12/01/2007
Well, mom that is quite the little thing with the cat. You went a little overboard, I will read over it to see what really happened I haven’t read your letter yet. (Our cat Nara has started scratching on the furniture and won't stop...so I heard about these nail caps that are plastic that cover the nails and when they scratch they won't ruin the furniture. So sent Jamie a picture of her with her red nails on. This way she didn't have to be declawed)
So, it looks like things have been going good for you guys. That is great the granny is home now i hope she does well. I have come to understand a lot more about the gospel and the love god has for us as granny has been going through all of this. I have talked to many people who have helped me a lot to understand that god really is so merciful and loves us so much but it is us that are so hard headed and hard on ourselves. It is amazing the love he has for us.
Okay, with the trip. I am sorry that it has been such a head ache, i wish i could have been more help because i actually know Spanish. Anyway, i don’t remember what i am supposed to answer. Oh yeah, if we want to stay in pto montt. Really, pto montt they say is a lot dangerous and i don’t know how much there really is. My mamita in frutillar said that we could go stay with her for free, she has like a bed and breakfast and she would hold a spot for us if we tell her ahead of time. But because you don’t know Spanish i don’t know how down you would be for that. My vote would probably be to stay in pto varas. I want to see alejandra as much as i can. I would say there. You can ask her where to stay, or just drop her the line and tell her we are going to stay with her! JJJJJ i know she wouldn´t mind. But i know you gusy aren’t all the comfortable staying with other people, and less when you don’t speak the same language as everyone else! JJJJ but they know English, don’t worry, and speak it well. I hope you guys are practicing your spanish, learning a few things. Don’t worry, i know enough Spanish to get around. You guys are really going out of yoru box, thanks. Chile is great but remember that it is a lot poorer than the states, don’t come with the same expectations fro example with hotels and such. But i love Chile really. Do you want me to ask Alejandra if we can stay with her.
So we organized our own activity this week, our mission leader is not active so we are working by ourselves, but this is nothing new. It is always like that, amazing how that is. We had a ward family home evening. Like 25 people got there, it was a greatttttttttt turn out and the best was 6 investigators’! It was awesome. We are improving last week there were 31 or 34 people at church, there were sooooooooooooooo many. It was the most we have had in a long time. We were so pumped. We are working really hard. The members are really starting to trust us and it is going great with them. It is just hard to get people to go to church, everybody wants blessing but nobody wants to do anything for them. So it was a great turn out our ward activity.
I had an interesting experience. I don’t know if i told you, i had a dream about one of the hermanas here in our sector that doesn’t go to church, that is living with her boyfriend and has been to the temple. Long story. But this dream impacted me sooooooooo much, for what i felt, i felt so much painnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn for her not being active and the need for her to go back to chruch. We had a lesson with them that was wonderful. I told her a little about the dream and we were talking about how we were prepared to come to this life before, in the pre-existence and how we were taught the plan of salvation and knew what was coming and we promised to live the gospel and go back to live with god again. I know she was one of the valiant’s that fought hand in hand with Christ and that is why she is hear. I told her we don’t´ remember the other life, some people do, but i don’t but i have feelings or experiences that make me remember what i felt before, who were my closest friends before this life and that i know this is the true church and the prophet is called of god because he sent em here where i have found some of my best friends and because i had promised them i would come back and that the lord as put me with my Chileans again. And as I was saying all of this she started crying and pointing to herself, admitting that we knew each other before and that i was sent there to find her and bring her back. It was such a sweet moment. I wish i could describe the things that i felt but it was something that just pierced my soul and my heart. A confirming testimony that this is the lords work and there is no other, this is the true gospel and no other because if it wasn’t i wouldn’t be here and be helping these people and i wouldn’t be feeling these things that i feel now, knowing that they were my best friends before this life. They are such sacred experiences that i will forever treasure. I wish everyone could just feel and see and experience the things that i have experienced in this time on the mission. The lord loves us, makes the things happen that we need. He takes care of us and is our loving heavenly father and that is why we have he gospel restored on the earth today. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, my English is going down hill again... oh no.
We have cambios this week on Wednesday, it is my last cambio, so we will see how it goes. My comp thinks that she is leaving. I feel like i am staying as usual. We will see. I am game either way. So, if i don’t write on Wednesday i am still here in osorno and if you hear from me on Wednesday i was transferred.
Mom, i think melanie ends her mission in like three more weeks but i am not for sure.
Times flies by soooooooooooooo fast.
Oh by the way, i have walked around for 2 weeks now without a jacket, just sweaters! Yeah!!!! Oh happy day.
no mom, thank you for your help seriously. you don’t even know how much i want to go back and see all the people i have known and grown to love. there is a talk that i love from the conference. read the talk by elder wirthing called the great commandment, it is amazing, the mission has taught me soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much about that, and that is truly why i wanted to go on a mission. amazing how the lord answers our prayers and wants. you don’t´ even know how grateful i am to you and dad, seriously. i am so blessed with the family i have and i know i have never shown it to you either. but truly fro the bottom of my heart thank you.
Love to all! Hna pratt
Okay, with the trip. I am sorry that it has been such a head ache, i wish i could have been more help because i actually know Spanish. Anyway, i don’t remember what i am supposed to answer. Oh yeah, if we want to stay in pto montt. Really, pto montt they say is a lot dangerous and i don’t know how much there really is. My mamita in frutillar said that we could go stay with her for free, she has like a bed and breakfast and she would hold a spot for us if we tell her ahead of time. But because you don’t know Spanish i don’t know how down you would be for that. My vote would probably be to stay in pto varas. I want to see alejandra as much as i can. I would say there. You can ask her where to stay, or just drop her the line and tell her we are going to stay with her! JJJJJ i know she wouldn´t mind. But i know you gusy aren’t all the comfortable staying with other people, and less when you don’t speak the same language as everyone else! JJJJ but they know English, don’t worry, and speak it well. I hope you guys are practicing your spanish, learning a few things. Don’t worry, i know enough Spanish to get around. You guys are really going out of yoru box, thanks. Chile is great but remember that it is a lot poorer than the states, don’t come with the same expectations fro example with hotels and such. But i love Chile really. Do you want me to ask Alejandra if we can stay with her.
So we organized our own activity this week, our mission leader is not active so we are working by ourselves, but this is nothing new. It is always like that, amazing how that is. We had a ward family home evening. Like 25 people got there, it was a greatttttttttt turn out and the best was 6 investigators’! It was awesome. We are improving last week there were 31 or 34 people at church, there were sooooooooooooooo many. It was the most we have had in a long time. We were so pumped. We are working really hard. The members are really starting to trust us and it is going great with them. It is just hard to get people to go to church, everybody wants blessing but nobody wants to do anything for them. So it was a great turn out our ward activity.
I had an interesting experience. I don’t know if i told you, i had a dream about one of the hermanas here in our sector that doesn’t go to church, that is living with her boyfriend and has been to the temple. Long story. But this dream impacted me sooooooooo much, for what i felt, i felt so much painnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn for her not being active and the need for her to go back to chruch. We had a lesson with them that was wonderful. I told her a little about the dream and we were talking about how we were prepared to come to this life before, in the pre-existence and how we were taught the plan of salvation and knew what was coming and we promised to live the gospel and go back to live with god again. I know she was one of the valiant’s that fought hand in hand with Christ and that is why she is hear. I told her we don’t´ remember the other life, some people do, but i don’t but i have feelings or experiences that make me remember what i felt before, who were my closest friends before this life and that i know this is the true church and the prophet is called of god because he sent em here where i have found some of my best friends and because i had promised them i would come back and that the lord as put me with my Chileans again. And as I was saying all of this she started crying and pointing to herself, admitting that we knew each other before and that i was sent there to find her and bring her back. It was such a sweet moment. I wish i could describe the things that i felt but it was something that just pierced my soul and my heart. A confirming testimony that this is the lords work and there is no other, this is the true gospel and no other because if it wasn’t i wouldn’t be here and be helping these people and i wouldn’t be feeling these things that i feel now, knowing that they were my best friends before this life. They are such sacred experiences that i will forever treasure. I wish everyone could just feel and see and experience the things that i have experienced in this time on the mission. The lord loves us, makes the things happen that we need. He takes care of us and is our loving heavenly father and that is why we have he gospel restored on the earth today. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, my English is going down hill again... oh no.
We have cambios this week on Wednesday, it is my last cambio, so we will see how it goes. My comp thinks that she is leaving. I feel like i am staying as usual. We will see. I am game either way. So, if i don’t write on Wednesday i am still here in osorno and if you hear from me on Wednesday i was transferred.
Mom, i think melanie ends her mission in like three more weeks but i am not for sure.
Times flies by soooooooooooooo fast.
Oh by the way, i have walked around for 2 weeks now without a jacket, just sweaters! Yeah!!!! Oh happy day.
no mom, thank you for your help seriously. you don’t even know how much i want to go back and see all the people i have known and grown to love. there is a talk that i love from the conference. read the talk by elder wirthing called the great commandment, it is amazing, the mission has taught me soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much about that, and that is truly why i wanted to go on a mission. amazing how the lord answers our prayers and wants. you don’t´ even know how grateful i am to you and dad, seriously. i am so blessed with the family i have and i know i have never shown it to you either. but truly fro the bottom of my heart thank you.
Love to all! Hna pratt
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