5/19/14
Buenas Dias Familia y Amigas,
So
this week has been so great!!! It seems to have gotten even more
stressful in the training department. It is just that Hna. Richards is
starting to get the hang of a lot of things. And so there are new things
that I have to know when to let her fall to make her own mistakes or when I
need to save her so that she does not fall to hard. If I protect her to
much, she will not learn for herself. But I can´t over stress her out and
throw everything on her shoulders all at once. So this past week has been
stressing me out in just knowing in every decision what I need to do to help
her the best!!
So as for the
title, we had a tri-zone activity for the zones here in Chillan which is 7 sets
of hermanas. Well the activity was to go to the Andes and "know
snow" as our leaders called it. And most of the latinos had never
seen snow ever so it was pretty cool for them. But I still just thought
it was funny that they called the activity ´knowing snow´. Well anyways
we had to be at the church in Chillan to catch the bus at 6:45 and the first bus from Bulnes to Chillan is
not until 8 or something. And a lot of other sectors are outside of Chillan as
well. So we came into Chillan on Sunday and all of the Hermanas ended up
staying in one house that is the closest to the church. Luckily it was
one of the biggest mission houses and they recently had a trio there so there
were 3 beds and for some other reason they had two full air mattresses (Does
that have one or two t´s? I can´t remember. I can´t remember English at
all really). And then one of the other sets of Hermanas brought one other full
air mattress, so 3 companionships slept on the 3 single beds, one being me and
Hna. Richards. One other companionship slept on one air mattress and then the
other 6 hermanas slept 3 to the other 2 air mattresses. It was pretty
swishy, but it was fun and the only sleepover I will have for the next 10
months!! Plus we only had 1 bathroom. That was fun!!! haha
Well anyways
the activity was the fun part!! We took one bus with all 60 of us up to the
Andes!!! We went to a ski resort (not in use for another month) that I guess
has the best skiing in the whole world, in comparison to The Alps. It was
really awesome. The only part that stunk was that we were here at the end of
summer, so there was pretty much no snow but there was a lot of ice. And
we had fun with the little that we did have. Most people hiked up one the
of the ski hills just to get to the parts with more snow, but another group of
like 8 Elders were headed off on this our side that didn`t have snow but looked
awesome and we decided to follow and it was well worth it. It was quite
the hike, but we took plenty of picture breaks. And at the top we got a
special surprise. There were some hot springs!!!! It was so bakan!!
But it sure did smell awful like Yellowstone. I will now just spend
the rest of my time sending pictures, because I took like a 101. (Actually 143
to be exact.) Okay only going to send a few because the computer is being
stupid!
Oh also I had to give
another talk on Sunday, but this time it was 15 minutes and I had 20 minutes to
prepare. The speaker got sick and so our branch always turns to the
missionaries when the speaker is unable to come. So I found out as I
walked into Church. I accepted obviously even though I was so nervous.
And dad you know me when it comes to preparing talks. haha. Well I
prayed and then just started in on what I think the branch need to hear.
So I talked about studying the scriptures, not just reading but really
studying and then I picked apart 3 scriptures that I love about the scriptures.
So I will share these three with yall! 1 Nephi 19:23, 2 Nephi 32:3, and 1 Nephi 25:26. So the main thing I tied to
all of the scriptures is really what is the purpose of the scriptures, it is
not just to hear a good story, or learn new things, or follow the commandments.
Those things are great, but really the purpose of the scriptures are to testify
of Christ and to help us learn more about him and his ways and therefore have a
stronger testimony of him. Yep love you all!!
Love
you all and have a great week!!!
Hermana Corbett
p.s. Mom thanks for
getting me the boots. The only thing I can think of is blonde bobby pins,
safety pins and show inserts. And obviously reeses!! haha
And thanks so much Dad
for always writing me too. I will be writing a specific email back to you
next week!!
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