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