Jungle Jane

January 25, 2016

Hello Family!!!

It was another roller coaster week this week, but it was fun. This week has been pretty warm but I´m pretty much used to it.

Sorry this is coming in a little late. We were all in the internet and then all of a sudden all the machines shut down and didn't open up again. We were all confused so we had to go to another internet to finish up.

This week we went to the Family History Center which is in the mission offices. There is a companionship of hermanas that work there, but they are only there certain hours and we bring recent converts and less actives to do their work there. On Sunday we had an appointment, and because it was Sunday we couldn´t pay for a moto into the city. So, we asked the brother-in-law of our pensionista to drive us in because he had his moto there. He agreed and when we got there, there was nowhere to park the moto so he said he would just wait outside for us. We felt bad so we opened the gates to the offices and he parked the moto inside the gates so he could come in with us. Everything was cool until we went to leave and the gate was locked with a lock and everything. The office elders and the assistants didn´t have keys for the lock and didn´t know who had the keys so we were waiting while they called looking for the mystery person who locked the gates. It took a long time and they still hadn´t found them and we were going to get home late so the asisstants told us we had to go and they would wait with the brother. So, we left and got home at about 9:15. Then, we were getting into bed and we got a call at 10:30 from our pensionista asking where her brother-in-law was. We were like, ¨um, don´t know, think still locked in the church¨ We went to bed but we felt really bad and in the morning she told us that he didn´t get home until midnight! We felt so bad but he thought it was just funny. And they all made a joke out of it and his daughter apparently had cried when they told her that her dad was locked in the church building. They said she cried ¡Mi papito mi papito! Está encerrado en la iglesia y nunca va a salir! ¡Va a morir allí! So scared some children and locked a man in the church offices this week.

We also had a baptism! It was cool, but man there is no such thing as an easy baptism. There is ALWAYS something that comes up, some trial, some challenge, some doubt. But it really is like that with everything we do in the gospel. When I first got here I thought, why is a mission so hard? Why are you tested in every way you can possibly imagine and why do you face so many challenges? But I´ve realized that missionaries are the front line against the adversary. He knows how directly we fight against him and so he sends his best forces to try and detain and distract us. I think we face that whenever we try to take a step in the right direction. The enemy is so real and so quick to act on us. It can be hard to not get discouraged or exhausted, but Heavenly Father is more powerful than Satan and we have His merciful support. We are so blessed!

I am doing well. Today are changes and I actually think that I might not be having changes but we will see tonight. I might be doing the full six month service here in Clavero. Tonight we will know. Well, I will know. You will have to live another week in suspense.

Love you all!

Hermana Fitzpatrick

- quistacocha! We went with the sisters on Monday and it was fun.
My third time on the beach!