Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Hola!
Ya ... so this kind of sucks because I don't have much time to write you all but this week was CRAZY I got no sleep hhahaha so last week we had a multi zone meeting with president and I got to see all my friends in Bosques! so that was cool and we went to temple today!!!! that was such a great experience I really needed a break after these last two weeks... we had four hermana leaders with us last weeks monday.. and we had two Hermanas with us this weeks monday to receive other two Hermana yesterday and her comp went home so were now in a trio... so its been pretty crazy.. something thats really crazy is they changed the rules we can drink coke, pepsi.. we can eat fish, shrimp, strawberries and everything now...but i'm used to not drinking and eating these things so unless someone like a member or a investigador gives it to me i'm not going to buy or drink it... so theres that... ummmm we got a new plan for the mission that is really awesome for the new year! and well I have a lot to tell you all but I had to send a few things to leaders so that took up sometimes so until next monday.. ill right you all more about what happened.. oh and we now have two souls that we are able to help and prepare for baptism.. love ya all until next week!
Monday, January 26, 2015
Pues
Okay so this past week was rather crazy.. on monday well we had our p-day we ate with the zone at a really good hamburger place and such and played basketball!!! yay! and on tuesday we had divisions with the hermana leaders and I stayed in my area with hermana Viarreal! who i found out is going home in my change.. and my comp hna. flores went to BOSQUES! with the other hermana leader hna. roll.. ya I really wanted to go because Bosques is my old area... but its inspired that I stayed in our area.. but I had alot of fun with the hermana leader... shes really pilas and we were able to accomplish a lot!
On wednesday well to start Pres. crapo and hna. Crapo went to our district reunion and then after President Crapo and Hermana Crapo took me and my comp out to eat.. ya I remember thinking were eating with Presidente and Hermana Crapo... so they took us out to eat and it was at a really expensive place in our area as well so I felt a little bad but its called san martin! and its really good! so we ate with them and then afterwards Hna. Crapo left with me and my comp to do some visits with some of our menos activos and investigadores... and it was a really awesome experience Hna. Crapo has a really good spirit about her and really brings the spirit.. she still can't speak spanish so i translated everything she wanted to say in the lessons and to the people we talked to which i have to admit i enjoyed alot it was alot of fun and I loved translating because I could feel the power of her words in both of the languages.. it was a really neat experience.. so she left with us and then President came and picked her up around 5 we took pics and then went back to work... but it was a lot of fun! And a great spiritual experience..
Another experience that was kind of cute was my comp and i were just walking in the street when out of no where a little girl probably about two ran in front of me and hugged both of my legs so that i wasn't able to move.. and then ran back to her mom.. it was SOOO CUTE! haha so i took advantage of the moment and contacted the mom she said that we could go and teach her at her house and that there were missionaries that were teaching her before.. so that was a really cool experiences as well.
On saturday there was a baptism of a 8 year old whose parents are members and well we can{t go if we don't have investigadores and they wanted me to play the piano so we were looking and inviting people like crazy.. and well we went to one of our investigadores to see if she was there and to see if she had her baby to find out she had it the day before friday... and she was home resting but we met her cousin or someone... and she invited us in and we talked to her and then I invited her to the baptism and she was like ya i'll go.. she she went with us and it was an awesome experience.. the only thing was, is my comp and I were standing in the back next to the Elders and then the Elders just start laughing a little during the baptism.. and I look at my investigador to find that she was taking pics of the girl being baptized and was adding different picture affects and colors to it.. I guess we forgot to mention the no photos or videos thing... but she didn't know and she was rather interested in it.. Eld Pernillo told em afterwards well just hope she doesn't put it on facebook.. so I responded ya I can only imagine that post #bautismo de los mormones.. baptism of the mormons.. ya....
So anyway.. everything ended up working out she said she wanted to go with us to church but ended up not being able to so were going to pass by this week to have another cita with her..
Also one last story so I have a white skirt and theres a member that has a goose and the goose thinks that my skirt is a swan so its always hitting on my skirt and I feel like this goose only likes me for my skirt.. so the member and my comp are always making fun of me saying well if all else fails you have a boyfriend in this goose when you return... hahaha but ya that thing chases me...
So this was basically my week last night we also had a lesson that the spirit was suppppppppeeerrrr strong to the point that me my comp and the wife of the man that we were teaching.. shes a member along with her kids but her husband isn't.. but the spirit was super strong but the mans heart was really hard to the point that the spirit even as strong as it was couldn't reach him... it was really sad and caused a lot of tears on our part to see how much the wife wants him to accept I feel sad for her but I respect her husbands choice and free agency.. so were going to give him some time and just visit them to strengthen there family and such.. but it wa a really spiritual experience...
So this was basically my week! Love ya all and hope your all doing well! your in my prayers! love ya! I think I get to go to the temple next week I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! until next week!
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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D
On wednesday well to start Pres. crapo and hna. Crapo went to our district reunion and then after President Crapo and Hermana Crapo took me and my comp out to eat.. ya I remember thinking were eating with Presidente and Hermana Crapo... so they took us out to eat and it was at a really expensive place in our area as well so I felt a little bad but its called san martin! and its really good! so we ate with them and then afterwards Hna. Crapo left with me and my comp to do some visits with some of our menos activos and investigadores... and it was a really awesome experience Hna. Crapo has a really good spirit about her and really brings the spirit.. she still can't speak spanish so i translated everything she wanted to say in the lessons and to the people we talked to which i have to admit i enjoyed alot it was alot of fun and I loved translating because I could feel the power of her words in both of the languages.. it was a really neat experience.. so she left with us and then President came and picked her up around 5 we took pics and then went back to work... but it was a lot of fun! And a great spiritual experience..
Another experience that was kind of cute was my comp and i were just walking in the street when out of no where a little girl probably about two ran in front of me and hugged both of my legs so that i wasn't able to move.. and then ran back to her mom.. it was SOOO CUTE! haha so i took advantage of the moment and contacted the mom she said that we could go and teach her at her house and that there were missionaries that were teaching her before.. so that was a really cool experiences as well.
On saturday there was a baptism of a 8 year old whose parents are members and well we can{t go if we don't have investigadores and they wanted me to play the piano so we were looking and inviting people like crazy.. and well we went to one of our investigadores to see if she was there and to see if she had her baby to find out she had it the day before friday... and she was home resting but we met her cousin or someone... and she invited us in and we talked to her and then I invited her to the baptism and she was like ya i'll go.. she she went with us and it was an awesome experience.. the only thing was, is my comp and I were standing in the back next to the Elders and then the Elders just start laughing a little during the baptism.. and I look at my investigador to find that she was taking pics of the girl being baptized and was adding different picture affects and colors to it.. I guess we forgot to mention the no photos or videos thing... but she didn't know and she was rather interested in it.. Eld Pernillo told em afterwards well just hope she doesn't put it on facebook.. so I responded ya I can only imagine that post #bautismo de los mormones.. baptism of the mormons.. ya....
So anyway.. everything ended up working out she said she wanted to go with us to church but ended up not being able to so were going to pass by this week to have another cita with her..
Also one last story so I have a white skirt and theres a member that has a goose and the goose thinks that my skirt is a swan so its always hitting on my skirt and I feel like this goose only likes me for my skirt.. so the member and my comp are always making fun of me saying well if all else fails you have a boyfriend in this goose when you return... hahaha but ya that thing chases me...
So this was basically my week last night we also had a lesson that the spirit was suppppppppeeerrrr strong to the point that me my comp and the wife of the man that we were teaching.. shes a member along with her kids but her husband isn't.. but the spirit was super strong but the mans heart was really hard to the point that the spirit even as strong as it was couldn't reach him... it was really sad and caused a lot of tears on our part to see how much the wife wants him to accept I feel sad for her but I respect her husbands choice and free agency.. so were going to give him some time and just visit them to strengthen there family and such.. but it wa a really spiritual experience...
So this was basically my week! Love ya all and hope your all doing well! your in my prayers! love ya! I think I get to go to the temple next week I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! until next week!
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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D
Monday, January 19, 2015
Where to start today i've prepared something a little spiritual for all.
So first id like to apologize for my lack of an email last week it was really crazy... but to catch up I have a new comp named han. flores she has 7 months and today I have 10 months... crazy huh... I hate it because now every time every one asks me how much time I have on the mission and i tell them 10 there all like oh ya se va.. like basically ya your already going home.. hahaha and I always respond that I have a lot more time left.. not wanting to except that my time here is shorting.. but i'm not going to think about that... I still have a lot more time left to serve and help people and im glad for the time I have left!
So anyway this week.. well this change has been a little stressful but i'm doing my best to be the example to my comp. we get along for the most part and have our little fights here and there ... but my comp is really sweet we just both have really strong personalities when it comes to mission things.. hehe but its all working out none the less and were both working really hard in our area..
Yesterday I gave my first talk in the mission.. it went rather well all the members really liked it. but the thing was the Bishop asked me in wednesday to give the talk and I told him i would so I wrote the first part and then in friday he told me next week I was going to give it so I was like great now I have more time to pray about the subjects and more time to listen to the spirit to guide me and such... to then receive a phone call saturday night saying that I needed to give it this sunday... so I wrote the rest that night good thing I already had my themes I wanted to talk about. The Bishop told me to talk about the work of the Lord. missionary work.. and so i had a lot of options.. I choose to talk about strengthening families, how to have your personal conversion so that you can help others with theirs.. and about the love of christ that he has for all his lost sheeps... so im going to translate it and send you guys a copy hopefully next week wills see if i have time.. if not the nexxt.. so it went rather well and it was actually a lot of fun..
So there was that.. on thursday my comp and I started talking to a lady to have her husband come in and basically yelling at us trying to make us think that were sinning preaching and that we need to repent and that basically were going to heck doing what were doing and that he has received a bunch of Book of mormon and hes just thrown them off the cliffs and we need to throw our book of mormons away and repent... and a bunch of other cruel things about the gospel..
and well it broke my heart to see how hard this mans heart was.. i admit afterwards i was very irritated because he was saying mean things to the church i love and respect but after praying for peace my comp and i were able to go back to work..feeling calm... but i still felt the sadness for this poor soul.. hes been so blinded by the truth that nothing that we could say or do could convince him otherwise..
but through it all theres going to be people that think were in the wrong.. theres going to be times when sharing the gospel is hard but we are in the truth.. and satan knowing that were in the truth will use what ever he can to try and convince us otherwise...
but it was in this moment that I realized that without a doubt just how strong my testimony is.. i've never really had it tested before.. and its through reading my scriptures.. praying with a true intention and taking my time.. and by going to church that I have gained this testimony...
I hope that one day this mans heart will soften that he might be able to hear of the truth... that we are in the correct and there is nothing anyone can tell me that will convince me otherwise... I love being a missionary.. its the best thing i can ever do and to be honest if I had a choice I would never stop being a missionary its sometimes the hardest but at the same time the most rewarding.. I challenge you all to work on your own conversion that you might in times of trial be able to stand strong and stick to what you believe.. I lovee you all so much and i love the people here in guatemala as well! I am truly grateful for this time i have to serve here and i'm going to live every moment helping others! but love you all and i wish you all the best in all you do! know that your all in my prayers! thanks for your letters, emails and support love ya all!
So anyway this week.. well this change has been a little stressful but i'm doing my best to be the example to my comp. we get along for the most part and have our little fights here and there ... but my comp is really sweet we just both have really strong personalities when it comes to mission things.. hehe but its all working out none the less and were both working really hard in our area..
Yesterday I gave my first talk in the mission.. it went rather well all the members really liked it. but the thing was the Bishop asked me in wednesday to give the talk and I told him i would so I wrote the first part and then in friday he told me next week I was going to give it so I was like great now I have more time to pray about the subjects and more time to listen to the spirit to guide me and such... to then receive a phone call saturday night saying that I needed to give it this sunday... so I wrote the rest that night good thing I already had my themes I wanted to talk about. The Bishop told me to talk about the work of the Lord. missionary work.. and so i had a lot of options.. I choose to talk about strengthening families, how to have your personal conversion so that you can help others with theirs.. and about the love of christ that he has for all his lost sheeps... so im going to translate it and send you guys a copy hopefully next week wills see if i have time.. if not the nexxt.. so it went rather well and it was actually a lot of fun..
So there was that.. on thursday my comp and I started talking to a lady to have her husband come in and basically yelling at us trying to make us think that were sinning preaching and that we need to repent and that basically were going to heck doing what were doing and that he has received a bunch of Book of mormon and hes just thrown them off the cliffs and we need to throw our book of mormons away and repent... and a bunch of other cruel things about the gospel..
and well it broke my heart to see how hard this mans heart was.. i admit afterwards i was very irritated because he was saying mean things to the church i love and respect but after praying for peace my comp and i were able to go back to work..feeling calm... but i still felt the sadness for this poor soul.. hes been so blinded by the truth that nothing that we could say or do could convince him otherwise..
I literally had felt like satan was in front of me... but in the end we did what was necessary we tried to share our testimonies to have him then just shout overtop of us so with respect we left him be.. leaving his wife a pamphlet to read..
but through it all theres going to be people that think were in the wrong.. theres going to be times when sharing the gospel is hard but we are in the truth.. and satan knowing that were in the truth will use what ever he can to try and convince us otherwise...
but it was in this moment that I realized that without a doubt just how strong my testimony is.. i've never really had it tested before.. and its through reading my scriptures.. praying with a true intention and taking my time.. and by going to church that I have gained this testimony...
I hope that one day this mans heart will soften that he might be able to hear of the truth... that we are in the correct and there is nothing anyone can tell me that will convince me otherwise... I love being a missionary.. its the best thing i can ever do and to be honest if I had a choice I would never stop being a missionary its sometimes the hardest but at the same time the most rewarding.. I challenge you all to work on your own conversion that you might in times of trial be able to stand strong and stick to what you believe.. I lovee you all so much and i love the people here in guatemala as well! I am truly grateful for this time i have to serve here and i'm going to live every moment helping others! but love you all and i wish you all the best in all you do! know that your all in my prayers! thanks for your letters, emails and support love ya all!
but that was basically my day.. pretty crazy here but were doing our best and working hard with smiles from the doctrine on our faces.. love u all keep your heads up and know that in all yours studies, work and everything the Lord is with you watching over you we just need to turn to Him.. that is what I learned... Ive overcome a lot of things on my mission that i didn't think i could do by leaning on him.. he is the rock that will never crack.. and we can lean on Him and anytime ! love y all! FELIZ DIA!
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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D
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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D
Monday, January 12, 2015
fotos2
so im going to send fotos and hopefully have time to write my weakly sorry things are really crazy for me because I have a heckton of things to send to other people to get some things taken care of and have to do dats and stuff so I apologize if I wasn't able to reply to some of you and if my weakly might be a little non existent.. but I feel bad that i haven{t really send many pics sooo here they are!! and this will also be in a way my weakly as I explain what happen...so we had changes.. and well im comp mayor... which in english I think it means like old comp.. I have more time than my other comp.. and well its a little stressful but i'm doing my best and we've had a lot of success in our area this week as me and my new comp hna. flores from honduras... yup I now have two comps from honduras named Hna. Flores... but i'm doing my best and working hard here is a pic of me with all my comps and I mean all ccm... hasta the only comp I don't have in these pics is hna. flres the other hna. flores because shes in her house now shes home so all my comp were at the changes... and I took advantage of it with a foto!
fotos
so the first photo is before changes and its when hermana wilcoxen my trainer and her comp stayed with us for a day and then the next day the assistance came.. this is in front of my house... the second one with all the pamphlets is christmas eve when we contacted 60 people these are all our pamphlets and libro de mormon.. and if you look the pamphlets spell out boss hahaha
Photos... :)
So im going to send photos and hopefully have time to write my weakly sorry things are really crazy for me because I have a heckton of things to send to other people to get some things taken care of and have to do dats and stuff so I apologize if I wasn't able to reply to some of you and if my weakly might be a little non existent.. but I feel bad that I haven't really send many pics sooo here they are!! and this will also be in a way my weakly as I explain what happen...so we had changes.. and well im comp mayor... which in english I think it means like old comp.. i have more time than my other comp.. and well its a little stressful but i'm doing my best and we've had a lot of success in our area this week as me and my new comp hna. flores from honduras... yup i now have two comps from honduras named Hna. Flores... but i'm doing my best and working hard here is a pic of me with all my comps and i mean all ccm... hasta the only comp i don't have in these pics is hna. flres the other hna. flores because shes in her house now shes home so all my comp were at the changes... and i took advantage of it with a photo!
Monday, January 5, 2015
Well now where to start.
So we found out changes... my comp who only has one change left in the mission she has changes. I don't i'm going to stay here in Acatan... but the pouch elders were mean to play a trick on us and gave us in friday a heads up on what our changes were to then send us a message later in the night to tell us that they were lying.. ya it was mean and we believed them because they work in the office.. so we know better not to do so next time... so anyway this week was insanely busy!!
On monday Herman Wilcoxen and her com came and stayed with us! it was sooo good to see my trainer again! especially since i haven't seen her in ages! so that was awesome to be able to see her again and get all caught up! In tuesday it was even crazier the financial elders came around 6 fifteen in the morning to give us money for a project.. then the taxi came for Hermana Wilconxen and her comp to take them back to there area.. but then we all ended up waiting for all three of the asistentes to come to our house to give us something before the Hermanas could leave and then afterwards the Bishop came and gave us our clean clothes... so ya it was a crazzyyy day!
so i don{t have to time to explain the project that our bishop has set up to help the members become more excited about missionary work but i'm really excited to get the project in action!
In friday we had two other hermanas come and stay with us and then one of the hermana who got her visa went off to her mission in mexico and so me and hna. Tuia have been in a trio for the last three days until tomorrow when were going to have changes... so its been a lot of fun! and i've become really good friends with the new hereman shes from peru and shes super sweet and fun! so its been crazy but I forgot to mention on the 31 we went to sleep and then woke up at 12 to see the fireworks it wasn't as exciting as christmas fireworks but we still got to see them... so we saw those then headed to bed..
On saturday the pouch elders showed up at 3 in the morning to pick up the hermana so we probably only got about 3 hours of sleep from helping the hermana and were going to receive a hermana fresh out of the mtc who is going to stay with us for the night for changes tomorrow... and then in tuesday my house is going to have ten other hermanas that are going home.. so it will be a long week for me but but ill do my best and even though i'm going to be low on sleep ill work hard and do my best! but this was my week! love ya all sorry got to go until next week!
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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D
On monday Herman Wilcoxen and her com came and stayed with us! it was sooo good to see my trainer again! especially since i haven't seen her in ages! so that was awesome to be able to see her again and get all caught up! In tuesday it was even crazier the financial elders came around 6 fifteen in the morning to give us money for a project.. then the taxi came for Hermana Wilconxen and her comp to take them back to there area.. but then we all ended up waiting for all three of the asistentes to come to our house to give us something before the Hermanas could leave and then afterwards the Bishop came and gave us our clean clothes... so ya it was a crazzyyy day!
so i don{t have to time to explain the project that our bishop has set up to help the members become more excited about missionary work but i'm really excited to get the project in action!
In friday we had two other hermanas come and stay with us and then one of the hermana who got her visa went off to her mission in mexico and so me and hna. Tuia have been in a trio for the last three days until tomorrow when were going to have changes... so its been a lot of fun! and i've become really good friends with the new hereman shes from peru and shes super sweet and fun! so its been crazy but I forgot to mention on the 31 we went to sleep and then woke up at 12 to see the fireworks it wasn't as exciting as christmas fireworks but we still got to see them... so we saw those then headed to bed..
On saturday the pouch elders showed up at 3 in the morning to pick up the hermana so we probably only got about 3 hours of sleep from helping the hermana and were going to receive a hermana fresh out of the mtc who is going to stay with us for the night for changes tomorrow... and then in tuesday my house is going to have ten other hermanas that are going home.. so it will be a long week for me but but ill do my best and even though i'm going to be low on sleep ill work hard and do my best! but this was my week! love ya all sorry got to go until next week!
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~Hermana Flewallen~ ;D
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