8/12/2013 Pictures!

What a view, right?? 

our other abuela!! 

pleading with our area to listen(: 

moquegua peru!! 

more alpacaaaaassss(: 

CUY!! Yummm(: 

(: 

the hill in the background is our area,

one giant hill of love!!(: 

Family eating cuy!

8/12/2013 Email

From: Camille Weller [mailto:camille.weller@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:54 AM
To: Melissa Wheatley
Subject: another week in the greatest work!!!(:

 

monday, just a normal but amazing as usual p day!! love my "weekends"(:

tuesday we had district reuinion, then we visited a family that we´ve been teaching for a while but they havent really progressed. we talked to them for a bit and then for the first time i realized how much i love this family... and how sad i am that they wont accept this message and the blessings that come from it. At the end of the leson i felt the spirit so strong but i didnt know what to say, all i knew was that i needed to say something, so i opened my mouth and the words just flowed. i told them how much we love and care about them but that they basically werent doing their part and that if they wont accept the help we are offering them as representatives of jesus christ that we cant keep visiting them. i invited them again to read the book of mormon and pry and that we hoped to see them at church. it was one of the hardest things ive had to do but one of the most powerful experiences because i truly felt the spirit working through me. i know that we need to focus on the people who are ready to accept this message but its still hard to let go of the hope of people that you have learned to love.

wednesday. we had training with the zone leaders because they just got back from a conference in arequipa and they also brought good news that we can now listen to music everyday and it can be any kind of music thats from the church(feel free to send my cds(:) instead of only pdays and only motab, needless to say we were all pretty excited about that(:

thursday we had weekly planning and then went out to find new people to teach and seriously came back with nothing. we were both a little discouraged but that night we had a noche misional with the ward and watched the restoration video and also sang a special number, and the spirit was so strong. my testimony of the gospel was once again reasured. no amount of bad days here will be able to take away the testimony i have(:

fridaywas another day of pretty much nothing.. sometimes we have days we just have to get through and keep a good attitude(;

saturday, we decided we were going to talk to evveerryyoonnnee in hopes of finding people to teach and it went really good! we met some really good people and are excited to work with them! i am so blessed to have my companion, despite all the things that fell through this week she never lost her positive attitude, we are always laughing and yeah, i just love life(: we eat a lot of food... i hope that we find more investigators who live at the top of the hill so i dont get fat haha

sunday, we had church and then we got permision to go out of our area to eat cuy or guinney pig with the family we live with! it was so much fun, we rode in their car which is exactly like grandma and granpas.. it even smells the same! haha and i actually loved the food!! who am i?? anyways im just happy and am loving life here. i hope all is well and that everyone is happy!! (;

D&c 1:18-23, 6:36

love you all!!!!

Hermana weller!!!(:

08/05/2013 Pics!

Hermana Herrera 

Our Zone! 

Las Hermanas! 

Our Desks! 

the bedroom, bunkbeds on the left!

8/5/13 Email

From: Camille Weller [mailto:camille.weller@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 10:53 AM
To: Melissa Wheatley
Subject: mi familia para siempre(;

 

this week was so great!!!!! i love my new companion she is so fun and outgoing and we just get along sooo good!!! i dont think ive ever been this happy in my life! we have fun but we work hard and are obedient, the perfect combination!! Shes from ecuador and is 23, shes the only child and has 15 months in her mission! we are going to have so much fun together and im so excited to work with her here in moquegua!

monday we wrote home, put all her stuff away, and then played soccer with the zone, its always so much fun to play with everyone and they all have this joke that no matter where the ball is or where i am they all yell "hermana weller!!" haha i love it.

tuesday we had district meeting and we have a new district but i love it! we also had a baptism, hermano edson, the brother of hermana sandra, my first convert, it was so cool! he wanted to be baptized so bad but was going to leave wednesday for a month long trip for work so we arranged it so he could be baptized tuesday and he was so happy! i have loved watching the gospel change this families lifes! he is so much more happy now! oohhh and i finally got my credit card back so that also made this day super great! haha Did i mention my companion knows english? its super helpfull because i can ask her how to say things in spanish, i love it!

wednesday and thursday we visited a lot of members and worked on getting references, the only bad thing about that is that almost every house or person we visited gave us food and drinks... haha we both thought we were going to die... i love inca cola but not that much... haha

Friday we had a really good lesson with a brother of a recent convert, and i realized im speaking spanish... good! i can speak spanish haha but i also realized its a lot better when i have the spirit with me! i know that im able to do all things here because my heavenly father is helping me. that night we taught english classes, meanwhile the other ward was having a kareoke night haha it was interesting to listen to them try to sing songs in english... i bet i sound worse in spanish! haha

saturday we had to go to the dentist because hna herrera broke her tooth during breakfast.. haha and it wasnt as sketchy as i thought it would be! it was actually a lot like the dentists at home! anyways we´ll have to go back a couple more times to get it all taken care of but it all turned out okay!  we met with an awesome family that the wife had been recieving lessons from missionaries a long time ago but then lost contact when they moved here, she knows pretty much everything and told us she wants to be a member, her husband will take a little more time but im excited about there cute little family! that night we were walking home and saw a group of boys that were breakdancing! i was so excited and it was so cool to watch them. its funny to me how the smallest things here bring me so much happiness!!

sunday was pretty normal, church studying, meetings, but that night we had icecream with the family and talked for a bit, they all told me how much they are going to miss me when i leave and how i have to come back and visit them. i seriously love them so much, they are such a blessing in my life here and i will be forever greatful for their love and support! I watched the emma smith movie that night too and i love a quote that they say in it....

"Strength isnt something you have, its something that god helps you find." i love that. i know that i am weak, and without the help of god i wouldnt be able to make it through each day. i know that this church is true, i love this gospel and i love sharing it with the people here in peru. i know that nothing is more important than the work im doing right now and i couldnt be happier to do it!!! a year and a half is such a short amount of time compared to everything that my heavenly father has given me!! Thank you for all your support, letters and prayers!!! love you all!!!! (;

 

Hermana Weller!! 

7/29/13 Pics!!

Baptism of German! 

Everyone at the Baptism 

One last picture of our Zone before Cambios!!

(minus the other hermanas!)

7/29/13 Email

From: Camille Weller [mailto:camille.weller@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 10:43 AM
To: Melissa Wheatley
Subject: 4 months!!!!!!

 

Where does the time go? i swear just yesterday i was packing and getting ready to leave, and now ive been gone for 4 months. the more i focus on the work here the faster the time goes by, but the more i dont want this experience to end. i love it here more and more each day and my testimony of this gospel is stronger and stronger everyday. I know this church is true with all my heart and i know that it can truly change lives, i know our savior loves us and will help us with whatever we need! With that said my week was crazy but good! so here it is (:

Tuesday  i got home from lima, it was super cute because the whole family we live with was waiting for me and the two little boys ran up to me and hugged me, they missed their greengita(;  it was good to be "home" (: 

Wednesday we got back to the normal rutine, except i got to email home which was nice. Basically i just did my best to get back into missionary mode and be focussed after my mini vacation. (:

Thursday we had weekly planning and i asked one of the elders for a blessing, he gave me it infront of the whole zone which was a little wierd but cool at the same time. Everything he said was exactly what i needed to hear, especially that i need to just take my mission one day at a time and love every minute of it. i decided i love blessings because its like heavenly father is talking to you directly.. in actual words, and i want to work on having this experience everday with pray. The family bought 4 ducks that are living on our roof for now... but i know what will eventually happen with them :( haha

Friday we met with hno German and he told us he wanted to be baptized saturday so we got that all planned for him. This day was awesome, i woke up with a good attitude and just focussed on that day. life and missions are so much easier when we just take it one day at a time and step by step. That night i taught english classes which was harder than i thought haha but it was super fun and were going to have them every friday night!

Saturday we had the baptism of German, POR FIN! haha He was super nervous and almost didnt go through with it because the water was so cole, but after about ten minutes of encouraging him he was baptized!! Then he got confirmed after that because he had to go on a trip that weekend but after that he bore his testimony and it was so cool. i think thats my favorite part, thier simple and new testimonies right after they are baptized, because they are always so real and powerful! That night a member took us out for pizza which was a super nice break from rice and chicken!! yayyy(: ohh also it was my 4 month mark that day.. where does the time go?

Sunday after church we found out that hermana purizaga was going to be changing areas and needed to be ready at 1 to leave. so we had less than two hours to pack all her stuff which was madness. but we did it. then we headed to the bus terminal and both cried the whole time. it was awful, it was so hard to say goodbye to her, she is so awesome and helped me so much. i dont think im going to like that part of the mission very much! then a member stayed with me until my new companion came, so we cleaned our room and then had a lesson, which i had to do all by myself!! scary!! but it went okay and he actually wants to be baptized this week so i guess it wasnt too bad! haha then at about 9 my new companion came(; She seems so cool and im so excited to get to know her more and work together, shes from ecuador and has been in her mission for 14 months, shes the only child in her family and yeah.. thats pretty much all i know haha Shes super up beat and positive and i think that we are going to get along great!! im excited!!

 

So this week was lo maximo(: i learned a ton and am just happy to be here and have this opportunity!! i hope that all of you are happy and enjoying life!! remember to take it one day at a time and just be happy! (: 

love you all!!!!!!

 

Hermana Weller(:

7/24/13 Pics!!

Luz

Having fun at the hotel!

In the bus 

Greengos! 

MkFlurries in the airport!! 

Pizza!! 

Missionaires at Luz baptism