September 5, 2011

Please tell everyone I love them and Grandpa Jim that I hope he feels better soon!

It turns out our golden investigator went to a natioinal park for the week. He came back and went to church yesterday and loved it. We are really excited!

August 29, 2011

This week has been a week full of trials and epiphanies. Our golden investigators have been cancelling appointments or just not answering the phone aka avoiding us and we have no idea what happened. We found two new people this week, but after we talked to them for a bit, we realized that they were patients in a psychiatric care facility. One of them was a singer for 30 years in Argentina before she was hospitalized, so for service we´re going to go by and sing hymns with her! I´m excited about that. Also, I lost my wallet with all my money, my ID and both my credit cards running to catch a taxi. However, I´m deciding to stay positive. Trials happen, and I have a clear conscience so I have no reason to believe that the blessings aren´t on their way and that this is all happening for a reason. The quality of our teaching is improving leaps and bounds. I love this new training program! If only we could do more of it! A shining moment this week was that a kid came to church on Sunday completely on his own because he remembered going to an activity there when he was little and wanted to find out more. Awesome! Hermana Perez is awesome. That´s all for now because I´m out of time!


Love,
Jamie

August 19, 2011

Yeah, I feel fine now.

I flew back to Osorno with Hermana Contreras and two other Elders. Elder Galovich is also training this cambio so we both had to go to the training and then come back. The new program is basically an outline of what we´re supposed to be studying every week. They changed our schedule to have 2 hours of companionship study everyday instead of 1. Basically it´s that they´ve recently come out with "8 principles to improve teaching" and the new training program has to do mostly with helping the new missionaries learn and apply those 8 principles. Hermana Perez pretty much already knows what she´s doing so it´s not that hard, I was blessed =D. The new schedule is a little hard to get used to, but we´re doing our best, it seems as if there´s so much to study and so little time to do it! However, I came to a realization this week: Don´t sweat the small stuff. None of us are living life perfectly all the time, it´s all just a part of the "Endure to the end" process.

The new blog is www.chileosornomission-rappleye.blogspot.com

Hermana Perez was sick this week, so we spent Friday at the Mamita´s house and I got to help her get ready for the primary banquet Saturday. I learned how to make a cake out of vanilla cookies, bananas and manjar. It was fun.

We´re teaching a new couple, Coni and Juan. We´re really excited about them because they are really receptive and interested. We talked to them about the Plan of Salvation and the Restoration and the Spirit was SUPER STRONG. It was awesome. We´re going to have a family home evening with them at the Mamita´s house on Wednesday.

For our one year mark, Hermana Moss wrote me a little card about the ways we both have grown in the mission this past year. It was really sweet. One of the things she said was: "Don´t forget why you wanted to come on a mission." It made me think about the times that I was just dying out of a desire to be able to do contacts and knock doors telling people about how awesome this Gospel is. I need to stop looking at stoping people in the street as a chore and start appreciating that I only have authority to do it for 6 more months. That´s my goal for now. Hah.

Yeah, that´s all for now. Kinda uneventful, I know, but I´m doing well and I´ll look forward to hearing from you next week!

Love,

Jamie