CAMBIO 4 SEMANA 6
Place: Hualqui
Companion: Hermana Keil
Mini Cambio: Hermana López
Date: 9/07/2012
Hola Mi Familia!!!
¿Como estan todos? Well this week as actually been a little
crazy but has been really fun! Like life this week had its ups and
downs, like a roller coaster, but hey it makes it fun! I love roller
coasters! :) No I think the only thing that wasn´t too much fun this
week is we had many doors closed in our face this week, so it was really
hard, because we know how important this message it, and when people
don´t want to give even five minutes for a simple prayer or a message
about Christ it´s hard, but all you have to remember is that people have
agency and if they choose not to listen it is ok and maybe one day they
will :)
OK time for the big question that I think all of you want
answered this week, what happened with cambios this week! Ok ready for
this, drum roll please......... I AM GOING TO CORDILLERA, CHILLAN!!!!
Yep that is right I´m changing sectors after 6 months of being in
Hualqui! AAAH is the only this that I can say, but I knew that it was
coming, I knew that I was going to be changed, because it is very rare
to have 5 cambios in a sector like I told you before, and the fact that I
couldn´t sleep last night
very well, probably was another sign. But I´m very excited to go to my
new sector, and I will be companions with Hermana Steinmetz, she is a
wonderful missionary, I have met her a few times and I´m excited to be
with her! So next week there will be some more updates about how my new
sector is!!!
So this week I had a mini cambio like you can see, I was with
Hermana López like you can see, and it was so much fun, I love Hna.
López with all my heart, she is an hermana from Argentina and is the
best ever, we had a lot of fun working together, and because it was the
fourth of July, she decided that we had to celebrate it, so when we got
home that night, she painted our faces with the American flag and then
we made no bake cookies, haha it was a lot of fun! Too bad it is against
the rules to have fireworks! :) But we had a lot of fun! Oh so I forgot
to tell you last week it turns out I became the "chosen one" in our
house, because my legs started getting bitten by fleas so much last
week, and usually there is only one person they choose in the house and
this cambio is turned out to be me! I really don´t like being the
"Chosen One" in that manera, but hey they haven´t been biting this week
so that is a whole lot better.
What else could I tell you about this week, so we are continuing
to work with the wonderful people here in Hualqui, Carol is progressing
really well, and will be baptized in a couple weeks, which is awesome,
it will be sad that I can´t be here, but Hna. Keil promised she would
take pictures. Catalina is progressing little by little, and hopefully
Hna. Keil and Hna. Rojas will be able to help her take that next step. I
know that there are going to be great people waiting for me in
Cordillera, and it will be great to go there and find them.
So we have been teaching a lady here in Hualqui, named
Claudia, I can´t remember if I told you about her, or not, she is a
wonderful lady, she is 24 years old, but the hard thing we are trying to
help her with is she is a drug addict, and smokes and drinks, but she
wants to change so we are trying to help her change, but the other day
we stoped by her house to take her some mandrine oranges because they
are her favorite, and when we stoped by she, was completely drunk and on
something, and we stopped by to drop the oranges off, and when we did
she just started crying and crying, because she just needed someone to
support her, and she was very sad that she couldn´t have her 4 year old
daughter with her that weekend, but we were in there trying to comfort
her, we sang for her, and we just sat
there with her, trying to help her, and in the end of our visit we got
her to a point of laughing. I can´t describe all that happend that
night, but I will tell you this experience had a great effect on me, and
has changed me more than anyone will expect. I have learned more this
week, the importance of each person in the eyes of God, and the worth of
souls. As we were helping her, I could feel within me the love that our
Heavenly Father has for Claudia, it was the coolest feeling ever, and I
know that no importa the situation that anyone is in our Heavenly
Father is there for each and everyone of his children, and never leaves
them, they just need to seek and ask for his help.
Haha so this week we had a service project to help a member in
our ward. So we went to their house because they had just finished
cutting all the branches off their tree and had two huge piles so we
helped them short it out into fire wood and sticks to go out back, and
my job was to chop all the wood, because I was the only Hermana who has
every really used an axe before (Yes that is right mom! I hope that
makes you proud! :) ) , haha it was so much fun, but I am so sore right
now, because the "axe" that they had was more like a hatchet with and
axe head, haha so I had to use a lot more force to cut the wood, but hey
it was so much fun! I actually had someone who let me cut wood, I have
been offering people for weeks and finally someone accepted! Whats up
with people not wanting to accept, just because I´m a missionary who
happens to be an hermana and I´m wearing a dress, doesn´t mean that I
can´t cut wood! ;) haha just kidding around :) Oh so I bought a recorder
this week, because I needed something to play music, because I don´t
have much time any more to play piano, and playing music is one of my
destressers, so I bought a recorder and I have been learning how to play
the hymns on it, I´m doing pretty good with it, you will have to hear,
oh and dad so that you know, I have a goal now to learn how to play the
bagpipes, so get you chanter ready I will learn that when i get home
because I know that is after recorder! then next step bagpipes!!! :)
Well I need to get going so that I can go and pack all my stuff and I can get a little bit of sleep tonight,
haha! but before I end I´m going to leave you with a spiritual thought,
so this week I finished the Book of Mormon!! Woohoo!!! It was such an
amazing experience to read it together as a mission and this week I´m
going to start with D&C! I´m really excited. But one of the things
that stood out to me as I finished and the experiences that I had this
week, is that we can´t judge people! We need to always remember that the Worth of Souls is Great in the Sight of God!!
We need to remember that all people that are around us are our brothers
and sister, and remember to love them, remember that everyone needs to
be loved. I´m definitly not the most perfect one with this, but each and
every day if there is someone who makes me mad I do my best to remember
that they are my brothers and sisters and well, and I forgive them. So
my message to you all this week, so your best to serve others this week,
and remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God, remember
that each and every person on this earth is our brother and sister and
we are here to help them! Find someone to serve this week.
I hope that all of you are continuing to do amazing and this
next week I will have another wonderful letter for you all from
Cordillera!! Please take care and remember that I am always praying for
you all! and I love you all so much! Until next week!
Con Amor Siempre, y Para Toda La Eternidad,
Hermana Aubrey Jo England
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