Transferred to Las Viñas!

¡HOLA! How are you, my dear familia? Today is a sunny day here in Lima. We´re getting ready for the heat!

Well, this week was transfers. I always feel like they´re never going to come, that I´ll just get to stay in the same area forever, but that´s just not how it works. Once again I had to say goodbye to so many amazing people that I love so much. But I´m happy here in my new area. It´s called "Las Viñas." It´s part of the La Molina stake, and I was in this stake before when I was in Cieneguilla. So the church buildings where we go for our meetings and P days is the same building that I used to go to! That´s pretty fun. I´m sure I´ll get to see lots of familiar faces during General Conference :)

I have two thoughts for today. One, thinking about how much changes stink sometimes, and how difficult they can be. I was talking to one of the sisters that I live with now, and she said that she always tries to look at the transfers as little snippets of what it will be like in the real world. Changes happen in our lives; big ones and small ones. And we have to be ready to go down the path that God lays out for us with faith. 

Being converted to the gospel also requires a lot of change. Like it says in the Bible Dictionary about conversion, "Denotes changing one’s views, in a conscious acceptance of the will of God. If followed by continued faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism in water for the remission of sins, and the reception of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, conversion will become complete and will change a natural man into a sanctified, born again, purified person—a new creature in Christ Jesus. Complete conversion comes after many trials and much testing." We must be willing to make these changes to one day be perfected in Him.

Another thought I had is just this...I´M STILL HAPPY! Even though it literally breaks my heart having to leave an area, I have come to love this work, and I know that wherever I am, I need to keep doing it. My area is really different, the people are rich and the streets are dead (complete opposite of Canadá) but it´s beautiful and we´ve got lots of work to do. We live with two other sisters...that´s just dangerous. We laugh a lot and don´t get enough sleep. :)

I´m excited for spring and for summer to be here, but I hope you're enjoy the beginning of fall! OH, by the way, I have another companion from Argentina!!! She is the bomb and we get along SO well. We´re basically just best buds already. Her name is Hermana Tacconi...I promise I´ll send pictures soon!!

I love you guys so much!!! Have a great week!

All my love,

Hermana Michelle eh-Scott