Kittens In The Rain

Hey everyone! How are you all!? 

 

The bathroom looks amazing!!! It looks so bright and happy!!! I love it!! And no more ugly counter top!! I'm so excited to see the rest of the house when all is said and done!!

 

How sad about Grandpa Jorgensen! He was such an amazing man!! He was so nice to all of us! He will be missed but I'm so grateful for the knowledge we have about the sealing power of the Temple! We will all see each other again! 

  

Way to go Kendra!!! The Hope squad sounds awesome!!! You literally amaze me! I would never have been able to do something like that in high school! You are changing lives! Keep it up! 

 

I'm so glad you like golf so much Kaitlyn! Just keep practicing and you will be super good for your senior year! You're amazing! 

 

Kagun! You're a stud!!! Work hard dude! This baseball season is gonna be the best yet! I can feel it! 

 

AHHH I can't believe that promenade practice has already started!! Not cool!! Ugh it kills me that I'm not there for all the excitement! Sounds like the moms are gonna make sure it's a night to remember! Tell Tori that she is amazing! You guys are gonna have a blast!

Ok so for this week....

1.  My biggest challenge this week was probably me... I've been having a hard time again. My motivation and diligence on a scale of 1-10 has probably been a 4 lately. I get better every once and a while but over all it's been a battle. However, I've definitely seen the hand of the Lord like crazy! 

2.  My biggest concern...well our biggest concern this week has been getting our goal of 100 contacts...

3.  Our biggest success was that we ended the week with 106 contacts!! We also, with that number, made the goal for the district as well!!! 

4.  My favorite person has definitely been my Father in Heaven. He is pretty amazing!!! 

5.  My most significant tender mercy this week was our kitten rescue! We were in an appointment with our investigator Norma and we were just about to leave when it stated to pour outside! We were stuck in her house for like 20 more minutes and when we were finally able to leave, the streets were like rivers! We started walking through the muddy dirt road when we heard some little meows on the side of the street. There were 4 tiny kittens drenched and scared in the muddy grass. We were with a member and we looked at each other and I told her we couldn't leave them there to die! She agreed so I grabbed two and she grabbed the other two. Hna Brogan was just behind us supervising ;P we went through water filled dirt roads to the member's house and when we got the kittens dry, we went to get a box and a towel to keep them warm. Now we are looking for someone to take the poor things home. 

I know that our Heavenly Father answered my prayer! 

6.  Something I'm looking forward to this week is General Conference! Its gonna be amazing!!!

7.  My big goal this week for myself is gonna be to replace bad, negative thoughts with good, positive ones. I've gotta start feeling better! 6 months isn't much time and I wanna enjoy it! 

8.  My scripture this week was D&C 84:88. it always makes me feel better when I'm having a hard time. 

   

Well I'm off for this week. I love you all sooo much!! I hope you all have an amazing week!!!!

She still loves monkeys! 

Crazy lady and locked doors

This week has been kinda crazy! I'll jut explain in my answers to your questions…

1.       My biggest challenge…ummm well we had a pretty good week. Im not sure anything was too challenging lol

2.       My biggest concern…well on Saturday, we got back to our room from a family home evening and I realized we left the keys to the door on the inside on the table haha so we asked our land lady to help us out so she went in to find her spare key and couldn’t find the right one so we were out in the misty rain for about an hour. After 10 at night by the way. So our bishop comes out to see what's going on and his daughter had this awesome idea to get a chair and a broom and open the door from the inside through the open window above the door. It was awesome! I was sooo upset at myself so we just went straight to bed that night haha today we went to make copies of our key haha now we won't have problems!

3.   Biggest success this week has to be the two awesome families we found! Zoila and her three kids, and Maria and her two kids. They all seem sooo interested in the gospel! Keep them in your prayers! :)

4.   My favorite person this week has got to be the crazy lady who lives on our street! Apparently she is like man crazy or something. She is so unstable that they took her to Chiclayo today cuz there isn't anything here for crazy people. She has made life pretty fun!

5.  My biggest tender mercy was probably the small revelation I got this week about what I am supposed to do with my life in the future. Let's just say I need to really get involved with animals and MDA! I'll tell details when I get home!

6.  Something I'm looking forward to this coming week is just teaching the new people we have found! It's gonna be great!!!

7.  New goal...100 contacts. That's gonna be a hard one! But with the help of God it's not impossible!

8.  My favorite scripture this week was Alma 36:3-25 It just felt like it was straight to me! I love it!!! 

 

So I don't have a way to send pics this week but I will next week!  I love you more !!! Have an awesome week!!!!

                    Con amor, Hna Favero

11 months!

Hola Familia!!!

 I can't believe you fell Mommy!!! Whatever happened to "don't stand on the counter! You'll fall!" when we were younger?:P  I would have freaked out too! I hope you're feeling better! I'm so excited to see the house! 

WOW the new missionary sounds awesome!! I've found that the missionaries who involve the members has so much more success than a missionary who just goes to the dinner appointments and only leaves a little message. Working with the ward is so stinking important!

 

I'm not sure if I'm ok with Kagun growing up so fast! He needs to stop!!! 

 

I'm so proud of Kaitlyn!! That's exactly what she needs to do!! Don't give up, Just stand up!! 

I'm sooo happy that Destinee has been going to church! Tell her to write me!!! 

Ok now for the questions!

1. My biggest challenge this week was probably when my comp was having a hard time. She has been really stressed lately. She has gotten a ton better but it was tough while it lasted. 

2. My biggest success was probably finding Natali this week! She was an old contact and we decided to go search for her. She is 20 years old with a little baby boy and she is super sweet!  We had a lesson with her yesterday and she said yes to our baptismal invitation! I could see her progressing soo much! 

3. My favorite person this week was probably Hna Kennedy! We had exchanges this week and just being able to teach with her in the real thing was awesome!! She and I caught up and I felt like I really have progressed! I just love her! 

4. Tender mercy was probably getting these two letters in the mail! One is from Elizabeth Martinson and Hannah Hill! They warmed my heart and made me feel super loved !!! I remember writing to missionaries when I was little and now I'm the one being written to! It was the best surprise in the world!!! 

5. Something I'm looking forward to this next coming week is probably teaching the three investigators we have who are potentially progressing. I really hope everything goes well with them! 

6. My goal for next week is going to be just to try to come up with better invitation questions for our lessons. Sometimes I feel like I'm just a broken record and I need to get out of that rut haha

7. My favorite scripture this week was probably D&C 84:82-85. It helped my companion and I this week! 

 

 Well thats all for this week I hope everyone is well and I hope you know that I love you to the moon and back!!! Stay strong!!  I love you more!!! 

Childhood songs

Yeah so I still run around singing Barney, Dragon Tales, and Sesame Street songs haha :P

 

So my birthday was fun! We went to a really pretty garden place and then to the welcome to Jaen sign to take pics then we went to the pension of the elders and made cookies!! My pension didn't do anything but that's alright. It was a very nice and relaxing birthday! 

 

Throughout the week we didn't have a ton happen. We did end up getting the elders to eat the hottest peppers ever! It was sooo funny!!! 

We are teaching this lady named Cecilia and she is really cool! She has some problems with her boyfriend who lives with her (common occurence here) so it's gonna be a toughy. We can do it tho!! She also has a hard time with prayer. We keep telling her that God loves her and that she will see blessings if she starts to do it so I hope she starts to progress a little more. 

Jose, the man we have been working with will hit one year of being taught by the sisters in April so we decided that it's probably best if he goes to the elders. It was sooo hard to make that decision but we really have to think of the people and their salvation before us. He will make it! I know it! 

 

Anywhoo this week is kinda short but I want you all to know that you are all amazing and that I love you sooo much!! Never forget that God loves you!!!! 

This is the scent of the air fresheners we use at home.  She said, "Now I can smell home!"

We have been so blessed.  Every package we have sent has gone straight to her without any problems!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I asked Hermana Favero specific questions last week, hoping to get more information our of her haha. She answered them this week. These are her answers: 

My biggest challenge this week was definitely trunkiness haha I have been thinking a lot lately about my future. I see the cute couples at church with their little kids and it makes me want that a lot! It really stinks haha sometimes it just hits me and I think about it all week!


My biggest concern has to be Elsi and Edwin. They are a couple who needs to get married. Edwin is a member and Elsi is an investigator. They are such great people and they have all the desire in the world to change and have an eternal family but they are having problems with papers because Elsi is from Ecuador and if she wants to get married here she has to have all these legal paperwork done. It’s stressful! We have made a date for her to be baptized on the 28th of March so we have to get them married before then.


My biggest success…hmm haha  we didn’t really do a whole lot this week with Hna Brogan being kinda sick but something funny is that while we were in the room resting, waiting for her to get better I decided to draw for like an hour and take a break from reading. I drew a few really good pictures!  


My favorite person…hmmm haha that’s hard! I should probably say my companion hehe she and I have gotten a lot closer this last week and once she started feeling better her goofy self came out and she is hilarious haha


My most significant tender mercy would probably have to be when Eduardo came to church! We were so worried that he wouldn’t go cuz the last time he had a date to be baptized he flaked the week before.  He is set for the 27th of this month to be baptized and he is going so strong. He is one of the viajitos and he is such a great guy! Im so excited for him to make this step in his life!


This next coming week im excited for my birthday!!!! It'll be crazy! Ill send you pics!!!


This week my goal is to exercise every day and do it with a purpose! Haha


Wow I'm not sure what scripture has made the most impact on me this week! I have been reading in Alma about Alma and Amulek and I just love their stories! It makes me put myself in the story and its so cool to learn from them!

I hope you have an amazing week this week and I love you more than you know!!!! 

bug bites!

Happy early birthday!

planning

Happy Valentine's Day!

More Tender Mercies!

Wow this week was absolutely amazing! Chuck full of spiritual testimony builders! 

We started out really down on ourselves. None of our investigators are progressing and we felt as though we had knocked every door in our area. On Friday we decided to just stop, go back to our room and pray for direction. I offered the prayer (first one for like nine months out loud in English :P) And I just poured out my heart to Heavenly Father, asking Him to help us have the strength to keep working hard and to help us think of ideas for contacting and for the investigators that we have now. I don't know if I have ever felt so close to my Father in Heaven as I did in that moment. This warmth came over me as if He was kneeling there right next to me holding me tight. I knew he was watching over us and that our problems were big in His eyes. We then decided to just sit and ponder and I felt like I needed to read out of PMG and I came to the Chapter about finding new people and it lead me to Alma 31. I read it and was blown away at how similar our situation was to that of Alma and his companions. We talked about it and made plans and promises with each other and God and the next day when we got out to work the tender mercies started to flow! 

We got so many contacts, people just started to let us in the door on the first door knock, and we started to get really good investigators! 

Prayer works guys! I know that God knows our hard times and through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, We can see miracles in our lives and in the lives of others.

Jose is still struggling on his decision but his faith and desire to serve God are more strong than ever. We have a baptismal date for the 28th and we are working really hard on him to get him there. Things are just starting to look up! 

Oh and by the way, I'm pretty sure that I would still bawl my eyes out if I saw Barney live even now as an adult haha. Everything lately has been reminding me of him and I'm pretty sure I've sang all of his songs throughout the week! Hna Brogan gets quite a kick out of my giddy fangirl ways haha. 

 

Any way I love you all soooo much and I hope all  is well at home!!! Stay strong and know that God loves you and knows you all individually!! 

Teaching the Children

Familia!


So I’m not sure how long it will take for the package to get to me. Usually the zone leaders only go down to Chiclayo once a month for their leadership meetings so most likely I won’t get it for my birthday.  But that’s okay lol I’m so glad I will be able to email on my birthday! I probably won’t write a long one that day. I just want to talk to you guys!


It’s crazy how much is going on with all the missionaries having to go home! Even here Pres. Williams has sent a lot of missionaries home for health reasons. I’m very grateful I don’t have problems in that way but I do know that everything happens for a reason.


So I’ve decided that I would be extremely happy to go home to a new house but it would be super strange to go home to a new ward! I love the people in our ward! 

I’m so excited for Seth!!!! He is going to be such an amazing missionary!!! I’m not going to be the only one in our family out on a mission now!!! It’s cool to think about the little crazy kid who ran around grandma and grandpa's house with an Indian chief headdress out on a mission! Sooo cool how life with the gospel works!


So about the Trujillo Temple; I don’t know if you guys knew this already but our mission will be split in July. They will be taking Cajamarca out of the Chiclayo mission and splitting the Trujillo mission to make a Trujillo Norte and a Trujillo Sur mission. They will be taking 50 missionaries out of our mission and putting them into the new one. No one knows who will be going yet though.  I have no idea if
we will be a part of the temple dedication or not yet but there’s a chance I could end up in the mission with the temple! Which would be awesome!!!  I miss the temple sooo bad!!!


So I would be sooo stinking grateful if you would talk to Drew Allen for me!!! That makes me super excited!!! And weird to think about that time in my life! I feel like my life is missionary work! Hna Brogan and I were talking this week about how the mission is like life here on earth… We kinda forget about our life before, we know we had life before but
its kinda fuzzy. This time in the mission is where we learn and grow and gain experience for after this time and its really hard to comprehend what life will be like after. We know we will have blessings but its hard to see. Sometimes I feel like it will never end :P
 
So this week was kinda uneventful. We did however get swarmed by a bunch of kids asking what random words mean in English. I’ve always kind of dreamt of that happening to me. It was sooo cool how happy we were making them just by telling them English words! I really felt like a follower of Christ at that moment! I love being a missionary!!!
 
Well hopefully I'll have a little more exciting things to tell you
next week but I hope all is well! I love you all sooo much and I hope you have an amazing week!!!