12-16-13
Hola
Familia y Amigas!!
So it has been
probably the hardest week in the field so far. Yep it has been! I
don´t want to be one of those missionaries who writes home that everything is
perfect as a missionary and the mission is the best thing ever and I am happy
all the time. The mission is awesome and I love it, and it is probably
the best thing that I have ever done that will help me for the rest of my life,
but I would be lying if I said it was great all the time. They tell us we
are not allowed to write about every little detail and all of the sad and bad
things that happen here, because we don´t want to make our families worry,
which is true. But I don’t want to overdo it either. I want to be
real when I write home and this week has been hard.
So before I came on
the mission I thought that missionary work was going to be hard because it is a
hard schedule, you are with a random person not of your choosing who you have
to be with and talk with and teach with all day, you find out a lot of things
about yourself and have to change them, you are learning a new language, and
lastly because you are trying to help people and they are not accepting the
greatest message of help that there is. Well these things all make a
mission hard, but at the same time this week I have been thrown some curve
balls that I didn´t knew existed and I don´t need to get in to it, but they
have tested my faith and but in the end of this week I have come out a stronger
person and closer to my Heavenly Father. I love this gospel so much and I
know that Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us and he only gives us trials
so that we can be tested to see that in the end will we chose to rely on him to
get through our trial or will we blame it on him.
So that is it for my
sob story, but I want you to all be able to understand a little bit of the
weeks that I really go through down here. And don´t think that there are
not so many great times that beat out the bad!
So our investigator
Isabel is so ready for baptism, she just needs to find a small apt. to move in
to, so that she is not living with her ex boyfriend anymore. He used to
be a member but was excommunicated a long time ago and is coming back to church
now, but still she does not feel like he has changed to become a better person
is the strides that she has. She is amazing and such an example to me of
truly changing your life around for the Lord. I think of all those people
that really change a lot fo things about themselves to be baptized and join the
church which is such a hard thing to do. Just think if we could all do
that as well and continue to make big changes in our lives to make our lives
more like the Saviors. We would all be much better off. Oh and
since I am staying here for another 6 weeks in Talcahuano/Hualpen I will
probably get to see her get baptized. I will get on it pronto to take a
picture with her.
So this week also the
companionship that we live with had a problem this week, so we got to go to
presidents house to help them out. It is the top story of a really nice apt.
building that will over look the temple once the temple is built and it is all
right next to a large river. His house is awesome and I am so thankful
for President Arrington and his wife Hermana Arrington. They are the best and
they just got called in July, so they will be here my whole mission!!! He
also is making Christmas really nice for us. Oh and as for Christmas, I
will probably get to google plus home at around 2:30 my time but that is a really really rough estimate which I think
is 12:30eastern time and 10:30 Western time. But that is my
estimate!
Well the funny story
for the week is actually a combination of 2 stories over the past two weeks.
(Brooke you are going to enjoy this the most )It is about when I embarrassed
myself twice in lunch. (Oh I don’t know if I have told you guys this but we eat
a huge lunch here in Chile and then we dont have dinner. Nothing nope nada! we
just have a snack usually after we get home and plan at like 11 pm. Oh and our schedule in this mission is 7:30-11:30 it is the best!! Something about 6:30 has always made me more tired!) Well
anyways we were having lunch and all of the 3 sets of missionaries in our ward
were at lunch together at a members house and we were almost done and I kind of
had zoned, one because we were eating ice cream and two because they were
talking in Spanish and I had lost track of the conversation and then all of the
sudden I hear the Dad say "Paul Walker"(Brookes favorite actor) in a
Chilean accent and I am like "What?""Que?" All eyes
turn to me and I am trying to say something in Spanish to understand if I heard
him correctly and I just can’t get anything out and finally they repeat it and
tell me that one of my favorites actors ever has died. I make a sad
surprised face and none of the other missionaries had heard of him, so they all
just laughed at me that I kind of freaked out over this. (Okay this
sounds stupider in an email than it actually was. haha) Well anyways at
another lunch Ben Affleck came up in the conversation, (Brookes second favorite
actor) and the same kind of situation happened except Ben didn’t die. It
was pretty funny and made me really think of you Brooke!
9 days!!!!
Con amor,
Hermana Corbett
Thanks for all your
prayers and love and emails.
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