Hermana Hicken en Perú: Está bien!

Alright! So I´ve gotta explain my subject line first. Our district leader, Elder Miller, started it. Every time something bad, annoying, sad, or anything really happens he just says, “Está bien!” Anyway, so every minute of every day we´re all saying, “está bien”. When we didn´t say the right thing! Está bien! When we play volleyball and someone messes up, está bien! it´s great! :) So está bien!

I´ll start with p-day last week. I can´t remember what I said last week so lo siento pero, está bien :) Oh, apparently there was an Elder Hicken that was here two weeks ago... so that is interesting.

Last Wednesday, we went to the temple, went to Tottus (it´s a very large Walmart) and then came back and emailed. I bought Sublime (Grandpa Hicken said that it´s to die for!) and it is... it´s amazing chocolate and I love it! I’ll bring some home with me okay? It´s like a very rich Crunch bar and it´s great!!

Thursday! So every day we do physical activity for an hour. The elders in our district decided that we should do physical activity as a district, so we played Volleyball! Oh my, it was so much fun!!!! I´m not that bad at it, which is good! :) We laughed more than we played but it was a lot of fun!

We taught José (our teacher) and we asked him to be baptized. I memorized the baptism question in Spanish so that I could look at him when I asked him. The spirit was so strong, and I was so nervous, but está bien. Guess what he said... he said no. We bore our testimonies to him and left.

Friday... we had to go to Interpol so that they can make sure that we aren´t criminals. That was interesting. They checked our teeth, did fingerprints, and took our pictures. There were a ton of people and we were there from 6 am to 1 pm. There was a little family of cats and that was great entertainment! We didn´t get any breakfast though so yeah... :(

Saturday was boring. I fell asleep in language study, and my brain is about to explode! está bien! Oh! I’m gonna be honest.... I looked like death. So at like 8 pm my teacher looked over at me and said that I looked like the Walking Dead... so yeah, that was great. I did learn today that if we can´t endure to the end we can at least endure to Sunday. So I’m going to try to endure to Sunday. :)

Sunday was good! It was fast Sunday. In Sacrament meeting, all the Advansados got up and bore their testimonies. They took so long that we went over by half an hour. está bien! We watched Meet the Mormons. Good show. After church we watched an Elder Holland talk. He is awesome! He talked about how our first conversion is our self. He also said that we cannot preach the gospel without opening our mouths and letting the spirit guide. He told us to find 20 “open your mouth” scriptures. The example he gave us was the first vision. I found a few and they are awesome! I’ll share them with y’all next week. I bore my testimony to my district and I felt so awesome! Church is true!

Monday there really was nothing, except a few funny things I noticed. As always, the elder’s have their spices (they bring to mealtimes), and you really do need them... rice twice a day EVERY DAY is a little annoying. It NEVER rains, it mists... And our classroom is bipolar. Our district is kinda having a fight over the thermostat... one minute it’s cold, the next it’s hot and humid. Está bien!

Tuesday, I got SICK!!!!!! It´s been going around which is great.... Don’t worry mom, I’m fine! I’ve been drinking down that stuff grandma gave me and it’s helped. But I lost my voice like I did when we were at Disneyland, so that’s lovely!!!

Today! We went to the temple. Went to Tottus. We handed out some pamphlets and now I’m here. :) But let me just say.... y’all have NO IDEA what it’s like to be in a tiny bus with 50 other people. I was standing on people, and I can{t even explain it! I’ll try to get a picture of it so that I can show you how crazy it was. Oh my but it gives a whole new meaning to sardines in can (or whatever that saying is.)

One last thing... singing is amazing!! I love it! Sadly I’m sick, but one day, my whole district was falling asleep. so our district leader got up and we sang some primary songs and hymns. It was awesome! :) Oh!, read or listen to the song, “hark all ye nations”. It’s my new favorite song!

Well I love you all. The language is coming along great. Thank you for your love and prayers.

- Hermana Hicken