April 14, 2014 {Kaitlyn}

This week was absolutely amazing. We had investigators in Sacrament meeting! 4!!! That is a big shocker here in Monte considering that my companion has never had an investigator in Sacrament Meeting after her 4 months of being here. It was pretty exciting! :) We are working with this darling family and they all came yesterday! :) 

We had a Noche de Hogar with this family and it was absolutely amazing. We talked about temples and they absolutely adored the lesson. We set goals for them to be able to enter some day; first of all being baptism. I´m hoping that now that they came to church we can return and set them on date for baptism. AHH I hope so!! I LOVE working with families. It would be  dream come true if this whole family joins. There aren´t tons of progressing investigators here in Monte but I do feel like this family has LOTS of potential. I´m praying day and night for them. :)  The mom has been investigating for quite some time and she says that she wants to be baptized but that she doesn´t want to do it without her husband because she needs his support. Her husband seemed to enjoy himself in la iglesia though soooo we´ll see what happens! 

I was sick for the first time in all of my mission on Wednesday. I was throwing up in the night and then Wednesday I literally couldn´t move. I tried studying but couldn´t. Then I tried watching movies but I couldn´t even do that. It was weird, so I was literally in bed ALL day. Bleh. TERRIBLE! But Thursday I was up and going otra vez. :) 

We´re off to the train now, I´ll finish with this letter later! And if not I´ll be writing another day? LOVE YOU!!!! HAAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

 

Well, now on to the rest of the letter for this week. There is not too much left because the week went by flying. We had a few funny experiences, like my companion falling in a puddle of mud on her bicycle. Hahaha yep, ended with a skirt and face full of mud. It was pretty funny I have to admit. I wasn{t sure if I was going to be able to laugh so I first made sure that she wasn't crying and then I started dying of laughter. Hahaha too good. Then we had our crazy adventure in the freezing cold wind. I seriously was using every last bit of my might to fight against the wind. We didn{t know that it was going to be so cold so we hardly had any clothes on, but we pedaled diligently until we finally arrived at our cita. Hahaha I ended up loving it. Nice little challenge. :)  It was FREEZING these past two days. I am dying at night. We need to get our heater fixed... because right now we have nothing. Ooo boy, we are in for a treat in the winter. We are close to the Laguna so it is cooler here then any of the other areas. 

Today we had zone activity and we played soccer. Seriously so fun. I have not had the chance to play a ton here, but when I do I recognize more and more how much I love sports! It is the greatest stress reliever on the planet. :) I am good to go for another month now. :)  

Well, I think I already told you about most of the exciting news for the week. I can{t remember anything super specific in the moment. Ha yesterday we taught the lesson in gospel principles class and we hadn't prepared. Lets just say that I haven{t quite gotten over the fear of speaking in front of others. I started talking in circles a bit. :) I never was one to have words flowing into my head but we now have a recent rm as our teacher. She will be excellent!!! Monte is on it{s way to seeing a spark in the work. :) Ooo I have so much energy for this little town right now. It{s not the most going place but it soon will be. 

All is going super well. Sorry for the boring letter. Ha hope the video sends to ya'll and I hope you enjoy it. We practiced for lots of time!! Haha it comes from the song of something I heard from the one and only. Whoever can guess it wins a... hug from me when I return! 20 bucks that Bry knows it. :) It's a bit different though so we will see. 

LOVE YOU!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE 2 LOVE Birdssss :)

April 14, 2014 {Kim}

Hey Hey Hey! Wellllll can you believe that i hit my 6 month mark in 2 days!? what. so crazy. wellllll this week was gooood. We have had some awesome experiences/lessons this week. we had a lession with some of our less actives. A mom and a daughter. The daughter is 13 and really struggling with some things in life and a testimony and sooo much. So we were stuck with what to do. We wanted her to open up to us cuz she doesnt really talk much. So we decided that we would split up and Sister solomon would teach the mama and i would teach the daughter (abby) so we just sat on different sides of the room and i talked with abby and Sister Solomon talked with the mom (martha). It was sooooo awesome! One of the most spiritual lessons ever. I have so so much love for Abby. I just want her to be happy. It was awesome. She completely opened up to me and just started bawling. oh my goodness. my heart just breaks because i love her so much. but it was so spiritual. and then her mom got up and bore her testimony in sacrament meeting yesterday! YES! such a good sacrament meeting. We also had an AWESOME lesson with our investigator China. the other day she told us that she wanted to push back her baptismal date that we had set for the 27th of april. we threw down on her. had such a good lesson. but she stillllll was like no i dont feel ready! but literally she was sitting there telling us of all the answers she recieved and how great she felt when we visited and how she knew it was true. haha so this last lesson we had yesterday we talked about recognizing and receiving answers and it was the greatest!We used some scriptures in D & C : 6 21-22 and D & C 9 She FINALLY said.... "Something from that just really touched me" it was so awesome and then she looked at me and said Hna. Josse... I will be baptized before you leave this area. and i said hna. We dont know when i will be leaving. I could be leaving in the early part of may. haha and then her husband that is a member says " well it looks like she has a date then". so great. and also we were just walking to an appointment the other day and we came across these two little black kids chillin outside their house. of course since both my companion and i have an obsession with black people we were lovin it and playing catch with the little 4 year old haha so cute. and then his mom walks out and we start talking to her. such a cool woman. so funny. well we set up an appointment with her but since she was english speaking we had to hand her off to the english sisters....but we went to that appointment with them so we could introduce them and it was awesome. We talked about the intro to the book of mormon. and i learned a really sweet lesson from this lesson. you dont need to say all that much in a lesson for it to count. you dont need to be all elaborate. It was way cool because since there were 3 other missionaries there i didnt really say much.... literally only said two thing... but one of those times i bore my testimony about applying the scriptures. and just told her that its ok that she doesnt understand everything cuz i dont either. and literally just talked for like 30 seconds that whole lesson. and at the end one of the english sisters asked.... have you felt good or felt the spirit while we've been here talking with you today? and she goes "yaaa when you  sista Josse were talking about the scriptures i just got the chillssss it just felt real and good. I feel good." It was way cool. Also we found a family!! they are the cutest. Its the family that i sent the picture of! The little girls are literally the cutest. The first time we met them we gave the 4 year old 2 pass along cards with jesus on the back. and She hung them on her magnet board in her room!! haha im in love with her. and then the second time we talked to them. she opened my book of mormon and was looking through the pictures in the front. and she flipped to the one of jesus visiting the americas and goes i know him. I know him. Thats Jesus. He is a really good man. Hes magical... he brought a little girl to life and does lots of good things. thats his house * points to a church down the street with a cross on the top* he wants everyone to come there. Bad people killed him... they put pokey things in his hands and put him on a "t" . but he didnt die. Hes back. hahaha literally melted my heart. cutest thing of my life. and then she draws a picture of him. and asks if she can keep my book of mormon. and then when we were leaving and ending with a prayer.... she goes "wait wait"right before we say it  and then she grabs the book of mormon... opens to the picture of jesus and hugs it during the prayer. oh my goodness. i died. and let me just tell you... she has never even been to church before. i cant get over it. cutest thing ever. Wow sorry this email is long and all over the place. but last thing. I love my companion. I have never gotten so comfortable or been so open with someone so fast in my life. we're homies. we've had some unreallll comp studies. she helps me so much. helps me get through the toughest days. Well i have noooo time left. gotta go but i love you all so much! Have a fantastic week!

 

Love, Hermana Josse

April 7, 2013 {Kaitlyn}

HAPPY 43 AND 44TH birthday MOM AND DAD!

Happy happy birthday shout out to Mom and Dad. Well technically moms shout out will be next week... but they go hand in hand. Also shout out to Lindschris because I failed to give the shout out to her last week! HAPPY APRIL BIRTHDAY´s :) Have the best week ever!! 

WOW, wasn´t general conference the best?! Every conference I don´t think that anything can beat it until the next conference comes around. UNREAL. Wow, I learned sooo many things that I´m super excited to apply en la obra misional. :) Hope you all will do the same.  I thought of you guys in one of the talks that talked about sharing with your family the spiritual experiences you are having. Look at us, all on top of things. Now you really can´t bail on the spiritual thoughts of the week. I don´t remember who talked about this, but he explained it perfectly, because I really do learn so much when you send them to me. 

As for this week, we had quite a crazy week. It started off with the longest day ever on Tuesday. We had district meeting which takes about 2 and a half hours to travel to. We were waiting to return and to make a long story short we ended up getting home at 6:30 at night because the train got canceled and then... ya long story. I was DYING. We even had appointments this day and ended up missing the majority of them. Ayy ayy ayy... after a long day of a test of patience we recognized the reason for it all. We met a man named Marcello and talked to him the whole way home. About everything. He´s going to Austria in 2 weeks, but we went to visit him and ended up meeting his family as well. They are gold. He has the cutest little nephew ever. We haven´t talked with his Sister yet, but I´m thinking that the family of his sister has lots of potential. I´ll keep you posted, we´re going backtomorrow. :) 

The rest of the week went pretty well. We were gone for the weekend because we had to stay in Monte Grande for Conference. We stayed with Hermana Hansen. We had peanut butter! :)  Hehe We had one lesson on Saturday night that was excellent. The lady just started crying towards the end and all during the prayer. She told me that she was certain that I was an angel sent to her. Haha apparently I change my voice or something when I teach because the comp that I was with said I have a special voice or something. My comp on the other hand the other week told me that I speak too kind and people are going to fall asleep. Hahaha she´s so funny, she´s super sparky so you can imagine she has a bit of a louder voice. Hahaha :)  

I´m having a rough time remembering all that happened this week, because we were only here for basically 3 days. It was a bit crazy, but I wouldn´t trade anything for the conference. It was amazing. I´ve already forgotten a ton of it, so I need to review the talks again. I loved the talk from Elder Ballard I think? The one that talked about the importance of simple doctrine and the strength of our testimonies. My new goal is to make sure that people can feel of my desire to share this gospel. I read a talk that talked about recognizing our purpose as missionaries and it is absolutely incredible. I´ll have to share it with you but I don´t remember what it is called. I´ll let you know next week. :) 

Love you all so much, hope all is going well. Have an amazing week! 

Con amor, Hermana Wright 

PS Sorry this is a lame letter. I had a bunch of funny stories to share but for some reason I can´t remember ANY of them. Hahaha besides the one that I took a bug out of my companions eye but I was having a laugh attack... so you can imagine how that went. Haha FAILURE. 

PSS Dad mentioned how the weather is cooling down... Ha I´m pathetic I die of cold already sometimes and it´s APRIL. Uhh, I´m going to die in the winter.  I don´t know what happened to me... I used to never be cold! Haha squirrell.. Oh and mom we had a crepe in one of the houses for dessert. I was thinking of you every bite of it. :) 

April 7, 2013 {Kim}

Hola! How are you!? General conference was the best!!! i hope you all watched it! If not you better get on that!! So good. Welllllll I have a new companion! I had a really hard time the first day but now its alll good! I LOVE her. Hermana Solomon from Salt Lake! Weird story. At leadership training last week i met her for the first time and we got put in a group to do a role play together and it was one of the best role plays ever! And for some reason i just knew that we were going to be companions and that we ended up in the same group for a reason! And its way weird cuz she had that same feeling as well! sweet eh? Welllll....shes great! Haha its funny we have everythinggggg in common. She plays soccer, skiis, loves camping and being outdoors, and  her favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip, shes stubborn, and we have the same favorite number, She loves little black children and wants to adopt. haha literally everything. We were laughing about it saying like there is noooo way that we literally like the same everything.... so she says your favorite color is green huh? and i was like yessss hahaha no way! and then later we were at a members house and the sons name is matthew and she goes hey my brother has the same name as you! haha so weird. But seriously she is great! I've already learned so much from her! and she pushes me a lot. we've had some awessssome lessons. I love teaching with her. Haha she willl nottttt help me with spanish though if im struggling for words in lessons. its way good. but i hate it. haha. We've been going running in the mornings and its way good!!! Scaryyyyy story though..... We were in a lesson with a member on Friday and during the middle of the lesson all of a sudden Sister solomon got super confused and didnt know where we were and couldnt understand anything and just like lost all her strength! And we are in the house of a member that speaks absolutely no english...well ya sister solomon had a seizure! ha it was sooo scary. i was so worried for her. She couldnt walk or anything or talk or understand and she got super hot. So im on the phone with the mission nurse while trying to speak non gospel related spanish. haha. But she is fine now. It was scary all night. Thought she was gonna die on me. ahhhh ha. but its weird because we dont know why it randomly happened. But anyways we have had some awesomeeee lessons this week. and we have found 5 new investigators!! whoo whoo. and when we were contacting we found a polish woman and she let us in. she barely spoke any english but we brought her a polish book of mormon and just had her read the introduction. she was so cute. soooo happy for the book and just kept thanking us for making her feel happy. if only we could speak polish. ha we are going to have the english sisters try to keep teaching her cuz shes way cool. well this week has been way good. I love my twinnnna sister solomon we are already homies and it hasnt even been a week. and im starting to do so much better. thanks for all the support. Love you all! Have a fantastic week! Hope all is wellll Loveeeee you!

 

Love, Hermana Josse