Thursday, June 11, 2015

Vuelo de su Vida (The Flight of Your Life) (June 8th)

Okay, so this email is going to be a little short. I literally have 2 seconds to type something. I am so happy that I was able to be a misisonary this week, and am so happy that MEG GRADUATED, AND DAN GOT MARRIED! AND ABBY IS GROWING INTO A YOUNG BEAUTIFUL WOMAN! 
 Thank you always for your support, your love, and I hope everyone has a good week. Dad thankyou for helping me figure out my bank account stuff. 
Cuidense mucho! I promise I will write more next week! 
Shmermana Addington

The last interview with Pres. Douglas before Pres. comes,our zone picture (The lady who took it didn't tell me when she was ready! my plaque got caught in my hair) 
And the best church misisonary activity EVER called El Vuelo de Su Vida. (The flight of your life.) 










The amazing Fowlers (missionary couple from Pennsylvania in Nazca) with their activities and shannagins. We played this game called water bomb. Basically you justrun and try toi hit somebody with a water balloon. It was the best. 




Pollos and the Family (June 1st)

Right now I am in Ica, in a very questionable internet palace. Why do they all call them Internet palaces here? Its like a motel compared to a hotel. This week me and Hma. Tuquerrez visied alot of really great families. At first we only had 2 investigators progressing, and then one day we knock on both their doors and find their husbands. Roger, Luz husband( well theyre not actually married. Dropped that sucker punch on  }us at the last second.) BUt he is really anxious to learn more. He told he he felt happy whn we shared the first vision. He wants to read and pray and actually kno }w if its true. Thats somehting he never would have thought about doing if he hadn't decided to let us in and tach. The same for another new investigator, Jonathan. He is Diana"s(investigator) husband, and had already listened to the missionaries as a teenager. But he felt like they were just teating him as a number and not a person. But now he feels like coming back to church, now that he has a family. And hes married! At least thats what they both told us. You can never be too sure in Peru. We really do have high hopes for the both of them. 

My testimony on the family really has been strengthened the longer I have been in the mission. Really, the benefits are pretty obvious  to the members of the church, if not to the whole world. I commemorated L. Tom Perry this week by re reading his conference talk on the Family. And he really was a great and true writer. I know that his family is just persevering for the way when they can all be together again in the celestial kingdom. But that thing I love about church doctrine, is that it continually focuses on learning by faith and repenting. Even after this life we are going to continue working as missionaries, temple worshipping, everything we have done here. That's why we have to attain his growing desire to learn right now, so that it strengthens as we die and pass onto the next life. 
We are all in this life preparing for bigger and better things. 

And I am so happy to hear my family an friends" stories about making new families of their own,. passinonto college, making new friends. having new jobs. Although we might forget things from time to time, God wants us to keep trying no matter what. I have realized that the more time I have in my mission, the more focused and curious and humble I need to be. Because I still have so many hings to get done, and apply afterward. Bu for now, I am going to stay by the tree, like Michael T. Ringwood said. 
I hope everyone has an amazing week! Work as hard as you can! Thats the cure for any disanimated mind. 
Love, 
Hermana Addington



This is the pollada that me and Hma, Tuqerrez did a couple weeks ago to help one of our converts raise money. You basically just saw the least gross pics. I was there for it all, the slaughtering, the de feathering, the cleaning, and finnally, the cooking. We were fasting while all this happened. Thank goodness. It was a fun and gross experience, like watching current Nickelodeon shows. 
Then we celebraed Hma. Tuquerrez" 22 nd bitrthday!