July 1, 2013
This week was a great week! So
this week I finally got my carnet!( my visa). It was sure a trip getting there.
It was like one of those times we took the long way (3 wrong buses later and
lots of walking) where we could have just hopped on the metro and gotten
there in like 3 stops... ! Ya you learn from experiences like this, but it was
fun because I got to see Hermana Willard one of my dear friends in the mission
and we wouldn’t have seen her if we had taken the fast way= definitely a tender
mercy of the Lord.
Spanish is getting better and better each day and sometimes I
forget words in English...whoops. This week we went to a members house for almuerzo
(lunch) and their family is super musical.
Their dad is in charge of EFY in South America or something like that so
they translated the EFY songs into Spanish and they said they are going to
give us a copy. I am obsessed with
it! That was a huge highlight because I don’t have any music in Spanish.
Transfers were this week so in district class we took lots
of pictures and Nemo got to be in them! haha Ya he vacations all over the
mission it’s funny. Ya I love my
district and we only have one person who left cause he went home. I am
so grateful that I get to stay in El Golf. I just love it here and the people they are
amazing! I am now scared that I will leave next transfer. I really don’t want
to.
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Me and Hermana Silva and Nemo
haha he is going to go home with her when she goes home to Columbia in November
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Me and Elder Garcia de Peru
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| Me and all the Sister's in my Zone |
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My district minus Elder Carleson and Elder Palmer
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Me and Elder Jardon
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Me and Elder Aravena
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My comp me and Elder Palmer who
went home today
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We still haven’t found a new place to live so we are still just 2 sisters living in a high rise in the city, but sometimes I feel like I am like fancy camping. haha The closet rod broke and we live out of suit cases and I sleep in a sleeping bag every night hehe but we might be able to find a place to live for next transfer.
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| Santiago - Big City Missionary! |
The little Chilean children love me heheh and I love them
more! One of them always is like Hermana
Jennings haha Her dad told me that one day this week she was in her
carseat and she started to yell Hermana Jennings help me bahaha I laughed so
hard! On Sunday we have a recent convert who has a son who is 3 and he didn’t want
to go to Primary so he came to our class and he was kinda noisy so he sat
by me and I showed him pictures in all of my pamphlets and in the gospel
principles book so his mom could learn, cause that is what is most important. He
was really cooperative with me and it was fun. By the end of the 2 hours of church
he learned to fold his arms when we prayed and we led the music together in the
back of Relief Society and he now knows how to shake hands. I was fun teaching
him and one day I wants lots of kids cause they are so great!, but ya but not
anytime soon.
We have 2 baptisms for this Sunday and I am so excited. Our investigators are like polar opposites,
but that just goes to show that the gospel works for everyone. Jorge is so funny
he is just a funny guy. He calls us every
time he has read a bunch in the Book of Mormon and he was like, “I hope ya’ll don’t
leave and he called to make sure we didn’t get transferred. He is always saying
he is the black sheep of all the investigators but the change I've seen in him is incredible! To see in a suit and a tie on Sunday was
amazing and he hates ties. It is so true that the gospel of Jesus Christ really
changes people. Ruben is our other investigator and he is an older gentleman
and he is so studious and loves the gospel so much. He really is solid they both are and it is so
fun to have the privilege to teach them. They are so solid and they never
question anything we taught them. They
have a testimony and they accepted all the commandments of God and they just
want to change for the better. They are
inspiring to me and lots of other people.
This week we went to my grandma’s house (my Chilean grandma)
don’t worry Grandma Emery you still are my number one grandma love you!! She is so precious she calls me her nineta and I call her my abuela it’s the best.
My comp is the best!
I really love her and we have a good time together she calls me her “freakin’
gringo” it’s so funny. We are always swapping stories and she is hilarious. We love to sing that song from Titanic, that Celine
Dion sings, out loud as we walk home every night. It’s so funny. haha Ya I learn from her each day and we love El
Golf.
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| Me and Soledad |
I know that being a missionary is the best ever and that I
know that this Gospel is true. I know
that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that he died for us and that through him we
can repent. I know that the Atonement is
real because I have felt its cleansing power in my life. I know that the Book
of Mormon is true and that it testifies of Christ. I know that this Gospel is true and that we have
a living prophet today Thomas S Monson
and that if we persevere we can live with god forever with never ending
happiness.
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So this week we needed more Books of Mormon so we got this box of 32 and it was so freaking heavy and we
carried it all the way home and these are the pictures of us being so tired
hahaha
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