Robbing and Rollercoasters!!!

Christopher's Letter

He entitled it :  Home Sweet Home
I don´t know why I said that, but I did. Isabel, I love you. I´ll pray for your ex-comp. I love you so much.
The only advice that I have is make sure that you obey all of the rules and commandments of the mission. You will be highly blessed. Faith in Christ is what leads someone to KNOW and OBEY all of the commandments. And I promise you´ll have less stress and find more people, because I did the same thing. I love you and miss you. I got your letters and it was the best ever. You´re so thin,too! And beautiful. Te amo.

So, yesterday, I got robbed. Which was just my watch and I don´t have money to buy another one.
We had two baptisms and they were awesome. The work is good. I want to lose weight! But all is well. I have to write my letter to the Presidente again. I love you, Mom and Dad. The next week I´ll write more. Don´t worry about me getting robbed. It happens to all the Elders almost. I love you all so much and miss you.
Love,
Elder Hill

Isabella's Letter
im sorry but i will say it again mail takes forever but it will come and that it takes longer to get to me because it goes through three places first the mission home then the mission office then the zone leaders then finally after usually a good month to me, on top of that know that sometimes i dont have money and that delays my letters to you all, and on top of that realize that i have limited time to use the internet to tell you what went on this week for me and if in all reality its not fair to write 7 sentence emails to 8 people i would rather write one email im sorry you dont feel its personal but its what i can do. (you know who im talking to)

this week i would say sucked but then that would be murmuring and it wouldnt be fair because the lord sent many people to help , aide and love us through it. so i say its been a rollercoaster, first i have worked really hard and for 3 weeks straight we have only found 7 new investigators each week and this week only five. secondly my zone leader let us know on thursday that i was leaving sucre for cochabamba this transfer and my companion had a meltdown she started to cry saying im not ready what im i going to do with out you im not cut out for this i cant do this with out you please dont leave etc i did my best to console her but she started to say that her chest hurt then on friday gimena, rosmeri and maria say we want to get baptized but we wont do it if our mother disaproves well their mother said i dont disasprove but im not going to your baptism and it really pissed me off but there wasnt anything i would do so i cried and prayed and murmured and repented and acepted the lords will but my companion kept saying my heart is tight, i said you know its hard but its just not their time but lets take them to see a baptism to keep their hopes up inspite of their mom. so we did when we get to the hill sica sica to drop the girls off my companion turns red and said i cant do this anymore and starts to cry i said what cant you do? she says i cant feel my left arm and my heart hurts and keeps crying so i say lets go to the bottom of the hill and find a phone its 8:45and then i find i phone i say sit here dont move im calling she keeps crying and says things like im fine really lets go home dont call anyone. i say your crazy im calling the elder says go home and ill stop by to take her to the hospital so i have a chance to get money i say okay i go back to my companion and shes unconcious and green and cold and i check her pulse and i cant feel it i smack her she doesnt respond and then i check her eyes they dont constrict i freaked i said my companion is dead i lay her down and in tears call our mision leader and zone leader and i cant stop crying i see the lights of the car of our mision leader and i start to scream and jump so he sees me and i yell for men to help me carry her and this cholita says clam down calm down lets give her a smell of alcohol she comes back caughing but not responding to her name and its like she cant see me we take her to one hospital then another they dont know what do do with her they inject her with everything she comes in and out of reality and says i love you dont leave me sing to me. so i sing nearer to thee after this happens for what seems like for ever and 12:30 am she starts to talk again but doesnt remember anything the only thing she remembers is when she felt something warm on her forehead that as she says gave her back air it was our zone leader who blessed her on her forehead and not on her crown. yesterday she has 4 peaks of fever and dizziness so instead of going to cohcabamba wed im leaving today and i could say goodbye to all the wonderful people i have served and come to love for the past 5 months and it makes me sad im tired and i still havent packed i leave at 2 pm. im stressed i dont know what the lord is preaparing me for but im sure it has something to do with hight volumes of stress bc i have been taught over and over it life to deal with it but sometimes i explode i think that is what im learing now. i love you all and i did get one letter this and last week and they were both from chris. i love you honey yesterday i needed you but i overcame alone but it would have been nice as it always has been to overcome it together. please pray for my companion that she might find good doctors her name is mitzy palma
les amo


Then in the mail this afternoon we received this from Christopher.  It is mostly for Mom and Dad, but we decided to share it and if any of you out there are struggling with your kids and wondering if they will make it...never lose hope and never quit loving them.  Miracles happen!!! Chris shares his testimony here and so I felt it appropriate to share.  Please pray for them and for all the missionaries...for their safety and success!!!  Love  - The Mom In Roy

Monday Letters and Photos!!

Izzy's Letter
well thanks for writting me, a like hearing about your days whats up and been happening. this week was great i have been contacting people repenting regularly and asking for help. like on saturday we had a guy fight with us i was like whatever dude, but something kept bothering me. he said he had read the scriptures but still didnt see the clear message in them and that bothered me. then people started the drumming and drinking bc it was some virgin´s birthday... i dont know and honestly i felt angry about the whole thing little kids holding up this statue and claping and and dancing and the smell of alcohol emerging and i it made me upset no where in this pagan tradition was christ (efe 2:20) and then i started to become impatient with my companion. then i said oh no what happened im contending in my heart. im angry and thats not of God i strated to repent and pray then my companion said whats wrong i told her, she said lets go home and pray i said please lets, then as sson as i said it i said no lets go to this refrence gonzalo gave us of his sister. i kept praying to feel love not anger faith not depair for people when we knock she answered and said oh! sisters HI! please come in. we gave a lesson totally guided by the spirit she said i have had other talk to me including my brother but i finally understand the restauration of the gospel. i think its incredible but it could be true and i want to know, she thanked us over and over again and said if i know this is true i will be baptized i would be too dumb if i wasnt. i glad the lord helped me over come the adversary who was trying to hide cristina from us. we have 7 people who will be baptized please pray for the, Maria shes 10, rosmeri 13 and gimena 18 get baptized this sunday please pray that they overcome their mother whos opposed and their brother might be their strength, please pray for marisol 14 she is so golden i wouldnt be suprised if she became the future young women general authority, an eusebio who is so receptive they get baptized april 9th and cristina 12th of april and maria rene who is older she gets baptized the 22nd of april please pour out your hearts for them they are soo good they are the future leaders of the church. i feel so blessed for the change that the lord has made in my life and heart, im the first to be truly converted from the mission experience. janice i would like some gel im running out again and something to teach inglish to youth im starting to teach english and just know that i love you all, may god keep you safe!


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hna florido

Christopher Bear's Letter and Fotos
Hi
How are you all? I really enjoyed your letters, and Isabel, I´m so happy thatyou´re having success! :) I love you! Also, mom, you´re right. Things are really bad right now. The state is not paying the teachers and they´re protesting. To which the police are killing the teachers but "not on purpose."  There are lots of "accidents." Not only that, but the gangs a while back were fighting with the police. It was really intense. There were ALWAYS police with big guns in our area. ALWAYS. But it has become much more calm.

This week we had a baptism and this week we´re going to have two and in three weeks we´re going to have two more. And we´re teaching three hombres who are investing hard core, you could say. The first year you learn and the second you teach with power. The one thing that I´d like to share is to spiritually prepare for your meetings. That you should get there 15 minutes early and read your scriptures. I promise that you´ll feel the spirit. And also, mom and dad, I also invite you to read the scriptures, sing hymns and prayer morning and at night even for five minutes.

Anyway, the district leader told me to stop using internet. My computer turned off during my letter with President, and I´ve been using internet literally more than an hour. But I love you all, and I think my bear effects pad is in my room OR it´s downstairs in our boxes.

Elder Hill

"No Fear of Man!!!" and "The Race!!!"

Hermana Florido's Letter

I read Moses 6 the other day in leadership training and Ether 12 and I came to a deeper understanding of my Father’s love for me and how the Holy Ghost speaks to us and that I need more faith but I need to be stronger and stronger in humility for that to happen. It’s His work and glory I am just a mouth piece. Please read these tonight for family home evening, I hope that you are all helping family home evening become a part of your homes. I love my companion. She’s from Chile Concepcion. And even though it’s stressful to train someone I am loving it. I’m trying to make her into what hna crossley made me and what I wish I would have known from day one but didn’t, in short I told her, hna palma I want you to become a soul saving machine. As cheesy as it sounds I mean well I really do. I pray the lord to help me in training her. The other day as I was trying to understand more baptism and the sacrifice the lord did for us words came to my mind, (I’m thinking in Spanish so forgive me) don’t fear doing what’s right little flock and then FEAR NO MAN. so I wrote it everywhere, I fear no man not myself not my companion no one I’m hear to defend the truth and I am to do it fearlessly so i talk to everyone if they cut me off shew me or spit on me because sometimes Christians really hate and they spit when they talk I really don’t care. I have been reading Alma 42 to 60 and Moroni is so fearless b/c the faith he had in Christ makes him sure and secure and I’m cultivating that. I contacted a girl in a plaza because we were waiting for a member and I thought I only have 11 months left I can’t waste time even five min is a contact but I didn’t see anyone but my head turns to the left by itself so strange and so I went to talk to this girl and my mouth was filled it was amazing I was learning myself by what was said so strange bit great. turns out that she isn’t from our area so without thinking I opened again my mouth and said who do you know here that we can teach she said my friends their cousin just died, i said of course. we went to talk to them and my comp could see me but was still waiting for the member and i introduced myself and began to testify of the plan of salvation and i asked for their number Johnny gave me his number and again without thinking said Johnny really? Soledad (his girlfriend) now you give me his number because he just gave me yours didn’t he? And they started to laugh and get scared and then i said now Johnny what’s your last name? And don’t give me a fake name okay and he started to freak out and said can you read minds? i said no i just have the spirit of the lord with me. i left thinking what in the world!!!!! I promise i wasn’t speaking he spoke through me. the other day we went through part of our area and I said hna Palma we need to go back for Ariel we went back and halfway an old investigator found me and said sister! Why haven’t you come back? I want you to visit me again! The lord is miraculous and if we are humble to do what he makes us feel things turn out great. What a week. I fear no Man!!!!


i hope Chris is having many baptisms and I’m glad that all the people i love are taken care of what’s funny about the tsunami is that it made and investigator rethink what was stopping her from being baptized. my tooth is still there I’m holding off it bothers me some weeks more than others but I’m scared of medicine here, people don’t even use gloves! Janice something you can do is look for recipes on line with people that do the coop thing because some have done it longer and they have ideas on line i used to look at those recipes with strange veggies and it always was either rawfoodist or coop moms that would post. and start to collect the recipes. and some day you will have people gathering around you to ask for council and family stories, in the wisdom of time the lord gave us there is a time for everything and soon it will be your time to be granny I’m sorry you miss them I’m sure that its hard but write down some of those memories and treasure them because soon you will re live them but you will have a diff role in them. And I think it’s awesome you are attending the Spanish ward and reading in Spanish and emailing us in Spanish too! The return missionaries get excited for conference than the newer members who don’t quite appreciate yet that we have a living prophet but we will see what it’s like last conference I was in Cali.

cuidense! les amo remember put your trust in the Lord and fear no man preach the gospel and help the missionaries and in turn the Lord.

hna florido

Elder Hill's Letter

I had a similar experience as Isabel this week. "I fear no man."  But Wednesday, I suddenly felt restless like I could run incessantly without stopping until I couldn´t run, walk or even crawl, like I wanted to shout from the metal-sheeted rooftops repentence = relief, peace.

I decided that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I confronted every person and like Isabel said, my mouth was filled and whatever came to mind came and I said it. We found 8 contacts this day. Whatever person I thought to contact, I contacted. And we found what felt like Catholic Masses of people. I know that I am a representative of Jesus Christ. I don´t doubt. I don´t think. I know. I represent the only begotten of the father. I am his mouthpiece when worthy and willing. And we all can be. And we all should be.

I love you all. We are having 1 baptism this week, and 2 the next week.  And then we´re going to marry and baptize a family. Mom, if you could send me my EarthFx Bearfoot pad that I used to sleep with, in the package. I sometimes don´t sleep and wonder if it´s because I´m not grounded to the earth. Also, I had to spend some money (althought I didn´t want to). My watch broke, so I bought another. And my book of mormon got stolen so I bought another, too. I also bought some office supplies.

Elder Hill

Growing Up in La Flor del Campo and Carnaval in Sucre!!!

Christopher's Letter
Hola!
I want you to all know that I am very happy, but it doesn´t change how much that I miss Isabel. I´m truly incomplete without her and I hope that she gets my cards... Today I´m just sending some photos of that I took in the last week and one with the family with Belinda. I hope that I can go back to Monterrey and help them. I think in this change I´ve... changed a lot. Matured. We´ve taught a lot of kids and I feel like a dad. It´s interesting, but I love where I am. It´s dangerous and dirty and full of people. A human representation of an ant hill. I have 1 minute left. I love you all so much.

Sincerely, Elder Hill

A Picture Taken Today!

Chris' Zone

Ooh La La!!!

Belinda's Family In Monterrey.  He is very attached to this family!!!

Isabella's Letter

hola familia david disfrute mucho tu email en español me alegra que estes escribiendo en español it made me happy and i really do know what you mean about and english testimony and a spanish one the words change so the feelings differ slightly. mami tengo miendo por lo de mi diente, pero me dijeron que me lo devia sacar y si esta infectado un poco pero los medicos aca no usan guantes,im scared for my tooth, the dentist said i should have it taken out but doctors here are really hygienically challenged they never use gloves and they scare the crap out of me. i had a blood test done the other day it was a total joke, i keep having these bouts of dierriah but i learned a home remedy, toasted flour and sugar water 3 tablespoons of that and your good. so i keep holding off on the tooth but its getting infected so im going to have to take it out :( joeson, and gina hows the new home? send me pictures. i love you so much all of you i am so glad to have you for a family i was thinking about that last night, im truly grateful. we met this guy on the street yesterday and he has suicidal thoughts i felt strongly that he was indeed praying for god to show himself and there we appeared but he didnt see that i told him he needed to forget himself and do service for others he kept arguing and a scripture came to mind d&c 59:21 it was great he said he would see us again tuesday. right now its been crazy in sucre,sucre is a city of college students and when they celebrate carnaval they go nuts right now the streets are filled with booze men that are way drunk cholitas that have their babies on there backs who are also drinking and guys peeing in the corners and everyone everyone getting everyone wet with buckets and balloons and buses get stuck b/c of the dancing in the streets its horrible this sunday we only had 2 peeps in church and many went to the "country" this is what i found out this week the farmers here who are mostly indians have this custom of sunday of temptation where the cholitas dance to tempt men and the guys steal them and if they are gone for one night from their families home she must get married with the guy who stole her its called rumintakay which in quechua means push rock they push the girl the "rock" crazy huh sounds like when the priests of king noah stole the daughters of the lamanites.


the coop sounds so fun! i dream of that please look into it janice

hna florido

Hermana Palma (Isabella's New Comp)