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| Burning tights...6 month tradition |
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| Florencia and Benita |
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| Lana, the Russian, Goretti and I |
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| A Fun P-Day in San Cristobel |
6 month Photos!!
6 Months in Chile!! Week #23
Wow!! i cant believe it has been 6 months so fast, sometimes kinda slow haha but from this day on i will not repeat the same days over again.. loco loco!! but ya so glad to hear everything went well with the video and typical Godfrey style was last minute haha. sounds like a pretty good week.
as for my week not gonna lie it was a bit slow this week we didn't see Benita once and lets just say that broke my heart freaking Satan... but we stopped by her house today for florencia´s birthday and she said to pass by tomorrow. so well see lots of prayers. hehe but ya so slow week we ended up finding a couple of new investigators and hopefully all goes well you never know but we´ll see fingers crossed. but ya so funny story we were talking to a man in the street and all of the sudden we heard a gun shot and then like a full on battle going on like one street over hna vale was freaking out i was loving it.... (is that bad?) a little scared to tho. but ya the after about 3 min. of constant shooting it stopped and the guy we were talking to said that it was a drug deal going on and that went wrong and that early that day he saw fireworks(so did we) and that means there are drugs in the area so it made sense, nuts tho right? and then another story we heard from some chicka in the street that if you see shoes hanging on telephone wires it means a house near by was robbed. gotta love chile.
ya about the Russian girl we met, her name is Lana and she is from Saint Petersbierg. and she is quite an interesting person, let's just say. we went to visit her because she doesn't really know many people here and just to help her with Spainsh and let's just say i was excited to talk and hear about Russia and stuff. so we go to her house and we start talking, well first of all Russians are very straight forward and just say whatever is on there mind, and one of the first questions she asked me was if our church accepts gays... well, hna vale didn't have any idea what was going on and i was completely solo with that one. such a hard question to answer. but ya all was well and it was just interesting to talk to her. Kyn practice up, i think that is so great you are going to have a tutor because Kyn, this language is insane. to say the words not so much but the spelling and the grammar!!! on... gosh good luck. but i know you can do it. it will be cool once you can speak it, and to be honest we are so blessed to have the blessings of a missionary because it would be so hard to learn without the spirit, let's just say that. but today we ended up taking Lana and Goretti and some other missionary up to San Cristoba a very touristy place here in Santiago and, well, Lana was interesting. i asked if she would like to visit America and she said no never. then i asked what Moscow is like and she said that it is a really really rich city and she doesn't like Moscow, but that's just because she is one of the poorer ones so we know how that goes. but she said that there is only 2 types of classes poor and rich. that's it. and that people in Russia don't smile. if they smile it is very personal and it means they like you as a person. she said it was so weird when she came to chile because all the people were smiling and hugging her, hahaha. they are very, very hard headed people too. but she said that her two sisters are members of the church and that she really likes to come to church. I'm thinking we really need to be pacient with her but who knows. its really fun to learn about her culture and hear her speak Russian for us and oh ya she made us borsk...(no idea how to spell it) but its a famous Russian dish and it was very different and very interesting but i liked it. i'm sure Kyn will eat a lot of that. but ya there our some details on the Russian girl. but ya as for investigtors, this week was a lot of searching and hopefully this next week we will will start to have more success. but that's the mission, so i think i'm use to it by now... your up down all around and its like that song Ethen wrote on his mission, first you doubt, then you figure it out, then your voice stands out then you let it all out. hahaha one day it's all in the plan God has for us and those people we need to find.
well have such a great week i love you all so much and know you are all always in my prayers!!!
te amo mucho,
your lil missionary.
as for my week not gonna lie it was a bit slow this week we didn't see Benita once and lets just say that broke my heart freaking Satan... but we stopped by her house today for florencia´s birthday and she said to pass by tomorrow. so well see lots of prayers. hehe but ya so slow week we ended up finding a couple of new investigators and hopefully all goes well you never know but we´ll see fingers crossed. but ya so funny story we were talking to a man in the street and all of the sudden we heard a gun shot and then like a full on battle going on like one street over hna vale was freaking out i was loving it.... (is that bad?) a little scared to tho. but ya the after about 3 min. of constant shooting it stopped and the guy we were talking to said that it was a drug deal going on and that went wrong and that early that day he saw fireworks(so did we) and that means there are drugs in the area so it made sense, nuts tho right? and then another story we heard from some chicka in the street that if you see shoes hanging on telephone wires it means a house near by was robbed. gotta love chile.
ya about the Russian girl we met, her name is Lana and she is from Saint Petersbierg. and she is quite an interesting person, let's just say. we went to visit her because she doesn't really know many people here and just to help her with Spainsh and let's just say i was excited to talk and hear about Russia and stuff. so we go to her house and we start talking, well first of all Russians are very straight forward and just say whatever is on there mind, and one of the first questions she asked me was if our church accepts gays... well, hna vale didn't have any idea what was going on and i was completely solo with that one. such a hard question to answer. but ya all was well and it was just interesting to talk to her. Kyn practice up, i think that is so great you are going to have a tutor because Kyn, this language is insane. to say the words not so much but the spelling and the grammar!!! on... gosh good luck. but i know you can do it. it will be cool once you can speak it, and to be honest we are so blessed to have the blessings of a missionary because it would be so hard to learn without the spirit, let's just say that. but today we ended up taking Lana and Goretti and some other missionary up to San Cristoba a very touristy place here in Santiago and, well, Lana was interesting. i asked if she would like to visit America and she said no never. then i asked what Moscow is like and she said that it is a really really rich city and she doesn't like Moscow, but that's just because she is one of the poorer ones so we know how that goes. but she said that there is only 2 types of classes poor and rich. that's it. and that people in Russia don't smile. if they smile it is very personal and it means they like you as a person. she said it was so weird when she came to chile because all the people were smiling and hugging her, hahaha. they are very, very hard headed people too. but she said that her two sisters are members of the church and that she really likes to come to church. I'm thinking we really need to be pacient with her but who knows. its really fun to learn about her culture and hear her speak Russian for us and oh ya she made us borsk...(no idea how to spell it) but its a famous Russian dish and it was very different and very interesting but i liked it. i'm sure Kyn will eat a lot of that. but ya there our some details on the Russian girl. but ya as for investigtors, this week was a lot of searching and hopefully this next week we will will start to have more success. but that's the mission, so i think i'm use to it by now... your up down all around and its like that song Ethen wrote on his mission, first you doubt, then you figure it out, then your voice stands out then you let it all out. hahaha one day it's all in the plan God has for us and those people we need to find.
well have such a great week i love you all so much and know you are all always in my prayers!!!
te amo mucho,
your lil missionary.
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Week #22 Holy Shizzzzzzzz Monkey!!
Well lets just say i am loss for words right now i cant believe kyn is going to RUSSIA i would have never ever ever guessed that in a million years. yet again my little sis out does me!!! haha but that's ok your right mom i dunno if i could do Russia WOW, so freakin difficult but kyn i know she can do it she is such a tough person and that is exactly where she needs to be and with the lords help nothing is impossible!! she going to be such an amazing missionary and i am so so so excited and happy for her in every way possible!!! GIVER HE&% KYN!!!! and i just want to say one thing also that somebody told me all missions are hard i really don't believe one mission is hard then another they are all equal and all possible because we have the lord by our side!!
OK so my week i dunno know if i can even come close to topping your week, and the new about Russia but anyways. we have been working a butt load this week trying to find new people and just start out the new change together good!! (which is going really well btw) but ya working hard and well see how it goes this week we ended up finding 6 new investigators possible yesterday in the moment kyn was opening her call i was knocking doors (welcome to the mission kyn) haha but 6 possible i hope at least half ended up working out. but ya and on Friday we went through the temple with Goretti she leaves for her mission in 2 weeks for Mexico and well this girl does have much support in her life so me and hermana vale decided we would enter with her and I'm so glad we did because she only had two people with her... when i went we filled up the whole room. but she seamed so so happy and i just looked at her and a convert for only one year and she has entered the temple and is serving a mission i hope so bad one day i can have an investigator like her. if i serve my whole mission and only convert one person like her that will totally be worth it to me. totally!! i was so nice to go too the temple again to we can only go once a year so yep that was my one time but i couldn't help but feel i was at home and everything was so familiar not like Chile were everything is so unfamiliar. but i did the whole session in Spanish!!! hehe i was so proud of myself the workers asked me if i wanted to do it in English but i told them no and they we all so shocked. but i was a beautiful experience i will never for get. as for hna vale i really do love this girl so so much things were kinda ruff at the beginning of the change but we ended up talking ( you know how i hate contention and just need to talk about it) and we really learned to just love each other and she told me I'm her best comp. she has ever had and that she is so glad that we are still together and i dunno i just really touched my heart!! and i really feel the same way about her as well.
OK interesting story for the week so Sunday the bishop come up to me and there is this girl with him and she only spoke a lil lil lil bit of English i asked her where she was from and you`ll never guess...?????¿¿¿ ok give up she`s from Russia...what!!! i know but i ended up talking to her the whole time during church and she told me all about her country (she thinks her government (i quote) is bull shit) hahah but she`s here in Chile to learn Spanish and as always wanted to visit south America. i was so excited because i was like a russian who can say they met a Russian in there mission.... quank!!! hehe then i hear kyns call hahahahaha but what are the odds right! that i would be a Russian like 4 hours before she opened her call fate i tell you fate!! haha but she seriously was so cute and i like fell in love with her there different tho very different but she`s not a member so we might ended up teaching her i dunno well see but interesting story ya?? but ya that is my story for the week.
sounds like you guys had a blast in Powell thanks for taking a wakeboard run for me mum and just sounds like it was a blast next year ill be able to go haha. i cant believe dad is going to Moscow one day after kyn enters just like me what the... well tell who ever guesses for chanler's mission first talks to dad to see where he is traveling next haha. but ya tell Alta im sorry that is such a bummer but everything has a reason and maybe things will work out in the end.!! but ya that is my week everything is going good I'm doing good. excited for kyn. oh interesting fact when kyn enters the mission field when she finishes the MTC i will only have like 4 months or so left!! weird but so cool!!
well love you all so much have such a great week!! cant wait to hear about your adventures next week.
te amo muchisimo,
your other missionary.
OK so my week i dunno know if i can even come close to topping your week, and the new about Russia but anyways. we have been working a butt load this week trying to find new people and just start out the new change together good!! (which is going really well btw) but ya working hard and well see how it goes this week we ended up finding 6 new investigators possible yesterday in the moment kyn was opening her call i was knocking doors (welcome to the mission kyn) haha but 6 possible i hope at least half ended up working out. but ya and on Friday we went through the temple with Goretti she leaves for her mission in 2 weeks for Mexico and well this girl does have much support in her life so me and hermana vale decided we would enter with her and I'm so glad we did because she only had two people with her... when i went we filled up the whole room. but she seamed so so happy and i just looked at her and a convert for only one year and she has entered the temple and is serving a mission i hope so bad one day i can have an investigator like her. if i serve my whole mission and only convert one person like her that will totally be worth it to me. totally!! i was so nice to go too the temple again to we can only go once a year so yep that was my one time but i couldn't help but feel i was at home and everything was so familiar not like Chile were everything is so unfamiliar. but i did the whole session in Spanish!!! hehe i was so proud of myself the workers asked me if i wanted to do it in English but i told them no and they we all so shocked. but i was a beautiful experience i will never for get. as for hna vale i really do love this girl so so much things were kinda ruff at the beginning of the change but we ended up talking ( you know how i hate contention and just need to talk about it) and we really learned to just love each other and she told me I'm her best comp. she has ever had and that she is so glad that we are still together and i dunno i just really touched my heart!! and i really feel the same way about her as well.
OK interesting story for the week so Sunday the bishop come up to me and there is this girl with him and she only spoke a lil lil lil bit of English i asked her where she was from and you`ll never guess...?????¿¿¿ ok give up she`s from Russia...what!!! i know but i ended up talking to her the whole time during church and she told me all about her country (she thinks her government (i quote) is bull shit) hahah but she`s here in Chile to learn Spanish and as always wanted to visit south America. i was so excited because i was like a russian who can say they met a Russian in there mission.... quank!!! hehe then i hear kyns call hahahahaha but what are the odds right! that i would be a Russian like 4 hours before she opened her call fate i tell you fate!! haha but she seriously was so cute and i like fell in love with her there different tho very different but she`s not a member so we might ended up teaching her i dunno well see but interesting story ya?? but ya that is my story for the week.
sounds like you guys had a blast in Powell thanks for taking a wakeboard run for me mum and just sounds like it was a blast next year ill be able to go haha. i cant believe dad is going to Moscow one day after kyn enters just like me what the... well tell who ever guesses for chanler's mission first talks to dad to see where he is traveling next haha. but ya tell Alta im sorry that is such a bummer but everything has a reason and maybe things will work out in the end.!! but ya that is my week everything is going good I'm doing good. excited for kyn. oh interesting fact when kyn enters the mission field when she finishes the MTC i will only have like 4 months or so left!! weird but so cool!!
well love you all so much have such a great week!! cant wait to hear about your adventures next week.
te amo muchisimo,
your other missionary.
Week #21 Transfers
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| On of our cool Sister members |
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| I don't think they know what this means! Funny |
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| District Shirts |
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| A Little Nitro Representation |
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| I am officially Chilean |
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| Red Bull Anyone? |
Week #21 Transfers
Hola to everyone who reads these emails!!
First of all i just want to start out with ahhhhhhhh KYN YOUR GETTING YOUR CALL WENS.... SUNDAY!! wahooo that is so so rad!! im freaking out down here. she is probably freaking out at lake Powell she´s just gonna be thinking about it the whole time haha oh i remember when i got my call and how i felt seems like it was a week ago i found out i was serving in Chile, i hope so bad she gets call spanish speaking but where ever she gets called its were the lord wants her to be right!!
well just so you know we had transfers this week.....dadadadadadada... im still here in los platanos with hna valeriano... exciting new right hahah. not gonna lie, i was a little bit bummed about beinhg here yet again. i was so ready to leave and start a new adventure but i guess the lord has some more work for me to do here, with hna vale. presidents wright's wife told me they really don't like to do changes much... one elder in our district just got changed and he has been in los platanos for a year... so we´ll see what the future has in store for me. haha has for this week i was kinda a crazy week and i cant remember a thing, lets see... we knocked a ton this week and lost a lot of our other investigators.. which kinda sucked but we´ve got to keep working and one of our menos activos, i dont know if you remember a while back Angela 18 years old? but she had her baby and i is the cutest dang thing and the spirit of a baby in the house is such a incredible spirit. changed the feeling of the whole house and the family too... everyone just couldn t stop smiling which is big for this family. Then Saturday we had CVC which is where we made a mini visitors center like the one in salt lake city with the christis and everything... so we did that in the church building in los platanos and it was a lot of work but really fun. they had big posters of all of the lesson we are teaching, and all the members had stands for like young women's, priesthood, young mens...etc. so the hermanas take a member and an investigator on a tour through the church. first we started out in the chapel with the christis and hear the words of Christ, after we take them to tour all the posters which show the different programs of the church. they teach pretty quick then they go into the room where the baptism font is and the elders explain baptism, and then they go to a referral table where they write their info if they want to see the missionaries. this was a really neat experience for me, i loved it and my confidence grew a lot. imagine talking in front of the a bunch of people and explaining our religion, well that pretty much is what i did! it was a really neat experience tho. and in the end Maria Ugaz and her two boys that i just adore showed up and Paulina, a part memeber family... which was really cool to see because they really wanted to see us after the tour was over, so hopefully everything works out!! fingers crossed. it was kinda funny so the next morning after the CVC we come into the church for sacrament and the whole church building is flooded... nobody turned off the baptism font and the whole church ended up flooding!! hahahahaha i could help but laugh. but that was a great adventure. haha . but ya that was pretty much my week for you!!
So fun you guys are going down to Powell for 4th of July have such a good time and take a wakeboard run for me and a blob jump too. haha with a triple backflip in there haha. oh, tell josh and kollin i got their post cards from Australia and thanks so much and i did get your birthday package thank you so so much!! i loved it!
As for Benita, crazy week with her so we had the date and she was so so excited about it. and wanted it so bad, and then this last Sunday was votes here in Chile for president so we were only have sacrament well the bishop wanted to change the baptism for the next week the 7 of July and i was so so sad cause if i was gonna get changed or not. but we went to her house that night to tell her and in her house was the bishops wife sitting at her table and she told us she talked to the bishop and we are going to have in this Sunday... i was so so so excited and i just thought its supposed to happen its supposed to happen well Benita worked a ton this week including the day of her interview for baptism and she canceled her baptism cause she was so tired and need to sleep all day because she works at night. and said she wanted to get baptised with her daughter. which was cool i was excited for them to get baptized together but i didn't know if i was going to be here or not. well we didn't get change and were gonna be here for her and help her and her daughter get ready to be baptised but i dunno whats gonna happen because she is working everyday this week and does really have time to see us..... so well see what happens!!! fingers crossed and lots of prayers
well have a great week and i love you all so much and miss you all a ton!!! oxoxox
con mucho amor,
your lil missionary.
Week #20 Kynlie's Papers are in!!
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| Transfers |
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| The Sista's in Chile!! With Sister Wright |
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| Meghan's MTC Companion |
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