I love Christmas letters.. so this week was a really awesome week for the whole spanish thing. It started on tuesday when we were talking to hermana crisostomo and we were teaching their family, i had a totally new idea for my companion.. it was to have them teach us lesson two because they have all had the lessons like three times. so the little kids were teaching us the lesson and we were asking questions then out of the blue the mom says, “I was baptized when i was a baby in the catholic church”... and we had never heard this from her, she had never expressed anything like that. So that is one thing we practiced all the time in the mtc,. and the one thing they always said not to do was to directly harshly say your baptism was not real.. and what do you know that is exactly what my companion did. It was just plain crazy so after that all of a sudden i was speaking spanish explaining what my companion meant, trying not to offend her because her jaw dropped. i was asking her questions like why do you think your baptism wouldnt be real? and she was just like i dont know.. but she has had the lessons a good three times, so i asked her how Christ was baptized and she said by immersion and i said a whole bunch of other stuff in spanish and then finished with.. Do you believe Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ. Yes. Do you believe the book of mormon is the word of God. Yes. Do you believe this church is true.yes.. and then she said but i liked my baptism and i think that it is real.. and i asked better questions during my spanish talking part but those were just yes/no at the very end.. because it is not normally good to ask yes no questions. but this week was really good in that sense.  we did not teach as many people as we would have liked, but we had good lessons when we did get to teach.
 
Also hermana maria told us she had a dream that she had to choose between two paths.. there was a hard path with rocks and hills and there was an easy path where she could just walk around this building and enter.. So in her dream she chose the hard path cause it looked more fun. so she went down this path and at the very end there was a large man and his name was monson... and he gave her a giant hug when she got to him. and it was crazy because she had no idea who the prophet was so that was kinda cool. so i asked her what she thinks the dream means or what she needs to do in her life and she said that she thinks it means she needs to choose to be baptized and i said ya that sounds like a good answer. but she needs to be married first and then she told us that she is going to make her husband marry her because the dream hit her like a bag of bricks. it was crazy, but the crazy part is that i understood it.
I really felt a jump in spanish this week and i know that the spirit is helping me out with that because all of a sudden i will know  a word and what people are saying like it is english. it is an incredible feeling and i love it here in Peru.. i would not want to be anywhere else in this world right now. I know that i have a true love and care for these people now. there are just people i look at and just want the best for, like when i think of emma and cam and trenton and brins. it really is a different feeling. i know this church is true and that missionaries are needed in this world even if they don't speak the language. as long as you have the spirit and want to try to help people. they will know that you cannot be a bad person and will let you in. I love it here. i would encourage anyone to serve a mission because this is real. it is real work and real life. i have never experienced the things and feelings i have had out here