Look at these skies in Punta Areans. Pretty Pretty12/4/2006
Well family, it is yet another week down in the ole mission.
Mom, I got my package last Monday, thank you sooooooooooooo much. Are you sure I can’t open my presents, how difficult, a full month with them and I can’t do anything with them. Thanks for the brownies and jerky and chapstick and total, my favsssssssssss, it made me smile huge thank you so much. You are too funny with the clothes, that is for sure.
To answer some of your questions, no I am not senor comp but I am pretty much having to do everything because my comp is a little lazy and not taking any initiative. I am learning a lot this transfer with her. There are a lotttttttt of things really really different.
So I have talked with some more gringos and just other latinos too and I am realizing that I am learning Spanish with a little more ease than some of the other people. It is hard. I am realizing that I have been really really really blessed with how much I know, people in the ward are saying to me all the time now that I am a whole different person, and I tell them, yeah it is because I can actually talk and understand things, that is why. so really, I need to count my blessing more with how blessed I really am with it.
So I am learning that there is even drama on the mission amongst the hnas. I found out that hna morphis talked about me all the time and how we are friends. It made me feel good, even as crazy as she is and even as hard as it was for me, I am glad that I was able to treat her well enough that she would still think nice things. Nothing bad happened with us, just she drove me crazy. I don’t want to talk about the drama but let’s just say my comp is a lot more difficult this go around.
How is chan, I never hear from her or the Powell’s either, they can all email me. I want to know how it is all going. Chan would be proud of me, I floss almost everyday.
Mom you would die, we ate, clams, raw, and I had to chokeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it down, it was almost one of the worst experiences of my life. Terrible to say the least.
There is an inactive sister in the ward who can barely walk and can’t read. She has her patriarchal blessing and she wanted us to read it for her, it was really weird reading someone else’s but it was one of the coolest things ever at the same time. It is amazing how powerful they are and how many promises we can really have if we live our lives correctly, it was weird in Spanish too but I understood it. It was so awesome. Seriously, the work that we do In this life is so important. We have so much we have to do. The people on the other side are waiting for us to help them, even in the next life we need to help them. Our ancestors are relying on us and the things that we do here and if we live our lives righteously. We have so much work to do here.
So we had two investigators this week tell us that they know the book of mormon is true but they aren’t married and he is not divorced because it is too expensive!!!!!!!!!! Satan works in all ways. It is one of the saddest things ever. Seriously, we also had another lady tell us that she wants to be baptized, but she lives with a guy who is not divorced either. My heart hurts for these people but it is ssooooooooo hard to get divorced here. So hard.
I have also realized how much the members really need to work and how we need to be proactive. We had a sister come with us this week and we found an inactive, it is amazing how much better is was with her there and not just us as missionaries. The ward members are the key to the mission work. Seriously. Our work is in vain without them.
So yeah, I am having to do everything here. The president emailed me this week and told me that I have to be an example and be positive and show my companion that she can’t complain and stress about how bad our ward is all the time. When we are with other people she doesn’t want any thing to do with me. It is so hard to stay strong when your companion isn’t that strong. So he told me I have to be tough and there is a reason the lord put us together. I was a little taken back because it is always a little scary to hear from him. I am fine though. I am learning a lot and really learning to love the people because they are who I constantly think about. My mentality is really changing and I am losing English and so when I talk to you at Christmas oh noo.
The gas, I forgot dad, I will look at it for you. But you all need to do me a favor. Please stay close to the church. I have seen so much t hat just kills me when the people fall away. Things are so much better when we are close to the lord. At times I can’t believe that theses people lives are so terrible. I have learned so much about the lord. At times I can’t believe how much faith the people have either. They have so much more than me. Seriously it is absolutely amazing.
sorry that i am not too exciting. i am just going day by day, trying to be as obedient as i can but it is hard when your other half is not encouraging you to do so. Really, the church is true and Christ works miracles in our lives every day. he is working in mine every minute and he is blessing me with the ability to share these things with the people here in Spanish and that i can understand them. i need more faith in him and all things are possible through our faith and our actions of faith. What a marvelous work it really is. we are blessed with this great knowledge in our lives.
Mom, I got my package last Monday, thank you sooooooooooooo much. Are you sure I can’t open my presents, how difficult, a full month with them and I can’t do anything with them. Thanks for the brownies and jerky and chapstick and total, my favsssssssssss, it made me smile huge thank you so much. You are too funny with the clothes, that is for sure.
To answer some of your questions, no I am not senor comp but I am pretty much having to do everything because my comp is a little lazy and not taking any initiative. I am learning a lot this transfer with her. There are a lotttttttt of things really really different.
So I have talked with some more gringos and just other latinos too and I am realizing that I am learning Spanish with a little more ease than some of the other people. It is hard. I am realizing that I have been really really really blessed with how much I know, people in the ward are saying to me all the time now that I am a whole different person, and I tell them, yeah it is because I can actually talk and understand things, that is why. so really, I need to count my blessing more with how blessed I really am with it.
So I am learning that there is even drama on the mission amongst the hnas. I found out that hna morphis talked about me all the time and how we are friends. It made me feel good, even as crazy as she is and even as hard as it was for me, I am glad that I was able to treat her well enough that she would still think nice things. Nothing bad happened with us, just she drove me crazy. I don’t want to talk about the drama but let’s just say my comp is a lot more difficult this go around.
How is chan, I never hear from her or the Powell’s either, they can all email me. I want to know how it is all going. Chan would be proud of me, I floss almost everyday.
Mom you would die, we ate, clams, raw, and I had to chokeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it down, it was almost one of the worst experiences of my life. Terrible to say the least.
There is an inactive sister in the ward who can barely walk and can’t read. She has her patriarchal blessing and she wanted us to read it for her, it was really weird reading someone else’s but it was one of the coolest things ever at the same time. It is amazing how powerful they are and how many promises we can really have if we live our lives correctly, it was weird in Spanish too but I understood it. It was so awesome. Seriously, the work that we do In this life is so important. We have so much we have to do. The people on the other side are waiting for us to help them, even in the next life we need to help them. Our ancestors are relying on us and the things that we do here and if we live our lives righteously. We have so much work to do here.
So we had two investigators this week tell us that they know the book of mormon is true but they aren’t married and he is not divorced because it is too expensive!!!!!!!!!! Satan works in all ways. It is one of the saddest things ever. Seriously, we also had another lady tell us that she wants to be baptized, but she lives with a guy who is not divorced either. My heart hurts for these people but it is ssooooooooo hard to get divorced here. So hard.
I have also realized how much the members really need to work and how we need to be proactive. We had a sister come with us this week and we found an inactive, it is amazing how much better is was with her there and not just us as missionaries. The ward members are the key to the mission work. Seriously. Our work is in vain without them.
So yeah, I am having to do everything here. The president emailed me this week and told me that I have to be an example and be positive and show my companion that she can’t complain and stress about how bad our ward is all the time. When we are with other people she doesn’t want any thing to do with me. It is so hard to stay strong when your companion isn’t that strong. So he told me I have to be tough and there is a reason the lord put us together. I was a little taken back because it is always a little scary to hear from him. I am fine though. I am learning a lot and really learning to love the people because they are who I constantly think about. My mentality is really changing and I am losing English and so when I talk to you at Christmas oh noo.
The gas, I forgot dad, I will look at it for you. But you all need to do me a favor. Please stay close to the church. I have seen so much t hat just kills me when the people fall away. Things are so much better when we are close to the lord. At times I can’t believe that theses people lives are so terrible. I have learned so much about the lord. At times I can’t believe how much faith the people have either. They have so much more than me. Seriously it is absolutely amazing.
sorry that i am not too exciting. i am just going day by day, trying to be as obedient as i can but it is hard when your other half is not encouraging you to do so. Really, the church is true and Christ works miracles in our lives every day. he is working in mine every minute and he is blessing me with the ability to share these things with the people here in Spanish and that i can understand them. i need more faith in him and all things are possible through our faith and our actions of faith. What a marvelous work it really is. we are blessed with this great knowledge in our lives.
love ya all. until next week.
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