Hey! It´s HOT. And #Cha-cha-cha-changes

As far as we´re aware (we´re 98% sure the elders aren´t lying to us) we don´t have changes. Yay!

It´s been even hotter here this week. Really really hot. They told us it got up to 112 this week. Someone, is that possible? I kinda feel like it is. Sweat. (hence my super shiny face in every picture.)

We had a lot of little miracles again this week. Things that made Hna Corsetti and I ridiculously happy to be missionaries. Jessica, preparing for the temple. An investigator receiving answers to her prayers. A big noche de hogar (home evening) that ended up being completely hermanas and a 3 year old little boy. Young women attacking me with hugs. Jessica not wanting to leave our sides. An absolutely beautiful Sunday. I don´t know. Little things. But important things. Giant blessings :) Wouldn´t trade them for anything.

Our convert (she got baptized the week I got here) Jessica. She´s such a sweetheart and is preparing to go to the temple to do baptisms for the first time in March! She´s finding names to bring and everything! 

Hna Corsetti and I. How is it that if I´m not paying attention, I have dinosaur hands?? Hna Corsetti thinks it´s hilarious.

Love and miss you all so much!

Also. EVERYONE go hug my monster brother. The Sasquatch. It´s his birthday on wednesday!! He´s officially an adult!

Hna Hill

p.s. They just decided to turn swing music on in this internet cafe. I have this song on one of my records at home. Ted Heath Orchestra. Little bit hard to focus.... (someone, please change the song!!)

My week

Was... well. Not too different from the other weeks :) But there are more bug bites, and they´re getting a little weird. #Allergies

We walked. We taught the gospel. Or tried to. We ended up contacting a ton of people and not having very many lessons. All of our people left Quillabamba for summer vacation. So we´ve been contacting a LOT :) But I love it. I love every part of this work. Even the hard parts like walking in the heat all day every day. 

In other, really exciting news: We have cell phones now!! YAY! Do you know how much easier the work is with a cell phone? Well. It is. Much easier than having a home phone. We got it today, and our ringtone is now the classic Harry Potter theme. Yet another reason to love Hna Corsetti. We were deciding which song to record from our USB´s and then use as our ringtone and our options were Harry Potter, Narnia, Star Wars, and then churchy stuff. We chose Harry Potter. (Which sounds fitting since Mum told me that Snape died this week. Someone, anyone, is it true?? #LoveHarryPotter #Always)

I feel like every week I´m saying "I don´t have too much to say this week." But it´s kind of true. So... now I´m gonna start saying things like... I don´t know. Random things to let you know I´m done. I just hope you all know how happy I am, even when I don´t write too much. I love the work. I love my Savior. I love the many many opportunities I have to learn and grow, and help others do the same. I love that I´m here, in the Peru Cusco Mission. 

There´s no place like *the mission* :) Y todo vale la pena.

Hna Hill

Rainy Quillabamba mornings. I love the view :) 

Found this gem in my tender mercies journal from last year. Not sure why, but that day, it was a blessing that Hna Condie and I ate four pieces of cake each. Gotta love my mission mama.

"A family without dengue is a happy family" - I believe that. Gotta love the signs in the hospital. (visiting a sick member. I´m not dying, don´t worry.)

We got ahold of a panai skirt :) So we took pictures! So much fun!

No time. As usual. So... Pictures!!

Just know that I´m beyond happy here. Joyful! We´ve seen so many little miracles this week. Little, but so so very important and life changing. I love being a missionary. It´s the best feeling in the world, to serve others. Hope you all have a wonderful week! Love you all!

Hna Hill

Our HUGE (sarcasm...) zone. 10 missionaries in all of Quillabamba. We went as a zone to hike up to a waterfall last pday. So much fun!

Super Mango. Nuff said.

Hna Páez is one of our Hna Leaders! She´s in Cusco, but they visit Quillabamba, so I got to work with her again! It was a beautiful day, filled with so many little miracles. I love being a missionary.

Turns out I´m like mildly allergic to mosquito bites. Or something like that. The elders told me to draw circles around the bites. You wouldn´t believe how many questions people asked me about my legs this week. With, and without, the circles.

Not like you can really tell.. At all... And not like I can have a good hair day (this is as good as it gets. And only for like 5 minutes and then it´s super frizzy and in a bun or a braid.) but... I cut my own hair today! It actually turned out really good!

New Year´s Eve watching the fireworks - neither of us could keep our eyes open for the flash. It hurt. 

Just realized I forgot to write to everyone... Oops.

Reading Lucas 2 and 3 Nephi 1 before bedtime :) Love that tradition. 

Christmas morning in the rain!! A Christmas miracle (for only me I think. But that´s okay.)

Making tortas fritas ( it ´s an Argentina thing) for Christmas with our pensionista and her daughter, and another member, who were alone for Christmas.

I had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful week! There´s nothing quite like being a missionary on Christmas. It´s one of the best feelings in the whole world.

Love you all and hope you had an amazing week! 

Write to you next year!!

Hna Hill

Christmas Eve Skype

(Kelly here) YAY!! We were able to private message each other until everyone showed up at the house and then we began our Skype session at 3:01 pm. We were fortunate enough for it to last 51 minutes!!!

Keni wasn't able to hear us very well but I think it ended up being okay. She cried when she saw that her bestie Callie was here (we kept it a surprise).

People in attendance:

Dad and Val and kids
Me and the boys
Gpa Dale and Gma Lois
Gma Myrn
Callie

It was so much fun and I barely cried at all right at the end. We were able to record her testimony but I have yet to have it translated. I felt the spirit as always and I'm so proud of my sweet girl. She has 118 days left and it's going by so fast! I can't wait to hug her and give her a smooch in person.

Merry Christmas from all of us!

Welcome to the Jungle!

Well. It´s technically.... half jungle. They call it ceja de selva. 

I love it.

But I´m also sweating. ALL THE TIME. I generally shower twice a day. It´s also really humid. Which means that YES Hna Hill crazy hair is a thing, every single day. 

The people are wonderful. So kind and willing to listen! 

We have like NO TIME so I´m gonna write about my comp really quick.

Hna Corsetti - my FOURTH companion from Argentina. (Ella es de Buenos Aires también.) my SIXTH latina ( Hna Condie is the only gringa. Woohoo for latinas!) and my seventh companion in general. I´m also in my fifth sector, if any  of you were counting. That´s actually a ton for an Hermana. My mission is a little crazy. But I love it.

I don´t have much to say, because we´re going to be talking on Christmas Eve. (Kelly here: 3:00 pm MST)

I love you all SO MUCH and I feel so blessed to be able to be here, in Peru, serving the Lord on another Christmas. It´s  going to be amazing.

MWAH (that´s a kiss noise.)

Hna Hill

Me in the jungle, and my comp. I don´t know how she was using that long sleeved shirt. I was dying that day.

#ChristmasIsComing and #Cha-cha-cha-changes

I´m planning on quoting that Shrek song every change. Just in case you haven´t noticed by now.

And! ....  *imaginary drumroll please*

I´m going to Quillabamba!

New companion, new sector.

IN THE JUNGLE. 

It´s going to be really hot. And humid. 

But I´ve seen pictures and it´s GORGEOUS. Looking forward to it!

(Kelly here. I shamelessly lifted some photos of Quillabamba from The Interwebs. It's gonna be okay. Don't worry about it. Enjoy!)

(End of thievery)

But I´m also going to miss Hna Azevedo a lot :( We hoped we could be together for Christmas. I have no idea who my new companion is... But I´m sure it´s still going to be a beautiful Christmas!

This week Hna Azevedo and I were able to help the JOHNSONS! with a Family History fair in Sicuani. It was so awesome to see them again! Hna Azevedo and I both worked with them when we were in Cusco and we love them to death.

Hna Azevedo and I also made a bunch of little snow flakes and put them on the cieling. I LOVE CHRISTMAS. It was fun, and now the room feels a little more festive :)

I don´t really remember what else happened this week. We worked. We laughed. We worried about changes a little bit. We helped Indira accept her new baptism date (CHRISTMAS!!!) and finally got to talk to her mom a little bit! I´m leaving Sicuani now, and I´m a little sad, but Hna Azevedo is staying here with her new companion, and she´ll be able to let me know how everything is going. 

I´m just so happy to be on my mission. And I´m starting to realize that I don´t have very much time left here, so I'm trying to live every moment the way the Lord would want me to.

Mum's countdown wall (128 days left!!)

See you next week!

(when I´m in the JUNGLE. I´m going to the Jungle. Kind of can´t believe it. So excited.)

Love you all.

Hna Hill