Monday we have the Soccer World Cup as a mission, so we´re going to be gone to that all day long. I´m excited, it should be fun.
This week we are still working hard to get the papers to go through so that Jeny can get married, but in the mean time, we´re preparing three baptisms for this weekend! We´ll be doing it between General Conference sessions. Here in Peru, this sunday, we have elections, and it´s mandatory to vote. So they have to cancel church because everyone has to travel to their hometowns to vote, and if they don´t, they have to pay a huge fine. So, we won´t be seeing general conference this weekend, and instead we have to go to my companion´s town so she can vote! It´s going to be insane, and I´m not looking forward to the traffic (anyone from the states who has not traveled to south america cannot possibly imagine, haha). So anyway, I´m glad to be an American, where we have the freedom to vote.
Soooo, I had a lot of things in mind to write about, but I just opened an email from my mission president, and now that letter is ALL I have on my mind. So I guess I´ll tell you guys about it . . . He said that he got a letter from the first presidency telling him that no more thirty day extensions will be allowed. He said that, unless the Prophet announces it today in general conference some kind of change, I won´t be able to extend my mission. He said, if it were up to me, I´d have you extend until I finish my own mission! (another 18 months) . . . I don´t know if I would go for that, haha . . . but I´m a little disappointed. I don´t know why the Lord gave me such a clear answer and prompting to extend my mission, if I wouldn´t be able to do it . . . but I know there is something to learn. Maybe it´s like Abraham and Issac. Maybe I just had to be willing to make the sacrifice, but not actually go through with it. . . although, instead of a feeling of incredible relief and overwhelming joy that I´m sure Abraham felt as he lowered his knife to his side, and hugged his son . . . I´m feeling pretty disappointed . . . but I know that the Lord has a plan for me and now that I have less time than I thought in the mission, I´m definitely going to work even harder. These last few months in the mission, I´m going to work as if every day were my last. I´m determined to learn the lesson that the Lord is teaching me.
I don´t know what I´ll be doing when I get home. I don´t know if I´m going back to school in the winter. I don´t know any of my plans whatsoever . . . and who knows? Maybe the prophet will announce that sister missionaries can serve longer . . . I just know that I´m serving the Lord´s mission right now, and that´s all that I´m going to think about. I know that the Lord guides and directs us to do what´s best. Whatever my future is, I know that it´s in the Lord´s hands, and He will give us success if we trust in Him and follow His counsels.
I love you all so much and I´m so grateful for everyone´s support. It was hard for my family to support me extending my mission, but I am so grateful for their willingness to do it. My family had already seen many blessings in their decision to support me. I know that the Lord will continue to bless them. I love you all so much and I hope that we can all frequently turn to the Lord and seek His will, and be willing to follow it, even if things turn out very differently from what we thought they would turn out. He´s in charge. He knows what´s best for His children and everything His does is for our benefit.
Have a wonderful week, and I´ll talk to you all on monday next week.
Love,
Hna. Hulse
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