Me Again!

I forgot to mention on christmas eve my comp and I at 12 in the morning went out and watched all the really loud fireworks there were soooo many and they were so loud but they were soo pretty and soo cool! I swear i don{t know where Guatemala gets the money but they probably send over trillions of dollars because there are always fireworks going off over here.. and were going to have more for new years.. but on christmas the set them off at 12 in the evening.. and then at six in the night for the birth of christ i think it was for... but it was really cool to see them and they were super cool. So after we watched all the fireworks christmas eve night... we went in and opened packages.. like at one in the morning christmas morning and then went to bed.. and this is the tradition here they all go and watch the fireworks and then they return home to find santa had come.. they then open there presents.. and then all sleep and do what ever they want...

A member was also nice enough to bring us a huge loaf of bread, two tamales and a bag of really good cookies on saturday night which was really sweet of them!

On saturday night my comp and i bought supplies and we prepared a meal to give to the elders for sunday after church because the lady that normally makes our meals won{t be able to so my comp and i made something for the four of us and they came to our house after church. to pick it up and then take it home.. speaking of which my comp and i bought presents for the elders.. hahah since there like our little brothers we decided to get them something hehe we bought them sling shots... well my comp and i thought they were cool to so we bought some as well so were all thinking of having a marshmallow fight.. not sure when because our p-days are different than theres since they work in the office... but we will probably figure out a day.. but ill let you all know hehe but yep im doing well! Working hard and sorry my photos won{t load so i won{t be able to send any but i had more time to tell you about my week! But hope all is well! love ya all! happy new years!


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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D

Feliz Nuevo Ano Pues, Casi..

Happy almost new year! and i hope you all had a great Christmas! So this week was rather crazy. Everyone was basically gone for the holidays and so for christmas eve my comp and i went contact mad! and we basically contacted everyone and there dog.. if there was a person we were contacting them and it was a lot of fun we got to give out four book of mormon and we were giving out pamphlets and he is the gift cards left and right to bless the lives of those we contact through the message these things bring! So it was a great day and we also were blessed with a lot of news as well so it all worked out really well! 

On Christmas I got to call home and talk to everyone which was really nice to see and hear my family! And show them a little dance.. hehe so that was a lot of fun! And after my comp and i finished talking with our families we ate tamales which is the traditional christmas time food here with hot chocolate! But other than that we really didn't do anything else on christmas..
But other than that nothing new really happened.. i am excited though because soon i'm going to be able to see my trainer hermana wilcoxen who I haven't seen in forever she goes home with my comp that i have now in febuary 18th so its soon and all the hermanas that go home come and stay with us at my house because were the closest to the airport so i hope that i don't have changes so that ill be able to see her along with other missionaries that are going home! but who knows.. this is the last week before changes.. but i don't think me or my comp have changed.. but will see.. But i love you all this is all i got i'm going to try and take the rest of the time to send you all pics!
love ya all!


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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D

Somos bendicidos!

So I really don't know where to begin... on monday we had our reunion with president Crapo and three other zones and we ate yummy CCM food and we watched the IRON Will WHAT A GREAT MOVIE. its the one made by Disney.. and afterwards we talked about how it could apply to us and it was a great message... one thing i really like from Hna. Crapos message was we have been blessed with so much from our Father in heaven and he has blessed us with as well many spiritual gifts... and she went on to say what are we going to give Christ this christmas what are we going to give our Father in Heaven this christmas to thank them for all that we have... and she went on to say the work of serving loving and keeping his commandments is the way that we are able to give back to H.F
I had a great experience today my comp and i saw a member who is in a wheel chair slowly making it up a hill and having problems with doing so we went to cross the street when we saw a stranger slowly limping up behind him and then pushing him the best he could even though he was limping and couldn't walk well himself. this stranger took the time to go out of his way to help this man with all that he was able to do in his condition went and helped this member... it really touched me.
If there is something i learned is that its not about the presents but about helping and loving others like christ would.. So i hope you all have a great christmas love you all! so much got to go ill send pic and write more next week


Love you all


FELIZ NAVIDAD!

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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D

Photos (12/15/2014)

Christmas photos!

Christmas photos! santa clause!!!!! HAHAHA And this is all I have time to send ill send more next week love ya all! 

Soooo

Well this week was rather interesting.. It started off awesome and on

Tuesday my comp and i had a really cool experience that i want to share with you all so we met a man that has a sick daughter she just had surgery for removing her appendix but shes been really sick and hasn't really healed so he talked to us about what are church does to help the sick and we explained about the authority and such and then he took us to meet his 13 year old daughter...

and some background info about this area.. its the poor area and we literally walk in a mountain trail to get to these houses that are built in the trees of the mountain.. its supppppererrr cool and his house is a little weird to get to because theirs a steep hill and then we climb up a little to then walk down really big stairs..

but anyway so we met his 13 year old little girl.. shes super sweet and had such a huge smile on her face despite the pain she was in.. so we talked to them and called the elders to put a cita with them for Wednesday so that we could come back with the Elders and have them give her a blessing...

So we did and on Wednesday we headed to there house to give the blessing... and well, on the last step down by there house of the big stairs I told you guys about... the last step.. i slipped and ended up rolling my ankle.. or something i'm still not sure what i did to it. so limping and holding back everything we went into there house and they gave the blessing and then awkwardly i limped all the way up the mountain trail with my comp in front of me and Elder Savage behind me I felt so bad.. I kind of just walked and they stood in front of me and behind me in case I needed help haha i half crawled up the mountain.. now that I think about it.. it was probably actually really funny to watch hahah and it was kind of embarrassing ill admit but it hurt to walk so we had to take it really slow and ya it was interesting.. so the elders had to leave because we had to be in the church at 6 for caroling we were going to go to different parts of our areas with members and sing... so they left and my comp and i walked all the way back by the time we got back near our house it had been about an hour and a half... because the area we were in was rather far.. so unfortunately I wasn't able to go caroling.. which i was a little bummed about but the next day i went out and worked.. haha it was a rather interesting week with my foot but ... im still working and now its basically healed. still a little swollen... So that was that..

On thursday we had interviews with president.. that went well and on sunday we had a singing devotional at the stake center that was a bunch of Christmas music! It was really pretty! Today monday we went and painted and cleaned a school for children that was a lot of fun I was put with the cleaning group and at one point we ended up having a epic rag fight.. it was a lot of fun afterwards the people that worked there surprised us with lunch! but it was a lot of fun and i'm happy that we were able to help them out..

I also forgot to mention on saturday we went back down to the house of the man whose daughters sick to see how shes was doing and she was doing really well she was able to walk a lot more she still can{t move a whole lot but she had progressed a lot... so we were able to give her the card I made and give her the stuff animal we bought and just talk to her but he and her family are really cool and i look forward to seeing the miracles of priesthood blessings. along with the importance and power of faith but yep that was basically my week!

Love ya all thanks!

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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D

El es la Dadiva

So how awesome was the youtube broadcast thing yesterday i wasn't able to get on facebook but me along with all the other missionaries have little cards were giving out and explaining about the new video El es la Dadiva.. which i'm assuming means He is the Gift in english. but anyway so im super happy and excited to be apart of this program and I have seen the word spread and its really awesome.. SO you should all be sure to see that video and to share it on facebook... speaking of which dad if you can find it in spanish and in english and share them both on my facebook thanks!

Also speaking about yesterday, yesterday was the day of the diablo devil.. here in guatemala so everyone had huge pinatas of devils and they would light them on fire and have fire works going off and it all started at 7 btu some luckily before 7 so my comp and i were able to see some adn take some pics before the christmas devotional started.. which how awesome was the devotional!!! i was able to watch it in english with all the gringies.. hehe the zone leaders were cool enough to set it up in english for us at the stake center... but something sad that happened after. is one for the new Elders Elder Astel said that they were sending him home monday.. so today in the morning.. so the newbie of three weeks in the field went home and it was really sad the people in our zones are like our families and so my comp were like almost in tears. haha one of teh elders was like he not dying hermanas... but in a way it kind of feels like that because were not sure if were not going to see them again.. but the one thing i love about the mission is that even if i don´t see any of theses people in this life we can party and see each other in the celestial kingdom. which is a great blessing! but anyway so that was a little sad but were okay now... so anyway

we had two earthquakes yesterday one at like 6 in the morning and the other in the afternoon so that was pretty cool...

This week I managed to make a lot of new friends out of the 18 people in my zone... and so its been a lot of fun today in p day we played basket which was a lot of fun! and then went to pizza hut... and here i am writing but I forgot to tell u al I think but my house is the ho use they use if an hermana has emergency changes.. or is going home or something like that so tonight at 7 thirty were going to have a hermana come and stay with us tonight and leave tomorrow we don't´really know the situation but it will be fun to be able to get to know her for the short time she will be staying with us... but my comp and I always say were the wanna be sister leaders because we always have hermanas coming and going and we have hermanas sometimes that come for a day and we do divisions with them... so that's going to be fun.

Also something a little weird but kind of cool is my comp and i made friends like best friends with this lady of testigo de jehova.. i think its like jehovah witnesses or something like that so everytime we see her we always talk and share our doctrine.. and shes supper cool and super nice... but shes from guatemala and she has strawberry hair and her name is cherry.. haha cheri...but ya so im doing well and i'm doing my best working hard and having a blast in my area... on friday for correlation us and the finacieros went and put up and decorated our missionary leader of the wards christmas tree and ate and watched the video of the church that was a lot of fun and it was great that we were able to talk about all our needs of our investigators but also real quick for all you taht are asking me for the address. everything needs to be sent to the following address because the address on the cards I passed out at my fair well is the address for the north and east so if you send it to that address its possible that they will send the thing you send me to the north mission and it will get lost.. so the mission address for my mission is

Hermana Flewallen
Mission Guatemala East Mission
Apartado Postal 951-A
Guatemala Guatemala C.A

gracias for all your support and love got to go until next week! Love ya all!

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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D