May 7, 2018- 38 weeks down- 40 left!
helloooo mom! whats going on!
wow, what a fantastic week you guys had!! haha i love it.
bueno, to answer some of your questions...
yes, i used your breathing techniques this week, especially in the beginning part of the week, and honestly and surprisingly enough, it did help. i felt a bit more relaxed and everything. so thank you! my comp got a kick out of watching me do the breathing exercises, but hey, whatever works! I have to remember to be consistent now and keep doing them... especially in these upcoming weeks... cause lets just say that Presidente is hurling a giant stressball at us due to lack of baptisms in the mission...wowza but yeah haha. so thanks!
i was thinking about Brandon a lot on Sunday, and on his birthday, knowing he would be sustained. Thank YOU for the sweet descriptions of that day that you wrote to me. Makes me feel like I was there a little! I love how sweet and tender that boy is. So big and grown up. I love it! He’s looking a little chubby still... but i cant wait to see in a few years when he gets tall and thin and even more grown up. I can totally imagine it. And yes, i agree, he will have many important callings in the future. What a special experience for you to be able to receive that little bit of revelation for him.
WOW you’re right, your summer is STACKED already. AUGUST 16 ALY IS GOING TO SCHOOL that blows my freaking mind. I cant believe it. I celebrate my year mark the 17th, but wait, i guess its true that i left on the 16th huh? i always counted my month marks on the 17th cause thats when i arrived at the ccm. but man how cool!!! IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS to go bring her up to school. what a champ mckayl, going to check out the rooming. I love her so much! Hows she doing?
Man oh man things are changing fast mommy!
hahaha yes yes i got the box i think Tuesday or Wednesday if i remember right. THANK YOU SO MUCH. you guys are so sweet, so loving, too generous, it blows my mind. The shoes are AMAZING: i compared them with the old ones, and i honestly didn’t even realize that they were the same brand. thats how trashed the old ones are haha. the bottom LITERALLY fell off of my old one, hanging on by a thread no mas. So thank you! and WOW you put so many socks in there, they are so nice and comfty! AND THE SHIRT!!!!!!! I love it so much. The candies, fotos, talks, (I’ve read a lot of them already haha i love them so much), and especially the notes. I love those handwritten notes so much, i read them over and over! THANK YOU MOM! You guys are the best. The whole zone was jealous when they saw that giant box that read HERMANA HOLT hahaha they couldn’t stop talking about it.
I love you so much mom! Yeah, next week is the halfway mark. Where did the time go? Still have a ways left, but everyone says its faster on the last half! I believe it. This week FLEW. we were so busy, by Saturday i was so tired that i had a hard time working and low energy and animo. but a few calls from my sweet leaders, and Sunday i was back up and ready to go. and today we took a nap, cooked noquis in the chapel, shopped, and now writing you! Super chill.
This week
1. my comp, yes, dear comp, broke the toilet. i was on the phone with my zone leader when i hear a shriek from the bathroom. Comp? are you ok? i asked... nothing. bueno. i kept talking. and a few seconds later my comp opens the bathroom door (as I’m still on the phone) and WATER GUSHES OUT OF THE BATHROOM as she says I broke the toilet help! hahahahah i shriek into the phone and hang up on my poor confused zone leader. i called the elderes who live close by, the district leader, and he answers all calmly Hola hermana.... ELDER, i yell, YOU HAVE TO COME HERE RIGHT NOW OUR PENSION IS LITERALLY FLOODING i yell in super mumbled Spanish OK WERE COMING he yells. so i go in the bathroom, wading through the water, to see that the back of our ceramic toilet has a giant hole where it holds the water! My comp accidentally knocked a hole in the toilet! So we try to plug the water, cause its still coming. I'm soaked. the elders arrive in like 7 minutes, and help us turn it all off and plug it up. WHAT A NIGHT. hahahhahahaa. i went to bed a little ticked off that night haha.,
but 2 days later luckily someone from the mission who lives close by came and replaced it for us. comp has to pay like 75 bucks but oh well. now we have a toilet again so thats that.
2. we are so busy with two areas. we have lots of people, lots of problems with the people, like always, and doing all that we can to help them progress to baptism.
3. i was feeling sort of down Saturday like i said, and right when i was feeling bad, elder comisario (my zone leader calls). I had a dream about you and your comp he tells us. How are you guys doing? I wanted to tell you all that right now, you are holding this zone of Trelew in your hands. You have HALF of the baptismal dates of the zone. if you guys are doing well, the zone is doing well. if you are bad, the zone is bad. So i need you guys happy and energetic and working as hard as ever! keep it up. Thank you so much for all the work you are doing. The leaders are all super pleased with you two. you are the two hardest working missionaries in this zone right now, not joking.
made me feel super good to hear all that, and my animo spiked right back up!
This weekend was stake conference, which was an interesting experience. learned a lot, and we had two assistencias. one, Lucia, who has a baptismal date for SUPER soon with her two kids. and a miracle assistencia. Alejandra, who we have been teaching for a long time, girlfriend of a less active. and SHE CAME! For the first time in months. with her less active boyfriend! We were so happy i couldnt believe it. it has been hard for her to come to church, cause her boyfriend doesn’t want to go and doesn’t want her to go. So it was a true miracle. we have a appointment with her tonight!!
I'm doing well. Im happy, working hard. I love to work, cause the time passes fast and i feel like I'm doing a lot. Theres always more that i can do, I’m imperfect, but i never am disobedient or stay in the pension or not work. i always do what i can and work hard. sometimes i fall short, but the lord always makes it up for us. For example, we aren’t perfect, and have a lot of areas, but the Lord has blessed us to have 4 active baptismal dates! 4!!!!!!!!!! we are so stoked and so ready. and these four people are super prepared to b e baptized. pray for them! maxi, lucia, sebastian, and santiago.
I miss you guys. I always miss you guys! I think about you at night, when my busy brain has a second to think about other things. i smell things or see things that bring me back to a memory with you guys. I love it! I cant wait to see you this Sunday, and in 9 months! Thats not too long. Its going fast. I love you guys so much more than you will ever know.
The mission is so hard. But it is so worth it. I learn so much. Sometimes i feel like I’m not learning or not changing, but when I think back to the CCM or before that, I feel like that Amy was a little baby, and now I’m a different person. So in the end, yeah, i think I’ve changed a lot. grown a lot. I feel like my testimony has grown so much its not even funny
i love you all. thank you for your never ending love and support. you will NEVER know how much it has saved me, and how much it saves me each and every day
my love,
ames
