It's Still Cold Here in Chile

12/11/2006

Well family, yet another week here in the cold cold Chile. I didn’t read all of what you guys wrote me, I will read it afterwards. I usually have my planner with me to remind me of everything that I want to write but I forgot it at the house today. I sent your Christmas present just now to everyone. I don’t know how long it will take to get it but it should be there in about three weeks or so. So not a whole lot has happened. We have had just about nothing this week. Nobody is at home, nobody will receive us into their houses. I walked soooooooooo much this week. We walked almost all day everyday. It Is really hard this transfer.

Thank you for the Christmas package with the Christmas stuff, we have the stockings up in the house and the mini tree, the cookies and all were really really good, well there are still some left. The hot chocolate too because they don’t have hot chocolate like we do. And with how cold it is here, it I so nice to drink something hot and yummy .so thank you so much Erica, it was really thoughtful of you.

I hope that LeAnne and Justin enjoy their new house. I have to say it would be really weird to live in the house you grew up in with your husband and family I wouldn’t want it but I am happy for them. They are really lucky and will really enjoy a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee house. You know that LeAnne will take good care of it too. She is good like that. I got a letter from nelson and Di today but I haven’t read it yet.

So we had a really special lesson this week. It was with new members; about 6 months ago they were baptized. We were talking about the goal of going to the temple as a family and how it is making higher covenants with god and how it is the way to enter in the kingdom of god. We got talking about a lot of other doctrines. We are so focused on the basics of the gospel all of the time, the intro of the gospel, which I love. But there was a spirit there that was so different that we don’t normally feel. It was so much stronger and powerful. We were taking about the mentally sick and how they don’t need to be tested on this earth and they don’t have sins. We were also talking about being able to be married in the temple. My comp has only been a member for five years and the only member in her family .so it was a good thing that I understood what was going on because other wise they would have been teaching false doctrines. But that is not important. It was amazing the spirit that was there in that house. It was so powerful; we left like we were walking on air. Like we were so happy and just felt so good. Seriously, it was such a different spirit. It was the highlight of the week.

So the president emailed me last week, I am going to give you what he wrote. Because it was really powerful. Seriously, I have felt like I have been doing everything, I know how hna agurto felt with me now, but I at least didn´t know the language.

Hermana Pratt,

Help sister Moreno understand that negative thoughts and conversation about the ward, members, or others is not productive and will offend the Spirit. Help her realize the affects of positive feelings.

Don't get to worried about what the ward is not doing and focus on what you two need to accomplish with or without their help. You were sent there to find, teach and baptize.

Perhaps, the Lord sent sister Moreno to you to help her overcome her negative perspective of others?

Con Carino,
Carl Faulkner


I am learning a lot. The people are telling me now that I used to never talk and now they can’t shut me up, which is true. Because I actually understand what people are saying to me. It is seriously a huge miracle in my life, the lord has helped me so much. I can’t believe how much i can communicate with the people here, obviously I still don’t understand everything but soooooooo much better than before. It is a miracle. We have our conference tomorrow with the pres. it will be good. but hna Faulkner told hna agurto that I don’t want to work, hna agurto is like, ummmm, she knows me better than that, I think she got a little confused with my companion . Yeah, so it is really hard this transfer for me because before when I would get tired or lazy my comp would push us and when she was lazy I would carry us. This time, if I slack off, we don’t do anything. I think she is trying though. Some people just don’t work as hard as others. i think she honestly thinks she is doing her best and isn’t doing anything wrong. some people just see things differently. That is life.

Yeah, I hope you guys are all great and that all is well, tell all the kids hi for me and there is something for everyone in the mail. something small but still, something. I will write next week with more info about calling, like with the number and everything. we are still here and I am trying to work as hard as I can without slacking and to find those people waiting, patience is accepting the timing of the lord, I am working on accepting the timing of the lord. Until next week. cuidense.
love, Jamie