Ingrown toenails and love for Lima

WoW. This week was interesting!!!!!!!!

 Funny story. So Ive been ignoring my ingrown toenails forever. I thought that it would just go away.. but  thats not how it rolls. Unreal pain all day Monday and Tuesday.. so HV dragged me to the doctor in... SANTA FE. HAHA thank heavens not the hospital in Zarate. The doctor is the doctor for our mission.. plus like 5 other missions. Hes from Estados Unidos and hes pretty much adorable. Anyways.. when I took off my shoes his face was disgusted. ¨¨Hermana Terry, what happened to your feet?¨ Hahaha he was like, YOUVE WALKED A LOT!!! Haha its TRUE! I have so many ugly calluses and blisters and two ingrown toenails. PLUS MY LEGS ARE INFESTED WITH MOSQUITO BITES. INFESTED. WAR WOUNDS. 

So yaaa.. I didnt think my ingrown toenails were that bad.. but the doc said we needed to  pull the nails out.. asap. So he did a freaking mini surgery on me. WOW. THE MOST PAIN IVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!! OWW OWW OWWW!!!!! I was literally screaming the whole time. Ouch. I need to do a ton of things to help my toenails grow back NORMAL. And he said if in 6 weeks they dont grow back normal... hes taking both of the toenails off. AHHH. NOO! PRAY FOR HERMANA TERRYS TOENAILS TO GROW BACK NORMAL. So ya that was one of the trials we had this week.

Lumila AND Facundo (HOPEFULLY) are getting baptized this week!!!!!!!!!!! They have an attention span of a rat.. but I really hope they can feel ready and feel the confirmation of the wonderful spirit. I also hope Facundos Mom.. whos a menos activo comes to the baptism and remembers  that sweet spirit she felt for her baptism. Less active families are so special to me. Because I just know that one little kid like Facundo can change his whole family for the better. :)  One person can change everything!

Lumila is the girl that I ALWAYS KNEW from the first time I laid eyes on her that she was gonna get baptized. Shes goin places. I love that little girl with all my heart. PLease pray for these ninos this week!!! :)

Yesterday I was called to be the teacher for YW!!! HV helps with Primary.  Im so sad. I feel like Julie Terry all over again.  But MAN the yw in Lima are incredibile. They remind me soooo much of the amazing yw in the hobble creek 12 th ward. Shout out to maaa sistaass. :) Mommy Marie loves all of you. besos. :)

Its been a little bit of a rough week, with the extreme mind numbing pain of my feet so I wish I sounded a little more upbeat but I want you to know the work is rolling forward in Lima.  Ingrown toenails is not enough to slow down or stop the most important work of loving and finding Dios' children to bring to him.  I hear the call every day we set out walking, find my children, find my children.  I only have three weeks left here, and I want to make sure it is the best three weeks ever.  Facundo is a crazy kid with undiagnosed add and adhd and any and every other behavior disorder a kid could struggle with, BUT when we teach him he holds a Libro de Mormon on his lap and stares at it very still and calm.  It makes me think there is greatness in this young boy that no one knows about yet.  I feel such love for him and have powerful feelings that he is going to bring his whole family into the church.

 I wanna end with my favorite parable of all time thanks to Bro Lindow in Luke 15. I was reading this yesterday during sacrament and it IS like the number one thing that Lima needs to hear. Lima needs to REMEMBER that were not all perfect. I have noticed Limans carry around some kind of weird badge of honor that they are somehow inferior or not as good as other people. Its their excuse for everything.  You see it more in some families than others, but I have been thinking about it alot.  I think its an attitude we have to fight.  Especially one that says, my family or city is more troubled, sad, difficult etc, than other people.  It carries a hopeless depressed spirit about it, that makes Gods hope and light more difficult to pierce through.  Its easy to sink into a poor picked on depressed less fortunate me attitude, but Im seeing those that have a positive aggressive spirit that we are a good family, a good city, good people, do so much better and their overall aura is brighter.   And God has more mercy and love than we can possibly comprehend. The prodigal son ladies and gents:
0 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had ^acompassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more ^aworthy to be called thy ^bson.

 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:  24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. 

I TESTIFY THAT THIS IS OUR PURPOSE AS MISSIONARIES. TO FIND THE LOST SHEEP AND LOVE THEM AND KISS THEM AND TELL THEM THAT WE HAVE A SAVIOR. WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS US INSIDE AND OUT. AND HE PERFORMED THE ATONEMENT FOR ALL OF US. IF WE JUST ACCEPT HIS GRACE OUR LIVES WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER. I LOVE MY SAVIOR. HES THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. HES THE BEST VALENTINE I COULD EVER HAVE. ;) 

Peace be with you all. I love you. God loves you. CARRY ON!

Hermana Terry