7/2/2007Looks like everyone has had an amazing week, things are going great at home. Will send my prayers to grandma. I am sure that she will be okay. But everyone else is doing great.
Conrats to lael with the babe, looks like everything went great and smoothly, that is a true blessing. Your family is growing a ton.
Mom, I can’t start classes the second block of winter semester? The second block starts in like February or march or something, I don’t remember. But too you can email my teacher. Maria zanandrea, something like that. She is the pe department. You can look in my hotmail account and there is her address or you can look it up on the byu website. She would be great to talk to about the whole thing as well, what I could do. I am sure you are doing great with it. But I want to talk to pres Faulkner about what i should do. I don’t know when my interviews are but when we have them i will talk to him about it. Don’t worry, I will keep you in touch.
Yeah, so we had a baptism t his week, everything went wrong to begin with. Everything. The hot water heaters didn’t have batteries, nobody was there to help. The members didn’t show up, everything was a mess. But it was so spiritual in the end. We sang a musical number and messed up, but such is life. It was a great baptism and she felt the spirit so strongly, she was in tears almost the whole time. Then yesterday in church when we were asking for help for people to go out and visit people with us she was one of the first people to raise her hands and volunteer to help so she can share with people what she has felt and how she has changed. It was very special. Her daughter, the youngest, was walking around with her missionary bag with a bom and with her plaque, it was so cute. They are such a happy family now. It is amazing what the true gospel does for the people. It was so cute. I loved it. You could feel the spirit so strongly and she is so grateful for the gospel and the love that she can feel while she is at church. It is so cute. I am so happy for her. i haven’t had many baptisms on my mission and haven’t had any for a long long long time. But it was so great to see her get baptized, it was like a dream. It was awesome, a little sad that hna monsalve couldn’t have been there but that is the way life goes. I just pray and pray that she will stay firm and strong in her testimony and never go inactive but that she can raise her kids the gospel.
It was suchhhhhhhhh a blessing last week to see alejnadra, it was amazing. She is doing sooo awesome and her family is doing awesome. It is so amazing to see how they have changed and how great things are going. It makes me sooooooooooooooooooo happy. She is so amazing. I love her kids, they are so darn cute. It was a huge blessing to see her after three months of not seeing her. Being able to know people like her makes me mission worth everything. If she was the only good thing that happened to me on my entire mission it would have been worth while still. There are more things goood that have happened but still. I was sooooooo pumped to see her, i had a perm grin the entire day, it was awesome.
Yeah, so my comp is interesting sometimes. She has a shrink that she talks to every Tuesday. She has problems, not like she is nutty but she is very very sensitive. We all know how i am with sensitive people, i loose my patience, but i am trying my best to help her and not be a jerk but it is hard when someone has problems like that and then is self absorbed. I am even more direct and blunt on the mission than at home and so sometimes my mouth gets going in telling people what to do. Sometimes it is good but sometimes no. So i have a lot to work on with someone so sensitive. She is not happy here with me or with the sector, i am trying to make her happy but she has to make herself happy as well. So we are trying to work through some things. Prayers are great. I have to lose a lot of pride i know, i know i am prideful. But we will get through it and work it out, i am not worried.
It is interesting how many people have depression here, my comp last night told me she has depression, and i don’t know how to deal with that, i don’t understand people with it because I have never had it. But everyone here has it. Who knows.
On top of it all i realized how much weight i have gained since i have been here. Don’t worry, i will lose weight before i get home, it is a have to do.
So with all that is going on i have to say that still the lord is blessing us and leading us to people through miracles. We found a menos activa by accident because someone lied to us and gave us the wrong number and she was so needing the gospel in her life, ti was perfect, it was a miracle that we found her. It was absolutely amazing. The lord really takes care of us and it is amazing to see how he works. I know he works miracles in our lives everyday. That he has everything planned out so perfectly. That really as missionaries we are here to help people when they need it the most and god puts us in their path even when we don’t know what we are doing. It is amazing as missionaries we can’t be sad, mad or never can have a bad day. The people depend on us and never ask us anything about us. We are here for them and we have to have the spirit for them. I actually really love that, i love being there for them. My problems go away when i start worrying about them and how i can help them. I have learned so much about loving people on the mission. I know it has been really hard for me since my other comp left, i closed up again because i get sick of hurting or missing the people here but what blessings i have had to be bale to know them and without leaving i would have never known the other one. The mission is amazing. I love it and feel so blessed to be here, cold and all. The people here are amazing in frutillar i love it, i love being here, there are a tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn of problems in the branch but i still love it!!!!
I hope you are all great. Thanks for your letter. Love ya all.
Hna jamie pratt
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Interesting to know.
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