Dear Mom, Dad, and Kami!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I can´t believe that you are twenty!!! Do you feel old? Or do you feel like I did? Relieved to no longer be a teenager! Haha. I still remember when you were a baby and you bit me really hard. And you were teething so it isn´t like you were just gumming me. Some people would say that that is sweet, something cute that a baby would do, but I say it was EVIL! And after you bit me, I hit you (the natural response for a three year old), and I got in trouble and you got off scott free. The first of many such occasions. Haha. I´m just kidding. But I do remember that. And as much as you want to say that you remember that, you were only a couple of months old. You only remember the story.
But that is okay. ¨Cause I love you! I am so happy that you are my sister! I am also really excited that you are preparing to go on your mission! I know that you are going to do such a great job, and that even though you are a little bit bummed that you have to wait a little bit to go, all of the things that you are doing, believe it or not, are helping to prepare you to serve your mission. Enjoy the time while you have it, and focus on the things that matter most. You are going to be one of the worlds greatest missionaries, so go ahead and use this time to your advantage. Study hard and well, both the scriptures, preach my gospel (I wish I had used this resource more before my mission), and in school. All of these things will be to your benefit.
This week was pretty good. Hermana McWhorter and I continue to do well. We have a couple of tense moments, but I think it is because we are both so similar. We both tend to feel guilt a little too easily, but we feel it about different things. I hope that I can help her to feel more adequate about her abilities as a missionary, she really is great. Truly a superior missionary. I hope that I can help her feel that.
I will let you know about the Christmas packages. I am sure that they will get here in time. We will get tranfers this week, and I am fairly certain that I will be staying in SAO for at least one more transfer. We got a letter from Presidente last week that said that there is a new norm being set that we will be in our areas for six to nine months. So if I am here for nine months I will be here untill march mas o menos. I choose not to think about that right not. I think I will be leaving in January or February. I can´t really imagine more time. I love it here, I really do, but March just seems impossibly far away.
Belén y Ludmila will be getting baptized this week!!!!!!! We are so excited! The first picture that I sent today is the Flia Brai! They have become our little world. Seriously. I love this family. We are there almost everyday, and they are progressing so well! They went from a family that was very hesitant to be going to church, or having the missionaries in their home, to a family that has strong desires to go to church, feel sad if we aren´t there for at least a few minutes a day, and are reading the scriptures as a family. I am so excited for their baptism. It is going to be such a boost for the whole branch.
Yesterday we had 33 people in church, which isn´t quite as much as last week, but still a good 10 people more than normal in the time that I have been here, so that is really exciting.
The miracle of the week!! Drum roll please!!!!! Miguel is back in our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hermana Salas and I started teaching him, and he was progressing so well, but when it came down to it, he said he didn´t feel ready to get baptized. We did EVERYTHING we could think of to help him feel ready, but he kept saying that he just wanted more time in the church. Ugh! And then when Hermana McWhorter became my companion, we taught him one or two lesson, and he was just saying the same thing. So then came the time worst in a missionaries life. We had to tell him that we couln´t teach him for a while. It was SO depressing. He had everything, but he just didn´t feel comfortable picking a fecha to work towards. And then he stopped coming to church, and we felt extremely guilty. But, yesterday he came to church! And we asked if we could stop by and talk to him, and he said yes! So we went over, talked to him, and he is thinking about getting baptized next week! On December 2nd, his 20th birthday! (December 2nd also happens to be my nine month mark in the misson). Please, please please pray for him. It will be in the next couple of days that he makes his desicion, and we are praying like crazy that he will feel prompted to take the next step.
Please send my consolations to the Rollins, all of them. I was very sad to hear of Grandpa Rollins passing. I have very fond, and very dear memories of the Grandparents Rollins. I will keep them in my prayers, I have a great love for my Rollins family, both those of blood, and those of heart.
I´m sorry. You got to see Children of Eden? I don´t think that even counts in the realm of fair. You should add that to the list of movies to see, and we will find a theater that is playing it, and we will go. I love the music from Childen of Eden, did you like it? It is so pretty! And I enjoy the story line.
They do not celebrate Thanksgiving here in Argentina. Nor do we get a day off for that. Apparently in St George they get a day off for Thanksgiving. I had no idea. But to celebrate, we will be going to Bahia Blanca for Zone Conference. We leave Wednesday afternoon, and will return Thursday night, just in time for the baptisimal interview of Belen y Ludmila on Friday!
I do know who Justin Beiber is. We actually have quite a few investigators who are OBSESSED with him. Including the one who lives next door to us. We hear good old Justin on a daily basis. Apparently in the real world a lot of people like him now? Not just those of teenager age? Is that true?
Summer, I am sorry that you have to split your time between things next week. That is always rough. But I am sure that it will turn out! Just have patience (I know, easier said than done), and it will be okay. How is tumbling? How is dance?
Mom, thank you for your cheering words. You always manage to help me feel better. I love you! Thank you for the scriptures, even though you typed me the words, I will be looking them up tonight.
Okay, what kind of time difference are we looking at right now? With day lights savings I have no idea how many hours difference we are.
I pulled the money out of my account today. Thank you for doing that.
Dad, I hope that you are feeling better today. I hope that you aren´t working yourself too hard and that you get a little bit of down time to relax.
Kami, HAPPY BIRTHDAY again. I have sung to you a couple of times. Did you hear me? It is also the birthday of one of the members here. We are going to her house as soon as I log off internet.
Thank you for all that you are doing, and for all the prayers that you are offering. I love you!
Corinne
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