How Are We Spending Our Time?

Familia! We are seeing so many milagros en mi area. I know that the Lord doesnt always bless us with what we want because he wants us to grow and learn and become better disciples of Christ. We have found two more jovenes that have a baptismal date. Jeano and Jhan. Jhan is 18 and Jeano 15. Jhan said he wants to go serve a mision! and he said that he loves reading the book of mormon. we had a lesson with him yesterday and before we left he said but wait i want more pamphlets! he loves coming to church and he really has such a desire. his brother does too but doesnt show it like him because he is a lot more shy and quiet. they are great. Evelin went to Huanuco for work so we havent been able to talk with her. we also have 2 other people that have such a strong desire to get baptized! we just need to visit them more and see how they start progressing. The area was on hold as i know i was put with my other comps to help them specifically. now i can help the people in the area and there are so many that are prepared. I love teaching. i really have fallen in love with it. I can finally feel what it means to teach with power and authority. its really amazing to feel that! i know in this time i am a representative of christ and i am where i should be. i also know that people are prepared. one man had been recieving the missionaries for about a year and because he didnt progress they left him. we found him and he went to church sunday and loved it! people might not progress now but they have a time and will when they need to. im also grateful for the spirit. it seems like we have had a lot of experiences this week where the spirit has warned us of people or told us to get out of situations. He is our Guide!!! thats why we need to pray and read our scruptures every day. To hve our guide. to make good decisions. without the spirit we are walking in darkness and not holding on to the iron rod. 

i know that obedience brings blessings. something the relief society president said and i really liked and honestly never thought about is when we were talking about callings in the church. there are so many people here that wont accept one because they dont have time... that is the worst excuse and i hate it with ALL MY HEART!  there is always time! but how can we kneel everynight asking god to bless us and to protect us and give us things we need when we cant accept a calling and help in His work. it is so true. if we dont give Him our time. why would he give us his time. Visit people! people can activate from one little 30 min visit. do your home teaching and do your visiting teaching. We are one big family. help your brothers and sisters. i know you will recieve blessings. i know God loves us all and he is our Dad. honestly. its all true.

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

PS.... these computers are poop and I cant send pics. But I met my president. He is cool and very young. We have interviews with him today! Wish me luck.. haha

hi fam!!!!

So something loco happened... im with hna delgado once again! who would have ever though that happened. but she is dying this transfer so once again i will be killing for a second time in a row. but its okay. we are working really really hard trying to get this area back on its feet. i love you all and hope you are doing amazing! im praying for you all. love you lots!

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

we went to Huaytapallana. which means to gather flowers.... it was so fun! people were in the tops of the mountains singing and giving offerings to the mountain. it was interesting. ill show videos when i get home haha.  it is actually higher than cerro de pasco but i barely even struggled. the props of serving so high for a while!!! haha there were people throwing up and really having a hard time. 

I Need Thee. . . Oh I Need Thee

we went to the last multi zone with president and hermana henderson. it was so sad. i just cant believe they are leaving! i remember thinking that it would be in so many months that they would leave and its actually here. how did that happen?? i dont even understand. or as well as like how am i going to be homein 7 months!!! i feel like i was literally just turning 7 months. but it was a good multizone. we looked at lots of pics and ate pizza. but its still not as good as the pizza from america.

we started reading the scriptures at night with our pensions family. it makes me miss you guys soo much! Hno Jorge is so funny. he always talks so much and no one really listens. reminds me of silly dad and how he would always go off. but i miss that so much now. dad, when i get home ill start listening now haha. but i hope you are all continuing to do that. keep reading everyday! even if your kids dont understand. even if you are just a couple. READ! the lord promises us a better family. and i know its so true! i have seen it in our lives and in other lives of people here. 

i also had an amazing experience contacting. so my comp just finished telling me how her friend would contact people by asking them if he could sing a song. i mean who is going to reject a song about Jesus Christ? so we went to a park to contact. there were three moms and we started to talk to them. they didnt want to listen so i asked if we could sing a song. we sang i need thee every hour. it was beautiful!! even the kids sat down and listened. i felt the spirit sooo strong. after we stopped singing i almost started crying trying to bare my testimony of the savior. it was such a powerful experience. we should do that more often! after they all wanted to give us their address and their phone number. we still have to follow up. but it was an amazing experience. im going to start singing more often hehe. 

well i love you alll sooooo much!! Have a great week. and sing hymns. they invite the spirit more than you think.

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

un MILAGRO

the biggest milagro happened last pday!!!!! first off while you were all celebrating memorial day i was celebrating perus dia de la papa!! haha it was funny. i had no idea but holy cow!!! they had  potato everything! we even ate potato ice cream. it was interesting.. but  as i was sitting there trying the potato ice cream someone came up and tapped me on the shoulder. it was Jhonny Bernachea! my first convert from cerro de pasco! i had been looking for him forever. i knew he moved to huancayo but no one knew him. so i figured he went inactive. he said he is still going to church and he really wants to go on a mission still! he is still praying about it especially now because he acompanies the elders at their citas. he goes out with them and loves it. it was the biggest joy of my life seeing him still sooo happy! i wanted to hug him but couldnt haha. it was such a happy day. so im so glad to hear that he is moving forward and even wants to go on a mission. que alegria!

also for our last p day we had a huge game of capture the flag in the woods of peru. we had to come with a made weapon. i made num chucks!!! its all out of toilet paper rolls... it was so sick. no one wanted to touch me haha. hna crawford and i went dressed up as ninjas. we looked the coolest can i just say. but we werent even playing for more than five minutes when the cops came and kicked us out.. booo. i think we will do it another day. it was super fun though. family be prepared. we will play that when i get home in the woods.

this p day we went to a city called Izcuchaca on a train! it was fun! it was a legit train and we just got back so thats why im writing late. it was this cute little city and we felt like we were on polar express haha. but they only served sketchy tea in gatorade bottles not hot chocolate haha. but it was super fun!

yesterday was elections for peru. it was crazy. once again we didnt have church. kind of weird but we did get a new president of peru. kind of funny how the only candidates were a japanese woman and a white dude. where are all the peruvians??? they need to represent better. 

Not going to lie. this week was a struggle with a sick companion so we werent able to work like we wanted. but we are going to work a lot harder this coming week. we got the strength and the motivation we just have to go do it! YAY for the work of the Lord!

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

us as ninjas and me with jhonny and the table of different potatoes

us on the train and me as a ninja

the cute little city.

Happy 4th

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! i am wearing red white and blue right now for all of you over there! i love you a lot and i love AMERICA! we are going to do something fun for Pday. well we have osmeone with a date! she is amazing. her name is Evelin and she is a contact. i love this work. i love actually working inthe lords work. stay safe! dont have muich time. Muah!

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

Bird Poop

So this week has been the craziest of the mission. And you'll all find out when I get home haha. But we have been trying to get our feet back on the ground and working hard. We have someone with a baptism date finally!!! Her name is Samantha. She is so cute. She is 17 and she wants to go to seminary and all the noche de hogar and church. She asked us how she could get baptized. It was all her idea. So I think she is pretty ready. But we will see! We have been having fun trying to teach and talk to lots of people. Honestly this week wasn't amazing. But I know next week will be if we just keep working hard. The members are liking us more so that is good. Trying to gain their confidence is hard! But its fun to help them. Also we found another investigator that is a cake maker! She made us a cake and it was soooo amazing! And she is going to teach us lots of things... so watch out! Lets just hope I don't get fat... 

Everyone, have a great week. eat heatlhy and drink lots of water. You can do it! Read your scriptures and say your prayers. God is waiting to hear you! Muah!

XOXO

Hna Rasmussen

so i woke up early to go take this girl to seminary. we have been waking up at 5 50... do you know how hard that is? but shes going now! so its worth it. she also liked how we were walking and i was half asleep and a bird pooped on my head.... the first time in my life! i shouldnt have even been awake haha.. it was pretty funny. we laughed forever. buut its tiny at least.

We Have A Savior

It says in my patriarchal blessing that I will be blessed with strength and health for my holy callings here on the earth. Well I found out that our mission is a red mission which means that it is sooo dangerous for food and stuff like that. I didn't know that. There are only a few. and I've actually been super healthy!! I guess the blessing is true!!

This week we found someone that doesn't really believe in God or Christ. It was so weird to find someone like that. He just immediately told us that he is lost and doesn't really know what to do with his life. When we teach him he just starts to light up! It is so amazing. Well we had a lesson and explained to him with examples about why we need a Savior. Why it is absolutely crucial to have a Savior to get back to our padre celestial. by the end of the lesson he said he believed in Jesus Christ and he understood why we needed a savior. It was an amazing experience. You seriously never find people like that here. EVERYONE believes in Christ and that He died. But teaching someone about the essentials of a Savior just strengthened my testimony so much of the Savior. It was necessary. Because without him we wouldn't have the gospel. We wouldn't have the steps either to know how to return to our padre, that is why we have a savior who would suffer what we would and know how to help us to get to a being that is sooo glorious. He is our helper. He is our friend. The savior lives and loves us. Trust in Him and look for Him. 

Sorry I am trying to write fast so I hope it makes sense. It probably doesn't sound as cool as it really was. It was an amazing experience to help someone gain a testimony about our savior. ÉL VIVE!!!! y yo lo sé con todo mi corazon. yo le amo a mi salvador. 

XOXO 

Hna Rasmussen

ook at my cheese grader.... it is a magnet!!!! haha we were laughing soooo hard! it is tiny and was hard to grate cheese. but we did it!

We made tacos!! Two gringas making the most delicious tacos!! Seriously... they were soooooo good.... possibly the best tacos from my mission. And we´re both white. hahah! :)

 its a pic of the beautiful scenery and then the trees in huancayo and then hna crawford walking with a huge bag of tampons down the street! so our pension and her daughter really want to start using tampons, the first latinas in all of america to want that. and sense hna crawford and i came STOCKED UP! we gave them a whole bag. we were laughing because we were walking down the street with a ginormous bag of tampons and nobody knew because no one knows what are tampons. it was pretty funny.