tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44658641767329044242024-02-18T20:15:30.403-08:00An American Missionary in ChileI have been called to serve an 18 month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chile, Osorno. I entered the Missionary Training Center in Mexico City on July 30th, and was there for 6 weeks learning the Spanish language, and getting missionary training.
I then went to the Osorno, Chile mission, where I will joyfully serve for the remaining time.Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-3093730565476218482016-01-25T11:02:00.000-08:002016-01-25T11:46:37.434-08:00Week 78 - My Last Group Email! So many mixed feelings!<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello Friends and Family!</span><br />
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So, it has been a pretty crazy week full of adventures!! We found a new investigator named Enrique who is atheist (sp? ateo). It was really funny because we had a member come with us to one of our lessons with him this week and when we were about to walk in, I realized that I had forgotten to tell her that he is atheist so I told her real quick as we walked in the door and she looked at me like "Are you kidding me?" then we sat down and were talking for a while when she looked at him like he was an animal in the zoo and said "Can I ask you something?" He responded that she could and the sister who was with us said "Are you REALLY atheist? I have never met one before and didn't know that they really existed." Then he said that yes, he really is and that they are normal people just like everyone else, just with different ideas. Haha it was so funny. She looked so shocked! </div>
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We had exchanges this week with the sister leaders and I was with Hermana Smoot :) It was fun getting to talk to her about what we're going to do when we get back home and about our families and everything. We spoke a LOT of English... Okay... so it may have been Spanglish but still... I got some practice in :) I am so excited to see you guys and tell you about all the crazy things that have happened in my mission that I haven't been able to share in the short time that we have to write every week. </div>
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We had a branch activity that was AWESOME! We separated ourselves out into 3 different teams... Chile, Argentina and Colombia and we played a bunch of games and did lots of sports and singing games and everything and the craziest thing that happened in this activity was at the end, my companion and I went to participate in a bindfolded trust competition so they blindfolded me and I had to follow her voice and everything went super quiet. When we got to the "finish line" where I had to sit down in a chair, I took off the blindfold and all of the branch had gathered together and they started singing a song that I don't even know haha but it was something to say goodbye to me... They threw me a going-away-party! A couple of members sang a song they had prepared for me and they did some typical Chilean dances and one typical Chilean tribal dance that is especially for saying goodbye (they pulled me in to dance in that one too) and they had prepared a video for me using pictures from my blog and also videos of my converts talking and thanking me and also videos of my family!! I could not believe it!! I WAS SO SHOCKED!!! I have soooo many feelings. Now I understand the true meaning of the phrase "mixed feelings." haha Thank you for your videos. I love you guys so much.</div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-9341497555603056422016-01-18T12:37:00.002-08:002016-01-18T12:37:42.847-08:00Week 77- (11 more days and 1 more email to go!)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello Friends and Family, </span><br />
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It's been a pretty crazy week. We've met some pretty awesome people while we talk to everyone that we can possibly talk to in the street. One of these people is named Elías. He's 23 and is REALLY interested in our message!! He has a bunch of great questions and is really willing to follow the answers that he receives from God! I am so excited to teach him more!! We're going back to visit him tomorrow and he said that he would read and pray about the Book of Mormon before we come! :D</div>
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So we went with a member named Hermana Jovita to try to find the house of an appointment that was set up by other missionaries for us to go to and we figured out that the address that they gave us didn't exist. The street they gave us was a cool camping site that didn't have any houses on it... just people with their tents :) haha So Hermana Jovita decided to kidnap us and take us on a quick road trip haha it was pretty hilarious. She stopped and made us get out to take pictures and to try these wild berries that she loves that are called maquis. Apparently they paint your mouth a deep purple color haha we went to our next appointments with our mouths practically black! :) I put a few little branches of berries in my backpack to save for later.</div>
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When we got home, I reached into my backpack to pull out my scriptures and realized that I ALMOST touched a spider that was just chillin' there inside. Then it started running away and I realized that it was probably one of those Rincón spiders that everyone talks about being super poisonous so I freaked out and threw my backpack and Hermana Medeiros told me afterwards that I had yelled something in English that she didn't understand, (I think it was Oh my gosh!) haha I was too worried about my life that was at stake to think about what language I was speaking. I just went and grabbed two tins of poison and sprayed that little thing until it stopped moving. Freaky!</div>
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We went to Frutillar Bajo today and I think we will be going to Saltos de Petrohue next week :) so that will be fun! I love you guys so much! I hope you have a great week!</div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-13048276363589800182016-01-18T12:28:00.002-08:002016-01-18T12:28:55.648-08:00Email from Hermana Harvey's mission<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I just got this email from the mission:</span><br />
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I litterally have no time at all but I just wanted to say that everything is going great!! we have a goal in our mission to triple all of the work that we have been doing so we have been REALLY SERIOUSLY busy now!! I am having the time of my life and I love you guys so much!<br />Just so you guys know... Remember Hugo? the investigator with the perfect questions? well, he's doing great and now has a baptismal date for Febuary 13th!! Whooo!!! I'm so happy for him!! :)<br /></div>
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We had a crazy week! In the end, we have had looots of problems with our new apartment that we are moving into today because.... just our luck... we found out that the man who is renting us the apartment is a crooked government worker who has robbed LOTS of money from everyone in Llanquihue. He's still under interrogation but EVERYONE apparently knows that he is guilty and let's just say he has a reputation of not being all that kind. Buuuut the apartment is beautiful so we're just going to enjoy it and make sure that the contract that he signs is REALLY detailed so that nothing bad happens :) So that's fun. Who knew I would be able to learn so many crazy things on my mission?<br /></div>
With the goal of our zone to invite EVERYONE to be baptized this week, we have had some AMAZING lessons in which 2 new investigators accepted baptismal dates! :) Mirian and Yoconda are both going to be baptized on Febuary 6th!! Whoo!! :) I'm so excited for them! We have had a very successful week, teaching everyone that we could gett into contact with in the streets or in their houses or wherever in the world we found them! :)<br /></div>
After we got to the apartment at 9:30 PM, everything was normal and we planned for our day today and then went to call our leader at 10:00 and realized that we didn't have our cell phone... oops... my bad :/ I think I dropped it in a colectivo when I went to pay the driver... soooo we were freaking out a little bit because we had no way to contact ANYONE and above all, we would be moving in the morning and HAVE to talk to people about that to coordinate everything... so we weren't all that happy. So... we just went to bed, not having anything else to do when I started hearing voices and heard a woman outside say "no, I don't have keys. There are no lights, I think they're sleeping." I was freaking out at this point because my companion sleeps like a ROCK (literally... like a rock) so I was alone thinking that there was someone trying to break into our apartment so I locked the door to our room and prayed then went to bed... in the morning, I was in the shower when I heard someone run up our stairs and start baning on our door yelling, "HERMANAS! HERMANAs!" so my companion yelled and asked who it was and she responded that she was Jovita, a recent convert in our branch, so she opened the door and i hurried and dried off and put my clothes on and when I got out, hermana Medeiros was talking on the phone and saying that we had lost the phone and telling exactly why. Apparently, our zone leaders and the members of our branch had been trying to get ahold of us all night long and we weren't answering our door because I was too scared to think reasonably soooo I had to answer to our zone leaders and the President's assistants this morning who all thought that we had died and were having a heart-attack. Soooo the moral of the story is don't lose your cell phone... the mission is going to think that you died a terrible death!<br /></div>
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Merry Christmas!! :D I hope you all had a great Chirstmas year! :) I loved talking to you guys on Christmas Eve! :D I love you soo much!! This Christmas was pretty interesting for us... haha after I talked to you guys, we went to Hermana Billicopf's house for dinner. She is American! :D So that was pretty awesome! We had a Christmas dinner with dinner rolls from the US! So that was pretty gosh darn awesome! Then we went out "caroling" with the branch choir (which they are actually really good for a chilean choir!) The thing is that here, you can't really just go out caroling because the people will look at you like you are completely insane so we always had to knock on their doors and go into their house to sing to people so they didn't think we were completely insane. So that was fun :) </div>
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Theen on Chirstmas day we had a pretty normal day, I oppened my gifts, (thank you sooo much for everything!!) then we went to each lunch at a recent convert's house then we went out to sing for people and "work" normally :) Soo we were walking down the street and there was same tall grass in front of us and out comes this HUGE black dog and my companion yelled "Hermana! The dog!" and then froze. So, realizing that this dog was going to bite my companion because she was too scared to do anything, I pulled her by her arm and flung her to the other side so the dog couldn't get to her. I think we scared the dog with all of our yelling and quick movements so after barking at us for a while, he left. We walked away and started laughing because we were just so scared and then my companion realized that her arm and rib-cage hurt really bad. ooops... I'm a little stronger than I though I was. She didn't get bit by a dog but we had to go back home to put ice on her shoulder and ribcage because she was in pain from when I pulled her away from the dog. But the good news is that she didn't get bit. </div>
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Then, later that day we were trying to contact a reference that we received from a member in our ward and there was a crazy dog behind the fence. I thought it would be a good idea to see if he was really bad and if he would bite us if we tried to get closer to knock on her door so I put my planner by the fence and the dog didn't just bite my planner but he pulled it out of my hand into his yard! My pass-along-cards and map and papers and everything went flying and he went running with the case that I had over it! Oops... maybe I shouldn't have put my planner there... So... this lady wasn't opening her door so we knocked on her neighbor's door (okay, we yelled ALO at their fence) and he came out and said oh, I can go get your planner because the dog knows me. So he went and got all my things except for my case which I think the dog ate... haha Aand the miracle of this story is that after the young man hopped the fence, the lady came our to see what was going on so we were able to talk to her and we set up an appointment for tomorrow! :D Whoo!! Miracles do happen!! Oh... and I also still have my planner AND my hand! So that's a good thing too :)</div>
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Another fun thing that happened yesterday was that there are a lot of drunk people in the streets during the holidays sooo there was a man carrying some furniture and we offered him some help and he said yes! He stopped and put the stuff down and we were just about ready to help him when he said, "Yes, I need help with my heart... I need a woman." Sooo at this point, we realized that his face was also all red like any other drunk man and my companion said "Well, we can't help you with that!" and we went walking very quickly! OH! and I forgot to mention that at this moment we were carrying a little newly-born puppy that someone had left on the side of the street to die and my companion just couldn't leave him to die sooo we were bringing him to a member's house... soo my companion, this little puppy and I left as quickly as we could and after a little while when we had already forgotten about this drunk man, we heard someone calling behind us "chicillas! chicillas!" or... "girlies! girlies!" (I think that would be the translation) and we barely looked back and saw that he was chasing after us! And fast! So we started pretty much running and took a few quick turns that we knew he couldn't follow and lost him again! Whoo! :) it was an adventure :)</div>
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We had an awesome week!! :) First of all... We have been practicing our Spanish, English, and Portuguese! I can now successfully have a very broken conversation with my companion in Portuguese! Whoo! haha It's really close to Spanish so it's not all that hard to learn, but the pronunciation is complicated... And we speak in English a lot now because Hermana Medeiros is learning soooo my English is coming back little by little but I feel confused in Spanish! Sooo we're going to speak English even more and I have to learn how to separate them in my mind before I get home so that I don't forget it!! I'm getting better every day :) haha</div>
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We had lots of activities for Christmas with our branch this week, which was awesome becuase we are finding new people to teach in every activity!! :) The craziest thing that happened in our activity on Saturday was that we were running around quite a bit because we have so much to do and after the activity, we were already leaving when we saw a member standing there and I felt like he wanted to talk to us. So, even though we were running out the door and really did NOT have time, we stopped and asked him if there was something that we could do for him. He responded saying that it's fine if we needed to go but that here was a woman inside that wanted to get baptized. He told us that she would be getting married in January and wanted to get baptized right after she gets married!! We could NOT believe what we were hearing!! We had been working sooo hard every-day trying to find the people that God has prepared to receive this gospel and, in this moment when we least expected it, God blessed us with the chance to meet someone who is REALLY prepared! :) We have an appointment with her on Wednesday so I'll let you know how it goes next week :) Or in SKYPE on Thursday! :)</div>
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So, this week Elder Texeira came to visit our mission and taught us a LOT about how to be efficient and how to have success in the mission field! So we have been changing a LOT of things about the way that we work! Especially with talking to literally EVERYONE in the streets. There are always soo many people and we have to separate ourselves at time (still being able to see and hear one-another but talking to different people) in order to talk to everyone! Sooo we have been talking to a LOT of people and finding a lot of new people to teach!!</div>
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Remember that little old lady that we're teaching named Elba? Remember how I told you guys that she's 95 years old! Weeell we invited her to be baptized and she accepted!! She is going to be baptized on January 16th! God really does prepare his children in every stage of life! She is such a sweet little lady and she says that she knows that she has to be baptized in order to live with God again after this life so she wants to take this step! Man... we really learn to LOVE the people that we serve here :)</div>
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We received a referral from a member in our branch and she said that it was a little old lady who lived with her son and we were excited to go meet her. When we got to her house, her son was bringing their firewood in and we offered help but, obviously, as always, he told us no so we saw her mom sitting there and we started talking. We told her who we were and that her neighbor had told us that we HAD to come meet her so here we were. We did not imagine how old she really was until we met her. She is 95!! But she still hears really well!! That was the most surprising thing to me! haha don't people usually lose their hearing after a while...? She had a very hard life.... she had 15 children and raised all of them by herself because her husband died just after the smallest was born and she lost many of her children through the years. She only has 3 children left now. She also raised a good portion of her grandchildren because a few of her kids were not able to care after them. She is a very strong woman and now is ready to receive the true gospel in her life!! It is amazing that God can really prepare people to receive the gospel in ANY stage of life!! </div>
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Another thing that was pretty gosh darn funny, just a quick recap, was a lady that we contacted in the street and when we went to give her a pass-along card, she told us that she wouldn't accept it because she believes in Jesus Christ and when we told her that we do too, she told us that she KNOWS we are lying because she knows that we say that we believe in him but then we step all over him and that we put his image on the floor of our chapel so that everyone can step on him as they walk in. Wow.... I just want everyone to know that WE BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST!! He is the center of our religion and the head of our church! I know that he lives and that he loves us and that we cannot be saved if it were not for his sacrifice for us!</div>
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Being in the house a bit extra these weeks has given us the chance to cook a lot in the house! :) We've been inventing lots of new things to cook with the things that we find in the house! :) It's fun!! But what is even better is that we have been able to study for HOURS each day in the scriptures and I have really learned to LOVE the Book of Mormon!! But in a way that I never could before I REALLY started studying it!! And I KNOW that it is true!! And I also love that we have been able to leave the house every day!! :D Whoo!! I just have to go back home now if my ankle starts to feel molested (that's the word that you would use in English?... I don't know...) And we are seeing so many miracles!! We are finding new people that need the gospel each and every day!! I LOVE BEING ON A MISSION!!! AHHHH!!!</div>
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One "funny" thing that happened is that President Obeso was going to come to our house to interview us because all of our zone had interviews and he didn't want us to have to travel to Puerto Montt to have ours. So we were freaking out a little bit and we cleaned our entire house. But we REALLY cleaned our house! We scrubbed the floor and the washing machine and the stove and behind the washing machine and stove and the craziest thing is that we needed to cut the grass but we didn't have grass-cutting scissors (yes, they use these big scissors to cut the grass here) soooo Hermana Medeiros had the great idea of cutting the grass with her normal scissors.... I could NOT believe it... she cut almost ALL the grass with those school scissors!! I put a chair outside and sat there and started pulling up grass with my hands to try to help but she ended up coming in with blisters on her hand from cutting so much grass so little at a time!! LOCA! So he said that he was going to get there at 3:00 so she cut that grass as fast as her little hand could move and then came in the house to make it look like nothing had happened and started studying her scriptures like a good little missionary. So we waited and waited.. and when it was about 5:00 we thought... that is so weird.. why hasn't he come yet? So we looked at our phone and realized that it didn't have any signal! So we began doing everything possible to make the signal come back and finally, we received a message that said that President Obeso had called 7 TIMES!!! Soooo... when we could finally get ahold of him, he told us that he couldn't find our house even after asking a bunch of people in the street where the mormon missionaries live and they were already almost back in Osorno! Man I felt sooo bad!! And so did Hermana Medeiros! Her poor little hand! She did all that for nothing! haha</div>
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Aaand another funny thing was that I was looking at a box of vitamins that we had in our house and reading what it said and I guess the whole being in Spanish thing confused me. It said that we had to keep the pills in a dry, cool area away from the light (sounds pretty normal, right). I looked at my companion and said, "wow! these vitamins must be really strong! It says that you can't even go out into the light after taking them!" Ummmm... yeah.... my companion is still making fun of me for that :) </div>
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Well, first of all, we had a week of miracles!! One of our investigators, Alejandro, decided that he wants to be baptized and we set his baptismal date for December 19th! Right before Christmas! :) Whoo!! We are so happy for him! </div>
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I was teaching my companion how to make bread this week and decided that it would be fin to turn it into a language study session at the same time... so I sat on the couch and just told her step-by-step what she had to do and she followed my instructions. I saw that she didn't exactly understand how much oil to use and I watched her put a LOT... but I continued with my instructions anyways and saw that she was having difficulty kneading it because it had waay too much oil so I began to give her instructions to make biscuits instead of bread because I knew it wasn't going to turn out too well. I told her to roll out the dough and put it to cut it out, put them on a cookie sheet and to poke holes in it with a fork. She asked me if we should put egg or butter on them and I said no, it has plenty of oil. Then I look over at her and realize that she was pouring oil onto a fork and spreading it over the top of each biscuit... I asked "Hermana Medeiros... What are you doing?" And she said, "I'm doing what you told me to do!" The word in Spanish for holes is "hoyos" and apparently, to Hermana Medeiros it sounded a lot like "oil" sooo she thought that I used a word in English in the middle of my sentence and was telling her to put even more oil on top of her oily mixture and to use a fork to do it. And the funniest thing as that she did it! She listened to me! Wow... that is a trusting companion right there :) So I showed her how to poke holes in her "bread" and it actually turned out pretty good! :)</div>
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Aaaannd now for the biggest news of this week... drum role please.... I sprained my ankle! Okay... here´s what happened... So Hermana Medieros and I were on our way to an appointment and were extra happy so we were skipping through the street when I stepped off the road a little bit into the dirt and herd a loud crack and felt a strong pain in my ankle. I immediately knew that something serious had happened and began to scream and cry. At this point, Hermana Medeiros said that she thought I was just joking around and I was just going to say "I'm soo happy" because she says that I always do that but then when she heard me start yelling "I don't want to be sent home! I don't want to be sent home!" She knew that I wasn't laughing. A couple of the young men of our branch just happened to be walking by so she called them over to help and they carried me to a nearby member's house. The called a taxi and took me to the hospital where they checked my ankle and told me that it was broken. The doctor said that he could feel the bone move when he pressured my ankle where I said that it hurt and that they didn't have X-rays there so they would have to send me to Puerto Montt to know how bad the break was. Soo they gave me an IV for the pain and then a member came and picked us up to go to the clinic in Puerto Montt. Before leaving, I received a priesthood blessing from my mission leader of our branch and then we headed off. When I finally got my X-rays taken, the doctor looked at them and said that my bones were perfectly fine. There was no fracture and that it was just a sprain!! It was a MIRACLE!! President Obeso called me in the morning and said that the mission nurse had called him and told him what was happening and that if I had a fracture, I would have to be sent home because I wouldn't have enough time to heal on my mission. I know that God wants me to be here on my mission right now and that's why he spared my ankle so that I will be able to finish strong! I feel sooo blessed!! I know that this gospel is true and I am going to use this time that the Lord has given me to the fullest!! I just have to wear a boot for about a week and then I'll be good to go! :) </div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-11664933894611019112015-11-16T12:14:00.000-08:002015-11-16T13:45:50.359-08:00Week 68<div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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We were teaching Hugo yesterday (YES, WE FOUND HIM AT HOME AGAIN THIS WEEK!) and he still has LOTS of great questions! We were able to teach him in a very simple way the truths that he needed to answer every question and doubt that he had. It was amazing how the spirit worked through us... the spirit was so strong as we were speaking and we had no idea what to say until the words just started coming out of our mouths. You could see it on his face as he went from not even knowing for sure if God exists to feeling the spirit testify that God is his loving heavenly father. We felt the power of those words as we testified to him that his father in heaven loves him! I know more than any other moment in my life that God is literally my father and that he loves me! </div>
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Do you guys remember Juán? I don't know if I have already told you about him but he is one of our investigators who's wife passed away about 9 years ago and has had a lot of trouble accepting commitment because the rest of his family has a thing against the Mormons and he is afraid of losing the rest of the family that he has left. Well, after an amazing lesson about the Restoration and how through this restoration, the authority of Christ is on the earth again so that we can be baptized and make it to heaven to be with our loved ones again, we invited him to be baptized on November 28th and he accepted!! We are soo happy for him!! One thing that I have learned on my mission is that we are not helping people to become better. We are not helping good people to become better and bad people to become good... we are opening the door for these people to have eternal happiness... to make it to the celestial kingdom or what is more commonly know of as heaven. Where we can live in eternal happiness. And i know that it is only through this message that we share... the restoration of the church of Jesus Christ... that we can be with our families for all eternity.</div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-6885998410295346732015-11-09T11:55:00.000-08:002015-11-09T11:55:04.161-08:00Week 67<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello friends and family!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Medeiros is such a sweetheart!! I love working with her!! :) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But you would NOT believe how crazy our first day together was!! I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">felt so bad!! haha I had to explain to her liike 15 times that it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wouldn't be this way every day! Sooo.... here's what happened... First </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of all, we had lunch with President Obeso and all of the other </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionaries that are either starting their missions or training a new </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionary and he spoke to us and everything and then we got on a bus </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to head back to Puerto Montt. On the bus, we recieved a call that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Medeiros had left a bag in the church that had her Book of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mormon, along with some other things, inside. So she lived the first </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">few days of her mission without a Book of Mormon (she has it now, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thank goodness ;)). Then, when we got to Puerto Montt, we went to buy </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her a backpack because she didn't know she could bring one and only </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had a little purse that didn't hold much of anything. It was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">beautiful day so I took of my jacket off and we headed off to go </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shopping :) THEN we got back to the bus terminal, got all of her </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">suitcases and everything together and got on a bus headed to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Llanquihue. When we were just leaving Puerto Montt, I suddenly </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">realized that I didn't have my jacket. I had forgotten it in the bus</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">terminal! I thought, oh well, it's okay, I'll just call the elders </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that were there and I would get it back later. 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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us as if we were insane then a man helped us take out all of our </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">suitcases that Hermana Medeiros had brought and they left us stranded </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on the high way.... We had to walk all the way to the nearest bridge </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to cross over to the other side where we could take another bus to get </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">back to Puerto Montt... By the time we got back, we were sweating like </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pigs and looked like we were about to die and obviously the Elders </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thought it was the funniest thing in the world as they watched us walk </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the last few steps to retrieve my jacket that I had forgotten. (I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">don't even know how we made it back. It was a miracle.) When I got my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">jacket, I looked in the pockets and WE FOUND THE HOUSE KEYS!! But the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cell phone wasn't there.... :( haha so we wen't about 4 days without </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cell phone or Book of Mormon until the Elders could bring us a new </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cell phone and bring us Hermana Medeiros's Book of Mormon. Whoo. What </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a week.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But the rest of our week went really well!! :) We're doin' Good here </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in Llanquihue!! And it looks like we found a new apartment that is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">going to be gorgeous!! I'll send you pictures when it's finished!! :)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I love you guys!! Have a great week!!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hermana Harvey</span><br />
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This week, everything has been changing! But most of all, I think I have changed a LOT this week. It is amazing how much you can learn when you dedicate your life to the service of God! I had a couple months in which I was a little depressed because I have just been overly stressed with all that we have to do as missionaries. I went through a couple of months of little or no desire to get up in the morning and was doing everything that I have to do because it is my responsibility as a missionary rather than because I wanted to do it. I was not enjoying my mission the way that I had been for the first year or so. But I didn't even realize how bad it had gotten. I only realized when we went to a member's house for lunch and she was talking to us about when she served as the mission president's wife a few years ago. She said that in this time, there was no mission nurse so all of the missionaries called her when they were sick. She explained to us the signs that you can see when a missionary is overly stressed. As she spoke, I recognized each and every sign in myself. I was sooo stressed!! And so, that night, I was talking with my companion about it and everything just came pouring out! Then, after talking for a long while, we got ready for bed and I began to pray for help. I have never cried so much in a prayer before. The next morning, after recognizing what was wrong, talking about everything that I was feeling with my companion and the Lord, and asking God for help, I woke up with desires to serve again!! I had energy and was ready to work!! I feel happy again!! Not that I was miserable these last couple of months, but I wasn`t as happy as I could have been!! But now, I can enjoy the rest of my mission to it's fullest. </div>
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Osme got baptized this week!! :) We are sooo happy for him with this decision that he made!! In his baptism, his daughter Zulydela asked the primary to sing and they sang a primary song about baptism!! It was the sweetest thing in the world!! Before Osme got baptized, we decided to sing another hymn while he was waiting there in the baptismal font so that we could invite the spirit again! Haha so while he was there all soaking wet, we all sang "Soy un Hijo de Dios" or "I am a child of God." It was so great!! He invited a family from his work to come and they did! And his son also invited a friend and a member of our branch also invited a friend! So there were a lot of people who aren't members in his baptism!! That was a huge blessing for us!! :) And for them! :) He has the goal to go to the temple with his family in a year so that they can be an eternal family!! I know that they can be together forever and that this is made possible in the holy temples of the Lord and Osme knows that too and has that goal with his family!! :) We're so happy for them!</div>
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Lots of other things happened this week like... we had our Zone Conference on Wednesday in which we talked about what we can do better as a mission and set goals to be better and to see more miracles and we always leave sooo enlightened by the spirit!! And on Thursday we had exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders and I was with a sister who is going to be finishing her mission this next transfer and she was SUPER trunky thinking about her boyfriend who she left at home haha so that was fun! :) And I learned a lot from her about what I can do to be a better missionary! :) Oohhh... AAANNNNDDDD President Obeso called us last night... AANNNDDD.... We received our transfers!... Hermana Alvarez is going to be leaving this week and will still be inside my zone! So I will get to see her! :) And I will be training an hermana named Hermana Medeiro (I think) from Brazil!! So good thing I learned a little bit of Portuguese from Hermana Marinho! :) </div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-73114242065766245572015-10-26T09:04:00.002-07:002015-10-26T09:04:22.242-07:00Lots of experiences with the.... Evangelics?<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445868016740_34052" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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Hola familia y amigos!!<br /></div>
We found Hugo again!! We passed by his house yesterday and it was raining a LOT and we were soaking wet but he still let us in! :) He had even more questions for us and, honestly, the gospel of Jesus Christ has the answer to EVERY ONE of his questions!! I know that when people are really prepared to receive the gospel, God puts the right questions in their minds. He read the pamphlet that we left with him and he also invited his mom (Who is VERY Evangelic to read it) and she said that she would! Wow!! But it was funny because when we met his mom, we were ending our lesson and were going to end with a prayer. So I explained how we pray in the church of Jesus Christ, and emphasized that when we pray, only one person prays at a time and all of the other people listen and at the end, we say amen. But I don't think she understood very well because she said "okay, you can guide the prayer then." and when I started to pray, she started praying too. and when I finished praying, she said, "ohh! that was short!" Now I'll give my prayer and we all had to stop in our path as we were already packing up our backpacks to leave and listen to the surprise-prayer that she gave. It was really funny. Even Hugo was smiling at us like " I know. My mom's funny. <br /></div>
There are a lot of "Evangelics" (¿? I don't really know what they're called in the US) here so we teach a lot of crazy lessons haha another example of this is a lesson that we had this week with an investigator named Patricia. Everything was going well until her husband got home. haha He is VERY religious and when he saw us there, he went straight for his guitar! He sat down on the couch and, in the middle of us explaining the plan of Salvation, he began to play the guitar and sing very loudly about his love for God. And, to our surprise, the rest of his family of 6 shortly joined in and our lesson about the plan that God has for us shortly turned into an evangelic worship service. haha So that was fun :) We just ended with a prayer and left. But it was fun! There are about 2-3 "Evangelic temples" on every street here in Llanquihue soo we're going to have a lot of investigators like these :)<br /></div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-54278569917206210142015-10-19T13:45:00.002-07:002015-10-19T13:45:47.065-07:00Week 64 - The Weeks Are Flying By!!<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello Friends and Family!!</span><br />
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The weeks are FLYING by!! Seriously! I feel like every time I close my eyes another week has gone by!! Our branch is already getting ready for Christmas! The branch choir already started practicing!! The director of the choir isn't a member so we can participate too as we teach the director :) We are singing a song called "Arrurru." It is so hard to sing!! Even the Chileans have difficulty because of all of the RR´s involved haha but it's super fun :)</div>
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This week, we decided that we were going to mix it up a bit and play a game as we knocked doors. We played "Guess who lives in that house." So we look at a house and, from the things that we could see about the house, we chose a name to ask if ___ lived there :) It was fun!! At one house, we decided to ask for Juán and the man who opened the door said..."You don't know his last name?" And when we said that we didn't know, he told us that he asks because there is one Juán that lives right in front of his house and another who lives about 3 houses down! haha! So we received 2 referrals :P haha But this man's name was Hugo and he told us that he doesn't believe in religion because they are all just in it for the money. He questioned why there would not be just one answer to everything if there is only one God. He also said that the "pastors" now-a-days just decide one day that they want to start a church and they do it... he asked "Who calls them to be a pastor?" These are all questions that we as missionaries LOVE to hear!! We explained to him that he is exactly right! That the people on this earth today have changed what is now known as religion. Jesus Christ had established his church on the earth when he was here and after his death, the human race began to change his teachings according to what they wanted instead of what God wanted for them. That is why there are so many churches on the earth today. People have been trying to get as close as possible to the truth, but can't do it without the authorization of God! So we shared with him what we know about the Restoration of the Gospel! We shared our testimonies with him that the church of Jesus Christ, the same one that he established when he was here on the earth, is here again! And that we can receive so many blessings from this gospel!! I know that it is true!! Because I have felt these blessings in my life! I don't know if we will be able to see Hugo again because it was a miracle that we found him at home when we did because he works outside of the city but I know that he felt the truthfulness of our words.</div>
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We are going to have an activity in our branch to help the members feel more comfortable going out to teach with us. We made a funny video about all of the things not to do when you go to a lesson with the missionaries. Things like fall asleep in the lesson, play on your phone while we are teaching, teach false doctrine, talk waaaay too much, cry every 3 seconds...etc. The members that helped us in the video did such a good job!! It is going to be hilarious!! :) I'm so excited to see it in the activity! :)</div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-15187805063298935872015-10-12T09:11:00.002-07:002015-10-12T09:11:52.860-07:00Week 63<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444665116725_4711" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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Yesterday in church, the primary asked us to come to help teach the kids about how to be a missionary and specifically how to talk to people in the street. So we told them that, first of all, when you are a missionary, you have to say hello to EVERYONE that you see in the street. Second, you can either offer them a pass-along card or you can offer your service if they need it. (obviously, this was a very short version of what we do when we talk to people in the street). Then, we gave each kid a pass-along card and went to work! :) We walked down the street with about 10 primary children all yelling "HOLA!! HOLA!!!" to every single person that they saw, no matter how far away they were or if they were inside of a bus or car :) They even yelled Hola at all of the dogs that they saw in the street :) And each and every one of them gave their pass-along card to someone! :) It was great!! THAT is how to do missionary work! :)</div>
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So this week we set the goal as a zone that we were going to write down all of the little miracles that happen every day to be able to recognize them and feel more excited about our missions. So we have been! And it is amazing how miracles just come out of the wood-works when you are really looking for them! We saw miracles all the way from dogs leaping out of their yards and NOT biting Hermana Alvarez's leg off to little old ladies working in their gardens who are interested in listening to our message. (which you would be amazed how many there are here in Llanquihue)</div>
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One thing that happened this week that was super funny was that Hermana Alvarez is still learning how to contact people in the streets... So I decided that I was going to stop contacting every person and let her have a chance to do it for herself. Sooo we walked past a man who was sitting on his bike waiting for another man to leave his house and Hermana Alvarez stopped in front of him and just looked at him for a while (obviously waiting for me to say something) and then, not being able to think of anything else to say, she said, "¿Cómo se llama?" Haha I found it sooo funny that I almost couldn't control myself. I couldn't even talk so I just waited and let her talk to him. He smiled and told her his name then Hermana Alvarez invited him to General Conference and he said he might go. haha It was probably one of the most awkward contacts that I have seen but I am so proud of Hermana Alvarez and she was super happy with herself :) So that was super fun!</div>
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We have been teaching a man named Juán and he has been progressing a lot!! We had a lesson with him and a sister named Hermana María and it went really well!! He is scared to be baptized because his family doesn't like the "mormons" and they all seem to be turning against him because he has been listening to us and coming to church with us... soo that makes it hard for him. He also lost his wife a few years ago and she was Evangelic so he doesn't know how she would feel about him getting baptized in another church. So we shared with him about the simple truth that families can be together forever and that it is only through the sacred covenants or promises of baptism that we can get to that point. Hermana María then shared an experience of when her husband passed away a little over a year ago and she met the missionaries a couple of weeks after he passed away. She explained that as soon as she heard the message, she knew that it was true and that when she was baptized and received the Holy Ghost, she was filled with a joy that she can't even explain. She still missed her husband a lot because she loved him so much but she felt that the Holy Ghost was holding her up when she couldn't for herself. That is what this gospel offers us. We can have the strength to withstand the trials of this world. And that is exactly what Juán needed to hear at this point in his life. </div>
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We also had a lesson with Osme, our investigator who is going to be baptized on October 31st. He is soo prepared! He told us that he wrote down the date of his baptism and put it on his door to remind him that he has to do all of the things that we ask him to do so that he can be prepared for that day so that someday he can be sealed in the temple with his family for eternity!! I am so excited for him!! His wife and two kids are already members. They got baptized a year ago in December and the time has now come for Osme also.</div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-11312316518737080052015-09-28T13:35:00.001-07:002015-09-28T13:35:09.011-07:00Week 61Hey Friends and Family!<br />
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Llanquihue is BEAUTIFUL!! I love it here!! And our branch (it's not even a ward) here is AWESOME!! It is more than twice as big as the WARD that I was in in Valdivia. The members here are soo willing to help us! So not much change there haha but I am soo excited to work with the members here!! On Sunday, it was cool because we brought a calendar for the sisters to sign up to go out to visit people with us and we just had to hand it over to the Relief Society President and she told us that there is a sister in charge of helping us find people to go out and work with us! WHAT? How awesome is that?? And they have the goal in this ward that each of the sisters are going to think of a referral and that they not only give us the referral but they come with us to visit them! They introduce us and teach with us in the first lesson! I have never been in a ward with so much member-support and this is a BRANCH! I am so excited.</div>
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Our sector is HUGE and BEAUTIFUL!! I honestly feel like I'm in some sort of paradise. There is a huge lake (Lake Llanquihue) and on the other side of the lake there are two huge volcanoes :) it's gorgeous! I cannot even close to describe how gorgeous it is here and the pictures don't get even close to capturing the beauty. But I can tell you that I just feel super peaceful here. Like you can feel that it's a good place and that there are lots of miracles waiting for us here. I'm so excited!</div>
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Hermana Alvarez is amazing! She is so sweet and humble. I love working with her!! She is from Chile!! Northern Chile in a city called Quintero. So she is teaching me a lot!! :) I just know that I am going to learn a LOT more from her than she is ever going to learn from me! It's refreshing being with a companion who is just starting her mission because she is so excited about the work! We have been running around everywhere trying to find new people to teach and trying to get to all of our appointments on time in our HUGE area! :) haha It's great!</div>
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The other day, we went to teach a lesson with a sister in our ward named Hermana Carrillo. She had a referral for us named German so we went together to meet him! Hermana Carrillo explained him why she wanted him to listen to us and bore her testimony about the way that this gospel has blessed her life and explained a little bit about our message and invited him to church and to keep listening to us! I can just feel that German is going to understand and accept our message!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">So there are these awesome swans on the lake. I guess Llanquihue is famous for these swans. There are two volcanoes behind me... You can't see them because of the clouds but they are gorgeous! And yes, they are active :) haha one of them is the one that erupted a few months ago. But don't worry, nothing happened here when it erupted! Amazingly, the ash didn't even get here in Llanquihue.</span></td></tr>
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Soooo... After spending all of 4 weeks in this ward, I'm being transferred! I'm headed to a little town called Llanquihue. President Obeso called us last night to talk with Hermana Marinho and he told us that he needed to make a few changes in Holzapfel. So Hermana Marinho is going to be senior companion (that's how they say it in English, right) and is going to have to teach the new missionary in the sector all about the area. I'm going to be headed to Llanquihue where I will be finishing my companion's training. She has been in the mission for about 2 months now. I'm super excited because I know she's going to have lots of energy to work and to learn and I know that I am going to learn a LOT too!!</div>
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So, as many of you know, this week was 18 de Septiembre which is a huge holiday here in Chile in which there are a LOT of drunks in the streets all week long and we had the pleasure of talking with lots of them! One of them was yelling "¡Rubia! ¡Rubia!" which pretty much means "Blondy! Blondy!" and following us as we walked by very slowly because of Hermana Marinho's bad knee. The good news is that drunk men also walk very slowly because they almost fall over every other second and they get distracted super easy. So after a little while of walking, he gave up and started following another lady who was walking by. But the bad news is that Mamita Edith (my mamita from collico) saw us walking and began running after us to talk to us and was yelling "Harvey! Harvey!" sooo this drunk man learned my name. He started following us again and he then was yelling "Harvey!! Harvey!!" He obviously thought... hey... it worked for her so it better work for me too! Hahaha soo funny!</div>
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As you also might have heard, there was a huge earthquake in the north of Chile this week. It was pretty scary because we heard about it when it happened and they sent out a tsunami warning in our area. Hermana Marinho always says that she just knows that something is going to happen here in our mission because she can feel it so I was a little freaked out. Our leaders called us and told us that we had to prepare ourselves just in case something happened and we had to leave quickly in the middle of the night. So, we decided that we wanted to be extra prepared so I made bread real quick and we made some hard-boiled eggs and put it with a bunch of other food and all of our other emergency kit things in a backpack and packed our backpacks with the things that are most important to us like our journals and cameras and our leaders also told us that we had to sleep in our work clothes (skirts) so that we could be ready to leave at any moment. Hermana Marinho and I even did our make-up so that we wouldn't be too ugly if anything happened. haha sooo obviously, nothing ended up happening but it was super fun getting everything ready :)</div>
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This week, as you know, Hermana Marinho wasn`t able to leave the house because of her knee pain. So I had LOTS of companions!! :) I'll have to take pictures this week with each and every one of my companions because I had a different companion every day!! Like 6 different sisters! :) It was great!! We have seen lots of miracles while working so much with the members!! <div>
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Cesar got baptized this week!!! :) The baptism was beautiful!! Cesar is a little bit different from the rest of our ward, his personality is just different, so we were all really surprised when he showed up to church yesterday wearing a SUIT!! It was amazing!! And he looked so happy!! He was nervous to be confirmed because he doesn't like being in front of so many people because he's very shy but he said that afterwards, he felt at peace and knew that he had made the right decision! He us now praying to know if he should serve a mission!! :) He's 23 so he still has time to decide!! </div>
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Everything is still going great with the members here in my ward! They're still super excited to go out and work with us and that is going to be a HUGE blessing this week. We had one day that we had 3 members come with us to our appointments and also to talk with people in the streets and it was great! We were with members ALL DAY! And they were all different members! :) </div>
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Other big news!!! We had a lesson with an investigator that the Elders had decided not to teach anymore because he wasn't progressing. (We didn't know that they had decided not to teach him anymore because we came here in a white wash and we just saw his name in our area book and decided to pass by his house.) We talked about the Book of Mormon and how he could know if our message is true if he reads it and prays about it. Then he told us that he already knows that it is true. He had received his answer little by little, but he knows that it is true. We then talked a little bit about baptism and invited him to be baptized this month. He said yes! So we invited him to say a prayer right then and there and ask God what day he should be baptized. (we were thinking maybe in 3 weeks.... or 4...) He looked up at us and said.. "I'm thinking Saturday... Not the day after tomorrow but next week. I think it's the 12th, right?" I think we were in shock and all that we could get out of our mouths in this moment was "uh huh." Haha so we organized his baptismal interview and everything and he was interviewed on Saturday and will be baptized this following Saturday!! Wow!! He was so prepared!! He was just waiting for someone to ask!!</div>
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Well, I have lots of news for you guys.. so I'm going to start with the bad news so that I can end with the good! :) </div>
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I think you guys may have misunderstood why we had to have this switch in Areas. Our house before was pretty. It was new and had everything that it needed and was just a little cold and humid. But nothing that we couldn't live with. The real reason that we were looking for another place to live was that we were living next to 4 men who were at times quite drunk. Here in Valdivia there are a lot of houses that are build behind other houses (just in their back yard) so that they can rent them out. That is the case with the house where we were living before and also where we are living now. In Collico, there were three houses in this yard and the two other houses were filled with drunk men. This was especially a problem since our front door didn't really lock well and in the summer when the door wasn't bigger with the humidity it just opens with the wind... Sooo when President Obeso saw this and saw how secluded our entire sector is, he told us that we had to leave. And now we live in a really old house (I think it's like 50 years old and you can see it's years) but it's behind our mamita's house! and it's the only house there and it has 4 fences haha so we're super safe :) </div>
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The bad news about the house is that it has RATS!! And slugs all over the place and the water heater sometimes works and sometimes doesn't and when it's working it just about burns us but when it's not it's water straight from the freezing river. Not to mention the man smell that we found when we got here. and there weren't even any cleaning supplies in the entire house! No wonder it was so dirty! The elders didn't even have any supplies!! haha so we're still in the process of cleaning and getting rid of all of our little friends who like to play in our kitchen! haha But we are being very careful about putting away all of our food so that they can't get to it and washing the dishes with bleach before eating off of them. So we're still safe :) Don't worry. And we put out poison for them and they have eaten a BUNCH so they're going to die within 3 days now I believe! Whoo! Sad but necessary. </div>
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But now for the good news!! OUR AREA IS INCREDIBLE!! The field is white already to harvest and the ward was just waiting for sister missionaries to get here to be able to progress. Our bishop apparently has been praying for 7 years (since he was called as bishop) to get sisters in the ward and now here we are! The thing is that there are a LOT of sisters that live alone and are inactive in this ward so the Elders couldn't go into their houses to teach them. There are also a LOT of sisters who are super excited to go out to teach with us!! We even have ward missionaries!! :D It is so great!! We taught 13 lessons with members this week!! That is definitely a record for my mission. I have never felt so much support from the members before and it makes a WORLD of difference!! We have also received a LOT of references from the members!! They have a lot of confidence in us! Which is great! but also pretty nerve wracking! </div>
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I don't have much more time but I just want to share one story!! We received 11 references from one member of our ward and decided to try to find a few of them when we had time that same day. As we were leaving the house, we said a prayer, as usual, but this time, as I was praying, I prayed specifically that we could find someone that God had prepared to listen and accept our message. Even in the prayer, the spirit was super strong and I KNEW that God was preparing someone to answer my prayer. So Hermana Marinho and I both felt that we should go find one of the references that lives close to our house. So we went and knocked on his door and it was really interesting because you can tell from the very moment that someone opens their door if they are going to be receptive or not. When he opened the door, we knew that he was interested in listening to us because he left the house to come talk to us in front of his gate. We started by introducing ourselves and telling him a little bit about what it is that we do as missionaries. After talking for a little while about how our message can bless us as families, he told us that he had woken up that morning feeling like there was something missing in his life. He said that he had been crying and didn't know why he felt so sad and just began to pray to God and he asked him for a sign. He told us that he didn't think that it would really come but he did know that he had asked with a real desire to receive. He then told us that he knows that we were sent from God to be that sign that he had asked for. He said that he could feel something, something good, something that he knew was from God, almost a pain in his chest, and wanted to cry. We explained to him that he was feeling the Holy Ghost and we invited him to be baptized. He said yes! Then we gave him a pamphlet to read and he told us that he would read it but that there was just one problem. He doesn't really know how to read. In this moment, Hermana Marinho and I both felt really strongly to promise him that if he tried the best that he could, God would help him to understand by the spirit what he needs to understand. At this point he was crying and we were just about crying also and he promised to read it and to pray for the help of God to understand and to know if it is true. But he told us that he can already feel that it is true. We will be meeting with him again on Wednesday! God listens to and answers our prayers!! When members and missionaries work together, we can see soo many miracles!! </div>
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-73864809089971946982015-08-24T11:24:00.002-07:002015-08-24T11:24:53.256-07:00Week 56 - Big News!!!Hello Friends and Family,<br />
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So...
This week we had interviews with President Obeso and he decided to do
them differently. They came to each and every one of our houses to see
if they are clean and organized and if we have everything that we need
and when President Obeso got to our house, you could see by his face
that something was wrong. He asked us about our living conditions, who
lived next door and everything and after a while of talking, he told us
that he wants us our of our house as soon as possible. He told us that
he is very protective of his sister missionaries because he sees them as
if they were his own daughters and he does not want us living or
working in Collico. Soooo... They called us last night at 10:00 PM and
told us that we are leaving TODAY! At 6:00 we have to be in the church
building so that we can switch sectors with some elders in another
ward. Soooo we were up until 4:00am packing up all of our stuff and we
don't even have time to say goodbye to all of the people that we have
grown to love here in this area. It all happened so fast because
President Obeso told us that maybe he would wait until the next
transfers come along but then they called us and said that we have to
get out today... Sooo that's the big news of this week! Pretty crazy,
right? I'll let you know how the new area is next week.</div>
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In other news... we have seen lots of miracles this week!!! So my
companion has some trouble walking because of some problems that she has
had with her knee and the mission nurse told her that she can only walk
3-4 hours a day... which is not much when you're a missionary... so
we're a little more restricted with the way that we can work. So this
made is a little complicated to know when we should head back to the
house so that she can rest her knee. So what we decided is that every
time that she isn't feeling well and wants to go back to the house, we
say a prayer to ask if there is anyone else that the Lord wants us to go
see before we go back or if it was time to let her rest. I'm just
going to tell you right now that when missionaries have to put in an
extra effort to do the work, the Lord blesses them even more than
usual!! We have seen so many miracles from the prayers that we have said
before heading back home!! I don't have nearly enough time to share all
of them with you but I need to share one that was AMAZING!!</div>
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So we had gotten to that point that Hermana Marinho didn't feel like she
could walk any further so we sat down and watched the sun as it set
over the river and just relaxed for a little while before saying our
prayer to see what God wanted us to do. When we said our prayer, we
both just sat there for a long while after... thinking and trying to
interpret what the spirit was telling us. We both, in this moment, felt
as though there was Someone... but we couldn't put a name on who that
Someone was... So, knowing this, I tried to think of all of the people
that I could and one name came to my mind but I wasn't sure if it was
really the right person or not but I just felt that we should walk in
that direction and see if she was home and if she wasn't home, we
decided that we would just go home. As we were walking, we saw a man
there who was just looking at something on his phone and we just said
hello and continued walking. After we had barely passed him, I felt
REALLY strongly that I had to turn around and talk to this man. It was
almost as if the spirit literally turned me around and opened my mouth
to speak with him. We asked him why he was out there and he told us
that he didn't really know why, but he felt as though he needed to leave
his house to get some fresh air and just think because he had been
passing through some pretty hard times. After talking for a while, we
began to share with him a little bit about our message and the great
blessing that it is to each and every person as they come to know that
it is true. We shared with him our testimonies that we have a prophet
on the earth today who receives revelation from God to guide us in the
way to be truly happy on this earth and for eternity. The spirit was
soo strong as we spoke with him and he told us that he knows that God
had sent us to him in this exact moment to send him the message that he
needs. After setting up an appointment to come back and teach him more
about our message, we were walking away when I felt the same spirit
again push me and tell me that we hadn't finished yet. We turned around
and I told him that we had one more question for him. We asked him what
it would mean to him if he came to know that this message that we are
sharing is true. He responded with "If it is true... it means that I
have waisted a lot of my life not following the Gospel." This response
brought such power that there is no doubt that he felt the spirit touch
his heart and tell him that if it's true, he has to follow this path. I
honestly feel the spirit right now super strong even thinking about
this moment. It was probably one of the most spiritual experiences of
my life! I am so thankful that I have the knowledge that this church is
true and that I have felt the joy that it brings into our lives and
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Obviously, we are sad that we
aren't going to be able to continue visiting with Fernando (this
miracle man.... haha) but we know that God has a purpose for everything
that happens on this earth and that Fernando and all of our other loved
ones here in this sector are going to be able to continue learning and
will have their chance to receive the same joy that we have! I am just
so glad that we were listening to the spirit and that we stopped and
talked to him in the moment that God sent him our to talk to us!! I
LOVE THIS GOSPEL!! I LOVE CHILE!!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!</div>
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everywhere and fights with the other dogs along the way. Super fun :)
haha He even learned how to open our gate so that he can get into our
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Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304044026371666001noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465864176732904424.post-13157803450874493452015-08-17T14:58:00.003-07:002015-08-17T14:58:49.118-07:00Week 55<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello Friends and Family!</span><br />
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We have experienced lots of changes this week! My companion is awesome! :) Her name is Hermana Marinho and is from Brazil. I've already been learning a little bit of Portuguese which is super fun! :) I've decided that it is a mix between Spanish and French... sooo I'm going to come home speaking English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French! :) Whoo! Haha</div>
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It was funny when Hermana Marinho got here because each and every transfer, there are always a whole bunch of missionaries in the bus stations with millions of suit cases all playing games like signs or ninja. We get super bored waiting in the terminal sooo that's what we do to make the time go by faster. As we were there waiting for our companions to get to Valdivia, one of the elders told me, jokingly, that the best part of these transfers is that I wouldn`t have to go to the clinic anymore (becuase we were always in the clinic with Hermana Sarceño) and I laughed and told him that my companion would tell me "oh, and by the way, I have to go do physical therapy every day in the clinic" haha And guess what Hermana Marinho told me when she got here!! "Oh... By the way... I'm going to have to go to the clinic every morning for physical therapy." haha So we will continue to share the gospel with the physical therapist :) </div>
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Sooo.. for those of you who know me... You know that I have NEVER been good with directions. I get very turned around very quickly. Which makes everything more interesting. You know that you are bad at finding your way around as a missionary when you can't remember how to get to the church building!! So... short story... I got a little turned around after getting off the bus in the Elder's sector while headed to a meeting at church and we walked in the opposite direction and found ourselves walking through what we liked to call quicksand... or quickmud? And I almost lost my shoe!! haha It was hilarious but we showed up to our meeting with VERY dirty shoes :P But the point is that in the end, I found the church building! So we're all good! :) </div>
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We have already seen lots of miracles!! It's like God just wants to bless us and is trying to find every single excuse to bless his missionaries!! :) One of these miracles was Dorris!! It was very interesting because one night, I was planning for the next day and looking through the list of names and addresses of people who said that we could come back later to visit them and came across the name Dorris. I didn't even look at the description that I had written because we were in a hurry to plan and I just knew that she lived in the area that we would be going the next day so I wrote down her name and direction to go visit her. When we got there, she acted like she had never seen missionaries in her life (which I thought was strange because I didn't recognize her either but I knew that she was in the list of people that I had contacted) She told us that she didn't have time right then but that we could come back in another moment to share our message with her. But she said that she is Jewish and that she isn't looking to change her religion. So, after asking her a few more questions about herself and talking a little while, we found out that her father had passed away just a couple weeks ago and that it had been really hard for her. Hermana Marinho testified to her that families can be together forever and we began to feel the spirit super strong! Dorris then, obviously being touched by the spirit, invited us in her house and we got to share with her a little bit about the Plan of Salvation. She later said that the missionaries that had passed by before (I guess she remembered us after a while) had asked if she needed help with anything and it surprised her because she said that it was the exact day that her father had passed away and she felt as though we knew. When we got home, I looked at my list of contacts that I had and looked for her name. I found that I had written that Dorris hadn't even opened the door. She yelled from inside that she was busy and we simply asked if we could come back later and if she needed help with anything. After she said no, we left. It amazes me how God can work through the smallest of things in life to work miracles in the lives of others!! We can never think that what we are doing here is insignificant because each and every thing that we do is important to God's plan!</div>
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