Finished the Concerts, Sick with Bronchitis, Feliz Navidad!

I love you all so much! I cant wait to talk to you guys!

Okay so this week went pretty well. We finished our concerts! All three of them so that means we dont have any more 3 hour practices! haha which means more time in our sector! Im so excited! Okay lo siento sobre all the exclamation marks. Im a little excited as you can tell.

Okay so I am still getting over my Bronchitis and because i ran out of the antibiotics before and i didnt get more at the time i needed to i cant take anymore because i gues ill become immuned or something. No se en realidad pero esta bien. This last week i was sentenced to my bed for a good portion of the day so this past week has been kind of crazy in our sector. I wouldnt have stayed home but the nurse made me and so did my compañera. haha lame! But this week is going to be different! A lot of people did however show up to the concert that we invited that that was good becasue maybe their interests will grow in the church and they will feel the Spirit. I love you guys and miss you all.

Love Hermana Brown.. youre all in my prayers. xoxoxox

Adios from the CCM

Almost Missed My Flight, Loving the Area, Hermana Latham, Crazy Drivers, etc.

I love you all so much!! I cant wait to be able to talk to some of you on Christmas but just know that i love you all.

Well the flight was super long!! hahaha we almost lost our connecting flight to Osorno from Santiago because they changed gates and becasue it was in spanish we had no idea. It was a close one! We had to run all the way across the airport and barely made it in time. We arrived at the Osorno airport around noon and we were welcomed with warm hugs and kisses on the side of our cheeks since that is the culture here. When we got to out mission home we were able to figure out who was going to be our companions and our area!! My companions name is Hermana Latham. She only has 3 months left so once she in done training me she will be flying home. So i got a professional thank goodness!! ha! Shes super sweet and has anxiety attacks sometimes so Ive been trying to help with that. I get her laughing when she is stressed, I noticed it helps her. She is so amazing though. Anyways my area is not Valdivia though. Its actually here in Osorno part 2. So my companion and I have been trying to both get to know the area and the people here becasue we were white washed. Which means that they took out the last two and put in two brand new ones. Ha lets just say its been fun adn we are well acustomed to our map hahaha poor map...it looks pretty beat from the wind and water.

I loe my area!! The people here are hard core Catholic so most of them wont listen to our beautiful message. However we have found 2 potential investigators while knocking doors and it seems like it just might work. I hope so...their lifes will improve dramatically if so. Anyways ...lo siento.. I am off track. Okay ha so that whole day we arrived we went through orientation and meetings...which by the way we all had a hard time staying awaked through becasue we were all super exhausted from the lack of sleep on the flight. Oh and did I mention how great the food was on the plane?? It was amazing...well I dont know for sure if it was ecasue i was so hungry that it appeared that way or if it actually was. Haha who knows. Then the next day we went down to the Visa agency and applied for a VISA which should come in about 3 months and until then i have to carry this paper on me everywhere i go.

I am just so grateful that the assistants to the president helped us through the entire process. What a BLESSING! Shortly after that I met my companion Hermana Latham. Ooh so theres another investigator that we have her name is Ingrid and I just love her and her son so much. They are catholic but they are open so we are working with them. They have just sweet spirits. The little boy...reminds me of you MARK!!! Oh and I forgot to mention that I dont understand anything they are saying here!!!! Ha I am not even joking... they speak super fast and they drop like the last half of the word and dont conjugate things like your honestly supposed to...well according to all the rules of the Spanish language. Hah its quite entertaining. Ive gotten really good at the ackward smile that says yepp... I dont have any clue to what youre saying. LOL! But I am trying and and I know that the Lord will bless me for my efforts.

The people here are honestly very sweet but the drivers man...are crazy! JK they are all wonderful and I just love them all but the drivers just drive crazy. Which makes sense because they get paid on each person they pick up so the car gets pretty tight...and the speed limits well lets just say they dont have any. Ha its quite entertaining. I really love them.

We had our ward council meeting yesterday to figure out how we can help the members. I guess that there are a few families that dont get along with eachother which is normal sadly. So we are figuring out what we feel the members and lass active members need and how we can help fulfill that need. But hey the church is perfect just not the men. I love this Church.

So I never realized exactly how many diverse things we do as missionaries. Its really interesting to me and really energizing. I love the work of the Lord, its hard and you get turned down A LOT! Whats funny is that each time you get turn down it hurts but then you just have hope that someday they will open their door or their heart to the message. Once they open their heart and have that desire to know then the Holy Ghost can testify to the truthfulness. I think the most interesting thing I am experiencing is when my companion and I feel that this certain door needs to be knocked or when we feel that this person needs this specific thing when we didnt even talk about it previously. The Holy Ghost really is a gift.

So this last Sunday I was shocked hahaha I didnt think it was starting becasue there were so few people in the Chapel. hahaha and it was considered a good turn out. I think we had about 30 people in there which seems like a decent amount until you look around the cultural hall and it seems empty. hahaha I love my ward though. So if it shrinks any more then we are moving to a branch so we are working with getting to know the members and helping the less actives along with just everyone. I have really grown to love service. Its energizingh and the look on their faces when you help them or offer to is priceless. I love everyone here. Thank you for your prayers and your emails. I absolutely love reading them. I love you and I miss you all!! God loves you all! I know it because He has helped me love these people that I barely know. Its a wonderful thing to feel even just a portion of that love that God has for His children.

Ill try to attach pictures...love you!

Leaving for Chile Osorno!

Alright so I leave for Chile Osorno tomorrow!!! Here is all my flight information:
Flight number:  LAN 621
Flight day:  12/1/14

Mon dec 1-Tue, december : Mexico to Santiago
Tue: Santiago to Osorno Chile
December 13: Osorno to Valdivia

So there you guys go. Ive been feeling really good this past week about going to Chile. I am loving it. I feelat peace and I know that if I set my expectations high and have faith then God is given the opportunity to help me. On Friday we had a bunch of workshops of how to be a preach my gospel missionary and basically it just really prepared us for the field. We have taught 5 lessons since ive talked to you guys last and in each lesson i could feel the Spirit so strongly that I knew what to say. I am just so incredibly grateful for the opportunity I had to be here at the CCM and learn so much. My confidence has grown exceedingly  and so has my faith. Its very true when people say that you feel the lowest lows in the CCM and also the highest highs but how would we know whats good if we didnt experience those lows, right? For example, try to describe how salt tastes to me if Ive never tried it before. You just cant. :) So it is with faith and experiences, we have to experience it for ourselves and act on it in order to know what it feels like.

I really want you guys to look up the story of President Thomas S Monson and the mission that he closed and reopened in order for their to be success. I forgot where it was...i think like Europe or something. Ill know next week when i have my notebook on me. Im sure you can find it in the meantime. It is a beautiful story though. It just proves that it is by faith that God works miracles and if we dont have miracles happening then we are lacking faith. Oh and something i really enjoyed learning about in the CCM is how Faith is a principle of action. Nourish it, anct on it and it will grow.

So for Thanksgiving we had a live devotional by Elder David A Bednar broadcasted from the Provo MTC. It was amazing as usual but it was different this time. He gave us the opportunity to ask him questions and he would answer as many as he got to. Next week i will get to that but we are now out of time. I love you and miss you all so very much! Oh and Elder Bednar asked us to each ask our families if you  would pray for us to have to gift of tongues every morning at night. He promised that if you guys did that I would be blessed with it. So please pray for me to have the gift of tongues and I know that Ill will be blessed greatly for it. I love you all and I hope that your thanksgiving was wonderful and that you could feel my love.

Love
Hermana Brown

Happy Thanksgiving, Leaving for Chile Soon, Highlighting the BoM, Turning Out Instead of In

Happy Thanksgiving for real...
hahaha we all thought it was last week. Apparently not lol! Oops i guess thats what we get when we are busy in the work. Yesterday we taught Jorge his last lesson. It was a beautiful lesson. The Spirit was there. :)

I havent gotten my flight itinerary yet but im pretty sure im leaving on Monday and we will be arriving on Tuesday in Chile! Im really excited. I guess based on the other girls itineraries that we will be staying in Osorno for 10 days until we are distributed to our specific areas! I am super excited! I cant wait to be fully submersed in the work! I hope you all know how much I love you guys! Oh so we had our pictures taken as a district and you will probably be getting a picture sent to you from Hermana Jones. She is the sweetest lady ever!

So our last devotional was about how when you are called to be a missionary, you are called to be a missionary forever. It was an MTC devotional by Elder Holland. It was beautiful. He talked about how when Jesus came back after leaving that his disciples were fishing again. As soon as they realized that it was Jesus, Peter jumped out of the boat and swam to the Savior. Jesus then asked Peter if he loved Him. Peter replied yes Lord I love Thee. He did this 3 times and on the third time Peter still answered yeah Lord I love Thee and it was then that Jesus replied then feed my sheep. It was at that moment that Peter changed from being Peter to Peter the great. Jesus gave us the perfect example. When He calls us to be missionaries or moms or dads or something.. its an eternal round. Peter understood that and its important that we understand that as member missionaries and as children of God. Its important that we gain testimonies of doctrine buts its even more important that we live the doctrine we learn. Through doing it our testimonies strengthen and by them strengthening we become more fully converted to the Lord. Once you are converted to the Lord you cant turn back because conversion is a process and the more you get closer to Him, the more you experience light, the better you can see the difference between black and white.

Oh before i forget, I challenge you all to figure out a question you have about the gospel, for example Christs character then take a simple, inexpensive Book of Mormon and read it with the intent of figuring it out. Highlight in it, write in it your impressions, and once you are done reading and marking it up, go over it. Then write a paragraph about what you learned. Keep doing this and by the time you are Elder Scotts age you should have around a couple hundred Books of Mormon showing what you learned. In that devotional i also learned something that i never realized before.

While Christ was being tempted by Satan and suffering greatly for us so that we can return to Him, the scripture which i dont have...so sorry.. says that after He cast away Satan that Angels came and administered unto Him and comforted Him but if you go down in the footnotes it says that He actually sent angels to go administer and comfort His apostles that were thrown in jail. Even after all He went through He still turned out when the natural man inside each one of us would turn in. Let us all strive to become more like the Savior and when we want to turn in and have a pity trip...let us turn our in service and love to others. I promise you that as you do so you will feel the love of God greater in your lives and you will grow in Christlike attributes. Its not easy..trust me hahah but I know that it has helped me tremendously in the field.

My love for others has grown and I feel the Saviors influence in my life more each day. I love you all so much and miss you. Thank you for your love and support. I will let you all know my flight numbers and information as soon as I receive it. I love you all and Happy Thanksgiving!

Love,
Hermana Brown

I just lost all my pictures....soo sad. My camera needed to be formatted so it deleted all my pictures. Im devastated. Okay not devastated but a little sad. lol Its okay though at least i sent some to you guys!

Address for Pkgs, Specific Prayers, Revelation Through Being an Example, Thanksgiving

I love you all so much and Id have to admit I did cry today hahah. You all look so great and I cant believe how beautiful my family is! You all have the most wonderful spirits and testimonies and I can definitely feel them through the emails.

First off before I forget the Mission Home Address for PACKAGES ONLY is:

Sister Talitha Emily Brown
Chile Osorno Mission
Mackenna 987, Oficina 3
Edificio Paillahue
Osorno, Region X
CHILE
Phone: 56 64-223-2754

Now I learned a lot this week! First off let me address how wonderful specific prayers are. As a district we decided to pray for Griz, one of our teachers long time friends, that she would come to TRC (which is when volunteers come and let us practice teaching them), that she would be taught by at least some of us, and that she would feel a desire to be baptized and that night she would express her desire to be baptized to Hermana Lozano. God is kind. That next day after praying about it, Hermana Lozano told us that Griz was coming to TRC! Thursday came and our Elders were blessed enough to be able to teach her. She accepted the baptismal interview (which by the way was the first time she has ever accepted a baptismal interview and her family has been members for over 8 years) and that night she expressed to Lozano her desire. We continue to include her in our prayers as sh is praying about a date for baptism. Either in December or April. We are so blessed. We had faith and asked God and it was His will...it happened and all of our faith strengthened because of it. Nobody knew about the prayer besides our district. You see, the Lord is willing to bless us with marvelous things if we but ask and its not because of our selfish desires in our hearts.

Another blessing this week was yesterday my companion and I were able to go on splits with two other Hermanas. The other Hermanas are struggling with obedience and so the teachers thought that itd be good if they were given examples. We were told that we needed to continue to be exactly obedient so they would feel the difference. Hermana Riggs came with me in our district for a day and my comp went to the other district. I cant tell you everything but just know this.. I felt the love of God for her so greatly and I received much revelation. I felt like it helped me more than it helped her. She is struggling and because i could feel it it awokened something in me that i didnt know i had. My desire to serve the Lord and His children grew. At the end of it we thought that maybe they didnt learn a lot but atleast they learned some. We were hoping that it helped...as we were passing by the classroom we saw them kneeling and praying while the rest of their district was messing around. We felt so grateful. I still feel grateful. :)

On Sunday I had the great opportunity to feel the cleansing effect during sacrament as if I was being baptised all over again. It was a beautiful thing. :)

So although I am honestly very sad about missing Thanksgiving with all of you I feel blessed because I get the great opportunity to learn and prepare for others to receive the gospel on such an amazing holiday! Since I am going to miss it however, I will let you all know what I am grateful for. Im grateful for all of you and the love that you show for me. Thank you for emails and pictures. Im gratfeul that Heavenly Father blessed me with the family and friends He did. You all have sculpted me into the person I am today. We had trials and we bore through them knowing that all comes to past and if we included our Father in Heaven that it would be an experience we are grateful for. Im grateful for being raised in the gospel and feeling the strength of all of your testimonies until I could gain one for myself. Im so grateful for you guys being supportive of me serving a mission for the Lord. Im not going to lie and say that its easy because lets face it...its not. You are put in a totally new environment and are put out of your comfort zone. There is no comfort in the growth zone but theres no growth in the comfort zone either. :) However that being said...or wrotten in this case, I am grateful becasue my testimony of this gospel and the truthfulness of it has grown. My love for you all have grown which i didnt even think was possible! haha I love you guys and thank you for your prayers and your wonderful testimonies. Just remember the Lord can make a lot more out of you then you ever can! Be humble and just ask! :) I love you all and miss you very much! Oh hahah and guess what?! I can actually hit the volleyball now! hahah and the cooks are going to make pumpkin and apple pie for us all on Thanksgiving. Thats right...thats what you get when you are friends with the cooks. hahaha jk but we did figure out before anyone else! :) I love you all so much and I hope you can feel it through my emails! I miss you all!

                                              Love, Hermana Brown

Mark...This elder not only looks like you but he reminds me of you! I just want to hug him becasue he reminds me so much of the cutest littlest brother on the planet!!! I love you!! xoxoxox

Our favorite district..that left us this week.. :( Theyll be great!

Temple, Similar Scriptures, Haircut, Cayenne Pepper, Pictures

So this week has been easier but i still find the language very hard but that is okay! The Lord is on my side so why should I fear, right? :) 

Today we went to the TEMPLE!! It was very exciting and although we could not go inside due to remodeling it was still wonderful. We got to go inside the visitors center which was honestly amazing! Seriously...look it up on the internet. Theres a room in there that looks like a castle. No joke.. :) Yesterday was rough but through being mentored by BOTH of my teachers I ended feeling better and diligent. 

My companion and I are getting along really well since we talked about how we feel. Its helped tremendously. Oh so we learned about specific prayer on Sunday in our devotional and talk about the most awesome stories youve ever heard of!! My companion and I have been trying it out and with faith anything is possible...that is for sure. Oh that reminds me...so yesterday after i got my first mentor session with my teacher i said a specific prayer and let my scriptures fall to the scripture i needed to focus on. It fell on 2 Nephi 30:8. Then I told my companion and she was like dude! look at the scripture i wrote down for you (she wrote me a little note while i was talking to Hermana Lozano). The scripture she wrote down was D&C 90:11. I recommend you all to read those two. They basically have the same message. So it comforted and verified to me what I needed. 

Another neat thing...we met up with Hermana Lozano and GRIZ (our investigator) at the temple and were able to talk with her. Ive been really blessed this week. Ive felt Gods love in everything i do. Oh and our devotional was also about listening to the right voice. Anything good comes of God and anything bad comes from Satan so Ive been working on that and its helped tremendously. 

Thank you for all your prayers. Im so grateful for all of you. I miss you all so much. Oh so funny story..well semi-funny. My knowledge of random things has definitely paid off at times. Like for instance, my companion had an ingrown toenail and I was able to tell her how to take care of it. It was actually hilarious...well until she hurt herself but it is getting better now. 

Im getting a haircut today which im nervous about. Its free...at the CCM however Im worried because these women normally cut mens hair. So if you dont receive any more pictures from me...thats why. Bahahaha. Sorry..I thought it was funny. 

I cant really think of anything thats happened this week out of the ordinary. I LOVE THE PICTURES!!! Sorry i thought i should mention it. Oh and sorry about the email not being very organized...it turns out that its pretty hard to think of everything thats happened in a week in less than half an hour lol! I love you all so much. Thank you for your prayers. Oh and i completely spaced it on getting the address in Chile. Yes, I would definitely send the Christmas packages now. They take a long time to get there. 

Thanks everyone for your prayers I really do need them. Well we better go switch over our laundry hahaha. Got to love PDAY! Whoop whoop. How is everyone doing? I miss you all and please give me updates and pictures. I love hearing..well reading about them. I love you. Oh and Ill send some pictures to you all. Ill keep praying for you guys and I know that God will take care of you all. 

Love Hermana Brown....or Hermana Tali Banana.... or Hermana Ferrocement Queen. Bahahaha I lvoe you guys. xoxoxoxox 


Oh hahaha oh yeah...so Hermana Talimatasi and Elder Baird decided to be "brave" and open up a cayenne pepper pill and chomp it up. hahahah it was definitely a highlight of my day...very funny. If only i had pictures to show you guys. Just imagine it. :) I love you. xoxoxox

A Blessing, Real Intent, Sundays are Awesome, Investigators, Letters/Emails

I love hearing about how you guys are doing! The Lord has truly blessed our family and close ones. :) This week had its ups and downs as usual but I can only look up! The Lord has kept my loved ones safe and I am very grateful for that. Thank you for letting me know how everyone is doing. I get so excited and feel at home when you guys let me know. The CCM is hard because it is complete immersion but I feel Gods love for me each day I am out here. A couple days ago I was really struggling so I humbled myself and asked for a blessing. Elder Jackson gave me the blessing and during it I felt how much God loves me and the choice I made to listen to His will. I felt peace about learning the language and have made substantial progress since then.  The power of the priesthood is amazing! I still at times feel overwhelmed but I know that God is aware of my struggles and is helping me. He never said itd be easy but He did say that itd be worth it. When Im struggling I say a prayer and right after i receive a tremendous amount of peace and love. I know that prayer helps us tremendously. Heavenly Father is just waiting for us to ask for the blessings and do our part.

This weekend I learned what to pray with real intent meant. I means that you have made the decision that whatever you will receive as your answer you will commit to. I thought that was pretty neat.

So Sundays are probably my favorite day of the week and then Pday. Sundays are so amazing! The lesson are amazing and you learn so much. Plus you get a lot of devotionals and on top of it you get to watch a wonderful church movie. This last Sunday we had a Devotional by Shawn Cates (director of training and operations). In it he talks about how the Lord asks us to give Him our hearts and He will give us power and together we will change the world person by person. He also talked about when Jesus asked the Apostles to follow Him and He will make them fishers of men. When they threw their nets on the other side of the boat because he asked them to and how it almost broke their nets. Missionary work is like that. To be fishers of men is going to be hard (like the Apostles had to real in the fish with their strength and effort) but if you listen to the Lord He will pour out His blessings of your labor in abundance (the fish were definitely in abundance!). Also theat we needed to remember Lot´s wife (Genesis 19:17). Her attachment with the past exceeded her confidence or faith in the future. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. I loved the devotional as you can tell. :)

So right now we have two investigators. One is a girl named Gris and the other is a guy named Jorge. Gris has problems with committing and her whole family are members. Jorge has problems with his family so he wont be baptized. They have the most wonderful spirits about them. Teaching is a bit difficult for me because I dont know very much Spanish. The Spirit is definitely there though and by some miracle I can somewhat understand them. The Lord loves His children! I am so happy to hear that you guys are doing great and healing. :) You all have been in my prayers constantly. The Lord comforts me and lets me know that you guys are okay. :) Thank you so much for all of your emails!

So I cant receive packages here but I can receive latter but they wont arrive in time. It would be better to wait for when I arrive in Chile. I will get the address to you guys. :) I love the pictures that you all sent me! Thank you very much! Thank you for all of your prayers. Please keep letting me know how you guys are doing because although I dont have enough time to necessarily always write back I still enjoy them. :) Selfish huh? lol! I love you all so much and miss you VERY much! We are so busy here that luckily I dont ahve very much time to dwell on it otherwise Id probably get homesick. I will try to send pictures. I lvoe you all xoxoxoxoxoxo :)

Sleep Walking, Farting, Language Learning, and the Spirit

The CCM is fantastico! It is hard but worth while. I can see why mi Presidente Martino said that your mission will be the hardest but funnest thing youll ever do. Learning the language is muy dificil but is bien. I was struggling on and off for a couple of days but am now doing much better. I have been praying constantly and I got the answer that I just needed to have faith... so i am and am having a fantastic time.

The food here is good. My companion is amazing! Her name is Hermana Hume and she is from Colorado. She has taken 3 1/2 years of spanish and sleep walks. So funny story... last night she slept walked into the room next to ours and asked one Hermana to please get out of her bed. hahahaha the Hermana was super confused and then Hermana Hume stared at the closets in their room for a while then walked back to our room. The next morning Hume told us that she thought that she walked into another sisters room but couldnt tell if it was a dream or not...we laughed and thought that if it did happen...it was the funniest story ever. During study time the Hermanas were leaving the casa and Hume went up and asked if anybody came in their room last night and they were like.. IT WAS YOU WASNT IT!! bahahahahaha we were laughing so hard. Pretty funny, huh? Oh and the night before she woke us all up at 1 am freaking out saying that we were late while she was literally clawing at the curtains. hahaha Shes a fun companion.

Then today my laundry was locked in the washing machine. I was super worried so we decided to pray which was Hermana Talimatasis idea...Brilliant! Anyways i offered the prayer and right after we got done mi companera Hermana Hume went to open it and it was still locked but we still felt like all was well and voila!!! We heard a loud click and it was opened! Needless to say... i removed my laundry promptly and moved them to a different washing machine! LOL! I felt like we needed to offer a prayer of thanks so we did.

Today has sure been a day full of adventure! We challenged the other district to a volleyball match, which by the way I am horrible at, and that will take place tonight. We are all excited. The other two Hermanas that live in the same room with us are name Hermana Talimatasi and Hermana Findlay. Hermana Talimatasi is full Somoan and farts in her sleep...shes seriously awesome! Hahah Hermana Findlay is obsessed with cars and talks in her sleep. hahahah we have quite an interesting array of action going on at night wiht Hermana hume sleep walking, Hermana Findlay talking, and Hermana Talimatasi farting. hahaha sorry I just find it hilarious.. I had to share.

Sunday was amazing! We felt the Spirit so strongly. The hymns when sung in spanish are even more beautiful than ever. Im doing much better and I love you guys so much! I will be sending you pictures one by one because thats how this email system works so...los siento! Well my spanish has gotten much better. On Sunday we each got to talk to our President of our district and it helped me greatly. He truly is a man called of God. I told him about my frustration that I have with learning the language and he said that i needed to be happy where i am but never satisfied. He then proceeded to tell me a bunch of other things that made me feel better. He said that I have a unique and wonderful spirit about me and that the people in Chile will love me which was what i needed to hear at the time. He the told me that I will most likely have a hard time bonding with my mission president which was super trippy because i had that feeling shortly after receiving my call. He also told me that i needed to be myself and the people will just fall in love with me.. so that is what i am trying to do. Be myself. Believe it or not..its harder than you think. hahahaha

Well the Lord definitely blesses His missionaries. He loves His children so much. I fell His love each and ever day and the veil has definitely thinned since being out here. I got a Spanish dream the other night...okay well i had a dream that i was learning spanish and it made for the worst nights of sleep ever! hahahaha my brain never stopped but it actually did help me so it was a blessing. I want you all to know that i am doing great and please dont worry about me. I love you all so much and miss you! Please take care of yourselves.

Love, 

Hermana Brown

Mom, Tif, Sharlene, and Avery: I am so grateful to Heavenly Father that you guys are safe. My heart just about broke when I read the news. Im so sorry that you guys are hurting but yet I am so grateful that you all are healthy and no broken bones for the most part... beside Sharlene. Im really sorry, that truly sucks. Ill pray for your guys speedily recovery and also will all the Hermanas that I live with. I hope you guys are healing fine. Please be safe. I love you and miss you.

Roxy, Jim, and Gabe: I love you guys so much and I hope youll forgive me for not saying goodbye. I honestly forgot. I promise Ill make it up to you guys when i get back. Im sorry I messed up your makeup. I love you.

Sterling: I love you so much and am so grateful for your example to me on how a missionary should be. All the Hermanas that i live with already know about you. hahah I promise that Ill write you next week personally. We are really pressed for time right now. I lvoe you thougha dn please never forget that. We will be reunite soon so no worries. I love you Elder Silver.

Everyone: Please take care of yourselves and always remember that God loves you. You are His children and He wants you to talk to Him. Remember to be active in your hearts to the gospel. There is no other greater blessing we have in this life. I love you all and also please send me pictures. emailed ones are great too! I dont have any and it totally sucks. Also please forward this email to everyone else. I didnt bring my journal so therefore i couldnt send it to anyone who didnt write me or whos email addresses i havent memorized. I lvoe you all and remember Si se puede!!! (We can do this). I love you and be safe!

Tif: Please forward this to Trina. I love you! xoxoxoxox

Dropping off luggage and going through the security checkpoint at the SLC airport at 10pm

Having fun with the Dayleys at the Pumpkin Walk before leaving for the airport!