Hello my wonderful mama!
How was your week? Lots of work? Did you get to spend some quality time with
all of the Nielson’s? Sounds like
Thanksgiving was a blast! I can´t
believe that dad is taking Andrew to Hawaii those turkeys. Anything new? Did you get new couches in the family room? It
looks like it! Is that in the budget ;)
Okay some business! Will
you please make sure that there is at least 50 dollars on my card? I am going
to have to pay for another bag and we don’t get reimbursed until we get to the mission
home and I only have $40 in cash. And
also I heard that the bank needs to know that I will be in Mexico and then
Oregon, or else it will get declined? I
don’t know if that is right but I just want to make sure that it is all okay so
that I can leave the country :) And also
I may want to send a package when I get to Oregon so you can try my Bueno Bars
that we have here, but I am not sure how much it costs to send packages.
We started packing today
so that is going to be pretty interesting trying to pack all by myself...I need
my mommy’s help haha :) We have to be
outside of our building Monday night/Tuesday morning at 2 am...to head to the
airport, even though our flight isn’t until 6:45...they just want to make sure
we don´t miss our flight haha! I am so
excited to be in Oregon! It’s crazy, I’ve
been looking at the weather that its like 39 degrees where as it’s 70 degrees
everyday here. It’s going to be pretty
chilly!
I am SO excited to eat
real American food! Ahhh I think I have
lost about 10 pounds but I will gain it all back at the airport haha. Mom, thank you very much for the dear elder! I got it this last week, that was very nice of
you :) So I think I have that white
t-shirt that has little flowers around the neck that’s just a simple
shirt? Could you send me that and if I
have any other plain colored shirts like that please? Turns out that I for the most part wear a lot
nicer shirts than everyone! If you can’t
send it right away that’s fine because I probably want to wear them a lot until
the summer.
So my companion’s cousin
was serving in our mission and she said that the sisters don’t ride bikes. If you ever come across a navy pencil skirt
that would be great! All of my skirts
are super flowy and I wish I would have brought a pencil skirt! But its not a necessity so if you don’t find
one then that’s okay!
One last matter of
business haha, mom am I going to be able to Skype you on Christmas?? I know you
work but I hope there is some way that I will get to talk to you!
Today was a good week!
Nothing too special. I got sick after
Thanksgiving, darn it haha. I guess it’s
good that I just stick to the salads! Saturday
we got to go to TRC again. We taught a 16-year-old
girl named Jessica that lives just a block from the CCM. She was baptized four years ago with her
family. We talked about things going on in her life and she told us that her
dad has stopped going to church and drinking so her mom has kicked him out of
the house. There have been a lot of problems going in the family and she told
us that she prays every night that her dad will change. She had such an amazing
spirit, she wants to serve a mission one day and it was so clear that she cares
so much about her family. We taught her the first lesson and how our biggest
goal in life is to return with our families. We gave her some specific
scriptures to read and pray about. The spirit was so strong. I loved the experience getting to talk to
someone that had real problems. Pray for Jessica’s dad that his heart will be
softened.
Saturday night our
teacher Hermano Hernandez was leaving for the night and we told him that he
needed to ask a girl out on a date. He was all hesitant and then ended up
sharing a super cool story with us. He was dating a girl and decided it was
time to propose to her. He bought the ring and was on his way to propose. On the way to propose he had a very strong
prompting that he needed to go the temple and do a session. He tried to ignore it because he wanted to go
propose but it kept coming. So he went
and did a session. When he was in the
temple he had a specific prompting tell him that the girl he was about to
propose to was not his wife. He was devastated
because he thought he was going to marry her. He went and told the girl and she was really
upset of course. A few months later that
girl married someone else and over the last few month she has become anti-Mormon
and drinks and parties all the time. I
am grateful for the spirit and the promptings we can receive!
Sunday we watched a
devotional of Elder Holland. He told us that we need to come home with at least
one convert and that should be us. Be
converted isn’t just a one step thing. We should always be converting ourselves
coming closer to Christ.
Tuesday we had our last
Tuesday night devotional. It was from Elder Reyes of the seventy. He talked to us about dignity and that with
our companions we should be one in heart and one in mind. Hermana Phelps and I have been working really
well together. I got asked to lead the
music in the devotional...Every person is at this devotional....and I have never
led music in my life...but I said yes...haha I practiced a ton so I didn’t look
like a total fool! Well we were singing “Called to Serve” and I was leading just
looking out with crowd...and I made eye contact with an Hermana in my district
and she was laughing her head off at me...and then it made me smile...and
then...it messed me off and I was leading totally off...and I am pretty sure
that I never got back on haha. but now I know how to somewhat lead some music!
Yesterday we have to go
the reception center to pick a thing of our itinerary but we needed our
passports. Hermana Phelps could not find
her passport anywhere. We ended up
missing some classes and looked through all her things over and over for about
two hours. We went and talked to some
people in charge of that area and told her she was going to need to go to the
embassy and she wouldn’t be able to leave for a few weeks. We said a prayer and then looked again…and
nothing. So we went back and they wrote
down all her information to set up an appointment at the embassy. They told us to go back and look one more
time. When we got back to our casa we
said another prayer. We started looking through our closet and there was her
passport right on her dresser that we had searched multiple times! Our prayers
were answered!
I heard that we email
again on Monday to tell you our exact flight schedule? And then someone said
that we getting calling cards at the airport?
And then we email once we get to Oregon? Who knows if any of that is right but we will
see! I am so grateful for the
experiences I have had in the CCM! The
spirit is so amazing and I feel very blessed that I get to feel it multiple
times a day!
A scripture that I like
from one of our devotionals is 1 Nephi 13:37, lets all endure to the end :)
Lots of Love!
Hermana Gifford
Hermana West and I
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Our district has gotten supper close. We decided we're a family....the Donde family! hahaha! |
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| Here are some of the cooks...Alejandra and Rey David (king david) they have noticed that all I ever eat is salads so sometimes they sneak me ice cream :) |
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| The lovely lady in the middle is a teacher here.She is hilarious and always talks to me about fashion haha :) |
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| Thanks for the letter Mommy :) |
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