i have been super blessed. i havent really gotten sick yet but now im oding a lot better. wednesday morning before we left to huanuco president gave me a blessing. so that was nice of him and i know ill be okay. i just know that when i get home i have to immediately go to a doctor... and the dentist. and maybe the chiropractor. but HAPPY 16 MONTHS! i cant beliee i have made it this far. i remember when i had 6 months my comp had 16 and i would think everyday... wow. im never ever getting to that point. b ut here i am. Huancayo was good. we had a good conference with president and all the leaders of the mission. there are about 48 elders and 10 sisters. 

CAMILA.. well we are going to have a baptism real soon. we had a lesson with her on saturday and she just cried and bore her testimony saying she knows the gospel changes lives... and shes only 12. it was so beautiful to see. honestly i feel like i havent even done anything but she has had the desire so she has had the change. we just have to wait for her mom to sign. i know she will though. with faith! 

This week i learned that honestly the book of mormon can answer any wuestion we ask ourselves. any question of the soul. its there. the spirit will guide us. we just have to look. we also taught lesson 1. i cried.. and i know i say it all the time but i never get sick testifying of joseph smith and of the restored gospel. i know its true. i could never deny it. this is the true gospel! i love it even though we have trials it helps us so much. 

i hope you all had an amazing thanksgiving and a great black friday. ill see you soon

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

Me and my beautiful companion

I Ate Pizza Hut!

 My lovely companion completed a year in her mission on the 17th.. can you believe it? i remember that day haha. but this week was full of lots of things. lots of medical things. we went to the clinic because a sister on pday was running and  her comp pushed her. she twisted her ankle but shes fine. she at least caught the ball. we were playing like football and i made three touchdowns! it was sooo fun. i miss football alot.. but then another sister had to get a tooth taken out... look at it. they yanked a whole lot of gum with the tooth tooo. haha but thats us with her cake for her year and her pizza hut dinner thats pretty expensive but it was worth every sole. and it didn even taste like home. oh well. anyway. we taught camila about fasting... she started to fast and then called her dad and talked to him about her permission. he told her he supports her if she wants to get baptized... fasting works! shes soo cute. she wants to get baptized soo bad. but we will see hopefully the 3rd of december. we just have to keep working with her mom. thats whats holding us back from getting her baptized... but im sure the fasting helped with her mom too haha. today we are going to huancayo for another meeting as leaders. i hope i dont get sick. i love you all and hope you have a wonderful THANKSGIVING! im so grateful for alll of you... and cant wait to see you.. so be grateful. i love you!!!!!

XOXO

Hna Rasmusse

Chupar La Pina

this week we did three divisions... can you believe it? so we were really excited to see each other once again. hna esparza and i. the first are from las americas. hna upari from peru and hna astudillo from ecuador. the other ones are hna jose from paraguay and hna maco from peru. sorry we forgot to take a picture of the other hnas. then we are eating pineapple. its a joke because chupar la pina means to suck the pinaple. but it also means to kiss. so we always make that joke that we like to kiss the pinapple. haha

well this week we went to the clinic because another sister got sick. luckily they just gave her a shot and she healed right up. then another sister has to get her wisdom teeth taken out. that is the second hermana with that same problem this transfer. im glad i got them taken out before.

so we talked with camilas mom. she doesnt want her to get baptized. she says she will see if in 6 or 7 months shes still going to church then shell give her permission. but we are going to fast and keep praying. then jorge luis! he is so cool. we gave him the plan of salvation pamphlet and talked to him about baptism. he kind of freaked out. but then the second time we went he had read everything and underlnied and highlighted things and the only words in the whole thing that were circled were to be baptized. we have to be baptised in this life to inherit the kingdom of god. he accepted a date 10th of decembver. but then he had an accident on his motorcycle and now cant move.. great. thanks satan. we love you. but hes amazing! we are going to keep working with him. 

this week we taught the plan of salvation literally like 10 times. but it justmade me think more. what am i doing to receive eternal life? am i on the path that i can get it? am i making good decisions? will i be able to live with my family forever? i know i will be able to. i know that god loves us and for that he gave us this plan. he wants us to live with him. he doesnt want us to be perfect he just wants us to be worthy and try everyday. i know this plan is real and i know God will give us lots of opportunities. i love Him and im grateful he is our father. im grateful for this knowledge and comfort it gives us. study the plan of salvation. it helps us understand who we are. i love you all. im grateful that we can be together para siempre... 

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

Caridad, El Amor Puro De Cristo

we drove to huancayo for a training as leaders and it was raining really hard. peru really is soo pretty. im going to miss it. 

sorry for not writing last week.. i honestly just forgot. but we moved apartments and now we live in our area and a lot closer to everyone. im really starting to love my area. the memebers are helping us a lot more and im really grateful for their help. we also have a lot of people progressing. Camila! she is 12 but she has come to church for 3 weeks ina row and to the mutuals and she does all her reading and everything. we hope she can get to baptism soon. we also have jesenia. shes 21 and wants to change her life. she came to church but well see if she starts to recognize her little growing testimony. we also have a guy named lenin. hes interesting because i think he wants me to take him to the USA haha but he is slowly changing and he told us he wants to be able one day bare his testimony like the others. it was cool. and then christina and danny. they are a family that are progressing because they have a special needs son. he had menengitis when he was a baby and now his brain is bad. i feel so bad for them. they struggle with him so much but we know that he can improve if they teach him the gospel of christ. im grateful for them. we also have two less actives that are family. they just stoped reading their scriptures and praying and started working on sunday. nothing really happened to inactivate them. really it just shows me how important the little things are. you have to do the little things every day. i know that there isnt a single person inactive still reading their scriptures and praying everyday. if we conatinue doing those things. we will forever be on the stright and narrow path. i know it. 

this week ive been really trying to have a lot of charity. ive noticed that im kind of excited to come home im not going to lie. i cant wait to see you all and be done with the little differences in the culture. but then i remembered someone told me before themission. if you are missing home just think about how much you love the people,. so i started praying to have charity. because like moroni tells us.. we can pray to have that atribute of christ. and it really works. i forgot it was even pday. i forgot that we had another life. i really lost myself again in the work. i was able to only think in the people and not worry about what life will be like after. i love the people of peru. and i lve that ive been able to honestly feel a lot more like our savior. he loves us all no matter what. its helped me not judge or want to rest. ive had a lot more energy and i just want to give it all. i know that charity is the pure love of christ. im grateful for my savior and how much he really loves me. i know he lives. i know he loves me and you. if you dont know that... go figure it out. he will help you see it. pray for his love. he will give it to you.

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen