September 24, 2012

My dear family and friends,


I hope everyone had a great week and you all are enjoying the fall weather that´s coming your way.  All is well here in the mission field of Perú Lima Sur.  This week was the week of cambios (transfers).  This morning, my companion headed off to Pisco, in the southern part of our mission, and I recieved a new companion, Hermana Guidice.  Hermana Guidice is from Argentina, she started her mission the same time as my last companion, so she has about 10 months in the field.  We´re also going to get another companion from the CCM tomorrow, so we´re going to be a trio here in our ward.  We´re ready to work hard and find people to teach them the gospel.  Next week I´ll try and send pictures of the three of us.  
This week we had another baptism and it was awesome.

Here is my companion Hermana Riveros, Valentina (8), Antonio (13), Pepito (baptizer), Milagros (Antonio and Valentina´s Mom) and Myself.  It would take the whole hour to tell you the whole story of this family, but just know that I love them so much.  Hermana Milagros can´t be baptized just yet, but she´s strong in attending Church, knows that life´s better in the Gospel, and is ready to help her children grow in the Gospel.  Love them so much, pierod.  Funny story, when it was Hermanita Valentina´s turn to be baptized, she was a little scared to go under the water.  When she went under her little legs popped right up out of the water and we had to do it again.  It was sooo funny, but we did it again and she was baptized with success.

Everything is going good here in the field.  I´m excited to learn new things with my new companions this cambio.  Until next time, have a great week!

HERMANA HARBISON

September 3, 2012

Greetings from the mission field! Hope your week was great! This past week we had a bunch of meetings which was great because we learned a lot, but it also meant we didn´t get to teach as much as we would like to as missionaries. Last Friday Elder D. Todd Christofferson came to Perú and gave a talk, in Spanish (because he served his mission in Argentina), to all the missionaries in Lima and the CCM here. It was great to hear the words of an Apostle! Such a privilege! We also had 2 baptisms on Saturday. (I tried to put pictures up, but they won´t download here on this computer... Lame.) Two guys, Anthony who´s 21 years old and Jorge who´s 35. They´re great, super grateful that we taught them and helped them make this convenant with Heavenly Father. Now we´re going to keep working with them and the ward to make sure they stay active and are befriended. Other than that, nothing new here in Surco. Hope you all have a great week and hopefully next week I get a computer that lets me download pictures.

Love Always,
HERMANA HARBISON