tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62009490946535393032024-03-20T22:45:34.348-07:00Sister Michelle Christine NorthI am serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Santiago Chile South Mission and can not be more excited about it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-6900118024087657292014-08-06T10:39:00.003-07:002014-08-06T10:39:45.168-07:00Still Standing, Amazed<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Where do I even begin in explaining to you guys of all of the blessed miracles that have come over these past couple of weeks? Let’s start with my health, for the sake of mom’s sanity ;) To be honest, when I found out about my ulcers my supply of “Good Cheer” went out of stock. I just thought, “Really, another health barrier? All I want is good health so that I can work at full force for my last six weeks of the mission.” In the same moment that I started feeling bad for myself, the Lord quickly whispered to my heart, “You can’t expect to be less tried just because you are finishing you mission.” DUH HERMANA NORTH! And that was just the reminder that I needed to get back up on my feet and do what we encourage all of our loves to do when they feel weak- Apply the Atonement of Jesus Christ. As I have done so, along with the help of various priesthood blessings, the Lord has given me the strength that I lack to be able to work, work, work at full force aside from the pain that I feel (just like I wanted to); and that my friends is a MIRACLE. These past weeks Christ has become a more real companion to me that ever before on my mission. I have felt His presence and strength in the streets of Chile, even more strongly, as I have been able to push through the pain for the sake of saving souls and bringing them joy. And all I feel at the end of each day is Grateful and <i>Amazed at the love Jesus offers me</i>. I love my calling- I am truly, oh so holy-wow blessed!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now for the update on the miracle that are occurring with our loves here in Poeta Neruda. Lots of things have changed; People have changed for the good and the bad, but opposition in all things right? As for the bad, after all is said and done, I just feel comfort in knowing that the Lord has a perfect plan that is completed in His perfect timing. For example, even though our love Nancy decided to return to the traditions of her old church, in God’s perfect timing she will remember the spirit that she felt in church and all of the lessons that we had together and know exactly where to find the joy that she longs for. These past couple of weeks we have seen a handful of our very loved investigators take steps backwards. But like I said, we have also seen so many blessed miracles. Families are coming back to church, inactive loves are receiving their temple recommends (my favorite), new investigators are progressing and the work with members is BOOMING. Actually, yesterday I had the opportunity of witnessing a HUGE tender mercy of the Lord while we were on divisions with the members. I got to go out with two (not just one) lovely Hermanas, Maritza, who was just baptized last week and Maria who is our super star investigator. Imagine that! The spirit filled the rooms of each home that we stepped in as we taught and testified of the gospel of Jesus Christ together.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thank you dearly for all of your concern and love and support. I hope that I can extend the same to all of you guys back home. I love you guys, you’re in my prayers always. Have a super week and keep doing the good stuff that brings joy. Like I’ve always said, it’s the little things in life </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Abrazos y Besitios, Hermana North</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-34454137414292543982014-07-14T07:53:00.001-07:002014-07-14T07:53:50.505-07:00Likely Joys (7/07/2014)<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
<span lang="EN-US">So this week I had a few more problems with my health. I was excited for a second because I was going strong in the health department for a whole change…I even started bragging to people about how I went a whole change without getting really sick. Supposedly I spoke too soon. I spent my birthday in bed and later in the week, after visiting the doctor, I found out that I have stomach ulcers- likely. On the plus side, that means that I have to eat healthy now. My ward is amazing and they have been changing their menus to fit my new diet. They are seriously the best. So don’t worry (ahemm, mom), my mama’s here in Poeta are taking lots of care of me. I am so blessed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Aside from the bad news with my health, I have been holding on to the miracles of this week to get me through everything. We are seeing so many of those “heart melting moments” here with our loves. Progress is taking off and so is our focus on the Temple. Well actually, I have always kept the Temple in mind in working with our loves. Not just focusing on baptism and going to church, but doing those things so that they can their booties into the Temple- where all of the magic begins. But this week we were able to see tangible effects from this focus. We went to the temple with our ward and guess who came for the first time in four years?? Katrina Caseres- One of our inactive loves that we have been working with for the past long time. It is so exciting to see her progress and more especially the progress of her family. Her fairytale family is starting to warm up again. They came to church all together for the second time this week. It’s all about little steps People. And hopefully next month, we’ll be able to see the whole family in the temple. At least those are the plans for now.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We also had been praying a lot these past couple week for more help from the Hermanas in our ward in going out to do visits. I even made a wish on my Birthday cake for it. Our miracle this week with this was not only having new Hermanas come out with us for their first time but also our less active Hermanas come out with us. That’s a double whammy. Like I have always said, there is no other way to do this work than with the members. They never disappoint. And it is a blessing for all those who are involved. We had many sweet experiences this week where the Hermanas thanked us for asking them to come out with us. It was an answer to their prayers too. All I can say from those experiences is that God is so Aware.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I just wanted to end this little note with my simple testimony: I know that God lives and loves us. The gospel of Jesus Christ was designed by our loving Heavenly to fit into our everday lives. It is not something to add in or separate from our daily life, it is for our everyday lives. And as we follow it our lives are filled with joy- the thing that everyone longs for in life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Peace and Love People! Have a lovely week.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">xoxoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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The World Cup has officially taken over the world down here in Chile. It is so crazy to me how obsessed everyone is with it (Maybe I wqould be too if we were allowed to watch it). Due to the crazy fans and Chile winning all of the time….we are not allowed to leave our house on the days that Chile has games. Aka: today. We actually only have permission to leave our house to send our loves from back home a quick note, and then back to lock down. Luckily for us, we live next door to Bishop and his wifey, Katy, knows how to paint nails. So we are going to take advantage of that and enjoy the day there. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I came to a scary, weird, crazy realization this week- I haven’t even experienced half of my life yet. Being on the mission and doing missionary things, helping people see the light out of their life problems and all of that fun stuff, it gives one the illusion that they have experienced a lot and knows a lot about life. When really that’s not reality; I still have so much MORE to experience; MORE to face; MORE to change…and the list goes on. My life is yet beginning, even though now at the end of my mission I feel that it’s just the opposite, and that’s an equally scary and tiring thought to think about. As I had this oh so very trunky thought, fear set into my heart and I agreed with the lost kids from Peter Pan in saying that, “I don’t want to grow up!” It has been fun and all BUT if I have learned anything about growing up and gaining experience it is that it all comes though going though hard things. And maybe I’m not so down to do more hard things. Ha ha. So maybe I haven’t learned anything from all of my trials…but wait, I’ll get to my point. It’s just kind of scary to think about all of the hard experiences that I have yet to face. They always say that we have to go through hard things to be prepared for harder things down the road. But what harder things? I don’t want them! (There is still a little girl inside of me- Dad you were right in saying that I’ll always be your little girl).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But then the Lord enlightened me with a more optimistic and better perspective on this subject (Thank heavens for Him!)-THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THE GOSPEL! The reason that I have been able to help so many people with their life problems, most of which I have never experienced before, is because of the reality of Jesus Christ. He can fix and heal any problem and the medicine is the same for everyone. I came to a realization this week that the only experience we need in life is following Gods will- it’s keeping covenants with Him. As we make and keep promised with God, we are letting him drive us though an to our destination- a happily ever after. So why fear the future when Christ, our perfect and loving Savior, is driving? I thought to myself, “Don’t be a backseat driver!” We can all agree in saying that No one likes a backseat driver, and that really is what we become as we fear the future or try and consult God in telling Him what we think would be best for us (for example: Me saying that I don’t want to grow up or experience hard things). Yeah, life is hard but hard things help us move forward as we follow the Lord’s oh so simple gospel. To help me understand this better, I read a talk from General Conference where President Eyring perfectly explained it. He reminded us of the importance to keep the promises that we make with God and gives us a reason for <i>why</i>, when he said:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Each covenant brings with it duties and promises…those duties are sometimes simple but are often difficult. But remember, the duties must sometimes be difficult because their purpose is to move us along the path to live forever with Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in families.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So even though I haven’t experienced a whole lot, I have just what I need. And it’s my choice to obey. As I obey, I am letting Christ drive and even though there are potholes on the path, the ride is a whole lot smoother as He drives. </span></div>
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Maybe I'm the only one who thinks about things like this and maybe not. But I hope that these thoughts could help in any way. I love you guys so much! Thanks for all of the love. I dont know what I'd do without it.</div>
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xoxoxox, Hermana North</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-27986462485457140392014-06-19T07:09:00.001-07:002014-06-19T07:09:24.653-07:00Home Sweet Home<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">So I may have jinxed it because this week was HARD (Notice the capital letters). After all has been said and done it’s not so much the physical as it is the mental tiredness that has been hard and tiring. It was hard to teach this week due to a combination of the rain and snow (you read that right! It snowed in our sector), the world cup starting/ CHILE WINNING their first game (#winning) and lots of leadership meetings (not a bad thing but it just took out time from our sector). But if anything, I learned to be grateful for the contacts that we were able to do in our travels because my most spiritual experiences this week came from them. For example: On our way home from one of the meetings, I contacted a lady named Estrella on the micro. At first she really didn’t want to talk with me. She was super cold and avoided all eye contact whenever I asked her a question. She even told me that she didn’t have time and that I should talk with someone else who needed God in that moment (Even though she was the one who need God). For whatever reason I started telling her about when I had first gotten to Chile. I had to learn Spanish and it was a BIG struggle for me. I told her of the hardship that it was on my desire to continue serving my mission and said, “But do you want to know what kept from not going home?” (And that’s when I captured her attention), I continued and said, “The people.” I explained to her of the love that I naturally had for everyone we taught. How it was easy for me to LOVE complete strangers, like her. But then I testified to her that that love that I had was a direct result of my testimony- of the truth. The gospel has changed my life; it gives me joy and I wanted others to feel that too. I promised her that she too would feel joy from the gospel if she put time to learn more about God. I tell you people, there was a 180 degree switch in her after I said this to her. When I started the conversation she supposedly didn’t have any time, but afterwards she said, “Look, I actually just got permission off of work for the rest of this week because I got injured today. I’ll be home all the days this week until Sunday. I’m not sure who the missionaries are, but you can send them over and I will receive them in my home.” AH! What an amazing experience.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">So as we have been teaching our loves about the plan of salvation I have been reflecting a lot on my testimony of the pre-mortal life and came to a super cool realization that I wanted to share with you guys. Well, the Plan of Salvation teaches us that before our life on Earth we existed and lived with our Heavenly Father. He loved us; we loved Him; He taught us and we learned and grew from His teachings. Our trust and obedience to Him created a relationship with Him that each one of us personally continues to have- whether you believe in Him or not. While we are here on Earth we will pass through good and bad experiences, through which we will feel His spirit- peace, comfort, joy, love, etc. Anytime that we feel these feelings we can take it as a testimony that we really did live with God before this life and that we have an eternal home in heaven. I’ll compare this to a real life scenario that each one of us has passed through before- Leaving on a trip and then coming home. No matter how we passed our time away from home, there is no better feeling than coming home. It’s an unexplainable peace, comfort and joy. There is even a saying about it! <i style="line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">Home Sweet Home</i>. I know that we have all felt this so I don’t need to explain more. So it is just like that with our spiritual <i style="line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">Home Sweet Home.</i> Whenever we feel peace or comfort from being close to God or from the spirit, it is because our souls remember of our pre-mortal life and feel close to our Father from heaven who we knew and loved. It is a good feeling because it is familiar to us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">I shared this with Andres when we taught them on the Plan of Salvation and he shared with us of a similar experience that he had to relate to my thought. He told us of a time when he went to Argentina to buy some fish. He was only supposed to be gone for one day but when they were on their way back to Chile, the roads were closed because it was too icy. His one day trip turned into an eight day trip! He said that when he got home, he was so comforted to see his family and he just felt good- that unexplainable good that I told you guys about before. He then told us, “If I feel that same feeling again, but through reading the scriptures or going to church, then I will know that this is all true.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">So maybe if we ever wonder if we really did live with God before this life or have any doubts about things in life, we can look for that coming home feeling and then know that that is our answer. And speaking on receiving answers, this week Nancy went 5 days without smoking one cigarette! She was so pleased. But she asked for more time to prepare for her baptism. She feels that unexplainably good feeling but she still is struggling to fully quit smoking. We are still so excited for her and know that she will be in white one day. Her new date for baptism is July 26<sup style="line-height: 15.777776718139648px;">th</sup>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Peace and Love people! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Xoxoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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Picture 5: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Hermana Nancy came to our rescue this day by coming out with us to teach our loves</span></div>
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Picture 6: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">preparing lunch in Preidents new (and cuper clean!) appartment</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">Happy “Skinny Cow” season (Yes, I am still talking about cows). Winter has officially made its way over here which equals hibernation for everyone…minus the Mormon Missionaries aka: Us. Everyone tells us, “What are you doing outside? It is freezing.” <i style="line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Really? Because I thought that shivering was a reaction from the warm weather</i> slash <i style="line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Yeah, I know, so let us in your house!</i> Ha ha. I swear, it has never been so hard to get out of bed in the a.m., than now, and staying in the hot water of the shower for an extra five more minutes has become a new tradition. Also, I’ve found a new talent of mine- slipping on my bum down the stairs and running into bare tree branches. I’ve got some gnarly bruises and scrapes to show for it. If I keep going at this rate, I’ll be coming home in two pieces. Heaven Help me! I need all of the grace that I can get. But at least the mountains are looking lovely, covered in snow and all, and my rain boots are feeling the love (best invention ever by the way).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">Well, we have been having really lovely experiences in teaching all of our loves here in Poeta Neruda. This week we took an approach of “out with the old, in with the new.” We want to see our loves progress and make changes to change their lives. So for those who do not want to make those changes now, we decided to move on. No hard feelings at all…we just know how important everyone’s time is. So for those who are ready to make changes in their lives, now, we have been able to see miracles with them through the small and simple things. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">In sacrament meeting yesterday, Nancy kept on commenting to me about how peaceful she felt. We have been trying to help her 1- receive a confirmation of the Truth and 2- quit smoking (before she smoked 20 cigarettes a day and now she is on 5 a day). And yesterday’s meeting was the answer to all of our prayers. After the closing prayer was said and the piano music begun, she said, “This is THE true church.” That personal confirmation that she had will now, without a doubt, be her motivation to stop smoking and help her to overcome that vice. Three more weeks until her baptism! We are so excited!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">So about those small and simple things, yesterday we had a meeting with Elder Viñas of the Seventy. He advised us along with the stake presidents of our mission that we need to apply better the Book of Mormon in our lives. Actually if I could sum up the whole meeting in a couple of phrases it would be this, “Grow up, Don’t be Dumb and Apply the Book of Mormon.” I seriously LOVED how straight forward he was. He confirmed a lot of things that I’ve been thinking these past months on the mission. People! So many times we make finding joy in life a super complicated quest to obtain; when really, it is so simple. God knows us perfectly, He looks at us with the potential that we can become and He wants us to grow into that. For that reason he has given us five easy steps to follow, and if done correctly we will grow joyfully. These five things are faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the End. That’s it! And all of this starts with our personal relationship with God (It starts with us). How do we obtain that? Through three easy actions: DAILY prayer, DAILY scripture study and WEEKLY church attendance. I know that this sounds kind of ridiculous or pathetic, but it’ really this simple. The reason that a person goes inactive or decides not to be baptized is not because they have stopped <b style="line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">feeling</b> the spirit but because they have stopped<b style="line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> doing</b> what the spirit indicates. Whenever I have been able to teach a love that is passing through a hard time, the hardship or sadness that they face is never actually caused by their experience or trial but it is caused by the fact that they are not doing anything to strengthen their spirit. The solution is always the same and it SIMPLY always comes down to, “Are they praying? Are they Reading? Are they Attending Church every week?” When we live for Christ every day, we walk that much closer to our Salvation and our journey through life is joyful. No matter what challenges or obstacles come our way. So just do the little things in the way that Christ himself showed us, and then help others do the same.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">The Lord is Hastening his work. What an amazing time to be living. I hope that you guys are enjoying the wonderful blessings that are coming from that- I sure am! Keep on keeping me updated on your lives. I love hearing from Ya’ll. </span></div>
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Picture 5: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Joselin</span></div>
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Picture 7: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">In Providencia with Earl. We bought little gifts for our loves</span></div>
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Picture 10: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">all of our elders and our Bishop</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Wow! Miracles are happening for us in the area of finding new people to teach. I want to just give a big round of applause to our ward members for that. I have a huge belief that when the ward is prepared, the Lord prepares his children within that ward to receive His gospel. There is just no other explanation to why we are seeing so many miracles with the people that we are finding so easily. I don’t want to jinx anything but we hardly have made an effort to find new people, they just seem to be walk into our path, yet we are teaching them and inviting them to baptism and they are accepting. Yes, the real work comes in preparing them for baptism, but with the members it’s all just a more enjoyable and easier process. The members have a huge influence in the work that we do, and it really doesn’t take very much. The Lord has shown us that we need to work together with one purpose in mind- Mosiah 18:21, and if we do this blessings pour on everyone who is in proximity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Here is an example of one of the new loves, Javiera, that we are teaching now. I mentioned her in my last letter- the girl who stopped to talk with us because she thought I was Colombian. You will never believe her story. So the very first time that we went over with her, her mom told us that she was a drug addict and had that she had cancer (“she” being the mom…if that was confusing for anyone). People! The house…an absolute mess! Beer cans in every corner, cigarette buds on the T.V, clothes laying around everywhere and the worst part, THE SMELL- dirty diaper mixed with cigarette smell with alcohol all pleasantly mixed together (After walking out of the house, my nose hurt and I felt dizzy). It was absolutely terrible. I had never ever seen something like that before here on the mission. Sure, I’ve seen poverty…but this was different. Our sector here in Poeta Neruda is very tranquillo and safe (no worries Mom!) but it is close to a super ghetto zone, so some parts of our sector are bad- and that is where we were. Javiera told us that before she lived in the centro of Santiago, in an apartment, with her boyfriend and her “cutest- ever” baby who is 6 months old. She had left home at an early age because she resented her mom for doing drugs…but she had to move back in with her mom about 3 months ago because her boyfriend went to Germany to steal (to make an income- ha! Imagine that. And supposedly that is a trend here. Oh Boy!) And he got caught and is now doing time in jail. The whole situation has actually helped the mom because has been consuming fewer drugs with the baby in the house…but poor Javiera just wants to get out of the situation for a better life for her babe. Tears filled my eyes as I heard about the whole situation. So sad!! More than sad! But, it made me feel so happy that we had the remedy to help her. Maybe not by bringing her boyfriend back like she would have liked or has been praying for. But by giving her something so much GREATER- TRUTH, that brings salvation (2 Corinthians 6:10- my job is so worth it). I learned from this simply complicated example that God’s plan is not ours, but it will always be grander than we could ever hope for. He blesses us and answers our prayers in curious ways. Javiera wants Happiness. Her idea of it is having her boyfriend back, but God’s idea was sending us to teach her the gospel. And that has eternal worth, if she lets it change her life. God’s blessings and plans are always eternal. We have been visiting her a lot these days and she is already recognizing the blessings of the gospel. She has told us many times that we are her angels. God is so good!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Hermana Earl and I are having a lot of fun together. She is so great to me too. She has already taught me a lot about service. She is always doing little things for me to make my day easier. Even as little as refilling the herbs in my mate cup. Like I’ve always said, it’s the little things in life People. Do something little this week for someone else and see them smile </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> It’s a good feeling.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Picture 4: </span>Happy Birthday Elder Mateus</div>
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Picture 5: Juan is standing on his feet now! We are making progress</div>
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Picture 6: Morning sky</div>
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Picture 7: service project at a Evangelical Church. We love to paint!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-54557283708036560462014-05-28T13:42:00.005-07:002014-05-28T13:42:59.454-07:00Out of the Comfort Zone- Where the Magic Happens<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
<span lang="EN-US">Where do I even beginning in explaining to you all about our week this week. Wow! So much has happened- miracle after miracles after more miracles. It did take me a couple of days to get over the fact that Hermana Leavitt was no longer my companion…but that was expected since she was my favorite companion. I felt bad for Hermana Earl because I felt like that crazy girlfriend that talks about all of her ex-boyfriends all of the time but she was very patient with me as I got over it. Ha ha. So we actually have found that we have a lot in common. Aside from the fact that we have served in all of the same sectors, minus Quimey, Poeta being both of our fourth sector (this morning we were laughing and reminiscing about our loves from San Miguel and Departamental…it made me Trunky for them). She is a Utah Utes fan. Supposedly I am too. We both love <i>Wicked</i>. She likes mate. I drink it every morning. And we both like to eat and take pictures of our food. We are getting along super well and like I mentioned before, we are seeing cual quier miracle.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our week went like this: Our very first lesson together was on the Porch of a new investigator named Paulo. All of the questions that he had related to the Restoration so we shared it with him and he agreed to praying to know if it was true so that he can be baptized. The next day we taught Nancy (our amazing investigator). She has been reading the scriptures every day and has a new found love for the gospel and fasting- we taught her about the law of fasting last week and she actually did it! She said that she wants to do it again. She is going to be baptized on June 28<sup style="line-height: 17.749998092651367px;">th</sup>! When we invited her to be baptized, she said, “I won’t be baptized today or tomorrow…but very soon!” After we gave her the date, she said, “What do I have to do to prepare for my baptism.” The Hermana that was with us explained that when she was baptized that she would wear a white tunic and she said, “I have a white tunic, I can even donate it if you want.” She is super stoked on that now. We went with Joselin and Andres and gave them the Book of Mormon to start reading…later that night we passed by their completo local and she told us that she was already on Nephi chapter 2! That’s a lot of progress people! We ran into a girl named Javiera who thought that I was from Colombia. After talking with her for a while, she told us, “You guys seriously just fell out of the heavens. I have wanted to go to a church for a while now.” Turns out her and her family need a lot of help- something that this gospel can give. We found another new family through a random antiguo that I found in the Area Book. I didn’t have very much hope in it to be honest, but when we called “Allo” at the gate, the brother of the person let us in and we got to teach them the Restoration. Hopefully they will be able to continue to progress. At the end of our week we got to go make some visits with our love Monica. Sunday was her second day back to church in 2 years and she is already out in the streets with us visiting more people to bring to church. She is amazing!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The weather here is starting to change a lot! It’s freezing. And it rained and poured on Wednesday. But that was fun- I hope that you guys are enjoying the sun back home. It’s so weird that summer is starting over there while winter is starting here.</span></div>
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Picture 8: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">SNOW! its been so cold this week!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Picture 9: <span style="text-align: start;">Hermana Pilar. One of the most inspiring and helpful members of our ward.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Time surely does fly when you are having fun! How did a whole entire change already fly by? I feel like Hermana Leavitt and I just became companions and now she is only hours away from her flight back to California. We had the best time together and I am so grateful that I even just got one change with her. We saw so many miracles in the short time that we had together. Unfortunately I only ever wrote in my journal like 10 times while we were together…because we talked way too much. We tried making the goal to write together on my bed at the end of the night but usually after about the first 2 minutes we would be reminded about something that happened in the day and then go off on a tangent until bedtime. So the most unforgettable time of my mission was left unwritten…but I guess that’s good then that it was unforgettable because supposedly that means that I won’t forget about it. Ha ha. It was great. Yesterday at church, everyone was asking me how I felt about having changes and asking me about my new companion. I told them that I was sad because I was going to really miss my love Hermana Leavitt (she’s my best friend) and Hermana Orellana told me that if I didn’t like my new companion that I could fake sick and go to her house and she would take care of me. Ha ha! It made me laugh but it also made me feel more relaxed about the changes because it was just a reminder to me that I don’t have to worry or feel alone. With how much we have been able to work with the ward and the Hermanas I have been able to feel so at home in this ward- they are my family. What a blessing to have that because we all know by now how much I really don’t like change, even if it helps us progress. And even though I feel a piece of me is gone, I have a new adventure to take on now with my new companion- Hermana Earl. She is from Morgan, Utah. I don’t know too much about her yet, but she is very sweet and is a hard worker. That’s good enough for me for now.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> So because it was Hermana Leavitt’s very last week, we had the opportunity to go to the temple and spend time with President and Sister Cook- my other favorites. We also had a lot of last minute things to do so it was a loaded week. Although, not as crazy as I would have imagined. The Lord blessed us with a great week and lessons. At the beginning of the week we were able to visit with Monica. She told us again of how grateful that she was that we have been visiting her and giving her an extra boost to go back to church. She has been able to note a difference in her days as she reads the scriptures daily and prays. On Sunday she came to church for the first time in 2 years! It was so exciting to see her there. All of the Hermanas of the ward went up to her to hug her and I heard her tell them, “The lost sheep has found its way back into the fold.” She melted my heart. We also had a super great lesson with Juan about the sacrament. He had been getting to church late these past couple of weeks so we decided to motivate him to get there on time by talking about why it is so important for us to partake of it each week. We read the sacrament prayer with him and he committed to getting to church on time to be able to receive the blessings of the sacrament. Because his baptism was such a special day for him, he was also really grateful to have it as a reminder of the promise that he made with God. We also explained to him that once he received the priesthood, that he would be able to bless the bread and water on Sundays. When Sunday came around, He showed up in his suit and tie, on time and with a huge smile on his face. He told me that he had been practicing the sacrament prayer so that he could be prepared to bless the sacrament the next week! Again, my heart melted. Then towards the end of our week, we met with a new investigator that we found knocking on doors a couple weeks ago. It’s a cute little family. Joseline and Andres and their little, Branjelli (4 years old). When we got there Joseline told us that she had been waiting excitedly all week for us to come and teach them. She said that they had been praying every day and that we need to start coming over more than once a week. (I’m down!) She even offered to give us lunch on Thursday. I love it when we meet people who are so prepared to receive the gospel. Who recognize how important it is- I’ll be sure to fill you guys in on these loves as they continue to progress.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> Hermana and I learned and taught a theme this week- Obedience. It was just what everyone seemed to need to hear. I learned something really interesting about this; that the reason that we have commandments to follow in life is because God wants us to be happy. Obvious right? So if we know this, then why do we make justifications in being disobedient to His will? God will never justify our disobedience, because he knows of how happy we will be if we obey. And He will never rob us of even just a small part of that happiness. It’s that simple. We as humans are constantly making mistakes in the decisions that we chose to make. This happens because we cannot truly see the potential of who we can become and what we can have in life- Eternal Life. The Spirit taught me a lot about this topic. Even though I am a missionary, there are always things that I can be better in, obviously. It motivated me to do better this week and to keep Gods perspective in my decisions.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Life is good. My last 12 weeks as a missionary start now. Oh Boy! When did that happen?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Xoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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Picture 2: All of us</div>
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Picture 3: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">A completo place named after me...or at least Danny's nickname for me</span></div>
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Picture 4: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Look at all of the support he had to be ready for this day</span></div>
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Picture 5: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">He's perfect. Nothin beats that smile</span></div>
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Picture 6: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">The most perfect fairy tale family. I wanna be just like them when I grow up!</span></div>
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Picture 8: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">I may have an obsession with the sky. It's the result of walking arounds in the streets all day, every day.</span><br />
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Picture 9: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">The day before His baptism. We caught him shinning his shoes for the big day!</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
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Pictures from this week:</div>
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Picture 10: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">50cm of yumminess. You better believe that I ate it all. The trick was just not to talk or take pauses- Hermana Leavitt and I struggled with that. haha</span></div>
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Picture 11: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Pink and Purple skies</span><br />
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Picture 12:<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Our possy</span><br />
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Picture 13: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">The ward surprise party for Hermana Leavitt's last Saturday</span></div>
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Picture 14: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Familia Casares</span><br />
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Picture 15: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Our faithful companion- Evelyn aka Hermana South</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
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Picture 16: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">Lucas Orellana- the cutest little chilean boy that looks chineese</span></div>
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Picture 17: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">My last moment with my favorite companion</span><br />
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Picture 18: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-align: start;">CALIFORNIA street. I wish it actually was California. The best is when people ask us where we are from and we could just say, "We are from California"- So united...but really, in everything.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">We scored this week in the department of receiving compliments from random strangers- I felt beautiful. So there is something that you have to know about the Chilean hombres here…they are sin verguenzas or have no shame, in telling a girl that they are pretty. Not really in a confident/ rico suave/ classy way, but mostly by yelling out or by giving a blatant stare kind of a way. At the beginning of my mission I didn’t really deal so well with that but now I am learning to accept the compliment and even laugh at some of the things that they say. I wrote down some of the things we heard this week just because this week’s compliments were extra entertaining (plus, being with a blonde companion calls a lot of attention to us, seeing that 99% of the people here are brunette):</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">“Congratulations, you guys are gorgeous” (Where is my trophy?)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">“You three are fashion” (5 minutes later when he passed by again) “See, I told you you were fashion” (Good to know that I haven’t lost my fashion sense after being a sister missionary for the past 15 months).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">“Hi. You guys are really pretty. You went over the top (se pasaron). You guys are the best.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">A stranger singing out to us, “I fell in love once again...” (I wonder how many times he’s fallen in love this week).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">“Hi! My name is George….and my name is Oscar…” (As we walked through a crowd of drunken soccer fanatics- Should I count that as ‘dos nuevos’?).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">“Look at those eyes, they are beautiful!” (a stranger from the micro singing to my companion).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">Haha, you gotta love our latin “friends.” They are just too kind sometimes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">This week we had our first rain of the year! Which also meant less appointments. Usually when it’s cold and rainy no one wants to receive us. Out of all of the weeks that Hermana Leavitt and I have been together, this week for sure was one of the hardest weeks; teaching wise (Although it didn’t truly affect our animo- that’s what best friends are for). I remember there was a specific day where every plan A, B, and C appointment fell through at every hour. And all of our members were unavailable to come out with us. It was cold and rainy outside and we were running out of ideas of people to teach. We decided to say a prayer for a little extra help from the man up above and we went on our way. Right after our prayer, everything turned out in our favor. We called a young women from our ward and her mom, Maria, (who is our super awesome investigator) picked up the phone. We ended up just asking her to come out with us and she automatically said “Yes” (1 point). We told her that we were going to go meet a new inactive Hermana named, Monica and she ended up knowing where she lived already (2 points). When we got to Monica’s house, she came out with a not so excited look on her face, We introduced ourselves to her and then when she saw Maria, she got super excited and let us in (3 points). We ended up having a super spiritual lesson with Monica and her son Jonathan. They told us that they had stopped reading their scriptures and basically everything else for over a year. They committed to reading their scriptures and coming back to church when she has work off. (4 points). Then at the end of our lesson when Monica offered a prayer she said words that melted my heart, “Thank you for sending my hermanas over tonight. I realize now that I really do need them, even though before I didn’t think so” (5 points). Then she asked us to come back two days later, which hardly ever happens, they usually make the return appointment for a week later (6 points). I could not have been more grateful for the willingness of Maria to come out with us too. If it had not been for her then we never would have gotten into Monica’s house. She was the answer to our prayers….and she isn’t even a member! It ended up being an absolutely amazing night. But wait! Things just keep getting better. When we got home to plan, Hermano Orellana (the 2<sup style="line-height: 15.777776718139648px;">nd</sup> counselor in the bishop rick) called us and told us that he was outside of our house to deliver something that his wife had made us- Sopaipillas pasadas aka my absolute favorite! (10 points). The Lord answered our prayer and then some that night. I felt and continue to feel so blessed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">In a reunion that we had with President this week, Hermana Cook shared a lovely poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that I thought went super well with the theme of this week; with the rain and all:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;<span class="" style="line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">It rains,and the wind is never weary;<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">But at every gust the dead leaves fall,<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">And the day is dark and dreary.<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">It rains,and the wind is never weary;<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">And the days are dark and dreary.<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Thy fate is the common fate of all,<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Into each life some rain must fall,<span class=""> </span></span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Some days must be dark and dreary.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">I especially loved the ending. It made me think this thought: Rain must fall so that we can enjoy the green grass and fresh air that it leaves behind. If the sun shinned all day long, then we wouldn’t enjoy “LIFE” that raindrops bring- think about it. So we should never be discouraged on dark and dreary days because, as one of my best friends always reminded me, after the darkest night always shines a beautiful and bright dawn.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">Peace and Love people </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;"> xoxoxoxo, Hermana North</span></div>
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Picture 3: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Nice attempt. My craving finally has been fixed</span></div>
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Picture 4: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Checkers on a Rock! The hidden gems of Poeta Neruda. It's my favorite game, even though I've never played it on a rock.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-90314763381520327162014-04-29T07:25:00.001-07:002014-05-11T12:28:27.207-07:00Life On Mars<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">It was another great week, here in Poeta Neruda, in the day and life of being companions with Hermana Leavitt. We are having so much fun together- working hard to play hard of course. I decided that if being companions with your best friend on the mission is so much fun, that the married life will be just that much better. There is a trunky thought for you, if there ever was one. Also I decided that being in Chile makes me feel like I am living on Mars! I feel like I am so out of the loop of all of the holidays that I once celebrated back at home (and a whole bunch of other things too). I didn’t realize that this last week was Easter weekend until Thursday. So…..Happy Belated Easter (and St. Patrick’s Day, and Thanksgiving and any other special day that you would like me to insert here). I guess that I haven’t actually missed that many holidays and I don’t feel bad about it, but it’s just crazy that this is my new life and that the old traditions keep on keepin’ on back at home. I do love getting pictures from you guys reminding me about the holidays though- There’s a party in the U.S.A.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well. I figured that this week I would fill you guys in on some of the Loves that we are sharing the love with. Here we go:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Juan- The golden investigator. He is about 40 years old. The hermanas found him contacting about 3 months ago. He has been progressing a lot and has a ton of ANIMO to accept everything that we teach him. He is such an inspiration to me. He has such a strong desire to draw closer to God that he is willing to do what He asks, no matter the price. The biggest thing that he has been struggling with is smoking. He wants to quit so bad, but it has been hard for him since all of his friends and family do it. The members have been a huge support with him in going over to keep him company and being his friend. In our last lesson with him he told us how excited he was for his baptism. That the motivation for him in quitting smoking is to be transparent and worthy to be baptized that day. He truly wants this for himself and actually understands that living close to God will change his life in a good way. There are just too many good things to day about him. Im sure I’ll have more to tell later.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sebastian- our stubborn and oh so loved inactive member, but more like investigator. The hermanas have been teaching him for a while too. I actually had met him during a division that I did with Hermana Leavitt before I moved to the sector. When I first met him, he didn’t believe in God. And now he questions, “Why does God let us suffer through our trials?, etc” so at least we are making progress there. We talked a lot about the Book of Mormon with him, the importance to read it in order to find answers to our doubts. I told him of my own personal experience with reading it and finding my own answers. I told him that the reason I can be a missionary and answer the (very difficult) questions that he asks us is because I read the Book of Mormon every day. He is a lot more excited to read now, because if there is someone with a lot of doubts and questions it’s him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Omar, Katrina and Amalia- Our fairly tale, soon to be reactivated family. They just moved into the ward about a month ago. They all have very strong testimonies of the gospel and come from strong-in-the-gospel families. Their only struggle with being active is putting God first and having faith in the blessings that come from doing so. They have goals to reactivate so that Amalia can be baptized and so that they can go to the temple to be sealed. We have so much love for them and are just giving the little extra push that they need to Endure to the End.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today we got to go see a movie in the theater-something that I thought that I would never do on the mission. President gave us permission to see the movie “Son of God” as an Easter present. It was soo good! Have any of you guys seen it? Since I live on mars over here….it could be a super old movie for all I know. But what I do know is that I have a crush on Jesus now. Haha! It’s good to laugh, just roll with this one.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Life is good. I love you guys tons.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Xoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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Picture 4: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">We Found Hermana Leavitt's wedding dress at H&M</span></div>
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Picture 6: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">The quirks of riding the Metro. Sometimes you get s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">erenaded</span></div>
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Picture 8: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Hermana Sandoval- our love who takes so great care of us. Cooking us lunch and coming out with us to our citas [Appointments]</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So after looking back at this past week with Hermana Leavitt, we saw our biggest strength in the lessons with members- this ward is so RAD! And as for our weakness of the week, we would both agree in saying that it was SLEEP! I have never been more tired in my life, well maybe I have, but this week made the top 5 most tired moments in my life- not like I have a list or anything…I’m just making a mental note. But can we please just talk about our strength real quick? People!!! I am absolutely taken back by this ward. I have only been here for a week, yet I feel like I already know AND LOVE everyone! Why? Because this ward is so involved AND interested AND excited about all the work that we are doing. The times that we didn’t have a member in our lessons this week felt weird- and I am realizing that that is how it should be. The reason we had so much success this week was because the members and the missionaries (sorry, I’m talking about me in third person) worked together. You guys really do make the difference; in the lives of the investigators; in the lives of the inactive members; in the lives of the missionaries. And I can say that because I am seeing it change lives here in this ward. Give your love to missionary work, will you? ‘There ain’t nothing wronggg’ people </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let me tell you a little bit about our sector. First off, we are super close with our Bishop; and when I say close, I mean it literally just as I do figuratively. He is our next door neighbor. It is super Rad living next door to him (especially when they cook us yummy late night meals). He also is super involved in the work that we are doing, which motivates the ward members to do so also. He is one of the best bishops that I have had in a while, here in Chile. On Saturday morning we had a ward temple trip. We all woke up before the sun rose to make a 6:30 AM session while the youth went to a seminary lesson at the MTC. It was so much fun! And super edifying. As for our loves, we have many. But that’s okay because we also have the forces necessary to be able to teach each one and focus on their individual needs, all thanks to the MEMBERS. Ahheemm…notice the key word People! So the work here is progressing and we are finding lots of new loves to teach as well. Our sector is BEAUTIFUL too. We have a lovely view of the Andes Mountains (I’ll attach some pictures for you to see). And I really have nothing to complain about here. My companion is absolutely amazing! I love teaching with her. We decided this week that 1.) God loves us and 2.) So does President Cook. Just because we really had lost the hope that we would get to be companions. She is leaving at the end of this change and last change she had just gotten a new companion, but the Lord (and President) love us and gave us the chance to learn from one another in making us companions. What a blessing! A much needed one.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This week I learned a lot about the importance of Knowledge; specifically in regards to the scriptures. Two questions came to mind in learning about this- First, Why should we study the scriptures? and Two, What does God expect from us as we study the scriptures? Here is what I learned:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Lord has given us the scriptures so that we may increase in our spiritual and temporal growth (Notice that I didn’t just say spiritual: the scriptures have the answers to all of the life questions we have…just read them and you’ll see!) He desires that we might win or gain our salvation, but He also understands that we must desire that for ourselves too. Therefore, He has given us the tools that we need in order to learn and increase our desire to learn. As we ‘Feast on the words of Christ’ our understanding of the REALITITES OF ETERNITY are gained, our spirit’s grow and mature, and our personal relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is strengthened. The scriptures can become our daily nourishment and need, just as breakfast, lunch and dinner is a daily need. As we learn to cherish the lessons taught in the scriptures, we will be able to be ‘Anxiously Engaged in a good cause’ because they will edify us in a way that our minds will always be virtuous- and in thinking of doing good. But in order for us to have this enrichment in our lives, we must chose to pick up the scriptures and read…or like it says in the scriptures ‘Be agents unto ourselves’. No one will spoon feed us when we are hungry- we are all adults and capable. As we grow in knowledge, we grow close to our personal salvation and can help others walk closer to the path of their personal salvation as well. So that is the key- we read the scriptures because that is the way we will gain our Salvation. Do you want to live with God again? Well, now you know what you need to do to get there.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Life is great here in Chile. I am learning a lot every day. I hope that you all can be thinking and doing the same. Les amo!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;"><span style="line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> </span>There were many favorite talks on my part, but one of my most favorite (from my most favorite apostle) was President Uchtdorf’s on Sunday morning. He talked about how we can turn our bitter life experiences into sweet and even joyous opportunities. This talk hit home for me because as you people have known, I have been passing through a rough patch in my health. It can be really discouraging, and especially as a missionary. At times in our lives we don’t understand why we have to pass through the trials that we are faced with, and it might even seem unfair while we are passing through them, but the nice thing to remember in those rough times is that we have a loving Heavenly Father who knows exactly why. He knows the beginning from the end. He knows that it’s hard for us. He even knows that we don’t understand His reasoning. <span style="line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> </span>But He also knows that those experiences can and will work for our good if we face them in the right way. It’s so necessary that we pass through trials in our lives. BUT, Elder Uchtdorf taught us that our trials can be sweet; they don’t have to be bitter. So how can we make our trials sweet? By being grateful! How true this is. I know it because that is exactly what I did as I faced (and will continue to face) my terribly long trial of health. <span style="line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> </span>He taught us that so many times, giving thanks seems to be the trend after we have faced our experience…but why not during? The Lord requires our gratitude in the rough times of our life just as He does in the good times. And if we can learn to be grateful in the hard times, I promise you that it won’t seem so hard. The Lord is so generous! If we recognize His blessings in our lives, our trials will become sweet for us. And while maybe we won’t wish for trials, but when they come we will embrace them with faith and have a better perspec tive during them. He explained this with a beautiful metaphor, as he said, “How much time do we miss waiting for the rainbow, while we could be giving thanks for the rain.” I’m not sure how accurate that quote is because it was just what I wrote down in my notes, but you guys get the point. Life is beautiful People! And after we dance in the rain, we can enjoy the beautiful rainbow that always seems to be in the sky afterwards.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">So I just hope that you guys had the opportunity to watch conference! If not, I’ll invite you to watch it, you haven’t missed it yet! Here is the link: <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2014/04?cid=HPSU040614654&lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;" target="_blank">https://www.lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2014/04?cid=HPSU040614654&lang=eng</a> Personally I liked the Sunday morning session the best! But they were all SUPER </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;"><span style="line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">J</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">Also, I have a bit of exciting news! We had CAMBIOS! And I am in a new sector called Poeta Neruda, which is in the city. I’m gonna miss all of the country quirks of Quimey (especially the cows), but I am excited for this new adventure! And to make things even more exciting, my new companion is Hermana Leavitt (the other one), aka my best friend in the mission. We have wanted to be compañeras for the longest time! And luckily for us, we are going to be able to serve together for her last change in the mission! Talk about perfect timing. We get along so well, probably because she is from California too! I just love her so! I could not be more pumped to be here with her, it feels like a dream! And according to everyone it is the best ward in the mission…Hey! That’s what they told me about Quimey too- but they were right. I’ll let you know how it goes here ;)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">I love you guys! I really hope that you guys are doing well. Siempre estan en mis oraciones. Let me know if there is anything that you guys need. I am here for you guys just as much as I am here for my Chilean loves. Chao until next week!</span></div>
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Picture 2: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">Blue Bell icecream...I forgot what real icecream tasted like! I ate it all in 2 days. No worries though because I bought a second pint the next day. So in love</span></div>
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Picture 3: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">The Godoy family (our reactivated loves)</span></div>
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Picture 4: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">My twin Catta :)</span></div>
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Picture 5: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">Hermana Victoria </span></div>
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Picture 6: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">I hate packing! Too many thingssss</span></div>
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Picture 7: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">The Dominguez Cotraz family- never a dull moment with them</span></div>
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Picture 8: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">Hermana Denisse</span></div>
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Picture 9: <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; text-indent: 0px;">Happy smiling faces after conference</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">This week Hermana Tadeo and I spent our time pumping all of our loves up for General Conference. Another one already! Can you believe it People?? Not like I am counting or anything, but in just 13 more days, everyone in the world will have the chance to hear messages from our Heavenly Father through the voice of his prophet, apostles and leaders. What an opportunity, if you have a question (gospel related or not), doubt, concern, unanswered prayer, etc., to receive personal revelation! This was the invitation that we gave to everyone here in Quimey: prepare for General Conference by writing down a question that they have and then attend conference (in 13 more days) to listen for their answer. I promise that it works and I even have proof:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> Remember my love, Cecilia? Well, last conference, in October, was her first time ever. She went prepared with a long list of questions and concerns that she has been having. At the end of all of the sessions (two hours, twice a day, Saturday and Sunday), she was super surprised to see that all of the questions that she had written down had and answer to follow. I remember specifically, standing in the stake center with her as she excitedly showed me her personal miracle. I also remember being surprised (but not really) that all of her very specific questions, too, had answers. For example, “How can I deal with my depression?” If you remember, Elder Holland (of the quorum of the 12 apostles) gave a talk specifically to those people who were dealing with “the extraordinary illness of major depressive disorder.” He gave comfort to those with this illness and also listed how to respond to the challenges that come along with depression. It just went to show that Heavenly Father is so aware of each one of His children’s needs. He speaks through His prophets and apostles today, just like He did in Moses’ and Noah’s time. And if we too take initiative to prepare for conference, not just showing up and hearing lovely messages, we will receive answers and a stronger testimony that God has a prophet here on the Earth today.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> As for the update on our new loves, this week we got to teach Javier for the first time. We got to his house one night this week and he was super busy putting up a tent in the patio of his house. We offered to help so that we could at least talk with him for a little bit. As we put up the tent we talked about prayer. He told us that he prays but that he only ever gives thanks. It surprises me of the amount of people that we meet here that don’t know that they can also ask for things in prayer. Javier didn’t really understand why it was that way because in his words he expressed to us, “What else do I need to ask for? God has given me everything.” We agreed but also gave him better perspective by comparing it to his relationship with his own children. What if his kids never asked him for help? What if they never asked him for anything? How would he feel? A little light bulb went off in his head, as we explained that Heavenly Father is pleased when we give thanks, but he also needs us to ask him for things so that we can develop a personal relationship with Him. It’s a way of showing that we Trust him enough to go to Him for help; just like a child goes to their father. We haven’t been able to meet his family yet but this week is the week, I hope!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">We also met another love, Juana. She was a reference that the Hermanas of another ward passed off to us. When we first got to her house she told us simply and straight to the point that she didn’t like our church and she didn’t like Mormons. I was surprised to hear this from her just because she let us into her house so easily, but at the same time I was grateful for her honesty. As we talked, we were able to understand her doubts and little bits of ignorance. It makes me happy to be serving a mission because even if we only plant seeds, through our examples and our testimonies, people can come out of their ignorance and actually learn what we “Mormons” believe. WE ARE CHRISTIANS TOO! At the end of our lesson, she told us that she had been lejos de Dios [far from God]. That she had been praying to God asking His to help her draw closer to Him. She told us, “There is no coincidence that you guys came to my house today.” Another surprise to hear. But that is just a testimony that the spirit works through the hearts of the people as we teach. This week we are going to teach her and her hubby. Yay for teaching families!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> I hope that all of you are just fine and dandy back at home. Keep on keeping me updated on your lives! I love hearing from you all.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">Chao until next week!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">Xoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">p.s: Shout out to my Mamasita! Another birthday and another year! I love you so much. Eat and extra slice of pie for me. I’ll make sure to celebrate here with Hermana Tadeo. There is some riot that is going to be happening on the 28<sup style="line-height: 15.777776718139648px;">th</sup> (just for you!) so we are not aloud to go out that night = PARTY! Te amo :)</span></div>
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Picture 1: Cutting some wood with Sonia</div>
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Picture 2: So in love with this dog, Rudolf- the not so red nosed reindeer? haha </div>
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Picture 4: My favorite part about teaching the primary kids are their sweet answers to our questions...for example: "Who can you share the gospel with?" Some said their friends, others their classmates...but our little Simmon said, "With my enemies." Thats the Spirit! I love their love :)</div>
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<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Good news! I am feeling better and am moving forward now. Hermana and I are very happy to feel the blessings of being back, 100%, to this work. It was a miracle because on Monday evening around 5:30 (just an hour before we had our citas) I was like a new person. I had energy; I felt good; I was healed. Thank you so much for all of your magic prayers, they helped me so.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> This week we focused a lot on finding new investigators. Our sector is booming with progressing inactive members but our pool of progressing investigators is basically non-existent. Belen is still doing well, looking diligently for her answer, but she went out of town until April and as for Jexis and Rodolfo, we had to say “bye” to them this week. We love them so much but they just aren’t willing to open up their hearts to the specific message that we have to share. They loved to talk about the scriptures and God but they weren’t willing to commit to anything, which equals no progress. It was hard for me to make that decision to tell them that we weren’t going to be able to come over and share with them anymore, but I knew that Heavenly Father would bless us for trusting him and letting them go. We are here to invite people to come unto Christ through the message of the Restored gospel. As the people exercise their faith, they come to understand better God’s plan and love for them; they change their desires for God’s and they are willing to do what the Spirit guides them to do. Unfortunately, when we don’t see this progress with our loves, we have to let them go in order to fulfill our purpose as missionaries so that we can find those people who are willing to change and accept the gospel. And like I said, the Lord always blesses us for trusting Him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> One of the days this week Hermana Tadeo and I went tracting for 3 hours. We were excited to find new people because it had been so long since we had been able to put that much time into the finding process. It started out super great but after walking and walking and walking, knocking, knocking and knocking and having no success for 2 ½ straight hours we started getting a little discouraged. Also we were tired and it was getting cold, so we decided to say a prayer to keep the Spirit with us. After that, I told hermana that we would try five more houses and if not that we would head over to our next cita. As we were walking I had a tender mercy as I looked up at the sky and saw the moon. It looked absolutely beautiful and it made me realize how much God loved us. A reminder of His reality and that even though I couldn’t see Him, that he was there with us. Isn’t that lovely People? That when things are going all wrong in our day or if we feel a little discouraged, that God sends us His love through the beauty that He has already created for us. It also helped me forget how cold and tired I was. I told Tadeo that even if we didn’t have exito [Success] with finding a new person, that God loved us and would bless us for our efforts later. After all, Nephi had to try three times before he actually obtained the gold plates.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> We knocked on a couple more doors and still the same results. As we were walking to knock on door 5, I looked across the street and saw a man smoking outside of his house. This was our conversation (in translation of course):</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Me: “Hola! Have you seen the moon?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Javier: “Yeah, it looks very pretty.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Me: “What are you doing?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Javier: “Smoking.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Me: “That’s really bad for your health you know.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Javier: “Yeah, I know. But it’s my vice.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Me: “Would you like to quit that vice?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Javier: Yeah, but it’s hard.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Me: “We can help you!”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Javier: “Really, how?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">And then we went over to talk to him and when we got to his gate he put out his cigarette- progress already. He told us that he was Christian but believed in God in his own way (something that we hear all of the time which is just an excuse for saying that they don’t have time in their lives to go to church etc). He also mentioned that about two years ago he met two missionaries but he never took the lessons. We gave him a condensed version of the message of the Restoration, starting with prophets and ending with the first vision. We told him that he could pray to know if what we shared with him was true and he agreed to do so. It was super RAD! He had a lot of doubts, but the good thing was that he had a lot of faith that God would answer his prayers. He told us that we could come back and teach him and his family- it just goes to show that God blesses us in His own perfect timing, even if it seems like the last minute for us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;"> We continued to have tender mercies like that throughout the week. We found new people to teach through references, through the families of our inactive loves and at the bus station but, all in unexpected moments. I am super excited to see what potential all of them have this week. I’ll keep you updated on our success, or the opposite. Ha ha.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Take care. I love you guys so!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">Xoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 17.040000915527344px;">p.s: English is starting to get super difficult for me to speak. It hasn’t been part of my vocabulary for the past 6 months. I actually have to think hard to talk to people in English. Crazy huh?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I’m not gonna lie, this week has been super discouraging for me. My health only seemed to get worse and more constant this week. As each day passed by we were able to make less and less visits with our loves, until it was impossible for me to even get out of bed. The (mission) nurse told me that I just have to wait it out and keep taking Tylonol for the fever, which was not very encouraging to hear at all- I hate the waiting game, especially when time is so precious. But I cannot deny the many blessings that I do have, that have made it easier for me to get through this TRIAL. I’ve been counting them:</span></div>
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<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">I’m a missionary!</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> I thank the Lord for that blessing every day. Even thought I don’t have the comfort of my own home and family while I have been sick, I have the comfort of the Spirit, and am learning to rely so much on that. It has taught me so much patience and trust in the Lord. It also taught me this week that, “The best place to pass through trials is on the mission.” There is no doubt in my mind of that TRUTH.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">My companion-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Hermana Tadeo. She has reminded me time and time again to be patient and that it’s all okay; that the Lord is protecting our sector while we cant be present; that she can really use the extra study time, etc. She has made me countless jugos naturals (fresh juice) to pump me up with vitamins, banana shakes (just like you mom!) and peanut butter toast (because she knows how much I love peanut butter). She is also super funny, and I heard once that laughing is the best form of medicine. I am just so grateful for her.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The scriptures-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Do I have to say more? It’s amazing to me that the scriptures always have the answer to our personal situations, even thought they were written when the dinosaurs were on earth (well, not really but a super long time ago). I’ve come across some gems that have helped me keep the faith: 1 Nephi 9: 5-6, D&C 58: 2-4, 68: 6, 78:17-22.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">My new GOLD SPARKLY ballet flats-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> don’t laugh at this one. I’m being serious! When we went shopping for food last wednesday we passed the shoe isle and low and behold, my eyes caught onto the perfect shoes! And they only had one pair left in my size- God knew that they would cheer me up. Plus, they were only 8 dollars! You gotta love Walmart prices.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Our loves-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> our members; our elders; our investigators. We have received lots of visits from the members in the ward to come cheer us up, bring us once (we still get fed even when we don’t leave the house), and just to keep us company. The elders have made sure to help us out with our investigators, have brought us our lunch every day and tell us jokes that are actually funny. And our investigators, well, while we haven’t been able to visit them in person, we have made sure to keep communication with them on the phone. It’s good to hear of their love and concern for us. And hearing that they miss us, well, makes my heart smile.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Hermana Joseline and her family-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> We had a Noche de Hogar [Family Home Evening] with them on one of the days that I could still make visits. I was super down that day because I didn’t seem to be getting better and felt like I couldn’t give my 100% to the work. Just spending time with the family made me happy but, Hermana Joseline shared a video with us that gave me so much comfort (without even knowing how I had been feeling). It was the perfect reminder for me in that moment! Here is the link so that you guys can watch it-<a href="http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=1289877050001" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit;" target="_blank">http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=1289877050001</a></span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">My testimony-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> I’ve been reading through my journals, conference notes, and old blogs that I’ve written, this past week. Reading those memories have put a smile on my face and it’s reminded me that this experience is SO WORTH IT. I’ll never forget the wise words of Hermana King (my ex-mission mom), who told us, as she counselled us to keep a journal the very first day we got to Chile, “Knowledge carefully recorded will be knowledge in time of need.”</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">All ya’ll back at home-</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> your prayers, your letters, your love and your mere presence has given me strength, more than I can express. I love you guys so much! Thank you, really.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We’ll take it as a good sign that I could get out of the house today to come write you guys! I’ll be better soon. I hope that none of you guys are in the same sick boat as me. Have a lovely week and Happy March 10<sup style="line-height: 17.749998092651367px;">th</sup> to you all- it’s a beautiful day here in Chile. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Un abrazo grande, Hermana North</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">disclaimer for mom: sorry, I literally only took one picture this week. But a picture is a picture! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Picture 1: </span>Hermana Betti and Hermana Gledys and the crazy little littles. They brought us queque, eggs del campo and a lovely message from the scriptures. Seriously the Best! We are so blessed.</div>
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<span lang="ES-CL"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">So </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">remember about m super itchy bug bites that I told you guys about last week? Well, within Monday night and Tuesday, all of my “bites” had turned into gnarly blisters and for about the 100<sup style="line-height: 15.777776718139648px;">th</sup> time on my mission I felt super sick with fevers and body aches. Turns out that they weren’t bug bites after all; I have CHICKEN POXS! Luckily for me, it didn’t hit me super hard. I only have seven blisters and most of them are on my legs. The others on my hand and one on my elbow (like I mentioned last week). Also, even though it’s super contagious the Chileans aren’t afraid of it. I called an Hermana to cancel the cita that we had with her family (because she has 3 littles who have never had it) and she said, “Muy Bien! Come over! It’s better that they catch it when they are young, rather than when they are grown up.” And that has been mostly everyone else’s response too, so we have been able to go to some citas during the week, menos mal. The incubation period is about 15 to 30 days but I am betting more on that 15 days part- I should be feeling better by the end of this week. Fingers crossed!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> As for Hedder and Carlos’ baptism, it was a beautiful service. Their aunt, uncle and cousins came, and a lot of the members and the youth were there too. Hermana Fransisco (Hermana Jesse’s hubby) played a flute solo of an arrangement of church/ primary hymns that he put together and Hermana Sonia shared a poem that she wrote especially for Hedder and Carlos. The water in the faunt was warm and they both were baptized just once. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to go to the confirmation, I was banned from going to church with chicken poxs, but we heard all of the details after. They even got up and bore their testimonies during testimony meeting- que lindo.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> Yesterday marked one year since my “more like a little brother,” Tyler Robinson went up to heaven. It is crazy to think that so much time has already passed by. I feel like my mission has been a shelter for me in dealing with the reality that Ty is not here with us anymore. If anything, it’s given me a lot of strength as a missionary. When he passed away I decided to dedicate my mission to him, that when I couldn’t anymore that I would persevere for him because it’s something that he was excitedly preparing for. It was also the topic of our very last conversations together. Tyler has been my angel and example. Tyler has a strong testimony of the gospel. He had a clear eternal perspective on life and trials. He loved. He endured. He was STRONG and PATIENT. And his smile and good attitude during his battle for health has taught me so much, as I too have had to battle (in a smaller way) for my health. He has been my rock here in Chile. My friend when I feel lonely, reminding me that <i>every little thing is gonna be alright.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">Ty has also made it possible for me to sympathize with my loves, here in Chile, that have lost loved ones too. He was the first person in my life whose passing really affected me. But in that I have been able to learn so so much! One thing is that death is just the beginning step to the real life that God has prepared for us- this life on Earth is not the end for us. God loves us so much that He made a beautiful plan for us to come to Earth to learn and grow, love, have and be part of a family and then to continue all of that in the eternities. Just before Ty’s death I learned about our Heavenly Father’s love for us from a scripture in the New Testament (that later gave me so much comfort and is now one of my favorite scriptures) in Corinthians 2: 9. It taught me and put into perspective for me of how great of blessings Heavenly Father has for me and all of His children. How real of a Father He is for me and that in that reality that we really have no idea of the beautiful blessings that we can receive if we but just love God. How simple is that, really?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> I have found myself, many times, reflecting on the life that he is having right now; what he must be doing; who he must be meeting; how he must be feeling, etc. I once heard that one week for us is just a blink of an eye in heaven. That just put into perspective of how short of a time he actually has been away form us and how soon of a time we will all be together again. I miss Ty so much, but I feel equally blessed to have him as a part of my mission- everyday as I put my nametag on, I am reminded of him. He gives me an extra energy and smile because I know that he is really here with me, helping me in this work- I have felt him many times.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> Yesterday I was not really sad as I thought about his passing because I know that is doing amazing things on the other side. He continues to live, thanks to the plan the God made for us and thanks to Jesus Christ who is central to that plan. Because Jesus Christ overcame the bonds of death through His resurrection, we all have the hope of a glorious resurrection and will live again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">Ty continues to inspire and motive me everyday even though he is in heaven and for that, I have a reason to SMILE whenever I think about him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I think that out of all of the weeks that Tadeo and I have been together, this week made the superlative of CRAZZIEST WEEK ever. So much happened and I learned a lot, so maybe I’ll just make a list:</span></div>
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<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The lord answers, even the little tiny things</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">- We went over with an inactive Hermana, who we are just starting to get to know, at the beginning of the week. When we got there she was super anxious and stressed because she had lost her keys and could not, for the sake of her, find them. We started looking all over and after about ten minutes I said, “Hermana, have you prayed for help to find them?” (Something that my mama always asked me when I lost something). She said, “No” and so I offered a prayer. Literally two minutes later while we were talking she was anxiously playing with her necklace, not really paying attention to what we were saying, and she felt something heavy inside her blouse….the keys! We were all super grateful because the hermana was finally able to be tranquilla [calm] so that we could actually get to know her and teach her. So next time you lose something, don’t forget to pray for help. Even if it seems like a little, tiny thing.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rastafari is more that just a culture</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">- We were contacting in San Leon and met two super cute girlies. One of which had dreadlocks (I’ve never seen a little with dreads before- SO RAD). We asked her if we could visit her parents and she went straight to her house to get her family. When her mom came to the door I realized that the dreads ran in the family. Both mom and dad, Rosie and Jorge, had gnarly dreadlocks (Looking at them made me feel like I wasn’t in Chile anymore). We explained to them that we were missionaries of the church and that we wanted to share a message with them that would bless their family. When we asked about their religious background, Rosie said, “I’m Rastafarian.” WHAT? Never in my life have I heard of someone being of that religion. It took me at complete surprise. They told us what they believed. It all sounded a bit crazy to me…but it was interesting to hear. Look it up!</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Sonia is not actually a member</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">- Well, we actually still don’t know for sure; the secretary is looking that one up. This week at Leo and Pablo’s baptism, (the elder’s investigators) Sonia mentioned to us that we perform our baptisms really similar to the way that the Adventist church does theirs- by immersion (of course there is a major difference, its similar). Then later, while we were walking home Sonia said, “You know, I don’t actually think that I’ve been baptized in the Mormon Church after all.” Tadeo and I busted into laughter, again. And so did Sonia, again. It was like a dejavu. Ha ha. So instead of starting rumours, I’ll just let you know about that one when we find out.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Cortizone cream does not help when Chilean bugs bite</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">- I’m dying. My body, including my elbows, is covered in bug or mosquito bites…still trying to figure out what is doing the biting. Does anyone have and tips? I’ve tried salt, cold water, hot water, and itching- nothing is helping.</span></li>
<li class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Divisions with members = MORE TIME</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">- I’ve know about this trick for a while now because we did divisions every week in Departamental. But ever since I got to Quimey we haven’t put in the effort to actually do it, until yesterday. Hermana Tadeo has been a little bit discouraged this week because that voice that tells all new (or old) missionaries that “this is too hard” or “you’re not good enough” had been getting to her head (I could totally relate to her because I have been there time and time again on my mission). I knew that if she could go without me for a couple hours- running the sector, directing the lessons, etc., all by herself, that she would feel capaz (capable), so we did divisions. It not only helped Tadeo, but it helped me, the sector, and the hermanas that came out with us. We all saw mini miracles and within two hours we had four lessons with members present! For a missionary those words are music to the ears. So to all of you missionaries, if you want more lessons in the week that will strengthen your loves, go on divisions with the members! And if the members don’t want to then PRAY for them, the Lord will provide a way because it is something that He wants too. And to all of you members, go on divisions with your missionaries! It will not only bless you and your family but it will strengthen your wards and help those you teach feel loved. You guys are the KEY to this work- I know this is true, You know this is true and God knows this is true. That’s why he had conveyed this message to us time and time again through a loving prophet and apostles…SO JUST DO IT. And pray for the time in your schedule to do it because I promise you that id you do, the Lord will make it possible because it is something that he wants too.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked us to do.” –Elder Ballard (<i>Put you Trust in the Lord</i> Conference talk)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> Hedder and Carlos are good to go for their baptism this weekend. They are so excited; they put together the program the other night- all hand picked by them. It makes me so happy to be able to really feel that this is what they want to do, not because of pressure by us or their parents. I know that it will forever change their lives and as they both answered, “Yes” to the last question of the pre-interview question that basically asks, “Are you 100% positive that you are ready to do this and live the gospel forever” all I could picture in my mind was them a missionaries in the future- Tender mercy for me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> You guys are so lovely! Thanks for all of the love; it makes every day that much better! Les quiero.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-45399062732124946482014-02-18T09:17:00.004-08:002014-02-18T09:17:42.611-08:00Sickness, Miracles and more Miracles!<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.82666778564453px;">As for me, nothing new has gone down. I spent three days inside this week from bad health- like I was saying no surprise there, I’m always sick. Last week I had the flu (I forgot to mention that in my letter) and the medicine was helping up until it ran out. I had super bad headaches and it got so bad that I couldn’t read or write or listen to any kind of noise or laugh or even sleep, really. Hermana Tadeo was such a doll and she put blankets over every window that was in the house, she made me a cave! It was so cool and super helpful. I was like a vampire, for the fist time in my life I really hated the sun. I have never experienced so much pain in my life. The Elders from the office brought me miracle drugs, aka antibiotics, to help me feel better and I am so happy to say that they are working! I was able to get out of bed on Sunday and get back to work! Something that I truly thought wouldn’t happen (maybe I was being a little bit dramatic, but the pain was gnarly. It made me hopeless). So keep my head in your prayers, I really don’t want to go back to those sunless days.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.82666778564453px;">As for our miracles this week, well, we saw many! I feel so blessed to be here in this ward. Yes, there have been countless ups and downs, but the Savior has been there constantly reminding me to be patient and this week made it all worth it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.82666778564453px;">Ever since we got to the sector, we have been working closely with an inactive family, the Familia Orillana, whose kids have never been baptized. We began teaching the kids with the mom to help them gain a testimony and help the mom regain her testimony. Hedder, the 13 year old daughter, has had a testimony of the gospel for a while and so we had been praying a lot for and working hard with Carlos, the 11 year old son, to gain his own testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. The mom has been progressing a lot this past change and yesterday was her first time teaching in her new calling as the primary Sunday school teacher (We heard lots of good things from the kids in her class; that made us happy!) We went over to teach them last night and talked about tithing. After we taught the lesson, they were all super excited to pay their tithing. Hedder even said, “Now I want to find a job just so that I can pay my tithing and receive those blessings.”(Referring to the scripture in Malachi 3: 10, in the Old Testament). It was super sweet. Then we asked Carlos how he has been feeling since he has been going to church, reading the Book of Mormon, etc. He explained to us that he felt good and that he wanted to get baptized but that he needed to wait to really feel his answer in knowing if the church was true or not. It was another one of those situations where the person had received their answer, but just wasn’t recognizing it. We asked him why he wanted to be baptized and he explained to us that it was because he felt good and then he told us, “And last night I had a dream that I was being baptized in the church. And I felt really happy.” BAM! That was his answer. Not everyone receives that kind of answer in a dream, but it was a cool story. I honestly thought that he was just making that up because it came out of left field, but in that moment, Carlos just smiled and said, “Oh, that’s my answer!” haha. It was all super crazy, but the sprit was felt so strong. We were all so excited and they decided to be baptized on March 1<sup style="line-height: 17.35555648803711px;">st</sup>. Experiences like these are reminders to me of why it is so important to have patience, faith and diligence in this work. We have been working with this family since November and have seen their progress all of these months and now the fruits are starting to show. My heart smiles for them and for my Heavenly Father who has given us the opportunity to be part of their lovely progression.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.82666778564453px;">Also, we found out this week that an Hermana in our ward had a baby. The miracle part of this story is that she has been trying to have kids for 18 years and never was able to have them. On Friday night she had a lot of pains and went to the hospital, where she found out that she was going to go into labor! Can you imagine finding that out from the doctor? That night she gave birth to a healthy and perfect baby girl. I am still shocked at the news, but so excited for her and her husband. Those are the lovely blessings that God gives to his faithful sons and daughters. We can never lose hope in our trials because God works Miracles in his own, perfect timing. End of story.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.82666778564453px;">I love you guys so much! Have a lovely week. I hope that you guys can recognize the Lords miracles in your days to make you SMILE.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 20.82666778564453px;">p.s: Family!!! Thank you so much for the Valentines day shout out. I was dying over how cute those pictures are. You guys make me smile really BIG! I am so blessed</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-20239067994967706832014-02-17T12:12:00.001-08:002014-02-17T12:12:17.248-08:00Red and Blue make Purple<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">I just wanted to give thanks to all of you for the love and support that you have given me these past months as I have been here in Chile. There is nothing that makes me happier than getting emails and letters from you guys in my week. My zones have always made fun of me for getting so much mail at our reunions. But it just goes to show all of the Love and Support that I have back at home. It motivates me to keep on keepin’ on during the good and bad. You guys are the best. Now let’s keep my reputation up and keep on sending me the love ;) haha.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;">We had a super spiritual lesson with Belen this week and I know that the spirit was there because there were truths that I shared with her that I didn’t really fully understand either until we talked. So one of Belen’s biggest doubts about joining the church is homosexuality- a pretty controversial topic for many people around the world. She has a lot of friends who believe in same sex relationships and she doesn’t find a problem with it because in her words, “Love is love and you can’t control who you fall in love with.” To be honest, I thought the same way for a while. Yeah, it’s different but we shouldn’t judge nor accuse. We should accept and support because we are all God’s children, Right? Well, the sprit taught me something different and it’s more than just the fact that a marriage should have both hubby and wifey.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> My explanation to Belen started out with that point up above. But in my head, I knew that it had to do with so much more that just that. As I tried to come to a reason of why I didn’t believe in same sex relationships the answer came to my mind- its against God’s laws (Leviticus 18:22). That should be enough reason for all of us to understand that we should not participate in homosexuality not think it is okay for others to do so. Why? Because we are commanded to Love God with all of our heart (Mark 12:30). If we love God then we will obey His commandments. Something that we can all find peace in knowing is that God never changes. For example, God’s love for us will never change even is we disobey Him. God’s plan for us will never change even if we don’t believe in Him. God’s laws will never change even if the world we live in is constantly changing. And so if God never changes, who are we to say that it is okay to change His laws? Who are we to say that God was just kidding or didn’t actually mean what he said when He made His laws for us. It’s crazy right? It doesn’t make sense, and that is the TRUTH. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> I read a talk in the Liahonna (the church’s magazine) the other day, by Elder Scott, that said, “Truth is not determined by what men think, no matter how influential they may be. Truth was determined by an Almighty God before the creation of this Earth. Truth will exist unchanged forever.” God’s laws are for us and will not nor will never change based on changes in the world. We don’t need to know “WHY” God made this law, or any other law for that matter, but we can understand that if we follow God’s laws we will be happiest. The scriptures promise us time and time again that if we obey, we will be blessed. We also explained to Belen that God does not judge those who are gay. He loves all of His children the same. But if those people choose not to follow God’s laws and act on their feelings, then they are sinning. Just like anyone else breaking a law of the Lord. God doesn’t make exceptions for some of His children based on their personal circumstances. We don’t know why some people have desires to be with someone of the same sex, whether it be that they were born that way or their experiences led them to feel that way, but we do know that everyone will face struggles and trying challenges in this life. But that through God’s plan of happiness for us we have a Savior who can help us overcome our weaknesses when we fall. God knew that we would face trials here on Earth that would lead us to making errors. He doesn’t require perfection but he does require cleanliness and purity. And only though our Savior, Jesus Christ, can we accomplish that. We all must repent if we want to live with God again (3 Nephi 27:19) - another one of God’s laws that will never change. If we put God first in our lives then everything that seems unfair or doesn’t make sense will make sense. We won’t have to have a reason “WHY” behind the commandments for us to understand that we need to follow them in order to have true lasting joy. But like I said, this doesn’t only apply to homosexuality. It applies to every law and commandment that God has surely given us. It may not be easy, but it makes sense- Belen agreed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> We also saw a lovely miracle this week with a loved inactive(ish) family of our ward- Joseline (recently active), her two kids and her ex-husband, Pablo. During the week we spent a lot of time with them helping them and giving them those motivational pep-talks that they need to get their booties back into (spiritual) shape. I love this family so much! We always laugh a lot and talk about anything and everything together. Going over with them is like a breath of fresh air for me. And ever since I have known Joseline, she has always had a strong testimony of the gospel and optimistic view on life, aside from all of the trials she has faced in her life. This past year, she has gone through one of the craziest roller coaster rides of trials that I have ever seen/heard of but it just goes to show that 1.) The Atonement is real and works and 2.) When we face our trials with God then everything turns out okay. It makes me happy to see this family changing for the better. Especially Pablo! Through Joseline’s strong example, they are being a family again. And now Pablo is taking initiative like he should have before and is helping Joseline out a lot. They have been separated for the past 4 years and he has been inactive since basically the day he was baptised, more than 15 years ago, but on Sunday we got the tender mercy of seeing the entire family walk into church together. I was shocked to see that, and later Joseline told me that she was super surprised too. I am so proud of Joseline for the faith that she has kept through everything that she has passed though. We are now seeing the fruits of TRUSTING in the Lord no matter what. I know that one day her dreams of becoming an eternal family, married and sealed in the temple, will come true.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.933332443237305px;"> Have a lovely week People.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-23592472499419640882014-02-03T12:44:00.000-08:002014-02-03T12:44:18.345-08:00Earth Loving and it's not even Earth Day yet<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">We have working a lot with our love Belen this week. She was out of town for a while, but I am so glad that she is back so that we can teach her and watch her testimony grow. We hadn’t seen her for about 3 weeks, so I was super surprised to hear that she has read the Book of Mormon and prayed to know if it is true (get this) EVERY SINGLE DAY since we left her that commitment. She is so faithful, I love it. We have been trying to help her recognize the Spirit confirming to her of the truthfulness of this message. I have felt it, there is no doubt in my mind, so I don’t have doubts that she will receive an answer and know for herself but she is struggling big time recognizing the sprit. She wants to feel it so bad and she told us in tears that she has never been able to feel it. She is such a solid person and I know that when she does feel it that she will be a strong member of the church, and maybe that is why it is so hard for her right now. We were talking with the elders about her situation the other night (they are working with her recently baptized parents so they know her really well) and one of the elders said that Satan knows how strong she is and how big of a blessing it would be for her and so many others if she received her conversion and so he is working so that she can’t feel that spirit. He is working in the lessons that we teach (distractions and noises in the house that take away the sprit). He is working in making her feel discouraged, etc. Hermana Tadeo and I went to the temple last week and I have to tell you, the spirit that I felt just entering the doors of the temple was so peaceful and strong! I want her to get baptized just so that she can go inside and feel that peace…but it doesn’t really work that way, so we were thinking about taking her to the temple grounds to teach her and pray with her. I think that she will be able to feel Gods love for her so strongly there; I’ve also had an experience with that. She has been in all of our prayers over here in Quimey. Everyone loves her and wants her to receive the blessings of this gospel that comes through personal conversion- she’ll get there!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">Yesterday in church I taught about the Creation in our Gospel Principles class. It was so much fun! And I learned so much from (what I thought was) a simple subject. I never really realized how important the Creation of the world was for each one of us. Well obviously, it’s important because without it we wouldn’t be here….but I don’t think that we really truly understand how BIG of a blessing this world is for us. First off, everything that was created in day one through seven is for our benefit and happiness. God made sure that we had everything that we needed to be healthy and happy here on Earth, but he also gave us all of those things to make it possible for us to return back to Him in heaven. Think about it. The Earth is our path back to God. And so is Christ, his son. He not only Atoned for our sins, but also CREATED the Earth. We have a way back to our heavenly home because of Christ; He is our everything. He created the Earth. He is the creator of our faith. He is the creator of our Salvation. He is a BIG DEAL. Yeah, I know that you guys already know this…but I just thought that I would add another reason to your list of reasons to love the Lord, our Savior. He created the Earth and so, we can return to live with our Heavenly Father again. YAY Earth! This mini lesson made me realize how blessed we are to have beautiful blue skies, rain to dance in and flowers to give on Valentine’s Day (Ooo! That’s coming up soon). So give your thanks people! And love the Earth. It’s one of our tickets to Salvation. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">“Through the operation of laws obtaining in the higher kingdom man MAY BE REACHED AND LIFTED; himself he cannot save by his own undained effort. A Redeemer and Savior of mankind, is beyond all question essential to the realization of the plan of the Eternal Father(Moses 1:39- “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man”) and that Redeemer and Savior is Jesus Christ.” -James Talmage</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">I hope that you guys enjoyed the Super Bowl this week. It’s good to know that that was the last one that I have to miss for the rest of my life. Have a great week! I hope you can notice those little creations that God has given us to make you smile.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">Chao, Hermana North</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">p.s: Just a quick funny story. Yesterday in Relief Society, an Hermana taught us about Reverence. She started the class out by playing a song on her phone that talked about Reverence. We all felt the sprit and it was sweet how everyone was so quiet. Right as the song ended someone just so happened to call her- her ringtone was a cumbia song. The funniest part was her reaction as she grabbed her phone, ran towards the door and started yelling, “NO! No! No! I’m so sorry Hermanas, these were not my intentions. No! No! No!” hahahahaha! It was so funny. I wish you all could have been there to laugh with us. In reverence of course!</span><br />
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Picture 5: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px;">Shout out to the Alicia Park young women and Young men. Thank you guys so much for your lindo gifts! It made my day and now I have a garland of your BIG, beautiful, stylish selves that hangs over my bed. You guys are so awesome. Thanks for all of the Love and Motivation.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-47287500298634391012014-02-03T12:30:00.001-08:002014-02-03T12:30:09.193-08:00Christ's life is the Perfect Pep-Talk<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Hermana Tadeo and I got some interesting shout outs from the Evangelical possy this weekend. We were tracking some houses in our sector to find some new loves to teach and every single one happened to be Evangelical (supposedly we have competition here ;)). The funny part of this story is that at the end of our night, after being rejected hopelessly time and time again by the Evangelicals, we ran into yet another Evangelical…or so we thought. We ran into a lady named Sonia who was watering her lawn. We had actually past by her in the street earlier that day so we decided that we would take our second chance and talk with her. She told us all about her life: widowed twice, divorced once, she has 2 grown up kids and she is Adventist (aka Evangelical) but that at the moment was lejos de Dios [Far from God]. We told her that we were here to help people strengthen their relationship with God and so she let us in, and just like that we started teaching her about the Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ. As we were teaching her, the spirit in the room was felt so strong; stronger than I have felt in a really long time. Sonia even stopped us in the middle of the lesson and told us, “God really must love me because he sent you guys to my house; he is here with us right now.” That made me smile really big! She recognized what she was feeling, what we all were feeling. It was amazing to me the questions that she was asking throughout the whole lesson and how well she understood everything, as if she had heard it all before. I kept thinking that she was one of those golden investigators from the “District” videos- I was so excited for her! Then at the end of the lesson, after she committed to praying to know if what we shared with her was true, we invited her to be baptized. After a long pause she looked at us and said, “No. I will not be baptized chiquias. Why? Because I have already been baptized twice in the Adventist church and once in the Mormon church.” Hermana Tadeo and I just looked at each other and started laughing. Sonia joined in too…but then continued to tell us, “but really I won’t be baptized again.” We calmed her down and assured her that she actually couldn’t be baptized again because she already did it with someone who held the authority to do so…but that what she needed to do was come to church with us. She agreed and come Sunday, she actually came! We were so excited to have her with us. She loved all of the classes and members and supposedly this Thursday night she is going to participate in the ward’s Zumba class.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This week I reflected a lot about Christ’s life here on Earth. I’ve found that His life is the Perfect Pep-talk for me. His life was an absolute miracle and every time I read about it in the scriptures, or think about it for that matter, I can feel His love for me so strongly. It gives me the strength that I need to endure during my trials but it also gives me more motivation to love and serve those around me. I read a quote the other day by Elder Ballard that says, “You can never look at yourself in the same way if you know that you are a Child of God and that He knows you, loves you and cares about you. And you can never look at others disappointedly if you know that they are your eternal brothers and sisters who like you, are here on Earth trying to learn and grown through mortal experiences both good and bad.” We are all Children of God- literally. Because God loves us and wants us to live with Him again, He sent His son Jesus Christ to give us an example, show us the way back to our eternal home and then to help us back by suffering the price for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross. Christ had to suffer every pain and affliction, every trial and temptation that we face in our individual lives. Once we come to truly understand this, Christ’s life will become our Perfect Pep-Talk because as we come to learn more about Him, we will come to know of his love for us. And that love heals all. When I have felt disappointed with my Chilean loves or even overly stressed (ahemmm, last week), I need to remember that we are all trying, nobody is perfect, and that it is only through Christ, that every little thing is gonna be alright. That patience is an eternal gift and that all these things shall be for my good. So this week was a better week for me as I have taken the time to read and remember the person that I supposed to represent each day that I serve.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I hope that you guys can feel that Love that Christ has for you. Look for it because it exists, no matter who you are. And I am not just saying that because I am a missionary.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Chao loves!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Xoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Sundays have come to be one of the most love-hated days of the week for me as a missionary. LOVE because our ward members are amazing, we get to take the sacrament, hear pep-talks to energize us for the week through the lessons taught in our classes…and the list goes on. HATE because it is also one of the most stressful days of the week (for me at least). All week long we work with our instigators and menos activos to prepare them for Sunday. We teach them; we help them; we commit them; we love them; we motivate them; we remind them, etc. all in hopes that, come Sunday, they will feel that desire to come to church to be able to find that “Love” part that I mentioned up above. When Sunday comes and our loves show up, Sunday is my favourite and I am excited to continue forward in the week to keep helping them to progress but when Sunday comes and our loves make up excuse or stand us up…it is a little (well actually a lot) discouraging- and that was what happened yesterday. While I took the approach of (p.s: don’t do this at home) wanting to give up, feeling alone and thinking this was too hard, and instead of strengthening my faith to come, indulging in chocolate (in my defence, sometimes it makes the crappiest situations less crappy), the Lord was so aware and taught me, AGAIN, a life lesson about trusting Him.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> In the afternoon we had the blessing of teaching an inactive hermana from our ward. As she expressed to us her trials, I opened up my scriptures to a lovely story in Mosiah 24. It talks about when the prophet Alma and his people were afflicted but through their faith and trust in God, they were able to bare their affliction “cheerfully” with ease and patience. Something that this story teaches us is that the Lord doesn’t answer our S.O.S prayers by taking away our problems, but He does help us out by blessing us with the strength to endure. And if we endure it well, “tomorrow” He will “deliver [us] out of our bondage” (Mosiah 24:12-16). *DING* a light bulb went off in my head: I realized that while I thought that I was sharing this story to help the hermana that the Lord was sharing it with me to help ME. It definitely gave me the perspective that I needed! Yeah, it sucks that our loves don’t come to church every week when they say they will or that I have a lot of responsibility on my plate as a trainer again or that sometimes I don’t feel the support that I need like I would like to, etc. BUT if I am humble enough to ask for strength, Heavenly Father will give me the strength that I need to Cheerfully keep on keepin’ on. And that the key, to do it CHEERFULLY. So that is my goal for this week, I’ll let you know how it goes…but I am learning People, I am learning!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Therefore…let us <b>cheerfully do all things</b> that lie in our power; and then may we <b>stand still</b> with the utmost assurance, to <b>see salvation</b> of God, and for His arm to be revealed” (D&C 123: 17).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> On a happy, my new compañera is wonderful! </span>Hermana Tadeo, from El Salvador. <span lang="EN-GB">We already have found some small world connections (while I was flipping through some of her pictures). Turns out that an elder that taught her family the gospel, only a year ago, is from my stake! CRAZY Right? She was baptized a year ago and now tells me that being here in the mission field is surreal for her. She is going to be turning 20 this Saturday, (just one day after my best Friend’s birthday- Hermana Coe) so we will definitely be celebrating this week. So far I have learned a lot about Hermana Tadeo: she has 4 sisters and one brother (all are members of the church), she likes coconut ice-cream, her favorite color is pink and she is obsessed with brushing her teeth (menos mal). She is a super easy going, happy and lovely person- that has given me so much strength this week! Heaven knows that I need that. She is also super excited to work hard, and so that is what we will do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> And one more happy story- Joseline (my love from San Miguel) was baptised on Saturday! After almost a year since we knocked on her door, ten months to be exact. After the service, she told me, “Remember last time you saw me, how sad I was? And now look at me, I am so happy!” She was glowing, absolutely linda. It is amazing that something so simple, the gospel, brings out so much happiness to those who accept it in their lives. And like we learned from the experience of Alma and his people, the gospel doesn’t take away our problems, it just gives us perspective. And moments like Saturday, and a bunch of mini ones like it a long the way, remind me that all of this is so worth it. I just have to learn to be patient during the hard times so that I can keep enjoying the sweet times.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Love you tons and tons!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Picture 1:</span> Hermana Tadeo, my new love</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09564803587347888348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200949094653539303.post-8674044134218268302014-01-20T09:50:00.000-08:002014-01-20T09:50:14.725-08:00Just some Random Thoughts and Updates<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">So it looks like I am going to be hangin’ with the cows for a couple more months. I am staying in Quimey (Hermana Reyes went to San Miguel, equally as good! Lucky duck) and what came as an even bigger surprise is that I am going to be training a greenie again! AND to make things even better, she is going to be Latin (I love Latin compañieras). One of the elders here told me, “People are going to start calling you Eve, because you are the mother of many!” haha. But really, I have been in tranning/ tranning for my whole mission, but I am embracing that blessing with all of my heart and am excited to take on this new adventure with my new Latina love.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This week we saw so many miracles from the Lord as he blessed us to be able to see so many of the people that we have been working with, over the past 3 months, come to church! Hermana Reyes and I worked so hard, and the fruits from that labor were much enjoyed. My new compañiera and I have a lot of work to do to make sure that they keep on keepin’ on, but I know that they will be able to do it with just a little push from us as they strive to do the little things (reading their scriptures, family prayer, etc.). Something that helped us out a lot this week was the members of our ward. They were key! You guys don’t even know (or maybe you do) how equally important your influence is in the lives of the investigators and the inactive members. If you want to do something good…then look for the missionaries and HELP THEM! Together, miracles can happen. That is my testimony as I saw those miracles happen with the ward members this week.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">p.s: Have I mentioned that I love Quimey! We have the best ward, and a lot of primary littles. I think that they make up half of our attendance each week, about 110 people. It reminds me of the Ladera Ranch wards. So fun! Sunday is not Sunday without the noise of all of the littles running around and playing with their toy cars.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Much love to you all!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Hear the Word of God and Do It” –Luke 8:21</span></div>
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Picture 1: Hermana Jenifer and her babe, Viciente. (another innactive that came to church)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74mvpmWrYuD0eZT_HPKZdPUFCbcdJqbnxzDjNI7GRVfYbitOIxRWe3ZEhVVz1Vv1mh7oPfAHcTdlnfEDtcHG2Emp2rKFcWnBfuyuhPhl4p_9e883LCqYRRJA_0j-W-UMfGKmaBBqdcu4/s1600/DSC00048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74mvpmWrYuD0eZT_HPKZdPUFCbcdJqbnxzDjNI7GRVfYbitOIxRWe3ZEhVVz1Vv1mh7oPfAHcTdlnfEDtcHG2Emp2rKFcWnBfuyuhPhl4p_9e883LCqYRRJA_0j-W-UMfGKmaBBqdcu4/s1600/DSC00048.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>
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Picture 4: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">la familia Parra- super Rad family from our ward. </span></div>
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Picture 6:<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">gallons of icecream in my tummy on saturday morning (it didnt even last one week...it was a Hot week! dont judge)</span></div>
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Picture 8: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">My love hermana Miriam- she cooks yummy food that makes my stomach smile</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">HAPPY NEW</span><span lang="EN-US"> YEAR PEOPLE!!! It was so weird celebrating Christmas and News Years during summer break. It is so HOT every day, plus there was a fire the other day whose smoke has ungraciously added heat to this heat…but that’s not me complaining, I am loving this sun soaking up season. So how is the snow Utah loves? And what about the tourist free beach California loves? Well, to be honest, these past couple of weeks has been super duro [hard] for me as a missionary- menos mal [good thing] that I am a missionary. The good thing about having bad days as a missionary is that you have to try really hard to keep it that way. As I pass through sad or hard times there is always something that we teach, or my compañiera says or something an investigator shares, etc. that brings peace back into my heart. And as the Lord as been testing me, His spirit has given me the strength that I need to endure and BE HAPPY.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> New Years Eve, for Hermana Reyes and me, was unforgettable! In the AM we made some super RAD contacts on the micro [bus] that actually live in our sector (my absolute favorite) and before lunch we bought a GINORMUS, AVATAR sized watermelon to celebrate the new year (after carrying that home our arms were shot- we planned on that as being our workout for the day). President Cook gave us the “commandment” to be home by 6 PM that night, because some of the sectors here are dangerous during the holidays, so we didn’t get to visit a lot of our loves that day. But Hermana and I had a lot of fun together, seeing that it was just the two of us in the house. At night, Hermana Yesse and her hubby and their little came over and SURPRISED us with dinner- chicken with a heavenly mushroom sauce (I am obsessed with mushrooms now) and papas duquesa (potato balls). It totally made our night. Also our neighbors, aka our ward mission leader and his wifey, brought us carne from their BBQ (we so love our ward!). So we had a little bit of everything and half of a watermelon. We counted down to the New Year (me being half awake of course!) and now I can hardly believe that one whole year has past by and almost a whole year since I became “Hermana North”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> So this week we have been working a lot with our investigator Belen (18 years old). I don’t remember if I have mentioned her yet, but she is the elder’s recent convert’s daughter. We actually met her knocking doors in our first week here in Quimey! When she came out to open the gate, to our surprise, she said, “Are you guys Elders too?” But we actually didn’t start teaching her until about three weeks ago- on her request. She is super smart and has a ton of questions for us when we teach her, which is a good thing because that means that she actually wants to learn. We have been having a lot of fun teaching her with her family. They are hilarious! Laughing with them makes me feel like I am with my crazy family back at home. On Saturday, she was super excited to show us some things that she bought that morning. She came out with six new dresses and said, “Help me pick one for church tomorrow.” AHH! That melted my heart. (If you didn’t know, it’s kind of a BIG deal when our investigators come to church). Also when we asked her about how her scripture study was going she said, “I have been reading everyday, but I only couldn’t read yesterday because I was at a friends house. But she had a Bible so I read that instead.” When I heard this, I jumped out of my seat and gave her a high five; and there may or may not have been a high pitched scream in there too. It just made me so HAPPY to hear that she is really sincerely looking for an answer from God AND keeping the promise that she made to read her scriptures every day. If we want something from God all we have to do is ask Him and act upon the faith that we have to receive what we are asking for:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am nervous for this week because we find out about cambios [transfers]. I have my fingers crossed that I can stay here in Quimey a little longer. I’m starting to fall in love with everyone here, but I have faith that whatever happens is what will be best for me and the people, even if I think that I staying here will be the best thing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I LOVE YOU ALL! I hope that your Christmas and New Year was lovely.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Xoxox, Hermana North</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">This week I ha</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">d the coolest experience with an Atheist, Diego, on the micro (the micro is starting to become one of my favorite places). Our conversation started about the gym but quickly turned into, “Do you believe in God?” He explained to me that he believed that there could be a ser superior [Superior being] but that he never thought about a Heavenly Father, because he never has a need. I asked him, if there was a God, if he would like to know and he said, “Yes, but how can I know that?” I taught him how to pray, but not just any kind of prayers, a prayer with FAITH (Alma 32 came in handy at this part). He thought that it was impossible for him to have faith because he said that he thinks rationally but it’s not impossible because he already had a HOPE that God or, like he calls, a Ser Superior existed. If we have hope, we have faith- <i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">if ye have faith, ye have hope for things which are not seen, which are true </i>(Alma 32:21). He was surprised to hear that this whole time he has had FAITH. I shared my testimony of God's love for His children and how He answers our prayers. I told Diego that once he finds out for himself that he has a Father in Heaven that it will change his life one hundred percent, whether he had a need to know or not. He agreed to pray that night and told me, “I’ve never had a real need or desire to know if God exists but that is because I have never met anyone so sure that God exists. Just hearing your beliefs and seeing the happiness that you have from that makes me want to PRAY and know or myself.” The coolest past of this whole story is that he lives in our sector! I was so surprised to find this out because we got onto the bus in the centro of San Bernardo, which is about 20 minutes outside of our sector. So we made an appointment with him for two days later. When we got to his house he told us that he forgot to pray, but we fixed that with a heat shaped post-it that said “ORAR.” We had a testimony meeting of how we all came to our lovely conversions to the gospel- his heart was touched again as he expressed to us of his desire to know what we know. It didn’t take a lot for this atheist to have a change of heart and to ACT; all it took was a sincere testimony of what we already knew.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">What a blessing we have in our lives to be able to bear testimony to those around us; especially at this time of year when everyone is celebrating Christ’s birth. The sprit of Christmas is everywhere, so maybe we should take advantage of that and express our sincere testimonies to those around us:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I know that Christ lives. He came to this earth, paid the prince for our sins, died for us, and was resurrected. I cannot express my gratitude or love for Him in words but, over and over again, in my life He has given me strength and support that I will forever be grateful for. I know that He loves us and as we use the atonement, through repentance, in our daily lives we can come to feel that love and come to know Him. Our Heavenly Father has a plan of happiness for each one of us and only through Jesus Christ can it be fulfilled.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Christmas has been different for me this year, as you guys can probably imagine. But different because the spirit of gift giving has been different. Instead of material gifts I have been able to give spiritual gifts to my loves here in Chile. I have felt so much peace instead of stress and hustle. And while I LOVE the traditions of Christmas from back home, I can’t help but think that this is the way that God intended us to celebrate the birth of His son Jesus Christ- to receive Christ in our hearts, just as we receive gifts from our loves. It’s my wish that we can gift our best elves and act to the Lord this year; in doing this, pure, sweet, sparkly JOY will be part of our Christmas season.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">I LOVE MY SAVIOR; JESUS CHRIST.</span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">For unto us a </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">child</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"> is </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">born</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">, unto us a son is given: and the </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">government</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"> shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">Counsellor</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">, The </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">mighty</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"> </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">God</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">, The</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">everlasting</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"> Father, The Prince of </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa/9?lang=eng" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px; text-decoration: none;">Peace</span></a></span></i><i style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"> (Isaiah 9: 6)</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Les amo con todo mi corazón! Feliz Navidad. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"><span style="line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"></span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;"></span></div>
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Picture 7: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">Making Quesillo (the venzuelan version of Flan) with Jexis</span></div>
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Picture 8: <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.111112594604492px;">We got to teach our Young Women on Sunday! So much fun...even though there were only three!</span></div>
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