tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29666763205083118002024-03-14T00:50:58.087-06:00Shaelyn in ChicagoDiane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240588066108046984noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-52376158898904765482013-01-24T20:34:00.000-07:002013-01-25T10:37:19.834-07:00Homecoming!!!12-9-2012<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My name is Shaelyn Brown and I just came back from my
mission in Chicago and I’d like to start out by sharing why I’m here today; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>why I went on a mission, stayed on a mission
long enough to come home and give this talk. I never wanted to go on a mission.
I know lots of girls that have grown up planning to go on a mission and that
was not for me. But one day I was in institute, which was a rarity at the time,
to be in institute, but I was there and the teacher was talking about the
Lord’s timing but he was mostly applying it to marriage, I wasn’t paying any attention
to that because that wasn’t in my plans either, right? But as I was listening I
felt the impression that I was supposed to go on a mission. I laughed it off
because that was ridiculous, but the thought wouldn’t leave my mind, it kept
coming and because it was so against anything that I ever wanted I knew that it
was something I needed to look into a little bit. So, I studied. I studied it
out. I talked to my Heavenly Father about it. I read my scriptures and I
fasted. I went to see my bishop the following Sunday and I didn’t go with the
intention of opening my papers, but it happened. I was so scared. It was the
scariest time of my life, until now. I didn’t want to go. I wanted to do what
my Heavenly Father wanted me to do, but I didn’t want to go on a mission. So I
got ready and I went to the MTC and the first day in the MTC I told my companions,
“I don’t want to be here. I’m here because I am supposed to be, but I don’t
want to be.” I’m so glad I did. To this point in my life, it has been the best
experience I’ve ever had. I was told by President Wallis before I left on my
mission that there were people that I was supposed to find. People that I
promised before this life that I would find them and I would help them find
their way. And I can promise you that that happened, that I met people that
needed me, not because I am anything special, but just because I could connect
with them in a way that other people can’t. I know that’s why I was supposed to
go on a mission. That’s why I know I couldn’t just stay at school and let all
those other girls who always wanted to go on missions go on missions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today I want to talk about what I learned on my mission
about missionary service, not what it means to be a full time missionary, but
what it means to do missionary work in our everyday lives. I want to start out
by reading a verse in the Bible, in John. It is right after Jesus Christ died
and was resurrected and He came to the apostles and He found them fishing. They
had gone back to what they knew. He took the head apostle, Peter, and He talked
to him. “So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">son</span> of Jonas, lovest thou me more
than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He
saith unto him, Feed my lambs.</span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He saith to
him again the second time, Simon, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">son</span>
of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I
love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he
said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.
Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.” (John 21:15-17). We know in the
scriptures when we hear something repeated, it is important, and here it is
repeated three times, “feed my lambs, feed my sheep.” We see that again in the
Doctrine and Covenants, it’s in 112: 14. It says “Now, I say unto you, and what
I say unto you, I say unto all the Twelve: Arise and gird up your loins, take up
your cross, follow me, and feed my sheep.” So that was a commandment to the
apostles, but it is also a charge given to every one of us, to feed Christ’s
sheep. But first we have to know who are the sheep? Who are the sheep we are
supposed to feed? The answer is everyone, obviously. We are all children of
God. We are all part of his flock, your family members, your friends, your
neighbors, and yourself. You are a lamb of God. He cares about you and He loves
you. So that is who the sheep are, but how do we find them? I had that question
a lot in Chicago. Chicago is the third largest metropolitan area in the United
States with 9.8 million people, 9.8 million sheep in the metropolitan area.
Just because they are sheep doesn’t mean they are ready to be found or to be
fed or to be saved. So how do we know? How do we know if the people that we are
surrounded with are ready, if they need us, if we need to feed them? The answer
is often times we don’t. We just need to try, but the Lord will guide us.
Heavenly Father knows every single one of His lambs, He knows every single one
of His sheep. The flock is made up of individuals and He wants <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">every single one of His sheep</i> to return
to Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There were a lot of experiences I had on my mission where I
really saw that God wanted His sheep to be found. That He knew them and what
they needed and where they were. One such experience didn’t happen to me, it
happened to one of my companions. We were learning a lot about prayer at that
time and how prayer is really something we really don’t understand, even as
missionaries and members of the church. That prayer is a literal conversation
with our Father in Heaven. He will answer us. And it can apply to anything. And
so my companion applied it to missionary work, where we needed to go to find
the people that needed us. She got down on her knees and she asked God where to
go, when do we need to go, is there someone we need to find? She was given an
answer. She was given a time. She was given a place. She was given a day. She
was given the idea that we needed to find a mother. So that next day we went to
that apartment complex that she thought of, at the time she was told and we
found a mother, a young woman who was about to give birth in a couple of weeks.
She needed us at that time. She needed to be fed, she needed to be saved. Our
Heavenly Father knew that. He knows it for everyone and he will tell us. You
don’t need to be a missionary to get these answers of who you need to help, of
who you need to save.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have a lot of stories about people that are ready. That is
a huge testimony I gained on my mission that there are people that are ready
for the gospel, that are ready to be fed. I saw it a lot in the women that I
found, that I taught and I saw accept the gospel. There was one woman who was
in her fifties, her name is Imelda. She was a Jehovah’s Witness which is a
difficult religion to teach. She was a referral, we knocked on her door and
that day she set a day to be baptized. She didn’t miss a single day of church
from the moment that we knocked on her door. She is the only member of the
church in her family now. She was baptized six weeks after we knocked on her
door. All she wants is to go to the temple. All she wants is for her family to
join the church. She has terrible arthritis in her legs and her arms and she
can hardly walk. She had to miss a couple of weeks of church because of it and
it killed her. She got super depressed. She had only been a member for a month.
She knew that coming to church and taking the sacrament was something vitally
important to her salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is another woman who I taught named Liz who has a son
with autism and a mother in law with severe Alzheimer’s disease. She was having
a difficult time. She is an illegal immigrant. She doesn’t speak any English.
Which were some pretty big trials in her life. She didn’t know what to do so
she went to her husband and said “We need a church, we need God.” He said “I
think I was baptized Mormon.” And so she looked up the church on line. She
looked up Mormon.org and showed up to church the next week. She sat by me in
church and she said, “How do I get baptized?” I said “I can help you out with
that, don’t you worry.” She was baptized a week and a half later. She is the
most poignant example I can think of of someone that has seen the gospel truly
bless her family, bless her life. Her trials haven’t gone away. She still has a
son with severe autism, she still has a mother in law with severe Alzheimer’s,
she still can’t speak English, she is still trying to find a job without any
legal status, but it is easier. She can feel her Heavenly Father’s love and she
can feel the Savior’s atoning sacrifice in her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is a young girl named Nathaly who came to us and said
“I’ve been going to church for a while with my aunt and I want to be baptized
now that I’m 18.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was, and all of
her family disowned her, except her aunt. She is 18 years old. She is still in
high school. She is still working on her papers. Her mother threatened to cut
her off. She didn’t know what she is going to do. She didn’t know if she is
going to be able to graduate from high school. But she was ready for the gospel
and she knew she needed it. Her Heavenly Father knew she needed it. He told us
to go to her house on that day that she needed it. There are countless stories
like that. The sheep are all around us. They are our family members. They are
our friends. They are members of our church and they are non-members of our
church. They are ourselves. We are the sheep. We need to be fed. So how do we
feed the sheep? How do we take care of these people who need our help? We do it
exactly as our Savior did it. The Savior is a perfect example. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elder Ulysses Soares said in this October 2005
general conference, “Jesus showed patience and love to all those who came to
Him seeking relief from physical, emotional or spiritual illnesses, who felt
discouraged or down trodden. To follow the Savior’s example each one of us must
look around and reach out to the sheep who are facing the same circumstances,
and lift them up and encourage them to continue on their journey toward eternal
life. This need is a great as or perhaps even greater than when the Savior
walked on this earth. As shepherds, who we all are, we must understand that we
should nurture each one of our sheep and bring them to Christ which is the
purpose of all we do in this church. Any activity, meeting, or program should
focus on the same objective. As we stay in tune with the needs of the people we
can strengthen them and help them overcome their challenges so they will remain
steadfast in the way that will lead them back to our Heavenly Father’s presence
and help them endure to the end. The gospel of Jesus Christ is about people not
programs. Sometimes in the haste of fulfilling or church responsibilities we
spend too much time concentrating on programs instead of focusing on people,
and end up taking their real needs for granted. When things like that happen,
we lose the perspective of our callings, neglect people, and prevent them from
reaching their divine potential to gain eternal life.” That is what we are
supposed to do; we are supposed to love people. Our callings in the church are
important to keep the church going forward, but the whole purpose of the gospel
is to save sheep. We can’t do that if people feel like they are a
responsibility, if they feel like they are just a job. We need to truly love
them. Elder Soares continues, “People are most receptive to our influence when
they feel that we truly love them, and not only because we have a calling to
fulfill. As we express true love for people, they will be able to feel the
influence of the Spirit and may feel motivated to follow our teachings.<span style="color: black;"> </span>It is not always easy to love people for what they
are.” That was also true for me. So on my mission, surprisingly, I did not love
every single person I met immediately, but I tried. There one woman in
particular that we were teaching and that I had a really hard time with
honestly. I didn’t want to go her house, I felt irritated whenever we were
there and I felt she was taking advantage of us, but she needed us. I turned to
the scriptures and to my Heavenly Father for help and in Moroni 7:48 it says,</span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> “</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father
with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he
hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye
may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for
we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified
even as he is pure. Amen.” This woman didn’t change. She stayed the same. But I
was able to see her in a different light. I was able to see as our Heavenly Father
sees her, as His daughter, as someone precious. I came to love her. It was hard,
but I really love her. That’s what we need to do. We need to pray, we need to
pray to love these people that surround us so that we can help them. Many of
the sheep and lambs in our lives, especially in the lives of all of you, are our
children. I know that’s something that I am concerned about, as I face the next
stage in my life, which is probably to have a family. How do we raise or
children in the gospel? We can teach them, we can take them to church every week,
but it’s not a guarantee and that’s scary. But there is another scripture that
is in 2 Nephi 25:26 that tells us the way that we can teach our children, that
we can do our best. It says, “We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach
of Christ, we prophecy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies,
that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of
their sins.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Example is the best way to teach and the best way to lead.
Our Savior will help us if we are doing everything we need to, he will make up
the difference. Something else I have learned, though, is that it is not after
everything we can do He will fill in the gap, He is there every step of the way
to help us do what we need to do, to help us return to Him, to help us help
others. Often times in my mission I felt like I needed more help than those
that I was helping. How was I to go out and teach the gospel when I myself was
struggling, when I myself didn’t know how to continue. There are many answers.
We need to follow the fundamentals of the gospel. There is a scripture in Alma
which says, “Behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great
things brought to pass</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="7"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">….by small means the Lord doth confound the
wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls. ” (Alma 37:6-7)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By small things we will be saved, but we need
to do all of the small things. It’s like a spiritual house. We need to have
prayer. We need to have scripture study and going to church. These make up our
walls, our ceilings and floors, our foundation. But without one of those things
we are not protected from the evil outside, from the spiritual winds that bring
snow and rain. We need to be sure we are doing those simple things and then we
will be protected. But more than anything what I learned on my mission is that
when I needed help, to help others, helped me more than anything. That I would
go to people’s homes with a lesson prepared and they would need something else,
we would give that lesson and that lesson was what I needed. The scriptures
that we shared were what I needed. I know that helping others helps us more
than we can even imagine. I know that feeding Christ’s sheep is a commandment.
It was a commandment that I knew I needed to follow, especially on my mission.
But there was always the question of how do I find these people amongst 9.8
million? How do I feed them? How do I save them? There is also the question I
have had the last couple of months, what do I do after my mission? How do I
continue being the kind of person I want to be and what’s next? General
conference was coming up and I went to general conference with questions that I
wanted answers to. The questions I had were where should I live? What should I
study? Who am I going marry? Where am I going to meet him? What’s his name? I
didn’t get those answers. But I did get a very powerful answer from Elder
Holland’s talk which was actually about feeding the sheep, saving the lambs. He
gave his own “non-scriptural elaboration” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is what he calls it, to the story of John 21
where the Savior came to Peter and asked him to feed His sheep. Elder Holland
said, “After the third time Peter said “Lord though knowest that I love thee”.
Then the Savior may have said “Then Peter, why are you here? Why are we back on
this same shore, by these same nets, having this same conversation? Wasn’t it
obvious then and isn’t it obvious now that if I want fish, I can get fish? What
I need, Peter, are disciples—and I need them forever. I need someone to feed my
sheep and save my lambs. I need someone to preach my gospel and defend my
faith. I need someone who loves me, truly, truly loves me, and loves what our
Father in Heaven has commissioned me to do. Ours is not a feeble message. It is
not a fleeting task. It is not hapless; it is not hopeless; it is not to be
consigned to the ash heap of history. It is the work of The Almighty God, and
it is to change the world. So, Peter, for the second and presumably the last
time, I am asking you to leave all this and to go teach and testify, labor and
serve loyally until the day in which they will do to you exactly what they did
to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My answer to my questions was that it didn’t matter what I
did as long as I continued. As long as I loved God and did what He asked me to
do which was to be His disciple, to feed His sheep and save His lambs. Elder
Holland continues by saying,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My beloved
brothers and sisters, I am not certain just what our experience will be on
Judgment Day, but I will be very surprised if at some point in that
conversation, God does not ask us exactly what Christ asked Peter: “Did you
love me?” I think He will want to know if in our very mortal, very inadequate,
and sometimes childish grasp of things, did we at least understand <i>one</i>
commandment, the first and greatest commandment of them all—“Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind.” And if at such a moment we can stammer out,
“Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee,” then He may remind us that the
crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“If ye love me, keep my commandments,” Jesus said. So we
have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up, and the
truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share, and good to do.
In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our
love of the Lord. We can’t quit and we can’t go back. After an encounter with
the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.
The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning
of a Christian life, not the end of it. It was this truth, this reality, that
allowed a handful of Galilean fishermen-turned-again-Apostles without “a single
synagogue or sword” to leave those nets a second time and go on to shape the
history of the world in which we now live.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Elder Holland says “I testify from the bottom of my heart,
with the intensity of my soul, to all who can hear my voice that those
apostolic keys have been restored to the earth, and they are found in The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. To those who have not yet joined
with us in this great final cause of Christ, we say, “Please come.” To those
who were once with us but have retreated, preferring to pick and choose a few cultural
hors d’oeuvres from the smorgasbord of the Restoration and leave the rest of
the feast, I say that I fear you face a lot of long nights and empty nets. The
call is to come back, to stay true, to love God, and to lend a hand. I include
in that call to fixed faithfulness every returned missionary who ever stood in
a baptismal font and with arm to the square said, “Having been commissioned of
Jesus Christ.”<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup>That commission was to have changed your convert
forever, but it was surely supposed to have changed you forever as well. To the
youth of the Church rising up to missions and temples and marriage, we say:
“Love God and remain clean from the blood and sins of this generation. You have
a monumental work to do, underscored by that marvelous announcement President
Thomas S. Monson made yesterday morning. Your Father in Heaven expects your
loyalty and your love at every stage of your life.” (The First Great
Commandment, Jeffery R Holland, General Conference Oct 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I want to add my testimony to that of Elder Holland’s that I
know that this work is true. I know that this is what we have been called to do
is to be disciples. I have had a life changing experience and I cannot go back
to fishing. I have been called to love my Savior and to love Him forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yo quiero compartir mi testimonio en Español para ustedes.
Yo sé que este es la iglesia de Jesucristo. Sé que es la misma iglesia que Él estableció
cuando Él estaba en la tierra. Que tenemos el sacerdocio que necesitamos por las
ordenanzas sagradas que nos pueden llevar a la exaltación. Yo sé que El Libro
de Mormón es escritura sagrada. Que fue traducido por un profeta, José Smith.
Que él es el profeta de la restauración. Y que nuestro Salvador, nuestro Hermano,
Jesucristo nos ama. Que está esperandonos con sus brazos abiertos. El quiere
que lleguemos todos. Que siguen en esta obra. Estoy muy agradecida por la
oportunidad que tuve de server al Señor. Digo estas cosas en el nombre de Jesucristo,
amén.</span></div>
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-86101951959542844882012-12-03T23:13:00.000-07:002012-12-03T23:13:10.613-07:00Well. I guess this is the last email I'll be sending as a missionary. . .
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">12-3-2012<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,<br />
<br />
This week was pretty crazy. I'm not sure if there was any events that
necessarily made it any crazier than usual, but it definitely was just the
strangest feeling week of my mission. <br />
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Well, I guess most of the week was spent prepping for the baptism we had on
Saturday. Everything went well, and Cinthia and Jose were both baptized
Saturday evening. As per usual, one thing went wrong, but this one was
definitely not too bad. We weren't able to be the ones to fill the font,
because we had an appointment right around the time it needed to be filled, so
an hermano from the branch did it for us, resulting in a freezing cold baptism
for poor Cinthia and Jose. It was a really great evening though, and it was so
awesome to see these two, who we just met a little over a month ago, make one
of the most important decisions of their lives. They really have been so
amazing through this whole process, and I feel so blessed to have met them.
They have not missed one week of church since we met them, and have so much
faith and desire to learn and follow Christ. They are going to be awesome
examples to their families. And at the rate Jose is reading he's probably
finished the Book of Mormon by now. :)<br />
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We got a couple of referrals from the hermanas in Arlington Heights, and they
seem like some really legit people. We stopped by and met one, Antonio, briefly
and invited him to church and he came. And then we just were able to call the
other referral, Liliana, and invite her to church and she came and brought her
husband. This may seem like not that big of a deal to you, but getting people
to church is seriously one of the hardest parts of missionary work. I'm excited
for them, and am sure that this branch is going to see so many miracles.<br />
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The rest of the week was spent with our regular appointments and saying
goodbye. Because . . I don't know if you realize this, but. . . I'm coming home
really soon. Which is the most bizarre feeling ever. I've held up pretty good
until yesterday at church. I really very rarely cry. But for some reason I just
couldn't control myself yesterday. It probably didn't help that it was fast and
testimony meeting, and as I heard people's testimonies all I could think about
was how it was my last Sunday as a missionary, my last Sunday in a Spanish
branch, my last Sunday seeing people that I taught get confirmed members of the
church of Jesus Christ and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. And it was my
last Sunday to bear my testimony as a missionary. My last Sunday to listen to
off key singing in Spanish. After Sacrament Meeting was over I was talking to
Antonio (referral that came to church) and was explaining what would happen
next when I saw in the back of the room Hermana Arreguin from Westchester. Oh
my goodness, if I hadn't been teary before, I definitely was then. She's my
mission mom. And she came to say goodbye, and I just hugged her and bawled in
front of the whole fetchin branch. But it was so good to see her. <br />
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Today Moffat and I are headed to Portillo's for lunch, for my last Chicago hot
dog, and then Elder Unick and I are having a joint funeral. I'm pretty stoked.
And then more goodbyes planned in for the evening. And then a night full of
packing. Tuesday night I doubt I'll get any sleep either, so sorry if I'm the
grumpiest person ever on Wednesday.<br />
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Well. I guess this is the last email I'll be sending as a missionary. . .<br />
So. Yeah. I don't know. Its really weird. I might be the weirdest person ever
when I get home. I hope you can forgive me.<br />
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I never thought I would go on a mission. And then I did. And while I was there
I never thought the day would come that I would go home. And now its almost
here. I can't even express how grateful I am for the last 18 months. I have had
so much fun, but I have also learned so much. I have seen so many miracles, and
I have no idea where I would be if I hadn't done this. Maybe the biggest
miracle I have seen is how this mission has changed me. I didn't want to be
changed at the beginning. I thought being changed would mean I'd come back with
a different personality, as some weirdo return sister missionary. And maybe
that has happened, I guess you guys will have to be the judges of that. But
more than anything I have changed in my priorities. What is important to me
now, was not really that important before. Or at least I didn't realize how
much more important it could be. Jesus Christ really should be the center of
our lives. And when we are living the way He wants us to live, no matter what
happens, no matter how hard things get, he won't leave you. and ultimately, he
will make you stronger. I never really understood the gospel. I never really
understood why this church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was
all that different from other churches. I never really understood the
importance of a prophet, and I especially didn't understand the importance of
Joseph Smith. I mean, I knew all the answers. But I just didn't get it. And I'm
sure I still don't, but I definitely get it a lot more than I did before. I
have no idea who reads these emails that are put on the blog, but if anyone
that does read them is wondering if they should go on a mission, I say
DEFINITELY. And if anyone is reading this that doesn't know much about what
I've been teaching for the last year and half, member of the church or not,
find out. If what I've been teaching is true, (which it is), its way too
important to not truly give it a try. Its too important to not read the Book of
Mormon and pray about it. And if its not true. Well, then I guess at least
you'll know its not. But I guess in my last email home as a missionary, I want
to promise anyone reading this, that the Book of Mormon is true. That it really
is scripture. And that by reading it and praying about it you can know that
this church is the SAME church Jesus Christ established when he was on the
earth. That it is the ONLY church with the authority of God to perform sacred,
saving ordinances. and that it is IMPERATIVE that you know these things for
yourself. <br />
So do it. Read the Book of Mormon. Pray about it. What can you lose? Especially
not in comparison to that which you can gain. <br />
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Estoy muy muy agradecida por todo que he aprendido durante los ultimos 18
meses. Y estoy muy agradecida por todas las personas que he conocido y que han
bendecido a mi vida. Les amo mucho, y les voy a extranar mas que pueden saber.
Han sido mi familia aqui, y siempre van a estar en mi corazon. <br />
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I'll be seeing you soon. 11 am on Sunday- I'll be speaking. Hope to see you
there.<br />
Les quiero,<br />
Hermana Brown<br />
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-30662954133157369042012-11-28T19:17:00.000-07:002012-11-28T19:17:17.537-07:00I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was pretty good.
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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was pretty good. We spent it with
a family from the branch, and had good old fashioned turkey. I missed tamales.
:(<br />
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Sorry, this email is going to be pretty short. We're heading to the city today,
so we're cutting our time short here at the library, but I also don't have too
much to tell. The week was mostly spent getting fed way too much Thanksgiving
food. <br />
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As for people we're visiting, everything seems to be going well. Cinthia and
Jose are still on track to be baptized this weekend. No big stories to tell
with anyone from this last week, cos most people cancelled with it being the
holiday. This week thats coming is super full of appointments though, with
members and nonmembers, so hopefully I'll have some good stories for you next
week. <br />
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Saturday morning we helped with the Schaumburg turkey trot, which is a half
marathon. Some of the missionaries ran in it, and some of us volunteered to
freeze our butts off working at water stations. So we stood for a good couple
of hours in below freezing temperatures holding half frozen water out for
runners to spill on us as they ran by. :) But it was fun to spend time with the
other missionaries and do something out of the norm. and we got free shirts.
always a plus. :)<br />
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Saturday night was the branch Thanksgiving party. Pretty standard, but a good
time to spend with members and watch people dance. Can't wait til I don't have
to just watch anymore. :P<br />
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Well, hope you all have a great week and recover from the holiday! Good luck
with finals and stuff!<br />
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Les Quiero,<br />
Shaelyn<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Me and Giovanni. The story of right before this picture:<br />
me: Giovanni, will you be my boyfriend? <br />
Giovanni: NO! <br />
me: Seras mi novio? (same as before, just spanish.)<br />
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-22768232808005246582012-11-21T19:31:00.000-07:002012-11-21T19:31:27.820-07:00Well, this week was kind of a crazy one.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,<br />
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Well, this week was kind of a crazy one.<br />
First of all it started off with us being homeless. Last Monday we had to take
our car down to the mission office because it got hit like three times in three
weeks, and we it needed to go into the shop. So we took it down to the office,
and got a loaner car. Monday night when we got home and like 9:15 the
conversation went a little like this:<br />
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brown: yay mail time!<br />
moffat: oh. . . i forgot to take the mailkey off of our car key when we gave it
to Elder Lines.<br />
brown: . . . did you remember to get our apartment key off of the car key?<br />
moffat: *silence*<br />
brown: hermana?<br />
moffat: uhoh. . .<br />
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so. . . we were locked out of our apartment until we could get the keys back
from the autobody shop the next morning when it opened at ten. and it was
snowing.<br />
basically we sat outside our apartment and laughed at how ridiculous the
situation was. when we called the relief society president to see if we could
sleep on her couch, she didn't believe we were really locked out because we
were laughing so hard. but luckily she pulled through, let us sleep on her
guest bed, and bright and early the next day we got to show up at the mission
office again in the same clothes we were wearing the day before. :) <br />
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We also had some super great appointments with Jose and Cinthia, the
investigators who are on date for the first. They are doing AWESOME. On Tuesday
we invited them to start reading the Book of Mormon from the beginning. Like
from the intro, and the witnesses and everything. By the time we saw them on
Thursday, Jose had already read to 1 Nefi chapter 9. Oh man, they are super
legit. This week we are seeing them a couple of times again, and Saturday for
Cinthia's birthday we're going to go over and watch the Testaments with her and
Nathaly.<br />
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Speaking of Nathaly. . . she totally got baptized on Saturday. :) And it was
awesome. She was so excited, and happy. Of course something went wrong,
something always does. But this time was nothing I haven't dealt with before,
just the crappy church water heater giving out and having to boil water on the
stove. :) And Nathaly said the water was perfect, and when she came out we went
in with her while she changed and she told us how she just felt so much
lighter, like a weight had been lifted off of her, and she could breath easier.
After the baptism she immediately put a picture of her and all of us
missionaries up as her profile pic on facebook. Unfortunately, she pretty
quickly got some pretty harsh backlash from her family in Colombia. Its not going
to be easy for her, so please keep her in your prayers. <br />
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Well. yeah. That was my week. Weather is awesome here, staying in like the
50's, which means no coats needed still. Hope everything is going well for you.
Good luck in the musical this week, Morgan! Love you all!<br />
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Les Quiero,<br />
Shaelyn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">11-12-2012<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,<br />
<br />
Hello hello. This week has been pretty awesome, but I don't know if I have
enough time this week to write about it! I'll try to do my best. <br />
<br />
So during the week everything was pretty normal, but the weekend was rockin.
First of all, Saturday we got to go the temple with the Esquivel family. They
got baptized last October in Aurora. And it was so so awesome to be able to go
with them and see them get sealed as a family. I don't know if I can explain
how happy I felt sitting in the sealing room watching these people get sealed
to each other, to their son, and to a daughter that died for time and all
eternity. I've never seen a sealing before, and I'm glad that theirs was my
first one. Also, the whole session and the sealing was in Spanish, which was
really cool.<br />
I also got to see a lot of members from the Aurora ward, and ex-Hermana
Maughan. Which was basically the best thing ever. <br />
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Then we had a really great Sunday. We had quite a few people at church again,
including a dad and daughter who came the week before after we met them at the
Halloween party and invited them to church. Their names are Jose and Cinthia.
After church we had our first lesson with them, because we hadn't been able to
find a time that worked with them during the week before. But the lesson was
awesome. They told us how much they liked our church, that they've been to lots
of others, but this is the first they've really liked. They totally understood
everything we taught them about the restoration, agreed to read the Book of
Mormon and pray about it, and agreed that if they get an answer that it is true
they will be baptized December 1! Thats moving really fast, but if we're able
to meet with them regularly I have no doubt they will be ready by then. If not,
I guess I won't get to see their baptism, but thats okay, as long as it
happens. :)<br />
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Then, after that lesson we had the most awkward appointment of my life. So when
I don't know people, I'm pretty shy. I have a hard time coming out of my shell
and just making small talk with strangers. And that is why this appointment was
terrible. So usually Sundays after church we have an appointment with an
hermana in the ward. so we get to the appointment, and call her to tell her
we're outside so she can buzz us in, and she sends her son down. Her son comes
out with a tray, and a bag of tamales and says we're going to his brother's
apartment. now this guy is SUPER quiet and doesn't talk to us the whole way to
the apartment. Which is just on the other side of the apartment complex, but we
had to take the longest way possible, looping around different apartments,
doing figure eights, etc. We just assumed that the hermana was at the brother's
apartment. But we get there, and it turns out that no- the hermana is not
there, just a whole lot of people we don't know, having a birthday party. and
do they talk to us? no. so we sit on the couch awkwardly trying to make small
talk. and then they leave the table and tell us to sit at it and give us
tamales, and then leave us to eat the tamales by ourselves. finally the hermana
shows up like 10 minutes before we have to leave. and it was just terribly
awkward, and hermana Moffat thought it was the funniest thing ever. And I hated
it. but thats the funny story of the week. <br />
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Anyway, after that we headed over to Nathaly's aunt's house, where we've been
teaching her. She's getting baptized THIS saturday! and she is super ready. But
we went over there to plan the baptism, and while we were there her nonmember
uncle came home and started talking to us. Now, he's been coming to church with
his wife for a long time, and meeting with the missionaries for a while, but as
been just super resistant. But last week he told us that he did want to be
baptized. . . "someday." Technically he is the elders' investigator,
so we talked to Wilson (the uncle) and tried to see where he was at, and then
passed the info on to the elders. But the elders have had a hard time getting
in with him, whereas we see him all the time. So yesterday, we talked to him
some more, to see if he really did still want to get baptized, and we set him
on date for the 24. :) So yeah, he's the elder's investigator, but we get to
teach him and see him baptized, which is good enough for me. :)<br />
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So its been an awesome week. We're seeing some really cool stuff happening in
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Love you all, hope you have a great week!<br />
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Les quiero,<br />
Shaelyn<br />
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This week was pretty good. The first part was rough because I was having weird
stomach problems again, but we got it figured out by Friday and worked hardcore
all weekend. <br />
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A lot of our time this week was spent cleaning. There is a family that have
been investigating the church for a long time, and they have 7 kids ages 12-2,
but they haven't been able to be baptized because their mom has gotten super
sick. She has breast cancer which has moved to her bones, and she also broke
her back. She also happens to be a grade A hoarder. She wouldn't let anyone in
to help her while she was home, but she is now in the hospital, so the relief
society, the missionaries, and her neighbors have taken charge. we have
organized a huge project, where we are going in and cleaning every day for
hours, organizing, and overall trying to make these kids' lives liveable. they
were all in one room, with only two beds, but now they have new bunk beds. :)
we have been focusing on the kitchen and it took us about 4 days to finish. oh
man, i really wish we'd taken before and after pictures, because it is crazy.
you would not believe it. So that how we've been spending a lot of our days
hours 10 am to about 2 pm.<br />
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Halloween we tried to find some people, but. . everyone was out halloweening.
and we had to be in by dark. so overall not a great day. We did get delicious
50 cent corndogs at Sonic to celebrate though. :)<br />
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Things are going really well with Delia and Nathaly, our investigators that are
on date. Delia said that in this last week she feels like she has grown a ton
spiritually. Nathaly also is progressing a bunch, and its making her nonmember
uncle have more interest as well- and he's been learning about the church for
forever just not making any commitments. <br />
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This week we found a few more people to teach. We are going to start teaching
Modesta Rivera's sister, who lives in the area. And also a part member family,
where the wife isn't a member but has been on date for baptism like 7 times,
and then backed out last second cos her member husband talks her out of it. He
has way less of a testimony that she does. But they are awesome. <br />
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Saturday we had a branch costume party and there was a huge turn out. It was
super fun, and a good opportunity for me to try and get to know more people. <br />
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and YESTERDAY. oh man yesterday was awesome. We had 8 people at church, which
is HUGE. Probably the most i've had at one time. Some of the Rivera family
relatives were at the party, and we invited them and they came to church the
next day. so that was sick. After church we had 4 appointments back to back,
which took us to the end of the night. So we ended the week exhausted, but
feeling pretty good about everything. <br />
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so. . I think that about catches ya'll up to today. Which leaves me nothing
left to tell you!<br />
I'm glad mom and dad had a great time in Hawaii. I hope everyone else is
surviving as it starts to get cold and finals and stuff are coming around. Good
luck with rehearsals for the musical, Morgan. <br />
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Love you all. Miss you all.<br />
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Les Quiero,<br />
Shaelyn<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Familia,<br />
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Hello from Bloomingdale. Yep, being back in the Suburbs after 9 months in south
sideish Chicago sure is weird. My first day here it was def culture shock to be
seeing white people and asians. :P And to go to gas stations with out bullet
proof glass? dang that was a change. Haha when I tell people where I just came
from they all comment on how feo and ghetto it is. . . I miss it. :)<br />
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But, Bloomingdale is good. I'm in a SUPER fancy apartment. I mean at least
compared to what I'm used to. . We have our own washer and dryer! and a
dishwasher! And the apartment complex has a pool, not that I can use it. . but
dangggg I'm living the high life! I feel like I just came out of the projects
or something and now am living in the Marriott. :)<br />
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It was definitely hard to leave the Westchester ward. When I told people I was
leaving they all thought it was a joke. And then cried. Saying goodbye to the
Salgado's was definitely the hardest. Oh man. And then coming here I def feel
overwhelmed trying to meet people and remember their names, and getting to know
the area. But I've met some awesome people, and some legit families. This area
has a lot of potential, but needs some help.<br />
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There is a woman here that the missionaries have been meeting with for FOREVER,
and she has a testimony and everything, but just hasn't been baptized yet cos
her husband isn't on board. Her name is Delia, and she is super sweet. When we
met with her this week we asked her to set a baptism date as like a step of
faith that her husband will come around to it. So she is now on date for Dec
15. :)<br />
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Someone else that set a baptism date this week is Nathaly. She is the cousin of
a family in the ward, and she has been coming to church for a while, but the
missionaries haven't really taught her anything. So we decided to meet with her
last night, and as soon as we brought up baptism she told us she had just
decided she wanted to be baptized! Her parents aren't too keen on the idea, but
she turned 18 today, and has decided she wants to go ahead and do it anyway. We're
planning on Nov 17 for her. <br />
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There are lots of other people here who seem super prepared for baptism, but
they just haven't really been invited- so . . thats what I'm gonna do. Invite
them, and we'll see what happens. <br />
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The area here is different too because of the diversity. The last 9 months I've
been working basically with puros mexicanos. Here there are Colombians,
Hondurans, Peruvians, Brasilians, Guatemalans. . .everyone. And man, do they
love to make fun of my Mexican accent and my use of Mexican slang. <br />
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I'm having a good time with my companion as well. Her name is Hermana Moffat,
and she is from Arizona. She has been out just over a year, and we're having a
lot of fun. She's a very hard worker and is keeping in me in line. <br />
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I hope you are having a wonderful time in Hawaii. I'm super jealous. It sure is
starting to get cold over here. . .<br />
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My address is 362 Glenwood Dr #306 Bloomingdale, IL 60108. Just in case anyone
wants to write me. . . I mean, I understand if you don't. I'm terrible at responding.
:)<br />
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Love you all!<br />
Les Quiero,<br />
Shaelyn </span><br />
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<o:p></o:p>Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-21278576258103273502012-10-22T11:54:00.000-06:002012-10-22T11:54:54.119-06:00For my very last transfer I am being moved.
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Well, I guess the big news of the week is that I did not survive transfers.
Nope. For my very last transfer I am being moved. To serve in the Bloomingdale
Spanish branch. I'm not really sure where I'll be serving, if I'll be in
Bloomingdale or what, but I guess I'll let you know next week. I'll be serving
with Hermana Moffat. I'm going to be completely honest. I really don't want to
go. I do not want to be changed for my last 6 weeks. I feel like this is my
home ward! I've been here for 9 months, and to get moved to another area for
only 6 weeks? I won't even have time to get to know the branch. Its been heart
breaking saying goodbye to people. Last night we had like 5 appointments to say
goodbye, and today we have 6. On a pday. and because they are farewell
appointments that means we get fed. So. . . expect to be rolling me off the
airplane. :) Packing is going to be so crazy. I have no idea how I have
accumulated so much junk. But I managed to pack up my desk last night, and
tonight is going to be everything else. Oh man. . I'm basically probably just
going to give anything extra I don't want to send home to Millie, or the other
sisters serving in the English ward. <br />
<br />
So aside from transfers, this week was pretty good. I think. I can't really
remember what else happened. . . Regular appointments i guess. Yesterday and
today are full of goodbyes, which is really sad. But during those goodbyes last
night we were able to set three people on date to be baptized! <br />
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Alejandra Armenta, who is part of the Armenta family that we have been visiting
forever finally prayed about being baptized. We asked her to pray about being
baptized on Nov 17. She did it, and felt good about it. But she is still
scared, and was super hesitant to set a date. But I just told her we needed to
show God that she trusted him and wanted to be baptized by setting that goal,
but that if the day came and she still wasn't sure or ready, she didn't have to
be baptized. But she totes will be. <br />
<br />
And then we finally got the Luarca kid's mom to give them permission to be
baptized on Dec 1. They are such a legit family. The kids are so freaking
smart. When we asked them how they felt when they prayed to know if they needed
to get baptized, the 12 year old told he he felt "confident." BEST
ANSWER EVER. They are awesome. <br />
<br />
So yeah. I'm really sad to leave. Its turning out to be the hardest thing ever.
My poor little heart is breaking. The worst is going to be saying goodbye to
the Salgado's, who are my family now, and to Imelda. I'm the first missionary
she ever met, so its gonna be super hard on her, and I just love her to death
and thus its gonna kill me.<br />
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We have to come back and visit these people. I keep telling people I'll come
back, and they all tell me everyone says that but then no one really comes
back. We have to. Okay?<br />
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Well, Love you. Have fun in Hawaii. I'll let you know how Bloomingdale is next
week.<br />
<br />
Les Quiero,<br />
Shaelyn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,<br />
<br />
Well, this week has been good. We had some pretty good appointments and are
seeing some great stuff. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to write
today, so I'll try to sum it up pretty quickly.<br />
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We had an appointment with the referral miracle we had from last week. His name
is Efrain and he is awesome. I called him the night before our appointment to
confirm, and I left message asking him to call us back and let us know if there
was going to be a woman at his home, cos if not we needed to bring one. He
never called us back, so I was a little worried he was just gonna bail, but we
go to his house for the appointment, and he comes right out with his jacket on
and everything and was like, "there's only 4 men here, wanna go to the
dunkin donuts down the street?" and he was to his car faster than we were!
So we met him there, and didn't even have to direct the lesson cos the first
thing he says to us when we sit down is, "so tell me, where does this book
come from?" talking about the Book of Mormon. He told us he is looking for
something. That he feels empty, and that he feels hungry. But not for bread or
water. haha After the appointment Millie and I got in the car and just looked
at each other like, "did that really just happen?" He seems super
legit. <br />
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We are also teaching that family from Guatemala I told you about, the Luarcas.
The kids LOVE us and are so stoked to get baptized. We're still waiting on
permission from the mom unfortunately. But they are reading the Book of Mormon,
and love it. They are really smart kids.<br />
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Something super cute that happened this week: A granddaughter of a member
called us (her mom isn't a member) and asked us to pray for her brother cos he
was in the hospital. She's 6, and her brother is 8. So we prayed with her over
the phone so her brother would be better. :) it was adorable.<br />
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Well, thats about all i've got time for. Hope all is well!<br />
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Les Quiero,<br />
Shaelyn<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">10-9-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Familia,<br />
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Hey. Sorry I forgot to tell you I wouldn't be emailing yesterday. I completely
forgot. But before I forget, I won't be emailing til next Tuesday again. We
have zone meeting on Monday. Also, I'm not really sure at what time we'll be
emailing, because we're going to the temple. First time in a year! yayyy.<br />
<br />
This week was pretty good. We started off the week awesome, getting 7 new
investigators in 2 days, and then finished off the week the best way possible
with general conference. lets start off by talking about general conference.
Cos that was awesome. First of all, Saturday was a nightmare. Due to a plethora
of unfortunate mishaps we were late to both sessions on Saturday. So I missed
the announcement from Pres Monson. Oh man when we finally showed up and one of
the elders passed me a note telling me that girls could go on missions at 19
and boys at 18 I almost turned around and punched the elders that made us late.
I really am interested to see how things change. Unfortunately I probably won't
be in the mission when we really get to see the changes. I do know a lot of
girls that are suddenly having to do some serious praying about what to do. My
favorite favorite talk was Elder Holland's. Of course. Man, that guy is SUCH a
baller. <br />
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The beginning of the week though was def the highlight. Tuesday we found a
family we've been looking for for weeks. The parents are both inactive members,
that haven't been to church since they moved here from Guatemala. The hermano's
sister is also an inactive member that we've been visiting. Non of these people
are in the ward records so its kind of a miracle we even know about them. But
anyway, the parents are inactive, and they have three kids, Edgar who is 10,
Jenny 8, and Rosemily 4. The hermano is super stoked for us to come and teach
them, and wants to come back to church. He just quit his job so he can come on
Sundays, but he can't drive. His wife, that can has started to go to a
different church and seems a little bit hesitant to have us come over. But the
kids are awesome. They have basically no gospel understanding, but they are
super eager to learn. We got them some Books of Mormon last time we were there,
and asked if they want to get baptized. They really want to, and their dad
wants them to. We just have to see if we can get permission from the mom, and
then all things go. <br />
<br />
Tuesday we were also finally able to get in with another lessactive partmember
family we've been looking for for a while, also from Guatemala. We are really
working hard at getting the hermano to come back to church. He says he wants
to, and that he wants his daughter who we are teaching to get baptized, but he
just hasn't really put in the effort necessary. And he daugther, who is 11 has
been pretty standoffish towards us, until this last Tuesday. Finally we made
some progress with her. We watched the restoration movie and taught her how to
pray and she was actually participating and gave us hugs as we left.<br />
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Wednesday we had another finding miracle. A few months ago we had a few extra
minutes before an appointment , so we parked down the street from where our
appointment was so I could make a few phone calls. While I was doing that,
Hermana Milliron saw a hispanic woman go into the house we were parked in front
of and got super excited. She asked if we could come back and knock the house.
I was like, "okay, yeah, whatever." haha and then we went to the
appointment. A few weeks later Millie all of a sudden started wanting to try
that house every time we had a free minute, so we did. But we didn't find
anyone at home. We tried like 3 or 4 times. But then Wednesday we had about 15
minutes before an appointment, so we stopped by this house again. I told her it
was all on her to do the door approach, since she was the one that was so
intent on knocking the house. A woman answered the door and Millie said,
"Hi! We're missionaries and we're here in the area sharing a message with
families about Christ." and then instead of saying she was busy or no,
like I expected the woman just stood there and looked at us expectantly. Like,
"Okay. tell me your message." I had a brought a Book of Mormon up to
the door, and decided to try a new approach, that some zone leaders and told us
about a while ago- basically teaching truths right there on the door step. So I
told her we had new scripture that talked about Christ and his dealings in the
Americas, and asked her if we could come in for just 10 minutes and tell her
about the Book of Mormon. She said yes, and she totes surprised me. I almost
asked if there was another time we could come back, since I was expecting her
to say no. So we went in, and met her two daughters, and taught them about the
Book of Mormon. They seemed pretty interested and agreed to read it and pray
about it. We have another appointment with them this week.<br />
<br />
The rest of the week went pretty well. We are trying to meet with people more
often and have shorter appointments. Its working out pretty well so far. The
Armenta's are letting us come by and read with them every couple of days, and
we're trying to get in with other families as well to teach them more often. <br />
<br />
Oh, another cool story. Last week we made a goal to receive a referral and we
didn't really know where it was going to come from, but we set one in faith and
hoped for it to happen. And the next day we got a referral from church
headquarters! we NEVER get church hq referrals, so that in and of itself was a
miracle. We spent all of that week trying to find him. Stopping by his house
and different times, and calling, but nothing. Then this week, we were kind of
like, okay this is it, last try. And we stopped by in the morning, and no one
answered, and then I called and left another message. and within half an hour
he called us back. He has family members that are members of the church, and he
told me he really wants to meet with us to learn about the Book of Mormon, and
learn more than what he already knows. So we have an appointment on Thursday
with him. :)<br />
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So things are starting to pick up, I really hope they continue this way. <br />
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I hope all is going well for you. I hope Morgan starts feeling better!<br />
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Love you all.<br />
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Les quiero,<br />
Shaelyn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">10-1-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,<br />
<br />
Its fall! It has officially started to get cold here. And the leaves are
changing. Also its super dark by like 7 o clock. Which makes working in the
evening a little more difficult if we don't have appointments. People don't
really want to talk to strangers on their doorstep when they live in a shady
part of town and its dark. Luckily we've only been out knocking once after dark
so far, and I don't plan on making it a regular thing. <br />
<br />
This week was pretty normal. We managed to find some new investigators. Kind
of. We refound them really. There is a lady and her daughters that we contacted
back in July that we taught once and then lost contact with. The one lesson we
had with them was kind of a disaster. We were teaching way over their
understanding, cos the hermana really has like no religious background and also
is just kind of. . well, slower. But this time we found them, set up another
appointment and went over and it went so much better. We were a lot more
prepared and taught at a much lower understanding level. Which was good because
it really got her little girls involved as well. The hermana can't read, so we
are going to start reading the children's Book of Mormon with them. <br />
<br />
Other than that we had most of our regular appointments. We have decided to
start reading with the Armenta family every couple of days to help them read,
because they just can't seem to find the time to do it themselves. So we are
just stopping by for 15 minutes every couple of days and reading a chapter. I'm
hopeful that this will help them finally get their answer if the Book of Mormon
is true. <br />
<br />
We had a good lesson with Graciela, our investigator who is a Seventh Day
Adventist. We're a little bit stuck with her, and don't know how to continue.
She understands what we're saying that the church was restored, that Joseph
Smith was a prophet, that we have a prophet today. She's reading the Book of
Mormon and believes its true. She just is very comfortable in her church. And
believes that as long as we are following Christ we will all be okay. Which is
true. . . we just need the proper authority to be baptized and all that. So
we'll see if we can get her to understand that. She said she wants to come to
General Conference this weekend though, and she's excited for it. Pray for her,
and for us so that we know how to teach her. <br />
<br />
We went to the General Relief Society broadcast on Saturday. It was awesome. We
went with Imelda, and she loved it. Its the first conference or anything she's
been able to see. They talked a lot about pioneers, so this next week when we
visit her we're going to talk a little bit about that. Imelda is so awesome.
You guys have no idea. Like I can't wait for you to meet her. Last Friday when
we visited her she was asking what else she has to do to be prepared to go
through the temple when she has a year as a member. She can barely walk because
of her arthritis, but she still does everything she can to come to church and
everything. She is the best. She is also trying really hard to help her family
and to get them interested in the church because she knows how much it will
help them.<br />
<br />
This last week we did the new way of planning that Elder Aidukaitis taught us,
and it was super intense. We basically are supposed to plan our whole week in
advance and fill every blank spot with appointments and stuff. Even if we don't
have any appointments set up yet. So we're like planning, and being like. .
well. . umm. I hope we can get an appointment with this person at this time.
But it was awesome and because we did that those appointments are all falling into
place. Tomorrow we have 8 appointments set up and confirmed! Its gonna be a
crazy week.<br />
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Well, I think thats all I've got for you this week. I hope everything is going
well for you! </span><br />
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-4270062686346144232012-09-24T18:22:00.000-06:002012-09-24T18:22:03.703-06:00Elder Aidukaitis talked a lot about how there are people here in the Chicago area that are prepared and waiting, and we need to find them.<span style="font-family: Calibri;">9-24-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,<br />
<br />
Well, this week has been interesting. Last Monday we went to Cheesecake Factory
during pday and Millie got SUPER sick on the way home. We think she got food
poisoning or something. But either way, she was out of commission until about
mid wednesday. It was almost some weird blessing that I also still have
bronchitis, so while she was puking her guts out I was just knocked out due to
cough medicine all day. Luckily she is now feeling better, and I'm slowly
starting to be able to breathe. <br />
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Unfortunately, due to both of us being sick, I really can't think of anything
exciting I have to tell you. For the rest of the week we had our regular
appointments, but not much time for anything else. <br />
<br />
Saturday was pretty awesome. We had a zone conference with a visiting
authority. <br />
Elder Aidukaitis of the seventy was there, so it was a huge conference. Two zones
met in the morning, and then three zones, including my zone, met in the
afternoon and we all ate lunch together in between. So we got to see a ton of
missionaries and then get some awesome spiritual guidance. The conference was
ballin, and I loved it. Elder Aidukaitis talked a lot about how there are
people here in the Chicago area that are prepared and waiting, and we need to
find them. I have been thinking about that a lot these last couple of months.
He didn't really give me more advice than what I already know on how to find
them, but at least he reassured me that I'm on the right track. <br />
<br />
Yesterday was a good day. At church a lot of people we weren't expecting to
come, showed up. And even one of my former investigators from when I was in
Cicero! Lupe Torres, who I was teaching a lot when I first got here, but that
disappeared and the elders haven't been able to find her, just randomly showed
up to church. and it was AWESOME. After church I took some new cough medicine
that completely knocked me out. It was bad, but after I recovered from that we
convinced one of the Armenta girls, Alejandra, to go the the young single
adults family home evening, and it was AWESOME. I mean the family home evening
was kind of weird because the lesson ended up being some weird deep doctrine
about cain and bigfoot and nonsense. But at least she made some friends, and we
were able to have a really good talk with just her about baptism, and what she
was feeling. Why she isn't ready, what she needs to feel ready, etc. It was really
good. She still does want to get baptized- but she wants to be really sure
about it when she does. We said thats fine, and that yes- we do want her to be
baptized TOMORROW, but we don't want to rush her either. She is aware of what
she needs to do to be sure, and she is willing to do her part. So yesterday was
pretty awesome with that.<br />
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This week we are gonna freaking find some people to baptize. Thats the plan,
and thats whats going to happen.<br />
<br />
Weather here is okay. Definitely all of a sudden its fall. Millie is freezing
to death, but I'm surviving. Luckily someone super smart sent me a million
scarves last year. :)<br />
<br />
Well, I hope everything is going well for you. I love you a ton. <br />
<br />
Les quiero,<br />
shaelyn<br />
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sorry i haven't taken any pictures lately.<br />
a few weeks ago the bank built a fence around our parking lot cos they were mad
at the landlord for not paying. or something like that. so thats the only thing
i got.<br />
love you!</span><br />
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-58229120664884392382012-09-17T10:44:00.000-06:002012-09-17T10:44:14.653-06:00So overall, we didn't have a bad week. Hopefully the next one will be better. :)
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">9-17-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has been okay. Surprisingly successful given i've
been on drugs since Thursday. Thats right, I'm sick again. I know its super
surprising. I have bronchitis once again. The nurse practitioner was floored
when i told her I've never smoked nor did I grow up in a home with smokers.
Maybe bad lungs are genetic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way,
the drugs they put me on basically make me a zombie missionary. So Hermana
Milliron is being a pro missionary and i'm just following her around. But we
had some good appointments, and picked up some investigators that had
disappeared for a couple of months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The investigators we found were Graciela and her daughter
Lizette. I can't remember if I've told you about them, but they are super
awesome. Graciela was a referral from a member in Aurora. She is a seventh day
adventist and the single mom of 2 kids. She has a TON of faith and has seen
some super legit miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its a little
difficult teaching her though, because she is super super busy. So the last
time we saw her was in July. Also its difficult teaching her because her
beliefs are so close to our beliefs that its a little difficult to really help
her understand how we're different, and what it means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like she believes in prophets, and believes
that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and that the Book of Mormon is true, she just
doesn't believe that that means that there is only one true church. But she is
a super sweet lady, and I love visiting with her. I feel like I learn a lot
from her whenever we visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Armenta's are good. We finally had a little bit of a
breakthrough with Patty and figured out a little bit of whats holding her back
from being baptized. She basically feels like she's half Catholic, and half
Mormon, because her dad is Catholic, and her mom Mormon, and she likes what she
learns at our church, but she just doesn't really have any desire to get
baptized any time soon. Also our ward mission leader confusing the crap out of
her with the stupid stuff he says doesn't help. But she and her sister still
want to learn, are still at church every week, and HOPEFULLY will finally start
reading the Book of Mormon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imelda finally has been feeling a little bit better and made
it to church! So that was a miracle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So overall, we didn't have a bad week. Hopefully the next
one will be better. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love you tons, hope all is well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Les Quiero,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shaelyn</span><br />
Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-37802023385743820952012-09-10T11:50:00.000-06:002012-09-10T11:50:09.195-06:00So I'm still a missionary!
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">9-10-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Umm. Well. So I'm still a missionary! I really have no idea
what to write in these emails anymore. I remember back when I was in rockford
and all the old missionaries would complain about how they hated emailing and
had nothing to say, and were sick of pdays. I thought they were crazy, but now
I understand. I just don't know what to say. And we're scraping the bottom of
the barrel on fun pday activity ideas. Going to the city and not spending money
can only be fun for so long. :P</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week was good. Pretty normal. We kind of had two pdays
which was sort of cool, and also exhausting. Monday we got half a pday for
shopping and stuff, and then Tuesday a full one. So by Wednesday we had super
bad pday hangovers. But we worked through it. We had all of our regular
appointments, and once again got fed way too much. The families are doing well.
The Armenta's still aren't reading the Book of Mormon, so we're trying to
figure out how to help them do that, but they are still regularly attending
church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are visiting a less active hermana who's son died about a
month ago, and she's finally starting to not be the saddest person I have ever
met in my life. She has actually come to church the last couple of weeks and
wants us to read the Book of Mormon with her every week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Liz is still awesome. She hasn't been able to come to church
for forever because her mother in law fell down a full flight of stairs and
she's been super busy taking care of her, but we finally got an appointment
with her and she's so solid still. She is sharing the gospel with her friends
and was super stoked when we showed her the new spanish mormon.org site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imelda is still out of commission because of her super bad
arthritis in her knees. I'm trying to get the ward more involved with visiting
her too, but so far I think its still just the us. But she's so awesome, and
wants to get back to church asap so she can continue preparing to go to the
temple in a year. And she keeps telling us how much she wishes she had found
the Church when she was younger. Man she is so so awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally got to visit with the Rivera family again this week.
They've been super busy, with school starting and Hermana Modesta working way
too much. But Evelin got sick and had to have an operation to stop nose bleeds,
so Hermana got some work off. It was really good to see them, I've missed them
a ton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This last week we also helped an hermana in the ward,
Hermana Arreguin study for her citizenship test. It was SUPER stressful. But
she passed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Okay. I think thats about all of the news I can think of to
share with you this week. It was really a pretty normal week. This next week
we're going to start trying to track down some inactive members. We have a ward
directory and I don't even know half of the people on the list, so we're going
to try to see if they even still live in the ward, and if so whats going on.
Hopefully we'll be able to find some new people to teach in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope everything is going well for you, that school and
work and all that is good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love you tons!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Les quiero,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shaelyn</span><br />
Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-21960892836958964982012-09-04T12:47:00.000-06:002012-09-04T12:47:33.988-06:00Mission miracle! I didn't get transferred!
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">9-4-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mission miracle! I didn't get transferred! I am still here
in good ol' Melrose Park, Westchester 2nd Spanish ward! I am so stoked. I love
this ward a freaking ton, and never want to leave. If I finish my mission here,
which is entirely possible, I will have been in the ward for a total of 10
months. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has been pretty crazy. With anticipating transfers
its been really stressful, and then on top of that Millie and I both got sick.
On Wednesday we had three eating appointments and I came home and just puked up
everything. and after that it took me three days to be able to eat anything.
And then just as I was getting better Millie got the same stomach bug, so
things have been a little rough. We tried to work the best we could, but people
kept cancelling on us too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The most eventful parts of the week involved saying goodbye
to missionaries that are leaving this week, as well as visiting as many members
as i could in case i was leaving. So I've got a lot of good pictures, but not
too many good stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday was super awesome though. We went to the ward
labor day picnic, and it was a blast. So fun to just sit with the hermanas in
the ward and eat and talk and laugh, and watch the hermanos and the elders make
themselves sick playing sports in the oppressive humidity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the picnic we went to a goodbye party
for Elder Anderson that was thrown by some of his recent converts and a ton of
missionaries were there. So it was just a very fun day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week brings lots of finding still. Pray for us that we
can find some families!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope everything is well for you, and that everyone is
adjusting to school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Les quiero mucho,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shaelyn</span><br />
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-22873654505636448852012-08-30T12:08:00.000-06:002012-08-30T12:08:22.745-06:00I KNOW that there are people that ARE ready to be baptized, that are prepared and waiting, and that I need to find them.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well. Its been another week. Don't know what to tell ya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tuesday we went to a training meeting that was insanely
insanely long. We were at the Naperville stake center from about 9:30 am to 4
pm. It was cool, got to learn a lot of good stuff. and see some friends. But it
was also weird because of all of the people I didn't know. I guess I'm to the
point that I'm so old in the mission and been in the same spot for so long that
I don't know anyone. Nearly all of my friends have died, or are dying within
the next few transfers. Its pretty depressing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thursday we went on exchanges. Millie went to the loop, and
I got Hermana de Leon for the day. It was pretty cool. Hermana de Leon is from
Guatemala and we spoke nearly only Spanish, which was sweet. We also were able
to find some people I've been looking for for a while with no success. Two part
member less active families, and thus picked up some new investigators.
Hopefully the return appointments we made with them for this week will all go
through! We're really struggling with finding new people to teach. But, we still
are not lacking in appointments. The only thing is that we are kind of just
teaching a bunch of people who are progressing slowly. Still progressing, but
not quite ready for baptism. And I KNOW that there are people that ARE ready to
be baptized, that are prepared and waiting, and that I need to find them.
Unfortunately I just haven't been told how to find them yet. Still working on
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This weekend there was a cool azteca festival in Maywood,
which is in our area. We went there to try to make some contacts, and ate some
delicious food and saw some sweet dancing in the process. And then afterward we
went to a birthday party for Cynthia and Alex- some of the Salgado grandkids.
It was a fun night. Lots of food. Jumping in a bounce house. Pinatas. Lots of
crying and hurt kids from too much birthday, getting crushed in the bounce
house, and getting whacked with the bat from the pinata.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we still managed to have some good gospel
conversations. :) Hermana Salgado's sister in law says she wants to come to the
lessons. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thats so crazy that Madi is home. I can't believe it. Also
it freaks me out cos that means I go home soon. But not that soon. Really far
away still actually. Like so far away we really shouldn't even be thinking
about it. Basically its almost like I'm never coming home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
nothing else to say. So I guess I'll send you some more pictures!</span></div>
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-61581231457065159612012-08-21T17:55:00.001-06:002012-08-21T17:55:25.039-06:00I'm starting to get worried about getting transferred in a couple of weeks, and it will just rip my heart out to leave these families. This is my ward! I can't leave. But I probably will. . . :(
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every week when I sit down for emails I really have no idea
what to say. Like really, every week is pretty similar. I don't know what to
tell you. What you want to hear, or don't want to hear. I mean really. I get
up, do studies. and then we have appointments. And a lot of our appointments
are regular, weekly things. . . monday: p-day, dinner at the sosa's. Tuesday:
salgado, garcia, flores, quinonez. Wednesday: district meeting, armenta.
Thursday: weekly planning, salgado, junta, garcia. Friday: imelda, esmerelda.
Saturday: Gonzalez. Sunday: church, Rivera. And then the inbetween is just the
other people we are able to make apointments with and finding. But never
anything super exciting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I don't know what to tell you. Things are going well.
We're trying to build up our teaching pool, but haven't had much success. We
are really busy with our regular appointments too, and always seem to have
something to do, which is good- But we just haven't managed to find any new
investigators for a while. We work a lot with less active members, part member
families, and recent converts. During my mission this is where I've seen the
most investigators come from, from these families and their friends- but right
now it looks like I'm going to need to figure out a different method to find
people to teach. Its just a matter of figuring out whats effective and not just
busy work, without real results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The people we are teaching right now that are the closest to
baptism are the Armenta's. Hermana Armenta is a member, but her husband and two
daughters are not. Her husband isn't interested really in converting, is fine
listening to what we have and likes it, but wants to stay Catholic. But the
girls, Patty (22) and Alex (19) say they do want to be baptized, once they know
more. They are also really hesitant to set a baptismal date, because they don't
want to set one that they won't be ready for. It doesn't matter how many times
we reassure them that if they 're not ready, we can change it- they won't set
it. So we're teaching them right now and then once we've taught them all they
need, I guess we'll baptize them. We are currently working with them to try to
get answers to their prayers about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. Alex
isn't sure if she's gotten an answer from praying or not, and Patty hasn't
prayed specifically to know if its true. Its slow going, but they have good
intentions- just aren't on the same schedule as we are. :) They are great
though. I really like them. \</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Leslie is doing great. We gave her and her cousin Cynthia
(who is 10 but her mom won't let her get baptized) triples with personal notes
inside each of them and they loved it. They both have started reading and
brought their books to church super proud of them. We finished reading the
children's Book of Mormon with them, so yesterday we had a party to celebrate.
The party was really just watching the Testaments and eating popcorn, but the
word party excited them. :) We watched it with their grandma, Hna Salgado- who
is a recent convert of about 6 months. At the end she and Leslie were both
crying, and it was really special. Then our next appointment cancelled, so we
stayed a little longer and Hermana Milliron practiced teaching the Plan of
Salvation. I love that family so much. I'm starting to get worried about
getting transferred in a couple of weeks, and it will just rip my heart out to
leave these families. This is my ward! I can't leave. But I probably will. .
. :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imelda is still having a lot of pain in her legs. She had to
cancel our appointment on Friday because she had a doctor appointment, but the
medicine still wasn't helping by Sunday so she didn't make it to church. Its
pretty sad, since the day I knocked on the door she hasn't missed a day of
church until these last few weeks with her pain. I know she really wants to be
there, but she just can't make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wednesday night we had a mini adventure. We had an
appointment with Stephanie at 6, and the Elders from the Chicago 2nd ward were
going to come with us. So we met up with the Elders and headed over to Steph's.
. . but she wasn't there yet. She was held up at the Bishop's house helping is
wife with something. So we told her not to worry about it, we'd go grab
something to eat and she said she'd let us know when she was home and that
she'd hurry. So we eat. . and she's still not home. So we head over to a park
to wait for her. At the park there is a pond, with a little bridge that goes
out into it. So we're chilling on this bridge, talking, waiting for Steph. And
I dropped the keys in the pond. Like an idiot. And its a disgusting dirty pond
and we have no idea how deep it is and its already dark so we can't even see
into the pond at all. so the elders go over and try to employ the help of some
people fishing. while I stand there freaking out and feeling like an idiot. The
fisherman tell us the only thing to do is get in and try to find the keys. So
Elder Derby jumps on the chance to get in the pond, and in his full pros he
jumps on in. Luckily it was only up to his upper thighs, and he found the keys.
But. . it was an exciting night for all of us. And Steph ended up not being
able to meet with us anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well. I think thats about all of the stories I've got for
you this week. This week should be full of the same. Hopefully with less key
disasters. Tomorrow Millie and I are going to Naperville for some super long
training meeting. Its from 10 am to 2 pm. And I am so not exciting. But it'll
be good to see some other missionaries than usual I guess, all of the zone
leaders and trainers and greenies should be there. </span></div>
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Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-25690894855409030912012-08-13T22:21:00.000-06:002012-08-13T22:21:06.816-06:00This week has been good! Leslie got baptized! And it may have very well been the best day of my mission to date.<span style="font-family: Calibri;">8-13-2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has been good! Leslie got baptized! And it may
have very well been the best day of my mission to date. It was of course super
stressful getting ready for it, because i just freak out before baptisms. But
all turned out well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First to tell you
about the stressful parts:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nothing out
of the ordinary luckily, just the regular trying to figure out who the heck is
going to talk at this baptism, and how am I going to make this program. Luckily
I got people to help me out with the talks, and then the Elders went over to a
members house on Tuesday to make the program. Only problem? The member didn't
believe me with how the kids names are spelled for our special musical number
and she changed the spelling. . . So Saturday morning we got to remake the
program. And then I had to figure out how the Elders on bikes from Chicago that
got permission to attend were going to get there. . . So I had to run all over
freaking Illinois on Saturday- and somehow attend a birthday party, and get the
font running, and make a fruit salad. Buttttt luckily, everything was taken
care of, everyone showed up on time, and it was an awesome baptism. I easily
felt the spirit more in this baptism than any other. Leslie was soooo excited,
and looked so pretty in her new dress her mom bought her. I stood back in the
bathroom and watched from the steps with her mom when she got baptized, and she
was just sooo happy. I asked Benita, the mom, how she felt and she said
something incredible. Benita has never been interested in learning about the
church, nor does she show more interest now- but when I asked how she felt she
said, "emocionante. Por un momentito querria que seria yo."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or- "emotional. For a moment, i wanted
that it could be me."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WHAT!? Spirit
punch to the heart. danggg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and then
after Leslie was done changing, she and her cousins and her sister sang I am
like a star shining brightly and I am a child of God. And it was AWESOME.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Afterwards we all went to their house and ate a ton of food
and had a pinata and it was the best.night.ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The rest of the week was also good. I mean, mostly we were
busy prepping for the baptism. But, we also got to visit a less active member,
who's son just died and got to listen to her tell us how sad she is and try my
best to help comfort her when i really had no idea what to say. And we also got
miraculously let into an apartment that you need to be buzzed into- but none of
the buzzers work, and find another less active member and talk to her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sad news. Imelda, who got baptized in June hasn't been able
to come to church the last two weeks because her knees are hurting her so
badly. She hasn't missed a day since I first knocked on her door until now. And
when we visited her we could really see how much pain she was in. Its so sad.
But we got her a blessing yesterday, and she's going to the doctor this week.
SO hopefully all will turn out well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week coming up has a lot of finding planned! Pray for
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm glad you had a blast camping! I'm only a little jealous
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Les Quiero Muchisimo,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shaelyn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another week here in the good ol' Illinois Chicago Mission.
. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and I still feel like I have nothing
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well. We are planning a baptism for this coming Saturday.
Leslie passed her baptism interview yesterday and is super excited to get
baptized! Her mom even bought her a new dress for the baptism, which is a good
sign, because so far she hasn't seemed interested in it at all. She also
miraculously has this whole next week off, so we will actually be able to talk
to her and get the necessary information for the paperwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We had an interesting appointment with Carla and Berto on
Wednesday. . . We called to confirm the appointment and they gave us a
different address to go to, and that they wanted us to meet some of their
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well turns out their friends
were actually a pastor and a self proclaimed prophetess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So. . . yeah. Interesting is an understatement.
It was Millie's first experience with a pastor in an appointment, and it
actually went surprisingly well. I refuse to Bible Bash. So we just shared what
we had, testified, listened to their stuff, and left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, I think we probably won't be seing Carla
and Berto so much anymore. . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This last week I also decided it was probably time to teach
Millie how to tract. I know that most people when they think about missionary
work think about tracting. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but that is
definitely not how I do it. I mean its not bad, but there are just so many more
effective ways to find people. But we ended up having an hour that would be
good to do it, and I needed to teach Millie how- so we prayed about where to
go, and then spent an hour knocking doors! Nothing super exciting happened. Its
just noteworthy cos I haven't actually set aside a time for knocking doors
since Rockford. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I know that most people think of tracting when they think
of missions. But how many of you think of going to funerals? Because Millie and
I are now professional funeral goers. Apparently people in Westchester die a
lot. And I'm the only one anyone can think of that can play the piano for miles
around apparently. So I'm now a professional funeral piano player. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Okay, really we've only been to two lately- both members
from the ward. But still. More than I've been to my whole mission. More than
Millie's been to her whole life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So yeah. thats about it this week. Hope you are all having a
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, since I last wrote you its only been a couple of days,
so I don't have much new to share with you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We got transfer calls on Saturday. Millie and I are staying
the same, but Elder Allen who I've been with for 9 months is leaving. and I'm
super bummed about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since Wednesday we've mostly been doing service, helping an
hermana in the ward get ready for a birthday party for her grandson. It was
intense, the grandson turned one- and the party was HUGE. There was a clown,
and dancing, and a big dinner, and who knows what else, because we left after
an hour. But it started at 5pm and went to 5am!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm really sorry, I wish I had more to write but I really
don't. We have just had some member lessons, and some less actives. Just normal
stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The weather has seemed to cool down a little bit. So thats
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don't know. . . I hope you all have fun at Martin's Cove!
I hope you learn a lot and have some awesome experiences! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">les quiero,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shaelyn</span><br />Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-83678426398692012202012-07-25T12:40:00.000-06:002012-07-25T12:40:44.559-06:00I read him part of Alma 6 where its talking about the Atonement. And after that Berto definitely calmed down. He told us that that was obviously of Christ and he consented to pray again about the Book of Mormon.<span style="font-family: Calibri;">7-25-2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has definitely had its ups and downs! Luckily its
starting to look like its going to go in an upward direction for the next
little bit. Keep your fingers crossed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So the majority of last week was pretty slow. We had a lot
of appointments cancel, just like the week before. And let me tell you, it was
pretty discouraging. Millie and I both were feeling kind of down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Monday we had Zone Meeting and I had my first interview
with President Fenn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was okay. I hope
that I am able to build up a good relationship with him before I leave, but the
interview definitely wasn't what I was hoping for. But we'll see what happens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday we had our up day! We have been helping an hermana
in the ward's daughter, Jenny, redo the kitchen, so we went over there and did
service for her in the morning. Painting, and sanding, and all sorts of dirty
work. Lets just say I've seen more cucarachas in the last few days then you
have ever seen in your life. :P As much as I'm not a fan of doing dirty, hot
work, we had fun. Jenny is just a year older than I so it was fun to help her
out. She's not a member, and definitely isn't going to be one anytime soon, but
she's awesome. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then after we left there, we went home and got cleaned up
and went to the Salgado's house. Hermana Maria Salgado was baptized probably
back in like January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she has a slew
of grandkids (5) that we teach every Tuesday and Thursday after she feeds us.
Three of the grandkids are over eight, but the mom of two of them won't give
them permission to get baptized. But Leslie, just turned eight in like May, and
she ended up asking her mom for permission to get baptized a couple of weeks
ago. Her mom said, "well, do you want to get baptized?" and Leslie,
being eight, said. . ." I don't know. . " haha so we talked to Leslie
about it some more and found out she said she didn't know cos she's afraid of
water. So we asked her to pray about it and ask Heavenly Father. The next time
we came over we asked her how her prayer went, and what Heavenly Father said.
She said, "I think he said yes! I want to be baptized!" So now we're
helping Leslie get ready to be baptized on August 11! :) Oh also, witihin the
last week and half since I wrote you we went over there and did sidewalk chalk
with the kids, it was super fun, and I took lots of pictures. They drew lots of
pictures of us, and wrote thinks like<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then after we left the Salgado's, we had an appointment with
our super Christian investigators, Carla y Berto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had cancelled the last couple of weeks,
so it was good to get in with them. Last we talked to them they said they'd
read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. Well. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they prayed about it first, and felt like
they shouldn't read it. Ugh, this feels like exactly what happened with Maria y
Luis one year ago. But, we had a great lesson. Berto talks a TON, but we were
still able to have a good conversation, with minimal contention. He sometimes
seems to want to Bible Bash, but we've been able to avoid it. They really do
like us, and love talking about Jesus. I think sometimes they are just worried
about our salvation. :) But anyway, I wanted to watch the restauracion movie with
them, but yesterday morning there was a bad storm and their power was still
out. So we taught them the restoration, with difficulty because Berto
interjected so much. But we were still able to feel the spirit many times, and
just testified over and over again. Finally Berto asked me to read him
something from the Book of Mormon, after I testified that it talked of Christ,
and that there was no way it could come from Man or the Devil. So I read him
part of Alma 6 where its talking about the Atonement. And after that Berto
definitely calmed down. He told us that that was obviously of Christ and he
consented to pray again about the Book of Mormon. I asked him if he would pray
with us right there, and he did. In a very. . . enthusiastic manner. They are
the kind of people that mutter along when other people are praying and kind of
sway back and forth. So while he was praying, I also prayed- so that he would
feel that he should read the Book of Mormon, that he would be humble, and have
an open heart. But because he was basically yelling I was having a hard time
concentrating on my prayer. So I ended up mouthing the words, and they just
thought I was doing what they do and muttering along with them! :) After the
prayer, I asked how he felt, and he told me he would read the Book! so thats a
start! :) Then, we stood up, and I asked them to watch the movie, and to pray
about it, and as I handed it to them, their lights turned on! They totes took
it as a sign from God, so thats pretty legit. But man, did I leave that appointment
EXHAUSTED. We couldn't get out until two ours later and it was just spiritually
draining. But good. Very good. Left on a sweet spiritual high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week should be good. If people don't cancel left and
right. But so far we are pretty booked! :) And hopefully the weather chills
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<br /></div>Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-44260646440684593232012-07-17T14:38:00.000-06:002012-07-17T14:38:15.919-06:00This is a 3 part miracle. part one- they got the note. part 2- he called! Thats huge, btw- no one ever calls us when we leave notes. and part 3- they came to church and we were able to set up an appointment with them! YAY!<span style="font-family: Calibri;">7-16-2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has been okay. Really slow, a lot of our
appointments ended up bailing for one reason or another, lots of people are
having family emergencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Millie
and I were both a bit sicker this last week, so we got some time to rest. Which
was good and much needed. But due to that, I really don't have any good stories
about people we visited. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But Wednesday we had a mini bday party for millie, so that
was fun. She made herself a cake and decorated it. I watched. I'm a bad
companion, but she was having so much fun. . . I just let her do it. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thursday or something we got a note on our door that we
can't park in the parking lot of our building anymore because the bank is
foreclosing on it. soo. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means our
apartment is probably next. Millie and I get to go apartment shopping this
week! Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saturday we had an appointment with a man I met in a park.
We met him in the same park, which is in the middle of la selva (super
mexican), and cars kept slowing down and trying to figure out why this guy was
meeting with two white girls. But it was okay. He's not super interested, but
it was still a good lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sunday something pretty cool happened. A little bit of
background for the story. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
Wednesday or something Millie and I were looking for some inactive members and
some former investigators, and we tried an hermano who has a nonmember
daughter, who i've tried a couple of times but they are never home. They
weren't home, and it was one of those apartments where you have to get buzzed in
to even get to their actual apartment. Millie wanted to leave them a note, and
I was hesitant, because who knows if they'd even get it, we'd have to put it on
the front door to the whole apartment building. But we did. And they actually
got it! and actually responded! Sunday morning the hermano called me and told
me he got our note, and asked what time church started. and they came! This is
a 3 part miracle. part one- they got the note. part 2- he called! Thats huge,
btw- no one ever calls us when we leave notes. and part 3- they came to church
and we were able to set up an appointment with them! YAY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A member gave us an eliptical and a stationary bike
yesterday. So I'm gonna try to start working off some of these tortillas before
I get home. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And this morning. . . I walked out our door and heard some
people talking in Spanish to a member kid, Frankie, who lives above us. Frankie
doesn't speak Spanish really well, so I tell them, and they come down and talk
to us. JW's. It was kind of a hostile encounter, cos I told them our whole
building is mormon, and they got like all defensive and I got defensive. . .
but we took their paper. And they didn't take ours. It was Millie's first
encounter with the testigos, and she thought it was super exciting. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sorry for the boring week. We'll try to do better next week
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shaelyn</span><br />Diane Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090409838354569862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2966676320508311800.post-71958495136665579212012-07-09T11:29:00.001-06:002012-07-22T17:07:09.712-06:00Man. What a week. HOT HOT HOT.<span style="font-family: Calibri;">7-9-2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Man. What a week. HOT HOT HOT. Super grateful to be in a
car, and have a basement apartment with ac that works. I feel bad for the
elders on bikes with crappy ac in their apartments. We've had temperatures of
like 110 all week, with humidity. Yuck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So this week has been alright. Pretty busy, but I can't for
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, the last couple of weeks an inactive hermana has come
to church, and the first week I didn't know who she was, but I introduced myself.
After church someone told me who she was, and I realized she was part of a
family I've been looking for since I came to this area. We have 4 different
addresses for them, and none of them are correct- or even exist. I've probably
spent hours driving around Bensenville, IL looking for this family. So when she
was at church the next week, I was all about talking to her. I saw her in
Sacrament, and as soon as the closing prayer was said I basically hurdled over
the pews to get to her. :P I FINALLY got an appointment with her and a current
address and phone number. So we went by for our appointment, and man. I'm sure
glad we were able to find them. They're an awesome family. Just have been away
from the church for along time. They were sealed in the temple, but then
according to them, just due to laziness stopped coming. And I'm pretty sure its
been years since they've been to church. But their oldest daughter tried to
commit suicide, and she is actually the one that asked her mom if they could go
to church, so she and her mom were the ones there. And their youngest son (15)
just got his girlfriend pregnant. When we were in that appointment Hna Milliron
and I didn't really have to do anything to get all of this info out, we just
sat down and BAM. Information overload. Long story short- they were saying how
they know they need the gospel, they need to come back and how much it will
help their family. So. Hopefully we can help them come back. I'm really glad
she came to church and I was able to finally get her address. I'm serious- that
one's going in the miracle list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Haven't been able to meet with Carla and Berto, they
cancelled- but want to reschedule. . . which is a good sign. A ver que pasa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The referral from Liz. AWESOME. Its her husband Marco's brother,
Cesar, and his wife, Yenis. Cesar is a member, inactive, just like Marco was.
Basically moved here from Peru and lost contact with the church. Yenis is super
super Catholic. But told us she can feel like something is missing, and they
want to increase their faith in Christ, etc. She rejected a baptism invite,
saying she wants to die Catholic. . but then kind of went on to say that she
wants to be part of our church. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she
just needs God to open the way. Well. Pretty sure that can happen, so no worries
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Millie (hna Milliron) and I had an exciting middle of the
night adventure this week! at like 3:45 am i woke up to the fire alarm beeping.
Just because it needed new batteries. But its in our room, and I COULD not
sleep. Well. Before we figure out it was the actual fire alarm, I checked the
co detector too, because its closer to my bed, and I didn't wanna get out if I
didn't have to. Well, I guess taking the batteries out and putting them back
in, made the co detector realize its batteries were low too. So at 4 am we had
two alarms going off. Very loudly. So what did Millie and I do? We went to the
gas station. At 4 am. And the Indian attendant didn't know what batteries were
in English, and I was tired. and it was like 90 degrees outside. And we finally
got back to bed at 5 am. Just to wake up in an hour and a half. BOOOO. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday was Millie's, and we had a good day. I set up a
surprise party for her with Modesta and her family. Millie thought we were
going to someone else's house for our dinner apointment, and I told her we just
needed to stop by Modesta's really quick to pick something up, and then they
had cake for her, and roses, and a super nice dinner. So it was fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday we also went over the the Chicago 2 Spanish ward
to help with a fireside about missionary work. They apparently have some young
women in the ward thinking about going on missions, so we shared some
experiences and bore our testimonies. It was the first time I've ever given
anythin even resembling a talk without preparing anything. And it was in
Spanish. But it was cool. I had a good time, and loved meeting some of the
members of that ward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We also met President Fenn this week. He seems . . intense.
Other than that. . I dunno. I'm pretty nervous for changes that I know are
going to happen here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">edit: yesterday was Millie's BIRTHDAY. forgot to write in
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, its been a pretty slow week. After all of the baptisms
this past month, we spent a good deal of time just trying to find people. We've
been going through the area book a lot, looking up old investigators, and also
trying to follow up on some referrals. But no real luck right now. We still
have a couple of progressing investigators, that will hopefully be baptized in
July, so thats good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last Monday we had a pretty good day, we got 4 new
investigators and set 2 people on date for baptism, all after 6 pm on pday. :)
2 of those new investigators is the lady Hna Milliron talked to at the store
her first day and her husband, Carla and Berto. Holy cow, are they interesting.
Like I can't even explain them beyond saying that they are the definition of
the term "Jesus Freaks." Very, very nice people. But are going to
have a hard time accepting what we've got to tell them because the Bible
doesn't specifically say, "And Jesus will go the America's and visit the
people there, and their records will be known as the Book of Mormon, and The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the church you should
join."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So. .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>yeah. But they're nice. Want to hear about
Jesus. But if we don't call him "Our Lord, Jesus Christ" They don't
think we really have accepted him as our Savior. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They promised they'd read and pray though,
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The other two investigators we picked up we found looking
for a bogus referral. Esmerelda and her daughter, Perla. They don't seem to
have much understanding of what we're saying, but accepted a baptismal invite.
. . And then bailed on the next appointment. We'll see how they go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">BUT! I've been praying a lot that we could find those people
that are prepared, the elect. So that we're not just finding all of these
people, teaching one lesson, and then they disappear. And I got a call this
morning from Liz Rios (got baptized like a month ago), and she told me she'd
been talking to her sister in law a lot, and she wants to learn more. I really
hope this is what I've been praying for, these kind of referrals are the ones
that I've seen the most success with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As for the weather here. . . oh man. INSANE. Thursday it hit
105 plus humidity, and then yesterday we had Illinois' version of a hurricane.
We got out of church, and looked at the sky, and man did it look scary. BLACK.
I got in the car, and the Elders loaded their bikes up onto the bike rack, so
we could maybe beat the storm home. No such luck. It started downpouring like
CRAZY while the elders were putting the bikes on. Like I have never seen rain
like this before in my life. We tried to leave, and got a block from the
church, and I couldn't see a thing because of the rain, and there were trees in
the road, and it just wasn't safe. So we went back to the church to wait it
out. We got SOAKED just running from the car to the church. and then the power
went out. . . and finally it all calmed down. There are still trees in the
road, and a lot of traffic lights are still out, but our power at home was only
out for like a few minutes. and all is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, send me some prayers this week, that we can find the
elect. And keep up those prayers for Modesta and her family. They DEFINITELY
need them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love you all, so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Familia,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week has been ridiculous. Mostly because of the heat.
but I'm some how surviving it. I'm not really sure how. . . But so far so good.
But if you don't hear from me next week, its because I've melted. Just a heads
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Things are going well with the new comp. Her name is Hermana
Rachel Milliron, and she is from Portland. She learned Spanish in school, and
was in the advanced program at the MTC, so she already speaks a good deal. :)
Its kind of a relief that I don't have to have someone that has no idea whats
going on again. She can actually like participate in lessons. Which is kind of
difficult now that I'm so used to teaching solo. :P But we're all adjusting.
She definitely has that greenie fire, and it helps me get my butt in gear. In
the training meeting pres kept going on about how he chose us to train because
he knows we'll help the new missionaries get a good start blah blah blah, but
really I know he chooses the missionaries that are super worn out to be
trainers so that the greenies can make them work. :P</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Evelin and Danae got baptized on Saturday! It was awesome.
I'm not a cryer, but I ALMOST teared up during their baptism, and their
confirmations. I can't explain why, just that the spirit was super strong. These
girls are the best. You have to meet them. And you will, because this is a
family that I am going to be in contact with for the rest of my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Surprisingly enough the baptism went off without a hitch. We
had hot water, it filled in time, the drain was plugged, and all of the
speakers showed up. :) After they were baptized I put in a movie for people to
watch while they changed, and then I went out to wait for them to get out of
the bathroom. When they came out and saw me the first thing they did was book
it down the hall and gave me a big hug. They were so excited and happy. And
then Sunday they got confirmed. I was playing the piano in sacrament meeting,
so I was sitting up on the stand when it happened and could really see their
faces. They were so sososososo excited. And the spirit was amazing. In Evelin's
confirmation it talked about her serving a mission. :) After wards I asked them
how it was, and they said to me, "I felt something hot in my chest, what
was that? Was that the holy ghost? I felt that when they told me to receive the
holy ghost." BAM. AMAZING. Love them. haha also- they had only been
official members for like 5 hours when they started asking me deep doctrine
questions. "who is god's parents? who does god pray to? when we're
resurrected are we all resurrected, good and bad? when does that happen? Where
did god come from?" They are 11 and 9. I'm pretty sure when I was that age
all I ever asked was when I could get a puppy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Besides the baptism this week has been focused on finding people,
considering we just baptized basically our whole teaching pool. Luckily with
the greenie fire, we were able to talk to a lot of people, and I got some old
referrals contacted that really seem to have interest. One of them is named
Graciela, and she is a 7th Day Adventist, but we had a super legit lesson with
her and she told us a little bit about herself and she definitely has a lot of
faith, knows how to pray, and how to get answers. And wants to read the Book of
Mormon and know if its true. She's legit. I'm excited for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also- on Hna Milliron's first day, she talked to a lady at
the grocery store (GO GREENIES!) and we actually ended up getting her phone
number, and gave her a call and we have an appointment with her tonight. Hna
Milliron is super excited, considering it was her first contact and everything.
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