Feb 26 2013 Monday
Ph---! Dude, I
love you, bro. Happy to hear you're doing okay. Or at least good at sounding
okay.
Haha. Keep working hard, and keep those goals in
sight. Remember your potential!
Mom: To your joke...
Now there's an example of the power of scripture...Haha
[joke Mom sent to Elder Cattron:
A woman had just returned to her home from an
evening of church
services, when she was startled by an intruder. She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled: 'Stop! Acts 2:38!' (Repent and be Baptized, in the name of Jesus Christ , so that your sins may be forgiven.) The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the police and explained what she had done. As the officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar: 'Why did you just stand there? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to you.' 'Scripture?' replied the burglar 'She said she had an Ax and Two 38s!' ]
Mom –as to your
comment: 'I tried to make an appointment with one sister who is hard to
commit.'
I know how that is.
It’s annoying but funny.
I love writing.
Especially when I am feeling something. It makes me happy.
So far it hasn't
rained on us when we are outside. many days we bring our coats, and then
magically
the sun comes out
and we just walk around super hot and looking like we're tourists who live on
the sun
because were somehow
cold or something.
There are about 50
or 60 in the branch and a bunch more if they all would attend church
probably.
I ignore people when
they talk in Celsius, so I don’t actually know how hot it is usually.
Elder H leaves on Wednesday
to be District Leader of somewhere in Vina del Mar where Elder A----
is right now. Elder H
holds 7 months now. He has an LDS
family and supportive family I think. He
seems to be happy
about them. He’s a life member, his parents are converts and he reminds me of
me in some areas, like
goofiness, but other than that he's just super awesome. No one I can think
of.
His brother and
sister are models which I find humorous because he has a photo album and
every
member who sees it
whistles at his sister. Then he tells
them she's 13 years old, because she is, and
then they feel bad
and I laugh. His Pat-blessing says a
lot about missionary work, and how he is good
at studying and
retaining information for applying it and not being confounded and also
showing others
the truth through
scripture. He's a super smart guy. We don't eat dinner with people--only
lunch.
Chileans don't have
dinner. It's called once and it's at around 7:00 pm and it's like a piece of
bread
and drink stuff that
smells like coffee. We have a calendar
that the ladies pass around at church.
We never go hungry. Don’t
worry. Haha
Sorry for my lack of
punctuation. I think the guy before me
hated grammar, so he poured milk on the
keyboard. Our pension [apartment] is on a hill. A giant one. And we die every time trying to get up to
it. We have to sleep in the same rooms remember?
On Preparation days we go shopping. then we
go home and elder H
sleeps and I write and study. I love
the scriptures. Last week Elder H fixed a
bathroom for a mom
here while I played with the kittens and studied ‘cuz the bathroom is small
and
I honestly would
probably break everything. We are
supposed to do service every week, but
it doesn’t
happen as often as
you think .
We have around 10
investigators, and only 3 of them actually get visited close to every day. The rest
we stop by and have
to figure out when we can come back.
Yes I know everyone
loves me. Just gotta make sure it
doesn't go to my head and make me prideful.
I often pray that as
I keep progressing and improving Spanish that I don't start to think I don't
need to
try very hard. Cuz I know that even when you are really
good at something, you can still progress just
as fast if you keep
putting in the effort. You see it if you think back a little bit every once
in a while.
"Isn't it funny
how every day seems the same but when you look back it has completely
changed?" –That
quote is from the guy
who wrote Narnias-- I don't remember anything. What’s his name? [C. S. Lewis]
La obra: part of the
Letter to the pres:
Cosas.
Cosas que hace uno a estar feliz. Voy a empezar con contactos.
Quitamos
el miedo y preocupación de contactos. De vez en cuando, yo he ... turned
around... para contactar
alguien.
Todavía, no 20 contactos, pero está en la mente, y no me preocupe a hablar.
Ayer, una mujer habló
con
nosotros en la calle, y E´H. habló casi todo. Una pregunta fue preguntado,
´Cómo se sentiría si la misma
iglesia
que... en la tierra durante... está en la tierra hoy día? Ella respondió, y
después preguntamos ´Entonces,
Qué
haría?´... Ella no contestó. Solamente pensó y hizo un ´wow buena
pregunta´tipo de cara. Fue interesante,
pero
dice que irá a la iglesia en su área.
Si se acuerda de L----ro, el está esperando su bautismo. Tenemos una fecha para 10 de Marzo, cuando él
volvió
a Esperanza de su casa en el otro ciudad. Él tuvo una entrevista de bautismo
pero averiguamos que él
necesita
un poco más tiempo por algo pequeño porque el tomó té negro en martes, antes
de nuestro leccion
de
la palabra de sabiduria, y necesita saber quien es Thomas S. Monson... Ah...
Nuestra culpa. Pero si el
podría
permanecer hasta el proximo domingo, puede bautizarse, pero no puede.
Entonces, esperamos y
enseñamos.
Tengo
un pensamiento que necesitamos trabajar con los miembros un poco más porque
ayer, queriamos
visitar
A---a, un investigador, pero nadie pudo acompañarnos. Llamamos como 10
personas. Nadie pudo
por algunas razones.
F----e está progresando, y por eso, estamos más felices. Leyó El Libro De Mormón, y está asistiendo.
Translation of it
----
Things. Stuff that
makes one to be happy. I'll start with contacts.
We remove the fear
and concern of contacts. Occasionally, I have ... turned around ... to
contact someone.
Still, not 20
contacts every day, but it is in the mind, and not worrying me. Yesterday, a
woman talked to us
on the street, and
E'H. talked about everything. A question was asked, 'How would you feel if
the same
church as ... on
earth for time of Christ... on earth today? She replied, and then we asked, 'So, what
would
you do?' ... She did
not answer. Only thought and did a 'wow good pregunta' type of face. It was
interesting,
but she says she
will go to church in her area.
If you remember L--ro,
he is waiting for his baptism. We have a date for March 10, when he returns
from his home in the
other city. He had a baptism interview we figured out that he needs a little
more
time for something
small because the black tea took on Tuesday before our lesson from the Word
of
Wisdom, and need to
know who is Thomas S. Monson ... Ah ... Our fault. But if he could stay until next
Sunday, can baptize,
but cannot stay. So we wait and teach.
I have a thought
that members need to work with a little more because yesterday, wanted to
visit
A--a, an
investigator, but nobody could join us. We called about 10 people. Nobody could for
some reasons.
F--e is progressing,
and for that, we are happier. He Read the Book of Mormon, and is attending
church with his
family.
Something
funny:
It is very hard to
converse with people in English when you are trying to talk in Spanish with
your companion.
Your brain freaks
out and just doesn't change to English, or just stops working. It's happened a lot, and
typically they try
to explain themselves in English, which is silly because their explanation is
just as good
as my understanding
of Spanish. But I can understand
people and talk to them. I feel a lot better, and the
days are merging
together to one big blur of happiness and fun.
I love you all. Don't forget to tell Heavenly Father you're
thankful for Him.
Here’s some
pictures. I saw that ugly dog again. but he hid behind the car that's always
there, so I didn’t get
Him in my camera. Sorry
Another photo is of
a nasty bug... a giant flea being eaten by ants. Thank goodness. I'm pretty sure that
flea used to eat
people.
Another photo of a dog
that was too far away, Pero me parece como Gandelf, the newfoundland.
Another photo of a gorgeous
moon that I was too late to get the good part, but it was this morning.
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