11/11/14
So I
have walked a lot and taken a lot of the time out of my Pday today to write
home, so you better appreciate this!! I am really happy to write home, but I
have only like 20 mins left because the internet broke in the last place we
were in and so I lost everything I wrote (It saves on gmail normally but not
this time)! Well I guess it will just give me more to write for next
week. So I guess I will just take care of the basics today and tell you all the
crazy details next week.
So first off HAPPY
BIRTHDAY HEIDI!!!!! Ahh I can’t believe it is already Nov. and your
birthday! I hope it was great and I hope you all had a great holiday today!!!
Must have been a pretty good one since I did not get any emails, from my
direct family this week, except Carson. (Thanks Carson, I understood most of
it! Let me remind you that I am not a fluent Spanish speaker yet!)
Don’t worry though I am not bitter. Haha really though I love to
hear from you all but I totally understand I have been in your position.
Well let me just say
the most important stuff.
1. I am 2 hrs ahead of
EST time. And then when daylight savings changes again in your spring, I
will be the exact same time as EST! Yep awesome right!!
2. I have not gotten
my package yet mom just so you know! I am not sure when it was supposed
to get here, but I have heard that FEdEx often times has a lot of problems in
Chile. So I guess we will see!
3. I am super lucky
and I get 1 1/2 hrs to write home each week!!! It is going to be great!!!!
Lucky me!
4. MY companion is
Hemana Taylor and is from SLC, East High School. Yep that is the High
School Musical School. She is super hilarious and has been out on her
mission for 8 months. We are pretty different, but we work great together!!
My favorite quote by her is "Take that Satan". She always
says that when something great happens or a miracle happens. Literally I
have seen so many miracles already.
5 One of these
miracles being that I can understand the Chileans for the most part!!
Chileans speak super fast and have a somewhat different dialect and cut
off a lot of consonants on the end of their words. So it is a miracle
that I even understand some Spanish for the little amount of time I have been
learning it but to be able to understand the Chileans is even more of a
blessing of God. Hermana Taylor said that even some Latina Hermanas come
to Chile and can’t understand for their first few weeks and they have been
speaking Spanish there whole life. I don’t totally believe that but
whatever. Also I am not saying that I am amazing and understand
everything. Not even close, but I understand the gist and that I can be
grateful for.
I have so much more to
say and have not even told a tenth of what I wanted to say and how my traveling
went, and my first day and what Chile is like and what the mission is like and
what my sector and investigators and members are like or even all the spiritual
things I am learning. But little by little I will be able to get it all to you
over the upcoming weeks. Love you all and thanks for all your prayers, I
know that it is not because of just me that I am being blessed but it is because
of all of you!!
Love your favorite
Hermana in Chile,
Hermana Corbett
p.s. One last
spiritual thought. Count your Many Many Blessings!!! I have learned a lot
about blessings this week and have found that every blessing that you receive
comes directly from following a commandment of God. So when you want
something in your life, find the commandment that goes along with that blessing
and follow it with exactness and you will see the blessings. Look for all
your blessings and you will be even more inspired to keep the commandments.
Hopefully that all made sense!! Love you all again!! Hugs and Kisses!
No comments:
Post a Comment