tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88086839614595095912024-03-05T08:54:00.680-08:00Jessica LinJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-57837134572377594032011-11-01T20:38:00.002-07:002011-11-01T20:38:32.446-07:00October 31, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! ahhh i am jealous you get to see all the cute trick or treaters out tonight!!!! i wonder if we will suprise anyone tonight, maybe they will offer us candy........ maybe.......... haha. well halloween isnt very big here, they are just getting started. i think i told you last year but pretty much the only costumes they have figured out so far are a witch for girls and a devil or skeleton for boys....... a bit boring, but they will catch on one day. i havent seen anyone dressed up all day. last year hna thompson and i dressed up like eachother and wore eachothers clothes and nametags....... we had to do something to celebrate. but this year is another low key halloween. its been a year and a half already, time is flying. everyone here talks about it, they all predict my future and make bets. they are all calling dibs on my clothes and belongings, it is making it real and a bit more scary. just trying not to think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well hey, its been another week, another good week. i have never slept so good in my life, i sleep like a rock about five seconds after i put my head on the pillow. at the same time i have never been so tired, i feel like i could sleep for days straight, but at the same time its the most rewarding feeling. i have been having the worst stress dreams about getting everything left perfect here, i feel like i could go and go and go, and i know that there will always be more to do and that is why they put new missionaries in but i just want to get everything done. i guess i just have to do the best i can and then put my trust in God and those who come after to take care of things. we have an amazing family that we are teaching, their names are silvia and julio and have four kids laura, lauro (odd i know), julia, and evangelina. they have come to church the past couple of sundays and are doing great. julio was smoking and drinking a lot and without us saying anything quit cold turkey from one day to the next. you should have seen him yesterday, he is 63 but looks at least 75 from all the smoking, he came to church in a white button up shirt, with his hair parted and looked great. he is usually really rough looking so it was a drastic change. we had a lesson with them last night and he told us the story of how back, quite a while ago, he killed a police officer, he has had a rough past. you can just see it in him, he has such a great desire to be completely forgiven of what he did and is putting forth a full effort to show his desire to Heavenly Father. right now we are trying to figure out how to get him and silvia married. we have to get a certificate of divorce from his last wife and that is proving to be really complicated. things here are way behind so it takes a lot more time to figure out how to get things like that done. we went to some government office this afternoon and they gave us a bit of a run around, but we are going to work with what we have and see what we can do. it might not get done before i leave, but i pray it does. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we had an interesting lunch this week, i have no idea how the conversation came up but they started talking about lice. i am not sure you are really going to want to hear this conversation, i am just so used to it that it doesnt even phase me anymore, but this was nuts. this hermana was telling us how they all have lice and can never get rid of them but how they are especially bad with her 5 year old sone. she said one day she sat there and pulled out over 300 lice from his hair, i was itching all over just hearing it. my comp then said when they were little her parents would have her and her brothers and sisters stand in a line and pull lice out of eachothers hair. my head is itching just typing this, i made my comp check me that night. she said i am good. whew........... but still i am going to lice bath my head before leaving so no worries. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we found another new family to teach as well....... they are amazing!!! we found them with my old comp but have been teaching them several times a week with hna rojas and they have done a 180 in just two weeks. they are completing with everything that we leave with them to do. their names are veronica and miguel and have 6 kids between the two of them, only the youngest is theirs together. they are super sweet, its been amazing especially to see miguel open up, he didnt have any interest at first but now just gabs the entire time and is always really engaged. </span></div><!--EndFragment-->Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-49081916879425872082011-11-01T20:38:00.000-07:002011-11-01T20:38:05.122-07:00October 24, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well anyway here i am.... in sugar bread yet again. with my corto plazo, her name is luci rojas, hermana rojas. actually we are in montevideo right now at a big mall that is here, i havent been in anything of the sort for a year and a half and i just about cried when we stepped in, i feel so uncomfortable, super out of place. my hands immediately started clamming up and i got all bug eyed. my comp actually lived in philidelphia for four years and just said, well hey, its like being in the states again. i forgot this kind of thing existed, makes me nervous to go back. okay so more about my comp, she is from a department called durazno and is 30, she is actually just waiting for her visa to go out on the mission, so honestly, i couldnt have been blessed with a corto plazo. when everyone hears that someone is getting a corto plazo its just like, ooooooooooooo well good luck with that one, but seriously, i think this is the best way i could end my mission. she is super motivated to learn and work and that is exactly what i was hoping for in my last companion to finish strong. but ya, so i am living with a ´guayan in ´guay, never thought that would happen!! she is hillerious too so that makes it even better, we get along super well and she is teaching me all the uruguayan dichos such as ¨te mato a palo¨ which i used wrong this week and said ¨te mato a pato¨ meaning i will kill you with a duck instead of ill kill you with a stick. she got a good laugh out of that one. thats what all the parents tell their kids when they are being disobedient.... pretty sure i will not tell my kids i am going to kill them when they disbehave haha. she speaks some english which is great, we speak english in the house and spanish in the street, but then end up speaking spanish almost always. it is super cute when she speaks english, i love her accent. but ya, things are going really well, we are kicking butt here and fighting to the end for me, and the beginning for her. oh she is going to be serving her mission in las vegas, she was supposed to leave in september but they have had a ton of visa problems so we came here today to do paper work for her and it looks as though she will be leaving the 28th of november, she is stoked, i am happy for her, she is going to be an amazing missionary. i am teaching her some things in english as well............. i taught her the actions to the song about pizza hut, kfc, and mcdonalds with the actions, she thinks it is hillerious.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we had a super funny experience this week, there is something everyday and i have just learned to laugh about it, i will never get to have experiences like this again. my last comp really taught me to laugh about the things that are ridiculous instead of reacting badly, and this one really made me laugh. we were in la capuera, that campgroud type part of our area and were going around clapping houses after lunch when we came across this house with a girl sitting in front of the gate, we tried to talk to her and then quickly picked up that she was special and unable to respond. her mom quickly came out and started talking to us and told us that they were actually members but hadnt been in a while, they had just recently lost everything, and i mean everything, in a house fire. they have 5 kids and live in a tiny wooden shack, but she quickly and happily invited us in. we talked for a bit and then started sharing a little lesson that i had that went along with puzzle pieces for the kids. so during the lesson i noticed that the mom had wiped something up from infront of me but i didnt know what, my comp just had a disgusted look on her face, but i just kept talking not knowing what was going on, my comp was so disgusted she wasnt speaking. as i turned my attention back to the center of the room ( i was sitting with their daughter with autism on my left and two little boys on my right who were reading) i noticed that what the mom kept wiping up was vomit. poor thing, their daughter with autism, throws up sequentially when she is overwhelmed or wants more attention. so as the lesson kept going, she kept throwing up and the family was so used to it that they didnt even pay attention, just the mom that was throwing a rag over it everytime it happened. i gave the kids the puzzle together, and they set it right in the middle of the throw up and started arranging it, i just tried to keep it together. when they were done and we finished the lesson they picked up the soaked puzzle pieces and handed them to me............ i took them.............. and put them in the front pocket of my backpack as to not make a big deal of it. we prayed and left and i noticed that there was vomit that had splashed up all over my legs and on my shoes.......... momm thanks for that hand sanitizer after all..... it came in really handy. but hey, that is just one of those things i had to laugh about, being a nanny prepared me for that one haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we are doing really well though, we had a steak conference yesterday with a general authority of the church that came and spoke and were able to have several people that we are teaching there. it was a wonderful experience and an awesome conference. we are teaching a family that is working on getting married right now, they are really excited!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well okay geez i took up all that time, but i hope you enjoy my crazy urugayan adventures, i will have plenty more to tell. well i love you billionz and zillions, i am getting excited to see you, okay i was already excited, but i am just more excited now. love you to the moon and back a million times. love always-jess<o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-82993321682597575152011-11-01T20:37:00.000-07:002011-11-01T20:37:08.200-07:00October 17- Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0bEUvR_AJZiCr0ZC5TllmjQh2x7ixbivvJmCdSMFB8kcCzO4qnv7YoX4bYCn1bll-dxGnRicbOglmhbV1DpkO9Ern-Pd1Mo2nw35GfieGp8P8ca7_U5tg4RykKPKvfbR7xNoA445XO44/s1600/P1000288.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0bEUvR_AJZiCr0ZC5TllmjQh2x7ixbivvJmCdSMFB8kcCzO4qnv7YoX4bYCn1bll-dxGnRicbOglmhbV1DpkO9Ern-Pd1Mo2nw35GfieGp8P8ca7_U5tg4RykKPKvfbR7xNoA445XO44/s320/P1000288.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> its getting close, really close, i can hardly believe it, i feel really weird, confused, almost like my mind is trying to mentally prepare me for the blow before it happens. well as of today i am officially what they call a ¨valiente¨ which means i am in the oldest group on the mission, and will be going home at the end of this change.... obviously. we received our change calls last night and my companion, hermana lundskog, will be going to la paloma, a beach town a bit more east and north of here.......... and i will be staying here in pan de azucar........ but here is the catch, i will be getting what they call a corto plazo ( i think thats how you spell it). anyway, what that means is that the girl that i am getting is not a missionary, she lives here in uruguay and is getting the chance to experience the missionary life for six weeks............ it usually happens when they are short a missonary for that change, so yup........ she is going to be my companion for the next six weeks. i dont know her, no one knows who she is until tomorrow at changes. i am a bit nervous, but i know that whatever has happened before this moment has prepared me for what will come. it will all be okay, i just keep that in my mind. i have only had one other companion that had a corto plazo and she said it was rough but she learned alot. so i will take it like that, yet another learning experince. at this point i look at it as i can do anything for 6 weeks, right?? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well so thats about it for the exciting news, its going to be a fun ride. i think we will get along just fine and that everything will pull along as it has. the only thing that is for certain is that i will be leaving after this change, and she is only here for a change so they will be doing what is called a white wash to the area after, meaning two completely new missionaries will come in, so we will work to leave the area as best as we can so that they have a smooth take over.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well this week has been really great, alot has happened and its amazing to see people come along and all the progress they make. on tuesday we had a family home evening with the couple, hector and laura, we are teaching, daniel and rosana, and andres and eugenia, another couple from the branch that has become really good friends with rosana and daniel. rosana gave the lesson, it was super creative. she had 7 little sheets of paper that each person was given and then they had to do what it said. anyway, moral of the story, each little thing that we had to do was in relation with a gospel principal and at the end she tied everything together. it was much to perfect for words, seriously i have never had something go so smoothly. so then at the end hector started to talk, and just came out and basically gave a testimony without even thinking of it. he told everyone how sure they were that they are in the right path and that they are so happy that they have found the gospel to bless their lives. i was screaming with happiness inside, its so amazing to see people really grasp what it is that you are trying to portray to people all day. its like you actually see a light bulb go on and they literally have more light to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we then on friday night had dinner with hector and laura, that is the first time in my whole mission that i have had dinner with people we are just teaching, it was really nice. did i tell you that hector plays professional soccer??? sweet huh??? he has been thinking about giving it up because that is what prevents them from getting to church on sundays, he knows that it is what makes their lives a bit more comfortable and less tight, but also knows that he will be blessed for doing it. so we will see what happens. during the dinner laura told us that hector has been undergoing much persecution at work for his beliefs, of course the things that people are saying are just misunderstandings, but hector is staying firm, despite what people are saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">on saturday we were able to help with a service project at a little preschool that is down the road from the church. we painted the walls outside that surround the play area. it felt really great to be able to help with something in the community. not to mention it is really different to see how people change and how happy they become when they are helping other people, everyone really enjoyed themselves and were able to feel accomplished for what they did.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ohhhhhhh!!!! almost forgot about this!!! my comp and i were out last weekend knocking houses and have really been looking for ¨alfondo¨ houses, which are houses behind houses. many times there is a house behind a house behind a house if you catch my drift....... its crazy!!! we used to live in a house that was in front of a house that was in front of a house that was in front of a house!!! four houses piled infront of eachother. anyway, this man cezar lives in one of those houses. we found him and he was really amazing, he had for years been somewhat of a missionary for a church, and had some crazy experiences. anyway he is very religiously educated and has read and analyzed the bible twice all the way through, not counting study that he has done apart from that. so we shared a bit about our message and he was intrigued. this weekend when we went back to visit him he had read the pamplet that we left with him twice thoroughly and had marked all the questions he had. so we talked a bit with him and answered his questions and wrote down to study those that we didnt quite know or understand to go over next time. we talked alot about the life of Jesus Christ and his ministry and left him with the book of mormon, i am sure you know what that is, another testament of Jesus Christ, and left him with a chapter to read. ever since we left that with him he has been contacting us constantly to give him more chapters and verses to read. as he put it, he picked it up and now cannot stop. i guess i have never really been like that so i really admire that quality. it really is a miracle to find people like that who really grasp the message we are sharing, they are rare, but when you find them they are just that much more special.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we went to the hippies today and made mud art with them, i made a bunch of christmas ornaments.... we will see how they turn out, i am not very creative haha. oh and while we ate lunch there was a uruguayan man singing and playing guitar, he was singing elvis presley with a guayan accent of course haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">pictures are of the service activity, well us at the service activity with some of the women of the ward, my comp and i, and ioham, the son of daniel and rosana<o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-7428777648778898902011-11-01T20:34:00.001-07:002011-11-01T20:34:11.154-07:00October 10, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">so anyway here i am, yet another week, this is my last week of this change and then........ on to my last change, can you believe it!!! my comp is most definitely leaving the area after this change since it is her fourth here, a whole six months in one area. and that puts me....... i am not sure, we will have to see, hopefully with a latina to kick my butt with spanish. i have now had 5 changes straight with gringas and i need some spanish boot camp. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we had interviews with our mission president this week on friday, oh by the way it has been raining for four days now!!! uruguay and its rain........ comes out of no where. so my interview was great, i was able to get some advice from president on some issues we are having in our branch. i also got to talk to him on a more personal note which was really nice, he is a very wise person, i have grown closer and closer to him and his wife throughout the mission. its a bummer that right when i feel like this its almost time to leave, its just like being in an area, just when you feel like you have it down and feel comfortable, you get shipped off to a new area and a new adventure. after interviews we went to stop off at the house and drop some things out. of course it had been super windy and rainy and when we got home our bedroom was flooded. good thing the floors are cement, it took a while to get it all cleaned up by soaking up towels and ringing them into buckets but all is well now. i guess with the wind and rain it all just came in under the door. a hermano from the ward came over and put a plastic table infront of the door to deflect the rain..... thats one way to fix things haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well i wanted to give you a little update on cute rosana and daniel, who are doing fabulous. we had a really special experience with them this week and with their son ioham. rosana is super preggo and is ready to pop, well actually she is due the day i get home, i am hoping the baby comes a little early so i can meet him before i go. but anyway, we had a lesson with them, and their son ioham for the past couple of weeks has caught on to the whole idea of prayer and ALWAYS insists on saying the prayer, and i mean insists until you let him, but they just whisper the words into his ear and then he repats them. but this time, for the first time he wanted to do it on his own. he is just barely 3. so he started, thanked Heavenly Father for having the missionaries at his house, asked God to bless the food, and to bless his family, very simple, but so cute. when we opened our eyes daniel and rosana were both with eyes full of big tears that were ready to fall, they just sat there and didnt say anything. it was a really special moment for them, well for all of us but especially for them. its amazing that a 3 year old can understand something so vitally important such as prayer. no wonder God repeatedly says in the scriptures to come unto him as little children. I know some of the greatest lessons i have learned have been from being with the Murdock girls and Carlson kids, kids just have a different spirit, they are so humble and submissive. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">i told you i was going to tell you a bit about a man named wilson we are teaching. he was at the house of hector and laura one day, that is the couple that has the son that looks just like jared when he was little. at the end of that lesson hector had asked for God to help wilson with the difficult time he was going through. that caught our attention a bit and we got his number at the end of the lesson. we talked to him and set up an appt to go and see him but in the meantime he sent us a message asking for our prayers, he didnt know how to get out of the rutt he was in. our first lesson with him he let us in on alot. he is a very depressed man, he feels very lonely and doesnt see purpose in his life. he has contemplated suicide on many levels and just feet useless. we shared with him how it is that he could find purpose in life and what it is that God has planned for him and lesson after lesson, he has a little bit more light. its not like it is going to come over night but as he applys himself and seeks God he will surely find what he is looking for. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">i am glad to hear that everything is going well there and sounds like the weather is cooling down and going to skip fall and go right to snowing, yikes!!!! wow that is crazy how fast things are changing, it is gloomy outside today. my comp and i were going to go to the part of our area called la capuera and make mud art with a hippie family that we contacted the other day. they are the most amazing family, you would appreciate their views a ton. they actually live in a mud house and for a living make mud art that they bake and make into pottery type things. everything they have in their house is made of hardened mud, even their oven. they have two little children and live completely with nature, there is a part of me that just wants to escape the world many times and live like they do. there really isnt any feeling quite like being in the middle of nature without the hussle and commotion of the world around. i am a bit jealous everytime we go to visit them. the dad, leo and i got talking about you mom and all the health problems you have. he is really into natural medicine and said the most pure environment you can live in is a mud house like theirs.... dont know what your view on that would be but hey haha. they said that the house actually contracts and expands depending on the climate, like it breathes on its own. he told me to bring you here to live in the second mudd hut they are building, i told them uruguay was too humid for you, they said they will come to the states with me and build you your own mud hut... haha, como le parece??? so i will be coming home with my hippie family friends, do we have room for 4 more and a mud hut in the backyard, haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well things are going really good, its like you said dad, time is flying, i am trying not to think about it though, it gives me too many confusing emotions. so for now i will put that on the back burner until i really have to deal with it. did i ever tell you that my companion looks exactly like rachel isham, she is like the 24 year old version of what i imagine rach to look like now instead of when we were little girls. crazy. oh and jared i told the family we are teaching what you said about the pic of their son, they laughed, i think you are adopted from guay too, sorry charlie. you should scan and send me a pic of you when you were little so i can show it to them. speaking of their family, hector and laura are their names. they are an incredible family that we have been teaching. he plays soccer professionally and she stays at home with luciano, their 3 year old son. they have been the most amazing people to work with, just a little while ago hector told us that they desire to have in their lives what we are sharing with them, and doesnt care what anyone else says, that they can laugh and mock them but that he knows in his heart how the message is changing them. he is ready to even give up things like his crazy soccer schedule to put his prioritys straight in his life. things were not going well between him and laura but since we started visiting them and leaving them with things to do to strengthen their relationship with eachother, God, and Christ, they have noticed a dramatic change. the past few weeks their son luciano has been really sick and hospitalized and then band to leave the house, with an iv in his arm and everything. we were able to go over with a couple from our branch and luciano recieved what is called a blessing of health. the next day i asked laura how he was doing and she was overwhelmed, luciano had made great strides after being extremely sick for over a week. they are a couple with great faith and that is why the blessing was able to help their son. reminded me of something i was reading while i studied this week that talked about the blessings that are promised to us and that we can receive, depending on our faith and that we do not cast out their chances with fear and unbelief. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">yesterday and saturday we had general conference so i was able to see the good old slc on tv.... looks like they were kind of gloomy days there huh?? i love utah, never realized it until being here but it is SO beautiful, i really do love it. but anyway it was a great spiritual upliftment and there were many words said that i needed to hear, that were answers to my prayers. i definitely know that God´s greatest tool to answering my prayers is almost always through other people. well the greatest blessing and part of the whole thing is that to watch it in english, we had to come to maldonado, my old area so i was able to see tons of people from my old ward here. i thought people wouldnt remember me, but i was definitely wrong, i received so much love and hugs i could barely believe it. i thought i was just a new missionary that really had nothing to give, just a broken spanish accent and a silent smile much of the time, but God puts us where he needs us. it was so great to talk to all the members and actually understand this time haha, and see how their lives are. the greatest blessing i received yesterday was in a little yellow box. i saw richard and paola calamaris, they are a family that is quite possibly one of the closest to my heart in all of uruguay, i was able to teach and baptize them and their children in maldonado with hermana thompson. i saw them and ran to say hi and give paola a hug and then richard told me, damian (thier son) had something he had told richard to give to me. so he pulled out a little yellow box, i was a bit confused, i knew it was a jewelry box. then i opened it and there were two gage earrings that he had worn since we taught him. i would always tell him how he needed to take them out, it almost turned into a joke, it was impossible. he took them out for a bit after he was baptized and then put them back. he gave them to me to tell me that he is taking them out for good.... to prepare to go on a mission in a little over a year. my heart had one of its happiest moments in my time here. i got to see damian later that night and could barely keep it under control i was so happy for him. oh and also paola and richard are having another baby!!! and if it is a girl, they are going to name her jessica nichole, mine and my companions names, how cool is that??<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well so my week was wonderful as i look back on it, i feel that the adversary is trying to pull me down a bit and make me weak in this last little while that i have, i cannot let him though, i know there are still great things to be done. next week i want to tell you about an amazing man named wilson that we are teaching, and i will, but i am out of time for now. i love you ever so much and am so happy to call you my family. here is a scripture that i love and wanted to share with you, in my search for being a more patient person, the scriptures have brought a ton of light to the subject ¨ye are not able to abide in the presence of God now, neither the ministering of angels; wherefore continue in patience until ye are perfected¨<o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-32375731165582707802011-10-04T09:26:00.001-07:002011-10-04T09:32:11.909-07:00September 5, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well lets see, its been a good week, we have some really amazing people that we are teaching. rosana and daniel are doing really well and everyone in the branch just treats them so well, it makes me really happy to see everyone take them in and take care of them so well, its like they have been going for years. this week on wednesday we had a mission ward activity.... really i think thats how you say it in english, i dont know what it translates to because i have never used the term at home..... i am losing so many english words in translation and my english vocabulary seems to get smaller and smaller by the day. anyway it was really great, my comp and i gave a lesson on the impact one person can have on everyone else, especially when sharing the gospel. we did a mini activity with dominos and had everyone come up and place a domino and share an idea as to how to share the gospel. it was amazing to see what some people in this tiny branch are already doing to reach out to others, they had so many great ideas. well then the activity after was karaoke. my comp and i decided to do a special number............ we thought it was hillerious, and it was hillerious. ah i cant really explain it, i will show you a video i took of it when i get home but we painted faces on our chins and flipped upside down so our chins looked like the faces with reversed mouths. then lip sung to a song called party in the usa........... they didnt quite think it was as funny as we did but oh well. okay i am really bad at expaining, i will just have to show you what it is, my comp is sitting next to me telling me that we will just have to do it for you some time. there were actually quite a few people there actually, well about 20 or 25 which is really good for here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">anyway cool story. this woman we were teaching, yudit, the one i told you was came to church and then moved to another department of the country with her daughter because she found out her husbund was having an affair, that one, okay so she had given us the reference of her aunt. she didnt know her aunts name, i know funny right, but everyone calles eachother by nicknames and many times never know their real names, like negrita is what they called her, thats a really common one, some people called me their negrita in melo and all i though was what the heck, i am as pale as it gets, why are they calling me their little black one, come to found out its a compliment to have that nickname, not sure why but oh well. anyway so negra or negrita, yudits aunt........... so yudit had given us one address and we went back again and again and again four times i believe and there was no one there ever so we had stopping trying to go again until a woman in the branch gave us the address of a woman named elba that lived close to that addresss. she had sat next to her on the bus the other day and they started talking and she shared a bit of the gospel with her and then asked if we could come visit her and the woman, elba, agreed. she had lost her husbund about a month ago just like yudits aunt and lived close to the address and we thought that was a bit weird so the next day we decided to try to go to ¨negrita¨ again and this new woman elba. so we went to elbas address and walked in and elba immediately started talking about how we were yudit, her nieces, friends. turns out this was the same woman, yudits aunt that we couldnt find, and elba, whom a woman from our branch talked to on the bus. she was a wonderful woman and really open to our message and looking for peace and assurance in her life, especially with the recent death of her husbund. crazy how God works sometimes, he knew we didnt have the right address for her so he put someone else in her path who could connect us with her. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">things with the branch here are looking up, it was filled with people yesterday which made us super happy to see. many are getting more motivated to help us and we are trying to move toward helping the members do the finding, and us do the teaching..... not easy, but step by step we are going to get there. it is going to take a long time but i just hope to leave this area much better than i found it so that the next missionaries have a smooth take over and members that are motivated to help them do missionary work.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">well my sweet family, i love you ever so much..... have i told you that lately??? hahaha but really i do, i am so greatful for you and all that you have done, and continue to do for me. thank you. i love you to the moon and back, be safe and healthy. much love always- your jess</span></div><!--EndFragment-->Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-45085517109696531072011-07-11T08:29:00.000-07:002011-07-11T08:30:17.179-07:00July 4, 2011well i am getting less and less excited about birthdays as the years go on... thats normal right?? i figure the next big mile stone is 30 and i dont even want to start to think about that.... so yay for 23!!! it was a nice birthday, they took good care of us here, had way too many treats and plenty of love so i was in good hands. here are some pics of my comp and with our treats and then the family i am with is Taina and Alejandro and their kids.... i am sure you remember me talking about them.<br />
this week was really good, we found some amazing people to teach. i cant tell you how much i love it here in Melo, when i come back to visit this will definitely be my first stop, the people here are like family to me. the only thing is that i am so comfortable here, i know that i am going to change, well i think so anyway, we have our next changes in three weeks so i guess we will see.<br />
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we had sandra´s baptism this saturday and it was so good, she was SO happy and excited. she came with her grandaughter and her niece who have been coming to church with her. they are so cute, they are 4 and 7 and always sit in on our lessons with her. Sandra told us that every night before they go to bed they pray together, just the two little girls together, and that whenever Sandra reads the scriptures they are right there with her. they are so stinkin cute, they make me miss my littles. so there is a pic of sandra and them at her baptism. when Sandra was confirmed the next day at church she came back and sat by me and was ever so happy. she leaned over and anxiously told me that during her confirmation she just felt like she was receiving the biggest hug and that it was a feeling that just penetrated her whole being. it was a really special weekend for her, and for us too of course. she has shared some of the most amazing feelings with us this week in how the gospel has started to change her life, it made me really realize that it is through small and simple things that great things are brought to pass. she told us how before we started coming and teaching her the gospel that she was very self absorbed, and since she has started to try and put her life in line with God, she has become more selfless, and seeks to serve others. such a simple testimony but so great when you think about it in the long run.<br />
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we two amazing families this week that we have started to teach, one a family of nine and the other a family of four. i know i have said it a hundred times but there is something so special about teaching a family about the gospel and watching them change together, watching them start to love one another in a different way. we will see where everything goes. they are both super special, i wish i had more time to describe them but next week i will get to it with more details.<br />
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ahhhhhhhhh i am soooooo scatter brained today, there was lots of great things that happened this week that i cant even organize my thoughts.so sorry if this email isnt so exciting. i feel like there is something i needed to ask you..................... hmmmmmmmmmm okay cant remember. but i hope you know that i love you ever soooo much, and if you didnt..... I LOVE YOU!!!! HOper you are doing just great.... love you to the moon and back a million gazillion times!!!! ohhhhhhhh.... big thanks to lori for my package and shoes!!!! i was just about to start taping and cardboard reinforcing my old ones!!! haha great tricks i have learned from the elders. and happy birthday in a few days here lori---- love you and thank you so much!!!!! -your jess<br />
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oh and the last pic is with jonathan.... remember him......... he lived!!!! he just got let out of the hospital... he is a tropper. he will have a hole in his lung for the rest of his life from the tube but hey he is alive!!!! lesson learned kids.... dont do drugs!!!! <br />
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</div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-8516769410697354512011-07-11T08:25:00.001-07:002011-07-11T08:30:36.997-07:00June 27, 2011well i am fffffffffrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzziiiiiiiinnnnnggggggggggg................ need i say more. remember how i said last week that the winter was having a hard time coming. well it came this week over the course of two days and it is full forced now. wind, lots of clouds. but i am sooooooo happy to have such a great fam that sent me the box of warmness. i am in my ugg boots as we speak with my new gloves and turtleneck.... fashion is not a word in my vocabulary right now, but warm is so i am good there. really thank you ever so much!!! i am going to stay nice and warm this winter.... i hope!!!! then i will go right back into winter, but i do love winter there with the pretty snow.... and skiiing..... mmmmm. well yes mama thank you for the birthday wishes!!! i did get the nice present from santiago and his wife romina, we had the greatest visit, they are wonderful people and it makes me happy that i will still have contact with etel when i get back through them. etel is planning on probably going out to utah for christmas so i might get to see her then!!!! and cake this week..... do we have cake.... that will not be a problem.... i am going to need a gym pass stat after this week. we have plans for a possible 7 cakes.... so we will be well fed and loved, dont you worry. did i tell you my comp and i have the same birthday!!! so yes that will be nice, we can celebrate together. then on top of it a woman that we are teaching, her son has the same birthday so they invited us over too. lots and lots of cake. but yes mama i will be in need of your homemade german chocolate cake.<br />
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well we are doing really good. i am learning alot and am greatful for the opportunity i have to be with my companion. if i have learned one thing it is that you cant live with someone for a month and a half or three months and see them every waking moment without making them your friend, we are very different but we get along just great. we definitely choose our happiness, ¨come what may and love it¨ she is very shy but she will get there. when we go around contacting and talking to random people i have to shut myself up, i love talking to people, but i know i need to let her struggle a bit. if i save her everytime she will always depend on me.......... so i have to just let her do it. after we are done talking to people we chat about what she needs help with and i think that is really helping her. there really is no how or way to do it, its whatever comes to your heart, she just has a hard time listening to her heart and thinks that she does everything terribly, but it is impossible for it to be terrible when you speak from your heart.<br />
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we met this really amazing man that has been a member of the church for quite some time but has not gone to church, we met him one day and made an appointment to go back so that we could take our friend elisa with us ( he is a single man so we cant go alone, obviously) when we went back he was very timid, i could tell he was going through a hard time. we found out he was just divorced and barely gets to see his kids. we talked to him about the healing that we can receive through Christ and the great sacrifice he made for us so that we can be healed and comforted in times like he is going through. we talked about the scriptures and how they truly have the power to heal us, so we invited him to pray and read that night and made a return appointment, he wanted us to come back and teach his 10 year old daughter as well. when we went back, he truly had new life to him. he had read. he had prayed. and had felt a bit of that healing power take place in his life and desired for the people he loved to feel of that same love of God he had experienced. that lesson his daughter was actually not able to be there, but he invited the girlfriend that he is now living with to come and listen and we watched a short video and they both had tears in their eyes by the end. it was a really great experience and i hope that we can continue to help him to return.<br />
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sandra is doing wonderful, she is funny as ever, man i just love that woman. yesterday she was freaking out trying to get to church. her son just moved back in with sandra and they live there with their daughter and his wife. he can see how happy sandra is and so he has offered to take her to church on sundays. the moto wouldnt start yesterday but he borrowed the moto of someone else and they made it just a little late. her baptism is this saturday and she was just telling everyone how excited she is.<br />
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funny story to wrap it up. we were out knocking doors and i saw a mandarine tree and decided it wouldnt hurt to take one, they were falling off there were so many. so i took one and peeled it, it peeled a bit funny but i didnt think much of it, right after leaving the next door i put one in my mouth and turned straight around and spit it out and was gagging it was so bad. there were two little, well like 10 year old boys across the street laughing and one said... senora, did you like your mandarine.... and me gagging said, there is something seriously wrong with that manderine, it is bitter and sick!!! he replied, well that would be because it is a lime. yes, great blonde moment. but it was orange!!!! for some reason some of the limes are orange and look exactly like mandarines. i guess thats what i get for breaking a commandment.... thou shalt not steal.... hahaha.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-13433031977596211362011-07-11T08:24:00.000-07:002011-07-11T08:31:31.042-07:00June 13, 2011okay well i will let you know a little about my week, but first well we have changes tomorrow and i am sad but i guess it was expected, Hermana Judd will be leaving and I will be staying here and getting a new companion named Hermana Parker, i dont really know her, she is a very quite girl but I am sure it will be just fine. the great news is that hermana Judd is going to my oro area where i started the mission in Maldonado, i was extatic when i found out. i have probably been driving her crazy telling her all about all the people there that i grew to love so much and showing her tons of pictures. I am so so so so excited for her, i look back with nothing but the greatest memories and feelings of that area. i am sending her with a load of letters and pictures to give to people. oh and i have 13 months on the mission today!!! can you believe it!!!<br />
well this week was especially amazing. saturday we had the baptisms of Jesus and Juan Carlos and i truly think that was the most beautiful experience i have had yet on my mission, i know i end up saying that each change but seriously, it was a little piece of heaven. Jesus´ brother who served a mission in California and then came home and stopped going to church completely was there. he was welcomed with huge open arms. when the bishop saw him he practically took him out giving him a hug. the service was super great. my comp and i sang a duet of All Creatures of Our God and King and our district leader Elder Jarvis did a really amazing arrangement of the song after he accompanied us. After they were baptized they were given the chance to share their testimonies. Jesus of course was the first to get up with tears in his eyes and expressed great gratitude to God for the gospel that he has in his life and the chance that he will have to have his family forever. Juan Carlos followed and also gave an amazing testimony. After the bishop asked Jesus´ brother to come up and share his testimony and he actually did, it was amazing. He talked about his mission and some of the amazing experiences he had and at the end said that he hopes to come back. No one really knows what happened but I think his brother taking this step is going to change an entire family line, it was a super strong spiritual experience for everyone there and one of the greatest moments of my mission... and once again with feellings that i cant quite describe with typing, maybe better with words when i can actually tell you.<br />
this week we also had amazing lessons with Sandra and Oscar who are coming also super wonderfully. We taught Sandra the ten commandments and she is hillerious. i dont know if i ever told you what happened to her but years ago she had a near death experience with a stroke that she had from bad habits, through that she had a total turn around and knows that she was saved to death for a reason, so for that she is super receptive. Anyway from her stoke she cannot move her left arm and gimps around with her left leg straight. We taught her about not stealing and she came back with ¨what do you think i am going to do with one arm??? i cant rob anyone!! and even if i did how would i run away!!! i can barely walk!!!¨ we were all laughing super hard, she is hysterical. she has a great attitude about her challenges. <br />
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oscar is amazing, he suprised us by having read 10 chapters or over 100 pages of the gospel pricipals book we had given him, and while we were having our lesson, as usual he was finishing our sentences, he is super amazing. then at the end he told us that when he prays, he is starting to feel something different, something deeper. God is working with his desire to have more faith, that is for sure.<br />
well i hope that you are all doing amazing, i am a bit worried but i will try and qudarme tranquila until i know for sure what is going on. I love you to a million pieces, to the moon and back a million times. Think about and pray for you always. LOVE-jess<br />
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we also visited jonathan while we were there, remember the kid that we were helping to stop smoking.... ya bad news. last week his lungs became ¨pegada¨ which would mean they were stuck together but i am pretty sure that is not what they were trying to tell us, its a bit confusing figuring out medical terms in spanish sometimes. anyway, he now has a tube coming out of his lung that is draining pus that has built up. they will be shipping him off to montevideo soon for surgery. this is supposably long term effects from all the drug use that he has done, sadly enough they are hoping that he lives through it all, it is such a testimony to me of keeping our bodies free of things like that. he is so young and has so much life to live, but i know if God calls him home then that is His will.<br />
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well lets see i have so much to tell you about this week but i really wanted to tell you a little more about jesus, the man we are teaching that is going to be baptized this next weekend. i have never met someone with so much faith. i especially have never met a man like him, his family is his world and he wants nothing more than to be with them for eternity, he has completely handed his life over to God. being in a room with this man when he prays is so powerful, he literally talks to God, you can just feel it. like always, there is only so much i can express, i just wish i could teleport you here to experience it with me. Jesus had his baptismal interview yesterday and the elder that interviewed him came out and was just amazed by him ( as we are every time we meet with him) he is truly an extraordinary person with such a pure heart.<br />
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i dont know if i have said anything about another man named Oscar that we are teaching.... funny enough all the men we are teaching right now are about dad´s age.... usually a year or two younger..... haha.... but its kind of a homey feeling. anyway, oscar is such a great man, he is super smart and everytime we teach him he basically completes our sentences. his biggest desire right now is to increase his faith and to know the truth. he is progressing amazingly. he is already such a great person, but it is a testimony to me that the gospel helps to strenghten those who are already strong, and to give them a peace that the world most definitely cannot bring.<br />
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well anyway.... my companion and i were getting ready this morning and she yelled into me and just said that she was tearing up, i asked her why, and she said she just imagined me seeing you at the airport for the first time after a year and a half.... now thats a trunkie thought haha. but it was cute. i am pretty sure i will more than just tear up a little when i see you, i think i will rate it the best day of my life thus far, i just love you so much. while i was getting ready this morning i had a movie line come to my head.... no worries, an innocent movie, Hook. the line was ¨and you know what my happy thought was maggie?... It was you.¨ and i just thought about how that line applies so perfectly for me. Do you know what my happy thought is??? well if you cant guess, it is you. any time i get sad or disappointed, or when i have a day that is hard, i just think of you, i think my family being together forever, that is my happy thought. i think of how greatful i am to know this gospel so that we will have that chance, and how i get to share that happiness with other people, and the fact that they can have their happy thought too, of a family that can be together forever. speaking of that there is a book i just read that i would love for the three of you to read if you get a chance.... or just do it, it is only like 150 pages or less. it is called ¨Our Seach for Happiness.¨ and it is by M. Russell Ballard. I love that book and i think it explains really clearly what i feel and believe, so maybe you could get a little glimpse.<br />
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I got the boxes!!!! thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooo much so many much needed things. thank you all!!! and grandpa and aunt nancy as well!!!! everything is being put to good use already... cadbury eggs... already in the stomach!!!! ahhhhhh the smell of machine washed and dried clothes..... i cant tell you how good that smells, havent smelled that in a while!!!!<br />
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random line before i go.... i ate armadillo.... i was really good actually.... i will send pics sometime.<br />
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i love you so so so so so so so so so much!!!!! to the moon and back!!!!<br />
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Jess has been out over year now and is loving her mission! If you get a minute, you should send her a letter. She really loves hearing from people back home!<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">just barely a few minutes ago my comp and i had a really tough experience so i am a bit out of it right now. earlier this week her and i passed for marisols house only to find out that she had been hospitalized because she attempted suicide. we paniced and called our zone leaders to see if we could run and visit her at the hospital that is just outside our area and luckily they let us go. we walked there with her daughter and she told us that there had been major problems at home with her husbund and it drove her to the edge and she took ten of her husbunds pills, blood pressure or sleeping, cant remember which. she told us that taking two of them can be deadly so she was rushed to the hospital. she looked awful when we got there and was barely concious, just enough to know that we were there, so we sat there with her for a bit and then left. we kept in contact with her daughter to see how she was doing and she said alright but that she was moved to the psych ward of the the hospital. we saw marisols mom, who is a member of a different ward, at the steak conference yesterday ( or when a bunch of different wards or congregations all get together for a bigger conference) she told us that marisol kept asking for us and said that she needed us to go by, so we decided to do that this morning. when we got to the hospital they almost didnt let us go in, they said they dont let people of religious groups visit people in the psych ward, but then told us that one could go in for one minute and just see how she was. well thats not possible, we told them we are a packaged deal, cant really leave eachother, so they let us both go for a minute. marisol was outside with her mom, who was drinking mate, and marisol was just looking straight down at the ground, she looked completely empty of any life. i felt like i was watching a movie for a minute, i didnt know or hadnt experienced this really happening. so we went up and i tried talking to her while my comp talked to her mom, she just mumbled response, but was expressionless. so then i put my hand on her leg and tried talking to her again and she responded a bit better, but still expressionless, staring at the ground. we got her moms information to contact her and we had to hurry out before they got mad at us for being there too long so i hugged marisol and we both couldnt hold in the tears, she wouldnt let me go. then the same happened when my companion hugged her. satan has a grip on her and is dragging her down, she is literally suffering from a broken heart. her mom told us that the doctors said she is suffering so much ¨angustia,¨ which means more than just anguish, that her heart is not functioning properly, she has sunk into a deep depression. i cant explain how i feel, i feel helpless, its the most helpless i think i have felt, i just want to help her. i do know that God will take care of her, no matter what happens, and that she knows that one day she will rest of her afflicions in this life. <br />
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well i am sorry, its about all i can think about right now but i will give you a brief summary. we had a tough week, had to drop a few of the people we were teaching, but at the same time it was wonderful, we are super blessed to have met some of the most amazing humble people to teach that are progressing. Jesus, is doing wonderful, he is such an example of faith to me, faith that through his example his wife will join him in this happiness he has found. every prayer he offers with us at the end of lessons leads him to tears. he is really excited for his baptism in a few weeks. as well i dont know if i have ever told you about Juan Carlos that we have been teaching for several weeks now. he is another example of great faith and complying with the will of God. he is always ready to take on what we leave for him to do. he told my companion something really sweet yesterday in church, that many missionaries have passed by their house but that he felt urged to listen for the first time when we passed by. makes me so happy to know that there really are people that God has prepared for my companion and i, and the same is true for other missionaries, they will touch the hearts and teach the gospel to people that i couldnt reach on that level. he will be baptized with jesus in a few weeks as well. <br />
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we had a wonderful steak conference with a general authority of the church as the main speaker yesterday. Elder Arnold spoke and his message was amazing. he talked about a personal near death experience that he had that led him to realize the important things in life; such as his family and the gospel, and how this experience put a new take on life for him, that the material things really dont matter, that is not what we will be taking to heaven with us. this life is the time for us to learn, to progress and to become more like our Savior. It reminds me of one of my favorite scriptures that is found in the first chapter in Matthew that tells us to put our tresures in the things of heaven. <br />
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well what more is there to say but how much i love you!!!!!! i love you soooooo much!!!!! i got your packages and am super excited to open them, they both came. well i hope you have a fabulous week and incase you already forgot....... I LOVE YOU!!!!!! -Jess</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well my companion this week told me that i need to be more detailed with my stories and it made me think if i bore you to death when i write, i sure am not a very detailed writer, never has been one of my talents. never can quite write out exactly how i feel so that will be my challenge this week. she can tell a 3 minute story in an hour, and i an hour story in three minutes so i will try to be better and hope that i dont bore you haha.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well we had a pretty good week, a bit of a bummer but every day it seemed as though all of our appointments fell through. but there are definitely weeks like that, nonetheless it was a really good week with great success. we are still working with our lovely marisol and she is strong as ever, just cant quite get her free to join us at church, but she is amazing. we went to visit her this week and i think i told you last week but her daughters have started to join us. her mom was there this week and when we walked in she was super excited to see us and just started talking our ears off then she told us that she was baptized just a year and ten months ago, and hasnt missed a day of church since. as we started talking with marisol and her girls, valeria and sylvia they told us that they were going to start coming to church with marisol, you would have thought marisols mom was 15 years old, she started jumping up and down and saying ¨en serio, en serio, en serio?????!!!!¨ like are you serious???!!! then she grabbed her grandaughter and started hugging and kissing her, practically knocking her down. keep in mind this woman is over 70, it was so cute and funny. but yes, that was a great miracle, seeing the hearts of the family of marisol softened to the gospel, when they once made fun of her. we still have a lot of people in her family to work with but one at a time. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a couple of little funny stories from the week..... my companion and i were ending a lesson with a woman that we were teaching for the second time, we kneeled down to pray with her... my companion started to pray... and the words, as if spoken in a very quiet prayer tone of voice, came out of her mouth were ¨we are missionaries of....¨ we all just started laughing. i guess it makes sense, those would be the two most commonly used phrases we use each day, between starting to pray and introducing ourselves.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">another good one is when we went to visit a man we contacted a while ago and havent been able to get ahold since. i clapped at his gate and then decided to just go in and knock his door and thought his gate went inward, well i straight up broke his gate because it opens outward. we were laughing and hoping no one was watching and then we turned around and saw his crazy neighbor dying of laughter so we went over and talked to him and he couldnt stop laughing, he just put his finger over his lips and told us he wouldnt tell anyone. we went back to the man a few days later to set up an appt with him for this wed and his neighbor was again just sitting outside laughing. i know you are wondering if i am going to tell him i broke his gate.......... of course i am... just wanted to make sure we could go back and visit him first. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we were out yesterday knocking houses when we knocked a door and this boy 17 years old answered and had a super happy face... then he saw it was us and his expression totally changed, he had no idea what to say. before i could even introduce us or put out my hand to shake his, he dove in to kiss me and i couldnt dodge it, by kiss me i mean a greeting kiss on the cheek, but still we are not supposed to do that with the men and it is just super uncomfortable. it has happened many times but this time was super different and awkward. then after that he continued to tell us that he wasnt interested, but wanted to talk, he leaned against the door frame thinking he was lookin really good. so i just continued talking with well ¨ummmm hi we are here to talk about God¨ and he wasnt havin it since we wouldnt break. so then he changed the subject again and told us he wasnt interested, luckily to say goodbye we were able to dodge a kiss and give him the handshake. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we taught our new friend mariana again this week as well. she was very unhappy when we went and broke down and told us that she thinks her live in boyfriend, almost husbund, is cheating on her with the neighbor. i cant imagine. but i guess we have every experience in life for a reason and i found for the first time that having my heart broken, helped me to help someone else, and how my relationship with God grew so greatly during that time. everything happens for a reason!!!! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well i love you ever so much family, hope that you are doing wonderfully, keep me well updated. love you to the moon and back!!! - jess</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">enjoy the pics.......... love you!!!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the first one is a man we are teachings mate collection, sweet.........</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well guess what!!! the secretaries in the office just called me.............. i got my trunkie call!!!! where is the time going, that is just crazy. so it sounds like you will be getting the info soon here. i thought it was the 29th of november but the office elder told me the 11th, i think he is wrong but i guess we will find out. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well we had a really good week. i am actually in montevideo right now, got my tooth fixed this morning so i am all nice and numb. my comp is making fun of my half smile... how sweet haha. the dentist and i have come really good friends, seeing as how many times i have seen her. my darn teeth. well one cavity in a year isnt so bad. she says that i do some serious stress grinding at night and need to get new special retainers when i get home. i still have the same ones from when i was 13 and i dont think they do much anymore. but anyway, to let you know, my tooth is fixed. we had to take a bus at 12:30 in the morning because melo is 6 hours away. worst sleep of my life haha, luckily i have gotten really used to being sleep deprived on the mission, or just tired all the time. people are starting to guess i am about 25, whereas when i started the mission they thought 14. i have aged 11 years in the past year.... yipee. or maybe i just dont look scared out of my mind anymore haha. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well continuing on, we had a really good week for the most part. thursday was our day of tender mercies. we met this girl named mariana that is the owner of an almacen we go to every now and then to grab a treat. we started chatting with her and SHE asked US if we would come back the next day and share our message with her. she said she figured that no missionaries ever talk to her because they assume they are bugging her business, probably true, we tend to leave the almacen people alone. but she wanted to learn so we went back the next day and she had made pizza and a cake to share with us. oh she is just the cutest girl, she is 20 and is working on getting married.... hurrah!!! that isnt very common, but ya, she is amazing and has some amazing faith and gospel backgound, we are really excited for her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">another woman we found a week ago is named Silvana. she is a young mom who is very faithful and just overall amazing. she was pretty intimidating to us the first time we taught her, cant really explain why. but this week when we went, she was listening ever so intently. when we were done and asked her if she had any questions or concerns she told us that what we had shared with her was the answer to some questions she has had for quite a while, and has been praying to find the answer and told us that she felt that God had sent us to her to answer her questions. it is the most amazing feeling when we get to hear something like that, knowing that we were truly guided to find her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well the huge miracle of the week was with a reference my companion received with her last companion that we have had a super hard time trying to contact, his name is Jesus. well he works in montevideo and is only home on the weekends, we finally found him last weekend and then set up an appt for this weekend. we werent expecting much of it since the reference was from his wife who just said that she wasnt interested but that her husbund might be. so we went in and chatted with him a bit. he told us about his family, espcially about his brother who had formally served a mission in the states and told us about some the things his brother had sent him while he was on his mission, 11 years ago, which included the scriptures. i asked him what his biggest desire in life was, he said to be with his family forever and that he knew how he could achieve that but that he wanted to wait for his wife to gain faith, because she doesnt believe in anything. we told him, if he knew, he needed to start acting now and become an example for his wife and family. We asked him if he had read the scriptures, he said yes, and then started to cry, and said that is how he knew what we were sharing was true and what he wanted for his family. the spirt was so strong with him, he is truly so prepared and his heart is so soft, he really is an amazing man. it is rare to meet people who have desires like Jesus. but so anyway, we developed a plan and he decided to act, to be an example for his family. he started coming to church yesterday, alone, but will come in time with his wife, i just know it. its like Richard and Natalia. just gotta have faith. he is going to be baptized the 11th of June. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well i have so much more to share but that will give you a little glimpse for the week. i love you sooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!! just talked to the offices again and it is november 30th which puts me there the first of december i believe. okay well i hope you are doing sooooooooooo good. love you to the moon and back a million times!!!! -Jess</span></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-28614983054301505592011-06-01T13:36:00.001-07:002011-06-01T13:36:16.166-07:00May 9, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well lets see.... i dont have anything with me to remember exactly what happened so i will have to pull out what i can remember, we had a really good week. we have both decided that saturdays are usually our days of success, they always seem to go well. well yesterday was really neat. we had one of the guys we are teaching, named alberto, come to church with us. the first time we talked to him we introduced ourselves and gave him a little run down and he just responded by saying.... i am closed today. ummmmm okay, so we moved on from that one, he really didnt want to talk to us and didnt give us much to work with. but for the past 3 or 4 weeks we have seen him everywhere!!! well our area isnt that big so i guess that isnt too hard but we started seeing him so much that we would stop and talk to him. one time he just stopped mid street on his moto and the woman that was behind him just about crashed into him. each time we talked to him we invited him to church, he told us he would come, but then didnt. so the last time we saw him in the street i just decided to throw it out there again and ask him when we could come by and share our message. he gave us a day, and he was actually there and waiting for us. we had a really great lesson, the only bummer is that he is a very scientifically based person, doesnt really believe in God, so we are starting from point one. but its all good, we invited him to church, may have bugged him a bit to get him to go haha, but then he went. so we were really excited, he is a great guy, just needs to build his faith. <br />
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our sweet marisol is doing much much better. she wasnt able to go to montevideo for her medical exams this week but will be going in june, but she was much happier when we visited her this week. things are getting much better with her family and she has been a little bit better with her health. she is so sweet and super responsible with the assignments that we leave her for reading. this week we asked her if she had done her reading and she said no hermanas, i am so sorry, i was only able to read what you left me with and nothing beyond that. haha we are super excited when people just follow through with what we leave but she thought we would be disappointed that she didnt do extra reading. ahhhh she is so great. she still needs to come to church with us but she always has to do odd jobs to earn money and sometimes they land on sundays. but she is such an amazing woman with true desires and i have faith it will all work out. <br />
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well sorry this is not so exciting and actually kind of lame, my brain is not working right now and i am having trouble thinking of anything, but this should give ya a little taste of my week. i read a really amazing talk this week that i read before i came on the mission that helped me to realize that i really was supposed to come. and over a year later i read it again, but with a different approach, actually being a missionary and having followed the promptings that i recieved to come here. the talk is called ¨cast not away therefore your confidence.¨ there are many parts that i love but i couldnt help but think how following through with the thoughts and feelings that i received to come on a mission have changed me forever. I will never look back on this decision with any regret, i know i am exactly where i am supposed to be, and where the Lord needs me to be at this moment. I know that my life will be forever changed by being here, all because of prompting from God that i was able to follow. that is not to say that the decision did not come with lots of opposition, but with everything good, there comes opposition, actually there is opposition in everything, but especially with something good. that would be why there is tons of opposition in the mission as well. thank you so much for all the love and support you have given me for the past (almost!) year of being here. really you dont know how much it means to me and how much i have needed every word of love and advice you have given me. i am so blessed to have you as my family and love you more and more everyday, i cant say it enough but I LOVE YOU!!! NEVER EVER FORGET IT!!!! love you so much, your monkey-jess</span></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-19863898768114469752011-06-01T13:35:00.001-07:002011-06-01T13:35:47.780-07:00May 2, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well we have changes again tomorrow, can you believe it, another six weeks has passed away, but hermana judd and i are staying together. it will be really great. we set out a list of goals of things we want to accomplish and work on this morning during our companionship study this morning so hopefully we can work more efficiently. but i am excited, one change is really not enough time to get to know someone. its funny i have only had two gringa comps but each of them i will be having for two changes. unfortunately i know my spanish gets worse instead of better, haha. oh well, guess i will just pray that i get to end it out with all latina comps so i can get better.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">funny moment that happened last week when we were getting our groceries after writing you guys. we were at the store and i felt a tug on my sleeve and i looked down and there was a little girl standing there and she just said hola, went up on her tippy toes and was waiting for me to greet her and give her a beso. so i did, and then she ran over to her dad and was just yelled to him, daddy, daddy she speaks english!!!!! hahaha, dont know why but it made us laugh really hard, guess i felt cool for the first time being able to speak english. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so anyway we had a pretty good week, well one day in particular was really great so i will tell you about that. on saturday we started out by heading to an appointment that ended up falling through so we headed to our back up plan, and when we got there the guy that we had been teaching, Miguel, dropped us. bummer. he just said that he wasnt ready and wasnt wanting to continue. they have to have a desire to continue of course or else it is pointless. so we just thanked him and left him with our testimonies and told him he is always invited. its always a bummer when that happens, and especially to start off our day but after there it went really well. we went to the house of this woman named soledad. earlier this week we were in the almacen right around the corner from her house when her little six year old daughter came in and started chatting with us and then started chewing us out for not coming back to her house when her mom was there ( because the first time we went her grandma was only there) so she demanded that we follow her to her house to meet her mom. it was super funny and cute. so we went, met soledad and set up an appt to return on saturday. when we went back we started chatting with soledad and after a few minutes i started to pull a pamplet out of my backpack, little camila, her six year old daughter, was sitting right next to me and when she saw the picture of jesus on the front she sighed and got all sad looking and said ¨i miss jesus, he really loves all the little children¨ and then started going off about how much she loves jesus. i was basically jaw dropped at how much this little girl knew about Christ. so anyway, long story really short, we taught camila and soledad about God´s plan for us, the plan of salvation. camila really wanted to just take over the lesson, really its unreal how much this little girl knew, she was just confused about how we are not going to be reincarnated, but resurrected. but it was such a great lesson and they are the sweetest little mother and daughter, the parenting skills here are a bit wack but it was amazing to watch how great soledad interacted with camila. so we are going back today, more news there next week hopefully. after that we went to marisol, who so sweetly always has us come in even though her whole family mocks her for it, but she says she feels good and it feels right when we teach her so she doesnt care. she told us about her many health problems that she is struggling with right now, including possible relapse of cancer, and thier finanical problems and barely being able to eat. none of us were dry eyed, its so hard to watch people suffer like that, especially when we have really grown to love and care for her. she is the sweetest spirit you would ever meet. but we have been working with the ward to get some help for her, with faith like hers, everything will turn out. she knows she has trials for a reason and never doubts God. anyway after lunch we went and met with jonathan. that kid i told you is working to stop smoking, and guess what!!!! 9 days without smoking!!!!! he is fabulous and told us about the promise he made with God if he helps him stop smoking, that he will join us at church. we are super excited for him, he is a great kid. we got to go with him to the sketchy hospital to visit his sister that is there with her like 2 month old baby who is sick with bronchitis, so sad. so hard start to the day, but filled with blessings. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we were also super happy to have the baptism of a boy that we have been working with named angel, he is the grandson of a woman in the ward who wasnt actively coming. we have been blessed to work with them and help them to come back together and this weekend angel was baptized. his name describes him perfectly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well i have to run but i want you to know how much i love you!!! oh and remember how you two gave me three words of advice??? Patience, Persistence, and Prayer??? so i have dedicated my studies to these three words and have really found some ties in the scriptures, i will share more about it when i have time. but for now here is a scritpure that i really loved ¨ ... remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our father.¨ </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">i love you and am stoked to talk to you, keep safe, . that would be nice. i love you so so so so so so so so much, to the moon and back. love -jess</span></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-88971079074130807062011-06-01T13:32:00.000-07:002011-06-01T13:32:21.820-07:00April 25, 2011<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well this week in Uruguay they have what they call tourismo or a vacation week so we kind of knew coming into it that it may be a bit hard to find people, pretty much everyone we are teaching was not able to meet with us. but nonetheless it was still a really great week. remember that man i was telling you about that always asks about mom when we go over to teach his children?? okay his name is alejandro, he looks like a south american version of david hasslehoff if you ask me haha. when i first met him i thought he was going to be really scary but really it was just the opposite, i really felt like we have understood eachother really well and have just always had a good feeling about him. he has been joining us in our charlas with his children and really is a very spiritual guy. just this week we had a lesson with his kids and the whole family was there and he for the first time opened up and expressed some of the doubts he has which helped us to focus a bit more on helping him, just his two kids go to church, him and his wife do not participate in any church organization. alejandro struggles a bit right now because his son died tragically just recently and is not really sure what he believes. we really had the greatest lesson and then on saturday when we went back we were able to plan and focus a bit more on how we could help him, it went reallly well. anyway at the end of the charla he told me something that i have felt the whole time i have known him, but thought maybe it was just in my mind but he said it and confirmed it. he told me that he knows that we knew eachother before this life, call me crazy but i really think it is true. i think he may be the one person that i was sent to uruguay to help.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">another really amazing experience we had this week was when we went to the house of a man named anibal, just back in december he decided to turn his life around and started to apply the gospel and was baptized. he struggled with alcoholism and heavy smoking problems. well anyway he has fallen back into his problems, and we were not sure if it was going on but when we showed up at his house his door was open and he was sitting there smoking, and had been drinking heavily not too long before. he was shocked to see us... of course, and got really awkward for a second, and we started talking and he just opened up and told us that he is struggling again, but wanted so bad to turn his life around. i have never really felt before how i did at that moment with him, instead of feeling frustrated with him, or mad about what he was doing, i really just felt sad, i could feel how sad heavenly Father must be seeing one of his children suffering with addictions. i could feel how much God really loved him and wanted to help him. Anibal told us how different he felt when we were there and that he wanted that feeling permanently in his life. we had a really great lesson about the sufferings of christ and how he suffered for our pains, temptations, addictions, everything really, and that through him he could overcome his addictions. so we are going to work with him, baby steps.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">i really have felt heavenly Fathers love for his children so greatly this week and i feel it helped a ton that i was able to dedicate my studies to learning about the life of christ in reading the four gospels. and really i cant express how greatful i am for the time i had to learn more about my Savior, his suffering in the garden of gethsemane, death on the cross, and resurrection, or otherwise known as his Atonement. every visit we had this week we shared a really special scripture that i love and want to share with you. it states, ¨and he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind, and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. and he will take up on him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people, and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.¨ alma 7:11-12 i love this scripture so much, i truly know that Christ has already suffered everything that we go through in this life and that through him we can be healed. his love, and the love of the Father are so great for us, no matter what happens or what we do. God longs to hold us again, and only through Christ, this is possible. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">well fam, i love you to pieces, as always, that never changes, i just love you more and more each week, well each day really. i am so greatful for you and all that you have done for me. thank you and i am excited to talk to you again soon. speaking of that will you send me what time you can talk so we can figure that out?? Llllooooooveeeeeeeee yyyyyyyooooouuuuuuuu. -Jess </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ps hope you like the picture, we couldnt pass up the moment, took some real skill to not scare the cow hehehe. teach those that will receive us, even the cows sometimes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-15390631920951342122011-03-28T14:28:00.000-07:002011-03-28T14:28:10.806-07:00Photos from the past few letters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2mhtNBJl43czcqX_YTNw2s8D4I2sOlwwj_POCxoifsZPn7sVWKZnS7yvgaGAz8AnrYnhRkEtLbRg-0Y1mO_sfWOiE-DUK82ORdZzem4UyJvkNj72DiJmg6Kn4k1wOuDV3VVvoDuh4vA/s1600/jess2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2mhtNBJl43czcqX_YTNw2s8D4I2sOlwwj_POCxoifsZPn7sVWKZnS7yvgaGAz8AnrYnhRkEtLbRg-0Y1mO_sfWOiE-DUK82ORdZzem4UyJvkNj72DiJmg6Kn4k1wOuDV3VVvoDuh4vA/s320/jess2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjfR3USgNd3ai9JGi_gzEps-n3dwjuyabVMODrIVoJDANGoMFUE5xOstGzipg-gtIWrY12zpcIhV7k9Dae2-2KNCftmFGtVKa18wlv0fZH9PNRs4cw-1PyhjLr5lJPwKv7y1gVFZhI-us/s1600/Jess3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Wow I was not expecting that, everything seemed to not be changing too much and then wham…. Three of them are gone. Beth is getting married in June, Melanie Hayes in august, and my friend Jenna or Sunshine from brighton camp…I think she is already married. Ahhhhhh its so crazy- I feel old, I hit 23 in not too long. There is definitely no way anyone would be checkin me out right now because… guess what else… so I have fleas, again. And to top it all off, you are going to puke, lice. Ya everyone, and I am not being dramatic when I say that, everyone in Uruguay has lice, kids, adults, everyone!!! And its really not a surprise because there is so much contact with the people since we beso everyone to say hi our hair is all intertwined all the time. Yes I am showering daily, that is not the problem. But no fear my Colombian companion has dealt with the problem her whole life and is a pro and getting rid of them so she has been combing and treating my hair almost daily. Okay I wont give you too many deets so you don’t get grossed out, but really its nasty, but hey. Im in Uruguay… another experience to check on the list haha. And with the fleas the hermano from the ward came and fumigated our house… for the third time. He said it’s a crazy bad season for fleas right now. We were tracting the other day and there were like 10 fleas jumping around on my legs…. Normal right??? Haha ah I am so used to it now that it doesn’t even phase me. <br />
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Well this really was the week of some amazing miracles, I was so happy to be a missionary this week and be able to have these experiences. So remember natalia, the girlfriend of Richard?? So we went to have a lesson with him last Monday and when we left we just yelled bye to natalia and invited her to a family home evening at the bishops house on Friday, not expecting for her to say anything, let alone leave the room and she came out!!! She really came out!!! And gave us besos and everything… we were just in shock. Then came Friday and she came to the family home evening and it was such an amazing experience. The bishops wife gave a wonderful lesson on the gifts of God, Natalia even was teary. She really didn’t speak the whole time but we could tell the lesson touched her. Then came Sunday and she came to church with Richard!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Can you believe it!!! I almost screamed when I saw her walking up to the church. Anyway it was amazing. <br />
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Another really amazing experience we had was after the family home evening with the bishop we were booking it home on our bikes when my companion screamed at me from behind, turns out she saw a 18 year old boy named Facundo that we talked to in our first week together. So we stopped and talked to him and his friend, his friend started asking me questions and Facundo was talking to my companion so we kind of had two conversations going on, I kept looking over at my companion and she looked a bit worried, but she pulled out a pamphlet and was talking to facundo about it so I figured everything was okay. Facundo everytime we had passed by him for weeks on this same street had yelled ¨hermanas!!¨ and we didn’t think anything of it. Turns out he was trying to get us to stop the whole time because when facundo and his friend left my comp broke down into tears and I was trying to get out of her what happened. Turned out Facundo asked her why we hadn’t come by his house or stopped when he yelled our names and that he had been waiting for us for weeks. In reality we had, we knocked his whole street and turns out the person we talked to was his sister, but she didn’t want anything, and we didn’t even know it was his house because he didn’t give us the house number. My comp told me that he was begging her to help him, that he is addicted to drugs but knows our message can help him. So she told him we would go by his house the next day and we finally found out which one it was and when his sister came out again she was furious, and was like, I told you last week I don’t want anything!!! So we told her we were looking for facundo but he wasn’t there. Later we were just clapping houses but decided to head to a different area and had the idea to pass by this big main road where we first met facundo just to see if he would be there, and he was, it was crazy. So we talked to him and made an appt to come by this week. Really it was such a cool experience and im positive that through the gospel he can overcome his addition, I am really excited to see where it goes. <br />
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Well ahhhhhhhhhhhhh I am out of time already!!! But I love you so so so so so much and please give me an update on how everyone is doing. Miss you and love you always- Jess<br />
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Ps yes this is a pic of my comp getting rid of my lice….. how fun huh??? I was really happy and felt like a really hygienic person as you can tellJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-41934327837428782802011-03-28T14:21:00.001-07:002011-03-28T14:21:00.853-07:00Feb 28well i dont have a ton to tell you this week unfortunately, my comp was pretty sick for a few days so we had to lay a bit low. we actually ended up adverturing to montevideo to the british hospital so she could have some blood tests done. all is well luckily and she is doing much better. she was throwing up and down for the count on wednesday and part of thursday. being sick on the mission is the worst, it is always when i want mom more than ever to take care of me haha, i just feel like a little girl. i remember when i got my wisdom teeth out in high school and mom took such good care of me, i remember thinking you were literally an angel... i was on loritab so that may explain a bit.... hahaha no just kidding, you really are the best mama, couldnt ask for anyone better. <br />
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so anyway we went this week to meet with richard on tuesday like i had told you last week and we were planning on talking with natalia but when we got there, she didnt want to talk to us or see us soooooo yaaaa... bummer. we were really hoping to resolve some doubts she has, but when we left we poked our heads in their bedroom door to say bye and to inviter her to a family home evening at a members house on thursday. to our suprise she was actually planning on going!!! but the member had to cancel on us last minute but we rescheduled for this week on friday at the bishops house with his family. so we are hoping that natalia will want to go. but thats not all, since my comp was sick to keep in touch with richard this week and to see how things were going i sent him a few messages and the way he responded was completely different from the past weeks. things this past week have completely turned around with natalia and as he put it there is more peace and harmony in their home. he told us that for the first time he has faith and hope that natalias heart is softening and that she will soon come to the point that she will talk with us and learn more about our message. the key has been that she can see a change in richard, and the more she can see him change, the more she will seek the gospel. i know she is a good person, just has a few walls up, but i as well have faith that everything will come with time. i am nervous that i wont get to see how everything turns out with him because i think i am out of salinas and onto a new area in three weeks but the change i have seen in him has been the biggest miracle of my mission yet to see the gospel of Christ change a life like it has changed his, and to see someone as converted as he has been.<br />
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we had a great lesson with Iris again this week and like she said she had a pile of questions for us. she is great, her husbund is not so hot on the idea but she goes forward anyway, she is a very independent woman. we talked to her about the importance of repentance and baptism this week and, wow, i have been so impressed here in salinas to meet several people that really understand the importace of repentance. more than anything for iris she told us that she needs to learn how to forgive, which ya is extremely important, like it says in the scriptures, we cannot expect to be forgiven of our wrongdoings if we are not willing to forgive those who offend us. she is fabulous, just love her to pieces and it will take time, but its all about the patience. <br />
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so anyway my sweet family, gosh i really just love you so much, and i appreciate you more and more each day. i am so greatful for you and everything you do for me, for your support, your love, and all the great opportunities you have given me in my life. i hope you know how much i love you and can feel it even though i am not there. i really didnt know just how great i had it. i am just going to smother you when i get home haha. i have decided that we are going to start having family home evenings when i return okay??? no worries i will teach you, they are the greatest. well until next week, keep healthy, be safe, like mama always says when she closes her emails ¨look out for the bad guys and look both ways when you cross the street¨....... love you forever- JessJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-77195121213319467722011-03-28T14:20:00.001-07:002011-06-01T13:33:58.438-07:00Feb 21, 2011well i am doing really well here, having some bad stomach problems but<br />
<br />
really it hasnt been the same since i left home. but didnt help that<br />
<br />
this week we had a zone conferece with the president and one of the<br />
<br />
hermanas from the ward where we had our conferece made us chicken<br />
<br />
burritos. we were all in heaven to have burritos until the next day<br />
<br />
when over 30 of us missionaries were sick with food poisoning.... ya<br />
<br />
that was fun. luckily i was only really sick in the morning but the<br />
<br />
other three hermanas that i live with were sick for the rest of the<br />
<br />
day so i was mama for the day and took care of them haha.<br />
<br />
<br />
this week was really good other than that haha. we had the baptism of<br />
<br />
flor on saturday which was really exciting and all went really well.<br />
<br />
she was really content and happy and even shared her feelings at the<br />
<br />
end, it was a really beautiful experience. ah she is so great, i wish<br />
<br />
you could meet her. we will skype her one day and ill translate for ya<br />
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haha.<br />
<br />
<br />
richard is doing really great as well. we had a lesson with him after<br />
<br />
flors baptism and he is really happy and really feels that he is<br />
<br />
finally on the right path and has been able to clean up his life. its<br />
<br />
so true, what he feels i can see in him, he has changed so much and i<br />
<br />
am so happy for him. he wants so badly to be able to ¨empezar de<br />
<br />
nuevo¨ or start his life over again and is really prepared to be<br />
<br />
baptized, just has to resolve things with natalia. our intention is<br />
<br />
not at all to rip them apart as a family, i know that if they are both<br />
<br />
willing and ready to live the gospel that everything can be resolved,<br />
<br />
the challenge is just that both parties have to be willing to change<br />
<br />
and live the gospel of Christ. i have had a feeling that things are<br />
<br />
going to change this week with their situation and suprisingly richard<br />
<br />
came up to me after church yesterday and told me that Natalia wants to<br />
<br />
talk to us when we come on tuesday.... i have never seen or talked to<br />
<br />
her because she doesnt want anything to do with us....she is always<br />
<br />
just listening through the screen with her window open to their<br />
<br />
bedroom... so that was a huge suprise. im a bit nervous about what she<br />
<br />
is going to say but i know that it will be a good thing to finally<br />
<br />
talk to her and hopefully help her resolve some of the doubts. not<br />
<br />
going to lie i am nervous she is going to be angry with us but i know<br />
<br />
we will be blessed with the right things to say to help her.<br />
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<br />
well we have another amazing man we are teaching for a couple of weeks<br />
<br />
now, dont know if i mentioned him last week but his name is ulises. he<br />
<br />
loves the importance of the family within the church and has gone<br />
<br />
above and beyond with the things that we leave him to do each lesson.<br />
<br />
he is passionate about prayer and has truly found a relationship with<br />
<br />
God through it. we are really excited for him.<br />
<br />
<br />
another awesome woman we are teaching is named iris. man she is a<br />
<br />
hoot. she is hillerious and a bit crazy but its so weird, i really<br />
<br />
connect with her and understand her, and i feel like she understands<br />
<br />
me, maybe im a bit crazy too haha. she has tons of questions and i<br />
<br />
love it!!! helps us to know they are really learning and want to know<br />
<br />
more. she came to church yesterday and really loved it and left saying<br />
<br />
she will have list of questions when we return.... yehaw!<br />
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<br />
so ya i am doing just great, my companion is a sweetheart and i just<br />
<br />
love her to pieces. i feel like such a spoiled brat when i talk to her<br />
<br />
and hear about all of her struggles and difficulties she has had in<br />
<br />
life, she truly is such an example to me of overcoming obstacles,<br />
<br />
especially overcoming them with the help of the Lord. she is so<br />
<br />
strong, there is a reason i havent had the same trials as her, im<br />
<br />
definitely not as strong.<br />
<br />
<br />
well i love you so so so so so much. enjoy the pic, its of us with<br />
<br />
Flor for her baptism. i miss you and love you to the moon and back a<br />
<br />
zillion times. love you forever, till next week- your monkey, JessJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-26370018781357641842011-03-28T14:18:00.000-07:002011-03-28T14:18:23.973-07:00Feb 14well i am a dork, i sent pictures last week and didnt say a thing about what was going on.... nothing too special, just my zone of missionaries, my zone leaders (last change), a picture of us with cute flor the woman we are teaching, a family home evening activity we had with the bishop and richard the other guy we are teaching.... and i think thats it. well i will fill you in a bit on this week!!! life has changed alot, its crazy, i went from how i would explain it as leaning on the wall being junior companion to having to be the wall haha, but wow i cant tell you what a blessing it has been, i have learned so much this week and feel so blessed to be able to train my new companion, she is wonderful. her name is hermana munera and she is from colombia. haha there were 4 north americans and one latina, i was sure i was going to have a north american but am so happy, it helps my spanish so much to have latina comps. wow talking to her just makes me realize how easy i have had it. she was working to provide for her mom and brother before she left and has told me many stories about how scary it is where she lives, stories of sleeping with her mom and brother under their bed to hide from the gun shots that they would hear all night long, and problems with well colombian gangs i guess you would call them. really i cant imagine. its so amazing to be able to live with people from different countries and learn about their lives. but yes this is a picture of her and i in the mission home. the other is last night celebrating my 9 months.... i am officially over the hill.... scary feels like it never happened.<br />
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i was super scared in the beginning like i told you, seriously didnt sleep for two nights straight i was so worried about how i was going to be able to pull it together, but the Lord has truly been my strength and i have learned so much this week. my companion carries an amazing spirit and is extremely in tune with the needs of other people. i feel like i kind of became a robot and was becoming less personal but she has helped me so much to learn again how to stop, and listen, and use the spirit to help teach the gospel according to the needs of the people. i have gained a new love for being here. we found some really amazing people to teach this week and are excited to go back. i love going out and talking to people everyday with her, i feel like a completely different person and really am so greatful to have this experience. not to mention she is just a doll, we get along perfect. it is funny we live with my trainer hermana alvarez and another hermana that was in my zone in maldonado. <br />
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well flor and richard are doing amazing which makes me extremely greatful, flor is going to be baptized this saturday, and she is really excited and content with her decision. richard is amazing as always, he brought his son alexis to church yesterday, he is 5 and loved the primary. richard was really happy about that. we were talking a bit after the gospel principals class and he was expressing how content and happy he is finally, and how he finally knows he is exactly where he is supposed to be, made me really happy. we have been teaching another woman named mariana, she is 23 and has two adorable kids. she told us that everyone makes fun of her for letting us in but that she doesnt care, she craves to know more about the gospel. she is so amazingly dedicated to the Lord, really words cant express, its so rare to find someone her age that wants to give everything they have to the Lord. <br />
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well my companion and i were studying earlier this week and she showed me this scripture for one of the people we are teaching but i know that i needed it as well, it is in Isaiah 41: 10, 13 and says ¨fear though not for i am with thee, be not dismayed for i am thy God, i will strengthen thee, yea, i will help thee, yea, i will upheld thee with the right hand of my righteousness. for i the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear not, i will help thee.¨ I have felt this strenght so strong this week and am so greatful and know that the Lord will uphold us in our trials. <br />
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well i love you so so so so so sosososososososo much and hope all is well. happy valentines day!!!!! loooooooooooooooovvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeee youuuuuuuuuuuu- JessJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-12748156919826427832011-03-07T08:19:00.000-08:002011-03-07T08:20:45.240-08:00Feb 7, 2011PARA ENTRENAR!!!!! or we can say i will be training a new missionary<br /><br />well ya as i said we received our change calls last night and just as my companion thought, i am going to be training a new missionary, and the chances of her being a north american are pretty high because there are three coming and that almost never happens. well turns out that they will be dividing the area again as well, there is salinas 1 and salinas 2. i originally was in salinas 1, then this last change we did both, then when they called they said i would be in salinas 1 again with my ¨oro¨ as we call the new missionaries. i was extremely scared about this because the two amazing people that we have been teaching, Richard and Flor, are both in salinas 2. It has taken this entire change to gain there confidence and have been able to help them overcome some big obstables and they are finally progressing. my companion and i were worried about how this was going to go over because with their situations, they need someone that they can confide in to progress and keep going forward. i didnt sleep at all last night i was so worried about them and what was going to happen. i had talked to our zone leaders last night about the situation and they told me i should call president. so this morning i called him and we chatted, i explained the situation and asked him if there was any way that my oro and i could work in salinas 2 and the other two in salinas 1. i was really worried he was going to say no, but to my suprise he just said, tranquilla hermana kubly, he told me that he completely understood that this was important and agreed to let us have salinas 2 so that everything will work out with richard and flor. i had some serious tears of joy i was so happy, i love richard and flor so much and am so greatful to have their confidence, they are such amazing people and their lives are changing so much through the gospel. so one challenge conquored, now i am just scared to death to train. i feel like it was yesterday that i was sitting on the couch at the mission home terrified to start the mission. i dont feel ready but i know that the Lord will uplift me and help me through the challenge, he knows us better than we know ourselves and exactly what we are capable of. so here it goes....... wish me luck and send some prayers...... i will recieve my new comp tomorrow and will write you next week to tell you all about it.<br /><br />Flor and Richard are doing amazing. we gave Flor a book that is called ¨gospel principals¨ for one of the classes that is in church on sundays and when we went to visit her she told us that she read the entire thing..... in ONE DAY!!!! and loved it. and not to mention she is in the process of quitting smoking and was smoking 10 a day and is already down to 4. we are so happy for her. Richard texted us last monday and it made us a bit nervous because it just said hermanas please pray for me. when we went to visit him the next day we asked him what happened and he responded really nothing, just that he was reading the same gospel principals book and felt the urge to cry because he could feel the spirit so strongly. he is so great, his whole aura has changed and he just looks completely different, he finally feels peace and is happy. he is still in the process of trying to figure out what to do with the woman he is living with. <br /><br />well i gotta run but i love you so much and hope that you are doing fabulously. love you millions and trillionsJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8808683961459509591.post-3211427335774354782011-01-31T08:28:00.000-08:002011-01-31T08:29:58.558-08:00January 31, 2011hey there-<br /> <br />well ill give ya a little update of my week... cant say that proselyting was really succesful this week but wow the blessings that we received were far greater than anything we could have hoped for. but to start off i have to give you some great bike stories from the week. my comp had her first two nasty spills on the bike this week. the roads are all dirt so she slipped out a couple of times, once was in front of an almacen and the people inside were dying laughing, and really i couldnt help it either, it was really funny. but she was good and in good spirits, just a few cuts and bruises. the best part was on thursday, we were tracting all day until we had three appts the last three hours of our day and my comps tire popped, completely, so we took it to a bicicleteria. he said it wouldnt be ready until the morning and we were on the complete opposite side of our area, about three miles away from our appt and with about 10 minutes to spare before the appt. so we started walking and i knew we would be way late, so my comp jumped on the bike.... and i ran alongside her, i cant imagine how hillerious we looked. running in a skirt and, my tracting shoes, made me laugh the whole way. with our last appt we were going to be late getting home so again, i ran home. haha all my years of running built up to this point i guess haha. <br /> <br />well i can say that we are teaching really two of the most amazing people ever. Flor and Richard. cant express just how much i love them and how amazed i am by them every lesson we have. Richard has a completely new aura, he actually looks happy and has changed so much since the first time we met him. in one of our charlas this week he started out by telling us that he knew the scriptures were true, and in the following one that he wanted to be baptized, before we even said anything. he told that he feels that the hole that he has had is being filled with his new found relationship with the Savior and our heavenly Father. he has been diligently praying and reading everything we leave with him. its amazing the trust that he has in the Lord. He came to church yesterday!!!! even was dressed in a suit and tie.... and just minutes after he showed up came Flor. she is simply amazing. one of my new Uruguayan mamas (she told my comp and i that she is going to make us skirts!!!). we left her with a chapter to read in the scriptures and when we came back for another lesson a couple of days later, she had read more than 10 chapters and loves reading the scriptures. she told us that she wants to make sure that this is a permanent change in her life, she isnt just going to make a commitment and then leave. wow it was so rewarding to FINALLY see some the fruits of our work here, cant tell you how happy it makes me to see that these two amazing people are accepting Christ in their lives. i havent met anyone like them since i have been here, my comp said the same and she has more time than me so its a rare occasion and we feel really blessed to know them and have the chance to teach them about the gospel. <br /> <br />well one other thing. there was a woman from the states in church yesterday that really doesnt speak spanish... so guess what... i had to translate for her!!!!! i really had no idea i could do it, but all went pretty well. she actually has lived here for 17 years but doesnt know spanish, i am not sure how, but i dont think she goes out much. so ya, i guess i finally realized that i can speak spanish weeeeeeee, still am confused sometimes but it is still coming. <br /> <br />well ill leave ya with a little scripture tha i love and have read literally countless times, but it took on a new meaning to me this week. i got a letter from my friend and he told me that we are the ones that put limits on ourselves in the mission, if we trust in the Lord anything is possible. a few days later i read this scripture and it all clicked. ¨whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him, and this is a promise unto all, even unto the ends of the earth.¨ ............. made me think, with faith the possibilites are limitless, but faith is a choice. if we ask God with faith, believing that we will receive, he will give unto us abundantly.<br /> <br />well i love you, i hope that you are doing so well and look forward to hearing from you next week. we have changes on tuesday next week so that is when i will be writing you...... im a bit nervous to see what changes will bring but all is well. i llllllllllllllooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!! -jessJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08806099273982007636noreply@blogger.com0