Wow I can't believe another week has come and gone! The days
are long here but the weeks fly by its crazy. Some really great things and some
really sad things have happened this week!
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
The Power of Prayer...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Why hello again everybody! This week has been just another
average week in the CCM. Lots of lessons, lots of teaching, lots of learning.
I'm loving my lessons. The spirit in the CCM is so strong and everyone is so
nice and fun it's great!
Unfortunately this last week our President made a new rule:
no contact sports. Which means no more soccer. Its understandable because
people keep getting hurt but still sad! Its alright though because now we all
play a new fun game during physical activity, the Latinos just don't worship
Hna Barnett and me anymore.
My companionship lost our old roommates and got new ones who
don't speak any English and it's crazy! Trying to communicate is such an
adventure. Lots and lots of sign language to say the least. One of them is from
Spain and she is more calm and easier to understand but the other one is from
Colombia and she is crazy!! I absolutely lover her she acts like a 7 year old
its hilarious.
So on Sundays we don't have classes and instead we have
church and watch devotionals and do other things, and every Sunday night we do
something fun together with everyone in the CCM (The CCM is very small so there
is maybe 50 of us max). This Sunday everyone wrote their favorite hymn on a
piece of paper and we drew them out and sang the first verse in Spanish and the
second in English and it was so funny to hear the Latinos try to sing in
English is was a blast! We also had them try to say the Apostles names like we
do in the USA and its was hilarious.
Ok got to go but I hope everything is going great for
everyone I love you all!!
Love Hermana Wittwer
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Ok I have very little time so I'm going to keep this one
brief. Things here are great still! It's super busy and I'm learning a lot and
feeling the spirit every day. We had the opportunity to go to the temple last
week and it was amazing. I seriously received so much comfort and peace, and
because of that experience I know that I can be a tool in Gods hands. I know
that if I keep working I will be able to learn Spanish and everything will work
out!
So while we were playing soccer the other morning (we play
every day I love it) Hna Richards got hit in the face and got a super bad
concussion. She was soooooooo out of it. When the Elders asked for her full
name to give her a blessing she said "do they need my street name
too?" She is so funny and I love her!
My teacher Hno Vera is super sassy. In the beginning of class
he wrote the score of the super bowl game on the board and wouldn't tell us which
team was which. It was torturous and I don't even care that much about either
team... No, but really I love my teachers. They are amazing and I have learned so
much from them. They act as investigators and we teach them every day and our
Trio has definitely improved so much from the first lesson! It makes me super
excited to get out into the field.
It's funny how every day seems to never end, but looking back
at these last two weeks I feel like I must have missed them because they flew
by so fast. No matter how good or bad a day might be I always go to sleep
happy. That's just the mission life I guess. This truly is the Lord's work and I'm so blessed to be out here serving Him. I know that this is the true church
and I have such a firm testimony that every aspect of it can bless us in our
lives!
I love you all and hope things back home are going great.
Until next week!
Santiago, Chile temple
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Well hello from Chile everyboody!!
Chile is beautiful! The MTC is right on temple grounds so
every morning when I walk out the doors or look out the window the temple is
the first thing I see and its amazing. Its summer here so the weather is great
and everything is green which is a nice change from Utah!
My district is composed of two Elders and nine Hermanas.
Those poor Elders! The hermanas in my group are absolutely hilarious. We all
get along well (maybe too well we have to be told to be quiet a lot). We are
the newest group of gringos so none of us know spanish really but we try to
talk to the latino Elders and Hermanas during meals. I embarrass myself a lot
trying to speak spanish but Ive come to terms with it.
I got put into a trio companionship with Hermana Cook and
Hermana Wright. They are both very musically inclined and make me feel bad
about myself daily when they harmonize to every song that has ever existed.
They are both absolutely crazy we have a lot of fun together. Trios are harder
to work in to teach lessons because we all teach differently and we all have
different ideas but its ok because I know that because its harder I am learning
more than I might otherwise and its teaching me humility!
Classes are difficult but I enjoy them. Spanish is coming
along slowly but surely. They had us teaching lessons in Spanish by the second
day here which was crazy! It wasn't a great lesson because our Spanish is so
limited but it was a lesson all the same. We teach two or three lessons a day
and we are definitely improving with every lesson!
The food here is a lot of rice and potatoes and interesting
meat but I haven't had any meals that i haven't liked yet. The bread and ice cream
here are AMAZING so Im doing my best not to eat my weight in ice cream every
day. I've given up resisting the bread though...
So funny story: on Sunday the mission presidents wife gave
us this super long lecture about not flirting with the Elders and said about
1000 times DO NOT TOUCH THE ELDERS. Not a big problem in our district of
basically all girls. But a few hours later at lunch my good friend from
Colombia, Elder Martinez, came in to visit (he is serving his mission in the
Santiago mission) and I ran over and almost hugged him but i caught myself and
shook his hand. We are only supposed to take pictures on p day but we snuck
into the stairwell to take one really quick (our companions came with us of
course) and so as we were standing together and his companion took the picture
Hna Brady (the mission presidents wife) walked around the corner. Of course.
Elder Martinez basically ran away and Hna Brady lectured me (and my
companions) about how taking pictures with elders looks bad and sends wrong
impressions and stuff. I thought it was kind of hilarious but I don't know if
Hna brady really likes me anymore...
Love Hermana Wittwer
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