¡MI AMORS!
Hey, sounds like you have been having a busy week up there in the
northern country. How sad about that guy from Sunburst. We actually just
had a member here in Chile pass away as well. I guess he was the
Rancagua area institute guy. It was kind of tragic; I guess because
people think that he killed himself. I´m not sure what happened, but I do
know that the Area Seventy for Chile spoke at the funeral and none of
the missionaries in the area got to go. I guess it's kind of a big
deal.
Wow, it sounds like Brent and Blake are doing awesome and the whole
family! Happy to hear that Brent´s little misfortune turned out to be
alright. I can´t wait to hear back from him and all his travel
adventures. Hopefully he was practicing his spanish. I know I have been!
HAHA
How's the diet coming? I´m on one too! It´s called eat all the
fresh fruit you can diet because it tastes soo much better here than at
home! :) I swear I haven´t eaten this many peaches in my entire life.
People give us so many and when we eat at their houses we almost always
have peaches for dessert! We also got this giant bag of plums and I´m
just in fruit paradise. But it's starting to be fall time here, thank
goodness, so I´m guessing fruit season is almost over..bummer.
I got a letter from Grandma and...YOUR PACKAGE!! I was so
excited I just picked it up today. Grandma, mi abuela, hang in there it
sounds like making blankets will help get your mind off of things. Maybe if you have time you could make one for me before I come home! :)
Thanks for the letter and I´m sure it was Grandpa who put the little
comic in! I loved it, it is so cute. I will have it taped to my wall so I
can see it everyday!
Sounds like the weather is getting pretty cold up
there. The weather is just now slowly turning into fall and is starting
to cool off. I love having to wake up in the morning and put a sweat
shirt on and wear my slippers. It just feels better to wake up to crisp
air. My companion said that winters here are really cold. But what
makes them cold is that they don´t have indoor heating. So everyone just
basically bundles up and toughs it out for 3 months. She says that it
is so hard to get up in the mornings
because sometimes you can see your breath in the house!! HAHA. I´ll let
you know how it goes when that happens!
This week was interesante! Miguel called us this week and told
us that he doesn´t want to get baptized. WHAT!?! Well, don´t worry we
talked to him and he still had his interview with my district leader,
but we decided that he needs some time to work it out with himself. He
knows everything, he just needs to know in his heart that he knows. If
that makes any sense to you. Hopefully within the next couple of
weeks.
We have a baptism this Sunday again for a different
investigator named Cristina. We have so many investigators right now my
goal this week is to get batism dates with them all!!
So, we have changes (transfers)
this week but I just found out that I will be staying in Graneros with
Hermana Dutton for another change!!!! YAY!! I was really excited because
we have so much work to do, I didn't want to leave yet! Everything has
been going really well with her. She is teaching me some really good
things, and truly is an amazing teacher. She just has
the type of personality that people are just drawn to.
I went on my first division this week. I think they call them
exchanges in English. So, we live with two other Hermanas in our house
and we split Greneros into two sectors. I got to go with Hermana
Martinez for whole day. She is from Mexico and is this cute little
Hermana. I have to be honest though I was super nervous to go with her.
She seems just kind of quiet and my spanish is horrible. I thought
that it was going to be a really silent day. Plus I´ve never taught with
anyone but Hermana Dutton and I didn´t know any of her investigators.
But it was a really great day! We talked the entire time! WOW, I
understood everything and she could understand me! It was great, I just
love her now she is so funny! I want to be her companion in the future,
she is just a good missionary!
So something else that was completely awesome about this week. The day Miguel told us that he didn´t want to get baptized we went to
meet him to talk about it. We were standing outside the hospital waiting
for him and this little lady started walking toward us. I said hello
and she came and gave me a beso on the cheek like she knew who we were. I
thought that maybe she was a member that I hadn´t met yet but Hermana
didn´t know her either. Turns out she talked to the missionaries at one
time, if I remember correctly, and obtained a Book of Mormon. She told
us that she has read it three times and knows it is true!! That just
doesn't happen in real life does it? Well, it did. I wish I could tell you
all the amazing things that take place during the week but thre is jsut
so much.
Thanks mom for the scripture reference I´m definitely going to look
it up later! My studies lately have been a lot about change and what it
really means to be converted to the Lord. Something that has taken over
my studies these last couple of days is what it really means to take upon
the name of Christ. In D&C 20:37 says that when you
want to serve Him with your whole heart and self--I wish I had my
scriptures right now cuz I´m just going by memory, but then I also
thought about the Anti-Nephi-Lehis.
After the Anti-Nephi-Lehis had been converted unto
the Lord they no longer wanted to be associated with their past and so
they took on a new name and became a new people living in peace and
happiness for years. This same change happens with us after baptism,
except the name we take upon ourselvs is Christ´s name, no longer
associated with the person we once were. Well, it turns out that this
change of self is a huge process and right now I´m
trying to learn about this process and what more we need to do to be
called children of Christ! Cool huh? I´m reading the Book of Mormon too
mom, but I´m reading it in Spanish.
Anyways, just because we are trying to become better everyday
doesn´t mean that road is going to be easy. Actually, I know it's only
through the rough patches that we can chipped and shaped into the person
Heavenly Father needs us to be to build up the kingdom! Know that I
love you all with all my heart and so much more! I miss and love you and
am SOOOO GRATEFUL for everything you have done and are doing and will
do for me!
ciao ciao (chow chow) cuídense! (take care)
todo mi amor,
Hermana Thacker
ps. I´ll send the other letter from last week!
(Recieved on Monday, February 27, 201)
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