Week 70

Well those videos and letters all made me cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was the first time in MONTHS that I've cried! First Cameron has to go get baptized and then leave on a mission! All without me! I am literally crying out of joy. Cam I can't even believe it. That's not the same kid I left in May. And all the videos of Abby and Al Pal and letter from Dad...wooooo too much. Too much  happiness. Good thing I have a North American Comp to comfort me haha. I look at all those pics and I don't even know who anyone is... I feel out of touch. But in a good way I guess :)

So this week was straight up STRESSFUL! President called and assigned me to give another training this last Saturday. UH! haha Good thing Sister Jamenson did it with me. It was so hard. It was on how to get your investigators to church through the doctrine, plans, and members. Planning is a big thing here right now. And this is somthing I struggle with, so I learned alot planning it. Here is a pic of sister Jamenson and I at 4 in the morning when we finally finished! I am literally so tried!

We were up till 2:30 without anything good. The revelation was not coming! But we eventually were inspired and made the plan. It went really well even though I was nervous as always.

 It's so interesting all the things I've learned here. All about how to work with the ward council and a bunch of other things I'm some how going to have to apply to home life. It's all so ingrained (is that even a word) in my mind and my heart. The way to work as a missionary and to use PMG and what am I going to do with all this info and things learned?!

Sweet rain storms this last week. 

We found two new families! NOT MARRIED BUT WE CAN FIX THAT! 

Other things...lost my bag in a taxi! Well better put, left my bag in a taxi! KILL ME it had all my makeup and clothes and great stuff! So mad.............at myself! But honestly I'm less attached to worldy things here and I just let it go...who cares....I need to go preach haha.

I can't even think of what else to write....just thinking about what all went on with you guys.... also the guy I was working so hard with in Nasca finally got baptized! So happy!!!!! Everyones time comes!

I love you guys soooooooooooooo much and I am so happy! This is such a time of growth and for some reason this is one of the hardest time in the mission. In some ways not because I know everything I'm doing, but yes because I actually still don't hahah. It's a weird time! But I'm loving it so much! Thanks for all you do! Cant wait to see you all!...well yes I can just a little bit more :)

Love Hermana Quist

Week 69

My new boyfriend

Don't worry mom I'm not trunkie! We actually have had alot to do lately and it's keeping me occupied. We are trying so hard to have baptisms this month because after that we are told we can't put schedule any because there is stake conference, then elections, then general conference! Too much! Weird thing is that all of Peru is going to see conference a week later than everyone else! What the heck! It's because of our elections, which I hate because everyone wants us to vote for them or promote their campaign...uh we don't care hahah. 

Fun thing this week is that a bunch of guys threw fruit at us because I wouldn't look at them. So fun! I literally almost yelled at them. Then I remembered that story about some missionary with the mashed potoatos being thrown at her and decided I better not. Being a representative of Christ means putting off the natural man....alot! And it's really not that hard. With the help of daily scripture study and mo-tab. The mission life is just so engraved in my mind now. It's routine, but we have to be careful because we don't want to fall into the same thing over and over! That's why it is good to change our comps and areas! I love Ayacucho and I hope I stay and die here! I want to baptize the people I was sent here for! Mainly Josue and Estefany!

We aren't going back to Lima for a while! I hope! It's just hard when you aren't in your area. But now we are going to get it all worked out and have the best week ever! We are also going to start cooking for oursleves. It's time to stop eating all this food that makes us sick all the time hahah. I don't now how we are going to break it to our people, but I can't even do it anymore. We found a worm in our food the other day! Anyway I am loving life and I am trying to finish the strongest! It's a different feeling now. Feeling desperate to always be working and doing all I can! There is so much more to do!

Also I went and did an interchange with Sister Bailey, she is sooooooo great! I love doing intercambios and helping them set goals and seeing how they work and learning so much from her too! You would think that at the end of your mission you would be perfect and know everything, welp not the case.  There is just sooo much I need to do better still! 

We also went to the temple in Lima and I just feel reenergized! Its like pure peace and calm. The presence of God is so close and I needed it so bad! I feel so blessed to be able to have gone. God is so good. That's my new phrase GOD IS GOOD! 

I HAVE A BUNCH A PICS TODAY! ENJOY!

Our zone is great!

Temple

People are so short here

Week 68

Not alot of time his week, just pictures mostly. I LOVE THE VIDEOS: And
the one of Carter coming home, well let's just say I probably shouldn't watch
that again hahha. I am going to be a weirdo when I get home. MoTAb only.

This week it rained, and it rained and it rained. Also I got to be in Lima
all week and we get to go back tomorrow night! I lost four days in my area
but when we got back we worked really hard and still managed to have all
our 6 invests with a baptism date in church! And 8 in total!  Good week!
Also because Toshiro did his first fast with us. It was so funny. He
suffered haha, but stayed strong. He even paid his offering and is
sooooooo active its unbelievable! I'm so happy! I Love life, love the
mission and love you guys!

Week 67

I love all the videos! Thanks! How is Bear River Al Pal? Only 4 years more haha. 

So news from this week- My compie has to go to Lima to get a root canal. Ouch. We just got back Sunday morning from leaving Friday night because we had a check up for her tooth. Then we came back to Ayacucho to go to church and help our investigators and now we have to leave again! I'm stressed a little. I am going to try my hardest to coordinate with our mission leader so that he can take care of our investigators while we aren't there. I don't want to neglect anyone! Conact daily is so important. The trip is 10 hours on a bus each way...I'm going to have 4 nights sleeping on a bus this week. #mybackhurts hahah. But Saturday we also got a shopping trip in there some how! Woooh whoo! I looove  shopping here cuz it's cheap!

Words that came to my mind yesterday during  church:

Sacrement-remission, renewing, cleansing, and rejoicing. Clean from the sins of last. Hoping, striving to be better, through the Blood and the Flesh. 

Simple teachings and truths we all have learned but the more I hear it and teach it and live it the more I KNOW it and the more I LOVE it.

So Some lady came up to us yesterday  begging for our blood! ¨Please I neeeed it!" she begged....We ran away! haha

HOME WORK for you! This talk is amazing! Patience by Elder Neil MAXWELL. 

¨Pateince helps us to use rather than to protest, these seemingly flat periods of life, becoming filled with quite wonder over the past and with anticipation for that which may lie ahead.¨   

This just made me think a little about after the mission. Not worrying about it, just rejoicing in the miracles of my life and the things I have experienced and that have past. Looking forward with faith and patience to the future. 

We got to go to the temple. I was sooo stressed but it is like immediate medicine that calms the soul and puts the mind at peace. There were so many people there. Some that had driven from 20 or more hours away. They were all there in the hotel thing at the temple showering and living out of thier suitcases. Dedicated to the Lord willing to sacrifice all. We also had to shower there with them and stayed as a refuge in the temple bathroom because we had no where to go! I felt united. haha. Just a couple of sister missionaries tired and dirty from hours and hours of traveling with no where to go and 300 soles! I know Lima like the back of my hand and got us all through the whole day alone! Well better put God got us through it and He is so good to us.

Tell Carter hi for me and Abby too! oh and Alex...oh and dad...and Cameron, I guess hahah! And Geeky and Madimooo

I have to go now on a 20 hours bus trip! whooooooooooo! 

Love you all! Hermana Quist

Week 66

Was there an earthquake? Now it's my trun to be freaked out. I keep hearing from members about a big earthquake in Cali. Same day there was a little one here too...how weird!

Little news - I have calluses on my knuckles from knoking so much.

Yesterday was amazing!  7 lessons and new families found and I wish everyday was like that! 

We had a big ward activity and guess who showed up! Our sketchy investigator...DRUNK! I literally couldn't believe it. Facepalm

TOSHIRO SE BAUTIZO!!!!!!!!!!

IT WAS AMAZING AND SPIRITUAL AND EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS WORTH IT WHEN THIS MOMENT COMES

​ TRANSFERS! But we didn't have any! We get another one together and I'm so happy! We just need to buckle down. I need to take advantage of this time I have left. I have worked my butt off my whole time but yeah I obviously have made alot of mistakes too. I have not always done all I should have. But II will not have the opportunity to do this again, so I need to take full advantage and like it says in Jacob 5:61 This is the last time the Lord with Nourish his Vineyard. And this is my last chance to work in it like a missioanry and I am so grateful for these next two changes #changeofmiracles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So.. here is to six more weeks of peruvian men whisteling and barking at us! so stoked! hah

Right now, we are actually in a trio with sister Bailey! Her companion left after being here for six months. So her companion is coming tomorrow.  We have loved being together! Three north Americans together ... ha it's great! 

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​The ward here is growing... I have a new idea that I might not be here to harvest. I am here to plant the seed of the work of salvation. They don't get it yet, but with all our effort they are starting to understand. I see the progress little by little. One day they will have it down. The ward counsel will know how to function. But sadly I probably won't be here to see it. But that's not why I was called here. Not to harvest the fruits but to plant and to test and to start. It's really just a start here. They are not spiritually mature yet and it's not as if we can baptize all these people if the ward is not ready. That I s why I feel that my call is to yes baptize, the few, the chosen and the ready. But I'm not here for when the real harvest will come. But one day it will come. I'm glad for my call and I will do whatever the Lord has called me to do. QUE GRANDIOSO ES MI LLAMAMIENTO! 

I'm still a sister leader...kinda thought they would take me out...but nope. Pucha. HAha I'm grateful for the calling and I am happy to help all I can until I leave. I really am worried though that when our group leaves we will be a mission that is really young. We need to train the next round of leaders so the mission stays alive haha.

(Story from her companion) So we were walking down the street the other day and these three little boys had a huge squirt gun! We saw that they were spraying the side walk and other people and we were like..let's get out of here fast. Then the little boys come walking up to us and point the squirt gun at us and yell........" CHIIIIIICCCAAAAS" .. Let's just say we ran up that hill pretty darn fast dodging the water! hah funniest thing ever!

I love you guys!!!!!!!!!! Miss you guys too! Love Hermana Quist!

Week 65

I love all the videos of Abby. I can't wait to hold her! Seriously she isn't even real to me yet. Al Capone I'm proud of you bud;) I went to the Jungle dance and I know exactly how it is and I really am happy that my little brothers are such strong priesthood holders!

A dog bit my companion this week...that's cool...I liked dogs...PAST TENSE- Peru has ruined dogs for me. 

Toshiro is actually getting baptized Saturday!!!!!! finally! I will get see him baptized! I've worked so hard haha. He is good though, So ready and I am sooooooo happy!

We are having fun times with our mission leader who I complained about not doing anything. Then I guess he told the elders ¨Sister Quist doesn't think I do anything, I'll show her!¨ So basically he is working awesome this last week. I'm pretty sure it's just to spite me but at least he is working ;)

I  gave a talk this last week, with one days notice ;) One thing I love the mission for is that now giving talks are easy. I can throw somthing together and rock it. I still get nervous  if pres asks me to read a scripture in a conference though haha. But a least talks won't freak me out. I gave it on the atonement and missionary work obviously. It was a growing experience. Tears and everything.

 I decided there are two ways to go about getting the members to work with us more. #1 Burning them and telling them what they aren't doing ( like our mission leader ahah- maybe not the best way:) or #2  teaching them the principle. Understanding the atonement will be the only way they will have it come from themselves and how they will be converted to  the work.

We ate guinea pig! It was soooooooo gross to watch but also pretty delicious!

I have scriptures to give you #hw 

¿ What does the atonement teach us about faith? 

Mateo 26;39

matt 26:42

Luke 22:43

Faith is Character. Faith comes through drinking the cup. Suffereing with confidence. Confidence that He will always send a way out. 

When we ask for what we want....it's the lack of faith.

We want it all too easy! We aren't willing to suffer. 

Just think about the confidence of the Godhead. The confidence of God to Christ and also Christ to God. 

I LOVE PERSONAL STUDY!

I love you all and I love the Lord!

Poor  guinea pig

Week 64

These are my girls!!!

I GOT YOUR PACKAGE! Thanks soooooo much! I loooove seeing the little Peruvian faces when they eat the warheads! But the mints..those are just for me haha!

Its really not that cold here! Seriously don't  worry ;) 

This week was amazing...ly......stressful haha. But so uplifting. We had the leaders meeting in Lima #20hoursinabus. I read and participated with out wanting to die. I mainly just love going for 2 reasons. #1 I get to receive so much doctrine and revelation and listen to President Douglas talk. ( I will talk about what I learned later) #2 I get to see girls from my group! I love these sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so lucky. I really feel that one of the many reasons I came here was to also meet these people and be connected with them for the rest of my life. We are so blessed. God knows why and he definitely placed us all here for a reason. 

The sister leader council

I love my companion She  is soooo funny and her Spanish...getting there. I love having an American compie. It is so much more enjoyable for us....for the works....maybe haha. 

President also got to come here to Ayacucho and do a training for the Area. I was soooooo nervous the day before when they called and asked if I could train the other missionaries with the president. I did a 20 min training on Personal Revelation. Hard because that means that to teach it I actually have to receive personal revelation haha. I was sooooooooooooo nervous! I stayed up so late preparing it. But as I gave it....it was good :) President said "Your lesson this week was very good. I felt the Spirit strongly. You were bold, direct and spoke with power. Thank you for being an EXCELLENT Sister Missionary. We love you!"

 

I hope they release me as a sister leader haha. It's someone elses time. Or maybe I'll finish out strong and stressed haha. 

I want to tell you all I learned, but I can't!

Here are some points:

-What does the Atonement teach us, about faith?

-Drink your cup. Suffer with confidence. 

-Why does the Fall have such an important role in the Atonement?

-Using the Book Of Mormon as a fount of repentance.

-I cried and I really have come to understand even more about the Atonement this week! Read these talks!

https://www.lds.org/liahona/2008/03/the-atonement-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/the-atonement?lang=eng

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1996/10/the-atonement?lang=eng

TEMPLES TEMPLES TEMPLES: I need to have more time! I will prepare something for next week in advance ok? Just meditate on those things for now, till next week.

Cleaning up dog poop. And a dog that we also had to clean his infected cut off leg.

Ether 12 #spanglish