tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75015923699726183992024-03-13T04:51:25.533-07:00Meghan's Mission AdventuresShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-31328205010064597052014-12-11T16:43:00.002-08:002014-12-11T16:43:34.761-08:00Homecoming Talk, July 22, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-37522136121740608482014-08-10T16:16:00.002-07:002014-08-10T16:16:40.226-07:00Week # 67 LA ULTIMA CARTA!!!!!<br />
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Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-88078551945813761362014-08-10T15:53:00.001-07:002014-08-10T16:08:39.021-07:00Week #66 Photos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-30317434853068516722014-08-10T11:18:00.002-07:002014-08-10T11:18:20.044-07:00Week #66 Two weeks to go!!<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;">so how do i start out this week??? lots of crazy things happened the week. but i think the main thing i would like to focus on was the </span><span style="color: orange;">baptism</span><span style="color: orange;"> we had with </span><span style="color: orange;">fransica!!</span><span style="color: orange;"> i </span><span style="color: orange;">don't</span><span style="color: orange;"> know if you guys remember her, the little girl who was baptized in freezing water.. well she said she still wanted to be baptized, and for this </span><span style="color: orange;">sunday</span><span style="color: orange;"> we had the date ready to go.. i think it was one of the most stressful days of my life!! so first off, we fill up the font and again the water is freezing cold, so i told </span><span style="color: orange;">hermana</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">orozco</span><span style="color: orange;"> we were going to go to the kitchen and heat up water to pour in the font. well, we get to the kitchen and there were no matches to light the stove, so we found a </span><span style="color: orange;">calefont,</span><span style="color: orange;"> a little heater that works with flames of gas, and lit a piece of paper and ran into the kitchen (mind you that one of the secretaries was helping us) we got the heater working and i </span><span style="color: orange;">accidentally</span><span style="color: orange;"> blew out the one we had lit. we tried again but it </span><span style="color: orange;">didn't</span><span style="color: orange;"> work. then the </span><span style="color: orange;">secretary</span><span style="color: orange;"> told us it was a waste and probably </span><span style="color: orange;">wasn't</span><span style="color: orange;"> going to make a difference (he was probably right) so i said a prayer in my head that </span><span style="color: orange;">fran</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">wouldn't</span><span style="color: orange;"> feel the water. so time came for her to get baptized, and the whole ward was sooo excited. she was super scared even to start with, because she </span><span style="color: orange;">didn't</span><span style="color: orange;"> have the best first </span><span style="color: orange;">impression</span><span style="color: orange;">... we said a sweet little prayer together </span><span style="color: orange;">before</span><span style="color: orange;"> the </span><span style="color: orange;">baptism</span><span style="color: orange;"> to help calm her down... but it </span><span style="color: orange;">literally</span><span style="color: orange;"> took her 30 </span><span style="color: orange;">minutes</span><span style="color: orange;"> to be baptized and was the most </span><span style="color: orange;">suspenseful</span><span style="color: orange;"> thing </span><span style="color: orange;">I've</span><span style="color: orange;"> ever seen. it was like watching </span><span style="color: orange;">mundial</span><span style="color: orange;">!! </span><span style="color: orange;">hahaha</span><span style="color: orange;">. but she was super scared but she wanted to do it so bad and she knew it was important. the amazing thing was you could really see her testimony shine in that moment because she was so scared of the water, one of her biggest fears, but she wanted so badly to get baptized. the </span><span style="color: orange;">hermano</span><span style="color: orange;"> that baptized her was so </span><span style="color: orange;">patient</span><span style="color: orange;"> and amazingly perfect i think it was </span><span style="color: orange;">revelation</span><span style="color: orange;"> that we picked him to baptized her... en </span><span style="color: orange;">serio</span><span style="color: orange;">... and the best part was that right before she was about to go under water she said... no i cant do it.. and the </span><span style="color: orange;">hermano</span><span style="color: orange;"> who was baptizing her said... </span><span style="color: orange;">fran</span><span style="color: orange;"> i know heavenly father and </span><span style="color: orange;">jesucristo</span><span style="color: orange;"> are here with us right now... she took a </span><span style="color: orange;">deap</span><span style="color: orange;"> breath and went under.... </span><span style="color: orange;">that's</span><span style="color: orange;"> all she needed to know was that her HF was there with her. incredibly, i am shocked! my!! the faith of </span><span style="color: orange;">fransica</span><span style="color: orange;"> she really was more of a example for me and the faith and the bravery that she had. it </span><span style="color: orange;">wasn't</span><span style="color: orange;"> just a </span><span style="color: orange;">baptism</span><span style="color: orange;"> for her but also coming over her fears. when she came out of the font she had the biggest smile on her face and looked so happy and ran over and hugged me. i was a really sweet </span><span style="color: orange;">experience</span><span style="color: orange;"> for me. she is amazing. i and it was cool to see her take this step and set the example for her family!! well, i </span><span style="color: orange;">don't</span><span style="color: orange;"> have much time to write more, but lots of good things are happening. this week was incredible. </span><span style="color: orange;">I'm</span><span style="color: orange;"> seeing </span><span style="color: orange;">miracles</span><span style="color: orange;"> seriously everyday!! i love the mission.!! well, see you all in 2 </span><span style="color: orange;">weeeks</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">ahhh</span><span style="color: orange;">!! </span><span style="color: orange;">les</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">amo</span><span style="color: orange;">.</span><br style="color: orange;" /><span style="color: orange;">con </span><span style="color: orange;">amor</span><span style="color: orange;">,</span><br style="color: orange;" /><span style="color: orange;">hermana</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">godfrey</span></span>Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-53048697842861810612014-08-10T10:56:00.000-07:002014-08-10T10:56:09.336-07:00Week #65 Photos<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-39033884669697520492014-08-10T10:45:00.001-07:002014-08-10T10:52:35.401-07:00Week #65 3 Semanas left!haber.... where do i start .. i really don't know what to say? all these weeks are blurring together and lots to do. let's see here... monday we ran into giovanna a wilberdani and it was soo good to see them because its been a long time. we invited wilberdani to church and she came!! wahoo!!!! it was awesome! i think she really likes it its hard to tell sometimes because she doesn't speak a lot of spanish but there is a family in the ward that is amazing and has completely taken her under there wing. i think she really enjoys them! i love wilberdani she is awesome! we'll see what happens. i also did division as a sister training leader this week in ñuñoa 1 with a hermana named hermana todesco ( her familia is from italy but she is american) but she is such a sweet heart. i think one of the nicest people i have ever met, and big ball of energy! we cut down a huge tree, almost fell off a wall and contacted crazy drunk people, met a guy who loves nitro circus and gave him sticker and we set up another cita with him, it was good time... before we started the day, i asked HF to help me help this hermana in anything she needed and help me be a good leader... there was a point during the day when i felt like i was the worst leader and that she was teaching me more then i was helping her.. and then came a moment were we were talking and she expressed to me her concerns and how she doesn't feel like a good missionary... that was my moment!! i know how that feels.. we had a really nice conversation and i cried without even knowing her, and i think she could really feel the love from her heavenly father and me, and i think it really helped her a lots! she kept telling me thank you... i don't know, i tried my best and i hope i was able to make her feel like a good missionary because she is!! it was a neat experience for me. other then that we have just been running all over the place. life is good! i love the mission and am trying to enjoy every minute. i hope you all are doing well and know how much i miss you all and am always praying for you!! have such a great week!!!! <br />con amor,<br />hermana godfreyShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-36509962032545260922014-08-10T10:45:00.000-07:002014-08-10T10:46:37.956-07:00Week # 64 The Rain is here!<br />
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-74359893609469786072014-08-10T10:29:00.004-07:002014-08-10T10:29:44.728-07:00Week #64 Four Weeks To Go!! Hola a todos ¿como estan?<br />so this week was just kinda a crazy week! so first of all mundial (the world cup for soccer) started and chile made it! the chileans are so freaking happy and we actually aren't allowed to go out and work when chile is playing because its very dangerous... chuuuuta... hahah. but its fun to see chile and the people so patriotic... but ya and we had zone conference this week and elder robbins for the 70ies came and talked to us... it was a crazy week with lots of reunions... but a really good week. i learned a lot. it was cool because elder robbins talked about the mission and how the mission is the university of life, and the best place to learn and prepare you for everything you will take on during your life... he also talked about the holy ghost and the importance of having a true conversions because if we don't, even a angel coming down to visit us would not be enough for us to believe if the holy ghost hasn't truly touched our hearts; and tons and tons of other stuff...but it was awesome. he is an incredible person and without a doubt you could see that he was a disciple of Christ!! <br />so we had a really good district class this week and i just absolutely loved it. my district leader is elder gowdy (mckenzie mckeon's friend) he's awesome!! so the week before, we had zone class and i had to teach one of the parts, and i was so nervous!! and i remember before i gave the class the only thing i wanted was that i could touch someone with the message i had. so the class ended and i kinda felt dumb after, but se me paso... then we had this class and elder gowdy was like, "hermana godfrey said this and i wanted to explain it a bit more..." and he just shared about how much my message had touched him and it was such a testimony to me that you never know whose hearts you might touch and heavenly father answers our prayers!!! it was cool, but he read a story from the liahona of june 2<span style="color: #c27ba0;">014 by elder </span>holland<span style="color: #c27ba0;"> that i really liked:</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Latter day Saints are called upon to be the leaven in the loaf, the salt that never loses its savor, the light set upon a hill never to be hidden under </span>a bushel<span style="color: #c27ba0;">. So start presenting!</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">If we do right and talk right and reach out generously with our words and our deeds, then, when the Savior cuts short His work in righteousness,says time is no more in this last dispensation, and comes in His glory, He will find us doing our best, trying to live the gospel, trying to improve our lives and our Church and our society the best way we can.</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">When He comes, I so want to be caught living the gospel. I want to be surprised right in the act of spreading the faith and doing something good. I want the Savior to say to me: “HERMANA GODFREY(place your name here), I recognize you not by your title but by your life, the way you are trying to live and the standards you are trying to defend. I see the integrity of your heart. I know you have tried to make things better first and foremost by being better yourself and then by declaring my word and defending my gospel to others in the </span>most compassionate<span style="color: #c27ba0;"> way you could.”</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">He will certainly add: “I know you weren’t always successful with your own sins and with the circumstances of others, but I believe you honestly tried. I believe in your heart you truly loved me.”</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I want to have something like that encounter someday as I want nothing else in this mortal life. And I want it for you. I want it for us all. “Israel,Israel, God is calling”6—calling us to live the gospel of Jesus Christ personally in small ways and large ways, to reach out to those who may not look or dress or behave quite as we do, and then (where we can) to go beyond that to serve in the widest community we can address.</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I love the Lord Jesus Christ, whose servant I am trying to be. And I love our Heavenly Father, who cared enough to give Him to us. Regarding that gift, I know that God is calling to Israel in these latter days to be more Christlike and to be more holy than we now are in our determination to live the gospel and establish Zion. I also know that He will give us the strength and the holiness to be true disciples if we plead for them.</span><br /><br />i love it!! and that is how i want to be when i am done with this life. it doesn't matter how cool we are or how much money we have or how famous we are because at the end of the day, Christ is not going to look at us for these acts but at how we lived our lives.... so what are we focused on?<br /><br />well i hope you all have a great week love you all so much 30 days, omgoodnesss..... i cant believe it!! always praying for you all!! thanks always for the support!! con amor,<br /><br />hermana godfreyShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-70772306559730311472014-07-13T18:38:00.000-07:002014-08-10T16:10:48.696-07:00Happy Birthday Meghan!!! More Birthday Photos!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-15770371392035549752014-07-13T18:34:00.000-07:002014-07-13T18:34:12.213-07:00Week #63 Feliz Cumplianos!!<br />
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-16189450371999844972014-07-13T18:20:00.004-07:002014-07-13T18:20:45.532-07:00Week #63 I'm a Sister Training Leader!!!!<span style="color: #f1c232;">so just so you all know.... dan dan dan.... que? i did not have changes!!! im still here in lo cañas... can you believe that? i thought for sure i was going to get changes but i guess im going to finish my mision here! its all good, i´ve got mixed feelings about it but it will be good. im excited. 3 comps my whole mission and 2 sectors wow... hahah! ALSO guess what?? I am a sister training leader!! ya it will be crazy with lots of meetings. but i´ve going to start my divisions with my hermanas tomorrow actually so should be fun!! wish me luck. ya about kyn it was crazy Saturday we got on the computer to do this thing we do to find less actives and i had to get on my email to get my password... and i saw the email and being a little chueca, and i think the spirit was there too... i looked at kyns message curious tooo... and so i started my fast for her right after in the street haha but I'm glad I was able to fast with you guys! so hopefully it helps her a bit...</span><br />
<br style="color: #f1c232;" /><span style="color: #f1c232;">ok so lets see... this week was a lot of walking not many people wanted to talk to us this week but we all have those weeks right... but we had some miracles too... so we were walking and all of a sudden Monica's name came into my head and i said ya we need to go visit her... so we went and she wasn't doing too good, still struggling with the whole thing with her son and all the things that have happened... but we were able to help lift her up for a bit... you could feel the spirit really strong and i just felt good that we were able to help lift her up when she was down!! then we have this new investigator named adrian. he is from Ecuador and is living here in Chile so we can't go to his house and teach him so we had to teach him in the park on wed. and we were all freezing our butts off... it was so cold... and like 9:30 at night tooo. but the lesson went really good and we taught the whole thing in english because he wants to practice his english. it was so weird!! my first lesson in english and i was forgetting all the words in english. it would have been so much easier in spanish. blessing tho right? i remember when i couldn't even give a lesson in spanish when i first got here so it made me realize how blessed i have been to have learned a new language. i thought it was going to be impossible! heavenly father is a miracle worker "im speaking spanish"!! thanks to him!</span><br style="color: #f1c232;" /><span style="color: #f1c232;">we also had a cool experience with a contact. we were walking and all of a sudden my body stopped. i turned and the next thing i knew i was handing the kid a tarjeta and talking to him and then when i realized what i was doing, i had gotten his address and set up an appointment to visit him!! it was soooo weird and it definitely was not me talking... kinda cool tho. but he lives in the other hermana's sector but i have a feeling he is going to be a good investigators for them!! well that's about it for now, lots more happened but i don't have time hahaha.!! but i love you all so much and i feel so blessed to have every single one of you guys in my life...thanks for everything and for the birthday wishings - you guys all made me cry!!! LES AMO!!!</span><br style="color: #f1c232;" /><span style="color: #f1c232;">con amor,</span><br style="color: #f1c232;" /><span style="color: #f1c232;">hermana godfrey</span>Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-50627226956903529092014-07-13T18:06:00.002-07:002014-07-13T18:12:19.692-07:00Week #62 P-Day in the Andes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-76855572049131936192014-07-13T18:03:00.003-07:002014-07-13T18:03:37.962-07:00Week #62 My Testimonyso first off, to start off we have cambios this next week so we will see next monday where i end up spending my last transfer. that's cool you guys met hna chamberlin.. she was my comp from the CCM´s trainer-- she's really sweet and a way good missionary. <br /><br />so this week was a bit crazy!! i was raining super hard on wed. i was on divisiones and i wasn't too prepared for the rain... and i got soaking wet hahah. thankfully we got into two houses.. wahoo but the rest of the night we were walking around in the cold, raining night... you have got to love the mission. my comp that day, hna sharp was worried because my feet were soaked but i told her that i was fine and we continued. plus i was loving the rain...haha. it was a fun night!!! <br />
<br />so the other day i was sitting there listening too a talk by Eyring, the one he gave this last conference about his grandfather and everything he has and the fact that he has the gospel in his life is all thanks to his grandfather. i thought that was neat because i know the gospel came into our life thanks to one of our ancestors... but then he started to talk about the conversion of his grandfather and how he was converted and how he gained his testimony... so i started to think, where did my testimony come from? when was I truly, truly converted??... well i don't know if it was day and noche for me... i think it was little things testifying to me throughout my whole life... and experiences i have had throughout my life. but i would have to say my mission has definitely sealed my testimony, and it tries your testimony too but i think after its been tried its that much more stronger. I'm so grateful that from my mission i have learned and grown so much, all thanks to the mission. I have gained my testimony out here. i know God is our Heavenly Father, i know Christ lives... and i know he has a plan for each and every one of us. i love this gospel with all my heart.!! and i have the best family in the whole world and thanks to my parents and their faithfulness, i was able to grow up in the gospel. <br />i would love you hear your guys conversion stories. when was the moment that you were truly converted???? so feel free to write me!! hehehe ill be waiting next monday!!<br />haha well time is going fast trying my hardest to just finish running. hope you all have a great week and know im always praying for you all. love you all so much!!<br />con amor,<br />hermana godfreyShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-24956720260642232922014-07-13T17:55:00.001-07:002014-07-13T17:55:48.347-07:00Photo Week #61<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-40470238745977100772014-07-13T17:53:00.006-07:002014-07-13T17:53:58.242-07:00Week #61 Only 8 Weeks to Go!!hola familia y amigos,<br /><br />things here in chile are going really good! this week was crazy and i am absolutely exhausted... lets see where do i start.. well i had to run down to el centro and wake up early to go get my carnet... and we were there all day... then we came back and went straight to help with the noche de hogar or the activity we have been planning. it was crazy then we got everything set up and wilberdani and paul came!!!! wahooo!! they stuck out like sore thumbs and so everyone was just talking to them like crazy and everyone was supporting them a lot. it was really neat to see and then, sunday came around and they both came to church. i think they really like it. it was really cool to finally see them in church and all the guys, just man, really good friends with paul. during the noche de hogar us missionaries, we did a skit and it seriously was the funnest thing!! we got the whole ward laughing so hard. ill try and see if i can send it on dropbox. it was a good night.<br /><br />
then on sunday we had a pretty crazy experience. fransica was supposed to get baptized and everything was ready to go. they showed up to church on time and at the end of church we started the baptism service. everything started out good, but when we got to the font, the water was freezing cold freezing freezing cold!! but they still got in... but poor fran got scared and didn't want to go under the water. the hno pushed her under the first time but she didn't go down all the way and then the second time she was bawling .... i felt so so bad!! i promised her that the water would be warm and that it would be a beautiful experience and here we traumatized the poor girl... so we ended the service and they went home. i was a wreck.. i felt so so bad... one of the counselors of the ward was really sweet and just told me that it was normal and things like this happen and its just another story i can tell people haha. but ya we got home and i made her a banana cake and i cute little card and we took it to them, and when we got there i really didn't know if they were going to let us in. but they did and fran was super excited to see us. she told us that she was super cold and scared and she asked if we could show her video of baptism and we did and she started to get excited again. i dunno the conclusion that i came to is that heavenly father knows what he is doing and me and my comp really think that maybe it was to help the mum and give her time to follow the example her daughter is giving or something like that, but everything happens for a reason... i think and it was just a challenge she has to overcome and her fear of water too. and if she really has a strong testimony she will do it!!! so ya that was pretty much my week lots more happened but too much to write. that is kinda the key points!! i love you all so much and am always praying for you all have a great week! <br />besitos y abrasos!!<br />con mucho amor,<br />hermana godfreyShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-61438451498053107902014-07-13T17:46:00.001-07:002014-07-13T17:46:48.596-07:00Photo Week #60<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-39771527348129251682014-07-13T17:39:00.001-07:002014-07-13T17:45:07.197-07:00Week #60, A Mother's Day Chat<div style="color: #f4cccc;">
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<br />i can't believe we were talking about when i get home! only 8 weeks left that is nothing.. I'm freaking out but excited and sad and just lots of things going through my head. but ya. as i told you this week was a bit ruff walking a lot and stuff and not getting into many houses, but that isn't going to hold us back and I know we have a great week ahead of us. it already started out really well. so today for pday we went to this little china store, like china town kinda and when we got on the micro(bus) wilberdani was sitting there (paul y giovannas) and we invited her to come with us to an actividad we have on friday... and she said she wanted to come and was super excited to come!! wahoo!! I'm so stoked! she is such a sweet heart. so I'm excited... this week is going to be chuck full with things to do so im excited... </div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">lets see what else happened this week? oh i think i told you </span>martha<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> and </span>fransica<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> came to church they are amazing and i think they really like church. and we had a really good </span>noche<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span>de<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span>hogar<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> with </span>lorena<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> and we are going to take her to the temple this week and put the meta(goal) with her that in one year she can enter to do her endowments!! </span>wahoo!!!<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> she is awesome, i love her. but my </span>motto<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> for this week </span>perseveras<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span>hasta<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span>el<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> fin.... endure to the end!! I'm coming close to the end! i cant believe it and this is not the time to give up but to push until the very end of my mission....so that is my invitation for all of you guys too.. whatever you are doing school, work, life don't give up until you are done. and the church especially we all need to be going, going, going and growing for the church and enduring to end so that we all can be with heavenly father again one day!! that is our goal right? la </span>vida<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span>eterna<span style="color: #f4cccc;">... eternal life!! i love you all so much! so fun to talk to you all, always praying for you guys!! love you tons! </span><br style="color: #f4cccc;" /><span style="color: #f4cccc;">con </span>amor<span style="color: #f4cccc;">,</span><br style="color: #f4cccc;" />hermana<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span>godfreyShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-67154045039329505782014-07-12T23:12:00.001-07:002014-07-12T23:12:11.358-07:00Week #59 Fran and Martha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-80936016461877463792014-07-12T23:08:00.008-07:002014-07-12T23:13:59.775-07:00Week #59 Martha and Fran buen día a todos!! everything here in chile is going really well. we had a pretty good week... kinda slow because as you all know these crazy chileans have a vacation for the littlest things, so this weekend was día de los trabajadores... so everyone went out of town for the weekend, but we were still able to kick some butt and contacted a ton of new people which was awesome.<br />
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this week, we really focused a lot on martha and fran... o fransica... martha is the mum of fran and they both have been listening to the lessons. they are so cute! fran said she wants to be a missionary one day... awwww! so cute - she's only ten but she acts as if she is 20! it was awesome because they both came to church on Sunday!! AHH it was a miracle for me! at first i didn't see them and i was crushed, and then i looked back and there they were!! fran had her book of mormon and everything!! it was wonderful to see them in church! cool story, so we were walking around contacting and i was over it because no body was listening, and i told hna orozco... let's say a prayer really quick. i prayed specifically... i asked that we could find a young man that could someday hold the priesthood and serve a mission. we were walking... first one we contacted, nothing... the second man we contacted was so cool and totally interesting and had tons of questions for us. his name is maxamiliano.... he is incredible!! heavenly father answers prayer, people!!<br />
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-91412055377389329352014-07-12T22:36:00.000-07:002014-07-12T22:38:24.710-07:00Week #58 FELIZ Cumplianos!!Hola a todos!!<br />
first off FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS mum and chan! wow i cant believe another year has passed i remember last year making posters to send you guys for your birthdays! seems like that was yesterday. but mum i hope you had a great birthday sound like dad and chan were awesome... or tried haha. and chan i hope you have a fun birthday!! FELIZ FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS A TI!!<br />
mum I'm so glad you got that little package close to your birthday... a girl i know here in chile was going to utah to visit a missionary who got home a few months ago and i put that together really quick to give you a bit of Chile! haha. the juice packs are way good and what we drink like every day here. haha. I'm glad you got the package. <br />
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this week was a good week we had a lot of good lessons and actually got into a lot of houses this week which was really nice. we are working a with a few people that are progressing quite a bit which is awesome. lorena was finally confirmed this week after being sick for 3 weeks she finally felt good enough to come to church. she said she missed it. which made me happy. <br />
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hna wright went out with us this week and it was fun to go out with her and get to know her a bit better. she was able to help us a ton in our sector. sorry... so much happened but its all kinda a blurr just working hard and trying to make the best of these next weeks. sorry it was a boring letter but everything is so crazy that i cant even think straight and my brain is just going like crazy. keep monica and josé in your prayers. love you all so much thanks always for the support! have such a great week. always praying for you all!!!<br />
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con mucho amor,<br />
hermana godfrey<br />
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mum, dad y chan and who ever else whats so read it.....<br />
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read this talk its for missionaries but its sooooo good just you can apply it to you guys too!<br />
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i loved this talk so much especially the part where it talks about with out the trials we would never know joy!!! the greats joys we have are after our challenges!! heaven father knows what he is doing we just need to put our trust in him. and have true joy.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Enoch saw in vision the wickedness of our day and was brought to tears.Then the Lord told him He would cause truth and righteousness “to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth” (Moses 7:62). My husband, Dan, serves as a counselor in the mission presidency at the Provo Missionary Training Center, and every Wednesday we see a wave of that flood as 300 to 500 missionaries begin their service. They are clean, happy, and strong, eager to get to those four quarters, to one of 337 missions in 165 countries. When Enoch saw the end result of this flood—the redemption of the righteous—he received a fulness of joy (see Moses 7:67). At the MTC it is impossible not to feel joy in the presence of these elders and sisters. Lehi said, “Men are, that they might have joy” (2 Ne. 2:25). Missionaries are, that they might share joy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Choosing Joy and Sorrow</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">The quest for joy in mortality began with Adam and Eve. They chose sorrow and death so they could also choose joy and exaltation. Eve said to Adam, “Were it not for our transgression we … never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient” (Moses 5:11). Our Savior’s Atonement was a choice for joy. Not long after Gethsemane He gathered the little children on the American continent around Him, blessed them, prayed for them, and invited angels to encircle them. Observing the faith of the people, He said, “My joy is full” (3 Ne. 17:20). He had come from the ultimate agony in Jerusalem to a fullness of joy in the Americas. We will never know His agony, but He chose to accomplish the Atonement so we could eventually experience a fullness of joy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Joy is an emotion of the spirit. It comes through righteous living. It is not a casual or shallow feeling, ever. If we equate fun and pleasure with happiness, we may think pain must always be equated with unhappiness. But that is not true. Joy is not a stranger to pain. We may not feel deeply enough to know joy unless our hearts have been hollowed out by sorrow.A heart may not be big enough to know real joy until it has been stretched and pulled by trials and hard things. In 2 Nephi 2:23 [2 Ne. 2:23] we find this phrase: “having no joy, for they knew no misery.” Our capacity to feel joy actually increases as we righteously endure our pain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">As missionaries go out to serve, they taste the same mixture of emotions almost every day. The deeper their joy in the message and the more intense their desire to share it, the greater their sorrow when it is rejected.Often when the scriptures talk about joy and sorrow, they are referring to missionary work. In Alma 28:8 we read, “And this is the account of Ammon and his brethren, their journeyings in the land of Nephi, their sufferings in the land, their sorrows, and their afflictions, and their incomprehensible joy.” These four terms often describe a mission:sufferings, sorrows, afflictions, and incomprehensible joy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">If a missionary has had a largely pain-free existence to this point, perhaps the experience of deep joy still lies ahead. One missionary who described premission life as being pretty easy told about teaching a discussion in which the whole family, especially the father, was very responsive.Afterward, as he and his companion pedaled their bicycles toward their apartment, he thought: “So this is what joy feels like. I guess I’ve never known until now.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">What Joy Is and What It Is Not</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is learning to “make friends with mortality.” That’s a phrase my sister taught me long ago to help me endure when cars break down and bills pile up. She was trying to help me make the best of a telestial world, much as an aunt of President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) did many years ago in Whitney, Idaho. Seeds were scarce, and she had just finished planting her peas when she looked out the kitchen window to see a rooster going down the row, scratching out her peas, and eating them.She ran outside, grabbed him, chopped off his head, opened him up, took out her peas, replanted them, and cooked him for supper.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Making friends with mission mortality means accepting slammed door sand canceled appointments, the blazing sun or freezing cold. You just smile and say, “This is a mission.” Your heart won’t let you quit or even slow down. You think of President Hinckley, who has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and try to stay as positive as he is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Missionaries may not wake up each morning bursting with joy, but they are out the door on time anyway. “Hard” isn’t negative when you are a missionary. Why? Because when your feet hurt and you’re really hungry and the dogs are especially vicious and you are surprised to discover that you are happy anyway, you accept that gift of joy as a blessing from your Heavenly Father, thanking you for doing His work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Missionaries choose effort over ease. They choose the sorrow of rejection without losing the hope of bringing people to Christ. Serving a mission is a choice, and every elder and sister can choose to make that mission glorious.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is not about having things. Not focusing on money, earning it or spending it, is one of the blessings of a mission. The things of God replace the things of the world. Discovering that having “things” has little to do with having happiness can be a lifelong mission blessing. Some have more worldly possessions, some have fewer, and it doesn’t matter. Missionaries who ask their parents not to send extra money, who want to live on what their leaders say is adequate, have the best missions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is not about being in the limelight. It is about changing lives, one at a time. When my husband was president of the New Jersey Morristown Mission, a struggling elder confided in me. He wanted so much to be a good missionary—some of the time. The rest of the time he was just homesick and discouraged. He was up and down, up and down. Reading was a challenge; he could not seem to learn the discussions. Solid Elder Brown, * with only two months left to serve, was made his companion. I was concerned that this might mean a difficult and disappointing conclusion to Elder Brown’s mission. But on his last night as a missionary, he wept in gratitude for those two months. We soon learned, not from him, that a miracle had occurred. The two missionaries had read the entire Book of Mormon together. Our struggling elder could now teach the first two discussions, and he never talked about going home again. When they came to see us after our mission was over, they came together. Missionaries can strengthen and be strengthened by every companion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The great thieves of joy are envy (why can’t I be like you?) and pride (whycan’t you be like me?). A measuring tape is not on the list of missionary supplies. Comparing is measuring, and it destroys joy. And to mockanother’s weaknesses cannot be acceptable to the Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is not about looks or personality or a fluent tongue. It is about having the image of God in your countenance and the power of God in your testimony. It is about loving to be on the Lord’s errand. King Lamoni asked Ammon if he was the Great Spirit. Ammon said just what our elders say today: “I am a man; and … I am called by his Holy Spirit to teach these things unto this people” (Alma 18:34). Great missionaries are too focused on the work to dwell on their own imperfections; thus their strengths come to the fore. They discover that testimony, preparation, and love bring conversion, not looks or personality or the gift of fluency.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">New Jersey is the home of Princeton University. We were told that an English professor there had invited two of our missionaries in to visit him.One of them used such poor grammar that it was painful for the professor even to listen. But he could not turn them away because the power of that elder’s testimony encircled this brilliant man. He had to learn more.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is not about leadership positions. If it is a missionary’s companion who is called to be the zone leader instead of himself, and he can rejoice for his companion, then he is a commendable missionary. And if a missionary is called to be a leader and is a humble servant-leader, he is also a commendable missionary. Either way, the missionary doubles his joy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is about faith in the cause of Christ. Our missionary daughter in Taiwan was having a very bad day. None of her investigators had come to church. There was contention in the branch. Her Chinese companion,full of faith, would not join in her discouragement but said to her, “Everydispensation for 6,000 years has ended in apostasy. Not this one. We are preparing for the Second Coming, and we’re not going to fail.” So much for Sister Workman’s very bad day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy comes from being trusted. Trying to cut corners and get around rules makes any missionary miserable. When you “make yourself mind yourself,” when you know you are going to do what you say you will do,you will know joy. President Workman had only two rules, and if missionaries would keep them he promised a successful mission: “Work really hard and obey.” The praise of the president, as sweet as it is, is not the driving force behind a great missionary. Just doing the work, far from the scrutiny of the mission office, is its own exhilarating reward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy comes from seeing the fruits of your labor. One day we we reworking with our Spanish zone. President Workman was tracting with elders and I with sisters. The plan was for several companionships to meet at a little pizza shop for lunch. I can still see one of our sisters as she burst through the door of the shop. Absolutely brimming with joy, she put her hands to her cheeks and said over and over, “She prayed, she prayed.”We saw pure joy over one investigator’s prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy is about overcoming. The Spirit moves missionaries to struggle against laziness, anger, and disobedience. The smallest improvement brings courage, and missionaries keep trying. They learn to forgive each other and work through problems because they learn early that hard feelings drive the Spirit away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy comes from teaching the plan. A sister from Jamaica was being taught at the mission home. The elders would begin to read a scripture,and almost before they could finish she would take the book from them so she could read it herself, exclaiming, “Oh my!” The promise “how great will be your joy” (D&C 18:16) filled the room as we watched her learn.President Workman asked a tall, strongly built elder what he had learned in his few months as a missionary. He said: “Before I came on a mission I knew that there was no greater thrill in life than football. Now I know that is nothing compared to seeing someone taught by the Spirit.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Joy comes from building the kingdom. As an Apostle, President Wilford Woodruff (1807–98) established the Spring Garden Branch in Newark, New Jersey, on October 11, 1848. It was closed, reopened, and closed again. Newark was not a family town. Crime was rampant.President Workman shared with me his misgivings about sending Elder Smith * as a district leader there. Could he take it? But he went willingly,and the work progressed. On Easter morning, 1990, the Spring Garden Branch was to be organized again. The Brethren wanted it to carry the same name. We met in the YMCA building in the center of Newark. The large room was packed and infused with joy. We sustained leaders who were Latino, Asian, African-American, and Caucasian. Several African brethren came in the colorful dress of their tribes. Young girls wore bright Easter dresses. A gray-haired man in a gray suit and a gray felt hat came in, somberly putting his hat above the coat rack. Following him was a young man, maybe 12, dressed just the same and doing the same thing. I thought to myself, “Newark is going to be OK.” Indeed, they now have a lovely building and missionaries teaching in several languages. But that Easter Sunday Elder Smith was beaming and crying harder than anyone. He said, “This is the happiest day of my life.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Ultimately, joy is in Jesus Christ. Unbearable pain turned Alma to the Savior and thus to joy. Perhaps that experience prompted him to say,“May God grant unto you that your burdens may be light, through the joy of his Son” (Alma 33:23). The “joy of his Son” is found in every corner of every mission, indeed within every valiant elder and sister. Since the day on the Mount of Olives when the Savior gave charge to take His message to the world, He has loved His messengers. His promise for their times of trial is very tender: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). His gift to those who testify of Him is not freedom from hard work or sorrow or stretching but the surety that every ounce of effort in His name is an investment in joy.</span><br />
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-73527233649572524332014-07-12T22:05:00.003-07:002014-07-12T22:05:29.073-07:00Week #57 EASTER!I'm sure your all are just dying to hear where i am right now!! what new sector i have, who IS my new comp.... ?¿? if you know my presidente... well everything is the same hahah im still with hna orozco and still en lo cañas. im pretty sure ill probably end my mission here - 2 sectors 3 comps, life is good!! haha my mission is defiantly really different then other missions... but its all good! everything really is going good and i cant believe how fast time is going by.. i need to enjoy every second and I'm trying too!! Lets see, this week was crazy... same old same old... but let's see, we had two less active families come to church. one, the dad was a missionary.. ap actually and they are super inactive like years... i don't understand. he should understand of all people, but they came to church which was awesome. then we had a another less active family come and the dad hasn't come for 15 years....and he came. it was really cool to see him in church! i think he wants his kids to be part of the church so that's good!! so that was a mini miracle!<br /><br />
so i dunno if you guys know about the burning of valparaiso.. its a town and hour from Santiago. like the whole city burned to the ground, more the 1000 homes were destroyed... and people here are freaking out... i wanna go help them out so bad. everyone from the ward is telling us how they went and helped bring food and cleaned everything up. so i was thinking about it and i started to think what would i do in the situation... it is worse then a earthquake because everything you own is in coals.. i think i would be ok, just as long as my family was ok! but makes you think what if we were to lose everything thing or leave everything behind like lehi...could we do it or are the material things too important for us? no sé! be grateful for what you have tho! the people in valparaiso have nothing and have lost everything and are happy just to have food! so that was a my week basically, nothing to exciting. but hope you're all doing well and know i miss you all tons!! have such a great week!<br />besitos, y abrasitos,<br />con amor <br />hermana godfreyShelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-25868276036177609962014-07-12T21:54:00.005-07:002014-07-12T21:54:45.041-07:00Week #56 Conference Weekend<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501592369972618399.post-36085352543104260822014-07-12T21:48:00.001-07:002014-07-12T21:48:14.293-07:00Week #56 Conference Week<span style="background-color: #741b47; color: #a64d79;"></span><span style="color: #741b47;">ok so first of all just so you all are all calm nothing really happened here in santiago it was all in the north of chile where the earthquake happened... we just felt a few after shocks nothing to big.. but people are freaking out here and super scared... it was way funny tho one of the after shocks i was laying on the floor in our pincion just talking to the other hermanas and all of a sudden, my head started shaking up and down hitting the floor pretty hard and i started yelling te..rr..ee..moo.ttoo hahah it was pretty funny! i loved it but ya nothing to grave here. </span><br />
<br style="color: #741b47;" /><span style="color: #741b47;">oh conference was amazing! just so you all know, i watched it in spanish and understood everything...but i do have to say its fun to watch in english just because you can hear their real voices. but it was an experience, right? i enjoyed it. i loved conference so much tho! my last one here in the mission. i loved uchtdorf of course, and the idea of being grateful for the things that you have even if you feel like you have nothing to be grateful for there is always something... it reminded me a few days ago me and hna orozco were walking and there wasn't much going one we knew it was going to be a ruff day all of our citas canceled and so i started saying today is going to be a good day because the sun is out... then hna orozco today is going to be a good day cause there is the cutest dog in the street... and we continued for about 20mins and i can tell it really did make a difference in our day. we may not have entered a single house that day, but we were happy, and it was a good day!! i also loved, loved president monsons talk on the importance of loving one another and how it is a commandment to love one another... and the story he told about the seamstress... i don't know why but i really just enjoyed his talk a lot... i don't know if you guys noticed but this conference was very strong and it focused on teenagers and homes and family and the importance of being strong and the youth especially. i dunno that's how i felt.. it was so cool too, i was talking to my comp. and it was fun because a lot of the things the apostles talked about were like something we had just studied the day before. i knew where most of the scriptures they were talking about were. i left feeling like i understood so much than before in conference. i guess that is why they say that missionaries are the closest you can be to being part of the quorum of the 12. but it was so good. so many good talks and things we can take out of conference but we need to not only listen then brush it off, but actually try to apply them. that is my challenge for you all... apply what you have learned! i loved the one by elder ballard about missionary work too. made me think about you, dad, and lyndsey and how you guys are being great missionaries. i know that it is what heavenly father wants us all to do - invite people we know to have the happiness we have. and one more thing i loved... sorry I'm blabbering, was the 4 mins here on earth, life is short so live it up you have 4 mins and how are you spending your 4 mins??? loved. it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">So the story of the week was probably con paul. we found him this week, giovanna is working a ton but his sister just moved here from haiti and so we found a french bom and gave it to him. paul looked at as and said thank you so much! i don't have words to explain how much you two mean to me and for this book but thank you!! he even said it in english but i think he wanted us to really understand how he felt. it was so sweet!! a moment ill never forget.</span><span style="color: #741b47;"> life is good, the mission is incredible! time is flying by and the next thing you know ill be home. i love you all so much and i hope you all have a great week. </span><br style="color: #741b47;" /><span style="color: #741b47;">con mucho amor, </span><br style="color: #741b47;" /><span style="color: #741b47;">hermana godfrey</span>Shelley Godfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00579829335197885479noreply@blogger.com0