September 17, 2012

Hey Guys!

I was allowed just a little bit of time to write you a quick email! How great is that? First things first, HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLY!!!! I hope you have a great day. I got the sense in your last email that you were a little concerned about my last week, and how things were going to go. But I hope you all know that my last week of the mission was great! I had a good time, and surprisingly enough, there werent very many tears. They have been few. Im not quite sure what is going on. I dont know how I feel about it. I did cry today when I had to say goodbye to the Hna Baker. That was pretty hard. 

I hope you know how much I love you all, and how grateful I am to have you as my family. For the last 18 months I have been telling people about you. Telling stories, showing pictures, and celebrating all of the things that you have accomplished. I cannot believe that I will finally be seeing you within 72 hours. It still doesnt feel real to me. I keep excpecting the elders here in the office to tell me that it is a joke, I am not going home, and that I will be going to a new area with a new companion, and that I will just keep being a missionary. But, while I still have not emotionally or mentally grasped the fact that I will soon be with you, 18 months has been a long time. I am so excited to see you again, and to be able to spend time with you. I hope you have all pretty much cleared your schedules on Friday night, because you are MINE that night. (Just a joke Hol, I am excited to help you get ready for your dance.) 

I have never been prouder of you. I am so grateful that while I have been on the mission, I have never had to be embarrassed of who we are as a family. I have been able to share what ever it is that comes to mind, or anything that has happened with you without any problems. I cannot wait to see you, and I love you so much. 

I will see you soon!!!

Corinne

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HOLLY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September 10, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

I have also been a little sentimental the last week. It is really odd to me that my time as a missionary has already ended. It would be a lie if I had moments where I felt that I would die here in Argentina, and that I would never finish. And other moments where I would have paid anything to stop time and have just a couple more weeks here. I suppose only someone who has served a mission can understand the complete emotional trauma I am going through. While I am at the happiest I have ever been, I am also almost the saddest I have ever been. I thought that afternoon on March 2nd was going to be the hardest day of my life, when I walked away at the MTC, starting my mission, and looking for any reason to turn back to see you all again, or frankly to go home. I did not want to leave. But I believe that leaving Argentina is going to be even harder. Oh don´t get me wrong, it is greatly eased by the knowledge that I will quickly be with you all again. I have missed you more than words can begin to describe. But when I left, I knew that you were going to be okay, and I can´t help but feel a little bit that I am leaving children behind, who desperately need to be cared for, and I want to make sure they are cared for in the proper way. Like, I said, a striking contrast in my emotions, and I think that it is starting to make life a little hard for Hermana Baker.

All that being said. I did just live the dream this week. On Saturday we were able to see the Cultural Celebration for the re dedication of the Buenos Aires Temple. It was completely overwhelming, in the best sense of the word. I have been praying that I would be here since the day that I arrived in Argentina. It was very surreal everything that happened. I kept thinking in all of the missionaries that I know that have served here, also without a temple,and how I know that they would have loved to be here. I feel very privileged. Elder Christofferon, Elder Ballard, and Presidente Eyring were there, and they all spoke. They all directed their words to the youth, and they all made me cry. The dancing in the celebration was beyond words. It was completely fantastic. I was blown away by how many youth participated in the event, many of whom were unable to attend in person,so the stakes filmed the dances, and sent them in, and they were shown. Some of these youth dancers were just spectacular. I don´t know very much abot the folk dances of Argentina, but if they are all danced like that, I really want to see more.

Miriam came to the cultural celebration, and she was amazed. Everyday she gets closer to picking a date to get baptized, and i am so excited for her. She has fallen in love with temples, and she wants to go some day.

Yesterday was the dedication. It was breathtaking. I was again filled with a sense that I was living the missionary dream. I know so many people who would have loved to be there, or to see it, but who were unable, because of the distance. There was a very special spirit. I was a little concerned that maybe I wouldn´t understand everything, but everything was crystal clear. I really hope that I am given the chance to go through while I am in Buenos Aires. Or at least that we get to go see it.

All I know is that I miss the temple greatly, and I want to go as many times as possible when I get home. A year and a half is a great amount of time to not be in the temple walls.

This week we are going to work as much as possible. Hna Baker is feeling much better, and we are able to get out for more bits of time. It is really nice. We are also getting to know the branch better, which is great, but it makes me really sad that i am not going to have a little bit more time here with them.

I do want to thank you for all that you have done to be so supportive during my mission. I have learned that family bonds are not just physical, from across continents, I have felt your daily support. I AM very very excited to see you again, the next week is going to go very quickly I think.

Mom, I am also going to miss your weekly emails,but I will gladly trade them for the daily contact that we used to have. :)

I love you!!! And I will see you soon!!!

Corinne

September 3, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

My email worked!!! Just keep hoping that it will work next week. I am a little nervous. But mostly nervous because I only have to be nervous about one more week! I know, I make myself nervous about silly things, but with everything that a mission does to change a person, isn´t it nice to know that I am still myself? Haha.

I also thought of something interesting, and I forgot to tell Kami this, but yesterday she turned in her papers. Which is super cool. And she turned them in on the same day that I officially completed my 18 missionary months. Kinda cool isn´t it? She´s geting ready to start her service, and I am getting ready to wind my official service down.

This week was really good. It really did just fly by. There was some really sad news however. Miriam didn´t get baptized. It makes me really sad, breaks my heart really. But there is a silver lining to the sad cloud. She still wants to learn, and she came to church yesterday. She is just going through so much with her health. She has just found out that her cancer has returned, and a couple of other things. So she is wanting to wait a little bit of time. We are hoping to help her see that baptism really is going to be the best thing for her, and it will bring her the blessings she so desperatly needs. Please keep her in your prayers.

Hna Baker, unfortunately, also isn´t doing well. The poor girl just isn´t getting much better. Okay, that is a lie. She is getting better, it is just at a pretty slow rate, so she feels like she isnt´getting better, but she is. I am happy to report, that overall, things are much better. She is better with her animo, and she is happier overall. We have a really good companionship. Apart from being friends, which is fantastic, we work really well together. Even though we spend a decent amount of time at home, we are helping each other get a lot of things done. We have done a lot of organizational projects, and things at the house are getting much better. We do get out for a little bit every day, and I am really glad about that. It helps her see that she can still do things. And that she does a lot of them really really well.

It is an interesting rhythm in the house. We are just four people very different. Things have been a little tense. But I am trying to help everyone calm down and realize that nothing that is goin on is the end of the world. The good news is that making jokes about the fact that I go home soon seems to calm all three of them down, so that has been happening a lot lately. They don´t know that those sort of jokes give me a heart attack, and I don´t plan on telling them. Those poor girls need whatever release they can get.

This week should be good. We are going to do divisions on Wednesday, which will be fun. And on Friday we are going to have the cultural activity because on Sunday we are going to have the temple dedication! I am so excited. I have been waiting my whole mission for the dedication, and for a year now they have been so close to finishing! You can really tell that the members are excited and ready to have a temple up and functioning in their country again.

I am super excited that Holly is going to Homecoming. That will be a fun first weekend home. Does she know what she is going to wear? Is Zac going to go? Speaking of Zac what happened with Les Mis? I am so curious, and midly bummed that I have to wait a whole other week! I am very happy that I am going to get home in time for football season. (That was embarrassing. I almost wrote futbol. Oh Spanish. How you mess with my mind. I hope you are all ready for that. I no longer speak one language at a time. Spanish and English come out together.)  Also, super excited for Jayden and Shelley. Will you tell them congrats for me?

Well...I think that is it. I hope that you have a great and safe week! I love love love you!!!

Corinne

August 27, 2012- Pictures

August 27, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

It really seems like you are all having much more interesting days than I am!!! Especially with the first day of school things. I miss the first day of school. It is a wonderful thing. School in January, here I come!!!

This week really wasn´t that exciting from my point of view. Hna Baker has been sick, but we were still able to get some great things done. Lets see. What did happen this week?

Oh, we had divisions. It was really fun. I was with Hna McWhorter, and we had a really good time. It was fun to be teaching with my hijita again. I have missed her! We got to teach couple of lessons toether, and it was fun to have equal teaching time, and have her be as confidant as she was always hoping to be. She really has grown a lot, and I am so excited for her!

We are also really excited for the progress that Miriam is having. She will be getting baptized on Saturday! I am so excited. She really is so great. She is going through so many things, with some family problems, and various health problems, including cancer. But she is just one of the most positive people, and she sees God´s hand everywhere in her life. The branch has been really good at accepting her, and helping her feel comfortable, so even though I won´t be here for much longer after her baptism, I am confidant that she will be okay.

We actually started talking about her baptismal date during one of our lessons, and she randomly started telling a story about a spiritual experience that she had while she was a teenager. We got really worried, because normally when we start talking about baptism, and people start talking about spiritual experiences that they have had in other churches, they are finding a way to tell us no. So we were both internally freaking out and trying to think of a way to help her remember that it is a good thing that she gets baptized. But we didnt´know what to say. So we just sat there for a second, and awkwardly said something about her baptism again, and she said, oh no, I´m doing this! And we had a wave of relief wash over us. So she´s getting baptized!!!

Hna Baker is doing a little bit better. Slowly but surely she is getting her strength back. It is a wonderful thing to see.

Some of the Elders from Bahia came to fix our house up a little bit, and heaven bless them. There were some sad things about the house, and things are much better. For example, most of the sockets in the house didn´t work, and now they do!! It is great! And our washer, (thats right, did I tell you, we have a WASHER) works better now, and we have a new stove, and a new fridge. It is like a whole new house! I´ll have to send you pictures of the house next week.

Oh, speaking of next weeks email. On Sunday I officially complete my 18 month mark. Which, hypothetically speaking is when they are going to cut off my email access. Which is really lame, as I will still have two weeks of emailing left. I am going to talk to the mission secratay about that, to see if there is anything he can do so that doesn´t happen. It has happened to half of the sister missionaries that I know, and the other half have been fine. I have no idea what is going to happen. Please still write me just in case that I will be able to have internet access. But if you don´t hear from me, don´t worry.

Also, I pulled out part of the money, but it isn´t letting me pull out any more. I think I just may have hit the limit for the day, so I am going to wait until tomorrow.

Okay, Pictures.

1. Hna Baker and I. We´re so pretty.
2 & 3 Pictures of a little bit of what is Pigue.
4. Pigue and I together.
5. The four of us Hnas with Pigue.
6. Hna Baker and I yesterday after cleaning the church.

All of the pictures of Pigue have been taken from our roof. We live on the tenth floor and have access to the roof. It is fantastic. I love it!

I hope you all have a great week! I am praying for you and I love you!!!

August 20, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

It seems like you all had a really good week! That is fantastic! It is really odd to me that you are already to the point of starting school! I really can´t believe that time has gone so fast. We are starting week 3 of the transfer, and I feel like time really is just starting to fly away and there is nothing I can do to get it back.

I apologize for the delay in the email, we had some serious Internet problems, and so we had to leave for a little bit and then come back. As such, I don´t have a ton of time to write, nor do I have time to send you any pictures, but I promise that I will send some next week.

In regards to the whole debit card thing. I think that I did use it in March, but I know that I have used it since then. So that is super weird. I will pull that money out tomorrow then, just so you can know what it going on.

The week was really good. There was however, nothing normal about it. I feel like I write that alot, and you think I´d just be used to not having anything normal, but it would appear that I never learn. Haha.

Hna Baker has had some health issues in the past, and together we have figured out what a couple of them are. I feel like we are getting closer and closer to figuring out the last couple of things so that she will be able to finish her mission healthy. I am very very excited about that. We realized that we think it is a very high possibility that she needs glasses. And Pigue is teeny tiny and so we had to arrange a trip to Bahia to see an eye doctor. It worked out perfectly because we had a zone conference that Saturday in Bahia.

So on Wednesday evening we took a bus and headed to Bahia. We stayed the next couple of nights with one of my favorite Hnas, Hna Gonzalez. I just love that girl. She is fantastic.

Thursday morning we went to the doctor and it turns out that we were right, Hna Baker does indeed need glasses, and the doctor said that straining your eyesight can be a cause for headaches. One more piece of the puzzle put into place. We went to go pick out her glasses, and we were told that we had to come pick them up Friday afternoon  because by the time the conference got out on Saturday, they would be closed. So once we got that whole situation under control, we headed back to the house because Hna Baker wasn´t feeling well.

We were running all over on Friday. We had so much to do. There is way to much complicated details for me to give you right now, but Hna Parreño had told us that she wanted us to go visit some people out in our old areas, and give them a bit of help. There were a couple of people that she talked about in particular, in White, but she said that we could go figure out what we wanted to do that day. So we spent all day running around trying to see as many people as possible. It was actually really fun. It was like missionary vacation. Go see all the people you taught and see how they are doing. It was a very singular experience, and I am grateful for it.

On Saturday we had potentially the best zone conference I have had. Elder Viñas, the new second counselor of the area presidency came, and he is fantastic. Every workshop we had was just wonderful. Many things were said that were just the thing that I needed to hear, and they helped me feel good about the things that I have done on my mission, and the goals that I have for the time that I have left. Sometimes when the authorities come to talk to the missionaries, they are a little hard on us, and help us see exactly what it is that we need to do to improve and what it is that we need to fix, so it can be a little intimidating to know that they are going to be there. However, Elder Viñas was all about helping us feel good, and knowing that if there are changes that need to be made, we should make them, and that we are capable of making them. It was really nice.

In terms of other great things that are going on. Miriam came to church again yesterday! She is still on track for her baptismal date. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. This woman is amazing. She is going through so many trials. She has cancer, is having some difficulties with her oldest daughter (who is 33) among a couple of other things. But she is so great. She is reading, she is praying, she comes to church, and she has so many desires to learn and grow and do. Please pray for her. If all goes according to plan, I will be sending pictures of her baptism in two weeks!!!!!

Well, that is about all I have in terms of time today. Again, I am so sorry that you had to wait so long to get this. I hope that you are all doing great, and I hope to hear from you all next week! I love you!!!!!

Corinne
PS Someone has to give Steven a hug for me!!!

August 13, 2012- Pictures

August 13, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

Pigue is nice, I like it here. However, it is really small. Really really small. Like San Antonio Oeste small.Which is a bit of a shock for someone who has spent the last nine months in pretty bit cities. Haha, but it has been great. Pigue is most certainly a branch, but one of the cutest little branches that I have ever seen. I think it is going to be a very good last transfer. Hna Baker is doing a little bit better. Physically she is still feeling a little yucky, but it gets a little better everyday. We still arent leaving the house and doing full days of work, but everyday we are leaving, and that is some great improvement of where she has been in the past, and I am very pleased with that. She is from Ogden, and her Moms name is Dawneen Baker, and I think that you should friend her on facebook. Hna Baker and I have gotten super super close, and I just LOVE her. We have been friends for about six months now, and through Hna Baker I have sent a couple of messages to her mom, and she is hoping to go to my non homecoming. So you should be friends with her, she is GREAT.

In answer to your other questions, it is still pretty darn cold here. In fact, if my letter is super short, I blame the frozeness!!! My fingers are not moving as fast as I would like them too. It is so LAME.

And just so everyone knows, I am using capital letters to emphasize again, because all of the keyboards in Pigue are STUPID and again, most of the punctuation marks are unavailable to  me. Dumb dumb... (Also, by way of information, dumb has become my angry word of choice on the mission.)

This week has been pretty good. It was a lot of getting to know the area. Which consisted of Hna Baker and I getting lost. Alot. Haha. Which is a really funny situation, as neither of us are really good at the whole map thing. Which is why some very smart person invented a GPS, for people like her and me. Unfortunantly, they arent available here, on the mission, in Argentina, so we walk around with our maps, looking like clueless missionaries, and people cross over to the other side of the street to avoid us. Okay, that last part isnt true. The people here are really nice. Whenever we need directions, they help us out. Just remind me when I get home to show you how most Argentines give directions.

We do have one investigator that is golden. Her name is Miriam (and yes, I was VERY excited about that). She loves reading the Book of Mormon, and since she has started listening to the missionaries, about a week and a half now, she has almost finished first Nephi and she has so many questions, she just wants to know everything. She went to a Catholic School run by nuns, but she has always felt a void when sh goes to church, and she doesnt feel like the Catholic church has everything. This woman is seriously fantastic. She came to church yesterday, and she really liked it. Right now her fecha is for the first of september, and I really think that she is going to get there. It is going to be great. Please pray for her. I am determined to see her through. And there isnt much time, so pray hard.

The other investigator that we have is named Leandro. He is going to be an interesting one. But I really think that he will be able to progress. He has just joined an Evangelico church, but is still kind of looking for something. He has a fecha for the 8 of Setiembre, and I think he also has a really good chance for progression.

It has been really fun to be with Hna McWhorter again. I didnt realize how much I had missed that girl. I love her. We are having alot of fun reminsing.

Supposedly, we are going to be having a Zone Conference this week, but nothing has really been confirmed. I dont know how it will go down. But it is really wierd to think that it would be my last one. I just dont know how I feel about this, everythng is the last, it is reall weird. I am excited though, becuase if we do have the conference, one of the members of the area presidency would be coming, and I always enjoy those conferences.

Well, Thats all I really have time for this week.And as I sit and think, I feel like those are all of the real details anyways. I hope you know how much I love you, because I DO!!!! Lots and lots. Love, lots of love.

Corinne

PS The pictures are all old, but there are three pictures of hna baker and i from last tranfer, one of the pretty sky here in Pigue, and one of Hna Baker and I in our aprons right before we started cooking. She and i eat alot together. But its (mostly) healthy. Haha

August 6, 2012- Pictures

August 6, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom,

First of all, you have never sent me too many details. You have to
remember that I read very fast. Haha. Seventeen months into the
mission, and we have yet to have a problem with that. Second of all, I
am so glad that Dash isnt dead. I was seriously concerned with the
comunication in our family, that I have generally considered to be
pretty good. (With the execption that one time where Kami and I
thought we heard you and Dad talking and you were saying that Dad had
cancer. That was a fun night).  Third of all. The ceber I am at is
awful, and the keyboard is driving me insane. I will not have correct
punctuation today, because none of it is here (insert lots of
exclamation points here). I am just lucky that I found the parenthase
marks.

Hna Vaughan and Hna Carson are both still having some problems with
their feet. Hna Vaughan more than anyone, that poor girl is in some
serious pain. But, they are going to be resting a bit. Want to know
how I know that. Its cause they are companions now. Thats right, I got
transfered for my last transfer. I am now in a little town named
Pigüé. (Have fun pronouncing that one haha. I hope I spelled that
right.) Guess who is my companion. Guess guess guess. None other than
my very dear friend, Hna Baker. I am so excited.

We found out on Friday, but to really tell the story, I am going to
have to back up a little bit. On Tuesday, we (Hna Vaughan, Hna Carson,
and I) moved to the house in White for a couple of days. For very
complicated reasons that I am not going to take time to explain. So we
were living there all week, which was really fun, but really
complicated life. On Thursday, Hna Vaughan moved back to our house in
Puyerredon, and Hna Carson and I stayed in White. On Friday we got
transfers, and all four of us were together. It was fantastic. They
told us that Hna Vaughan and Hna Carson were going to be together in
Pueyrredon, and I thought my heart was going to fall out of my chest,
and then they said that Hna Pixton and Hna Alvarez were goint to be
together in White, and Hna Baker immediatly burst into tears. And then
Elder Galan told us that we were going together to Pigue, and we both
screamed. We are really excited, we are going to rock this trasnfer
up.

This week was really crazy since the Hna Vaughan was with us. I love
her, and she is great, but it really complicated things, since she
could never be alone. We spent a lot of money on taxis, to take her to
the office. There were also some days where the elders came to get
her, so we would just take a bus to our area to work.

Hna Carson also got sick again. That poor girl has another ear
infection, and so we spent a day at the doctor for her. It was
Wednesday, the same day that we went with Hna Vaughan to the doctor
for her foot. I think that Hna Parraño has way to much conficdance in
my ablities, but I am happy to help any way that I can. Frankly, this
week, I feel like I did a lot more babysitting than I did missionary
work, but whatever it is I need to do, I am willing to do.

Oh, at one point, I think it was Tuesday...we did divisions, and so
Hna Baker and I worked together for a couple of hours. That was really
fun. And ironic, since we are now companions.

I am seriously so excited to be comps with Hna Baker. She has become
one of my best friends, and we are going to do great things together.
She has also been really sick, and is starting to get better, so we
are going to start slowly,but I think that things are going to be
great.

It was really hard to leave Pueyrredon. Much harder than I thought
actually. My experiences there have been so distinct that I didnt
think it would be very hard, but as you can imagine, I cried alot. I
just couldnt bring myself to accept the fact that I was actually
leaving. I thought that for sure I would be finishing my mission
there. But there are many things to learn. So I am really excited.

Okay, some pictures.
The First two are us at the Hnas house in White.
Then after that they are pictures of me saying goodbye to people.
There is one of me and Gaby, one of the two of us and his mom, the
flia ortiz and ezequiel, jesica salvo. It was so hard to say goodbye.
Then there is one of Hna Baker and I in the colectivo. Officially
companions. Holla.
And in the last pícture is a surprise. You will recognize the face of
my hijita Hna McWhorter. She and Hna Sleight are also here in Pigue.
We are four and we are going to have a rockin transfer. I am so
excited.

Okay. that is all I have time for today. But I hope you know that I
love you so much.

Corinne

July 30, 2012- Pictures

July 30, 2012- Letter

Dear Mom and Dad,

You should know that as I write this email, I am feeling very conflicted emotions. I don´t know whether to think that it is amusing or tragic that Dash died and no one told me! How long ago did this happen?! And why did no one tell me? I mean, I know I don´t have the worlds strongest connection with Ace and Dash, but still! Just because I am on the other side of the world doesn´t mean that I shouldn´t get really important information like that!!!

Okay, a couple of minutes have passed, and so has the indignation. I do have a request. Will someone send me a picture of Zac and his puffy face? Please please pretty please!!!

This week was bastante weird. ( Like super super weird). It started out pretty normal. On Tuesday we had district meeting, and it went fine. Nothing super thrilling happened. Unfortunately right now, there is an Elder in our district who just wants to make every district meeting as painful as possible for the rest of the world. And he usually succeeds. However, lunch on Tuesday was pretty great. We went with the Hnas from White to lunch with Romina and Fernando, and they surprised us with asado, and the fact that we were going over to another members house to eat. So we had a pretty big party for lunch it was great. We also had our ward correlation meeting with our ward mission leader. Things in that area are getting a little bit better. Every week, he is just a little bit more excited about the things that we are doing, and has more drive to help us out. We also had a surprise on Tuesday night. We got  a call from one of the Elders in the office saying that Hna Vaughan would be staying with us for a couple of days, we had no idea why. 

But Hna Vaughan showed up, and can I tell you, I love that girl. Her companion had to go home early (health stuff), and Hna Vaughan is having quite a bit of problems with her foot, so she is waiting to go to the doctor. She is currently unable to work, so she is spending her days in the office. 

Wednesday morning, the assistants came to pick up Hna Vaughan, and Hna Carson and I finished up our studies. At the end of the studies, Hna Carson said that she wanted to call the Hna Parreño to talk to her about her foot, because it still wasn´t feeling any better. Hna Parreño sent us to a doctor that afternoon. The doctor said that it isnt´ yet, but easily could turn into tendonitis (Sp?). And that she needed to have a couple of days of complete rest. 

This meant that on Thursday and Friday, Hna Carson went to the office with Hna Vaughan, and I went to White with the Hnas there. It was a  very complicated situation. There were lots of taxis, and lots of buses. But it was really fun. I also had to spend a couple of hours in the office because the White Hnas were at a different doctor, and I got to help with some stuff there. It made me secretly jealous of the office elders, I forgot how much I enjoy office work. But at the same time, I think it would kill me on the mission to be confined to an office all the time. I am really grateful for those elders though, they put up with a lot of stuff so that the rest of us can be completely committed to the work that we are doing. 

On Saturday, Hna Carson and I were able to work a normal day. That was very nice.Even though we didn´t have much success, I was just happy to be working again, in my area, with my comanion. There is a very nice feeling about that. 

Sunday was good, but complicated. Romina picked us up for church, since Hna Vaughan really can´t walk more than a couple of feet with out having a very serious amount of pain. Church was good. Ezequiel blessed the Sacrament. I love it when he does that. It makes me so happy inside. We ate lunch with Gaby and his family. And when I shared the scripture, I just lost it. I really really started to cry. It has been a while since I hae lost so much control. It just kills me because Gaby is menos activo again. He knows everything that it is that he needs to know, he just isnt´doing it. And it breaks my heart. It is like watching one of my best friends destroy thier life and know exactly what it is that they are doing. Please pray for Gaby Garay. I don´t know what it is that he needs, but please pray for him. 

So after embarrassingly losing myself during the scipture, we headed home. We were home for a couple of mintues, before we had to head to White for a baptism. It was great! There is always a bit of drama in White, like there is in any small town, but overall, things went great. Then we headed back home, and Hna Carson and I finshed weekly planning, and Hna Vaughan read her Book of Mormon. 

It has been a really big blessing in disguise to have Hna Vaughan here. Hna Carson and I aren´t struggling by any means, but we certainly have our tense moments, and Hna Vuaghan has really helped us both. I love love love her. And I really hope that she gets to go see the doctor this week, so she can figure out what it is she needs to do to fix her foot. I really don´t want her to have to go home, but I am afraid that that is going to happen. 

Okay, some ideas for the package. 

Garments 

*tops (cotton square necks) 24 long

*bottoms (cotton) 30

(will you get four pairs, and then only send two. My garments are super sad, and I am going to retire a couple of them before I get home, and then I can come home to nice garments.)

Deodorant 

Face Lotion

foundation )powder and liquid

mascara

and my contacts please! 

I think that that should be everything! Sorry I am so high maintenance. 

Pictures

Hna Vaughan and I 

Hna Baker and I, while I was in White this week (it was really really cold)

Sorry, there aren´t that many pictures this week. My bad. 

Also, transfers are this week, so next week I will let you know where I am going to be spending my last transfer! AHHHHHH. The fact that I start my next transfer next week, may or may not be giving me a heart attack. It will be a miracle if I make it to the end of my mission alive. Haha. But seriously. 

Okay, well, on that cheerful note (I hope you know I really am okay.), I gotta go. Its time to work! 

I love you!!!!

Corinne