Happy Birthday Hermana Madsen! (Mission Update)

Hello everybody! This has been a crazy, fun-filled week! 

On Tuesday at our District meeting, we celebrated my birthday and the birthday of an elder. And our mission president surprised us by being there! So I got to have a picture with him and his family. 

Then later, Tuesday night we were waiting outside of the house of a family that we had a cita with and we were super hungry. So I made the joke that I wished they would bring us something to eat since all the stores near by were closed. Sure enough they arrived and had food! But then we thought they were going to eat in front of us, but when we got in they gave each of us one. My wish came true! It was very off and random. But very good chicken! 

Wednesday was the birthday of the son of our pensionista and they threw a party! With a clown and everything. We got invited in to watch a little but we didn't have our cameras, but it was crazy! The clown wasn't all that funny though. 

On the 10th I completed a year on the mission!

On my birthday, we made cookies with this family who was kind enough to let us use their oven! They are so sweet and we spent most of the day with them. This is Mabel and her son Marco. She has two daughters as well, Pamela and Leydi.

On Sunday we were out walking when it started hailing! We ran home because it hurt so much and made it slippery and hard to walk in. We don't get snow, but we do get hail!

Today we went to Lampa and we had to take a picture with our ponchos! So cool! 

We are hoping for a baptism this Saturday. Hna Rosa is really excited and has her interview tomorrow! I think everything will turn out just fine. So excpect more news on that! 

Love you all! Hope you have a good week! 

Hermana Madsen

Marissa also shared this photo with me. She was giving Christmas gifts to two boys in her apartment complex.

Monday, January 7, 2019 (Mission Update)

Hope you all had a wonderful New Years! Here in Peru they love their fireworks. They kept me up, but I stayed in bed, it's chilly at night. But before that we had fun with Sparklers and matches. 

Saturday we had our conference and we went to Puno to have it. It was really nice. 

This is my group from the MTC. 7 of 11 of us are here in Puno or Juliaca. 

That same Saturday we had a baptism so we had to leave from the conference real fast to get back in time to the baptism. It ended up starting an hour later anyways, but we got to make sure everything was ready. There were two baptisms. The first is a little boy who is 8 who's dad and mom are both members. We have been going over the lessons with him but it doesn't count as an investigator. He's the cutest though! The other was our pensionista. She's the one that feeds us! ;) 

Here's Leonel and his dad. He is such a funny kid! But the best!

And here we are with Hermana Lourdes and her family. 

And this is everyone that came! There was a lot of people. We even had an investigator there named Percy. We've been teaching him but he's leaving to Arequipa. He's a really good person and wants to get baptized! Too bad he's leaving. He won't be back until March. Maybe he'll continue his path in Arequipa and get baptized there. All I know is that it depends on the Lord. 

And this is us with Leonel! 

It was a great week! The Lord's work is here and it's moving on. The Church of Jesus Christ is growing and we can see  God's hand wherever we go. It was an amazing opportunity to teach Lourdes and Leonel. 

Love you all! 

Hermana Madsen

Feliz Navidad! (Mission Update)

Hey everybody! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Mine was quiet and not much happened. I did happen to be able to talk to my wonderful family! So that was way nice and lots of fun! 

Christmas Eve all the Hermanas were invited for breakfast. We had fruitcake (not a joke) and hot chocolate.

It is a tradition for my companion to eat Chinese food on Christmas Eve, so we ate Chinese food. It was good. 

We had a sleepover with the other Hermanas and the Hermana leaders got us all stocking with candy and little gifts. Way cute!

Christmas morning we made waffles. We were told they had a waffle maker, but it's not. It's like one of those sandwich grills. But it kinda worked. 

So that was basically my Christmas! Other things that has happened is that we had another Pollada, it's a lot of work and I wish they would just do yard sales or a bake sale. Much easier.  It was for our investigator so we helped out with that Saturday. 

So not a lot to write about. Not a very busy week. Hope you all that a wonderful New Years. I'll talk to you all next year!

Love, Hermana Madsen