I AM TO SEE THE WONDERFUL JUNGLE OF PUERTO

Hermana Ostler’s Update – October 7, 2013

  

Yes! Changes have come and I am headed to.... THE JUNGLE. Puerto Maldonado to be precise. I am terrified and so excited. They have monkeys and dengue fever and it’s really hot and I am just so stoked to experience something new. Its 12 hours by bus, so if you are wondering what I will be doing tomorrow it is looking at my photo album of my beloved Urubamba and reading the Old Testament. Yay!

This update is going to be short, but I just wanted to say that I love my mission. Sometimes I have felt like maybe I haven’t done any good, that maybe I haven’t touched anybody’s lives for the better. Sometimes I feel small and worthless. But today I had the horribly sad and beautiful experience of saying goodbye to the people I love that live here in Urubamba. 

http://www.lostworldadventures.com/map/images/map_peru.jpg

New Paragraph because this is important. I HAVE DONE GOOD THINGS HERE. I am not wasting my time. I have touched the lives of others because I gave my whole heart and soul to them. I wept with them in their tragedies, we laughed at the stupidly hilarious moments and most importantly, my soul spoke with the souls of others. I let them feel the love that their Heavenly Father has for them. I cried a lot today and others did too. We will miss each other and I know that there is a life after this one, that I was meant to meet these people, and that we will be together in the presence of God after we die. I know this with all my heart. 

Now I need to go buy bug spray. 

Love you all. 

Hermana Alex

Eating Cuy

Killing Elder Cava with some kind of harvesting tool