ahaha Mal its so fun to here from you in Argentina!! It sounds suuper similar to Chile. Haha everyone is catholic, here we cant clap either because they are in apartments but we yell HALOOO or we tocar citophonos (like intercom doorbells). Mal you Chilena roomie, what ward is she from? I meet people from loottss of different wards for recorridos so I might know people she knows haha. Also mal there is a type of candy you need to try its called FULL its a lemon candy, idk if they have it in Argentina but ask your Chilena roomie she might know.
Also mom I need you to get a message to Savannah, there is a member family here that is practically like my chilena family (Luz Maria Diaz is like my mom, Enrique her dad is like a sweet grandpa, and her son is Benjamin) So Benja is working really hard to learn english well enough to get sponsored to travel to New Zealand and to be able to study in the US for college, also many of the YW here are stinkers and he needs a good example of a good girl, he is savannah Luceros age and it would be sooooo great if she could add him on facebook and message him to practice, he is such a great kid and like my little brother here! I think he added both me and her on facebook but I don´t know if Savannah accepted haha so if she would be willing to do that it would be GREAT. If not its all good, let me know!
So this week we said goodbye to Ruben and Teresa, He got a kidney transplant and has been living with his nephew for a month but this week he was finally able to return home, so we went to see them one last time and watched the restoration video, at the end we bore testimony and talked for a while. We all cried when we said goodbye, Teresa said she would always remember us as her little angels that helped her to find the path for her family, they both want to continue to pray for an answer to know for sure that this is the path for them but they pretty much said that they know already, they also said that they are going to go to there house and share this message with all of their family because it had changed there life and they want their family to have the same thing. So we gave them our doctrine and covenants videos to keep learning with the missionaries that live in there area. We hugged teresa goodbye and gave Ruben a handshake and he pulled us into a hug.... we were kinda freaking out and we were like we cant give hugs!! And he was like I know, but you changed my familys life, I don´t care! Haha it was funny, I´m sure going to miss them, they have really showed me what the gospel can do for families. Wow.
So this week we were also having a lesson in a park with a menos activa (less active member) we were finishing with a song and a prayer and afterwards we look up and a man is standing in front of us. He said he was passing by heard the prayer and got really emotional, he rembered the feelings he had when he was investigating the church 20 years ago and stuff like that, so we got talking (mostly my companion haha) and set up an appointment for a recorrido (tour) of the chapel and temple grounds. We are super excited, what a miracle!!
This week in Church we experienced another miracle, we got out of ward council meeting and there was a guy about 24 years old sitting on one of the benches in the hallway reading 3 ne 11 in the book of mormon. We started talking and he told us that his name is Mario, he is Catholic by culture, but Atheist by choice but he met some of the CCM missionaries that gave him a Book of Mormon and he decided to come and see the church because the gate was open, we invited him to the church service that was starting in an hour and then we had to leave to pick up another investigator, as soon as we got out of the building me and my comp turn to look at one another we were both shocked out of our minds because she has been here for almost 6 months and nothing like that has happened. So we get back after our other investigator didn´t want to come, we were feeling a little down but then we look and see Mario sitting in the Chapel with the ward Secretary talking and smiling/laughing. Throughout the day it was almost as if planned (but it wasn´t) that another member would come say hi get to know him, and take him to his next class, by the end of the day he had like 10 new best friends in the chapel! Holy cow these members are pros at making people feel welcome and accepted!! What was even better was another kid with almost the same situation showed up and had the same experience, by the end of church they were super good friends and they had lots of new friends in the church. They both just said they were soooo confused as to why they were here because before they had no interest in religion but that they were just drawn here, they were both super interested in learning more, and they are planning on attending institute tomorrow together. Mario lives in our sector so we get to teach him and Diego the other joven lives in Hermana Mckinley and hermana Nuñez´s sector, but we were both FREAKING OUT EXCITED. Wow. Super miracles and a super great ward! Oh and I forgot, what made it better was that sacrament meeting was the primary program!!! It was the cutes thing I´ve ever seen, I just cried the whole time, and Mario and Diego loved it! It was nice to see that throughout the meeting they both had friends to explain what was happening and help them.
Sunday night we visited a less active member who had just moved into our ward, I was sooooo humbled to see her humbling conditions and realize just how blessed I am. The people here live in small spaces, and don´t have as much, but they still have what they need, we visited Hermana Isabel and I was holding back tears the whole time. She lives in a pieza which is basically a small room with a little area as a bathroom and a stove for a kitchen. She is about 50 years old, maybe a little more, she is single and pregnant and she has almost nothing. She has no furniture only a matress on the floor, and a reaaaalllly old half broken tv propped up on her suitcase. Other than that she has practically nothing, a few dishes, soap and a brush. It was crazy. I realized that this lady has NOTHING, no husband, no family that is able to support her, no parents that are living, no friends in this country, and no way to leave to her home country to be with any friends. She works all day every day just to pay for her apartment and has nothing to take care of her fast approaching baby boy. But she has SOOOO MUCCCH FAITH. She just keeps saying she has no idea what is next but she is greatful to live where she does in peace and grateful for the church, I realized that when we have the gospel we always have something. We will ALWAYS be okay if we have the gospel. I´m so grateful for that. I´m also so grateful for the support of such a good family! Wow I never realized how lucky I am!! THANKS MOM AND DAD SOOOOO MUCH. I seriously never have thanked you guys enough for everything. I´m so glad you guys have always worked so hard to make sure I was a good kid even if I didn´t always understand and even if I didn´t take it very well, I´m so glad I´m here. I know I wouldn´t be without your examples! I´m so glad that you work so dang hard dad! We have such a nice house and we have cars to get places, we have so much fun, and we have so much peace in our house (even if the boys won´t stop beating each other up), I´m so glad I got to learn piano, travel places, and do things with my life. Thanks for making it possible for me to serve a mission!! And go to college!! And just everything!!! Wow my life could be so hopeless and terrible right now but it is WONDERFUL all because of everything you guys did to make sure that I would have a good life when I grew up. Thanks. Seriously I went home and cried Sunday night after visiting Hermana Isabel. I realized that I´m kind of a spoiled brat even if I try not to be, I have soooooo much and I never expressed my appreciation for it. But THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I can see now that the most important thing in the world is the gospel. So many people make excuses for why they didn´t come to church, didn´t read their scriptures, didn´t keep a commitment etc, they all say that they don´t have time. But I´m realizing THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TIME FOR. We are here to prepare to live with God, the gospel is what we have time for.
Well I have to go,
Love you all
Hermana Millett
Also mom I need you to get a message to Savannah, there is a member family here that is practically like my chilena family (Luz Maria Diaz is like my mom, Enrique her dad is like a sweet grandpa, and her son is Benjamin) So Benja is working really hard to learn english well enough to get sponsored to travel to New Zealand and to be able to study in the US for college, also many of the YW here are stinkers and he needs a good example of a good girl, he is savannah Luceros age and it would be sooooo great if she could add him on facebook and message him to practice, he is such a great kid and like my little brother here! I think he added both me and her on facebook but I don´t know if Savannah accepted haha so if she would be willing to do that it would be GREAT. If not its all good, let me know!
So this week we said goodbye to Ruben and Teresa, He got a kidney transplant and has been living with his nephew for a month but this week he was finally able to return home, so we went to see them one last time and watched the restoration video, at the end we bore testimony and talked for a while. We all cried when we said goodbye, Teresa said she would always remember us as her little angels that helped her to find the path for her family, they both want to continue to pray for an answer to know for sure that this is the path for them but they pretty much said that they know already, they also said that they are going to go to there house and share this message with all of their family because it had changed there life and they want their family to have the same thing. So we gave them our doctrine and covenants videos to keep learning with the missionaries that live in there area. We hugged teresa goodbye and gave Ruben a handshake and he pulled us into a hug.... we were kinda freaking out and we were like we cant give hugs!! And he was like I know, but you changed my familys life, I don´t care! Haha it was funny, I´m sure going to miss them, they have really showed me what the gospel can do for families. Wow.
So this week we were also having a lesson in a park with a menos activa (less active member) we were finishing with a song and a prayer and afterwards we look up and a man is standing in front of us. He said he was passing by heard the prayer and got really emotional, he rembered the feelings he had when he was investigating the church 20 years ago and stuff like that, so we got talking (mostly my companion haha) and set up an appointment for a recorrido (tour) of the chapel and temple grounds. We are super excited, what a miracle!!
This week in Church we experienced another miracle, we got out of ward council meeting and there was a guy about 24 years old sitting on one of the benches in the hallway reading 3 ne 11 in the book of mormon. We started talking and he told us that his name is Mario, he is Catholic by culture, but Atheist by choice but he met some of the CCM missionaries that gave him a Book of Mormon and he decided to come and see the church because the gate was open, we invited him to the church service that was starting in an hour and then we had to leave to pick up another investigator, as soon as we got out of the building me and my comp turn to look at one another we were both shocked out of our minds because she has been here for almost 6 months and nothing like that has happened. So we get back after our other investigator didn´t want to come, we were feeling a little down but then we look and see Mario sitting in the Chapel with the ward Secretary talking and smiling/laughing. Throughout the day it was almost as if planned (but it wasn´t) that another member would come say hi get to know him, and take him to his next class, by the end of the day he had like 10 new best friends in the chapel! Holy cow these members are pros at making people feel welcome and accepted!! What was even better was another kid with almost the same situation showed up and had the same experience, by the end of church they were super good friends and they had lots of new friends in the church. They both just said they were soooo confused as to why they were here because before they had no interest in religion but that they were just drawn here, they were both super interested in learning more, and they are planning on attending institute tomorrow together. Mario lives in our sector so we get to teach him and Diego the other joven lives in Hermana Mckinley and hermana Nuñez´s sector, but we were both FREAKING OUT EXCITED. Wow. Super miracles and a super great ward! Oh and I forgot, what made it better was that sacrament meeting was the primary program!!! It was the cutes thing I´ve ever seen, I just cried the whole time, and Mario and Diego loved it! It was nice to see that throughout the meeting they both had friends to explain what was happening and help them.
Sunday night we visited a less active member who had just moved into our ward, I was sooooo humbled to see her humbling conditions and realize just how blessed I am. The people here live in small spaces, and don´t have as much, but they still have what they need, we visited Hermana Isabel and I was holding back tears the whole time. She lives in a pieza which is basically a small room with a little area as a bathroom and a stove for a kitchen. She is about 50 years old, maybe a little more, she is single and pregnant and she has almost nothing. She has no furniture only a matress on the floor, and a reaaaalllly old half broken tv propped up on her suitcase. Other than that she has practically nothing, a few dishes, soap and a brush. It was crazy. I realized that this lady has NOTHING, no husband, no family that is able to support her, no parents that are living, no friends in this country, and no way to leave to her home country to be with any friends. She works all day every day just to pay for her apartment and has nothing to take care of her fast approaching baby boy. But she has SOOOO MUCCCH FAITH. She just keeps saying she has no idea what is next but she is greatful to live where she does in peace and grateful for the church, I realized that when we have the gospel we always have something. We will ALWAYS be okay if we have the gospel. I´m so grateful for that. I´m also so grateful for the support of such a good family! Wow I never realized how lucky I am!! THANKS MOM AND DAD SOOOOO MUCH. I seriously never have thanked you guys enough for everything. I´m so glad you guys have always worked so hard to make sure I was a good kid even if I didn´t always understand and even if I didn´t take it very well, I´m so glad I´m here. I know I wouldn´t be without your examples! I´m so glad that you work so dang hard dad! We have such a nice house and we have cars to get places, we have so much fun, and we have so much peace in our house (even if the boys won´t stop beating each other up), I´m so glad I got to learn piano, travel places, and do things with my life. Thanks for making it possible for me to serve a mission!! And go to college!! And just everything!!! Wow my life could be so hopeless and terrible right now but it is WONDERFUL all because of everything you guys did to make sure that I would have a good life when I grew up. Thanks. Seriously I went home and cried Sunday night after visiting Hermana Isabel. I realized that I´m kind of a spoiled brat even if I try not to be, I have soooooo much and I never expressed my appreciation for it. But THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I can see now that the most important thing in the world is the gospel. So many people make excuses for why they didn´t come to church, didn´t read their scriptures, didn´t keep a commitment etc, they all say that they don´t have time. But I´m realizing THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TIME FOR. We are here to prepare to live with God, the gospel is what we have time for.
Well I have to go,
Love you all
Hermana Millett
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