Friday, February 22, 2019
February 12, 2019
Letter from Amy's mission president:
I love your daughter so deeply! She has been one the best missionaries I ever had in these almost 3 years. Period. Now I have stolen part of her as our daughter forever!!!
Love you too!
Pres. Salerno
February 4, 2019
February 4, 2019- 76 weeks down, 1 to go
Hellllo my family!
ITS FEBRUARY 4TH! OF 2019! That means.....
I’M COMING HOME NEXT WEEK!!!!!
But whose counting anyways?
Chiste.... I cant believe it.
This last week was a week of MIRACLES. I am so grateful and have never been so happy.
Wednesday, after that last week of crap and hardly being able to work, we went and visited a contact we had made 2 weeks back, a menos activa. We clapped, and her husband came running out. He was waiting for us!! He let us in (which never happens) and they both sat down at the table, gave us food and drinks, and we were able to get to know them and start to share our message!! It was a miracle... Seriously... i have worked so hard in this area, and almost nothing. But this, was a miracle. Vanessa and Ariel. Vanessa is a MA almost her whole life, is from Rosario, but remembers a lot about the missionaries. Ariel is in the air force, is militar, and a BOSSSSS. He loves to talk and loves to listen about what we are sharing…he's never been to the church nor heard missionaries. So after that first lesson, they invited us back Friday for a DINNER and lesson. WHAT. We don’t ever have dinner with members!!!!!
SO we went, and it was great. Now it seems that Ariel is more interested than Vanessa (she’s afraid to go back to church, doesn’t want to) but we read together the intro of the BOM, and they had read Moroni 10 together the night before!! and liked it! Ariel committed to come to church this Sunday..
and----
HE CAME!!!!! Sunday morning we were walking towards his church and we called him and he said he was coming. And sure enough he arrived early, in his car, all dressed up, with his book of mormon in hand! I think me and my comp almost died from happiness. DO you know how hard it is to get new investigatores to want to come to church????
HE LOVED IT: Super focused during the testimony meeting, and during Sunday School he was in love with it all, said it was so distinct fro the catholic church and that it made sense.He took pics of the notes of the plan of salvation too and we marked him some scriptures. We have a lesson Wednesday with a family from the ward. MIRACLES MIRACLES MIRACLES.
Also... we have been practicing receiving revelation with my comp. Last week, we prayed a lot and felt like we would find someone that had passed through afflictions recently and would see us as a sign. We also felt like the word {water} had something to do with them.
So we searched for a week (until this last Thursday) but never found anyone. This Thursday.... we were contacting in a new place where i hadn’t gone before. We had just about finished and were walking back to the bus stop to head to Centro for a visita to the hermanas there... when a woman walks by to her car, outside her house, carrying a tank of water. So we stopped, and started to talk to her. we shared a little, and asked how long she has lived here. she said, 4 days. This Monday i separated from my husband and i just moved here Monday with my two kids... and she started to cry!!! We were shocked, so we both hugged her (which is kinda weird in Argentina but oh well) and we testified to her. My comp had passed through something similar with her fam and so she shared with her, Christina. Christina said she has never heard of missionaries before, but “”sometimes god sends us signs to us to help us”. I almost died.... SHE’S THE PERSON FROM OUR REVELATION! WE FOUND HER! She fit the revelation exactly ....water, signal, and recent affliction. It was ANOTHER MIRACLE: we have a lesson with her tomorrow for the first time, pray for us!!!!
I’m so happy to FINALLLLY after 6 long months here, start to find all the chosen people. The people that God needs us to find. even though I won’t finish my mission with a baptism, it’s ok, because I found the people that God needed me to find before i finished my time as a missionary. I’m so happy. So happy.
But i still got 4 days of work to do... beforeIi pack and head to Rawson to say goodbye to my converts and fav members there. I’ll go Saturday afternoon, its only 5 hours by bus., and give my last testimony Sunday and have lunch with Guillermina (i called her last night ahhhhhhh she recognized me before i even said my name) and then head back to Comodoro to finish packing, Monday my final interview and p-day and dinner and GOODBYE!
Thats it!
Thats my week!
Can you believe it?
Last night I got real sad and cried a lot to my comp, she helped me out and made me feel better. Then i started calling Guillermina to tell her I’d be in Rawson, and then i called Hermana Barbara (we baptized her son Maxi in playa union).. she answers... and when I say who I am she just starts shouting a bunch out of happiness..... SHE’S IN UTAH! She moved and was sealed to her husband 3 weeks ago!!!! in Vernal!!!!!! She passed me her new info and we have plans to get together in the beginning of March when i go up there! I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!!!! I’m going to see my converses in UTAHHHHH and they LIVE THEREEEEEEEEEEEE ! That made me so happy so I wasn’t even sad anymore afterwards.
We had our last divisions with the hnas on Friday , the hnas from las heras. super fun, we worked and studied and cooked for lunch and really enjoyed the divisions.
Thursday morning we had a call from Presidente for all the mission, by Skype…never done anything like that before. It was about all the stuff that had been going on of disobedience and the missionaries that went home. He almost cried. It was a great call, we learned a lot and everyone got super motivated to do their best and be obedient and it was fantastic.
But yeah... a lot more happened this week but that was the best of it
i love you guys my sweet family... you guys are amazing
Thank you for all of your support that you have given me in these last 18 months. Its been a rollercoaster of an adventure, and I’m sure will continue to be like that for a while, as I leave my favorite place on earth, and come home. It will be very hard, it already is, but it will be so neat, so amazing to see you all again and be part of the Real Life again!
I love you. Mom and dad, see you in 7 days. Kiddos, see you in 9. I love you!!!
Hermana Amy Holt
January 29, 2019
January 29, 2019- 75 weeks down, 2 to go
Hey guys...Buenas tardes!!
Whats up?
Sorry I’m writing you all in the same email...my brain just doesn’t have the energy to write a ton of emails this week haha...its been a long 8 days since I’ve talked to you and theres a lot thats gone down
Nothing bad with me, but man the mission is in flames this week, not in a good way.
So Tuesday we went super early to Caleta for divisiones with the hermanas there, that went well. But I was pooped because now my body is super tired all the time haha, but it went well. Super hot outside, walked a ton, but we found one super awesome lady thats family is member but she’s not!
Wednesday we went back to Comodoro and had meeting and lunch and then we were so tired we asked permission to take a nap from presidente. he said yes, so we set the alarm for an hour and slept in the afternoon. We were so tired, that we never heard the alarm and slept until almost 8 pm in the evening.....YIKES hahaha its funny now but in the moment it was like WHAT HAVE WE DONE. hahahha oh well.
Thursday was the only normalish day of this week. A normal work day YAYAYA few and far between (is that how the phrase goes?) studies, lunch, and we went to find a bunch of menos activo families and some futuro investigadores. We taught Belen and her family, but only the father is progressing (well, was progressing...wait til i tell you about Sunday)
Thursday night I went to Centro to start MORE divisions with the hnas there.(hnas that don’t really like me too much). Friday we had the divisions but i woke up with a real sore throat, and felt super off all morning. after lunch i was dying and we finished the divisions early and I went back to my house with my comp and slept. (but even until today i still have a super super sore throat and cough).
Saturday
oh Saturday
yikes
We thought we would have a normal day. started off good, planned, started to study, then we get a message on my phone from presidente
pres: hermana holt
me: yes...
Pres: do you have lunch
me: .........
me: a take out lunch, why
pres: I’m going to call you rn
WHAT
So he calls and we are already stressin
Turns out that there are some emergency transfers and people going home , and one hermana that was in the North arrived to Comodoro that morning for emergency interviews and had to stay with us. We had to watch her, she can’t use the phone, no one could know why she was there, we had to bring and take her fom interviews and meetings all weekend....we knew why she was there and I don’t dare say why. It’s horrible. And she’s a sweet little new missionary with only 7 months that I know well. So we passed Saturday with her and interviews, Sunday we had to take her to another ward so that she would see the other missionary that had arrived that was involved and going home, Sunday picked her up and helped her pack, then interviews from 8pm to 12 30am at night with all the leaders of the mission. With us there waiting and organizing.
Monday another interview and this morning at 730am she had her flight home.
It was insane and hard. We had to help out with all of this because we are the hermanas capacitadoras de Comodoro. I’ve never had to deal with something like this before, and hope to not have to do it again, but its possible this week that more will go.... we haven’t taught an investigator since Friday. It’s been rough, but I’m surprisingly calm and not stressed.
When you are in the pension a lot, it’s hard to keep focused in the mission and not on home...but my mind kept wandering back to the fact that i have like 13 days more as a missionary here... I can’t believe it. at all.
Other than that and still being a little sick,. I’m good. Yesterday was a mini pday and today too for us, because we have been up so late and up so early dealing with all this, we get 2 mini pdays yeay!!!!!
haha but yeah. All is well. this week we should be able to work a bit i hope.
We have a cita with Manuel tomorrow. its been 2 weeks since we stopped teaching him, and he still comes to church, so we want to see where he’s at spiritually and with baptism.
Sunday oh yeah.. we went to Belen’s house to walk with the family to church like we had arranged all week long. We get there all the way up the hill, pass the dog that almost killed me, and get in front of the door and can hear their voices. I yell BUEN DIA and clap, and they all shush each other and no one moves.... what the heck... so we knocked louder and everything and...nothing. We can literally hear them inside and we call and hear their phone, but they don’t come out. we waited, and nothing. Super horrible. So we left, with metal poles in hand to get the dog off, and walk the 30 minutes to church. Super sad. i think they are done. sooo nowww... we’ve got no one.
But that was my week...
Thank you for all your sweet emails, i read them all. I’m glad you are all safe and sound and happy and everything. You are my light and i love and miss each one of you so very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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