't teach him as much. Also we have had ANOTHER temblor! ( mini earthquake) Its not really big news now except that there has been 4 and they have been almost evrey night. We are scared! But we are also prepared! 3 backpacks at the door ready to go! Don't worry. I have faith nothing bad will happen to me.

Can Heather please come down here for a sec because I am in a serious need of a hair cut - sooooooo bad. Seriously it's bad but I don't trust the sketchy Peruvian haircutters that do it for 5 soles ( which is like 2 dollars jaja)

I am so excited for Adam ( Adam is done at the MTC and left for Mexico this morning)...welcome to culture shock time! 

And Gramp and Gram( they leave on their mission next week). HEY! Lilon and JimBoy THANK YOU  so much for the calendar with the birthdays that is THE best. You guys are the best.

This is a sweet foto of what I eat for dinner. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

We have this new investigator named Bryan. He is 24 and I love teaching him and people like him. He is the type of person that asks questions and is really in it to win it. He doesn't believe everything yet but he is going through the process in the right way. He is completing his commitments and he is going to serve a mission I know it! Well I hope it. Our lessons are so long with him and afterwards we are all pumped and I talk with my comp about how it went and what we did good and what we can do better. It's a fun proccess- the conversion proccess. I have seen it done many times but there are certain times it is done RIGHT. Yesterday in church we had ALL of our recent converts there! Active baby! All the Young men program are my converts ( or the convers of the Lord hahah) But Axel my first baptism here passed the sacrament and I just could stop smiling! AH!  We have 2 more baptisms this next week ;)

This is our zone..we went to the beach again. It was great times....yep! I love my life! 

Week 42

Aw my sister is THE cutest! I have her pic on my wall! Way to scare me with the pic of Coco bear. Sorry Greene Family ;( I hope I get to see the Movie in the mish. Pres sometimes lets us watch movies.

I found the Latin Clark! He is so Clark it's not even funny. Almost asked him for a foto but I thought that could be weird.

So yesterday I had food poisoning and threw up 8 times from 5:30 to 7. Fun food from member times. But hey what can ya do? But we left and worked normal all day. And that same night there was another Temblor or little earthquake to scare us more. I wonder when the big one is gunna hit. 

We have had alot of miracles here and this area is so great. Our ward mission leader has decided to step up his game and he is really animating the members to work with us. We have a member to accompany us everyday this week. We had a nice inspiring meeting with him to lite him on fire and get this work going. Without the members it's so impossible. We can baptize still..maybe and do a little but as soon as we leave it's over. So we are making progress. Here in Nasca we have 25% activity. Ouch. But we have reactivated 3 people here and now that's a main goal of the mission. Reactivation.

We had transfers this week but we didn't change. I am happy because my comp is great and we are in a good flow. But we have alot of new goals to change some things up because we might be walking in circles ( figuratively)

GOAL= Do nothing that will offend the spirit so that we can have it with us all day and in every lesson

 Also 

GOAL= Glorify God in every moment. If we focus on these things we will be successful! 

It's hot as heck here, as always and it rained to change things up.  But bad news -that just turns all the houses into saunas and its even Hotter! 

We went to the beach in Marcona and played ultimate frisbee. It was so fun. Like not to be dramatic or anything, but it was the funnest thing I've ever done! 

Week 41

Bear is getting married! Whaaa! I'm so happy for him! And I LOVE Alex´s hair by the way. I am loving my life still........we traveled for 3 days again this week so that was fun ...not. Especially when there are movies that are rated R and terrible playing the whole time in front of your face. And with the zone leaders looking down your neck to make sure you're not watching! hahah I was only watching once when it was somthing about Brad Pitt and lots of Zombies. hahahahah. ¨Hermana Quist "da me sus Lentes....Give me your glasses¨...¨NO! HAHAHAH

Any way we have 4 people with baptism dates and we had a baptism yesterday!  Hey this is a photo of my 2 converts who came to church with ties and white shirts and then they bore their testimonies! I love it! They are the only young men in the branch.

So this girl in the brach...well now she is the president of the relieif society , doesn't like me! And everyone likes me! I have to make her like me! I don't know why she doesn't! 

Our neighbors had 2 bombs go off....They had someone doing extortion to them...I dont know how that phrase goes in english....They had debt. Anyway that was cool. 

Well sorry this is short, but all is good! I am spiritual I promise. I just don't have time to express my deep gospel insight in emails hahahaha. I love you guys and miss you ( but not too mcuh) But I am jealous that everyone is in Hawaii. 

Love Hermana Quist