Sister Dantzel Park

The Traveling Circus aka My Life

How is everyone this week?!? What an interesting week filled with practically only rejection but the work continúes!! ¡ As we always say, necesitamos actuar en nuestra fe (we need to act in Faith)!! Alrighty you know the drill let's jump right in.

Bullet Points

+Arequipa! guess who had to take a 9 hour bus ride for immigration stuff again!! We only got stuck in traffic for 2 hours…

+We ate the best pizza I have ever had when we were traveling I'll attach a picture

+Lady with 14 cats? I don't know why it is necessary for so many but whatever haha!!

+Gabriel, he is so cool and accepted a baptismal invite yesterday!! He is so funny and told us the only reason he started listening to us in the first place is because he thought it was cool we could speak spanish haha!

+We were chased by so many dogs this week! It's a good thing if you pretend like you're picking up a rock they usually leave you alone. And if not, at least you can throw the rock :) A lot of the time I am not pretending to pick up the rock.

+Basically this week was a little rough… Almost every single lesson was canceled or just were not home when we went by. This makes for a lot of door knocking :) Like I said, a long week.

+We played capture the flag as a zone at the church. This was so fun but my team's low key cheated haha! We placed our flag in a place they could see it but not get to it. That is why we lost…

+Last Monday night we had a cool experience. We meet some people who only speak Aymara. It was really interesting because I didn't understand anything they said. I felt like I was trying to learn Spanish all over again.

+We invited EVERYONE to english class… no one came :)

+I got really bored on the bus and started reading about how to prevent Rabies and what to do if someone had a seizure :)

+I took a picture of the Peruvian parking to show that everyone doesn't know how to park properly <3

Spiritual thought

I have been crocheting for a while today so let's connect it to the gospel of Jesus Christ :)

When crocheting you need two things: yarn and a hook. You also start with a slip knot. Once you have those things, you begin by either making a circle or a chain (a straight line). When working on projects you can get distracted and stray from the pattern.

As missionaries we have a special emphasis on two things, baptism (hook) and the gift of the Holy Ghost (yarn). Without these two things we won't ever finish our end product and our stitches are lots of different things. Just like crocheting is an action, so are the stitches. Every stitch is another step on the covenant path. Reading our scriptures, praying, coming to church, and serving others we need all of these things and baptism and the holy ghost are a part of every single one of these things. Just know no matter where you are at on your Eternal project that satan is doing everything he can to make you miss a stitch or to get distracted from the end goal. So think Celestial and remember that the Holy Ghost is with you!

For those of you who don't crochet I am very sorry for the boring analogy :) Just know that we all have things we are working on. Our projects are not going to be perfect. It is our first time having these experiences. But each time around each new row we become more experienced and we can see how the spirit was working in our lives.

I love you all so much. Sorry my email went out so late today I was busy. You all have a special place in my heart and I love hearing from you :) Keep up the good work and remember that Jesus loves you <3

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