9/29/2007
Hello all...
I can’t begin to tell you how happy your letter made me!!! I am pumped!!!!!!!!!!! That was theeeeeee best news ever, seriously!! Hna agurto is going to be soooooooooooo happy too because every week she writes me and tells me how badly she wants me to be there for her wedding, it will be soooooooooo awesome. We will have so muchhhhhhhhhhhhh fun, there is so much to see and it is soooo gorgeous here!!!!!! Seriously!! It is amazing! thank you so much, it was amazingggggggggggg news after a really really hard week.
We had conference this week and it was really good. I have been so frustrated I called the president to call him. And you all know me, I just hold things in and hold and never do anything about it. I have had a hard time with my compaino, so we had special interviews with the president .my companion is also sick but doesn’t do anything to help herself. On Monday we will go the a specialist to look at her again. My saving grace has been living with the Allen’s. They are amazing. They are so cool. They have helped me and it is nice because able to go to them and talk to them. We finally found a house and Tuesday we are going to move into our own house, that will be a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee change, going from a wayyyyyy nice apartment to a Chilean house, they just aren’t the same. But such is life. The president helped me a lot a lot in what I need to and what is happening .it is jus tso hard because time is ticking away, I feel suchhhhhhhhhhhhh an urgency to help the people in this sector. I know there are people waiting for us but where are they, it is a hugeeeeeeeeeeee sector, enorme!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it is hard because we walk and walk and walk, nobody lets us in. and it is just frustrating, that is all. I could go on but why. And to ,every time you turn around somebody else is telling me how I am ending my mission soon and I don’t have much time left, so then it makes you want to work even harder but when your comp doesn’t want to leave the house, It is not like I can leave without her. But I hope we get it all worked out with her health.
Thank you Jake for your letter. It was really nice. I really liked what you had to say , it was very uplifting and encouraging, I appreciated it a lot. Thank you. You guys are in my prayers and I will be seeing you soon…and you might take everything nice you said back.
I am sorry to hear about aunt jewel and rosemary. I hope granny is doing okay , she has got to keep kicking though because we are all going to go to the temple together soon!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
First Week in Osorno
Cathedral desde Plaza de Armas9/22/2007
Well hi there,
So Erica, thank you for the setter from you primary class, i got it a few weeks ago but i forgot to tell you, sorry and thank you. You can tell your class that I loved it, it was really really cute.
Mom have you sent the pictures yet to the people here?
Yeah, so mom and dad we have to decide what is up with after the mission, I got my moroni letter, that is what they call your letter that tells you are going home soon so and to check all your info so they can buy your plane ticket. So if you are coming to pick me up you have to email elder hart, he is the secretary and my district leader. Then you have to call the lds church travel 8012405093 stephanie asalone to arrange the flights. Could you pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee decide for sure what we are going to do. I am ending January 16 si o si, yes or yes. I would love to come back with you guys when I am not a missionary and to so I can be in Santiago feb 8th for hna agurto´s wedding, she asks me about it every week. So, that is what I want to do but I know it isn’t all about what I want to do. So by next Saturday you have to have an answer so too the mission an start planning and booking flights. If you guys come to pick me up we could be here 1 week 1 1’2, I would like to go back and visit all my sectors, I would like to go to punta arenas too but you do have to buy another plane ticket it is like going to salt lake from home. Well, if we came back when I wasn’t a missionary it would be cool to stay for 2 weeks or something. So let me know, that would be great.
So those are my plan, that is what is going on. And I would like to go to byu for the second block if at all possible. It doesn’t matter if they say it is a waste of time, I would like to get in and get going. So that is my thing. I think you start signing up in November if I remember right.
So yeah, I went from a town with out stop lights to a town bigger than Chico. I think they said there are like 160 thousand people here. It is a whole new ball game here. We have walked sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. It is incredible. I have never talked to so many people in my life. It is so hard here. We have a total of 3 investigators, that is nothinggggggggggggggggggggggg. Then it was crappy because we didn’t go out for 5 days for their independence day. We are still with the allens. They are awesome. They made me hay stacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JJ burritos!!!! French toast!! Breakfast burritos!!!!!!! Brownies, oh they are awesome. They are so cool. I am really enjoying staying with them. They are really sweet. They are a kick in the pants and they take care of us so much. And so yeah, we still don’t have a house, they are still looking, we are still looking. Things here are expensive.
It is really really hard here in osorno, that is why I never wanted to be here, but that is what the lord wanted. I don’t know. I have been so exhausted, I have never walked so much. It is amazing how the people are so different in every ward. We have an ex 70 in our ward, he is a good guy. There are 35 people that go to church every Sunday. Our bishop is argentino so his accent is funny.
Mom, if you could have only read the letter that alejandra sent me, if you could only understand it, she is amazing. Seriously. We were reading a story the other day about when two people were in heaven and promised they would find each other, I felt the spirit so so strongly because I have actually lived the stories that these people just tell, things you believe but it never happens to you. It is amazing.
We have an investigator that is so awesome and so ready to go. She was a member reference, and she has been going to church almost more than the members. All the activities and everything, it is great. She introduced us to her friend too that is awesome but doesn’t live in our sector. I know the lord has prepared people for us to find here, I know it and I feel it. I just don’t know where they are. Our sector is hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and there are soooo many houses. Just where are they. That is the hardest part. We have yet to really enter any houses in our week here. Where are they. Things are a little hard with my companion. I have lost a lot of patience after my last complicated companion. I know it is always a humbling experience for me. I know that that too affects the work. Lots of prayers and fasting. So that is pretty much me. I am a little boring. We just have walked and walked and walked.
So Erica, thank you for the setter from you primary class, i got it a few weeks ago but i forgot to tell you, sorry and thank you. You can tell your class that I loved it, it was really really cute.
Mom have you sent the pictures yet to the people here?
Yeah, so mom and dad we have to decide what is up with after the mission, I got my moroni letter, that is what they call your letter that tells you are going home soon so and to check all your info so they can buy your plane ticket. So if you are coming to pick me up you have to email elder hart, he is the secretary and my district leader. Then you have to call the lds church travel 8012405093 stephanie asalone to arrange the flights. Could you pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee decide for sure what we are going to do. I am ending January 16 si o si, yes or yes. I would love to come back with you guys when I am not a missionary and to so I can be in Santiago feb 8th for hna agurto´s wedding, she asks me about it every week. So, that is what I want to do but I know it isn’t all about what I want to do. So by next Saturday you have to have an answer so too the mission an start planning and booking flights. If you guys come to pick me up we could be here 1 week 1 1’2, I would like to go back and visit all my sectors, I would like to go to punta arenas too but you do have to buy another plane ticket it is like going to salt lake from home. Well, if we came back when I wasn’t a missionary it would be cool to stay for 2 weeks or something. So let me know, that would be great.
So those are my plan, that is what is going on. And I would like to go to byu for the second block if at all possible. It doesn’t matter if they say it is a waste of time, I would like to get in and get going. So that is my thing. I think you start signing up in November if I remember right.
So yeah, I went from a town with out stop lights to a town bigger than Chico. I think they said there are like 160 thousand people here. It is a whole new ball game here. We have walked sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. It is incredible. I have never talked to so many people in my life. It is so hard here. We have a total of 3 investigators, that is nothinggggggggggggggggggggggg. Then it was crappy because we didn’t go out for 5 days for their independence day. We are still with the allens. They are awesome. They made me hay stacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JJ burritos!!!! French toast!! Breakfast burritos!!!!!!! Brownies, oh they are awesome. They are so cool. I am really enjoying staying with them. They are really sweet. They are a kick in the pants and they take care of us so much. And so yeah, we still don’t have a house, they are still looking, we are still looking. Things here are expensive.
It is really really hard here in osorno, that is why I never wanted to be here, but that is what the lord wanted. I don’t know. I have been so exhausted, I have never walked so much. It is amazing how the people are so different in every ward. We have an ex 70 in our ward, he is a good guy. There are 35 people that go to church every Sunday. Our bishop is argentino so his accent is funny.
Mom, if you could have only read the letter that alejandra sent me, if you could only understand it, she is amazing. Seriously. We were reading a story the other day about when two people were in heaven and promised they would find each other, I felt the spirit so so strongly because I have actually lived the stories that these people just tell, things you believe but it never happens to you. It is amazing.
We have an investigator that is so awesome and so ready to go. She was a member reference, and she has been going to church almost more than the members. All the activities and everything, it is great. She introduced us to her friend too that is awesome but doesn’t live in our sector. I know the lord has prepared people for us to find here, I know it and I feel it. I just don’t know where they are. Our sector is hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and there are soooo many houses. Just where are they. That is the hardest part. We have yet to really enter any houses in our week here. Where are they. Things are a little hard with my companion. I have lost a lot of patience after my last complicated companion. I know it is always a humbling experience for me. I know that that too affects the work. Lots of prayers and fasting. So that is pretty much me. I am a little boring. We just have walked and walked and walked.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Moved to Osorno!
9/15/2007
hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It’s been awhile. I no longer have p-days on Monday. I am now in a zone w here we have p-days on Saturday only, so it has been almost two weeks without one. Let’s say that I left from frutillar, a place like Biggs and now am in a place like Sacramento. I am in downtown osorno, my sector is hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and it is downtown, the city. we are opening the sector. they have not had missionaries here for 3 months and they haven’t had hermanas for like 15 years. it is huge the area.
Yeah, so sorry I haven’t been able to write we have p-days on different days. Like I said we are opening a sector. I never wanted to be in osorno but here I am, such is life. We still don’t even have a house yet or anywhere to eat or anything. They have been looking for over a week for a house so we can have somewhere to live. The mission office is in our sector and the president and hna Faulkner also live in our sector. It seems like they wanted to keep an eye on meJJ I must have been doing something J. No but we have walked and walked and walked. This is the richest sector I have seen since I have been in Chile, the entire sector is rich. It is amazing. I felt like I was in the states last night with the houses. It is incredible. We are living with a senior couple right now in their apartment that are from California too. They have been here for two months and don’t know much Spanish. My compaino is hna sullca and is from Bolivia and she doesn’t know any ingles and so it is a little interesting with them all. But such is life. We are in an apartment so nice. It is amazing, just like home again and she made pancakes today for breakfast, it was incredible. It is fun to be with them but we need our own house soon because we are intruding in their house, they say no but too it is hard for us to do all we have to do with them there too, studying and all but they are great. So that is pretty much me, lots of working because we don’t have one single investigator. And this week is 18 de sept, their independence day and from today to Wednesday can’t work unless we have appointments and seeing that we don’t have an investigators yet it will be a longggggggggggggg few days. But the lord will provide for us and make things happen. Osorno is a lot hotterrrrrrrrrrrr, tons hotter. It is nice here, a big change from frutillar. It was reallllly sad leaving frutillar. I made a long of great friends, the members were sad that I was leaving. I was too but excited, it was time, I was a little bored there, needed a change. But at least I know I will be back to see them again.
hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It’s been awhile. I no longer have p-days on Monday. I am now in a zone w here we have p-days on Saturday only, so it has been almost two weeks without one. Let’s say that I left from frutillar, a place like Biggs and now am in a place like Sacramento. I am in downtown osorno, my sector is hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and it is downtown, the city. we are opening the sector. they have not had missionaries here for 3 months and they haven’t had hermanas for like 15 years. it is huge the area.
Yeah, so sorry I haven’t been able to write we have p-days on different days. Like I said we are opening a sector. I never wanted to be in osorno but here I am, such is life. We still don’t even have a house yet or anywhere to eat or anything. They have been looking for over a week for a house so we can have somewhere to live. The mission office is in our sector and the president and hna Faulkner also live in our sector. It seems like they wanted to keep an eye on meJJ I must have been doing something J. No but we have walked and walked and walked. This is the richest sector I have seen since I have been in Chile, the entire sector is rich. It is amazing. I felt like I was in the states last night with the houses. It is incredible. We are living with a senior couple right now in their apartment that are from California too. They have been here for two months and don’t know much Spanish. My compaino is hna sullca and is from Bolivia and she doesn’t know any ingles and so it is a little interesting with them all. But such is life. We are in an apartment so nice. It is amazing, just like home again and she made pancakes today for breakfast, it was incredible. It is fun to be with them but we need our own house soon because we are intruding in their house, they say no but too it is hard for us to do all we have to do with them there too, studying and all but they are great. So that is pretty much me, lots of working because we don’t have one single investigator. And this week is 18 de sept, their independence day and from today to Wednesday can’t work unless we have appointments and seeing that we don’t have an investigators yet it will be a longggggggggggggg few days. But the lord will provide for us and make things happen. Osorno is a lot hotterrrrrrrrrrrr, tons hotter. It is nice here, a big change from frutillar. It was reallllly sad leaving frutillar. I made a long of great friends, the members were sad that I was leaving. I was too but excited, it was time, I was a little bored there, needed a change. But at least I know I will be back to see them again.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Spring is on it's way!
9/3/2007
Hello there to everyone. Well it seems as if you guys are doing absolutely wonderfully. That is great, on the lake, hot, and the Works. It is sooooooooooooooo cold here today and rainy. But we are coming into spring in one more month so that will be great. I am really happy to hear that chan is doing better. I pray for her a lot but know that the lord will take care ofo her. Know that she will be blessed and things will all work out. The lord promises that to the parents who are faithful, so mom and dad, you better be good!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats erica on your job, it is amazing how god really does do everything for us. He truly takes care of us and does it all for us. And we have no idea. I am a firm testimony of that and have gained much of it for being on the mission. I love how the lord takes care of us and how the spirit guides us. There is nothing better than that, truly. And it happens more often, well we realize too that it happens more when we are living righteously and have the spirit with us, that is why it is so important!!!
Mom, you have a lot of homework that you have to do for me. I want to go back to school to byu the second block in February. I feel I need to finish my mission until January 16th. But i don’t want to wait until may to go back to school because it is a longgggggggggggg time. And i wont´ know what to do with myself. I realize now that i am going to have a really difficult time leaving chile, really difficult. As well as a difficult time leaving frutillar. So mom, you have to look up or talk to dr z or something to see what classes i can take the second semester. Can you write melanie´s mom too to see what melanie is doing. I would like to live with her, you can put something on her blog and ask her.
Happy birthday granny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how old is she, i don’t remember?
Yeah, so last week we didn’t end up seeing her. It didn’t work out. But yesterday all of a sudden she called and said that in a week they are going to columbia for her work and so she won’t be here for when we have transfers, so she wanted to say goodbye to me because we don’t know when we will see each other again. She came and brought her little family to frutillar to be with me for a little bit. She just wanted to see me one last time. She is so awesome. I love to be with her, her husband matthias is so awesome too. He got up to bare his testimony yesterday at church. It is awesome how well he is doing and how firm his testimony is. It is awesome. She is a little down in the dumps for not being baptized already and her bishop doesn’t know what he is doing. But can i tell you how amazing it was yesterday to have been with her. she makes me so happy. I can’t rest until she gets baptized. I feel like it is my mission. I feel like her salvation is more important than mine. I want her to get married and sealed in the temple more than i do myself and worry about myself. There is something sooooooo special with her, seriously. So they came and we hung out for like 45 min and boy does the time flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. It was like 5 min but it was amazing to see her to be able to hug her for a little bit. It is bitter sweet because it is one of those moments that you never want to end. You want it to last forever. One day...christ gives us that hope. I was so happy to see her.
But long story, yeah we had our interviews with the president this week. And my interviews have always been short because i don’t ever have problems, accept once and it was a long interview but he started asking me about alejandra because i told him i wanted to see her again before i left from frutillar. We started talking about her and how she can get rebaptized. Well, he told me that it is a lot easier than we all thought. She just needs a disciplinary counsel and she should be ready because she is repentant and her husband is a priesthood holder now, go to church, do everything. So i was sooooooooooo pumped to hear that. He told me not to underestimate my faith and prayers and the lord can do anything. I have been praying soooooooo hard. It would be amazingggggggggggg to be able to go to her baptism but it would take a miracleeeeeee but i know the lord can do it. Keep her in your prayers pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee, she means so much to me. So i told her all that yesterday. Pres faulkner took down her name and number and was going to call the stake president to get things going. So alejandra was excited because she had people from high power working for her too. I can’t rest seriously until she gets baptized and can go be sealed to her family in the temple. With things like this i have zero patience!!!!!
So it was the coolest thing ever yesterday. All of my converts from frutillar were at chruch yesterday and it was so awesome. They are soooooooo much happier with the chruch,they are so happy. I love how the gospel changes our lives. How we know the truth. The abuelito that just got baptized is getting ready to receive the aaronic priesthood, how cool is that. They are so excited, with lots of animo.
Oh yeah, and mom, we have transfers this next week. September 12th and so i won’t be writing this next week. I think i will be somewhere else. You never know. But i need to leave, i dont´ know what else i can do here. I am ready. But we will see. I could go anywhere because all of my old sectors were closed and there are elders there now, so whatever place could be.
Hope you guys had a great time on the lake. Peace out. Nos vemos, cuidense mucho. Thanks for everything you do for me. Work hard, live the gospel, there is nothing better than living it! That is how we really are happy!!
Love ya all!!
Hna jamie pratt
Hello there to everyone. Well it seems as if you guys are doing absolutely wonderfully. That is great, on the lake, hot, and the Works. It is sooooooooooooooo cold here today and rainy. But we are coming into spring in one more month so that will be great. I am really happy to hear that chan is doing better. I pray for her a lot but know that the lord will take care ofo her. Know that she will be blessed and things will all work out. The lord promises that to the parents who are faithful, so mom and dad, you better be good!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats erica on your job, it is amazing how god really does do everything for us. He truly takes care of us and does it all for us. And we have no idea. I am a firm testimony of that and have gained much of it for being on the mission. I love how the lord takes care of us and how the spirit guides us. There is nothing better than that, truly. And it happens more often, well we realize too that it happens more when we are living righteously and have the spirit with us, that is why it is so important!!!
Mom, you have a lot of homework that you have to do for me. I want to go back to school to byu the second block in February. I feel I need to finish my mission until January 16th. But i don’t want to wait until may to go back to school because it is a longgggggggggggg time. And i wont´ know what to do with myself. I realize now that i am going to have a really difficult time leaving chile, really difficult. As well as a difficult time leaving frutillar. So mom, you have to look up or talk to dr z or something to see what classes i can take the second semester. Can you write melanie´s mom too to see what melanie is doing. I would like to live with her, you can put something on her blog and ask her.
Happy birthday granny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how old is she, i don’t remember?
Yeah, so last week we didn’t end up seeing her. It didn’t work out. But yesterday all of a sudden she called and said that in a week they are going to columbia for her work and so she won’t be here for when we have transfers, so she wanted to say goodbye to me because we don’t know when we will see each other again. She came and brought her little family to frutillar to be with me for a little bit. She just wanted to see me one last time. She is so awesome. I love to be with her, her husband matthias is so awesome too. He got up to bare his testimony yesterday at church. It is awesome how well he is doing and how firm his testimony is. It is awesome. She is a little down in the dumps for not being baptized already and her bishop doesn’t know what he is doing. But can i tell you how amazing it was yesterday to have been with her. she makes me so happy. I can’t rest until she gets baptized. I feel like it is my mission. I feel like her salvation is more important than mine. I want her to get married and sealed in the temple more than i do myself and worry about myself. There is something sooooooo special with her, seriously. So they came and we hung out for like 45 min and boy does the time flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. It was like 5 min but it was amazing to see her to be able to hug her for a little bit. It is bitter sweet because it is one of those moments that you never want to end. You want it to last forever. One day...christ gives us that hope. I was so happy to see her.
But long story, yeah we had our interviews with the president this week. And my interviews have always been short because i don’t ever have problems, accept once and it was a long interview but he started asking me about alejandra because i told him i wanted to see her again before i left from frutillar. We started talking about her and how she can get rebaptized. Well, he told me that it is a lot easier than we all thought. She just needs a disciplinary counsel and she should be ready because she is repentant and her husband is a priesthood holder now, go to church, do everything. So i was sooooooooooo pumped to hear that. He told me not to underestimate my faith and prayers and the lord can do anything. I have been praying soooooooo hard. It would be amazingggggggggggg to be able to go to her baptism but it would take a miracleeeeeee but i know the lord can do it. Keep her in your prayers pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee, she means so much to me. So i told her all that yesterday. Pres faulkner took down her name and number and was going to call the stake president to get things going. So alejandra was excited because she had people from high power working for her too. I can’t rest seriously until she gets baptized and can go be sealed to her family in the temple. With things like this i have zero patience!!!!!
So it was the coolest thing ever yesterday. All of my converts from frutillar were at chruch yesterday and it was so awesome. They are soooooooo much happier with the chruch,they are so happy. I love how the gospel changes our lives. How we know the truth. The abuelito that just got baptized is getting ready to receive the aaronic priesthood, how cool is that. They are so excited, with lots of animo.
Oh yeah, and mom, we have transfers this next week. September 12th and so i won’t be writing this next week. I think i will be somewhere else. You never know. But i need to leave, i dont´ know what else i can do here. I am ready. But we will see. I could go anywhere because all of my old sectors were closed and there are elders there now, so whatever place could be.
Hope you guys had a great time on the lake. Peace out. Nos vemos, cuidense mucho. Thanks for everything you do for me. Work hard, live the gospel, there is nothing better than living it! That is how we really are happy!!
Love ya all!!
Hna jamie pratt
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