Muy buenos dias!!!

Muy buenos dias!!!

I hope just as every week that this finds you all happy and well. This week was fun! REALLY HOT but a lot of fun. On Saturday, for example we had a service project as a zone where we had to help carry bags of sand from the bottom of the hill to the very top! Because in the hills, they're really small and tight and cars can't get in there. So, the cars take it as high as they can get and then if you want to get higher, you kind of need to take it yourself. So we had a family who needed some help so we helped them take A WHOLE LOT of sand. Just bags and bags and bags of sand so that they could build some more houses at the top. Woo-hoo!  But, actually it was really good. Afterwards they gave us lunch, and it was soo good! It's called "Pachamanca a la tierra" oh it was soo good. They cook it in the ground. Just some hot rocks and a hole. Not really sure exactly how it's all done, all I really know it that it tasted pretty dang yummy!

My Zone at the Service Project

Also, we found some new investigators this week. We were contacting in the street and this woman asked us if we could help gather her ducks! She said that they got lose in her yard and if we could help. So, we walked in and started helping her, and afterwards we started teaching her. She even wanted to give us some of her baby ducks as presents! We told her no, but she then asked us, "How can I thank you then?" We just told her to keep listening to our message, so we went back to teach her and yesterday she was in the Chapel! It was really special. 

Hermana Karratti Chasing the Ducks

 

Hermana Aceituno and I with some Baby Ducks!

Last Sunday, during Gospel Principles, I was given a letter from the Bishop, and it was to invite me to participate in Sacrament Meeting. I was asked to give a talk about Conversion in Christ, and so all my personal studies this week were about that. And, I actually learned quite a lot! I was able to give my talk yesterday and it went great. I'm really happy to be serving in this Ward!!

Well, I love you all and hope that you all know that you're always in my thoughts and prayers! Have a wonderful week and may God bless you all.

Con MUCHO amor,

Herm'ANNA' Karratti

Predicando en Perú

Hola 2015!!

Happy New Years everyone!! 
I hope this year will bring you all happiness and joy, because it's sure doing that for me! This past week my zone had interviews with President Erickson and during my interview he told me, "Hermana Karratti, this is your year... I can just feel it!" So, this is my year! And it's going to be amazing!! 

Her Name is Gionella
She found me at Church and told me Thank You for Baptizing her Cousin, Jose Nieva
I'm now in Jose Nieva's Cousins Ward!  What a Small World this is.

Well, New Years here in Perú is soo different! Everything is YELLOW! Yellow apparently means good luck and success, so everything is yellow. People even paint their houses yellow! We were given little toys that were yellow. It was awesome! But on the 31st at Midnight there were a million fireworks! SO MANY! My companion and I couldn't really sleep that night because it was so loud. But it was fun! 

Also last P-Day the missionaries in my zone decided to do a Carnival. Another crazy tradition here in Perú. All the month of February people throw water at you. A way to show your love or something. But us as missionaries were just "practicing" for February. We had tons of water balloons and we just went at it. At the end all of us were soaking wet from head to toe, but it was nice! It's so hot here and the water feels amazing! This Hermana really misses the water! We have a pool that's in our area and every day I pass it and I just want to jump in! Ahh! 

The Zone Water War/Party!

Oh Mom! Please thank the Young Women in the ward for their letter! I received it this week and it made me really happy. Sadly I don't know who half of them are... But thanks anyways. Missionaries love letters (hint, hint) Send Letters please!!

My Letter from the Young Women back home.  Thank You St. James Ward!!

Well I love you all and I'm really excited for this New Year. I hope it brings you all happiness and joy... and wear a lot of YELLOW!!

Con mucho amor,

Herm'ANNA' Karratti

Predicando en Perú

Little Miracles

Buenos Dias a todos!!!

How is everyone this week? I hope as always that this finds you all happy and well. It was so great being able to talk to you last week. I cannot tell how happy that made me! Also, I want to make not 1 but 2 shout outs. First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!! And secondly, Good Luck Hermana Harding!! You will be the greatest missionary ever! Can't wait to hear about all your amazing adventures. 

Mission Christmas Party
Throughout my 9 Months, all my Companions.  I love them all!

Hermana Loca and Hermana Crazy at the Mission Christmas Party

Well, this week was wonderful! I'll start off with Saturday because it was an amazing day! Hermana Felicita was baptized! She has such a strong spirit and the strongest testimony. It was so amazing to be apart of such a special day. But this week started off a little hard for Hermana Felicita, on Friday when we went to visit her we found her soo sick! She told us, "Satan knows he can't tempt my spirit, so he's tempting my body. I really don't like him." We laughed and called the Elders to come and give a blessing. But here's the miracle, Saturday morning we went to her house to check on her, and she was COMPLETLY HEALTHY! She was in tears of joy telling us, "God answered my prayer. I'm going to get baptized!" It was a beautiful day, a beautiful experience, and a beautiful spirit. I love being a missionary!!!

Baptism for Hermana Felicita

Another little miracle that happened this week is that Hermana Aceituno and I found some new investigators! We were heading back home on Friday night and we passed a woman sitting by the river with her 2 children. We went to contact her and see if we could help. She had a lot of bags to take back to her house from her work but she couldn't carry them and her children. So, we helped. But here is my favorite part! We met her 2 daughters, one who is 1 years old is Jocelyn. I was so happy when she told me that. I told her my Best friend is Jocelyn. And afterwards, I met her other daughter who is 4 years old. I asked her name, "Me llamo Anna" I looked at my companion and started laughing. Jocelyn and Anna. How crazy is that? Their mother told me that they are the best of friends. I told her, "Of course they are! It's Anna and Jocelyn."

This week was wonderful and I am so grateful to be in the Lords service. Crazy to think I've been a missionary for 9 months now. Yikes! But I hope everyone has a wonderful week and FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!!!

Con mucho amor,

Herm'ANNA Karratti
Predicando en Perú

Hola de Los Angeles

Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad! Mele Kalikimaka! 

Can you believe it? 3 days until I can visit with you all! And I am soo excited for it! Well as you can see from the subject line, I am sadly no longer in Canto Rey. I was transferred to the other side of my mission. To an area called, Los Angeles. (No not California) but my new companion is Hermana Aceuituno from Honduras. She is really great and I'm happy that we're companions. 

My New Companion, Hermana Aceituno
Why are all my companions shorter than me?

Well, as for this area, it's huge! Really it's one of the biggest areas of the mission, but we might hopefully be getting bikes soon! Fingers crossed!! But not really too mucho to report this week, mostly because I am completely lost in my new area. But hey, we're slowly progressing. I am now finally able to find my way back to my apartment. So, that's a good thing! 

Also, this week was really exciting because on of my investigators in my last area in Canto Rey was baptized!! Woo! I was sent the picture, I was sadly not able to attend but Jose one of my converts was able to baptize Yhordali his sister. I am so happy for her! Big welcome to Yhordali Nieva the newest member! 

New Member, Jose, baptized his sister, Yhordali

But that's not the only exciting news about baptism. My companion and I have a baptism this coming Saturday. Her name is Felicita and she is a cutie! We are really excited for her! But the best part is what we found out yesterday! We were at her house teaching her and in walked her Grandson. He looked at me and said he knew me from somewhere. I didn't know where he knew me from, then he reached in to his backpack and pulled out a pamphlet with my and Hermana Espinoza (my first companion)s name on it! Apparently we just contacted him and his family in the street and now they're investigating the church. And now we're teaching his Grandmother who will be getting baptized this week. How crazy it this? It truly is a small world after all.

Hermana Crazy and Hermana Loca
I will miss you, Hermana Alvarez!!

Well I can't wait to talk to you guys on Christmas! Woo!! I hope you all have a wonderful week! Merry Christmas!!

Con mucho amor,

Herm'ANNA' Karratti

Predicando en Perú

End of Another Transfer... and 10 days until CHRISTMAS!!!!

Hola y Buenos Dias!

I hope this finds you all well and happy... like always. This week was certainly a lot better than other weeks in this transfer, but I can't believe that we are again at the end of another transfer. It's crazy to me how fast the time is flying. This week we had some wonderful experiences. And we also found some great new investigators!

First of all, I love Primary. This week my Ward had our Primary program, and as always I was asked to help with the music. I was the pianist for the program and they sounded so great! I love how the tunes are the same in English and Spanish. But I absolutely love the little Primary kids in this Ward. We even had some of our investigators participate. It was wonderful. Such a beautiful spirit.

 

I Love Primary!

Also this week we were able to help one of our recent converts, Jose finish his house. On Saturday, we were there helping him paint his house, and well, when you mix Hermana Karratti with paint... well you just get a mess. Mostly on Hermana Karratti. We were playing around and we can see who won.... It's the one with the less paint on her face. I was trying to be all nice with Hermana Osinaga but she had a different thought in mind. What a crazy girl! But it was really fun!

Service Project / Paint Fight with Hermana Osinaga

Monday was P-Day and my Zone went to a big park. We played around, and of course played tons of soccer. I think I might be beginning to be good. Ha that's a lie. I'll always suck at this game. But our favorite part was finding this elephant thing. My companion loves elephants so we took a picture. We were able to get on top and dress up! Kinda fun!

Elephant Ride with Hermana Osinaga

Well I love you all and I can't wait to talk to you next week! Yay!!! 10 more days until Christmas. Have a wonderful week and know you're all in my thoughts and prayers. 

Con mucho amor,

Herm'ANNA' Karratti

Predicando en Perú

17 Days Until CHRISTMAS!!

Good Morning one and all!

I hope as always that this letter finds you all well and happy. This week has been fun. Well, don't know exactly how to explain it. It started off great! But Wednesday night found us yet again with Hermana Osinaga sick. Please keep her in your prayers. Please! She's not doing so well. We had the mission president come visit and see if there was anything he could do. But sadly there isn't. All of the tests that my companion had last week while she was in the hospital have all come back with nothing. So we don't know what she has. All I know, please keep her in your prayers!

My Silly Companion and I

Well the start of last week was great! We bought a Christmas tree, and decorated the house a little. But to be honest, it doesn't feel anything like Christmas here. Burning hot and it's just very different here. I don't know how to exactly explain it, but kinda missing the cold weather. But hey! We do have Christmas in a short 17 days. Really excited about that!! FELIZ NAVIDAD!!

Our New Christmas Tree!

The most exciting part about this week was we had a service project this week yet again up in the Cerros (hills). I don't know why, but I love working up in the Cerros. We were helping a family build their house, and we were helping take bricks from the bottom up to the top. We had a little assembly line going on. But at the end, a few of us had a little competition. We had a bag that had 3 bricks in it, and we had races to see who could bring the bag to the top the fastest. Sadly I didn't get first. But we did have a fun time. Teaching up in the Cerros all the time is really helping apparently!

I hope as always everyone is happy and well. Thank you for all you do. I love and miss you all. I hope you have a wonderful wintery week!!

Con mucho amor,

Herm'ANNA' Karratti

Predicando en Perú

Feliz Diciembre!

Good Morning everyone!

Well I will let you know off the bat, this email sadly won't be the most interesting or the longest for the fact. And I am sorry. This past week was very hard. After internet last week, my companion Hermana Osinaga, started having a huge headache. It wasn't just a normal headache, but she was crying and she was in a lot of pain. Well, we took her to the hospital, and we were there for a few days. We were finally able to leave the hospital late Thursday night. Not the most eventful week I'll tell you that. All I ask is that you keep my companion in your thoughts and prayers. She's slowly recovering, not 100% yet but slowly she's getting better.

If I could tell you the most exciting thing that happened this week was that on Saturday morning we were able to see another Llama! We received a call from our ward Mission Leader (who is seriously the best mission leader in the world) and he was telling us that he was on our way to our house with a surprise. We laughed and said okay, we're waiting. About 5 minutes afterwards we have a knock on our door with Miguel standing with a llama! Of course we took pictures. How couldn't we? 

Also, the church is just awesome! Well of course you all know that, but I don't know if you have all heard about this. But the church is doing a huge thing right now. Called "He is the Gift" and apparently Times Square has a huge advertisement and on the 7th (this next Sunday) the Church as bought YouTube and all the advertising all this Sunday will only be the Church. How freaking great is this? I love this Church!

Well like I said, this week wasn't the most exciting nor was it that long, but I'm really grateful to be here serving my mission. I know that this church is true and that the true meaning of Christmas is just that. CHRISTmas. When we have the light of Christ in our life we can truly doing anything. "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13

Con mucho amor,

Herm'ANNA' Karratti

Predicando en Perú