Happy Thanksgiving

11/24/2007

Mom, thank you so much for sending the picture to the people in punta arenas, they loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it. Thank you. I appreciate all of your help and everything you have done for me. It is great having such a support at home, a slowwwwww support but slow and steady. I really do appreciate it and there are words to describe. There are missionaries on the mission that their families don’t even write them, let alone do things for them like you do for me. And I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my shoes!

The cake looks great, they have some patience for that. Good work. Sounds like you guys had a great thanksgiving. I actually did too. Mom, thanks for the trip stuff. I am sorry about the wedding thing. I would still like to be in Santiago for a little bit because I still want to be able to see her and visit her. Because if we don{t stop by for more than that I won{t be able to see her at all. Just let me know the dates. Alejandra was asking me the dates so she can arrange things and get off work to be able to be with me. I know you have a ton going on.

Mickey Mouse Club House Cake and Birthday Girl and Gang

So I will tell you about my thanksgiving. It was actually the best thanksgiving of mfe mission, of the two. Ten of us missionaries went over to the Allen’s, and she made a ham with honey and syrup, it was soooooooooo good, and home made stuffing, unlike papa’s. we had apple and pumpkin pie and a chocolate éclair dessert. It was sooooooooo good. We had so much fun. Half of us were gringos. We talked about what we all do for thanksgiving and as we talked we realized how much we have forgotten about home. Nobody remember about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, I didn’t until after a long time, I remember you always watch it. So it was a great day. We ate good gringo food, it was a great day. We ate it for lunch though and then we went to work as usual. Because they don’t celebrate it here.

So it seems as if granny is doing better. Did she say anything about the letter I sent her last week? I wrote her a long one.

I have had some interesting experiences this week. I have always wanted to have dreams like the people here have. They all have them, and I neverrrrrrr dream anything. So I asked the lord to give me dreams and reveal things to me. Well since then I haven’t been able to sleep. I haven’t slept all week, so my bright idea wasn’t so bright after all. I did have a very interesting dream about an inactive that I really don{t even know. It is amazing how strong feelings can be in even a dream. It is incredible. I felt things soooooooo strongly and intensely that I wanted to call her right then and tell her, I tried to tell her last night what happened and what I felt but she was sleeping and so next week we will be able to. But it is amazing how the lord reveals to us who really are his chosen ones.

We have a new bishop in the ward, he is great. Our other bishop is moving to argenitna. We are doing great with the members. The elders weren’t here because they had messed up and had problems with the members. So we have had to work on getting their trust again and they are a lot of fun now and helping us a lot more. We are really progressing, littleeeeeeeeeeeeee by little but progress is progress. It is fun to work with the members and get to know them.

We also had an experience where we got invited over and there were three ladies that were going to have their little bible study meeting thing. And we got there and they were in charge and it was sooooooooo weirddddddd not being in charge and directing the lesson. I am soooooooooooooooo use to being the one who does all that, starts the lessons, the prayers, the song, the scriptures, closing everything and they did it all. They wanted us all to take turns praying, which is fine but out of the normal lds tradition. But it was soooooooo interesting. When they were praying I felt something cold inside, an emptiness. Then when my comp started to pray it was amazing how my body was filled with a warmth and a comfort and it stayed as I prayed and then when the other lady started it left again and the coldness came back. We talked about it afterwards. And it is weird because they pray from their heart as well but we realized the difference is that we have the gift of the holy ghost and they don{t. it would be interesting to know if they felt the difference as strongly as we did or if we are just that much more sensitive to the spirit. My comp says that I am very very sensitive to the spirit and very in tune. Which makes me laugh because I beg to differ I struggle soooooooo much knowing if it is the spirit or what we should do. And she pointed out some examples and helped me see that she was right and that I do it with out even noticing or realizing that I am doing it that is how sensitive I am to it, I just follow it because I know it is right. Comps are great to help you learn and see what is going on.

We had an awesome lesson to the other day with an hermano that went to visit a family with us. It was great. We still aren’t having any baptisms but I am beginning to see that maybe not many people have been baptized with me but I have been able to see how the lord really really has used me to help other people in their times of need. And that it what it is about, opening the door to show them that we have the true church, the holy ghost, and can receive the revelation personal from god that we need to be able to get through this life. It is amazing.

So our mamita here is the sister of my mamita from Puerto varas and they are amazinggggggggggggg. They are the best two in the whole mission. We will have to come back and visit them both. She went to her sisters in Puerto varas they other day and talked all about me. They are awesome, even the elders, well I know the elder that is there, he has been there forever. I loved Puerto varas and everything about it.