Time Is Flying By

3/5/2007
Well here I am again, another week here. The time is flyinggggggggggggggggg by. Seriously it is going by so incredibly fast.

So last week I got a setter from the family that I had been working with foreverrrrrrrrrr. Alejandra y patricio, we found them with hna Agurto and they got married by the catholic chruch, we had them with a baptism date and then changed their minds. Alejandra wrote me one of the nicest letters in the World. Thanking me for everything that I did for them. For bringing the gospel in their lives and that she doesn’t have sisters and i was like her sister while I was there. And that she is going to do everything in the World to make sure that her family completes with the plan of salvation and that they are going to get baptized march 17th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!!!!! I was so pumpppppppeddddddddddddddd. Seriously, it was like the coolest thing ever. When I left from Punta arenas I was a little sad because I didn’t know if I had done my part there, if I really had left the people better then how I found them and if I found who I was supposed to find. I won’t be at their baptism which is something that is a little sad but that is life on the mission, but I can know that I really did touch somebody’s life and made a difference by teaching the truths of the gospel. By teaching firmly but with love, not letting them think that their sins are okay, but that they have to change. Like the day i threw away their alcohol. I am so pumped for them. I can’t wait to see pictures of their baptism!!

I am sorry to hear about granny, it made me want to cry. But i know the lord is taking care of her. She is in his hands; my prayers are with her though. Send her my love.

Mom, hna agurto says thank you soooooooooo much for the package that you sent. She loved it. She was way happy. I miss her ton!!! I hope i can see her before she goes home at the end of this month.

I heard that hna moreno had to go to Santiago for health problems!! I hope she is okay.

Good luck with your thing dad, hope you pass.

Justin’s card looks awesome, he is such a big boy now, his own business and all JJ it is awesome.

So, we have to buy gas at the store to run our little heater thingy, and we have Wood stoves to heat us up. Gas is wayyyyyyy expensive; it is for the hot water too, we have to light it with a match every time we want to use anything with any gas.

Cares are the same, there are more cars like there are in New Zealand. I saw the murano the other day and my car always, well LeAnne’s car. I have no clue how much they are dad.

Ohhhhhhh, it is official that I am allergic to the fleas. I am getting eaten alive, the tissues from nana are great. But they puff up like they are zits, they don’t itch, well a couple of them but I have a ton, like 12 in a 2 inch square. Such is life, it is okay.

They have lots of fruit but the best is that everybody makes homemade juice, all the juice is homemade and it is delicious, we have tried juice of every fruit, honeydew, peaches, everything, it is soooooo good. I love it. There are roses everywhere, the city of the roses, it is really pretty here.

The kids have their first day back in school today alter their summer break. It is weird that i have been here during their entire summer break and back to school. They have to buy alllllll of the things they are going to use for school, paper, crayons, pencils, notebooks, everything for the entire year. The school doesn’t give them anything.

It is weird always talking on the cell phone now, and más encima, it is always in Spanish, it is cool though to think how much Spanish I have learned since I have been here. I can’t think of things in enligas lots of times but it is okay.

So we are preparing a kid to get baptized, he is 11 and he is awesome. He wanted to pay almost all of his Money for tithing. It was so funny. But awesome. There is a sister here that leaves with us everyday to share her testimony in the lessons. She is all for the missionary work. It is so awesome. Here family has more problems that i can imagine and through the gospel and sharing her testimony she finds happiness, it is awesome.

So, i am having interesting experiences, for starts, we are working with an excommunicated member. She served her misión in argentina. She is absolutely amazinggggggggggg. We don’t know much but we think she might not be excommunicated and if she was she never had a trial or council or whatever it is called. I really feel like I knew her before. She is so awesome. I know she is going to come back to church. The spirit was so strong with her; I can feel her spirit soooooooo strongly. She almost started crying as i was talking and it made me want to cry to, but don’t worry, I didn’t. I will do everything i can to help her come back to church because she needs it. It was a miracle; after years and years of not praying, she prayed the other day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She loves us at her house with her. We left her a chapter to read and she is going to read it, after years and years. Her scriptures are all highlighted and marked up from her misión. I told her she needs to teach me, I know she knows a ton of stuff that she can teach me. I can’t wait to pass by to see how she is doing. God Works miracles in our lives, seriously. I can’t wait until she comes to church. It Hill be a huge miracle but i know it is going to happen. She has to do it all by herself because her husband is solid Lutheran, but I told her we are there to help her in everything!!

Thanks for everything fam!! I am praying for granny, and always for the family! take care! i will be writing the next week! thanks for the prayers, letters and thoughts as always. tell everyone hi for me!! thanks for your help, your support and love. it is nice to have it back home, there are a lot of missionaries here that don’t have it. it means a lot. every once in awhile it will hit me that i have been away for 8 months and not seen my family for 8 months and i miss it for a split second and then i get lost in the work again, the blessings of god. i am where i want to be, i wouldn’t be anywhere else right now but here on the mission. it is a blessing for me. i am learning so much. the church is true and changes lives. live it like you really know it! :) there is nothing better than to obey and then see the blessings afterwards. take care. love ya all. hna jamie