Life in Lima: May 20, 2015

Hola padres! Yep, I'm now an Avansado! It's so crazy, only two more weeks in the CCM (MTC)!

You can send pics of anything, the dogs, the yard, you guys doing something, it's just nice to see what's going on at home. I can't believe Josh is 16! So exciting.

Proselyting was so cool! We went about 30 minutes away to Manchi, in my mission. It's the poorest area. We were driving out of this area and past a couple of huge hills and then boom! Brown everywhere, so much dirt. And the houses,...It's just a bunch of deserted looking cement and wood buildings, a ton of them and there is only one paved road. There are dogs everywhere, poop, and garbage. My shoes were so dirty by the time we were done. I was with two latina Hermanas and a 17 year old member. We had three people we had to go and see and then we just contacted everyone we ran into. The people are so nice and everyone except one person talked with us. We went into one guys house and talked with him for a while. I honestly didn't get everything they talked about. Every time we talked with someone I would either introduce us as misioneras or testify sometime during our talk. We gave away so many pamphlets, a ton of cards with the mormon.org website and two libros de mormón. The second to last woman we talked to, we were having a really good conversation, and I was testifying about the Book of Mormon and said something about how we have prophets just like the bible does, and she interrupted and asked something about that. Hermana Sanchez took over and was showing her the pics in the front of the Book of Mormon. While I was talking another woman was walking by and looking at me and then stopped. She asked Hermana Carrera if I was from estado unidos. So we went over and I started talking to her, she said good afternoon, and was so happy to meet a north american. We talked with her a little bit about the Book of Mormon and then gave her one, then she left and kept saying ¨bye bye¨! It was awesome. Since I'm white I will be able to get into a lot more houses and talk with people because most of them have never seen a white person before. I had so many cool experiences, but I can't write them all down.

So I have been reading the Book of Mormon, because I have never read it all the way through before. I am in 3 Nefi. I am learning so many things here! A couple of mi escrituras favorita: 3 Nefi 1:17, Helaman 14 hasta 16, and Helaman 5. There are so many more, but those really stand out right now. The scriptures are so cool!

I miss the last avansados so much! They were awesome. Hermana Barrera, su companera, Hermana Paz, was from Argentina. They pronounce the ll sound as a sha, instead of ya. It's so cool. Anyways, Murray is hard to pronounce for most latinos because the u and a make a different sound. They say, moo-wry. If that makes sense. So Hermana Paz kept asking Barrera how to pronounce it, and so everytime she saw me she would, not yell, but say really loud, Murray! It was so fun and I definitely miss it.

I attached the pictures of a granadia that I bought today at Metros. Enjoy it. And some other fun pics.

Well, I probably forgot a bunch of stuff, but ...... Love you guys!

Hermana Murray