Week 28: False Alarm

4/7/14

Hola Familia y Amigos,

  So we got a call at 10:15 Wednesday night (I think) from our district leader and he said, "Are you guys in the house?" and we said "No but we are headed there."  Our schedule is that you have to be home between 10 and 10:30, no earlier no later.  Well anyways he goes on to say that there was an earthquake up north that was really big and it was going to hit us at 11 so we need to be in the house as soon as possible.  Well we obviously went straight to the house and did our planning and got ready for bed and I was in my bed by 11 writing in my journal waiting for this earthquake.  I have only felt one so far in Chile and I wanted to feel another one.  Well it never came.  Not even a single shake.  I was a little bummed, but I guess that was actually a blessing that nothing happened!   So the earthquake was really far away up north so don´t even worry about me!!! 

  So conference was so good, right?  I didn´t get as much out of it as I normally do because I listened to the whole thing in Spanish but I still really enjoyed it. My favorite this year was by Bishop Gary E. Stevenson, about the Bobsledding and your 4 minutes here on Earth.  It is pretty much the best Plan of Salvation analogy ever!! I also really like David A. Bednars talk on the Atonement and Repentance.  I can`t wait to get the ensign to read them all over again!!!

I am glad you all enjoyed conference too!!  That is too bad that the Lake was cold.  It is getting pretty cold down here too! We were freezing in the church building almost the entire conference.  

The other down side to conference was that we had like 20 people (investigators, less actives, recent converts) committed to come to at least one of the 4 sessions.  And we only had 3 of those show up.  And only one was an investigator.  Most of investigators right now live in Santa Clara the little town that is 20 minutes away. So they always have a hard time coming.  A few of them tried to come, but then a bus never passed on the freeway for like 40 minutes and then we have not been able to get a hold of them again.  So that is too bad.  I kind of broke our hearts yesterday, because they had already walked the 30 minute walk to the freeway and Sunday morning session would have been so great for them and they never came.  It is just a little frustrating!  At least they can watch it later on the internet...

Well I am glad that everything for the wedding is coming along!! I am excited to hear about everything coming together!! And can´t wait to see all of the pictures!!!

Love you tons,

Hermana Corbett

p.s. sorry if my English is horrible. It is getting harder and harder to talk and write in English!  Hopefully that means my Spanish is getting better!