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Letter 9-16-13

I hope everyone is happy and well and that you are all healthy and doing some missionary work! Well this week has been crazy like every other week in missionary work I love it! We have been going through some changes in our companionship and I am no longer in a trio which has been wierd but Hermana Hanson and I are still together. I have been learning lots this week and seeing some cool miracles. This week we had a lesson with the father of one of our investigators that has a baptismal date and he invited us to a "Bible Study" Which was really interesting. He showed us some scriptures about how the Bible shows that God give us the laws and commandments to trick us and make us have to sin. But as we were teaching I felt the need to bear testimony instead of show many scriptures that were contrary. I felt my testimony so strong and have been feeling so grateful for the opportunity to have shared my testimony with him. We will see how everything goes with him . He was very friendly and invited us back and also told us that his daughter has permission to get baptized. We are currently working with alot of investigators that are progressing but it is very sad to see how Satan always tries to put stumbling blocks in their way, but it always helps me know that what we are doing is really worth fighting for. Thank you to all who sent me my package! I can´t tell you how heavenly peanutbutter and chocolate taste to me! I love the food here but there are always a few things I miss from home. I will fill you guys in about my penionista. Her name is Mami Yovani and she is a really good cook! She makes really yummy meals. Lunch is always the biggest meal here but we always have bread and Ecco( a barley drink) for breakfast and then some type of yummy huge meal for lunch with a huge scoop of rice. Dinners are smaller with maybe sweet bread and Ecco. The food is so good and Mami always does special things for us. Her family is so sweet too. And do you know what? She irons our bedsheets! I never knew I would be so spoiled and boy was I ever wrong about losing weight here. Everyone we visit always wants to feed us. The thing that really impacted me this week was when a Member in my ward was taking to me and I told him that I needed to get a new bag because by backpack is falling apart and we told him that we have certain requirements that we have to get new ones too. He was wearing a nice bag and I asked him where he got it and he started emptying it out and was giving it to me. I really almost started crying. That is how humble and wonderful the people are here. Even when they dont have much they just give everything they have. That was a lifechanging experience for me. I love Peru and the beautiful people here. They are so great. I hope one day you all have the priviledge to get to know this beautiful country full of beautiful people. I am going to try to send pics of what we did for Pday. We went to the museum of the king of Sipan. Really cool ancient ruins that sparked my old dreams of being an Archeologist. I love you all hope my Heavenly Father continues to bless you all! Con mucho amor, Hermana Sanders

09/03/2013

Sad news.... your package came... but I spent forever pleading with them to let me have it. I guess you cant send medical things in the packages along with old clothes. So I am so mad and sad! They said I could try and get the chocolates but the rest they will send back! GRRR! I got Angies package though. I am going to get information from my comp whos mom sends stuff with a woman that travels often to Peru and brings the packages for the missionaries. I am so sad, dont judge but I cried a little bit ha ha. The work is coming really well, I am very tired but I somehow make it everyday! I have been greatly blessed with health. Everything is going well, we had to postpone our baptisms but I may have good news next week we will see how everything goes we are praying really hard. That is so exciting about Steven! DId Morgan get baptized? I am excited. What about Papa Don? I hope everything is okay with Tyler.. is he getting any better? Thats cool that you guys have birdie! Im so sad I missed peachdays! I miss you guys so much I will send some pics of my birthday with my pensionista. Did you guys get my letter I sent? If not I hope soon. I miss yo so much!

Letter From Whitney 08/26/2013

I am so happy to write today and just be so excited for my little bro! Pat I am so proud! My trainer is from that mission! Fort Collins is supposed to be so beautiful! My brother Elder Sanders, I am just so happy! The best present I could have gotten this week! I was also so excited to hear that someone my companion and I found and taught got baptized this week! So exciting. Especially after alot of walking and wind and dust this week ha ha. We are working really hard. Its been a good week and God is leading me and my two companions in this work. I can truly testify that I could not to the work without Him. I feel so priviledged to be a part of this work right now. I am going to try to send pictures this week. I am sorry there isnt a ton to update on this week but I just want to say that the people here are so great and are like family to me and always look forward to seeing my beautiful kind people. 

I love you all thank you for all you do!

New Letter 8/12/2013

Hey everyone! I hope you all got my email last week and that it
answered some of the questions you have had for me. The time here on the computer is really short and I have tried answering all of my emails but sometimes I run out before I can get to everyone.  I am learning so much here in Peru with my companion. I am learning to be the missionary I need to be through having so many experiences. We have a baptism coming up hopefully in two weeks. Each baptism takes so much faith, prayers and miracles. My companion and I have been blessed to find some really great people that have been waiting for us. Peru is so beautiful. The people are so beautiful. The lifestyle here is totally different. We eat breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday in the house of our pensionista who is so tiny and cute and reminds me of my mommie. She takes such good care of us and we are so spoiled she even does our laundry. We walk alot everyday and its usually hot in the day and cold at night. Sometimes we are lucky and take moto which is a motorcyle with a little seat behind it that we ride on. I have finally mastered how to yell the directions to them and to bargain the price with them. We have been working lots with the members here who work really hard with us in missionary work which is great. I´m learning more and more everyday about the scriptures and how they are the best missionary tool ever and have helped me train my companion too. We are learning so much and having so many wonderful experiences.
I love you all and hope that you too are having missionary experiences everyday too. Its the best thing I have ever done. Thank you all for your support and your examples that lead me to where I am today.
 Love you all Cuidense y vayan con Dios siempre! Con Cariño Hermana Sanders

 (My new companion Presidente y Hermana Risso)

Whitney's letter 8/5/2013

Wow, I am so sorry that it has been a while since I have written a big letter. I miss my people so much and feel bad that I haven´t been able to share much of the biggest experience of my life. So I am in Chiclayo Peru, right next to the Mission Presidents house and my church is were the first stake in Chiclayo was organized. The members are so sweet and so willing to help but the Church is still very new to them. The last few weeks I have been with 2 other companions learning the area and we had miracles. This week we had transfers and I am now training Hermana Brito from Riverton UT. She is so sweet and willing to learn and help me, and I feel a huge responibility to be an example and help her. Sadly right after the change we went to one of our investigators that was going to be baptized and he told us that he wants to focus on his studies and work. I am praying very hard that he feels a desire to return. It is really hard when they are so close and go against the spirit they feel. But I know the Lord will help me understand how I can help him. We have another baptism planned for this month and we are just really trying to get her support because she will be the only member in her family. I am really focusing on searching for guidance and inspiration. I realized that all baptisms that have ever happened, happened because of alot of hard work and miracles and I am ready to experience that. Peru is beautiful and the people are always giving us hugs and kisses. I have been to some places where they havent seen North American Missionaries in Years. I love it here and am learning so much thank you for your support. More to come next week

Whitney's in Peru! 7/9/2013

Hey mamì! How are you? Did you chew pat out? That sounds like a fun forth of July. Hermana Kimball, Hermana Batman and I are the only gringas( white girls) in our mission. We were sad that we didn`t do anything to celebrate the 4th. All is great here. It`s a little bit hard because things are way different and funcion way different than my other mission but I shouldn`t compare. I love it here. We walk everywhere unless we take a moto which is a little cart attached to a motorcycle but it costs money. Its very dusty because there aren't roads and all of the houses are made out of cement or bricks with mudd as the cement. It looks ancient. We live in a small room with a small bathroom. Our pensionista mam'i yoavani is so sweet and makes really good food and my garments have never been so white. She also irons everything! I`m spoiled I know. There is a recent convert here that says that went Hermana Kimball and I came we answered his dreams and prayers because she was wearing clothes that he saw in a dream and he always prayed for someone that can play the piano ha ha so I have to play the piano every Sunday because no one knows how . I played this Sunday and it was horrible ha ha. So I am trying very hard to learn alot because I am co-training with Hermana San Roman because hna. Kimball is new and Hna. San Roman does all of the exchanges here with the hermanas so I have to train her when Hna San Roman isn`t around. It scares me. The work is very different here. Everything is with the Bible and my bible knowledge isn`t that great but I'm learning. How are you? How is the family? Whats going on with Pat?