Sister Missionary Sisters

  Hello everyone! It has been a week full of adventures here in our little house this week! The highlight is that yesterday we found 2 new people on the street to teach without ever leaving our house! Miracle I know! What happened was that Hermana and I were just in our office calling like usual and we heard this tapping noise for about 2 minutes. Turns out it was someone ¨knocking¨ at our door. We go out and when he sees me he just starts to smile! What happened was that last week he was walking to his house and heard me talking on the phone with my family on Pday in English! So that night when he heard us talking again he stopped to ask if I would teach his son english, because he knew that I was foreign and that people with black tags are nice. Of course we said yes!! Am I ready to teach someone in spanish english? I'm not sure, but God and Hermana Castro will help so I am pumped!   Also this week we had a battle with ants! Off and on we had problems with maybe 20 or s...

     It was a good week! I mean every new person that we found last week dogged our calls so I mean that was kind of a bummer... we finally got phone minutes this week and so we could finally call people normally instead of through apps! Then we went to call one of our people and she answered the phone so happy and called us friends, but then she asked who we were because she didn't have our contact in her normal phone and we said we were the missionaries and then her whole demeanor changed. She said she was at work and she would call us when she has time. This happened with 3 people this week! It hurts a bit. I have faith that one day another set of missionaries will call them and they will grow to love their calls! Because little do they know that their number will never be deleted from our phone so they will be receiving calls from us for years and years to come! There is no escaping the missionaries:)   We started teaching more English classes...

  I feel like even less happened this week than last week! We are still in quarantine and don't have a set date of when it will end, but we pray for Chile every day!     This week we were able to contact a lot of members which has been awesome! We are teaching 2 people named Dief and Natacha and they are always super interested in what we have to say and have a ton of questions. They even came to a family home evening and Church with us this week! Other than that we are just really working hard on trying to contact people. We had a devotional this week about how God has prepared people to listen to our message. We just have to find them. I have definitely seen miracles of that happen within my zone. So we just make phone calls all day every day to find that one!   I don't know if you guys have picked up on it yet but I  really hate not being able to leave our house! But this week me and Herman's Castro have been doing fun things throughout the day...

    Not much is new! This whole quarantine thing is getting really old. Friday will be the start of week 4! I hate it. So much. But  I'm so happy that I was able to at least make it here before all the borders closed again, that is a huge blessing. We have been working a lot with members this week and I am constantly amazed at how willing to serve they are, and how strong their testimonies are! They all ask us if we need anything which melts my heart! This week was also transfers but I still get to be with Hermana Castro so we are still partying it up!   The work is going really slow and we didn't find anyone new to teach but here are the two highlights from the week!    Friday I had to go to the Mission Office to sign my Visa and on the way home we only had 10 minutes until our 2 hour pass expired. We were anxiously waiting for our bus and finally saw it and practically ran on. Turns out it was the bus J07e not J07c. What was supposed to be a 13 ...

  My week has been pretty laid back and the same routine every single day! We wake up and do the normal exercise and studies, and after that we just call people! We call people from the area book or the ward list for about 4 hours, and then we try to teach lessons with our amigos for about 3 hours. People don't really like to answer their phones though... Of the 45 people we call in an hour, maybe 7 we actually talk with. And, another day all 8 of our people we had lessons planned for were canceled, but we ended up getting more contacts in that day so it worked out.   The work is going slower for the mission as a whole due to quarantine, but the people who we do talk with have been pleasant! So that's a bonus! Oh, and Mario, the person we put on date for baptism gave us the wrong address last month when we started teaching him and turns out he wasn't in our area, so we had to give him to another set of Elders. It was really hard for me because we worked so hard with him. I ...

  Hello everyone! Not much has really changed with me this week. A lot of spanish and a lot teaching! This week we were able to have member meals with 4 people which was a blast. The members here are so nice and make me talk, which is annoying but I know it is for my own good! For some reason they put boiled eggs and pitted olives in a lot of things including pastas and soups which is not my favorite but it is not cow intestines or bugs so I eat it and smile! We are currently teaching about 6 different people, 3 of them are from Haiti and so they are also learning spanish right now, and let me tell ya with my spanish being not so good and their spanish not being so good, it really makes for an interesting lesson! But they love the book of mormon and they really have a testimony about God! The beginning of this week was really hard because I felt like I was not doing enough or learning fast enough. But after I talked with my Sister training leader my entire out look change...

  This week has definitely been a rollercoaster of emotions! Being in the same room for 9 hours a day only speaking spanish kind of took a toll on me. But, as of yesterday I am done with quarantine and I already feel so much better now that I can walk and breath fresh air! On Friday this week we had a little interchange with the sister training leaders, because we needed food desperately! We only had 30 minutes the first time I got here to buy food and we had only been eating bread, and yogurt for 5 days. Hermana Castro went out with one sister to go shopping and I got to stay back with Sister Lunt. It was just what I needed! She is from the United States so I got to have a little English break and could ask questions and actually say what I was thinking! It was so fun to meet other missionaries! Something awesome is that we got a referral this week, and now he is on date for baptism after only 3 lessons. His name is Raul, and something unique is that he is currently in prison. He ...

  I know that this is a response to response to a past letter but I have to write this letter on a phone and it won't let me write a new group email! Oh my goodness! What a week! I got on the plane on thursday at 2pm, and got to Chile at about 9am their time. I also got hardly any  sleep so i was very exhausted! Then when I got off of the plane a security man told me to go and wait up against a wall or something like that. My spanish is really really bad! So then I was seperated from all the other missionaries, i tried to not freak out but i was so worried because so msny missionaries have done things wrong and been sent back home. Turns out I was randomly selected to be COVID tested! Downside was that no one spoke any english so it was an adventure! Any time anyone at a station asked for something i just gave them my folder of documents and hoped for the best! And I made it through so I guess it worked! Then I was finally reunited with other missionaries!! And best of all my ...

  I have officially finished the MTC. I can’t believe that I have finished!. I have learned and grown so much over the course of these 6 weeks. It has also been the hardest thing that I have ever had to do, people always warn you about that and turns out they are right! It is hard! I have honestly never wanted to give up on something so much in my entire life, but also never had so much motivation to keep going. I am so excited to go to Chile and give it my all. I'm ready even though I can barely speak the language. In a video that one of my teachers shared with us was of a member of the Seventy talking about learning a language. His message was that you are going to make 30,000 mistakes before you can speak a language well. It is up to you how fast you are willing to make those mistakes. I know it sounds weird, but I am excited to get out there and start making mistakes! I have learned so much over the course of these 6 weeks, but the thing that I am going to rememb...

  Emily Balls   < emily.balls@missionary.org > Sat, Feb 20, 8:42 AM to  Abby ,  Alex ,  Annie ,  Ashlyn ,  Aubree ,  Ben ,  Bishop ,  Bridger ,  Camary ,  Cambria ,  Cameron ,  Camie ,  Cheryl ,  Cori ,  Correy ,  Danika ,  Darren ,  Dave ,  Daynalee ,  Elder ,  Ezra ,  Grandma ,  Heike ,  Isaac ,  Keri ,  Kevin ,  Kristine ,  Laren ,  Lauren ,  Lena ,  Lyndsay ,  Melissa ,  Michelle ,  Opa ,  President ,  Ramsey ,  Sarah ,  Sarah ,  Shalyse ,  Shelby ,  Shelly ,  Shiny ,  Sister ,  Suzanne ,  Travin ,  Victoria No   It’s crazy that I only have 1 more week left at the MTC! I am both very excited because I can’t wait to just get out there already, but also my Spanish is lacking so I’m just a tich nervous.      Not much has hap...

       Hello everyone!! The most exciting news that I have this week is that I get to go directly to Santiago Chile!! March 4th is the day I will be flying out! I am beyond excited! When I heard that news I immediately said a prayer of gratitude! I know so many others don't have this opportunity yet, so I will continue to pray that all other missions open up for you guys!   This was my first full week having all my classes be in Spanish. I’m happy with how much I am beginning to  understand! Speaking it is still a whole other beast, but I know that that will just come with time! This week we have been learning a lot of practical skills like how to receive direction, tell the time, and order food! Which is a huge comfort because now I feel like I could at least survive a spanish airport! Other than that it is just the same old story! Get up, class, study, devotional, study, class, sleep! I did have another TRC this week, and I was ab...

  This week has been such a rollercoaster! The best part was on Tuesday night as a district we got to choose what we wanted to do for our last class in English. We ended up doing a mini testimony meeting, and it was such a great spiritual experience. I learn so much from all of them, and my testimony is strengthened through them. I know I say this every week but my district is actually the best! I think that is one perk of doing home MTC. You get to know each person in your district on such an individual basis, probably more than I would have in person!        Then starting on Wednesday every class I have from here on out is 100% in Español! My morning teacher Hermano Nelson is super nice about it and talks slow to us, and uses lots of hand gestures so it’s easy to get the general idea and easy to learn new words. My night teacher is such a nice teacher, but when it comes to Spanish he is a firm believer in tough love! He talks very fast and uses long complex se...

  This week has both gone by so fast, but also felt like every day was eternity! I have been amazed by how much I have learned this week. The devotionals that they give each week, are truly inspired! Something cool that happened this week, is that I was able to go back to my work and receive my last dose of the COVID vaccine! So now I am fully vaccinated! Down side though, this time it did not only make my arm sore, but it made me feel pretty sick. So that day was filled with a lot of hot chocolate, medicine, fuzzy blankets, and a long nap so that I could still attend all of my classes, and TRC that day.      My companion and I have been doing a lot of teaching drills this week, and I am amazed at how far we have come! We have really adapted to notice each other's cues of when to switch off teaching, because it is a lot harder to tell over a zoom conference! I know I said this last week, but I am so incredibly thankful for my amazing district! They amaze me...

Hello everyone! It's kind of crazy that now I am the one sending out a group email every week! On Wednesday I participated in my first online MTC classes! Going into it I was super skeptical about it and honestly kind of had a bad feeling about it, but after my first morning devotional my whole perspective changed. I was given a kind reminder from the spirit and the speaker that God knows what he is doing. If he didn't trust that we could do this online, then we wouldn't be! Now I am finding myself really enjoying my classes!   My district 21-E, really makes the time go by fast! They are some of the best people! There are 12 of us total, and 8/12 of us live in Utah. We are all going to a Chile mission, but I am the only one going to the Santiago North mission. My companion is Hermana Jones and she is currently in Arizona! She is so sweet! Our first companion study was kind of a mess and we just ended up getting to know each other the whole time, because nei...