My Companion Has Chicken Pox

12/15/2007

Hola to all at home. I hope everything has gone great at home. I am going to keep it short today, I am not full of a whole lot of energy or really want to talk much. It has been a very very very difficult week this week, we have had our ups and downs and some more downs. My companion last week, on Sunday found out she had chicken pocks….longggggggggggg story. Anyway, she can’t go out anywhere. So it has been reallllllllllllllyy hard to work. I have worked my tail off trying to make it so that I can go out and work. What are the odds of having a comp with chicken pocks your last cambio, at the end of your mission. It has helped me to see that I really love to teach and visit the people. I realized how much I love to talk to them, get to know them, and be able to help them. It is so awesome. I have had some very good experiences as I have left with some of the members here in osorno. They are special people and have strong testimonies. We found an elderly lady that is just great, we have an appt today but we will have to see how it goes, if I can find someone to stay with my companion. I really love the mission and have learned so much.

Oh, lael, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I don’t remember how old you are now, like 40 I think!! I am not going to send you anything this year because you won´t open it for another 9 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you have a great birthday, I will be thinking about you! Party it up…with your two kids!! Love ya!

So we had our conference yesterday of the zones around here. It was really really good, It was really spiritual. It was great. So when someone is going home they make you give your last testimony in the conference. So hna morphis, two elders, and I gave our last testimonies. It was so weird. It doesn’t really seem like it, time as gone by soooo fast. It is incredible. Time flies. We still feel like we are the new ones on the mission, it is crazy. It was weird that I am one of the people who has been on the mission for the most amount of time. But it has been a good 18 months so far. They have been some of the best and worst times of my life and I am grateful for every single one of them. There are things that I don’t know why or understand why I had to go through them but one day I will understand. But every minute, good or bad has helped me draw closer to my savior and heavenly father. And that is what has been so sweet and rich about the mission. No where else in my life would I have been able to gain the testimony, love, knowledge, and life experiences like I have here. What a blessing the lord gave me to call me on a mission. I would reiterate pres papa´s words anyway, I wish that all my kids and grandkids, girls or boys, can go on a mission.

My comp has been very very very depressed and is not going well. Every day I have to talk her into staying on the mission and not going home. I am not sleeping, I am stressed and I am at my wit ends. I thought things were find and bammmmmmm. She says she will try and stay but every day we go through the same thing. The morning she is fine, nighttime no, morning bad, evening no. it has gotten to the point where I don’t want to go home anymore, I don’t know what I am going to face. But that is the story. I am plugging along, the good news is that I am not trunky and not thinking about home at alllllllllllllllllllllllllll. Keep us in your prayers please.

Next week we as missionaries are singing in the plaza, Christmas songs. It will be fun. I have enjoyed being with hna morphis this little time. She is a great missionary.

Okay, that is me for the week. I will write next Saturday and we will talk next Sunday.

Send my love to all. Hope everyone has a great week!

Love, hna pratt