The Master's Hand

ISABELLA'S LETTER

I was in a really bad internet last week and i couldnt get anything done and now i dont know why this machine wont read my usb so im having a hard time to emailing you my pictures and i have a lot. so guess what... they didnt transfer me and i began to cry the day elder burgoa told me you are staying, and you are going to be in a trio, and your companions are hna condori and hna madrid, i was like what! and i admit i flipped and i said Lord give me a sign that this is inspired and i will relax (i have heard hna condori sent almost sent home many of er companions with nervous breakdowns... not making it up either) and so i was sobbing thinking okay this is His work His glory and i know this is for everyones progress i know it but why am i freaking out, just give me a sign you will be with me through this. and when i think that lady my friend in the ward calls and says sister whats wrong i felt i should call you. she hears me sniffling and runs over and gave me the pep talk of a life time. i followed her instructions and am ignoring the bishop, but being polite and working with those who have the desire to work and made welcome notes for the two sisters and ¨terrible¨ hna condori has been one of the best companions i have had, she is quick on her feet, polite but tenacious and we get so much done. i have prayed to have experienced companions and i sure did get my prayer answered with her. she confesses she heard from the elders i was mean but the sisters all seem to like me and she didnt know who to believe and was nervous. and though i thought it be hard working in a trio we split up and go everywhere in the area the numbers are good. i feel that since i was trained i have been training and its exhousting but now i have hna condori who is just a month younger than me in the mish field and is very responsible and teaches like i do and we get so much done. i only have 3 more transfers and i hope to get another seasoned sister. but not my will but the Lords be done because his will is perfect. i never would have chosen this for myself but He chose and we are seeing miracles happen and its only been a week. Christian got baptised and i felt similar to when Chris bore his testimony in church for the first time.When i recieved his house address i wrote it on the pie recepie janice sent me and i thought this would be a good recepie for a baptism, what did he request for his baptism... anything strawberry! i have been bugging him about serving a mish and he is now seriously thinking about it. he is a young man who has been through so much and he got baptised not because he knew this was true but in his own words ¨i feel like i have more air to breath here and that has to come from God, this tranquility is his¨ i spoke this sunday about Chris and i and how we are also responsible for our brothers activity in the Church and Malu who recently turned 21 and is sending her now fully active boyfriend on a mish thanked me for the talk but whats strange is that i a few hours before church i changed the whole focus of my talk and bore testimony of the atonement as evident by Chris´s change of heart, which is so similar to what she has lived with her boyfriend. funny thing is that our dinner flaked on us and we went over to her families house to eat and i spoke of missions and their eternal reward and she cried and said i think thats all was waiting to hear. i think im going to go too. another funny thing is her last name is Florido. i hope this makes sense its a bunch or little coincidences that are in actuality beautifully orchestrated miracles brought about by the Masters hand. whats interesting about a mish is that you plant one seed hoping it gives fruit but it grows into a tree that gives many fruits and each of those fruits have seeds and of those how many trees will grow and fruit and give seed is known only to the Lord i am now fully understanding that many missionaries baptize not 13 in my case ot 20 but thousands. im sure that the missionaries that knocked on my fathers door didnt forsee him on a mission, and his kids on a mission and little natalie and really we are purely the product of missionary work and how could have i stayed home? i would have regreated it all my life. well i love you and my mish and i hope to make my father in heaven proud thanks for your support, and chris i got your letter muchas gracias amor por decirme que eres mi converso. te amo!

hna florido

 

 

 

CHRISTOPHER'S LETTER

 

I love you all so much. Thank you for your sacrifices.
I am sad that I cant go to the wedding. Thank you
for the ties. Thank you for your letters. You are the
best parents in the world. I am really bad with money.
I promise that I will improve.

Oh, we had a baptism this week of a teenager who
didnt want to get baptized with his family a few years
ago.

Elder Hill

Baptism number 20 for Christopher and a beautiful & Glowing Isabella (finally!!!)  Makes this Mom happy!  I have never seen Isabella look more beautiful and my son standing taller and so happy!  Heavenly Father has definitely heard and answered this Mom's prayers and I am so grateful!

  Until next Monday....

A very Happy Birthday!!!

We received two emails from Chris today with photos and music.  We have not heard from the beautiful girl today.  I have a sneaking suspicion she was probably transferred and so maybe we will hear from her tomorrow or the next day!

Christopher's First Email

Queridos Padres,

Os doy las gracias por haberme mandado la pelicula en que
me entonaron Feliz Cumpleaños. Muchisimas gracias. En
este correo electronico, os mando la grabada de mi tocando
el espiritu de Dios, dos fotos de un bautismo que tuvimos el
sabado y algunos de mi fiesta el domingo. Los miembros
de la rama me aman mucho y me han dado mucho realmente.
Espero, mama, que aprendas a hablar en español. Hay que
hacerlo ya. La mañana no espera a la noche; solo viene cuando
venga.

Con amor,
Elder Hill

Dad's translation:

Dear Parents,

I give you thanks for having sent me the movie in which you sang Happy Birthday!  Many many thanks!  In this email I send the recording of me playing "The Spirit of God Like A Fire Is Burning", photos of a baptism we had Saturday and some of my party.  The members of the branch love me much and have given me much!  I hope, Mama that you learn to speak Spanish. Now is the time to learn.  The morning doesn't wait for the night; it comes when it may come.

With love

Elder Hill

Christopher's Second Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

I hope that you know that I had a really, really wonderful

birthday. I think I was sang to, like, 5 times. I was given
a pair of new expensive shoes, a souvenier keychain
made of wood that says HONDURAS. The 17th, we
had the best baptism of my mission, a sister who is named
Damaris. She has had a powerful conversion. The 18th
in church, after the meetings, I saw young man named
Cesar, who I have taught for 6 months here. We have
invited him and his sister to get baptized many times.
This Sunday was his first Sunday in church in a very long
time, the first since I have been here. I had a strong impression
to show him the baptismal font, and long story short.
I showed it to him and asked him to get baptized. He began
to cry and said that he was thinking about getting baptized
during the class. He will be my 20th baptism, and if his
sister gets baptized that willl be terrific. We are also hoping
to baptize a family of 5 this coming week. The dad has been

attending church for one month and this weekend he didnt
go drinking with his friends. My joy is full!

In the night time, I was truly blessed. One of my converts
and her sister made for me tres leches, which was really
really good. I also had received another invitation by a
family that I love a lot. We have had lots of special moments
together. We gave a blessing to the grandmother of the
family once and the spirit was so strong that I could stop
crying. I was overwhelmed for 15 or 20 minutes. The doctors
said that she was going to die because she broke her hip in a fall,
and we gave her a priesthood blessing in the hospital. She is
healing incredibly quick.


We went to this house, and they made us dinner with a cooked
wild hen from their house, potato salad and really, really delicious
rice. Hermana Kaylin made me a cake too. They sang to me
and at the end they sang,"mordida! mordida!" Which means to
bite. But... I didnt want to, but I did it and my companion pushed
my face into the cake.

I hope that you like all of the pictures, and no, I havent received
your package. This truly was the best birthday ever. I wish I could
always be in the mission work. We need to do better.

I wanted to share with you something. I learned in my study with
my companion that the book of Mormon is the proof that Jesus is
the Christ. Really, the bible isnt proof. It is just a witnees, but like
it says in Corinithians, by the word of two or three witnesses I will
reveal my will. The book of mormon testifies to the jews and all
of the the other religions that Jesus is the Christ. I hope that you
can all understand that. If the book of mormon is true, it means
that this is his church and that He is the savior of all. I want you
all to remember how important the book of mormon is.

WIth lots of love,
Elder Hill

HAPPY 24th BIRTHDAY!!!  Love you, Son!!!

Peace!!! & A Happy Birthday!

Isabella's Letter
what can i do i really dont know how to get along with the bishop and i still dont know the transfers bc the president was out of town so we get told today if i go somewhere new but i feel so frustrated to still have a crummy relationship with him and his family that makes up most of the wards leadership. his wife said sister speak with love which i feel i do, i told him to read 2 nefi 9 40. afterwards im not sure it was the best thing to do bc of his reaction. but i keep reading to myself alma 7 23 and 24 i really want to be like jesus and my pride gets in the way darn pride! i love cala cala, the meek and ¨weak¨ of the ward the ones that some leave to the side they are the best they make me laugh we serve one another we are like our own little zion. i wonder if i get to train and stay here or if they ship me off. leaving investigators thats the hard part even if they are little stubborn... you learn to love them so much you nurture them, feed them go to bed thinking of them you pray for them in your heart throughout the day you fast for them your heart breaks when they dont progress or when they feel the gospel is true but run in the other direction. danielita made a necklace others made me dinner one made me cry he said im going to talk to the president. so hard if they do ship me off so hard if i stay, but what ever the Lords will is, i know its going to be for the best of me, the ward, the bishop, the investigators and my companion. his will is perfect and magnificent. so i will be letting you know que pasa.


hna florido

ps i really need liquid for my lenses and chris i wrote you hopefully it gets there on you birthday.


Christopher's Letter


Dear Mom and Dad,
I have had a very good week. When I thought we weren't doing so well with our goals and numbers, I was surprised that we were carrying along just fine. We didn't have any baptisms this week, but I am happy to report that this week, we will have one baptism of a Sister who is quite converted to the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. She, this week, had a dream in which she was pleading with God if this was the true church. To which she beheld a bright, blinding light like the sun in the sky and suddenly woke up with a strong feeling in her chest. I asked her the day before she had the dream, "Sister, do you believe that this is the true church of Jesus Christ?" To which she responded,"Well... I'm not really sure." The day after her dream, I repeated to her the same question. "Yes, I know this is the true church," she replied. Ha! I love this job.

More and more, I'm becoming an old man here. Haha. I can feel changes that I have never felt before. And all of the sudden, I really dislike bananas. From one day to the other, I have lost all enjoyment of eating a banana. Of which, there exist more than 10 or 20 varieties of bananas. In the last week, I have eaten so much more meat than I have consumed in my entire mission! Haha. I love eating everything that there is to eat, but my body says to me that it wants vegetables. Greens. Grasses. Spring water. 'sigh'

My companion is really funny and tries to sell me everything he has. His ipod, his shoes, his electric razor, and his watch. Haha. It makes me laugh.

I want to thank you for all that you have done. The mission has really saved my life. I would have been a fowl, irresponsable creature if I had never lived and suffered the life of a missionary. From my youth, I was blessed to recognize the spirit, but the discipline is something that I have always lacked. In school. In diet. In the arts. I never completed anything. I think for that same reason, I am going to have to fight with all my heart to baptize a big family.

I, too, Dad, have wanted to go to the temple and do sessions in Spanish. I am really glad that you went. I hope that you both are taking care of your health. I pray for your both always, especially in this aspect. I wish to know you with all my heart.

I love you so much.

With love,
Elder Hill

It is Elder Hill's 24th birthday on Sunday (the last birthday I must endure without him too!) Happy Birthday Chrissy Bear!!! I love you and miss you son!

Speaking From The Heart and the Road Home!!!

ISABELLA'S LETTER
Straight Forward and From The Heart!

well i cant send pictures this time becuase my memery card reader was
a bit warped from the heat of sending it from utah to bolivia so it
finally broke. but i will send pictures next week promise. its not
this week its next sunday when i find out when i leave i lost track of
the weeks,the bishops thinks we are the only ones responsible for the
success of misionary work. i gave examples of temporal our district
leaders ward where they baptize so much because they have the bishops
full support and the members refrences and the ward misionary plan we
prepared is great it would work, the bishop really liked it but it was
announced for all of the members to hear it and only 18 people went
and we were expecting the leaders to go, only one went. we asked him
what his plan was what he suggested and he simply said its good. in 4
weeks we will announce it to the ward during sacrament meeting. what
even more discuraging is that when someone misses church he asks us if
we know why, and we usually do know why they missed. i feel very
overhelmed i feel like we are in charge of everything. finding
investigators, picking them up making them feel welcomed protecting
them from some of the bad habbits that some ward members have,
retaining them when they do get baptised and making sure that are
befriended. i will give you this we were to prepare the missionary
plan, it took us 4 hours then we needed to prepare the refreshment.
our ward mission leader is trying his best but this is all very new to
him he went to buy everything and make 50 photocopies, and we were to
present it to the ward. the bishop just showed up and then complained
that we should have had a meeting just with the leaders first. and i
said well why bishop if every member is a missionary not just the
leaders. to say the least this week was hard, gruling and stressful.
and too top it off an elder gave me the feed back during a practice
that i was too straight forward. which made me feel bad because he
added that maybe i was scarying investigators away. to which i just
responded braking the law of chasity is a serious sin and the
investigator cant guess it he needs to fully know it. but there was a
huge blessing for me this week, in every lesson, every person we
taught said you really understand me, or i feel what you are saying is
true or the one i most liked you reached my heart. and then the same
elder confessed that while teaching a refrence we gave him about the
law of chasity she said to him elder get to the point, im not supposed
to have sex if im not married right? well then just say that. really
it feels like i have been here forever. i looked at my companion and
said if the president leaves me here again i will call him and say
pray again of course i was just joking but my companion bust out
laughing and said maybe they will white wash this place and we stayed
up late last night imagining what the ward would say if one sunday we
just didnt show up one sunday and sent elders to say the president
prayed over the area you are left alone to carry on with all of the
missionary work... later! and we laughed and giggled and said well we
are here because the Lord needs us here and said goodnight and dream
of fleeing both my compi and i dreamt of flying or traveling far far
far away. my mother han crossley wrote me and reminded me that about a
year ago she picked me up to train me. i had great times there in san
jose. i miss rogelio and mabel and griselda and hna muniz and everyone
else in that ward.
well goodbye have to go
hna florido

CHRISTOPHER'S LETTER
The Road Home

I am so happy.  I can feel a great joy in my heart.  I can feel the great change
of heart that Alma talks about in Alma 5.  I am so far from perfect, but right now
I can feel the spirit.  I really liked that quote by Elder Ballard.  It is like the saying
that says the truth will set you free.  I like that.  It is beautiful and it feels just to me.

We have to wait to baptize the family.  They didnt come to church this week, but
I know that they will get baptized.  There are lots of challenges, but I think that I
am beginning to have the faith that I need to begin to baptize families. 

I didnt tell you, but I love you, Mom, Dad, Isabel, Grandma, Grandpa.  I love you
all so much.  I hope that you can search for the change that God desires of every
one of us.  A Bob Dylan song says that a man not busy being born is busy dying. 
I agree.  I know that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ, that the Book of Mormon
is true, that God communicates with a Prophet on earth and that angels (celestial
beings) come to teach the gospel.

My new companion is Elder Paz (peace) from Guatemala.   He is a really, really amazing teacher and I have learned a lot in 5 days.  He has 18 months in the mission and is really great.  I will send you a picture of him next week. 


I hope that you are all well.  I feel like I dont know you or like for all of my life
I was sleeping and now I am just waking from a bad dream.  The Gospel of
Jesus Christ really does change people...  I am grateful.  I need to save some
photos to my camera, but I want you to know that I love you so, very, very
much.  And I look forward to getting to know with a sane mind and a pure heart
that the Lord has blessed me with in the mission.

With lots of love,
Elder Hill

The Short and Long of It!

Isabella's Letter

well i couldnt hear chris playing the piano:( but hopfully next time with more time i will im sure its the best. Jonathan Feliz Cumpleaños!!  what did you do? i only have two mins im doing well im healthy now im pretty sure im leaving cala cala this following week and everyone is teasing me that im going to potosi we will see im glad that everyone is doing well.
take care
hna florido

Christopher's Letter

I hope that in this week... if you could focus on anything it would be the restauracion of the true church.  I feel like that we need to always be inviting.  It is difficult for me to share the gospel with people from home because I´m here.  I wish that when we get home that we help so many people come to Christ.  That people will know that this is the only true church over the face of the earth.  I thank God that this church is true.  That it´s real.  That it IS.  The truth is the truth.  Thank you so much for your help to come here on a mission.  I promise that I have felt the holy ghost since I was little and knew from those experiences that God was real.  I just never knew how to overcome my problems.  I was prideful and scared.  I will enter the next life with an assurance of where I will go.  And how wonderful it is that I´ll be greated by family.

This week we had 1.5 families in church, 5 people in total.  I live to see families in church and getting baptized. 

In other news, I´m making flax crackers at home!  Haha.  And making veggie sandwiches with them.  My companion likes them a lot.  We´ve also been making cereal with sesame seeds, "alpiste", flax, cacao, honey and cinnamon.  It´s SO good.  Wow. 

If you want to make something at home that we eat here pretty often, you need to buy a bunch of small corn tortillas from a mexican market and really soft cheese similar to mozzerella.  Quesillo o queso fresco quizá.  And you make a sandwich with two tortillas and the cheese and then you toast them in a pan until the tortillas are crispy and the cheesy melted.  It´s like a quesadilla (quesadillas here are corn cookies made from corn, pure sugar cane juice, cinnamon and cheese).  And then you need to make a salsa of tomatoes, onions, cilantro, cumin, salt, pepper, chopped cucumber if you want.  And then you eat the tortillas with this salsa, which is called:"chismol."   This is called Tortillas con Quesillo y Chismol.     I´ve also made it with different spices, like basil and orégano and it tastes like bruccetta or pizza.  It´s delicious.  Yum.

Changes are Wednesday and I am staying in Siguatepeque another 7 weeks.  Yay!  I love Siguatepeque and I have a feeling that we´re going to work miracles this month.  I´m really excited. But!  My companion who I trained is leaving and I have NO idea who´s coming.  I have a feeling they´re from the states, but I´ll have to tell you next week.  Elder Arévalo has really blossomed and grown much in 3 months.  It´s so weird how fast time is passing.  Truly I´ll be home in no time at all and have to work and study and get married and wow.   The best is yet to come.  But I plan to always stay weird.  Stay very missionary-like.

This week I played in sacrament The Spirit of God, which was SO fun.  Whoa.  I love playing the piano.  It´s the best.  I actually like playing it more than the guitar.  I want to learn how to play the violin, too, and the trumpet.

I know that this church is true.  I know that Joseph Smith was called of God and that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet.  I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that the other words that were brought to light by Jospeh Smith are true.  I know that the we lived before we were born here and that we will live after.  I know that I will have an eternal family.  I share this with you in the name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

....

Amor, don´t forget that I love you.  I will always love you and
we will always be in love.  You are the light and love of my life.
If it weren´t for you, I wouldn´t be here. And if it wasn´t for God,
we wouldn´t be here.  That we might always be bathed in the light
of His love...  I love you more than you know.  I´m not the man that
proposed to you.  I´m so much more.  I know that this church is
true and we will be together forever.  I have a testimonio of the
atonement of Christ. I know that the book of mormon is true and
that Joseph Smith is a prophet, love.  And I love the work of God.
I love that we knew each other before, and will show God through
signs and promises that we´ll keep his commandments so that
we can have joy in the promises that we made before the world
was.  I promise to you that I will take care of you and sacrifice
everything for our family.  I´m sorry if you feel awkward because
I express myself openly, but this is so important to me.  We are
so important to me.  Our family is so important to me.

I love you so much... And I can finally be at peace knowing that
I can communicate with your family.  How beautiful.

11 meses hasta nuestra propia familia eterna.  hasta ver... en el templo.

General Authority Visits, Temple Visits, & Baptisms....not to mention a little piano playing and singing!!!

Hello everyone!  Forgive me for my delay in posting this last Monday.  My return to my work or school sort of kicked my butt!!! But I am in recovery mode now...or at least until Monday!!!  Here are last Monday's letters, photos, and hopefully I can figure out how to post Chris' music too!

Isabella's Letter

i know last week i said elder nielson would come but thats because i made a mistake bc everyone here mostly knows of elder nielson more. and he came on friday night and one sister tried to cut in line but i said with a smile sister hurry to the back of the line before the line grows and she got upset later inside she said well the elders let me cut bc they are not like you! i said im glad you got in. but wondered if it was fair for the people they jumped ahead of. the line had been huge for hours and i didnt feel it was fair to let people cut in line. that night i was late too and so we sat in class room and saw him on a screen not live but it was so great to see an apostle of Christ bearing testimony of him. and he was so relaxed and even a bit goofy he noticed that on the stand the stake presidents werent sitting by their wives and had them stand up and rearranged their sitting order so that they could sit by their wives. he served in france and lived in brazil so his accent was pretty fantastic to listen to. he bore testimony of the veracity of this work and asked us to endure to the end to really let our faith shine when trials come and not let it shrival. the funny thing is that all the less actives we had invited didnt show up and therefore missed this invitation from the apostle. and my investigators also didnt show up but two, and not the two we were hoping. Rodrigo who is married to a member who had been less active whose little daughter we teach the lessons came and he cried. and Edwin who is engaged to a member he just thought it was interesting how many people came. so funny how different views come from seeing and hearing the same man based on the person. also elder anderson came to a special meeting with just the missionaries and we were able to shake his hand and see him eye to eye. all missionaries were there i got a package from some friends from sucre and an old investigator she told me that viejita antonia has been diagnosed with cancer and i have a promise to keep that i will take her to the temple and now im praying that all will turn out well in His infinate wisdom. and i wasnt expecting this at all but i was asked to translate for his wife when she gave her message which was about how sometimes missionaries have support from home and some dont at all but everywhere in the world we are the most prayed for people and she related that when in the last conference prophet monson asked us all to donate to the general missionary fund her 10 year old grandchild named micheal donated 10 dollars and she said that she knew how strapped of money her daughter and son in law are since her son in law is putting himself through medical school with 6 kids and she know how much money micheal has and how those 10 dollars are a huge chunk of his savings and gave it for us missionaries because a prophet of God asked him to. i want to have that kind of faith. i confessed to the investigator i promised a home made pie in his bran new stove if he came to church that i had asked my mission president to stay in the area just because i wanted to see his baptism and had faith that he would come and how now i only had 3 weeks left probably in the area and how he hadnt come once and it made me very sad. he promised that he would come next week and i said i would be so sad if you came only for me please come with the faith in your heart that you are keeping a commandment of God. do it because you love Him! i prayed with all i have that Bryan and Christian would come and they chose not to. but what can i do but bear my testimony. i asked bryan if he wanted to know if Christ came to the americas if the book of mormon is true he said i do i said well how would you quantify that desire a lot a little or not at all he said alot! and i said with so much sorrow in my heart they why is you book dusty? why havent you read it... and i added bryan i can bet you havend even prayed this week bc if you would have you would have been prompted to read this sacred book. he shook his head stating i was right. if we all had faith to act like sister andersons grandchild, who is 10 it would impact greatly the mission field. then i translated sister wadels message (wife of general authority elder wadel of the 70) and then when when apostle anderson spoke in spanish i translted it to the sisters in english it was neat to be used as a tool in the Lords hands to help other understand important messages that were without a doubt guided by the spirit. i might want to do that for a career in the future. last week i had been thinking so much about revelation and the spirit and thats what the apostle spoke about. he said that when he was a missionary he felt that his mission was a lot of work and that he felt that he didnt feel the spirit like other were able to but throughout his life he learned how to interpret and listen to the gentle whispers of the Holy Ghost i feel that im learning the same. fridaynight some were able to shake the hands of the general authorities as you can imagine this was tried to be done quickly and on sunday elder wadel said that whe this was happening on firday a young man asked very seriously what is the purpose of life he said his mind raced what do i answer but of course his mouth was filled and said to the young man to return to our heavenly father. he reiterated that this short time here in mortality or life is to behave and stay the course shown by Christ himself and make it back to the Lord he shared many things and now i only have 5 mins left but he said how when God our father kissed us goodbye he knew the journey of life would be hard but would be possible and he gave us tools to navigate through this life and some of those were stories of journeys like that of lehi and his family through the desert, or noah and his journey by ark and moses and his journey in the wilderness and there are many more examples he mentioned so many scriptures that i will have to share next week but 4 other tools for you to meditate are the temple, prayer, scripture study, and the Holy Spirit. im glad that are all well and i will share next week. love hna florido

Isabella's Letter in the title also references John 4:35 - 38 and 43

Christopher's Letter, Photo, and Music


This week was the best week of my mission, I think. Thursday, we had a zone conference with a general authority 70, which was really edifying. We learned about planning and making goals. Saturday, we had a baptism of a sister named Oneda that has received the missionaries for at least a year. All of her family are members and now she is. Yay!

Sunday, in the morning, we didn´t have meetings, so we studied and then visited the family Mejia Martinez. And they exitingly commited to getting baptized the 10th of September! Yay! A family of five is going to get baptized. Yay!!! I´ve been praying for that for a really long time. Haha. This family has received the missionaries for 3 years the Bishop told me. Wow.

Later in the afternoon, we went to the dedication of the temple in El Salvador. Presidente Eyring presided and Elder D. Todd Christofferson directed the meeting. It was incredibly powerful and I don´t think that it can be described in words how the spirit was present. It was a power that churns wonder into knowledge like cream into cold solid butter. (That´s why when someone receives the holy ghost it´s called confirmation.)

I love you all very much. The field is white and ready to harvest.  And I wish never had to leave. This week I complete 13 months. Time is ticking, and I love you all.



Baptism of Hermana Oneda

 The Boy playing and Singing Devina Luz!!! If you don't cry that is okay because I have cried enough for all of you!!!  Get tissues just in case!

Dreams! What do they mean?

IsAbElLa's LeTtEr

Chris in english the hymn is lead kindly light its beautiful but very different in both languanges. i love the pictures that you have sent. there has been a recurring dream i´ve had were i am in provo its winter but the season is changing and the snow is becoming slushy and im in a ward were the young women dont get along ´with one particular girl who i seem to be friends with but whom i´ve never seen and their is a wonderful family a bald dad and a burnet mom who is very thin and like 6 kids who all have disabilities... have no idea what it means or why i keep having it. revelation is something that i keep pondering its intrigued me all of my life and in my mish i keep having enlightenment and difficulties understanding the nature of it. its something so vast and so simple. faith and guidance from the spirit is something i want to perfect. and something i want to teach to my investigators with perfection. its funny but many times i pray that a someone might have the gift of tongues or that he or she might have their mouth filled and it happens but then i will pray for my investigator to come to church and he calls and says he cant that week faith and revelation is so elusive and depends on so many variant components... are the people you are hoping will reach an answer wanting their answer?  i have prayed that chris´s heart would be touched by my words and that my words would be placed in my mouth by angels and it happened, i prayed that jonathan might have an understanding of his importance in the mission field that he might have a desire to go and so far it seems my lil bro has reached that understanding in his heart from the Spirit. I have prayed that crystal may reach a communion with God that would impulse her to see her potential as a daughter of God to understand why she came to earth and why Christ payed for her sins like he did for mine what that means for her. but i dont know if its happened i prayed bryan my investigator who is 20 whom i´ve come to love like a brother might understand that their is only one true chruch that Christ established but is still hasnt given fruit. but we need to look stead fast in the fruit of our faith or else it wont happen this 19th when elder nielson is coming i hope that he might receive revelation. i hope i might learn how to receive and give revelation because i have come to understand this. the reason that Christ´s faith was such that he could walk over water and heal the sick and turn water into wine was because he understood how faith as a tool worked. like if i have a camera but dont read the instructions and dont understand how it works then my pictures are probably going to turn out alright but never quite to the cameras full potential. when we are learning and treasuring the words of Christ we come to a knowledge, when we practice it we come to an understanding and that understand leads us to a powerful faith that cant do great things.   
transfers are coming soon 3 weeks i have told my companion that i was concerned that she hasnt learned well enough how to lead how to have an opinion and how to speak with confidence. things that are harsh sounding, but everytime i see my greenie i think what is the lord telling me i need to learn and i think what does the lord want me to teach her and with hna mamani i knew when i saw her she needs to learn how to defend her opinions and to lead. and so we had this heart to heart and she was sad and i said we need to work on it so how about you pray that the lord will help us with this. she said okay the next day i was ill and we had people to take to church and missionary work still had to happened and i prayed lord please make me whole and i felt that i needed to stay home and she needed to go and deal with everything by herself so we found sisters to go with her and to stay with me and i can say as a pround trainer or mother that she did well and i complimented her and she said i know i didnt think i could do it but i pretended to be you and i didnt make any mistakes which made her feel good and confident in her self and i also feel i will leave cala cala now i have this reacquiring experience in life i speak and people get so offended by what i say but i felt i needed to say it thats hard or where i feel like i come to a ward that is missing everything and im frustrated until i just accept that im planting for others to reap and i teach the ward mision leader what his job is or what the society president is supposed to do and then i leave when everything is good im sure we have all felt like that. and well i feel that i have done good in cala cala and hopefully i go back to sucre or tarija or why not even potosi.
well good bye take care love you all


ChRiStOpHeR's LeTtEr

I had a dream this morning.  I returned to Utah, but no one
knew that I was coming home.  No one.  I entered into
Harmon´s, but it was really bright and the colors had changed
but generally it was organized the same. I saw you mom and
later you dad.  And I heard your voices and laughed and cried
and all of the sudden, I was outside of the gas station in front
of where Denny´s usted to be.  I had a black volkswagon bug
and was with my companion that I couldn´t see who it was.
We were filling up gas to go to the airport in salt lake and then
my dream changed again.  I was in some factory, with my
companion again, and some white woman was showing me
seeds of corn.  And in this barely lit room where we were talking, there
were large wooden crates.  Sitting above one on an oval, white plate
I saw the most beautiful purple, like the mixture of cream and grapes,
 corn cob that had dried slightly that was shown very clearly and
almost elegantly in what seemed like moonlight.  And I asked if
there were anymore that I could buy, and she said, No, I´m sorry.
There´s not anymore.  And I saw that some of the corn kernels fell from
the plate to the floor and once again, I had to leave the dream.

I really enjoyed the dream.  I don´t know what it means, but
it was nice.

I really love you all.  I miss you and yet I don´t.  Some part of me 
wishes to just stay here all the time.  I wish that I could serve
the mission in other parts of the world.  I wish I could also baptize
a whole family that stayed in the church forever.  That would be
worth everything.  Everything.

I´m glad that you are reading Doctrine and Covenants.  I´m in 
chapter 5.  

This week was hard.  We prepared a baptism and NO ONE came.
And there was´t power in the church.  We didn´t have the baptism
and the woman is sad and doubting her baptism a little.

Today we´re going to make chicken soup... and I baught three
chickens... live...  I don´t really want to kill them, but... it´s for
a good cause!  

Oh!  Yes, I got my card.  Thank you so much.  Will you pay 
my tithing from my account and give $150 to Bishop Crossley?
He knows what it´s for.  That´s all.

Thank you for everything.  I love you all.