Tuesday, December 18, 2012

December 17, 2012

I opened the package because it didnt say I couldnt! Im glad you got my package. Question...where did you all get the Trader Joe´s stuff?! I love it! I did get Nannie´s card and the package from Craig and Heidi, Tell them thank you bunches for me!
It sounds like you are having lots of Christmas fun!! We had a big talent show of all the Mission today amd a big fancy lunch together! It was fun!
I hadn't heard about the stuff in CT or the movement (Sisters wearing pants to Sacrament Meeting for a protest). Thats so sad about what happened (in CT). I dont know how someone could do that. And how dare they think it is okay to treat the chapel like that! Thats awful.
Thats awesome about Rach´s work! I want some pictures!
 
I'm so excited for Andrew´s Baptism, I wish I could be there! Good luck on your talk, what are you talking about, the Spirit or Baptism? Send me pics!
WE had a baptism this week. So that was good. It was a little girl who is 11, her name is Blanca Luz, After meeting her mother, it wasnt so surprising that they named her White Light.
Oh did I tell you that I'm pretty sure Im related to my zone leader. So thats kinda cool. But anyways! I love you! Thanks for sending all the love! and I'll talk to you soon!!
and next christmas I decided you shouldnt send me anything. Just save up your money so you can come pick me up and see where I live. And just keep the tree up till I get home

Monday, December 10, 2012

December 10 update

Stake Conference sounds like it was great! Thanks for sharing the talk topics with me! Oh and I got a package from you and one from Danielle last week! They were totally fine! Thank you so much! I loved it all! The conference notes were super cute and the food and clothes were great too! Thanks! The only thing though was that there was a little drummer boy in Danielle's package....haha very funny! Also thanks for the cards and the snowflake earrings! I love them.
I have a little stove range in my kitchen and then if we ever need an oven we just use the one in the church.
Thats sweet of the Blackham little girl, oh course Id email her back!
And you can send me those shoes if you want, but Im really not dying for shoes right now, I pretty much just wear my Toms everyday, they are the most comfortable.
This week has been good. We had 5 investigators in church yesterday so we were pretty excited! We are teaching this family right now and they had a child that died and we were talking to them about temples and eternal families and the spirit was super strong! And the woman after a few minutes and when we had kind of moved on, she just looked at us and was like ´´ what´s it like in there, in the temple?´´ Then me and my comp got to testify of the beauty of the temple. It was a really sweet experience.
Then we were teaching this other kid the plan of Salvation and first we had mentioned that one of the things that we have to do here on earth is that the scriptures say we have to be baptized by water and by fire. And my comp jokingly said we needed to throw him in a fire, then she assured him she was kidding and explained about the holy ghost, however then we got to the Celestial Kingdom and she pulled out her example of it being comparable to the sun, then the kid was like...its really hot there! So I was like shoot, this kid thinks we are going set him on fire! It was funny.
There have been a couple families here who have found out that I was studying nutrition and now they want me to help there babies because thy wont eat. First of all, I dont know all those words in spanish, so my comp works as a translator and second I dont have any tools I need to see what is really wrong. But I try to do the best I can, but they really like taking pills here, so they just want me to find pills for their baby to take, when really that isnt what they need.
We had a multizone conference this week. It was good! They showed us this short clip about the Atonement and a couple apostles talked about it! IT was really nice.
So yesterday I became deathly ill. I had a fever of 102 and felt awful. I'm still recovery. But the best part is what I was told on why I was sick. We have a new Latin zone leader, he implied that it was probably because I was being disobedient, his companion assured him that wasnt the case. The next reasoning was because I had the fan blowing on me. And then this morning our neighbor said it was because its cold here......theyre right 90 degrees is cold. They wanted to know if I had gotten injections yet and what pills I was taking. Ha oh Guatemala. The reason I'm sick couldn't be because I shake hands and kiss people everyday who don't bathe or I eat their food made in rat infested kitchens, or just sometimes you get sick. But Im feeling a bit better.
My comp and I started our Christmas decorations today, once they are done, I'll send a pic!
The ornaments look super cute!!! I love you all! I love you have a good week!!!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

New Pictures

Emily and A Pirate (She is a Massey Hill Girl)

Guatemalan Temple

Sitting on Santa's Throne

Hard to see BUT Volcanic Ash
New Convert
 

Guatemalan Sunset
 
Cereal for Thanksgiving Feast.
Thanksgiving Feast
Her Dog Bite!
On the way to Guatemala!

 

December 3 email

Hey! Im sorry you and Daddy keep missing each other and that you havent been feeling your best, I hope you feel better! But Im glad you are liking work! I can understand being tired, I sleep so well here, Im exhausted at the end of everyday! I feel like Ill just want to sleep for a week when I come home! Oh and 2 weeks ago you told me you were joking about the spanish, I had no idea what you were talking about, I finally realized afterwards. So this week a volcano by our area errupted, there was ash everywhere, so it looked like snow. They gave us these hospital masks to wear, but I tries that for a good 30 seconds and figured it was better to breathe in ash then suffocate on my own hot air. This week we had a conference for just the Hermanas it was really fun. THe first day President talk to us, we played sports and were fed. It was fun. THe second day we went to this theme park here, and we rode some rides, ate gelato, did some rock climbing and just relaxed for a bit. It was super fun!
Did you like the Christmas DEvotional? I did, it was good, I could understand everything, but I got the gist of some of it. We had 2 investigators there, it was great! We have some really positive people now, so we are super excited! We have been working withe the members a lot more this past week and it has really helped! I love the members in our ward, they are so cute! They are so sweet, and like little children. Like the other day one of the women we are closest to here, we were at her house for lunch, and while we were eating she came up to us and told us she had a serious question, and that we both needed to tell her the truth. Her question was, was it really true that everyone in the whole world sees the exact same moon. It broke my heart a little bit but she really wanted to know, so we explained to her that yes that was true and it gave us some comfort that our families see the same moon we do.
Ha also this week we discovered that we have a less active member going around telling people that the missionaries tied her up, locked her in a room, beat her, baptized her, then we made her sell us her land and we took the money to go get drunk.....guess we shouldnt have done that! Ha ha we laughed when we heard this, it was really funny. We came across her after that and didnt tell her we knew but asked her what the missionaries purpose was and that we go about doing good.....she was in the church watching the Devotional a couple hours after.
Anyways that is so sweet that everyone wants to send me something, that is really generous! Little Women sounds fun and so does a parade! I love this time of the year! And I love you!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Novemeber 19 Email

I got the voting sticker you sent me this week! Thank you! Also thanks for your detective work and taking care of my contact stuff! Also tell Craig and Heidi thanks for their generosity! That is so cool that our ward has so many missionaries out! Im excited to get your package! woo hoo! I dont know, I cant think of anything I really need, yes food is always appreciated and maybe perhaps shea hand cream from bath and body works., mine is almost out and me and my comp love the smell of it, its nice to have things here that smell good! But I will be happy with whatever! I liked your thoughts from Moroni 8 Daddy, your are right about the excuses, thats one of our biggest problems here, people cant go to church because they need to make tortillas or its raining and if they get wet they will get sick. We also have a lot of menos activos we are working with right now, who have just forgotten their covenants and promises. It´s really sad that they dont find those things important or sacred, so we are trying to remind them. This week wasnt really exciting, just teaching and preaching but Oh my gosh guess what! I got pooped on by a bird this week! It was gross! But whatever. We maybe also accidently brought a drunk man to church. Everyone who said theyd come this Sunday bailed, so I was like man, we need a miracle, and this man comes up to my comp and asks, tell me, how can I change my life? My comp says to come to church with us, so he does. Once we were sitting in the pews thats when I realized he wasnt sober. He looked at pictures during the first part of sacrament and was convinced all our books were in english...which none of them were. So he was reverent during the sacrament but after that he starts crying and so we take him out of the chapel and on the way out, he was leaning over, and while getting up he smacks his head on the pew, it was really funny. WE go and talk to him for awhile and he is really upset about life, then we send him on his way. WE set up an appt with him and his family...hopefully he wont be drunk this time, even though the drunks are always good for a laugh. We also have a super sweet family here that was just baptized a couple months ago and we made smores with them last night. It was fun! I hope you enjoy the holidays! Do it for me! I hope you have a fun THanksgiving and eat lots for me! I love you

November 26 Letter

Im glad to hear Thanksgiving was good and that you all had fun on Black Friday, My comp and I both wore Black on Black Friday to celebrate. On Thanksgiving the elders in our zone were real sweet and brought ice cream and made brownies and fruit sald for all of us to enjoy. It was fun. Then for dinner my comp and I had a feast of five different cereals! It was lovely. We had interviews with the mission president this week. They were good, he is nice and funny, I like him. He told me my spanish was good and that I had pretty eyes. He says his daughter has pretty eyes too and he always asks her, that when she dies will she donate her eyes to him. So we found out that we will be getting a ton more hermanas in the next few months! We are super excited! And if I understood correctly that each zone will have a pair that work strictly within the organizations of the wards, helping them get established. I think that would be fun. so the other day, my comp and I went to go pick up a member for a lesson and my comp was on her porch and I went to go look to see if she was coming down the road, and she was so my comp came over to me and was like Ow! She said she stepped on something, and Im like well there are rocks everywhere so thats probably it. But then I look down and she is trailing blood and she has this hole through her shoe. So we sit her down and take off her shoe and it is completly full of blood. So I go to clean her foot and, well they have different ideas about health her and the member starts telling me not to get her foot wet with the cold water, I informed her I needed to clean it and then ignored her from then on. We looked around and finally found what she had stepped on. There was this dull iron bar sticking out of the ground that had gone through her shoe and probably almost a half an inch in her foot. She has been in quite a bit of pain, but she is a trooper and weve worked everyday. I told her that I knew on the mission we were suppose to become like Christ but I felt she was taking things a bit too far with her whole foot fiasco. Other that things have been good. WE set up this calender for members to hold FHE at thier houses with a nonmember so we can get new investigators and almost everyday in December is filled, so we are excited for that! The pictures of you all are cute! I bet the house is adorable and Im glad you thought of my ornament! I was sad I might not get one this year! I like that quote by Elder Holland too, I hadnt read it before! Im glad you get to work some extra time! Let me know how your doctor appointment goes. Is it cold there? Is there snow? I hope the packages get here intact as well. Thanks for them! and Ill be careful with the pig! We passed one the other day being taken away and it was so loud! I didnt know they could squeal so loud! Anyways I love you! And hope you are all doing well! Mwah