First
off.. happy birthday to the best mom in the whole world tomorrow! I wish that i
could be there to celebrate with you, but know that i´ll be thinking lots and
lots of you and that i love you more than you know! :)
and also, happy birthday to Ryder on Sunday! give him a big kiss for me :)
well, transfers came and i got transfered. I was very very surprised to say
the least. Sad too because i just felt lots for Agua Santa, loved the area, felt
like people were waiting for me, but i was there for a short while and enjoyed
it lots. I told the R.S. to pray that i´ll return one day! its great there. But
I am now in Limache, it´s the interior of Vina, about an hour away in micro.
It´s definitely more campo here. reminds me of Paraguay a little bit. I have
only had about half a day here... not even, but i love it already. It seems that
the people are more receptive, more humble, ect. My comp is Hna Gatica from
Santiago, Chile. She has one transfer LESS than i do. So we´re both new in this.
But honestly, i´m SO excited to work with her. She has the desire, the attitude
to work and i love that about her. She´s a convert of 3-4 years and has a solid
testimony! Talvez, no sabemos todo. but we´ll learn together. Also, Hna Riggs
lives in the same house as i do as well, so it´s WAY fun to be with her again :)
well, recap of the week with the investigators in Agua Santa.
Hna Parada was sick a little bit again (i think that´s why she stayed in
Viña, closer to medical, but one day, i knew that she could leave if it was just
for 2 hours because the pills she was talking were helping and she seemed just
fine. I asked her, Hna, can we leave for a couple hours, bring the pills and if
you don´t feel good, we´ll come back, she didn´t want to and i was talking that
we have citas and that these people are waiting for us and i started to cry.
Felt so dumb, i was just frustrated more than anything and wanted to work and
help people. We didn´t end up leaving that day, I think she felt bad because she
apoligized for not being able to do it, but we still got some work done this
week so that was good!
Ivana, went to mutual with us, and met the mujeres jovenes. She enjoyed it.
She´s so great. We taught her on saturday as well and really focused on church
attendance. She told us she didn´t want to go to church so we asked her why, she
said, she doesn´t want to go solo, we told her we´d pass for her, ect ect... but
she just didn´t want to go. I think it´s because NO ONE in her family asiste so
why would she? Her grandpa was there too and was just like, we can´t go! I
wanted to say.. YOU hermano can walk just fine, maybe not your wife but you can
take your granddaughter to church!! but i refrained and said it in a nicer way!
ha! I think with Ivanna it´ll take time, she understands and wants to learn, but
just time she needs.
Pedro came to church! oh, i was SO happy. we went to talk to the Bishop and
then entered in the Chapel and he was sitting there with his mom! My smile i
think was so huge. but my heart just felt so happy that he was there. As for his
drinking, still doing it, but for him to actually come to church and sober was
HUGE! oh, i hope he sobers up and really understands the importancia de the
gospel.
Elizabeth. i can´t get over how solid she is. She is a golden investigator.
We weren´t really sure if she´d come to chuch, and we walked outside to see if
we could see her walking and right at the moment she walked up the stairs. SHE
CAME! She stayed all 3 hours (which is also hard for chileans because they all
think they need to prepare lunch) and took notes the whole time, asked
questions, ect. Later that afternoon we taught her and she had lots of questions
about baptism for niños so we left her with Moroni 8 a leer and i know she´ll
read it. She is amazing. Understands everything, wants to learn, just needs to
accept a fecha.I think it´ll help to have more friends in the church too. lots
of mujeres su edad.
Omar- he didn´t come. that little stink. but i love that his wife is so
open about the gospel with him. We passed by to say chau to him and his wife was
saying, when they get sealed, they want to go to salt lake and that i´ll come to
their sellamiento. I´m gonna write him a letter and really really invite him to
read the book of mormom and be open to change. thats one thing i´ve learned here
on the mission. If people don´t want to change, they´ll never recieve their
answer. but if they have a heart open to change and recognize that they can be
happier, thats when the change happens. and it´s SO fome (lame but a little
stonger) because we can preach and teach but we can´t force them to do anything!
I just wish we could sometimes but everyone has their agency.
Here in Chile September is a huge party. 18 de septiembre is just a grand
festival and everyone is off of work and school and stuff. lots of Chilean flags
up this month, i love it. the typical dance, called Cueca (i think). It´s fun.
The ward here has a big party next monday and it´s good because it´s our pday so
we´ll go to that after studies and internet and todo! also this area, it´s only
one ward, but the area is so big that there are two sets of missionaries in
different parts! kinda interesting, but it´s fun because we have lunch together
and everything!
we had a noche de hogar last week and the little girl with the fam was
conducting. and she goes, ¨la primera oracion por... no las misioneras porque
siempre son largas, entonces..you lo hago¨ (la first prayer by... not the
missionaries because they´re always long, so i´ll say it) it was SO funny. it
was Laura, the pic i sent. her and lexi need to be penpals. Laura to practice
her english and lex to learn spanish. if you want to jac, get on my facebook and
can do it from there.. she added me, just have to accept her! ha!
Also, my new comp, like to run! oh, i am STOKED. and there is this little
park super close to our house and it has exercise equipment. it´ll be go great.
seriously to leave in the morning for exercise make all the difference in the
day!
This morning during studies we were talking about the difference between
the word Preach and Teach. To teach is just to talk, people can learn, but to
Preach is to put committments and really help them change. I thought it was
interesting that the word Preach is used so often in D&C and not teach, and
also Preach my Gospel, not Teach my Gospel. food for thought.
Well family, next week i´ll know more about the people here! I´m excited to
meet them all and start working with them. Right now there are 3 fechas and
we´re gonna put more! I love you all, think of you often and am so thankful for
this knowledge that we have of this gospel. It´s true.
Keep Smiling,
Hna. Sargent
hna parada and i en el micro
Laura en agua santa.. she was like my little Alexa!
this street had two different names... hard to find the house for sure!
Omar and his wife. i´ll miss them...
Hna Gatica and I
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