¡Hola a Todos! (Hello
All!)
Highlights
of the Week:
Apartment checks: We
finished up the missionary apartment checks on Monday and are now working with
the office elder responsible for housing to arrange the collection of broken
items, delivery of needed items, and scheduling of necessary repairs. We wish
we were in Peru to do apartment checks in person and to help follow-up. Hopefully
we’ll be there soon.
Teaching English: The church,
our mission president, and his wife have felt strongly about helping the
missionaries learn and improve their English speaking skills. Having this
ability increases their opportunities in employment and education after their
missions. So, on Tuesday, we began teaching English on Zoom. Thankfully the
church has created lots of great resources for teaching and learning English! LeAnn taught, and Lane assisted with
technical backup!
More Zoom meetings with the office elders: The
office elders are super helpful and such good sports to let us “watch” and
learn what they are doing. It is amazing
to us that there are so many things to take care of in the office to run the
mission, and that there are only two elders in the office right now doing it
all!
American missionaries are returning to Lima: Peru is
allowing American missionaries to return to Peru, if they already hold the proper
visa. One elder who was called to serve in the Peru Lima North mission in early
2020 was finally able to enter the country this week. He’s been serving in
Washington D.C. for over a year. More American missionaries are scheduled to
arrive this week. Now if Peru will just re-open the visa process …
Thoughts: On Thursday evening this past
week, we had the unfortunate experience of having one of our bathroom tub/shower
water valves break, leaving us unable to turn off the water. Of course this
happened right as Taylia and Izzy were packing up and getting ready to leave
for a trip… and it was also Izzy’s birthday! Thankfully, Izzy had recently
cleaned out the bathtub drain so the water just flowed down the drain! We had
water pouring full-force into the tub for over an hour while Lane and Izzy
tried to figure out how to fix the situation, which ultimately required a trip
to Home Depot to cap off the shower head, and then another trip to purchase a
new valve. At the time, this seemed like such a disaster, but now, a few days
later with everything fixed, it’s a mere memory…almost funny. The counsel
President Eyring received from his mother when he was a young boy weeding the
garden has played through our heads:
“The harder I tried, the more I fell behind. ‘This is too
hard!’ I cried out. Instead of giving sympathy, my mother smiled and said, ‘Oh,
Hal, of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be. Life is a test.’”
¡Que tengan una buena semana! (Have a great week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
