CAMBIO 8 SEMANA 4
Lugar: Agronomia, Chillan Ñuble
Compañera: Hermana González
Fecha: 10/12/2012
Hola Mi Familia!!!!!
¿Como Están Todos? As always I hope that you are all
doing well, and as always I´m just going to say that this past week just
flew by and I have no idea where the time went!! haha that is life for
you right? But this week has been pretty good, there have been some
great things that have happened, I would just like to ask that you have
patience I try to remember and do my best to write a few things that
have happened. Entonces, here we go!!
Well on Monday it was Hermana González´s birthday, we didn´t do to much on Monday,
and she really didn´t want to do to much, because she doesn´t want to
be reminded of her age because she is 29 now. But the Bishop is a great
man and he made her a cake as well, and on Tuesday,
we celebrated her birthday after daily planning, we has balloons and
everything, I have some pictures, but I forgot my cable so I will have
to send them next week, but it was a lot of fun!! and we have been
having a good week together!!
On Tuesday we had a mini conference, and President came
to chillan and he talked to us about teaching like Christ and using our
area book better so that the missionaries have a better time finding
people after we are long gone from the sector. But it was a really good
conference. And I´m excited because this week and Wednesday, we are
going to travel to Talca and we are going to have a conference for Christmas, so I will have to let you know how that goes this next week!
This week we are working our very best so that Valeska
can get baptized this next week but we are waiting for the dad´s
permission, so wish us luck that we are able to obtain it. And we are
also teaching another girl whose name is Alondra, we are trying to help
her see that this is something that will help her out very well, but we
are receiving a little bit of opposition from her great grandma, which
is a little hard, but we will have to see how things go this week,
please pray for her as well, but other than that we are still in the
process of finding people, which is always fun!! :)
Well this next week we are going to have cambios, because cambios this year fell on Christmas,
so they are doing it a week earlier, and the next cambio will be 7
weeks, but Hna. González and I are not completely sure what is going to
happen, we have a feeling that I´m leaving because I have about 6 months
in chillan, and only 4 months left. But anything can happen with
President and the Lord, so we are just waiting patiently until next
week, and working the best we can until then!! :)
I´m sorry that this letter is a bit short, I´m just
having a hard time remembering everything, but I promise to make a list
this next week so that I remember. But as always before I leave you all I
am going to leave you with a spiritual thought! This spiritual thought
is a story that I really love, I´m sure most of you have heard it
before, but I would like to share it with you anyway, because it has a
good meaning behind it! Here is the story, it is called "trouble at the
inn"
For years now whenever Christmas
pageants are talked about in a certain little town in the Midwest,
someone is sure to mention the name of Wallace Purling better known as
little Wally. It was Wally’s performance in one annual production of the
Nativity play that has slipped into the realm of legend. But the
old-timers who were in the audience that night never tire of recalling
exactly what happened.
Wally
was nine that year and in the second grade, though he should have been
in the fourth. Most people in town knew that he had difficulty in
keeping up. He was big and clumsy, slow in movement and mind.
Wally fancied the idea of being a shepherd in the Christmas
pageant that year, but the play’s director, Miss Lumbard, knew that
there were too many lines for Wally to memorize. So she assigned him the
role of the Innkeeper who only had a couple of lines. For weeks he
practiced his part and his lines. Miss Lumbard’s biggest concern for the
play that year was that Wally didn’t mess his part up and therefore
embarrass himself.
It
just so happened that the whole town had turned out the night of the
big production. No one on stage or off was more caught up in the magic
of the night than little Wallace Purling. Then the time came when Joseph
appeared, slowly, tenderly guiding Mary to the door of the inn. Joseph
knocked hard on the wooden door set into the painted backdrop. Wally the
Innkeeper was there, waiting.
“What do you want?” Wally said, swinging the door open with a gruff gesture.
“We seek lodging.”
“Seek it elsewhere.” Wally looked straight ahead but spoke vigorously. “The inn is filled.”
“Sir, we have asked everywhere in vain. We have traveled far and are very weary.”
“There is no room in the inn for you.” Wally looked properly stern.
“Please,
good innkeeper, this is my wife, Mary. She is heavy with child and
needs a place to rest. Surely you must have some small corner for her.
She is so tired.”
Now,
for the first time, the Innkeeper relaxed his stiff stance and looked
down at Mary. With that, there was a long pause, long enough to make the
audience a bit tense with embarrassment.
“No! Begone!” the prompter whispered from behind the curtain.
“No!” Wally repeated automatically. “Begone!”
Joseph
sadly placed his arm around Mary and Mary laid her head upon her
husband’s shoulder and the two of them started to move away. The
Innkeeper did not return inside his inn, however. Wally stood there in
the doorway, watching the desperate couple. His mouth was open, his brow
creased with concern, his eyes filling unmistakably with tears.
And suddenly this Christmas pageant became different from all the others.
“Don’t
go, Joseph,” Wally cried out. “Bring Mary back.” And Wallace Purling’s
face grew into a bright smile. “You can have my room.”
A few old grouches in tiny town thought that the pageant had been ruined. Yet most attending that night considered it the best Christmas pageant they had ever seen.
I
really like this story a lot because of the simple and powerful example
of Wally, and the question is, how many of us are willing to give up
our room for Jesus? What are we willing to give up for Him in general?
Are you willing to give things up so that He can come into your life and
change you? But I hope that this Christmas that we all remember what the real meaning is always, and we are willing to give our room to the Christ child!
Remember that I love you all so, so much!!! Remember that I
pray for each of you each and everyday!!! And I promise to have a better
detailed letter this next week! But please take care and I will write
again next week! Love you all!!
Con Amor Siempre y Para Toda La Eternidad!
Hermana Aubrey Jo England
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