4/23/2007
So, I can’t believe that my parents’ are writing me telling me how great their lives are traveling around with great weather and all we see here is rain rain rain rain. But that is awesome that you guys are having fun. Good for you. About me week, it has been very very very interesting to say the least. (We had gone to Santa Monica and stayed at the beach for our anniversary. It was nice but it did rain.)
First of all I forgot to tell you last week that I had gotten food poisoning and puked three or tour times, I have never gotten sooooooooooooooo much food poisoning but I felt so much better alter getting it all out, I am getting fairly good at it now.
So last week it was awesome, I was able to talk to Alejandra. She is amazing. We talked for awhile and they were really progressing. mattias was reading the book of mormon every day and really into it and he was going to church with her. She had her interview with the bishop to Start the repentance process, it was awesome. She told me that I am the reason that she is going back to church. I was the one that had changed her life and opened her eyes again to see what she needed to do and how she needed to change. It was so awesome. I felt so good that i was able to really be the lord’s tool to help someone out. It was amazing.
So we had a noche de talentos. And we were in charge. And I hate talent shows, I have always detested them. But we were wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy pumped for it. We took the Shania twain song man I feel like a woman and we changed the words to it to the life of a misionera. Of course in Spanish and then we acted it out. It starts out with waiting for the call, getting to the field, the middle of the mission with everyone getting married and having babies, and then the end of the mission and we don’t want to leave. It was absolutely hilariousssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Afterwards, my head hurt from laughing so much. I video tapped it so I will get on it and make a copy of it and send it to you but you won’t understand and so I will have to translate it so you get how hilarious we are!!!!!!!!!!!!! We laugh a tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn together. I think each day I laugh so hard I cry on average, like three times. It was awesome.
Oh yeah, so word of advise, don’t play baseball with an umbrella and an apple because you might put a hole in it and will get crooked. I had to buy another one LLL. Oops. J gotta have fun right! J It was my comps fault, she is the one who threw the apple at me!
So my comp told me that the other day I was talking in my sleep and it was in Spanish, that is funny! I didn’t even know I talked in my sleep.
So, we have been working with a lot of families that all of them aren’t members of the church. It was been interesting why people become inactive, most of them for not having testimonies or something happened with another member. It has been very interesting to be able to use my own life experiences and help these people. I never thought that all the things that I have gone through or the things as a family we have gone through or our family members would have been able to help other people so much. I have almost shared everything that has ever happened to me, bad, with the people here to show them how we can overcome things, be better, stay strong, and how there is hope. It is amazing because they think we are so perfect as missionaries and then we share these things and they see we are normal people that have used Christ to get through things. To be better and yet we can stay strong in the faith and in the church and only with the help of Christ can we do it all. I had somebody thank me yesterday for sharing with them things that have happened in our lives. It is cool to see how everything happens for a reason. And yet how we truly can be happy people if we live the gospel, with Christ’s help we can be happy even though we have a lot of problems and trials. It is awesome. It is neat.
So, I had the worst thing happen to me this week and I have never felt so badly before. So like Thursday or Friday alejandra calls me. I didn’t want it to be her because I knew if she was calling it would be something baddddddddddddddddd. And it was. I have never been left so incredibly speechless in my life. Before when she would give me bad news I would talk her out of it and tell her how she can get through it and how she can work it out. This time, I had nothing to say. She told me to call the missionaries and tell the elders that they couldn’t come by any more. There was an incident with the bishops family, his parents and siblings and mattias doesn’t want anything to do with the church and neither does she. She told me what happened and it wayyyyyyyyyyyy bad. She is sick and she has depression and she can’t take these ups and downs all the time. She said that life was so much easier before she started trying to go back to church and it will be better to just not and be how they were before. She cried, I cried but couldn’t because I was so dumbfounded. I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and was stomping on it. Yeah and so I couldn’t even talk to her about what she should do or how she can’t give up. I could only imagine how badly she feels, because to have the guts to be able to call me and tell me that after everything that has happened, how we have seen so many miracles together, and how close we have gotten. Every day i have prayed that this part would be easy for her after everything that has happened to her. Satan doesn’t want her to come back to church that is for sure. He knows what she is capable of. The worst is that all I want to do is help her, I want to go to her house and share scriptures with her and things that will help her keep going. But I can’t. I can’t do anything. I am just here helpless. My comp has helped me a lot. I realized how the only thing that made me feel better, that was able to take the pain away from my heart were the scriptures, I immediately went to the book of mormon and it was the only thing that could help, the teachings of the prophets, it is amazing. I have grown such a testimony of the scriptures, they really to change your life, really to give you allllllllllllllllll the answers you need, tell you everything you have to do in this life to be happy. They really to guide you. These experiences are helping me gain the strong strong testimony of these things to help other people. I have alwayssssssssss had the testimony but now I am gaining the experiences to go with my testimony. It is really cool. But still, I just hurt for her. I have never felt like this before. The worst was that I was totally over it and got refocused in being here in frutillar, we have our branch conference yesterday and el presidente y hna faulkner estan. Yeah, so everything starts and all of a sudden someone walks in the chapel, alejandra´s sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of alllllllllllllllllllllll people, I was like, why is she here to remind me of everything to think of why it can’t be alejandra, and alllllllllllll the feelings and thoughts came back again. I can’t explain what I feel for her. I just want to help her. I know she has to walk on her own, keep herself on the right path. I have faith in her. She can’t deny the spirit we felt when we would be at her house as we would teach. She can’t deny the dream she had and how god lead us into each other’s lives and if we weren’t in the true church that would have never happened because the prophet and el pres de la mision could have never put me where i needed to be to be able to find her at the exact time. It is all true. She can’t forget. Please just pray for her, please. She means so much to me. Just pray please.
So we are here in frutiallar, my comp has 2 weeks left on her mission and we are trying to stay focused and do the best so she can finish strong.
I have learned more in this last month than I have in my entire life. i have grown so much spiritually, and obviously physically as well. we have so much fun and we teach so well together. we are truly happy even thought we have a lot of crappy things happening to us right now. but in the end we have our faith in the lord, and know that he is taking care of us and leading us to what we are doing. I know alejandra is in the Lords´ hands and she is one of the strongest people I have ever met. I know she can’t deny what has happened and how much they had progressed and improved as a couple, como matrimonio. I know she will get back from her vacation and know that she needs to keep going to church. she knows I am fighting for her and many others. I know god has a plan and I need patience. I need to accept his plan. we have our conference this week on Wednesday in puerto montt. I will see hna morhips for the first time. she will see how fat i have gotten :) maybe hna agurto will come see us to, we will see, she writes me every week. she is awesome. anyway, take care.
and no, nothing with the earthquake, we weren’t effected. sorry.
love ya all!!
First of all I forgot to tell you last week that I had gotten food poisoning and puked three or tour times, I have never gotten sooooooooooooooo much food poisoning but I felt so much better alter getting it all out, I am getting fairly good at it now.
So last week it was awesome, I was able to talk to Alejandra. She is amazing. We talked for awhile and they were really progressing. mattias was reading the book of mormon every day and really into it and he was going to church with her. She had her interview with the bishop to Start the repentance process, it was awesome. She told me that I am the reason that she is going back to church. I was the one that had changed her life and opened her eyes again to see what she needed to do and how she needed to change. It was so awesome. I felt so good that i was able to really be the lord’s tool to help someone out. It was amazing.
So we had a noche de talentos. And we were in charge. And I hate talent shows, I have always detested them. But we were wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy pumped for it. We took the Shania twain song man I feel like a woman and we changed the words to it to the life of a misionera. Of course in Spanish and then we acted it out. It starts out with waiting for the call, getting to the field, the middle of the mission with everyone getting married and having babies, and then the end of the mission and we don’t want to leave. It was absolutely hilariousssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Afterwards, my head hurt from laughing so much. I video tapped it so I will get on it and make a copy of it and send it to you but you won’t understand and so I will have to translate it so you get how hilarious we are!!!!!!!!!!!!! We laugh a tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn together. I think each day I laugh so hard I cry on average, like three times. It was awesome.
Oh yeah, so word of advise, don’t play baseball with an umbrella and an apple because you might put a hole in it and will get crooked. I had to buy another one LLL. Oops. J gotta have fun right! J It was my comps fault, she is the one who threw the apple at me!
So my comp told me that the other day I was talking in my sleep and it was in Spanish, that is funny! I didn’t even know I talked in my sleep.
So, we have been working with a lot of families that all of them aren’t members of the church. It was been interesting why people become inactive, most of them for not having testimonies or something happened with another member. It has been very interesting to be able to use my own life experiences and help these people. I never thought that all the things that I have gone through or the things as a family we have gone through or our family members would have been able to help other people so much. I have almost shared everything that has ever happened to me, bad, with the people here to show them how we can overcome things, be better, stay strong, and how there is hope. It is amazing because they think we are so perfect as missionaries and then we share these things and they see we are normal people that have used Christ to get through things. To be better and yet we can stay strong in the faith and in the church and only with the help of Christ can we do it all. I had somebody thank me yesterday for sharing with them things that have happened in our lives. It is cool to see how everything happens for a reason. And yet how we truly can be happy people if we live the gospel, with Christ’s help we can be happy even though we have a lot of problems and trials. It is awesome. It is neat.
So, I had the worst thing happen to me this week and I have never felt so badly before. So like Thursday or Friday alejandra calls me. I didn’t want it to be her because I knew if she was calling it would be something baddddddddddddddddd. And it was. I have never been left so incredibly speechless in my life. Before when she would give me bad news I would talk her out of it and tell her how she can get through it and how she can work it out. This time, I had nothing to say. She told me to call the missionaries and tell the elders that they couldn’t come by any more. There was an incident with the bishops family, his parents and siblings and mattias doesn’t want anything to do with the church and neither does she. She told me what happened and it wayyyyyyyyyyyy bad. She is sick and she has depression and she can’t take these ups and downs all the time. She said that life was so much easier before she started trying to go back to church and it will be better to just not and be how they were before. She cried, I cried but couldn’t because I was so dumbfounded. I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and was stomping on it. Yeah and so I couldn’t even talk to her about what she should do or how she can’t give up. I could only imagine how badly she feels, because to have the guts to be able to call me and tell me that after everything that has happened, how we have seen so many miracles together, and how close we have gotten. Every day i have prayed that this part would be easy for her after everything that has happened to her. Satan doesn’t want her to come back to church that is for sure. He knows what she is capable of. The worst is that all I want to do is help her, I want to go to her house and share scriptures with her and things that will help her keep going. But I can’t. I can’t do anything. I am just here helpless. My comp has helped me a lot. I realized how the only thing that made me feel better, that was able to take the pain away from my heart were the scriptures, I immediately went to the book of mormon and it was the only thing that could help, the teachings of the prophets, it is amazing. I have grown such a testimony of the scriptures, they really to change your life, really to give you allllllllllllllllll the answers you need, tell you everything you have to do in this life to be happy. They really to guide you. These experiences are helping me gain the strong strong testimony of these things to help other people. I have alwayssssssssss had the testimony but now I am gaining the experiences to go with my testimony. It is really cool. But still, I just hurt for her. I have never felt like this before. The worst was that I was totally over it and got refocused in being here in frutillar, we have our branch conference yesterday and el presidente y hna faulkner estan. Yeah, so everything starts and all of a sudden someone walks in the chapel, alejandra´s sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of alllllllllllllllllllllll people, I was like, why is she here to remind me of everything to think of why it can’t be alejandra, and alllllllllllll the feelings and thoughts came back again. I can’t explain what I feel for her. I just want to help her. I know she has to walk on her own, keep herself on the right path. I have faith in her. She can’t deny the spirit we felt when we would be at her house as we would teach. She can’t deny the dream she had and how god lead us into each other’s lives and if we weren’t in the true church that would have never happened because the prophet and el pres de la mision could have never put me where i needed to be to be able to find her at the exact time. It is all true. She can’t forget. Please just pray for her, please. She means so much to me. Just pray please.
So we are here in frutiallar, my comp has 2 weeks left on her mission and we are trying to stay focused and do the best so she can finish strong.
I have learned more in this last month than I have in my entire life. i have grown so much spiritually, and obviously physically as well. we have so much fun and we teach so well together. we are truly happy even thought we have a lot of crappy things happening to us right now. but in the end we have our faith in the lord, and know that he is taking care of us and leading us to what we are doing. I know alejandra is in the Lords´ hands and she is one of the strongest people I have ever met. I know she can’t deny what has happened and how much they had progressed and improved as a couple, como matrimonio. I know she will get back from her vacation and know that she needs to keep going to church. she knows I am fighting for her and many others. I know god has a plan and I need patience. I need to accept his plan. we have our conference this week on Wednesday in puerto montt. I will see hna morhips for the first time. she will see how fat i have gotten :) maybe hna agurto will come see us to, we will see, she writes me every week. she is awesome. anyway, take care.
and no, nothing with the earthquake, we weren’t effected. sorry.
love ya all!!
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