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| Our new investigators Andrea and her boyfriend |
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| The New English Teachers :) |
The Life of a Trainer!! Week #29
wow wow wow! what a week! i am training, i'm officially a mum here in the mision!! woahh!! my new comp. is hermana guevara.. good luck with saying that right hehe.. but she´s from guatemala!! she is so great her excitement for the mish is so contagious, and i really have enjoyed this first week with her. one thing i really love most about her is she loves to laugh!! so we have a good time! it is so crazy being a trainer! im in charge of everything... EVERYTHING... it's a bit stressful at times, but it's all good. i plan every day, i teach her because we are doing a 12 week program, and start all the lessons and when she doesnt know what to say i fill in... it's scary but i have to do it and the wonderful thing is that i have the lord with me and if i didnt i wouldnt know what the crap to say in the moment. but i know these next few weeks are going to be so great and that i am going to grow and learn a lot. they say you learn more from being a trainer then from when you were trained. and about being in the same sector again, the truth is i dont mind because it doesnt feel like the same sector at all... at all! we changed everything in our pincion to have something new and different; we´ve found new investigators, we work in a different way... everything is so different so it's ok with me, and also i love this sector too because i have really gained the trust of the members and people here... the guy on the corner everyday says hi to us and knows our names and i just love that. i think its good to gain people's confidence.
as for investigators, we are really trying to find new investigators right now because we didnt have many progressing and we actually had a really successful week. (i like being about to do things my way hehe) but we are just working with that benita...oh benita my headache... we havent been able to find her all week because she started working again... but we are gonna keep trying. as for lana, remember lana the russian girl ... ahhh i love her! i love her so much i dont think i told you guys cause i was embarrassed, but the first day we met her i tried to give her a book of mormon and she wouldn't take it. she said she doesn't need a book to help her faith, in that moment i really felt like someone had shot me in the chest... it sucked. well, let's see, its been 1month and a half since then and wed. we had a visit with her to help her with spanish, so i told her i would help her. well one of the elders in the other sector told me they had a girl from russia, so i asked if she would accompany us to visit lana (this girl is beautiful btw) so we went to meet lana and lana was so surprised and so happy they just blablblajblablablablabj in russian the whole time, my jaw was to the ground, i couldnt understand a thing... sometime to text tho, goodluck kyn it's a crazy language... but it's super bakan, you're going to learn that language!!! im a bit jealous kyn, hehe, but ya at the end of our visit, lana came up to me and said thank you so much, so much you are my angel, i needed this so bad today because i was struggling... and she just hugged me... the russian... she hugged me...??? it was a cool experience. so after she came with us to visit a part family and that was cool. she then came to church on sunday and we were sitting in class and she turns to me and says, godfrey you know that book you tried to give me a few weeks ago? i think i'm ready for it now... What??? i said...shocked "can i have that book? she asked me" OF COURSE i said so i handed her the one in my hand... i dunno but i really think she is going to be baptized one day, but in her time. but i dunno this was just a really rad experience for me. i couldn't have been more happy then i was in this moment. the tender mercy of god is definitely real.
well, it sounds like you guys all had a wonderful week in china, you butt heads all of you!! the pictures looked like so much fun and mum YOUR HAIR!! i about died, i couldnt believe that was you! you look completely different and dad has lost a lot of weight wahooo!! but ya! It looked like a good time and i'm glad you guys finally made it to HK and you are now trapped in the airport again... hehe, im so sorry that sucks!! but it's an adventure, right? you´ll never forget that time you went to china right!! hehe and ems baby shower thats nuts she´s gonna have her baby soon right.... ahhh i wanna see lots of pictures please.!! well everyone, hope you know i am praying for you all everyday and i hope all of you have a great week full of adventures!!
oxoxox
con mucho amor,
your lil missionary
Some email replies from Meghan's last letter
Good morning Shelley.
I read Meghan's letter this morning and it made me cry! i am so happy Benita finally "made the plunge!" What a wonderful story to follow! So happy Meghan to could have this experience! Hard work does pay off! So I thought I'd pass along what Lars said this morning. I had the picture of Benita, her husband, and daughter? pulled up on my computer and Lars came out to the kitchen and said, "Oh, we did get an email from James's mission president. Is that their picture?" to which I replied, "No, that is an investigator on her baptism day from Meghan Godfrey's mission. It took her seven months to commit to baptism!" Without a seconds thought Lars said, "and because of that she'll be active in the church in seven years!" Just thought that was an interesting comment to make! Sometimes those who take the longest do end up being the most committed because they made the step not on impulse, not for welfare needs, but because after a long time on the road of learning the gospel, they couldn't deny the feelings!
GIve Meghan our love!
Lori and Lars
I read Meghan's letter this morning and it made me cry! i am so happy Benita finally "made the plunge!" What a wonderful story to follow! So happy Meghan to could have this experience! Hard work does pay off! So I thought I'd pass along what Lars said this morning. I had the picture of Benita, her husband, and daughter? pulled up on my computer and Lars came out to the kitchen and said, "Oh, we did get an email from James's mission president. Is that their picture?" to which I replied, "No, that is an investigator on her baptism day from Meghan Godfrey's mission. It took her seven months to commit to baptism!" Without a seconds thought Lars said, "and because of that she'll be active in the church in seven years!" Just thought that was an interesting comment to make! Sometimes those who take the longest do end up being the most committed because they made the step not on impulse, not for welfare needs, but because after a long time on the road of learning the gospel, they couldn't deny the feelings!
GIve Meghan our love!
Lori and Lars
You're life such a big adventure, I know you're totally busy, but, let me know when you can do lunch! I'm trying to do the temple with my mom in SL each week...she goes to at least one session a day, so, it's been fun to do my temple day with her, but, I'd love to go with you sometime...Cass came up and did baptisms and said it only took her about 15 minutes because no one else was there. Text me, call me, email me when it's a good time for you(:
XOXO
Julie McKeon
Benita's Baptism, Week #28
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| WE ARE SISTER MISSIONARIES!! |
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| Benita and her family on her baptism day |
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| She is FINALLY ready! It's the day! |
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| It's a little windy today! |
Wow, Wow, WOW!! Week #28
wow wow wow! what a week! i am training, i'm officially a mum here in the mision!! woahh!! my new comp. is hermana guevara.. good luck with saying that right hehe.. but she´s from guatemala!! she is so great her excitement for the mish is so contagious, and i really have enjoyed this first week with her. one thing i really love most about her is she loves to laugh!! so we have a good time! it is so crazy being a trainer! im in charge of everything... EVERYTHING... it's a bit stressful at times, but it's all good. i plan every day, i teach her because we are doing a 12 week program, and start all the lessons and when she doesnt know what to say i fill in... it's scary but i have to do it and the wonderful thing is that i have the lord with me and if i didnt i wouldnt know what the crap to say in the moment. but i know these next few weeks are going to be so great and that i am going to grow and learn a lot. they say you learn more from being a trainner then from when you were trained. and about being in the same sector again, the truth is i dont mind because it doesnt feel like the same sector at all... at all! we changed everything in our pincion to have something new and different; we´ve found new investigators, we work in a different way... everything is so different so it's ok with me, and also i love this sector too because i have really gained the trust of the members and people here... the guy on the corner everyday says hi to us and knows our names and i just love that. i think its good to gain people's confidence.
as for investigators, we are really trying to find new investigators right now because we didnt have many progressing and we actually had a really successful week. (i like being about to do things my way hehe) but we are just working with that benita...oh benita my headache... we havent been able to find her all week because she started working again... but we are gonna keep trying. as for lana, remember lana the russian girl ... ahhh i love her! i love her so much i dont think i told you guys cause i was embarrassed, but the first day we met her i tried to give her a book of mormon and she wouldn't take it. she said she doesn't need a book to help her faith, in that moment i really felt like someone had shot me in the chest... it sucked. well, let's see, its been 1month and a half since then and wed. we had a visit with her to help her with spanish, so i told her i would help her. well one of the elders in the other sector told me they had a girl from russia, so i asked if she would accompany us to visit lana (this girl is beautiful btw) so we went to meet lana and lana was so surprised and so happy they just blablblajblablablablabj in russian the whole time, my jaw was to the ground, i couldnt understand a thing... sometime to text tho, goodluck kyn it's a crazy lauguage... but it's super bakan, you're going to learn that language!!! im a bit jealous kyn, hehe, but ya at the end of our visit, lana came up to me and said thank you so much, so much you are my angel, i needed this so bad today because i was struggling... and she just hugged me... the russian... she hugged me...??? it was a cool experience. so after she came with us to visit a part family and that was cool. she then came to church on sunday and we were sitting in class and she turns to me and says, godfrey you know that book you tried to give me a few weeks ago? i think i'm ready for it now... What??? i said...shocked "can i have that book? she asked me" OF COURSE i said so i handed her the one in my hand... i dunno but i really think she is going to be baptised one day, but in her time. but i dunno this was just a really rad experience for me. i couldn't have been more happy then i was in this moment. the tender mercy of god is definitely real.
well, it sounds like you guys all had a wonderful week in china, you butt heads all of you!! the pictures looked like so much fun and mum YOUR HAIR!! i about died, i couldnt believe that was you! you look completely different and dad has lost a lot of weight wahooo!! but ya! It looked like a good time and i'm glad you guys finally made it to HK and you are now trapped in the airport again... hehe, im so sorry that sucks!! but it's an adventure, right? you´ll never forget that time you went to china right!! hehe and ems baby shower thats nuts she´s gonna have her baby soon right.... ahhh i wanna see lots of pictures please.!! well everyone, hope you know i am praying for you all everyday and i hope all of you have a great week full of adventures!!
oxoxox
con mucho amor,
your lil missionary
as for investigators, we are really trying to find new investigators right now because we didnt have many progressing and we actually had a really successful week. (i like being about to do things my way hehe) but we are just working with that benita...oh benita my headache... we havent been able to find her all week because she started working again... but we are gonna keep trying. as for lana, remember lana the russian girl ... ahhh i love her! i love her so much i dont think i told you guys cause i was embarrassed, but the first day we met her i tried to give her a book of mormon and she wouldn't take it. she said she doesn't need a book to help her faith, in that moment i really felt like someone had shot me in the chest... it sucked. well, let's see, its been 1month and a half since then and wed. we had a visit with her to help her with spanish, so i told her i would help her. well one of the elders in the other sector told me they had a girl from russia, so i asked if she would accompany us to visit lana (this girl is beautiful btw) so we went to meet lana and lana was so surprised and so happy they just blablblajblablablablabj in russian the whole time, my jaw was to the ground, i couldnt understand a thing... sometime to text tho, goodluck kyn it's a crazy lauguage... but it's super bakan, you're going to learn that language!!! im a bit jealous kyn, hehe, but ya at the end of our visit, lana came up to me and said thank you so much, so much you are my angel, i needed this so bad today because i was struggling... and she just hugged me... the russian... she hugged me...??? it was a cool experience. so after she came with us to visit a part family and that was cool. she then came to church on sunday and we were sitting in class and she turns to me and says, godfrey you know that book you tried to give me a few weeks ago? i think i'm ready for it now... What??? i said...shocked "can i have that book? she asked me" OF COURSE i said so i handed her the one in my hand... i dunno but i really think she is going to be baptised one day, but in her time. but i dunno this was just a really rad experience for me. i couldn't have been more happy then i was in this moment. the tender mercy of god is definitely real.
well, it sounds like you guys all had a wonderful week in china, you butt heads all of you!! the pictures looked like so much fun and mum YOUR HAIR!! i about died, i couldnt believe that was you! you look completely different and dad has lost a lot of weight wahooo!! but ya! It looked like a good time and i'm glad you guys finally made it to HK and you are now trapped in the airport again... hehe, im so sorry that sucks!! but it's an adventure, right? you´ll never forget that time you went to china right!! hehe and ems baby shower thats nuts she´s gonna have her baby soon right.... ahhh i wanna see lots of pictures please.!! well everyone, hope you know i am praying for you all everyday and i hope all of you have a great week full of adventures!!
oxoxox
con mucho amor,
your lil missionary
Photos for week #27
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| Birthday Celebrations |
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| Love these kids! |
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| Flour Fight tonight!! |
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| And a little water too... |
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| Benita...She's almost ready!! |
Transfers!!! And Guess What? Week #27
hola hola hola,
Can i just start out by saying i think it is so funny you guys are stuck in Tokyo... that would happen!! haha im sorry, such a bummer, but there really should be video camera following our family around always! hehe. I'm so glad you got to see the videos i made, and im excited to see what you guys send me!
Ok! so the biggest news of the week this week is Changes, or transfers....dan dan dan... Well, I don't know who my new comp is yet because i"m, i'm, i'm... TRAINING!... ahhhh I'm freaking out AND i'm scared to death!! but it will definitely be an adventure right?... ahhh i dont have words, so crazy. So yeah, I'll find out tomorrow who my new comp is- latina, gringa yo no se? {: so ya, there you go with changes!! so this week? let's see what happened...so this week we´ve just been working a lot. We did a sector slam on friday. that is when missionaries come from the CCM, and we take them through a day as a missionary in the field. We knocked doors and contacted for 3 hours, wahooo!! It was fun to see this gringa missionary that was so much like me when i first came here. Wow, things have changed so much since I entered the field. bueno que mas... Benita came to church this Sunday and it was really cool because she came all by herself - we didn't call her or anything and she came!! then Hna Vale had to tell her that she was leaving and it was so sad, Benita started balling... and then said well at least I have godfrey and her spanglish!! hehe but Benita was really sad to see hna vale go, well let's just say everyone was sad to see her go, even me. and everyone's jaws about dropped to the floor when they heard I was training... loco. but my week wasn't to exciting except for these last 3 days. I can't believe it, I'm in shock. but I know I can do it... with Heavenly Fathers help. if it was just me doing this, there is no way in heck I could do it. Well, I'm so glad to hear you guys are all doing well and that you're all in China having a great time! hehe take lots of pictures for me!! I love you all a ton!! have a fantastic, beautiful week!
Photos Week #26
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| Doing splits with Gorietti after she is set apart |
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| A member family |
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| Saying Goodbye to Hermana Valeriano |
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| Us sister missionaries last ride together |
Touched by the Spirit...Week #26
hola familia y mis amigos!!
¿como estas? wow este semana haber... or wait i need to switch into english haha this week hum lets see.. well first off to start we have cambios (changes) this week so will see what happens I'm a bit sad to leave hna valeriano but new adventures here we come. ok well to start off goretti left this week and we had to spend the day with her the day she left because she didn't have a comp. with her so me and hna vale were with her. and it was so fun to see her get ready to leave and kinda sad too... i felt like i was leaving all over again. but ya everything was great we shed a few tears and left and that was that. so this week we found a menos activo se llama alicia and she is just the cutest lil lady i love her so much she was baptized a long long time ago but cant make it to church on sunday because she has a bad leg and cant walk very far. so we visit her. i was a neat experience tho because we decided to sing a hymno with her and we sang "divina luz" i have no idea what it is in english but it was like there was people singing with us and my comp told me after she had never hear me sing so well she said it wasn't me singing haha but after we were done singing we looked up at alicia and she was crying and after that we had a pretty deep conversation it was a neat experience for me and i really did feel like in that moment there were other people there singing with us... singing about this marvelous gospel we have in our lives and that happiness it brings.
so we went to visit benita and this week and it was a hard week for her and she was telling us all about her week and how she prayed at the virgin and lit a candle today... quwank qwank. so we were a bit frustrated with that and didn't know how to tell her straight up you cant pray at the Virgin... so we have been studying a lot this week to prepare us for our next lesson with her but, gosh Satan is working so hard with her every possible thing wrong that could happen has happened… hna vale and i thing that benita has something really wonderful in store for her… because satan is working hard and i mean hard..
Sunday wow sunday sunday was a crazy day for me, me and hna vale went to pick up benita because she needed to come too church it had been awhile and so we went to get her and she was all ready to go. we got to church and during sacrament i just remember praying and asking heavenly father "please please help benita feel the spirit strong today and please help her to gain a testimony" sacrament started benita was so happy the whole time after then passed the sacrament i looked up and benita looks at me and says " Godfrey" she was balling and i mean balling her whole face was wet with tears. i tried to comfort her best i could and grabbed her a tissue..then one of the members who is really good friend with benita got up and bared her testimony the spirit was so so strong incredible and cant even try to explain it, it was like her, benita me and hna vale were the only ones in the room. incredible then after sacrament was over i looked up at benita and asked how are you feeling?? she said emotional muy emotional but not that im sad emotional in a happy way… we then told her that was the holy ghost testifying to her… and she said i only lack a little bit till i can have it with me always right? WOW WOW WOW WOW and don't even have words to describe that moment heavenly father answered my simple prayer..and benita felt the spirit so strong that day and she just looked so happy. i feel so eternally grateful to my H.F. for answering my pray on sunday and I KNOW heavenly father hears each and everyone one of us its just in his time... its been 6 months since we started teaching benita and were finally starting to see really progress i think one thing i have really learned this week is to not give up on people i cant tell you how many time i wanted to pound my head into a wall with benita.. and a few time we wanted to drop her... but i know that we are to never give up on our dreams on our desires on our hard work... we need to fight every day for the things we want in life and with the help of H.F. nothing and i mean nothing is impossible!!
after church on sunday one of the members little boys was baptized and i was the most adorable thing i had ever seen… his older brother had just received the priesthood to baptize and he baptized his little brother and lot gonna lie i shed yet some more tears! so tender!! and made me think of my baptism on it actually was TODAY the 5 of agouti!! the day i became a member of La ogles de Jesu cristo de los santos de los ultimas dias!! well ya that was about it for my week thanks for listen, well see you next week!! hehe love you all so so much and miss you tons have such a wonderful week in china and dont have to much fun without me!! hehe take lots of pictures!
oxoxox
con mucho amor,
your lil missionary
¿como estas? wow este semana haber... or wait i need to switch into english haha this week hum lets see.. well first off to start we have cambios (changes) this week so will see what happens I'm a bit sad to leave hna valeriano but new adventures here we come. ok well to start off goretti left this week and we had to spend the day with her the day she left because she didn't have a comp. with her so me and hna vale were with her. and it was so fun to see her get ready to leave and kinda sad too... i felt like i was leaving all over again. but ya everything was great we shed a few tears and left and that was that. so this week we found a menos activo se llama alicia and she is just the cutest lil lady i love her so much she was baptized a long long time ago but cant make it to church on sunday because she has a bad leg and cant walk very far. so we visit her. i was a neat experience tho because we decided to sing a hymno with her and we sang "divina luz" i have no idea what it is in english but it was like there was people singing with us and my comp told me after she had never hear me sing so well she said it wasn't me singing haha but after we were done singing we looked up at alicia and she was crying and after that we had a pretty deep conversation it was a neat experience for me and i really did feel like in that moment there were other people there singing with us... singing about this marvelous gospel we have in our lives and that happiness it brings.
so we went to visit benita and this week and it was a hard week for her and she was telling us all about her week and how she prayed at the virgin and lit a candle today... quwank qwank. so we were a bit frustrated with that and didn't know how to tell her straight up you cant pray at the Virgin... so we have been studying a lot this week to prepare us for our next lesson with her but, gosh Satan is working so hard with her every possible thing wrong that could happen has happened… hna vale and i thing that benita has something really wonderful in store for her… because satan is working hard and i mean hard..
Sunday wow sunday sunday was a crazy day for me, me and hna vale went to pick up benita because she needed to come too church it had been awhile and so we went to get her and she was all ready to go. we got to church and during sacrament i just remember praying and asking heavenly father "please please help benita feel the spirit strong today and please help her to gain a testimony" sacrament started benita was so happy the whole time after then passed the sacrament i looked up and benita looks at me and says " Godfrey" she was balling and i mean balling her whole face was wet with tears. i tried to comfort her best i could and grabbed her a tissue..then one of the members who is really good friend with benita got up and bared her testimony the spirit was so so strong incredible and cant even try to explain it, it was like her, benita me and hna vale were the only ones in the room. incredible then after sacrament was over i looked up at benita and asked how are you feeling?? she said emotional muy emotional but not that im sad emotional in a happy way… we then told her that was the holy ghost testifying to her… and she said i only lack a little bit till i can have it with me always right? WOW WOW WOW WOW and don't even have words to describe that moment heavenly father answered my simple prayer..and benita felt the spirit so strong that day and she just looked so happy. i feel so eternally grateful to my H.F. for answering my pray on sunday and I KNOW heavenly father hears each and everyone one of us its just in his time... its been 6 months since we started teaching benita and were finally starting to see really progress i think one thing i have really learned this week is to not give up on people i cant tell you how many time i wanted to pound my head into a wall with benita.. and a few time we wanted to drop her... but i know that we are to never give up on our dreams on our desires on our hard work... we need to fight every day for the things we want in life and with the help of H.F. nothing and i mean nothing is impossible!!
after church on sunday one of the members little boys was baptized and i was the most adorable thing i had ever seen… his older brother had just received the priesthood to baptize and he baptized his little brother and lot gonna lie i shed yet some more tears! so tender!! and made me think of my baptism on it actually was TODAY the 5 of agouti!! the day i became a member of La ogles de Jesu cristo de los santos de los ultimas dias!! well ya that was about it for my week thanks for listen, well see you next week!! hehe love you all so so much and miss you tons have such a wonderful week in china and dont have to much fun without me!! hehe take lots of pictures!
oxoxox
con mucho amor,
your lil missionary
Photos of our Viaje to Hawaii
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| Meghan's last night with Gioretti |
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| Love the kids!! |
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| The angels at the end of our voyage |
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| A Viaje to Hawaii |
Week #25 Viaje Hawaii
hola a todos!! hehe who know who my mum is sending this all too hehe but i hope you enjoy!!
sound like it was a pretty normal week in summer for you guys this week!! thanks for taking a surfing run for me i sure did love it! hehe i cant wait to see the boat tho, in like a year or something like that. but so glad to hear all is well.
well, this week went back so freakin fast for me, lets see I'm trying to remember what happened. oh we found a new investigator that is un joven se llama isaac he is great and he is obsessed with nitro circus haha he is great tho but we don't quite know what his true intentions are yet. but well see. he likes when we visit so that's good right!! hehe well benita, everything is good now with her and florencia wahooo i dunno what exactly happen but we visited them and she said all is good! i kinda knew things were going to work out!! we were really excited to hear that and it was pretty cool because this week we had an actividad in the capilla (church) called viaje hawaii and we did this whole set up were everyone was invited to go on a trip to "hawaii" so we set up a fake plane behind the stage in the church building and so what happen is everyone had a ticket to go to Hawaii, then everyone loaded onto the plane. during the flight something happens to the plane so we have to take a quick pit stop in some place in this place there are activities the everyone can do but you have to use you coupons but if you do activities buena they don't take you coupons but if you do activities not so great they take you coupons! (this is all set up like if you go to the disco instead of church for example) then everyone load back on the plane and the plane "crashes" and everyone dies then they walk passed 3 places: one is paradise the other is hell, then there is the 3 kingdoms of glory. and so depending on how many coupons you have left determined what kingdom you get to enter... and at the very end all of us missionaries were dressed up as angels in the celestial kingdom. it was a really neat and fun way to explain the plan of salvation. and benita and florencia and her 2 friends came! it was such a fun and creative way to learn i loved it so much!! i think benita did to!! i dunno if that made any sense but it was beautiful!!
sunday our president of the mission came to church and gave a talk. well, the bishop called me up to bear my testimony. i was nervous, you know how i am, i don't like being the center of attention. i was so nervous tho, and i don't even remember what i said, but after sacrament was over one of the the hermanas of the ward told me that when i went to bear my testimony, my face changed and she said i could have sworn that you were covered in luz (light) she said, i thought i was going a little crazy, it was so bizarre, then hna vale and some other people said the same thing, and they said that my spanish was good and that they understood everything. i dunno, for me that meant a lot, it made me really realize that i am a representative of christ and i just felt the power of heavenly father with me in that moment, the power of the holy ghost and the gift of discernment and the gift of tongues!! i know with all my heart that heavenly father loves each and everyone of us!!! and i know he has a plan for everyone one of us to and none of us our the same so we all have a different path to take!!
yesterday night we threw a big goodbye party for goretti in the church (because she doesn't have much family support) and it was such a cool experience to see her leaving on a mission!! she is going to be a great missionary and i really do love that girl so much it was also really neat experience because 5 people got to get up and give palabra bonita (words of advice) and after the 5 went, she asked me if i would say anything... i got up and just started to ballll... remember when i first left on the mission and seeing a recent convert getting ready to leave, a girl who didn't even believe in god before, going to preach the word of god!! i don't remember exactly what i said but after i was done the whole room was crying. it was such a rad experience because you could just feel all the love people had for her in that room and i'm sure going to miss my chilean sister...she is going to be such a great missionary, and I'm a beyond words excited for her!! well that's about all!!! for now i hope every single one of you have a beautiful week! and enjoy the sun for me!! i love and miss you all so much!!
con mucho amor,
love your lil missionary
sound like it was a pretty normal week in summer for you guys this week!! thanks for taking a surfing run for me i sure did love it! hehe i cant wait to see the boat tho, in like a year or something like that. but so glad to hear all is well.
well, this week went back so freakin fast for me, lets see I'm trying to remember what happened. oh we found a new investigator that is un joven se llama isaac he is great and he is obsessed with nitro circus haha he is great tho but we don't quite know what his true intentions are yet. but well see. he likes when we visit so that's good right!! hehe well benita, everything is good now with her and florencia wahooo i dunno what exactly happen but we visited them and she said all is good! i kinda knew things were going to work out!! we were really excited to hear that and it was pretty cool because this week we had an actividad in the capilla (church) called viaje hawaii and we did this whole set up were everyone was invited to go on a trip to "hawaii" so we set up a fake plane behind the stage in the church building and so what happen is everyone had a ticket to go to Hawaii, then everyone loaded onto the plane. during the flight something happens to the plane so we have to take a quick pit stop in some place in this place there are activities the everyone can do but you have to use you coupons but if you do activities buena they don't take you coupons but if you do activities not so great they take you coupons! (this is all set up like if you go to the disco instead of church for example) then everyone load back on the plane and the plane "crashes" and everyone dies then they walk passed 3 places: one is paradise the other is hell, then there is the 3 kingdoms of glory. and so depending on how many coupons you have left determined what kingdom you get to enter... and at the very end all of us missionaries were dressed up as angels in the celestial kingdom. it was a really neat and fun way to explain the plan of salvation. and benita and florencia and her 2 friends came! it was such a fun and creative way to learn i loved it so much!! i think benita did to!! i dunno if that made any sense but it was beautiful!!
sunday our president of the mission came to church and gave a talk. well, the bishop called me up to bear my testimony. i was nervous, you know how i am, i don't like being the center of attention. i was so nervous tho, and i don't even remember what i said, but after sacrament was over one of the the hermanas of the ward told me that when i went to bear my testimony, my face changed and she said i could have sworn that you were covered in luz (light) she said, i thought i was going a little crazy, it was so bizarre, then hna vale and some other people said the same thing, and they said that my spanish was good and that they understood everything. i dunno, for me that meant a lot, it made me really realize that i am a representative of christ and i just felt the power of heavenly father with me in that moment, the power of the holy ghost and the gift of discernment and the gift of tongues!! i know with all my heart that heavenly father loves each and everyone of us!!! and i know he has a plan for everyone one of us to and none of us our the same so we all have a different path to take!!
yesterday night we threw a big goodbye party for goretti in the church (because she doesn't have much family support) and it was such a cool experience to see her leaving on a mission!! she is going to be a great missionary and i really do love that girl so much it was also really neat experience because 5 people got to get up and give palabra bonita (words of advice) and after the 5 went, she asked me if i would say anything... i got up and just started to ballll... remember when i first left on the mission and seeing a recent convert getting ready to leave, a girl who didn't even believe in god before, going to preach the word of god!! i don't remember exactly what i said but after i was done the whole room was crying. it was such a rad experience because you could just feel all the love people had for her in that room and i'm sure going to miss my chilean sister...she is going to be such a great missionary, and I'm a beyond words excited for her!! well that's about all!!! for now i hope every single one of you have a beautiful week! and enjoy the sun for me!! i love and miss you all so much!!
con mucho amor,
love your lil missionary
A Week of Madness!!! Week #24
hola hola!!!
mum i cant believe you now have 3 dogs... haha its so funny because all the dogs here have clothes for the cold hehe i want to send you some for tug and luna hehe!! draper days and like in draper right now sounds good!!
as for me this week was well nuts in every way... first off we found a new family edson is his name and his wife is called lesli and the daughter has 2 years old and they are just the perfect family in everyday well they have to get married first but they are so great i love them so much so we are teaching them right now edson feels like something is missing in his life (yeah the gospel) hehe so we are working with them right now and then we found another investigator her name is rosa and it was so cool because she said she was praying to god because she really wants to quit smoking (smokes 3 packs a day and weed) and we showed up at her door. she said we were on answer to her pray and i never thought a story like that would happen to me, so we trying to teach her but shes gonna be a bit difficult but I'm up for the challenge!! we also finally got a hold of benita this week it was so cool because she ask us if we could go visit the temple and then she said i want to get baptized on the 4th of august, she put her own fecha!! so cool so the next day we ended up going to the temple with her and florencia it was a bit rough because there were a lot of people there and you couldn't feel the spirit a ton but she said she really liked it so god works through people even when you don't think they are feeling anything. but then we had something really funny and then something terrible happen its that roller coaster of the mission is real stuff, but first off i was so freaking hilarious me and hna vale we contacting and we saw this dog sitting in the middle of the road and it would not move para nada... and all the cars had to go around it so me and hna vale decided to go help the poor cockerspanaled... hna vale was whistling trying to call it to the side of the road but it wouldnt lisen so i decide the brilliant person i am to go tap it with me b.o.m...just give it a lil tappy tap tap tap- a- roo and the freaking perro (dog) attacked me rararara and i started running backwards screaming as it was trying to snap and bite at my legs and finally it stopped and peed in the middle of the road after the freaking dog started follow us and then we started running trying to lose the dang thing and it started to chase us... every dog i now see I'm scared of... hahah hna vale could not stop laughing and about peed her pants and i was laughing so hard to it was like a movie just imagine two sister missionaries running down the street while a lil doggy is runny after them it was so funny. oh the moments in the mission. so after we got a call from one of the hermana from the ward she said i need to talk to you guys please come visit me in my house so we headed to her house well we asked how she was and she said mal mal mal mal (bad).. her daughter cata and son felipe were playing with florencia (benita´s daughter) and, well, things got a little out of hand... florencia didn't want to play the game they were playing so cata and felipe chased her around the house with a hammer and a chair trying to hit her on the head with a plastic toy thing. ya it's things of little kids right? the problem is is florencia never has had a lot of friends, then when her mom started learning from us, she started to make friends. well you can see my point, florencia was crying and went home we trying to call benita but didn't get a hold of her till yesterday and she said florencia is really scared and doesn't want to leave her house and doesn't want anything to do with the church anymore. benita was more understandable but said the these two kids have satan inside of them and were trying to kill my daughter benita. she doesn't blame us but is a bit stirred up were going to visit her tomorrow so well get more details them. Satan is really working with us and benita i just don't know what to do with her and more. but i know the lord has a plan it might not happen right now or even with me but hopefully in the future with time benita will be baptized nothing would make me happier to some day see her and her daughter baptized. i think one thing i really learned this week is how much i love the people here they might not get baptized but just to know i was able to help in a moment in their lives is so worth it for me and everything is in the time of our H.F. it was neat the other day we ran into this drunk guy we always see in the street we decided to talk to him and he told us I'm a lost sheep that needs to be found and maybe in my life right now I'm not ready but one thing i know for sure is god loves me, i know that because i see you two walking around my streets. and then another guys came up to me and shook my hand and said thank you so much for blessing my country with your service.. above it all those moments are worth everything to me. it was so cool also we did splits this we and i heading to a different sector with a hna that had 2 weeks in the mission and one that had 2 month needless to say to speak or understand much i had to do everything thing start lesson talk most of the time in the lesson contact for them cause they were scared and just everything... it was actually a really neat experience for me cause i didn't know if i could do it, but i did and it wasn't just me i know H.F. was helping me the whole time. but ya that is about it for my week winter vacation is now over here so hopefully we´ll have a little more success this week. please put hna vale in your prayers as well shes having a hard time with her family. but i love you all so so very much and i miss you a ton!! I'm on the count down crazy how time flies!! enjoy the summer weather for me and keep on givér hell everyday!!!
TE AMO MUCHISIMO
your lil missionary
mum i cant believe you now have 3 dogs... haha its so funny because all the dogs here have clothes for the cold hehe i want to send you some for tug and luna hehe!! draper days and like in draper right now sounds good!!
as for me this week was well nuts in every way... first off we found a new family edson is his name and his wife is called lesli and the daughter has 2 years old and they are just the perfect family in everyday well they have to get married first but they are so great i love them so much so we are teaching them right now edson feels like something is missing in his life (yeah the gospel) hehe so we are working with them right now and then we found another investigator her name is rosa and it was so cool because she said she was praying to god because she really wants to quit smoking (smokes 3 packs a day and weed) and we showed up at her door. she said we were on answer to her pray and i never thought a story like that would happen to me, so we trying to teach her but shes gonna be a bit difficult but I'm up for the challenge!! we also finally got a hold of benita this week it was so cool because she ask us if we could go visit the temple and then she said i want to get baptized on the 4th of august, she put her own fecha!! so cool so the next day we ended up going to the temple with her and florencia it was a bit rough because there were a lot of people there and you couldn't feel the spirit a ton but she said she really liked it so god works through people even when you don't think they are feeling anything. but then we had something really funny and then something terrible happen its that roller coaster of the mission is real stuff, but first off i was so freaking hilarious me and hna vale we contacting and we saw this dog sitting in the middle of the road and it would not move para nada... and all the cars had to go around it so me and hna vale decided to go help the poor cockerspanaled... hna vale was whistling trying to call it to the side of the road but it wouldnt lisen so i decide the brilliant person i am to go tap it with me b.o.m...just give it a lil tappy tap tap tap- a- roo and the freaking perro (dog) attacked me rararara and i started running backwards screaming as it was trying to snap and bite at my legs and finally it stopped and peed in the middle of the road after the freaking dog started follow us and then we started running trying to lose the dang thing and it started to chase us... every dog i now see I'm scared of... hahah hna vale could not stop laughing and about peed her pants and i was laughing so hard to it was like a movie just imagine two sister missionaries running down the street while a lil doggy is runny after them it was so funny. oh the moments in the mission. so after we got a call from one of the hermana from the ward she said i need to talk to you guys please come visit me in my house so we headed to her house well we asked how she was and she said mal mal mal mal (bad).. her daughter cata and son felipe were playing with florencia (benita´s daughter) and, well, things got a little out of hand... florencia didn't want to play the game they were playing so cata and felipe chased her around the house with a hammer and a chair trying to hit her on the head with a plastic toy thing. ya it's things of little kids right? the problem is is florencia never has had a lot of friends, then when her mom started learning from us, she started to make friends. well you can see my point, florencia was crying and went home we trying to call benita but didn't get a hold of her till yesterday and she said florencia is really scared and doesn't want to leave her house and doesn't want anything to do with the church anymore. benita was more understandable but said the these two kids have satan inside of them and were trying to kill my daughter benita. she doesn't blame us but is a bit stirred up were going to visit her tomorrow so well get more details them. Satan is really working with us and benita i just don't know what to do with her and more. but i know the lord has a plan it might not happen right now or even with me but hopefully in the future with time benita will be baptized nothing would make me happier to some day see her and her daughter baptized. i think one thing i really learned this week is how much i love the people here they might not get baptized but just to know i was able to help in a moment in their lives is so worth it for me and everything is in the time of our H.F. it was neat the other day we ran into this drunk guy we always see in the street we decided to talk to him and he told us I'm a lost sheep that needs to be found and maybe in my life right now I'm not ready but one thing i know for sure is god loves me, i know that because i see you two walking around my streets. and then another guys came up to me and shook my hand and said thank you so much for blessing my country with your service.. above it all those moments are worth everything to me. it was so cool also we did splits this we and i heading to a different sector with a hna that had 2 weeks in the mission and one that had 2 month needless to say to speak or understand much i had to do everything thing start lesson talk most of the time in the lesson contact for them cause they were scared and just everything... it was actually a really neat experience for me cause i didn't know if i could do it, but i did and it wasn't just me i know H.F. was helping me the whole time. but ya that is about it for my week winter vacation is now over here so hopefully we´ll have a little more success this week. please put hna vale in your prayers as well shes having a hard time with her family. but i love you all so so very much and i miss you a ton!! I'm on the count down crazy how time flies!! enjoy the summer weather for me and keep on givér hell everyday!!!
TE AMO MUCHISIMO
your lil missionary
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