3/31/14
Hola Familia y Amigas,
So MARIA AND ELIBETH
WERE BAPTIZED!!!!
It was so awesome!!!
They are so great!!! It is wierd because I am so excited that they got
babptized and I have been so excited for them! Although I will be honest I have
not felt like I thought I would for all of the baptisms I have had. I am
just not as happy as I thought I would be for it. This has really
confused me, and then I realized something, it is just a different happiness.
I thought I would feel this extreme happiness and be super proud of all of the
hard work I had done and feel the happiness when you win an award or
something. But that is not it at all!! That is such worldly
happiness and comes from praise for hard work, which is great. But the
happiness that comes from baptisms and seeing children of God change their
lives is a eternal sweet spirtual joy. And it really is not from my extra
hard work, but their hard work in changing and following Christ. It am
just the guide and they do all of the work and I just get to be in the front
seat to watch it. And also I feel like it is not my sucess because I work
just as hard when we have no one to teach, as when we have 20. It is
really humbling and none of this is my sucess. It is all the Lords!!!
Valentina was baptized
this last Friday too!!! Leonardo I guess was not baptizd in the end and
Hna. Najera can´t find him anymore. Ahhhh Snap Leonardo get your
head in the game!!
Anyways prayer works.
There is a talk by Elder Holland he tells us that the most quoted phrase in all
of scripture from Genesis to the Pearl of Great Price is "ask and ye shall
recieve." Its time to stop quoting it and start living it. Do we ask
expecting to recieve? We put Elder Hollands challenge to work this week. There
is a single mom named Eva who lives in none other than Santa Clara (A little
town with nothing other than houses about 20 minutes down the freeway from
Bulnes). She has 5 kids under the age of 12. It was POURING and freezing on Saturday.
We called her and asked her how her animo was for church. She said if its still
raining they probably wouldnt be able to come. So I told her we´d pray for sun.
We did. Sunday morning we woke up to a sunny crisp day. We called her at 8:20
(remember she lives in Santa Clara which is a 20 minute walk, 20 minute bus
ride, and another 30 minute walk to the church from the freeway). She said the
kids weren´t waking up, and she didnt sound out of bed either. We invited her
to remember the blessings of church then said see ya later. Right after that, I
felt like praying. I prayed that she would find the animo and desires to make
it to church. I got a call at 10:00 from Iris, the 9 year old, "we´re on
the side of the freeway waiting for a bus" AHHH how great was my
joy! I excitedly told her that the next bus passes at 10:20 ( We know
that from the day that Natalia missed the 9:20 bus). They said they´d wait
until 10:30. We were sitting in church and realized that we have to do OUR part
too, expecting that God will answer our prayers. The chapel was FILLED, so we
went around and set up more chairs and opened up a divider. They took a taxi to
the plaza, but didint know where the church was (2 blocks away) so we ran and
found them. How great seriously was our joy! They made it jsut in time to say
Amen to the closing prayer. I was so humbled, I lacked the faith, when we
called at 8:20 in the morning, I thought there was no way that she would be
able to wake up, dress 5 kids, walk to the freeway with those 5 kids and get to
church. But I also believe in the power of prayer, and I know that God was
listening and he keeps his promises. Ask, and ye shall recieve. He provided
the way to help His children accomplish the task that he had asked. He provided
the sun too.
So last week we went
to Chillan and went to the market which has the best souveniors in all of the
mission, so if you want anything I need to get it now because I wont have the
chance later! It was so fun and I am already getting a few things for each of
you. Well anyways it was great and Hna. Phelps told me you can´t barter them
down, then someone else said I could. I have never bartered before, but I
thought I will start trying now, I mean I have the power of the Lord. So
I bartered on everything I got and I won everytime. originally it was all
about 34 dollars, but I got it down to 25 in the end! yeah. One
lady would not drop the price for nothing so I left that shop then I cam back
because what I wanted, I decided was worth the full price. But this time
there was a guy their. I think he was in love with my eyes or something
because I had him hypnotized and he dropped the price instantly for me. I
hurried and made the purchase before the lady could come back out!! haha
Hna. Phelps was laughing so hard at how I did that and was getting really good
at bartering!! haha
MADISON IS COMING TO
CHILE!!!!! That is so awesome!!!! the South mission has the same office as us
so if she ever serves close to the office at the same time as me, we will
definitely see each other!!! I will have to leave her something in the office
for when she arrives!!!! Send her my email so I can make sure she brings all
the things she needs!!!! Ahahah that is so awesome!!!! I am so excited for
her! Brooke you just need to get called down here as well!
So the Panda Bus
story. So we were leaving the little town of Santa Clara one day and we
were waiting for a bus by the freeway. And then a bus starts pulling up
and it says Panda Bus on the front and has little ears on the side. I was
like umm this is a little non professional. Then I see it start to slow
down for us and I realized there is no one on the bus except the driver. Yeah
sketchy or what? Hna. Phelps then says, "I have heard about this
bus". And then as it pulls up she hopes on. I am thinking,
"What in the heck are you doing?" But I couldn´t leave her so I
hopped on as well! Yeah so the driver was really talkative but weird and
he got mad at us because we are not Hna. Fransen. And then he starts
pulling into Bulnes and he passes our apts. so we ask him to stop and let us
off and he is like, "this is illegal, but okay hurry." We then
try to hand him our money and he wouldn´t take and so we get off and he heads
on. All I can think is, "THAT WAS NOT LEGIT AT ALL" I told Hna.
Phleps that we should probably not take that bus again. Then she said,
"Yeah we are, it was free and it was fast!"
Love you guys so
much!! Have a great week!!
Still need your
addresses ya bums!!
Con amor,
Hermana Corbett
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