Today's Letter from Isabella
the red truck of david and janice is pimp. love the color. i bought a camera that deep red color trying to have something close to the color what my first camera was which was given to me with so much love. it was funny we bought it from ¨la cancha¨ a scary part of town with hno Godo who is bolivian and does all of the missionaries immigration stuff. it felt like we were buying something of the blackmarket kinda funny. but i remembered a bit of what jonathan told me the most important thing are the mega pixels. so its a sony cybershot 14.5 mega pixels and cost 145 dollars. how did i do? this morning i shaped my companions eyebrows they look great. also this week we found so many new people to teach so many brokenhearted people that i truly felt like i was nourishing them. i felt the spirit speak through us and one women said puzzled ¨you speak of this with such surety how are you so sure¨ i said ¨because i prayed and God reveled it to me and he would never lie to me¨ another said you speak with so much faith it makes me believe. it felt great hopefully we can help them come to church and recieve their our faith and answer. my district leader went to one of the appointments with me and then at the end said i think this is our area and well im going to be teaching this family and thats the short version of the area dispute and all he did but now i was very mad and my tongue got loose and i cut him down to pieces and then i felt horrible sure i was right and without a doubt for sure he was wrong, why is it so... that you can be right and yet be so wrong? i made the poor dude confetti my companion said well your right and i said no im wrong. how can i preach sweet things out of my mouth and then have such bitter things spew out as well. i felt such a lack of love, one thing that i am concerned in myself is the lack of love i showed that child of God my district leader. i dont feel truly cared for by the elders and i dont serve them as well as i should. for these things i am sorry, i think that if i loved them and served them i would gain more personal progress more spiritual enlightenment but how to do it, thats hard. its the difference between being and doing. i think that there is a huge lack of love in the world but if there was more love in our homes wards districts zones people would jump into the baptismal font. all everyone ever wants is to know that they are loved cared for and of importance in someones eyes. to some its a revelation that God knows them and loves them and it would be grand if i showed them by actions that i truly believe they are a child of God that deserves all my respect and service. even the people that offend me because as John said how can we say we love God who we havent seen and then treat badly our neighbor who we do see? its hypocrisy this week we met many people and were guided by the spirit, but there is still so much more i should do to truly be a disciple of Christ. i have to love those who dont love me.
hna florido
chris the answer is yes, duh! :*
And speaking of Chris...that boy did not write again today!!! What shall we do with him???? Until next time...... and yes the next time I post Christopher will have completed his ONE YEAR mark!!!
Monday, July 25, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
LOVE!!!
So I didn't post yesterday because I was sad we hadn't heard from Chris....lame I know...but this is the crazy worrisome mother speaking. We did hear from Our Beautiful Girl yesterday....and finally today we heard from Our Boy Christopher. I hope I recognize him when he comes home...he is growing and changing so much out there....you will understand after you read his letter...so enjoy family and friends!!!
From Isabella Yestersday!
hola familia como estan. esta semana fue genial. well our district leader said our numbers were disgusting and i was like what? we should speak with love one to another. he didnt apologize and i said well those arent numbers they are souls so im very happy with them if we could have done more then i think we would have. he asked if i gave my 100% i laughed and said duh! thats what i just said see i also practice listening it helps when we teach, and i just didnt let it bring me down, well we had interviews with the president that same week and we told him what was said and the president said i think its disgusting he said your numbers where disgusting. he said i give you license to live the pure gospel of Christ and to use words only if necessary you have my permission to care for the temporal needs of the people of bolivia and i know that you are doing it with love, keep it up and dont let anyone tell you you are failing in the Lord´s eyes. i was so grateful for his assurance, i went on to explain that some elders very few of them are very number motivated and that they are missing the point, and that im looking not to sell the gospel but to invite people to come to Christ, i also told him about how many times we work and some of that work just doesnt reflect in numbers. and he told me that his mom when her husband died served a mission and all she ever did was serve the people and that service is the pure gospel of Christ in action and that she was very successful in bring people unto Christ. he then asked me if i could change the mission with my words what would i say and i said ¨love one another as Jesus loved you¨ wow if i could speak and the world would change i would shout this from the roof tops with out sleep. the problem is that many times we believe in Christ but we dont belive Him. we are like yeah it would be great if i served you right now because thats what Christ would do but right now i need to ... whatever else it might be. and i told the president that and he smiled at me and said something that is so true and this is what i tried to share last time and just couldnt find the words i said in my last letter Bolivians are so human but the president nailed what i ment to say he said ¨i dont know if its true of all people but i know its true of bolivians, they wont listen to your spiritual council unless they know that they are loved by you¨ that to me is such a true statement that is so human for me. we love Christ like his apostle said only because he loved us first. and i dont really care what anyone tells me anymore i give account of my actions to God first and my President second and myself third and i know that i am loving these people and im doing it without any hidden agenda. and i also told my president i would like to stay in cala cala another transfer i still need to learn to love the bishop there and i dont want to leave without mastering that he said i will keep you there then, and then i said i want to go back to sucre and have a second chance to do better there with the families i left. and to that he said i´ll see what the Lord says. also janice the shoes fit great i love them they are the best ever. and thanks for paying everything off with that money its what i would have liked gracias and i must share this last night the pres asked me to help his wife with a dinner she had and so i did and for dessert i got to have a brownie yum a real usa brownie... it was great also i hope they send me to sucre because im gaining weight here again. but all the things that dont make me sick are rice potatoes cereal and everyother starch but cochabamba is flat so you gain weight. well anyway i really dont care right now about that too much either.
les quiero mucho
hna florido
From Christopher Today!!!
Hi, mom and dad!
I´m really happy that you both wrote me. I´m really grateful for your examples to me, especially in how much you sacrfice. I´m really grateful that you are paying for my mission and I think that it might be the best parenting ever - sending your child to babylon to learn how to be a man. Or at least that is kind of how I see it sometimes. Thank you so much for all that you do, with much sincerity. Thank you for the example you gave me early in my life and that we went to church. Until now, I didn´t know what effect it truly had on me.
I´m a much better person now than I was a year ago(I complete the year in a week!!!). You are the best parents ever.
Also, please forgive me for only writing once or twice by hand and for not writing every week. Please forgive me for so many things that I did. I will never be able to pay you back for what you did. Just know that I love you and I will always love and care you.
Dad, also forgive me that when you were in the hospital, that I wasn´t therewith you more. It was hard for me and I didn´t answer the call to serve as well as I should have. I´ve thought about that a lot in the last few years. And I´m really sorry. Know that I love you, and I think that of all the people in my life, I´ve missed you more than anyone on the mission. I hope and pray that God gives us more time to get to know each other because I think we lost a lot. I used to be very judgemental of you and that wasn´t fair at all. You´re a good father and I love you with all of my heart. Thank you for all that you do, have done, and will do.
Mom, thank you so much for teaching and loving me. I sometimes wished that you had never worked, but that wouldn´t be fair because I think that the work you do has been a bigger example than being at home. And it´s ironic how life develops, step by step. This Sunday in Church, for the first time, I knew that I was saved, that all that I lacked in this life was marriage and perseverance. It was a revelation. I hope, Mom, that you will seek personal revelation in your life. I learned the other day that Joseph Smith said that salvation is not obtained BUT by revelation. Spencer W. Kimball wrote about the Making Your Calling and Election sure, which is that you have saved your place in the celestial kingdom. He stated that it is a revelation that is received in the temple. I know that we´ll be there together, but we need to know the doctrine. I hope, mom, that you would know the scriptures and that you would pray to know your Father in Heaven. It´s something I´m truly forcing myself to do. We also need to help all of my aunts and uncles. They need to come to church. I´m going to write to them all by hand and send it to you. Maybe you could send the missionaries to their houses. I need that my aunt debi, uncle jeff, uncle mike, zack, mandy, jared, nathan, jake, amy and all of their spouses and children are with us. There is nothing more important than our family. Nothing. "You are the light of the world," Christ said, in an exhortation to the Nephites that they would preach the gospel to their loved ones. Mom, learn and preach the gospel to your brothers. I promise you, they will come. But like Isabel says, it starts with love. A love that isn´t moved. A love that is bold, bothersome and buries to the heart. A love of fasting, of temple work, of receiving revelation during the sacrament, so that we might all be together. I have a goal to see them all with me in the temple some day.
Speaking of family, there is nothing that has made me more happy in the week than hearing that Danielle has a boyfriend that´s a returned missionary. I soooooo hope that they go to church, that they get married in the temple. I don´t know if she reads the website that we have, or how many of my cousins read this, but I want
them all to know that I love them so much. And I´m sorry for being a teenager and for being hard of heart and being weird and indulging myself in strange music and stupid scenes. I hope that they know that I want to know them. Someday I hope that my cousins, my uncles and aunts, my parents and grandparents can
all be in the temple together. If you only knew how special the day that I took my endowments out was. It was the best. I desire a REALLY BIG eternal family. MY work and MY glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of MY FAMILY. I love you all so much. But right now, my work is to bring others unto Christ. Don´t forget that we have blood on our hands if you keep quiet and wonder what would´ve happened. It´s not about being perfect, but about giving your all.
This is my exhortation that you all might come unto Christ and feel of the relief that he has for you. Even unto my soul, I search every single day. And it´s perfect and worth it. Jesus is the Christ. This is His Church. And I believe in miracles and know that I will live to see the miracle that is a celestial family. A very big one. :)
This I share, in the sacred name of Jesus Christ.
...
Oh! I got clothes. Thank you. I think with that money, I´m going to marry many families and learn to play the piano. :)
I love you, mom and dad. Tell Jared that I love him and that barney sounds really funny in spanish. :)
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Isabel... I love you, honey. Marry me? Because if you don´t, I will hogtie you and tickle you until you say "I do." Te amo mucho. Recibí tus cartas y son hermosas. Valen más que oro, o cacao, o lo que sea. Te adoro, cariña. Hasta ver. 1 año.
From Isabella Yestersday!
hola familia como estan. esta semana fue genial. well our district leader said our numbers were disgusting and i was like what? we should speak with love one to another. he didnt apologize and i said well those arent numbers they are souls so im very happy with them if we could have done more then i think we would have. he asked if i gave my 100% i laughed and said duh! thats what i just said see i also practice listening it helps when we teach, and i just didnt let it bring me down, well we had interviews with the president that same week and we told him what was said and the president said i think its disgusting he said your numbers where disgusting. he said i give you license to live the pure gospel of Christ and to use words only if necessary you have my permission to care for the temporal needs of the people of bolivia and i know that you are doing it with love, keep it up and dont let anyone tell you you are failing in the Lord´s eyes. i was so grateful for his assurance, i went on to explain that some elders very few of them are very number motivated and that they are missing the point, and that im looking not to sell the gospel but to invite people to come to Christ, i also told him about how many times we work and some of that work just doesnt reflect in numbers. and he told me that his mom when her husband died served a mission and all she ever did was serve the people and that service is the pure gospel of Christ in action and that she was very successful in bring people unto Christ. he then asked me if i could change the mission with my words what would i say and i said ¨love one another as Jesus loved you¨ wow if i could speak and the world would change i would shout this from the roof tops with out sleep. the problem is that many times we believe in Christ but we dont belive Him. we are like yeah it would be great if i served you right now because thats what Christ would do but right now i need to ... whatever else it might be. and i told the president that and he smiled at me and said something that is so true and this is what i tried to share last time and just couldnt find the words i said in my last letter Bolivians are so human but the president nailed what i ment to say he said ¨i dont know if its true of all people but i know its true of bolivians, they wont listen to your spiritual council unless they know that they are loved by you¨ that to me is such a true statement that is so human for me. we love Christ like his apostle said only because he loved us first. and i dont really care what anyone tells me anymore i give account of my actions to God first and my President second and myself third and i know that i am loving these people and im doing it without any hidden agenda. and i also told my president i would like to stay in cala cala another transfer i still need to learn to love the bishop there and i dont want to leave without mastering that he said i will keep you there then, and then i said i want to go back to sucre and have a second chance to do better there with the families i left. and to that he said i´ll see what the Lord says. also janice the shoes fit great i love them they are the best ever. and thanks for paying everything off with that money its what i would have liked gracias and i must share this last night the pres asked me to help his wife with a dinner she had and so i did and for dessert i got to have a brownie yum a real usa brownie... it was great also i hope they send me to sucre because im gaining weight here again. but all the things that dont make me sick are rice potatoes cereal and everyother starch but cochabamba is flat so you gain weight. well anyway i really dont care right now about that too much either.
les quiero mucho
hna florido
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| Lilliana's Baptism |
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| The only 2 Sisters Paintballing on PDay! |
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| Elder and Sister Dyer (new mission President) and the Calla Calla Ward at Lilliana's Baptism |
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| Raquel's Wedding (Isabel and she became friends in Sucre and the Mission President gave her permission to attend the wedding. |
Hi, mom and dad!
I´m really happy that you both wrote me. I´m really grateful for your examples to me, especially in how much you sacrfice. I´m really grateful that you are paying for my mission and I think that it might be the best parenting ever - sending your child to babylon to learn how to be a man. Or at least that is kind of how I see it sometimes. Thank you so much for all that you do, with much sincerity. Thank you for the example you gave me early in my life and that we went to church. Until now, I didn´t know what effect it truly had on me.
I´m a much better person now than I was a year ago(I complete the year in a week!!!). You are the best parents ever.
Also, please forgive me for only writing once or twice by hand and for not writing every week. Please forgive me for so many things that I did. I will never be able to pay you back for what you did. Just know that I love you and I will always love and care you.
Dad, also forgive me that when you were in the hospital, that I wasn´t therewith you more. It was hard for me and I didn´t answer the call to serve as well as I should have. I´ve thought about that a lot in the last few years. And I´m really sorry. Know that I love you, and I think that of all the people in my life, I´ve missed you more than anyone on the mission. I hope and pray that God gives us more time to get to know each other because I think we lost a lot. I used to be very judgemental of you and that wasn´t fair at all. You´re a good father and I love you with all of my heart. Thank you for all that you do, have done, and will do.
Mom, thank you so much for teaching and loving me. I sometimes wished that you had never worked, but that wouldn´t be fair because I think that the work you do has been a bigger example than being at home. And it´s ironic how life develops, step by step. This Sunday in Church, for the first time, I knew that I was saved, that all that I lacked in this life was marriage and perseverance. It was a revelation. I hope, Mom, that you will seek personal revelation in your life. I learned the other day that Joseph Smith said that salvation is not obtained BUT by revelation. Spencer W. Kimball wrote about the Making Your Calling and Election sure, which is that you have saved your place in the celestial kingdom. He stated that it is a revelation that is received in the temple. I know that we´ll be there together, but we need to know the doctrine. I hope, mom, that you would know the scriptures and that you would pray to know your Father in Heaven. It´s something I´m truly forcing myself to do. We also need to help all of my aunts and uncles. They need to come to church. I´m going to write to them all by hand and send it to you. Maybe you could send the missionaries to their houses. I need that my aunt debi, uncle jeff, uncle mike, zack, mandy, jared, nathan, jake, amy and all of their spouses and children are with us. There is nothing more important than our family. Nothing. "You are the light of the world," Christ said, in an exhortation to the Nephites that they would preach the gospel to their loved ones. Mom, learn and preach the gospel to your brothers. I promise you, they will come. But like Isabel says, it starts with love. A love that isn´t moved. A love that is bold, bothersome and buries to the heart. A love of fasting, of temple work, of receiving revelation during the sacrament, so that we might all be together. I have a goal to see them all with me in the temple some day.
Speaking of family, there is nothing that has made me more happy in the week than hearing that Danielle has a boyfriend that´s a returned missionary. I soooooo hope that they go to church, that they get married in the temple. I don´t know if she reads the website that we have, or how many of my cousins read this, but I want
them all to know that I love them so much. And I´m sorry for being a teenager and for being hard of heart and being weird and indulging myself in strange music and stupid scenes. I hope that they know that I want to know them. Someday I hope that my cousins, my uncles and aunts, my parents and grandparents can
all be in the temple together. If you only knew how special the day that I took my endowments out was. It was the best. I desire a REALLY BIG eternal family. MY work and MY glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of MY FAMILY. I love you all so much. But right now, my work is to bring others unto Christ. Don´t forget that we have blood on our hands if you keep quiet and wonder what would´ve happened. It´s not about being perfect, but about giving your all.
This is my exhortation that you all might come unto Christ and feel of the relief that he has for you. Even unto my soul, I search every single day. And it´s perfect and worth it. Jesus is the Christ. This is His Church. And I believe in miracles and know that I will live to see the miracle that is a celestial family. A very big one. :)
This I share, in the sacred name of Jesus Christ.
...
Oh! I got clothes. Thank you. I think with that money, I´m going to marry many families and learn to play the piano. :)
I love you, mom and dad. Tell Jared that I love him and that barney sounds really funny in spanish. :)
...
Isabel... I love you, honey. Marry me? Because if you don´t, I will hogtie you and tickle you until you say "I do." Te amo mucho. Recibí tus cartas y son hermosas. Valen más que oro, o cacao, o lo que sea. Te adoro, cariña. Hasta ver. 1 año.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Isabella's Monday Letter
So it is 6:30 and Christopher's p-day is officially over, so I am assuming that we won't hear from him until next week. :0(. But on a happy note we did receive this early this morning! Love this girl and we are so proud of her. Enjoy and until next week...
Isabel's Letter
hi family hi blog readers my friends, thanks so much for your support and for helping me. this month im almost at the year mark and a lot of things that i brought with me for my eye care and clothes and shoes and just everything kinda fell apart or depleted and i have been borrowing money and paying it back so i was short for several months but i know how hard it is to pay for missions and everything else that comes with a house and car etc and the money that has been sent my way im very greatful for. may you always have plenty in your homes. this week that passed we went to Raquel's wedding in the temple she was so surprised to see me there she began to cry and so did i (the friends you make on your mission i feel are forever) raquel was a 21 year old who would help us on Sunday to pick up investigators and with lessons in sucre my first area here in bolivia and some of the relief society women that i had made a friendships with were there and seeing them was so wonderful i cant explain it but it felt like being received by family after along time of not seeing them. side note right now women in polleras are marching for change to support farming women's human rights, i love bolivian people they are so human, i cant really explain it. on saturday we knock on a door a lady came out and looked angry and said im already mormon and i haven't gone in 8 years and im never going to go back i dont want to know anything about you anymore. i was like hmmm okay what do you say right. all i said was sister why are you in so much pain what caused it? hopping she wouldnt bite me. my companion said we want to know because we see you are in pain and sadness. she refused but began to tell us anyway. and i saw she had lima beans (here they are bigger and with a thick skin on the outside that you have to peel) so i prayed and took them from her hands and said i love peeling these and i kept peeling them and smiling the cutest smile i could. and i said with even a bigger smile you must be cooking lunch i know how to peel and my companion chops really fine. may we come in? she didnt know what to say but she couldnt help but smiling back at me. ah ha it worked i thought so i put my foot in the door and she said well okay come in. we made lunch with her she shared what made her upset with some members and what made her convert to begin with and she showed us with a lot of love pictures of her missionaries. and by the end of our little gathering she prayed for forgiveness and strength to go back to church. it was great. we found another less active monica her son tomas was a investigator for the last missionaries she was also very mad but we won her over a while ago and now we come and go as we please around her house. she brought her grandchild for the winter vacation her name is jessica she is confined to a wheel chair. since she was 7. now she is 12 she has such a sweet spirit about her. her uncle tomas was giving us the excuse of the day for why we could teach him that day. im not saying he lies they are by all means legit excuses but we still havent been able to teach him and its frustrating. but anyway i saw her and said she is so cute can we say hi he said sure we did and said we want to take you out sometime to have fun outside her grandma said of course and we took her the next day to the temple. when she saw it this is what she said.¨looking at the temple i feel... it must be like the feeling you might have looking at an angel¨ beautiful comment no? we later took her to see a church movie she liked that too. my district leader is mad at me as senior companion for only finding 6 new people but i know we did some good this week i know the heavens smiled on us plenty of times. one of those times was when i couldnt find an address and was stressed and thought lord just show me the house i know you know. and i felt bumped bc i didnt feel guided anywhere and coming down the very long hill i thought i know you are with us but i wish i see you guide us... and my feet hurt. and at the moment i member with a taxi said let me give you a lift. i felt his love. here on earth we walk by faith and we cant see him thats part of our state of probation but he touches our hearts that we can be his kindness his love his helping hands and his comfort for his children just as we were for miriam monica and jessica that sister in the taxi was for me in that moment of disillusion. we found one great young women shes 23 her name is emilsen she came to church this sunday and loved it. oh and liliana is getting baptized this weekend. and im making a pie for her husband to come to church. he said i heard gringos make good ruwanies meaning brownies i said yep and we bake too and he started to show off his new and very 1st oven he just bought and he said its nice? i said its the nicest oven ive seen he seemed so pleased with himself. ha ha and he said when will you make me a pie i said the day that you come to church. so we have that going on he said thats not fair its blackmail i said no its a covenant like baptism and we gave him a lesson. its fun to sneak the gospel on people. well i have to go i love you all remember to pray to help those who need help.
les amo
hna florido
Isabel's Letter
hi family hi blog readers my friends, thanks so much for your support and for helping me. this month im almost at the year mark and a lot of things that i brought with me for my eye care and clothes and shoes and just everything kinda fell apart or depleted and i have been borrowing money and paying it back so i was short for several months but i know how hard it is to pay for missions and everything else that comes with a house and car etc and the money that has been sent my way im very greatful for. may you always have plenty in your homes. this week that passed we went to Raquel's wedding in the temple she was so surprised to see me there she began to cry and so did i (the friends you make on your mission i feel are forever) raquel was a 21 year old who would help us on Sunday to pick up investigators and with lessons in sucre my first area here in bolivia and some of the relief society women that i had made a friendships with were there and seeing them was so wonderful i cant explain it but it felt like being received by family after along time of not seeing them. side note right now women in polleras are marching for change to support farming women's human rights, i love bolivian people they are so human, i cant really explain it. on saturday we knock on a door a lady came out and looked angry and said im already mormon and i haven't gone in 8 years and im never going to go back i dont want to know anything about you anymore. i was like hmmm okay what do you say right. all i said was sister why are you in so much pain what caused it? hopping she wouldnt bite me. my companion said we want to know because we see you are in pain and sadness. she refused but began to tell us anyway. and i saw she had lima beans (here they are bigger and with a thick skin on the outside that you have to peel) so i prayed and took them from her hands and said i love peeling these and i kept peeling them and smiling the cutest smile i could. and i said with even a bigger smile you must be cooking lunch i know how to peel and my companion chops really fine. may we come in? she didnt know what to say but she couldnt help but smiling back at me. ah ha it worked i thought so i put my foot in the door and she said well okay come in. we made lunch with her she shared what made her upset with some members and what made her convert to begin with and she showed us with a lot of love pictures of her missionaries. and by the end of our little gathering she prayed for forgiveness and strength to go back to church. it was great. we found another less active monica her son tomas was a investigator for the last missionaries she was also very mad but we won her over a while ago and now we come and go as we please around her house. she brought her grandchild for the winter vacation her name is jessica she is confined to a wheel chair. since she was 7. now she is 12 she has such a sweet spirit about her. her uncle tomas was giving us the excuse of the day for why we could teach him that day. im not saying he lies they are by all means legit excuses but we still havent been able to teach him and its frustrating. but anyway i saw her and said she is so cute can we say hi he said sure we did and said we want to take you out sometime to have fun outside her grandma said of course and we took her the next day to the temple. when she saw it this is what she said.¨looking at the temple i feel... it must be like the feeling you might have looking at an angel¨ beautiful comment no? we later took her to see a church movie she liked that too. my district leader is mad at me as senior companion for only finding 6 new people but i know we did some good this week i know the heavens smiled on us plenty of times. one of those times was when i couldnt find an address and was stressed and thought lord just show me the house i know you know. and i felt bumped bc i didnt feel guided anywhere and coming down the very long hill i thought i know you are with us but i wish i see you guide us... and my feet hurt. and at the moment i member with a taxi said let me give you a lift. i felt his love. here on earth we walk by faith and we cant see him thats part of our state of probation but he touches our hearts that we can be his kindness his love his helping hands and his comfort for his children just as we were for miriam monica and jessica that sister in the taxi was for me in that moment of disillusion. we found one great young women shes 23 her name is emilsen she came to church this sunday and loved it. oh and liliana is getting baptized this weekend. and im making a pie for her husband to come to church. he said i heard gringos make good ruwanies meaning brownies i said yep and we bake too and he started to show off his new and very 1st oven he just bought and he said its nice? i said its the nicest oven ive seen he seemed so pleased with himself. ha ha and he said when will you make me a pie i said the day that you come to church. so we have that going on he said thats not fair its blackmail i said no its a covenant like baptism and we gave him a lesson. its fun to sneak the gospel on people. well i have to go i love you all remember to pray to help those who need help.
les amo
hna florido
Friday, July 8, 2011
Strawberry Pie!!!
So I was surprised to find this in my Inbox today!
From our Girl!!!
so i shouldn't be writing right now but i need a favor by monday and there is no case asking my leaders , i know what i am doing is for good please send me a recipe of a pie with crust and everything that is simple and preferably made from canned strawberries bc i know where to find those. i made a deal with an investigator that if he went to church with his family for his wife´s baptism and confirmation i´d make him a pie or apple pie too please janice. gracias mama
And yes I joined in the disobedience and sent the recipes....I would do anything for this girl especially when she calls me mama!!! Til Monday....
From our Girl!!!
so i shouldn't be writing right now but i need a favor by monday and there is no case asking my leaders , i know what i am doing is for good please send me a recipe of a pie with crust and everything that is simple and preferably made from canned strawberries bc i know where to find those. i made a deal with an investigator that if he went to church with his family for his wife´s baptism and confirmation i´d make him a pie or apple pie too please janice. gracias mama
And yes I joined in the disobedience and sent the recipes....I would do anything for this girl especially when she calls me mama!!! Til Monday....
Monday, July 4, 2011
4th of July letters and photos!
Isabella's Letter and Photos
hola familia so many things have happened i hope i can remember them all
liliana is dying to get baptized and i want her to wait just a tad to get
her son on board. this is the 1st time thats happened it feels nice. my
friend raquel from sucre (yes i have made eternal friends in bolivia) is
getting married this Wednesday and has asked me to be there and the pres.
gave me permission i am so excited to see a sealing. chris i will be
thinking of you. pres tenorio is no longer my pres he left on thursday and i
was asked to translate for sister dyer the new pres wife. p. dyer served
here in bolivia when he was a missionary and you can just feel his love for
the people which is wonderful. i also translated all of zone conference for
sister dyer... i still got it! I got my shoes and little toy car and chris´s
pictures thank so much is my card working? i think you said you activated it
right janice. time is flying by and soon it will be jonthan´s birthday where
will my stripling worrier go. love you man. im excited for you. last night i
woke up at like 4 am and thought i need to pray for grandpa finch. i hope
they find the problem and correct it also try speaking with my father he
might be able to help out. today i am writing so late because i had a fight
with my district, zone and assistant leaders we are the only two sisters in
the zone. and the other zone had planed going to the cochabamba christ
statue and our leader had decided to go paintballing and then said that we
werent going so i said to my companion do you want to go see the christ? she
said YES! and i wanted to hang with the sisters so i called my zone leader
to go and he said well you cant go to the internet with them you have to go
with us its a rule. now so many rules are rummors that i was like why? we go
in a district so they count our time and make sure that i will only be there
one hour so another district leader will be able to count my time just as
fine. what upset me is that they couldnt explain where that was a rule who
said it and why it was so important it when they disobey it all the time why
was it important today for me to obey them, purely it was ego they let
things go for other elders all the time and then make a stink when we want
to do something. i said if its in the white handbook then thats fine i will
comply but i just want to go to the christ with the other sisters and i hate
how the leaders will pass the buck they dont want to be responsible so i
called the district leader he said call the zone leader and i was like okay
i call him he says i dont decide your disctric leader decides he says call
the president i said i think its dumb i have to call him its so simple i
call him sister dyer answers she says i will ask the president but i think
thats fine the assistant calls says the zone leader called me they have a
problem with you.... ahhhh makes me mad! i said they are making it a
problem. he said its forbidden for you to go to the internet with another
district. then president calls and says thats dumb go ahead and go i will
pick you up and take you there so they wont be mean to you the rest of the
transfer. lets just say i love the new president. thanks for letting me
rant. the sisters say what would a zone be like if the sisters where in
charge ha ha ha. so chris dreamt i was a judge how what where?. les amo
mucho. please take care and i hope tomorrow the elders will be nice to me.
hna florido
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Christopher's letter
So, this week, has been a fairly fantastic week. I went to a meeting
of leaders with Elder Hogstrom. We didn´t get to teach the whole day!
Which was weird. It was the first Sunday in 6 months that I haven´t
had anyone in the churhc, which was sad. However, the meeting
was really, really beautiful. The spirit filled the chapel like never before
in the branch. We´re working really hard with the members right now
so that they´ll get motivated to share the gospel, by doing practices
of if you saw someone crying or if you were talking to your friend,
how could you invite them to come to church or counsel them in their
hard times. It´s really.fun. It´s really, really interesting how you bond with families
here. I love lots of people here, like my own family. Another interesting
thing is that I´ve become very trusted here with certain people. I
was offered a job and a house here in the last week. Offers, but
I really want to study at BYU and live in Utah. I want to live a life
of a pioneer in the Church of Jesus Christ. :) And nothing else
do I want. I want to be a missionary forever. I pray that I might always
have the guts to preach the gospel. I know that I won´t have the
authority that God has given us forever, but always I want to have the
guts to share the gospel.
I love you all. Again, I need money to buy news clothes. I look like
a slob honestly. My card expired, and so maybe you could send it
through Western Union. There´s one here.
With love,
Elder Hill
hola familia so many things have happened i hope i can remember them all
liliana is dying to get baptized and i want her to wait just a tad to get
her son on board. this is the 1st time thats happened it feels nice. my
friend raquel from sucre (yes i have made eternal friends in bolivia) is
getting married this Wednesday and has asked me to be there and the pres.
gave me permission i am so excited to see a sealing. chris i will be
thinking of you. pres tenorio is no longer my pres he left on thursday and i
was asked to translate for sister dyer the new pres wife. p. dyer served
here in bolivia when he was a missionary and you can just feel his love for
the people which is wonderful. i also translated all of zone conference for
sister dyer... i still got it! I got my shoes and little toy car and chris´s
pictures thank so much is my card working? i think you said you activated it
right janice. time is flying by and soon it will be jonthan´s birthday where
will my stripling worrier go. love you man. im excited for you. last night i
woke up at like 4 am and thought i need to pray for grandpa finch. i hope
they find the problem and correct it also try speaking with my father he
might be able to help out. today i am writing so late because i had a fight
with my district, zone and assistant leaders we are the only two sisters in
the zone. and the other zone had planed going to the cochabamba christ
statue and our leader had decided to go paintballing and then said that we
werent going so i said to my companion do you want to go see the christ? she
said YES! and i wanted to hang with the sisters so i called my zone leader
to go and he said well you cant go to the internet with them you have to go
with us its a rule. now so many rules are rummors that i was like why? we go
in a district so they count our time and make sure that i will only be there
one hour so another district leader will be able to count my time just as
fine. what upset me is that they couldnt explain where that was a rule who
said it and why it was so important it when they disobey it all the time why
was it important today for me to obey them, purely it was ego they let
things go for other elders all the time and then make a stink when we want
to do something. i said if its in the white handbook then thats fine i will
comply but i just want to go to the christ with the other sisters and i hate
how the leaders will pass the buck they dont want to be responsible so i
called the district leader he said call the zone leader and i was like okay
i call him he says i dont decide your disctric leader decides he says call
the president i said i think its dumb i have to call him its so simple i
call him sister dyer answers she says i will ask the president but i think
thats fine the assistant calls says the zone leader called me they have a
problem with you.... ahhhh makes me mad! i said they are making it a
problem. he said its forbidden for you to go to the internet with another
district. then president calls and says thats dumb go ahead and go i will
pick you up and take you there so they wont be mean to you the rest of the
transfer. lets just say i love the new president. thanks for letting me
rant. the sisters say what would a zone be like if the sisters where in
charge ha ha ha. so chris dreamt i was a judge how what where?. les amo
mucho. please take care and i hope tomorrow the elders will be nice to me.
hna florido
Christopher's letter
So, this week, has been a fairly fantastic week. I went to a meeting
of leaders with Elder Hogstrom. We didn´t get to teach the whole day!
Which was weird. It was the first Sunday in 6 months that I haven´t
had anyone in the churhc, which was sad. However, the meeting
was really, really beautiful. The spirit filled the chapel like never before
in the branch. We´re working really hard with the members right now
so that they´ll get motivated to share the gospel, by doing practices
of if you saw someone crying or if you were talking to your friend,
how could you invite them to come to church or counsel them in their
hard times. It´s really.fun. It´s really, really interesting how you bond with families
here. I love lots of people here, like my own family. Another interesting
thing is that I´ve become very trusted here with certain people. I
was offered a job and a house here in the last week. Offers, but
I really want to study at BYU and live in Utah. I want to live a life
of a pioneer in the Church of Jesus Christ. :) And nothing else
do I want. I want to be a missionary forever. I pray that I might always
have the guts to preach the gospel. I know that I won´t have the
authority that God has given us forever, but always I want to have the
guts to share the gospel.
I love you all. Again, I need money to buy news clothes. I look like
a slob honestly. My card expired, and so maybe you could send it
through Western Union. There´s one here.
With love,
Elder Hill
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