Dearest Family,

I hope you received this email alright because it includes lots of photos.  I know that pictures speak a thousand words.  I hope you can see in these photos that I am happy.  I also hope that you can get a taste of where I live and what the people are like.

This last week was beautiful because the family I`ve written about previously were civily married and they were baptized.  The father`s name is Eynar and the mother`s name is Soraida.  Eynar and Soraidas` story is a miracle.  One Sunday they simply showed up at the church because Eynar dreamed that his family needed to change.  He felt that he should bring his family to the LDS church.  With the help of the senior missionary couple in Urubamba, we taught Eynar and Soraida about the fundamentals of the church Christ established and how these fundamentals have been restored to the earth in our times.  We taught them that they can directly ask Heavenly Father in prayer if the church Christ established has been restored to the earth.  We also invited them to pray and ask Heavenly Father if the Book of Mormon is true.  Eynar and Soraida, like me, received answers to their prayers.  For this reason, they chose to be baptized.  They are now beginning a very beautiful journey.  They are happier than they were two months ago.  They know what principles they need to teach to their children.  They know Heavenly Father`s plan for them in this life.  

I think my Spanish is progressing because I forgot this week the name `grilled cheese sandwhich.` A lovely lady served us a grilled cheese sandwhich one day, and when my companion asked me for the name in English, I couldn`t remember.  It took me ten minutes to think of `grilled cheese sandwhich.` 

I would encourage you to look up Urubamba and Ollantaytambo in the internet, so you can see some photos of where I`m serving.  There are lots of Inca ruins here.  I`m grateful to be in an area that really is a `Sacred Valley.` 

Here are a few explanations about the photos I`ve attached--

The photo of the couple dressed in white is that family that married and were baptized this week. 

There is one photo with two missionaries talking on the phone.  These missionaries are my zone leaders.  This image cracked me up so I decided to send it to you.  The missionaries are talking on there `cell phone.` In the picture, you can actually see that the phone is a traditional telephone.  The elders were hauling it around in their backpack like it was a call phone.  The goofy things we do in the mission!

In one of the pictures, there is a group of missionaries walking and also two traditionally dressed women beside them.  We see many women dressed this way in Urubamba and the surrounding pueblos.  In Quechua, these women are called `panais.` The missionaries in the mission jokingly call us sister missionaries the `panais.

The last picture is of my companion and I.  Hermana Villegas is from northern Peru in a town called Chiclayo.

  

Remeber that I love every one of you.  I am always pleading that Heavenly Father will bless you to feel of my prayers for you.  I am proud of you for working hard in your responsibilities.

All my love from Urubabma Peru.

Hermana Blunck II