(It is so funny to see fall in June)
6/11/2007
Happy birthday to Chan and LeAnne tomorrow. I hope they have a great birthday and party it up, well with in it’s bounds. I hope it all goes well..
Lael, congrats to your brother josh for the wedding. That is awesome that he got married and they are totally happy. I bet you are nervous, you will be having your baby soon, ahhhhhhhhhh, crazy, and yet i have yet to see one single picture of you being prego, maldita gringa. Ay ay ay.
Bueno. I can’t believe that everyone is out of school already, that is soooooooo crazy. I don’t have a sense of seasons or time because I have been in the cold since august, it is never ending, and i will be into it until the next year when i am at home for the summer. A long span of cold.
Well, i translated the letter that my companion wrote to you guys, here it goes.
Hi, how are you, well I am hna monsalve, from santiago, chile and you daughter’s companion, hna pratt...well I have heard a lot about the Pratt family and good things. When I met hna pratt, to be my comp when we saw each other, i felt the spirit so strongly with her, and even more when we started to teach, you can feel teh spirit very strongly. I want you to remember always that hna pratt is a great missionary, comp, and friend. I feel like i know her from way before, i don’t have any doubt that we were friends in the pre-existence. I always ask her about you guys and she has a lot of love for you guys, she always tells me that she is very blessed with the family she has, then, one day i asked her how she shows that love for them and there was a minute of silence, she said she had never told you. So she has a job, i just felt the desire to describe to you guys to remind you that she loves you a lot and has the best of desires and intentions so that you are always happy family and eternal. I hope today you have your fhe and we will be reminding you. Hna pratt has a privilege, you guys are members of the church. My dad isn’t a member and doesn’t want anything to do with the church and my mom and two bros are inactive. But i am here sot hey also receive blessings and can feel the spirit, it is all i can do for them, so keep serving the lord as members of the church. There is nothing more beautiful than keeping the commandments and then be closer to divinity. Well we have to go, take care, lots of love sent your way and thanks for what you have done for hna pratt. I don’t have any doubt that who se is now is what you guys have done so she can have the success that she has in her life.
Yeah, okay, it was kind of long, but that is what she wrote. She is a good kid. We have become really close. And this time of teh cambios really stinks because this next week are teh cambios. So we may only be together another week, you never know. It sucks a lot that part of the mission. You really start loving the people and then you leave or your comp leaves and then you have noooo clue when you are going to see them again, none whatsoever. So that kind of stinks. But such is life.
So, we were laughing the other day, there is not one single stop light here in frutillar, i am sure we are in a town like Biggs but with more people, but stores wise, like Biggs. It is fully.
So the other day, we went by a menos activo. He is a drunk but his wife always goes to church but she got really sick and was in the hospital. We stopped by and he was drinking quiet a lot but didn’t have any food. He hadn’t eaten in days, since his wife had left. We talked with him and tried to teach him a few things. We left and at the same time we both decided that we were going to go buy some bread for him to eat. We went and bought a bunch of bread for him, they don’t have bread like we do, well some but not much. They sell their bread like buns or rolls. We went back and gave him the bread and i have never felt so good to help someone so much. He started crying, the look on this man’s face when we returned with food for him. He was so happy. We went by a few days after when his wife was home and he said that he thanks god for us everyday, the love that we showed him, the desires we showed to help him. That nobody had really ever tried to help him so much like we did. It is interesting because we did it and then totally forgot about it. We forgot that we bought him food. It was just something we did. It was something so incredibly small and the bread here is sooooooooo cheap. It cost like a dollar to buy him a ton of bread. It is interesting how the smallest things go such a long way.
So, we have a lady that is wanting to get baptized, we found her when i had been here for like two weeks about. When we first knocked on her door she wanted to listen but only for five minutes. She never had time for us, always working, never would read, never had time to pray. She was very closed and a little pesada, a little rude. But we kept going because she kept receiving us. The day that hna agurto was here with us, we taught her and hna agurto got her to commit to going to church to do a few things. After that day she changed. She has been going to church. We go into her house and she is happy, her kids are happy, she talks she cries with us, she does it all. She asks when we are coming back, she makes bread and shares it, makes jam and gives us some, best jam ever...blackberry, i loveeeeeeeeeeee it. She has invited us over for dinner. The works. We went over the other day with the branch pres and his counselor to give sonia a blessing. It was the most amazing experience. The spirit was sooooooooooooo strong. The blessing was amazing. Sonia cried during the entire thing. She is so ready to be baptized. She is soooooooooooo much happier than she was. She loves church and before she hated the churches. Like 20 years ago members would invite her to church but her husband never wanted to go and so she never did. 20 years later she was ready to accept the gospel and is ready to go. It is so awesome. The thing that sucks is that if i leave from frutillar i wont´ be able to see her baptism, but that is okay, i feel like she will be my first real convert on the mission, where i was blessed to find her and see her change and really gain a testimony of the church. She say that she is sure, she is down. I love it. We are so happy for her. It is amazing.
We are having problems in the branch but i think things are calming down. We are getting a lot more help from the members. The work here is really going forth. As missionaries we have a lot to improve. My comp and i have to stay focused, because being such good friends we get side tracked easily, i know everything about her life before being a member. Let’s just say that miracles are possible and changes can be made if the person really wants to make the changes. She is amazing and is so strong and has overcome so much. She makes me laugh all the time, i have almost wet my pants way too many times. We are seeing the lord work in a lot of people’s lives, we are really seeing how the gospel blesses peoples lives and i love it. We are finding a lot of people, teaching a lot, but we need to do better. The zone leader called us out on a few things the other day but it was something we already knew, had talked about, and set goals to do better. But still, it is always a little embarrassing. But he is a good guy, i have been with him my entire mission but one cambio, so we know each other fairly well. But anyway, that is about it.
Remember that next Monday i won’t be writing, you will here from me on Wednesday of the next week to know where i am and with who. We hope that we stay here together. We want to stay together. Hna monsalve is amazing.
Thanks for everything that you do for me. Thanks for looking for the rain jacket, thanks for always helping me, I really appreciate it. It is really cold here. But we are okay. I am so grateful to be on the mission. I have learn and seen so much, things that i do and don’t want to do. I have been happier than ever and felt more pain than ever. But it is always for other people, i love it. I love to be able to share these experiences with these people. There is no better way to get to know someone than through the gospel, to form a friendship based in the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is amazing. I love it. I try everyday to get to know my salvador jesus cristo, so that i can have the desire, feel the need to share with everyone and see them as children of god.
Good luck with all for this next week. Love ya, hna pratt
Happy birthday to Chan and LeAnne tomorrow. I hope they have a great birthday and party it up, well with in it’s bounds. I hope it all goes well..
Lael, congrats to your brother josh for the wedding. That is awesome that he got married and they are totally happy. I bet you are nervous, you will be having your baby soon, ahhhhhhhhhh, crazy, and yet i have yet to see one single picture of you being prego, maldita gringa. Ay ay ay.
Bueno. I can’t believe that everyone is out of school already, that is soooooooo crazy. I don’t have a sense of seasons or time because I have been in the cold since august, it is never ending, and i will be into it until the next year when i am at home for the summer. A long span of cold.
Well, i translated the letter that my companion wrote to you guys, here it goes.
Hi, how are you, well I am hna monsalve, from santiago, chile and you daughter’s companion, hna pratt...well I have heard a lot about the Pratt family and good things. When I met hna pratt, to be my comp when we saw each other, i felt the spirit so strongly with her, and even more when we started to teach, you can feel teh spirit very strongly. I want you to remember always that hna pratt is a great missionary, comp, and friend. I feel like i know her from way before, i don’t have any doubt that we were friends in the pre-existence. I always ask her about you guys and she has a lot of love for you guys, she always tells me that she is very blessed with the family she has, then, one day i asked her how she shows that love for them and there was a minute of silence, she said she had never told you. So she has a job, i just felt the desire to describe to you guys to remind you that she loves you a lot and has the best of desires and intentions so that you are always happy family and eternal. I hope today you have your fhe and we will be reminding you. Hna pratt has a privilege, you guys are members of the church. My dad isn’t a member and doesn’t want anything to do with the church and my mom and two bros are inactive. But i am here sot hey also receive blessings and can feel the spirit, it is all i can do for them, so keep serving the lord as members of the church. There is nothing more beautiful than keeping the commandments and then be closer to divinity. Well we have to go, take care, lots of love sent your way and thanks for what you have done for hna pratt. I don’t have any doubt that who se is now is what you guys have done so she can have the success that she has in her life.
Yeah, okay, it was kind of long, but that is what she wrote. She is a good kid. We have become really close. And this time of teh cambios really stinks because this next week are teh cambios. So we may only be together another week, you never know. It sucks a lot that part of the mission. You really start loving the people and then you leave or your comp leaves and then you have noooo clue when you are going to see them again, none whatsoever. So that kind of stinks. But such is life.
So, we were laughing the other day, there is not one single stop light here in frutillar, i am sure we are in a town like Biggs but with more people, but stores wise, like Biggs. It is fully.
So the other day, we went by a menos activo. He is a drunk but his wife always goes to church but she got really sick and was in the hospital. We stopped by and he was drinking quiet a lot but didn’t have any food. He hadn’t eaten in days, since his wife had left. We talked with him and tried to teach him a few things. We left and at the same time we both decided that we were going to go buy some bread for him to eat. We went and bought a bunch of bread for him, they don’t have bread like we do, well some but not much. They sell their bread like buns or rolls. We went back and gave him the bread and i have never felt so good to help someone so much. He started crying, the look on this man’s face when we returned with food for him. He was so happy. We went by a few days after when his wife was home and he said that he thanks god for us everyday, the love that we showed him, the desires we showed to help him. That nobody had really ever tried to help him so much like we did. It is interesting because we did it and then totally forgot about it. We forgot that we bought him food. It was just something we did. It was something so incredibly small and the bread here is sooooooooo cheap. It cost like a dollar to buy him a ton of bread. It is interesting how the smallest things go such a long way.
So, we have a lady that is wanting to get baptized, we found her when i had been here for like two weeks about. When we first knocked on her door she wanted to listen but only for five minutes. She never had time for us, always working, never would read, never had time to pray. She was very closed and a little pesada, a little rude. But we kept going because she kept receiving us. The day that hna agurto was here with us, we taught her and hna agurto got her to commit to going to church to do a few things. After that day she changed. She has been going to church. We go into her house and she is happy, her kids are happy, she talks she cries with us, she does it all. She asks when we are coming back, she makes bread and shares it, makes jam and gives us some, best jam ever...blackberry, i loveeeeeeeeeeee it. She has invited us over for dinner. The works. We went over the other day with the branch pres and his counselor to give sonia a blessing. It was the most amazing experience. The spirit was sooooooooooooo strong. The blessing was amazing. Sonia cried during the entire thing. She is so ready to be baptized. She is soooooooooooo much happier than she was. She loves church and before she hated the churches. Like 20 years ago members would invite her to church but her husband never wanted to go and so she never did. 20 years later she was ready to accept the gospel and is ready to go. It is so awesome. The thing that sucks is that if i leave from frutillar i wont´ be able to see her baptism, but that is okay, i feel like she will be my first real convert on the mission, where i was blessed to find her and see her change and really gain a testimony of the church. She say that she is sure, she is down. I love it. We are so happy for her. It is amazing.
We are having problems in the branch but i think things are calming down. We are getting a lot more help from the members. The work here is really going forth. As missionaries we have a lot to improve. My comp and i have to stay focused, because being such good friends we get side tracked easily, i know everything about her life before being a member. Let’s just say that miracles are possible and changes can be made if the person really wants to make the changes. She is amazing and is so strong and has overcome so much. She makes me laugh all the time, i have almost wet my pants way too many times. We are seeing the lord work in a lot of people’s lives, we are really seeing how the gospel blesses peoples lives and i love it. We are finding a lot of people, teaching a lot, but we need to do better. The zone leader called us out on a few things the other day but it was something we already knew, had talked about, and set goals to do better. But still, it is always a little embarrassing. But he is a good guy, i have been with him my entire mission but one cambio, so we know each other fairly well. But anyway, that is about it.
Remember that next Monday i won’t be writing, you will here from me on Wednesday of the next week to know where i am and with who. We hope that we stay here together. We want to stay together. Hna monsalve is amazing.
Thanks for everything that you do for me. Thanks for looking for the rain jacket, thanks for always helping me, I really appreciate it. It is really cold here. But we are okay. I am so grateful to be on the mission. I have learn and seen so much, things that i do and don’t want to do. I have been happier than ever and felt more pain than ever. But it is always for other people, i love it. I love to be able to share these experiences with these people. There is no better way to get to know someone than through the gospel, to form a friendship based in the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is amazing. I love it. I try everyday to get to know my salvador jesus cristo, so that i can have the desire, feel the need to share with everyone and see them as children of god.
Good luck with all for this next week. Love ya, hna pratt
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