Hello my loved ones!!
Haha! I know you all are dieing to hear how the funeral went. But sadly someone stole the corpse!!! It’s disgusting the kind of world we live in today were people steal things. Haha they thought they won a new pair of shoes but they were mistaken to find a worn out pair of missionary shoes. It was sad, I cried a little bit to have lost this love of my life but my companion and the elders gave me some counsel that I’m going to love these new shoes just as much because we are going to walk a lot of miles together.
I love our district leader here in La Union! He is focused on letting us complete our goals and responsibility as missionaries by completing the missionary standards of the mission for the first time! I’m so excited and pumped! We actually completed the goal for this week as a district and had 15 lessons with members, it feels so good. It really helped all of the numbers take off! We started off as a rocket ship with good momentum and now we are going to keep on soaring!! I like how Elder Saade put it when he said “vamos a trabajar demasiado esta cambio” we are going to work out of control this transfer!
Ok so this letter will be short because my fingers are so cold it is hard to type. This week has been colder than Punta Arenas and I was so confused because it was logical to think that nothing would be colder than Punta Arenas. But one man that knows Punta Arenas told me that it is because everyone has their gas heaters on because it is really cheap down their and here everyone has wood stoves and the people that live here don’t keep there houses warm because it uses a lot of wood. Our leaders called us and told us that we need to change houses because the water and light is expensive in our house we received mail under our door that said that the elders used 34.000 and the Muños family that lives in the apartments only uses 6.000 so I want to move to the apartments because we have a lot of members and investigators that live there. I hope to get everything settled this week by finding a house and finding someone else to live in this house. That is the miracle that we are praying for this week.
Well I better go. We are going to celebrate Elder Saade’s birthday that is today! He was there in the mission office when I came to Chile and so he made a video for you guys to tell you what it was like when I first came to Chile and didn’t speak Spanish. He said that he tried to talk to me but I just smiled and said “hola”! Haha he is so funny! You are going to love the video because his English is really good. I have a goal with my companion to speak in English to each other and I only have 3 months before she goes to her home in Perú so we have a lot of work but she is catching on quick.
Remember that I love you very much!
With all my love,Hermana Wade
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
July 13- 20
Greeting from la Únion!!! I opened up an area this Thursday called RADIMADI. This place is so beautiful! I’m in love with this place. I’m so glad to serve in this new area it is so green, and sunny! I’m so in LOVE! Haha I’m so HAPPY, it should be illegal! I can’t help but walk around with a big huge smile on my face!
I’ll be honest I didn’t like the way my companion approached people on the street and chased them like a dog pestering the people that didn’t want to listen. I didn’t like these negative feelings, so I prayed that I could understand my companion, or that I could show her how to do it in a loving manner. Heavenly Father answered my prayer as I talked to my companion, and now I understand that she has had many experiences were her perseverance has changed the heart of her street contacts that are now ready for baptism. I’m so thankful for humble prayers. I love my new companion so much! I’m so excited for all the great things that we are going to learn together. Her name is Hermana Maria Navidad Vallejos (haha Marry Christmas) and she is from Perú. My Perúvian companion is doomed to come to Arizona because she has had pure ‘Gringas’ as companions 5 of the 7 are from Arizona. Her trainer was Hermana Kendra Tropple (who is now married).
I’m serving in a little branch and the members are wonderful!! There is a little bit of everything the elderly and babies! The babys are Ricisimo!
Wow My shoes were so broke down!!! Don’t worry I took pictures! We are going to have a funeral for my shoes after lunch with the elderers…. It should be fun! I’m scared because there are 6 funeral companies in my area. I don’t know what that means …but I’m scared. My companion believes that I’m going to kill her here when I send her to her home in 3 months.
Hermana Wade
I’ll be honest I didn’t like the way my companion approached people on the street and chased them like a dog pestering the people that didn’t want to listen. I didn’t like these negative feelings, so I prayed that I could understand my companion, or that I could show her how to do it in a loving manner. Heavenly Father answered my prayer as I talked to my companion, and now I understand that she has had many experiences were her perseverance has changed the heart of her street contacts that are now ready for baptism. I’m so thankful for humble prayers. I love my new companion so much! I’m so excited for all the great things that we are going to learn together. Her name is Hermana Maria Navidad Vallejos (haha Marry Christmas) and she is from Perú. My Perúvian companion is doomed to come to Arizona because she has had pure ‘Gringas’ as companions 5 of the 7 are from Arizona. Her trainer was Hermana Kendra Tropple (who is now married).
I’m serving in a little branch and the members are wonderful!! There is a little bit of everything the elderly and babies! The babys are Ricisimo!
Wow My shoes were so broke down!!! Don’t worry I took pictures! We are going to have a funeral for my shoes after lunch with the elderers…. It should be fun! I’m scared because there are 6 funeral companies in my area. I don’t know what that means …but I’m scared. My companion believes that I’m going to kill her here when I send her to her home in 3 months.
Hermana Wade
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 6- 13
Hola fam!
Just wanted to tell you that I love you all!
Im going to be leaving Punta Arenas and opening up a sector above Osorno.
Take care
Hermana wade
Just wanted to tell you that I love you all!
Im going to be leaving Punta Arenas and opening up a sector above Osorno.
Take care
Hermana wade
Monday, July 6, 2009
June 29- July 6
Hello everyone!
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Thanks for all the letters I haven’t been able to read them all yet but I’ll read them tonight. I know that the Lord is watching out for you while I am here. I’m so gald that God has blessed me with such great family and friends.
I am having a blast here in Punta Arenas. I love all the members in my ward! We are getting them more excited to leave with us to teach our investigators. The Lopez family (Roberto, Janette, Roberto Junior, Franco, and Tamara) were inactive befor and now they are bearing thier testimonys to our investigators and they gave us a reference to teach them discussions. The Alarcon family (Angelica, Fernanda, and Nicolas) is doing better she has been in bed sick for a while and when he were at her house yesterday she was back to her old self dancing around the house. The Guzman family that makes bread is happy as can be with there son Marcelo that moved down from Santiago with his wife Paulina and their daughter Ariel. Marcelo served a mission in Columbia and afterward went inactive for a little bit. Paulina is now baptized and we are reteaching her the lessons so that she can leave with us. The Reyes family is amazing! It’s a great blessing to have them live infront of us if we need help they are always willing to do anything. The Bishop Vidal is a strong short little man that has a very strong grip.
The investigators are wonderful. Yanaina is preparing for baptism. We just taught her the law of chastity with her boyfriend Hugo.
The hardest thing is to get the people to go to church. I’m so glad that I never had a hard time going to church. I know that this is the Lords day and we need to keep it holy. The scriptures are very clear. I love reading them because I’m learning a lot about the commandments and the blessings that come from it as I keep them. It says that a whole nation will perish when they don’t keep the Sabbath day holy. We talked to the bishop about it and now we are going to focus on that topic so that we can make it a strenth. Really we have 6 days to ourselves and to dedicate one day for Him is not too much to ask. All we need to ask ourselves is if this activity is to ador Christ or me?
The weather is crazy! It rains and then it snows and then the snow turns into slush and then it frezzes in the night, and then in the morning Punta Arenas is one big skating rink....it’s not surprizing but I fell two times! Haha I just got up and acted like nothing happened.
Love you all! The church of Jesus Christ is here on the earth and we get are members of His church. I know that President Thomas is our president and he hold all the keys of the priesthood and I’m thankful for his service.
Don’t forget I love ya’ll!
Hermana Krista Wade
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! Thanks for all the letters I haven’t been able to read them all yet but I’ll read them tonight. I know that the Lord is watching out for you while I am here. I’m so gald that God has blessed me with such great family and friends.
I am having a blast here in Punta Arenas. I love all the members in my ward! We are getting them more excited to leave with us to teach our investigators. The Lopez family (Roberto, Janette, Roberto Junior, Franco, and Tamara) were inactive befor and now they are bearing thier testimonys to our investigators and they gave us a reference to teach them discussions. The Alarcon family (Angelica, Fernanda, and Nicolas) is doing better she has been in bed sick for a while and when he were at her house yesterday she was back to her old self dancing around the house. The Guzman family that makes bread is happy as can be with there son Marcelo that moved down from Santiago with his wife Paulina and their daughter Ariel. Marcelo served a mission in Columbia and afterward went inactive for a little bit. Paulina is now baptized and we are reteaching her the lessons so that she can leave with us. The Reyes family is amazing! It’s a great blessing to have them live infront of us if we need help they are always willing to do anything. The Bishop Vidal is a strong short little man that has a very strong grip.
The investigators are wonderful. Yanaina is preparing for baptism. We just taught her the law of chastity with her boyfriend Hugo.
The hardest thing is to get the people to go to church. I’m so glad that I never had a hard time going to church. I know that this is the Lords day and we need to keep it holy. The scriptures are very clear. I love reading them because I’m learning a lot about the commandments and the blessings that come from it as I keep them. It says that a whole nation will perish when they don’t keep the Sabbath day holy. We talked to the bishop about it and now we are going to focus on that topic so that we can make it a strenth. Really we have 6 days to ourselves and to dedicate one day for Him is not too much to ask. All we need to ask ourselves is if this activity is to ador Christ or me?
The weather is crazy! It rains and then it snows and then the snow turns into slush and then it frezzes in the night, and then in the morning Punta Arenas is one big skating rink....it’s not surprizing but I fell two times! Haha I just got up and acted like nothing happened.
Love you all! The church of Jesus Christ is here on the earth and we get are members of His church. I know that President Thomas is our president and he hold all the keys of the priesthood and I’m thankful for his service.
Don’t forget I love ya’ll!
Hermana Krista Wade
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