Miracles and Mangos

This girl is coming off a great week. Glad to hear it was better than last week. Sounds like attitude makes all the difference. Here is what's happening in her neck of the woods...

Hey guys!

Well I am offically..... killing Hermana Glunt! Haha we did not have transfers! Im fine with it! Im sure we will see a lot of miracles this transfer! I really do love Hermana Glunt and we always have the best stories to tell! Seriously... we are a companionship that is really guided by the spirit. Its awesome. The only thing is that she is leaving the 15th and the transfers are the 26th of december! We will see who I get to finish the transfer with... stay tuned.

This week two of our investigators were baptized! It was awesome! Leronardo and Carlos! Also their mom that is a less active member came to support! It was good to have her there! They are 2 young boys that are so spiritually intune with the spirit. I wish I was like that when I was their age! Also we had all the youth there to support as well! This ward is really something special! :)

On friday night we had a missional night for  the ward... okay it was just kind of a party for our investigators to get to know the ward! It turned out really well. We had a really large turn out! We all played games and danced the night away! ( I have to come back to learn how to dance! ) I really do have such a love for the youth in this ward! They are really special! There is a boy named Richard and he hasn't been coming to the chrch for awhile and he was only baptized in April! He came up to me and asked me to help him come back and repent of his sins! It was awesome to see someone confide in you so much!  We are now helping him get his mission papers done! He is super sweet! 

The mission is all about attitude...if you have a good one you will see miracles happen. We have 2 more investigators that are on date for baptism. They are awesome! 

Ok...so some bad news....I hurt my foot. I had to go to the clinic. They think I pulled a muscle on the top of my foot. They wanted to put me in a boot. Okay...no! Icy hot would feel so nice...even though I hate the smell...please send some...haha.

This pday we went to Chulucanas again! We went to a fruit farm with this guy we met on the bus like 2 weeks ago and he gave us a 10 pound sack a mangos to take home! He was super awesome! Also we answered a lot of questions he had about the plan of salvation! His wife reently died and he is mad at God! He doesn't live where we preach but its a good reference! He will be baptized one day! As for now... we will be eating mango this transfer lol.

Hermana Brown

Baptism

Leonardo and Carlos

That is a really big Cactus...lol

Mango farm

Moto ride

Oh look....we are eating chicken and rice...this calls for a picture!!

This is how she really feels about chicken and rice....haha...oh Baabo!

Tug o war.....my side won because Hermana Glunt was laughing so hard at how ridiculous it was that us girls were tug o warring in front of everyone!

This is from the missional night that we had.

We ordered pizza on transfer day! What a treat!

Eww....I found a chicken foot in my soup.....

Bucket pictures.....

Hey our favorite girl is coming off a tough week. Hopefully next week will be much better. Here is her letter sorry it took so long to post.

Hey Guys, wow…it has been quite a tough week. The boys did not end up getting baptized this week, but will be baptized on Saturday. It is hard because after these baptisms we really don’t have anyone to teach so we will have to really look hard for some new investigators.

I was able to cross off a bucket list item today for P-day. We traveled to Chanqache. It’s a place up in the mountains and it is so pretty!  We had to get up at 2:00 am so I am quite tired. I loved reading your letter today. Boy Avery needs to stop hurting himself. 

Stink blank is dirty …but in one piece…haha! All my comps ask me if I am going to sleep with it when I get married and I say yep! I just love that thing! I have not washed it because it just might fall apart.  Haha! 

Mom I would love to go to Women’s conference with you…count me in.  Woot Woot on winning a major award!

Love You Guys

Hermana Brown

Super sore from the hike.....and so hot today!

Yep...that's my girl!

The hike...bucket list item.

Buildings in Peru

We took some pictures with a nun!!!

Hermana Glunt and Hermana Brown

Got your Book of Mormon???

For the beauty of the earth....

Just 2 comps hiking.....

Merrily merrily merrily merrily...life is but a dream.

She did not convert....

Peace out peeps!

Bingham Ball

When you start to feel fall in the air you can be assured that Bingham ball is just around the corner. Get your wallet out people.... you are going to be shelling out some bucks! This year Madi is going with Austin Storrs...THE hottest guy at Bingham high school. She really scored on this date. 

For the day date they went to a place called Hidden Chambers. This is an escape room with a pirate theme. They were on the easiest senerio...but ey maties they did not escape. So sad. It took them an extra 3 minutes to get out. But I can totally understand...when you have 3 pieces of eye candy in the room it is super hard to concentrate. Better luck next time kids...but what a fun date...right???

 Here is Madi and Sadey before the day date. What a couple of cuties.

Sadey had some rules for the date. I about died of laughter when I read them. I had permission to share the first page from Madi but not the second. I did not realize Sadey was so funny!

On the way back from the day date I received this snapchat. I guess when Austin found out I was cool and had a snapchat he said they needed to send me a snap.  Madi instructed me to take a screenshot.

Here is Madi in her dress. This dress took 3 day trips to find...ugh...my least favorite activity on the face of this earth is dress shopping with Madi......she is the pickiest person...ever!!!!

She looks really good in the dress. We rented it from Bling It On for....hold on to your wallets people.... $126 bucks! We don't even get to keep it...gasp....I was tired and done with shopping so I gladly laid down my visa.

We had a fun photo shoot in the front yard.

I really love this picture....the way the sun comes down on her it looks like she could be translated....haha but we all know that would never happen...she is a sassy one!

Here is Madi and her date Austin.....they are a cute couple.

Here is the whole group. Micky, Karley, Austin, Madi, Parker and Sadey.

At the Ball...Madi, Sadey, Leah and Karley.

I made the boutineers for Madi and Sadey

                               
I think they turned out awesome and they we easy to put on!
                             

 Karley, Sadey and Madi showing off the corsages.

 Austin's mom asked if they could kiss each other on the cheek. Ok...This is what dreams are made of...Madi was shocked at such a request but she secretly loved every moment of it I am sure! Hot guy kissing my baby! I would have never gotten away with such a request.

Looks like Austin enjoyed his kiss too!

The headed to Bonsai for dinner. It is a Japanese steakhouse where they cook your food on the grill in front of you. All the boys caught shrimp but the girls were to refined for that.

After dinner they headed to the dance at the Capitol Building. They had a great time! After the dance they went to Karley's and watched a scary movie. I think all the kidlet's had a magical evening!

1 year....52 weeks....367 days......Peru Piura Mission

Well everybody....it happened....this girl hit her one year mark!!! I know.....I can hardly believe it myself....367 days have flew by in a flash.....52 weeks......12 months.......my goodness my life is passing by way to fast nowdays. I'm gonna be a grandma before I know it....I know I know....I won't hold my breathe for the grandma thing...like that will ever happen for me!!! Anyway the changes in this girl are amazing...it's a Aushlynn 2.0....it bet by May we will have Aushlynn 3.0.... all good things for sure! Well, here is what she had to say about last week. 

Hey guys! 

Wow this week flew by and well honestly I don’t even know where to start. First things first on Tuesday I had an intercambio with Hermana McRae! She is really awesome! She was my very first sister leader and so it was cool to show her how far I have come with my teaching skills and Spanish! Hermana Glunt and I have a baptism this next Saturday for 2 boys! We are really excited for that! 

Next we practiced for a sister meeting that we were having on Thursday! We sang a musical number. It was really pretty. It was fun to see all the girls from the mission especially because about half are leaving to go home really soon.... ah. I requested that we have key lime pie for the dessert and sure enough Hermana Rasmussen pulled through! It was delicious!! 

This p-day was SUPPOSED to be one thing I checked off my bucket list but we had problems with people in our zone (annoying elders) ha ha so we didn’t end up going and we will go next week. So Hermana Glunt and I made the best of it and we went to Chulucanas and saw some stores and had some fun! We met some really col people on our way and shared the gospel with them! It really was such a good day! Also we got invited off the street to learn to paint and we got to paint our own Ceramic plates it was awesome! 

Well that’s pretty much my week! In regards to me having a year in the mission... yikes! The time has just flown by! I’m trying to soak up every minute I have here and with these people! 

Happy Halloween everyone!

Hermana Brown

Ceramic plates.

Are these not the cutest wrinkly dogs you have ever seen?

I don't know the story......

Ceramic shop

When in Peru..

Hermana Rasmussen, President Rasmussen, Hermana Glunt and Hermana Brown

Because you can never see enough pictures of puppies!

Sunny days.....

Hermana Brown and Hermana Thomas at the Sisters Conference

Lunch in Peru

Sisters Luncheon

Learning some new things.....

Sing....sing a song.....