Week 24 - Hello From Nazca!!!

I got transferred and so I had to leave Ica, and now I am here in Nazca, Peru where it is even hotter and a lot smaller, but yeah! 

Saying goodbye to everyone in Ica was so, so hard. It is not a secret that I don’t love my mission, but when I was saying goodbye to everyone.... the members, the investigators, my converts, my pensions.... I was so completely sad. So yeah, this weekend I did a lot of crying, and a lot of wondering why in the world I have to have a cambio right now. haha. But I guess it is all from the Lord.  But yeah.... I am learning this weekend that I do love one thing about the mission, and it is those people that I met. I feel like they are my family, and it is sad because I know I will see my real family in about a year, and I have no idea when I will see these people again. This mission is hard, and right now I am a little tired of saying goodbye so many times, and it is not going to stop any time soon. So I am here to learn a lot haha. 

I was talking with one of the members today and he sent a really nice text that really helped me. It said... Va a tener momentos dificil, Pero la clave es amar a las personas y la fe, la fe no have que las cosas sean faciles pero si posibles.... In English.... You are going to have difficult moments, but the key is to love the people and the faith. The faith doesn’t make the things easy but possible.  I think sometimes I think that if I pray hard enough or read my scriptures enough that it will be made easy... but that is not the case. Only possible. My family jokes all the time about a quote that we mess up and say, “I don’t need possible. I just need easy”. But in reality the real quote... “I don’t need easy, I just need possible”... Is very, very true. I am learning patience, and trying to learn to rely more on the lord. 

I love this gospel. I love the people of Ica. I love sharing my testimony every day, and I am very grateful for the things that I am learning. 

Hermana Petersen