water balloons and miracles

 So much everything is always happening all at once.

Tacna had to go and break my heart all over again. I miss my locas. Miss my belen fam even though they drove me nuts. But like they were so cool (the eq first counselor elmer always helped us and his phone ringtone was always "ThAt ARiZoNa SkYyyYy" so silly.) 

Jesus jove got baptized which was like the craziest of them all...he told us he was never getting baptized. I told him I knew he would just that I would prolly be in the us when it finally happened. Proved me wrong by saying "you started to lose faith in me hermana Barker...I'm gonna get baptized". Wild. 

That night I packed my life up all over again, realizing that this will probably be the last time I do until well it's the REAL last time. 

And got on a bus (that left without me--had to chase it down the street) 

and headed to ilo. 

And I haven't stopped running since 

To catch the bus to catch our friends to catch up with the time that somehow seems to escape so quick !

meet our new dream team here in faro ward! Garzon and me and our baby hna CASTRO from ecuador!!! 

Me and hna garzon are running it back and I couldn't be happier. This crazy dog was trying to like idek mate with her ? And she was yelling and me and hermana castro just sobbed tears of laughter. Some comps we are. Hna Castro is amazing, so prepared and on it. The three of us are so excited to just get to work in faro. 

It's so pretty here. I can see the ocean from wherever I am. It just smells like the beach and the breeze is so nice and ugh it's so fun. 

God is so good. Like he makes such pretty things and pretty people.

It's so fun to be here because there's so much different kinds of people...Dominicans Venezuelans Colombians it's like a big jumble of people and accents and FIRE music. Like so so good in the streets there's always some salsa or bad bunny going on and it's so epic.

we went to the beach today and watched old men boogie boarding. Easily highlight of my pday (although the waterballoon fight was epic) 

christian got baptized! I met him on friday and his baptism was Saturday. His grandpa baptized him (presh) and forgot how go baptized and had to basically drown him like 6 times (not so presh)

last weeks pday ^^ we walked around for like 2 hours trying to decide what to eatforlunch. Ice cream won out. 

I feel lucky. Lucky for my friends I've met and made and for the lessons I've learned and the beautiful places I get to see. 

Been learning lots about the word AND. 

Happy and sad.

They can exist together 

I can miss tacna and love ilo

I can laugh and hurt too 

I can mess up and Repent. 

It's all a process of AND. 

I just love my savior. I feel like I've understood that every single thing is a part of this plan. Likenothing is important without the savior in my life. He has such a crucial role in my life and I love being able to teach other about the blessings they can have too. 

see you so very soon 

<3 emma (it's so weird writing my name...I think I prefer hermana Barker:)