Hola familia de mio,
Yes, I thought for a second to just email a short email because I have to
admitt, i am a little jelous that you´re all in LJ, and i´m not. but it´s all
good. Really, if you´re gonna be in a place, nowhere better than LJ,
right??
This week was good! Seemed super fast and short because our p-day was last
tuesday, but here i am again, starting the LAST week of this change. Honestly,
where does time go? I can´t even believe it!!
We were able to teach Alejandra this week, her husband was at work, but
honestly, she has the desire to know, full of preguntas, she didn´t come to
church which was kinda a bummer, but this week I know she will. it´ll be SO good
if she comes because she´ll feel something different. She told us that she wants
her kids to have an understanding of God, but doesn´t really know how to go
about teaching them...helllo, primary! ha! I just am praying that she´ll
continue to progress, she is reading and had lots of question sobre oracion so
that´s good. When people have questions, they have interest and that´s all we
can ask for!
Camila and Millaray... haven´t seen them this week, everytime we have a
cita, it falls through and they´re sick, the baby is sick, not home, algo asi,
but it´s just keep working with them, might be a slower process, but hey, as
long as they can accept it, it´s all good! I think because they had fechas and
just didn´t show up to their baptism they have embarrasment/verguenza, but it´s
ok! I just want them to understand and really feel the Spirit and the affect
that it can have on their lives! Camila is 24(has a child) and Millaray is her
younger sister that has 10 years!
Tania--- es nuevo! There is a familia en la barrio that is super great.
active and all, they have 4 sons, and one of their sons has been menos activa
for sometime... but he started coming to church and he brought his GF, tania,
she´s been to church 4 times already and at first DID NOT TALK, seriously, it
was like pulling teeth, but the past couple weeks shes been way more talkative
to us, and she took our her nose ring, no body told her to, honestly, she just
looks different than the first day i met her, but this past week we were able to
teach her a little, and this week we have a FHE with her boyfriends family to
teach her. I really think she is gonna accept, with time maybe p/q su familia es
evangelica, but i can already see something different in her so it´s just time!
I´m excited for her though!
This week we were walking in a street and there was this group of 4 girls
17 years old (Paige, KG, Q, and Me) ha! but anywho, I felt like we needed to
talk to them, entonces, fuimos and we started talking to them, turns out, two
are members, one menos activa and the other active, we asked if we could share
something with them, and the active one was like... YES, PLEASE! so cute, so we
shared with them. it was really cool because two of their friends are members
and were able to talk openly about the church with us and them. Only one lives
in our area, the menos activa, but we got the addresses to the other girls and
the menos activa, Daphine, came to church! we have a cita to visit her and her
mom viernes. yay!
Mom, I got the dear elder about Sam Kastigar, not sure if you got am email
i sent, but she is the trainer of Hna. Ahlmann from the MTC in Argentina! Small
world because Hna. Ahlmann and hna Riggs are besties and Sam Kastigar is
training Hna Ahlmann. Crazy! So cool though Heather San Diego is serving as
well. Happy for her! She´ll be great. I love that so many hermanas are serving!
it´s so great. When we all get back we´ll have so much to talk about!
Hna Tamayo and her health are not that great. I just have to be patient
with it though, I really think she has a parasite, but hopefully this week we´ll
go to the doctor. She is still working, its not like we can´t leave the pension,
but it´s effecting her strength to work, but she is trying to improve and
honestly, our relationship is not being effected by it, so thats good. I really
feel bad for her, sometimes she just feels like she´s going to vomit while
walking in the street. no bueno. Is it bad I am kinda excited to go to the
doctor, I just want to see how the doctors are here in Chile... ha! I´m sure
it´s fine, just curious. pray for her though that she can feel better!
Robbie, mission advise... if you´re ever a district leader or anything with
a leadership position and a Hermana calls and asks for a blessing, just do it!
We called our DL on Saturday because she felt super mal en la mañana and he was
like... well, i can, but call your bishop first and see, which is fine, but she
would have felt more comfortable with him, and he only lives like 15 minutes
away, not too far. it was just kinda weird. she ended up getting a blessing from
a ward member, but would have liked it better with him. just advice for you. but
obey the mission rules, maybe they have different ones. who knows!
we met some guy on the street this week, named Marco (we think) he was a
little drunk, he is around our age and invited us to come to his Party that
night and drink some Pisco Sours with him and his friends, we told him that we
couldn´t and he goes... ¨para ser misioneras, ustedes son lindas!¨ (for being
missionaries, you´re pretty) ha! So funny. WE have his address so maybe one day
we´ll pass by and try to get him converted!
oh my word.... in RS, every week they do a music practice, to learn hymns
that they don´t know. I think in Chile, they only know about 15 hymns in total
because we´re ALWAYS singing the same ones.. and the ones that are SO long and
slow. I don´t get it. but anywho, in RS they do this practice and the lady who
is teaching is teaching the hymns wrong. I want so badly to be like... ¨perdon,
puedo enseñar? But hna. Tamayo and I just laugh with eachother and accept it.
mom and robs, i think of you often and think... they would DIE if they were
here. it´s really bad.
My knee has been kinda weird these past few weeks, I keep thinking, ugh,
not gonna say anything because it´ll go away. but i think maybe just cause it´s
cold here. But it´s all good. my ACL isn´t torn, i can tell that. no worries,
just kinda weird. occasionally it´ll swell up a bit, but i´m doing my exercises
to help it, so we´ll see.
Last week in our district meeting we had to make up word to a hymn to give
our district animo for the work! We chose a Christmas song (Christmas in July
anyone??) but it wasn´t all that creative so we made up dance moves to it and
sang it in our meeting, the elders were laughing SO hard. it was hilarious. oh
the funny things on the mission...
mom, you asked about the dogs. Yes, they were running at us, trrying to
bite us, and yes i through a rock and then turned and walked as calmly as
possible in the opposite direction. (it was a brisk walk) Luckly, I haven´t seen
those dogs since.
Transfers are next week... who knows what´ll happen! I think I´m staying,
but sometimes I feel like I could be leaving as well. It´s hard to know because
the new president, no one knows how he likes to do transfers! I´m game for
whatever, he knows best and i´d be sad to leave, but also excited to see
something new, so who knows. I´ll know next monday though! can´t believe it´s
that time again already! SO FAST.
Robbie... you should visit my old work, and go visit Steve. Just to tell
him that I say hello and told you to come visit him! Give him my blog address...
how is my blog mom? It´d be fun for you i think... plus help me keep my job for
when i return! it´s in the Health and Wellness center on 900 E and 1600 N...
something like that... google it.
Also, next week, can you send me the recipe to my no bakes.... they are
better than anyone elses... i don´t know why! more PB maybe or maybe it´s just
the LOVE!
Well, as jealous as I am of ustedes, I am really happy here in Viña, while
typing this letter I just kept thinking, the mission is pretty sweet. Obviously
there are times of hardship, but mostly it´s all good and the good things
totally wash out the hard times. This change we really haven´t had much success,
no one progressing, but we´ve always seen miracles, even the little things. That
is from God, I know it. He is kind. When we are working hard we can always
recognize the little things as miracles. This Church is true. The Book of Mormon
is true. This week I have been reading in 3 Nefi and just can´t get enough, I´m
getting close to finishing and i´m sad to finish, but know it´s always there to
just start over from the beginiing and strengthen my testimony even more. Jesus
Christ lives, He is our Savior. He suffered for us so that we can live with him
and with our families para siempre. I cannot wait for the day to give my thanks
and a nice hug, but for now all we can do is follow Him and try to become more
like him daily.
Well Family, I love you all. This is your homework this week: ride a wave
for me, eat some Jeffs Ice Cream and a BLT from the Cheese Shop, go running (oh
I MISS RUNNING), and laugh lots!
Thanks for everything! Know that I always am praying for each and everyone
of you and that I am happy!
Keep Smiling,
Hermana Sargent
state pride
dad will understand if no one else does...
i thought it was funny! someone can translate it there!
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