Wow sounds like life at home is pretty crazy
right now. I´m glad you had a good Easter though. Sounds like the food
was delicious, as always. Mom I was talking to this lady we had lunch
with one day and I told her that you like to cook and want to have some
recipes from Chile. I think that she is going to hook me up with the
details, she seemed pretty excited about it! The only thing is that the
measurements are totally different and I don´t really think that they
use measurements anyways. Sound familiar? Ya well anyways, ¡voy a
hacerlo y recibir recitas para ti!
Hey Grandma I have been thinking of you this week because we teach this older woman who loves to crochet things. She asked if we did things like that, and in that moment I wished I would have had you teach me. Well, there is still time left!!
The Chileans celebrate Easter a little differently. The different religions all celebrate in their own way but mostly everyone celebrates the life and resurrection of Christ for the whole week. On Friday they only eat fish and in the evening they don´t listen to any music. Which was really strange since there is music everywhere, in every street or block someone is blaring music. But for the missionaries Easter was just another day to go out and work! But today we had a fun activity with the whole mission playing, painting eggs, and eating chotipanes (it's like a short little sausage they grilled over a fire in the back of the church, haha, with fresh toasted bread and the Chilean mustard which is amazing!).
This last week was pretty good. We got to go to the mission home for an Hermanas reunion with all the hermanas in the mission. I just love going to the mission home because I just love my mission President. He is just so cool. He is literally the best mission President in the entire world and I am so excited that I get to keep him for my entire mission! But I got to learn a lot of really great things during the reunion and just get another boost to do the work.
There are some really great hermanas here in Rancagua. And next week I am going to have another one of them as my companion. I am pretty sure I will have a Latina but that is all I know. It is really funny some missionaries get really wrapped up in the changes and who is going where. I don´t really care, I am just a little nervous to be left behind to run my sector since I´m pretty sure I will be in Graneros for another change. I am ok with that because we have some really good investigators that show a lot of interest in the church. Sometimes they start out really strong and then ya they stop progressing, but I think that whatever happens is necessary for me to learn what I need to learn to help me be a better missionary.
This work is not easy. The challenges are so different from what you could ever expect. The one thing that I have come to completely understand with all my heart, is even if we can´t understand the reason behind our struggles we can know that in our struggles, if we turn to Heavenly Father, our relationship with Him becomes deeper, more personal. No longer is He someone that I talk to in the mornings and nights, but is someone I confide in, the person I can find relief and comfort. This is why I am a missionary. Because other people need this relationship. Being a member of the church and having a knowledge of the gospel doesn´t take away life's difficulties. It helps us to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ that with them all things become possible.
This week we taught this amazing little family. There is a mom and two daughters and they are super cute. Our second lesson the mom wanted to say the opening prayer, which we had just taught them the previous day. Then at the end the oldest daughter asked to say the closing prayer and if we had meetings that they could attend on Sunday. WOW! Who are these people and where did they come from? I am really excited to focus on them and get them in the water. Unfortunately, they left on Sunday and didn´t come to church, but I have no doubt they will get there. They are just too curious about the gospel to not come! And there are many others like them here!!
Well sorry this is short and sweet, I´m running out of time and have to write Pres. still!
LOVE YOU ALL!!
Hey Grandma I have been thinking of you this week because we teach this older woman who loves to crochet things. She asked if we did things like that, and in that moment I wished I would have had you teach me. Well, there is still time left!!
The Chileans celebrate Easter a little differently. The different religions all celebrate in their own way but mostly everyone celebrates the life and resurrection of Christ for the whole week. On Friday they only eat fish and in the evening they don´t listen to any music. Which was really strange since there is music everywhere, in every street or block someone is blaring music. But for the missionaries Easter was just another day to go out and work! But today we had a fun activity with the whole mission playing, painting eggs, and eating chotipanes (it's like a short little sausage they grilled over a fire in the back of the church, haha, with fresh toasted bread and the Chilean mustard which is amazing!).
This last week was pretty good. We got to go to the mission home for an Hermanas reunion with all the hermanas in the mission. I just love going to the mission home because I just love my mission President. He is just so cool. He is literally the best mission President in the entire world and I am so excited that I get to keep him for my entire mission! But I got to learn a lot of really great things during the reunion and just get another boost to do the work.
There are some really great hermanas here in Rancagua. And next week I am going to have another one of them as my companion. I am pretty sure I will have a Latina but that is all I know. It is really funny some missionaries get really wrapped up in the changes and who is going where. I don´t really care, I am just a little nervous to be left behind to run my sector since I´m pretty sure I will be in Graneros for another change. I am ok with that because we have some really good investigators that show a lot of interest in the church. Sometimes they start out really strong and then ya they stop progressing, but I think that whatever happens is necessary for me to learn what I need to learn to help me be a better missionary.
This work is not easy. The challenges are so different from what you could ever expect. The one thing that I have come to completely understand with all my heart, is even if we can´t understand the reason behind our struggles we can know that in our struggles, if we turn to Heavenly Father, our relationship with Him becomes deeper, more personal. No longer is He someone that I talk to in the mornings and nights, but is someone I confide in, the person I can find relief and comfort. This is why I am a missionary. Because other people need this relationship. Being a member of the church and having a knowledge of the gospel doesn´t take away life's difficulties. It helps us to have a personal relationship with our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ that with them all things become possible.
This week we taught this amazing little family. There is a mom and two daughters and they are super cute. Our second lesson the mom wanted to say the opening prayer, which we had just taught them the previous day. Then at the end the oldest daughter asked to say the closing prayer and if we had meetings that they could attend on Sunday. WOW! Who are these people and where did they come from? I am really excited to focus on them and get them in the water. Unfortunately, they left on Sunday and didn´t come to church, but I have no doubt they will get there. They are just too curious about the gospel to not come! And there are many others like them here!!
Well sorry this is short and sweet, I´m running out of time and have to write Pres. still!
LOVE YOU ALL!!
(Received April 9, 2012)
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