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
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
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!
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!
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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
Our favorite district..that left us this week.. :( Theyll be great!
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!
Saturday, November 15, 2014
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
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
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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 :)
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 :)
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