Busy week

Hello family and friends,

I was able to go to the Registro Provincial de Piura, where they have the old records of some towns until 1996.  I was able to get one out of 5, and the one that I found was the hardest to find.  

Tuesday was one of the long days. We had to be at one of the Stake Centers at 7 am for Missionary transfers. Then I had to go to migrations. Then, I had to go to the airport to drop one of the elders that was going home.  After that I went back to the office again and at 6 o'clock in the evening we had to be at the mission home for the last supper for the Missionaries going home the next day. After the dinner, there's always a testimony meeting and I like to stay and hear their testimonies so by the time that I got home, it was 9:30 PM.

Wednesday, I had to go to the airport. This time I met with five Missionaries that were going home and then we waited for nine Missionaries to come. We have one sister missionary from the US, one elder from Ecuador and one Elder from Bolivia the other five Missionaries are from Peru. We had lunch at the mission home and interviews with the president. The lady at the hotel where they were going to stay, called me because they had a group that was staying there and they were leaving the same day. But because there have been some mud slots, some roads are not open and the group couldn't go home so they were staying longer. Thank goodness, they have a Sister hotel a little bit farther than the one that we take the Missionaries to, but they were so wonderful and said that they will take them there and then they will bring them back in the morning.

On Thursday, the secretaries, we had to present ourselves and what we do, to the new Missionaries. We use slides to help.

President and his wife had to travel to another state, Tumbes, where he had to have multizona and interview with the missionaries in that area, so I had to be sure to have the hotel confirmed for his arrival.  I started to fill out the forms that the Municipalidad de Piura has given me for the marriages.  A 5-paper document for each couple. My poor arthritis is going to be affected.  At 7 p.m. I went to the relief society president's house. We were going to a restaurant to have rotisserie chicken. It was an activity of friendship of the Relief Society.  We were 17 in total.  I still cannot believe how the restaurants are always packed and with big groups. We had fun there.

Saturday, I decided to walk more. So for lunch I went to get some food. I did find a place where they have MENU, a set meal of the day, in this case it was papa a la huancaina, chicken and rice with sausage and a pineapple sauce and juice.  The good thing about the menu is that it is very inexpensive: 11 soles, 3 dollars.  I will put a picture of it. The Open Plaza Mall, where the supermarket is, to get my groceries was closed for like 4 days already.  Apparently, some of the rain has affected the building's structure and needs to be fixed so they had to close the Plaza. By the time I got home with my groceries in a Moto taxi, it seemed that I had washed my hair and not dried it.  

A nice quiet Sunday, no office meeting. I Got home after church, made myself some food and then took a nap. 

Then 7 pm and I had to help renew a DNI (ID document) on the internet for a sister that is in Tumbes (another state), and she needs that document to get married.  Lots of people were involved to do that.  The Bishop let them use his cell phone to be able to download the necessary app to take the picture. The 2 Elders helped them with the technology and took the picture. I was having issues paying for it because my password for the payment option was at the office, and not in my laptop.  So, I had to call the financial secretary and thank goodness he was at the office and he was able to use my computer and got into it and we paid it.  Once we did that, I was able to finalize the transaction on my laptop. That was crazy. 2 states, and 6 people involved.

Well that is it for this week.

Doctrine and Covenants 18: 10-11 Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God; For, behold, the Lord your Redeemer suffered death in the flesh; wherefore he suffered the pain of all men, that all men might repent and come unto him.

Hermana Malpica

Office Specialist

Peru Piura Mission

Pic 1  Missionaries leaving, the President, his wife and all the secretaries.

Pic 2  Missionaries that arrived.

Pic 3-4  Relief Society activity

Pic 5  Menu at the restaurant

Pic 6 The river