ELDER TEIXEIRA - BYE BYE SPIDERS Closed the sector December 14, 2015

everyone ready for christmas?? 

ohhh how sad is the day today. This whole week i have had the impressions to 1 go through my luggage and organize it and get rid of things i dont want or will not be using and give them to my comp or members who need it 2 clean the house but deep clean it because its a desastor thanks to the missionaries in the past 3 get our area book all up to date every little thing and have everything in alphabetic order and in order with dates and numbers. I had no idea why i was doing what i was doing because my companion was the one that was leaving and preparing to go back home because she has completed her year and a half and i knew i would be staying here. well yesterday in the night i got really anxious that i need to have the house clean but clean and i knew it was not my OCD to clean ( like my mother and my second mother angela richins (; ) We have transfers wednesday and they called today! my companion goes home, they close my sector and give it to the elders that are in the other half of Rio Bueno and i leave for Valdivia that is 2 hours more north close to Concepcion. I could hardly believe it. We have only told our Mamita and she is really sad we have yet to tell the other members but i know they will have a cow.

This week we had A TON of success finding new investigators and we have a lot of them with dates for baptism or praying to know if baptism is important for them. it will be really hard to leave them because they have gotten really close to us and really want to learn more but i have a lot of faith and confidence in the elders here and know they will be baptised and i cant wait to hear about it. 

BUT the big news of the week was we had the oportunity to have a big conference with Elder Teixeira of the 70 who is in the Presidency of the area south america south. He is so wonderful and it was something else to be so close to a 70. His spirit was so strong and you could see the love he had for us and the way the light of our savior shone through him. He talked with us alot of focusing now in our missions and leaving everything else behind. That the savior wants us right now to be uttlerly focused in the work. He showed the Video ¨the will of god¨ and how heavenly father will cut us down over and over agian until we grow into what he needs. I really loved this video and really started to cry because it finally hit me that heavenly father wanted me to learn that he is the ¨garderner¨and i am the plant that he knows what he wants me to be and that i need to focus in the work here and i will learn ang grow. So this week i have put everything i have had in the sector and we now have 6 families we are teaching that will now be the elders. i have loved my time here in Rio Bueno and do not want to leave them. I have learned so much in this sector. I have learned to really count on my savior and come unto him. 

With that being said i have focused alot this week in Helaman chapter 12. the first and second verse really hit me right in the face and touched my heart. 

1 And thus we can behold how false, and also the unsteadiness of the hearts of the children of men; yea, we can see that the Lord in his great infinite goodness doth bless and prosper those who put their trust in him.

 2 Yea, and we may see at the very time when he dothprosper his people, yea, in the increase of their fields, their flocks and their herds, and in gold, and in silver, and in all manner of precious things of every kind and art; sparing their lives, and delivering them out of the hands of their enemies; softening the hearts of their enemies that they should not declare wars against them; yea, and in fine, doing all things for the welfare and happiness of his people; yea, then is the time that they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their God, and do trampleunder their feet the Holy One—yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity

I realized that i was not having much success in my sector because i was not putting my trust in my father in heaven. i wanted to find people in my own way and do everything in my way and not really his. i was not listening to what the spirit was trying to tell me i was more frustrated with WHY DO I NOT HAVE INVESTIGADORS? WHY THIS AND WHY THAT. i was failing to realize that he wanted me to come unto him first and focus on him and the way he can change my heart that can change my investigators. i want you all to read this chapter and marvel at the world our savior and father in heaven has given us and let us remember that when things dont seem to be working the way we want or just seem dumb its because 1 we are not doing the will of our father or 2 its because he wnats us to have faith in him and come unto him knowing he has an end more glorious then our own mind can imagine.

i bought a hat for a baby of a inv and bought a cake for our mission leader for his birthday

I FOUND HERMANA BRAITHWAITE MY COMPY FROM THE CCM

My Beautiful Voice

I tried something a little different this week so you can all hear my voice (: let me know how you like it and listen to them in order so it all makes sense you can also get to know my companion a little more because she talked to you! i gave my testimony in espanol i love you all so much and want you to know how much this work means to me. i really do not want to leave the work its so amazing here. We have had a lot of problems with the ward but i think they will now help us alot more with the work and our new investigators we didnt find a lot of new people this week and might actually will have to drop the family oporto yarzo because when we went to visit them last i had a really bad feeling and the spirit told me to leave and we left. i am really praying right now for them and the guidance on what to do but we will see alot more miracles this week (: i love you and all hope you have a great thanksgiving and eat extra food for me because they do not celebrate thanksgiving here it doesnt exist (: 

 

A loud voice and house of spiders strikes again

WOW what an amazing week it has been i love my mission so very much you guys and it actually makes me sad when i think i would have to go home at the end... 

hmm i will start off first with the fact that the elders are now begging us to take some of there investigators that they stole from us the transfer before ha ha ha. it turns out that they now have too  many investigators and they are all woman which means they need a member that is a man to come to the visits with them and there is not enough that are willing to go with them so needless to say i gladly with a huge smile accepted to teach Anna Castro and her daughter Daniela. We had a rocky lesson with them because the elders let alot of time go between visiting with them so they dont really remember a lot or understand the reason to be baptised and when we asked them to be baptised they said we have been baptised in the catholic church and cant do it agian. i began to explain that baptism need a certain power of god and before i could finish my very shy compy comes out with a scripture in acts that says that baptism is for immersion and anyother baptism is not vaild and then told her that her baptism was not vaild and anna didnt say anything and daniela almost smiled i just sat there with my mouth open because i couldnt believe she did that she has NEVER done that its usually me i was in heaven after the lesson but my comp felt bad but i know it was what they needed and i can feel that they will be baptised.

We also made a contact this week with a man that is catholic that yelled at us saying  COCAINE, MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL IS GOOD FOR YOU! YOU MORMONS HAVE IT ALL WRONG. I can truly say he was not all right in the head because he then said i hate members of my church that is better then you church and then told us some sad sob story then walked off into his house saing BYE BYE. i just walked off laughing.

The next day i found anothe old catholic man that i bible bashed with for a minute then just walked off all irritated because i proved his point wrong but he didnt want to listen but one day (:

A less active member here Hermana Nelly told me that if she dies while i am here she wants me to dress here for her cascet in her temple clothes. i almost started to cry because she is really close to my comp and i, a grandma to us and she has surgery tomorrow and is talking about dying. she does have a lot of health issues and her daughter married and ex misisonary of this mission and moved to utah some odd years ago. so we will see what happens tomorrow.

Sunday was an eventful day for me because i got in an arugment with our mission leader. he was teaching the gospel princples class about the resurrection and the millenium. he was saying that when we are resurrected we will have the body of a 33 year old like chirst and all the children or anyone younger will too have the same body of 33 year old like chirst i immediatly said no we will have the body as when we were most perfect here in the earth and the parents of babies or children lost before they could raise them have the promise to raise them. he got all mad and changed the lesson and during sarament tried to prove me wrong and when he re read the book realized he was wrong but just said AY and nothing else so i just went back to listening to the speakers.

This week was a quite a challenging week for me spiritually because a lot of members including our mamita and papita that feed us everyday got mad at me and argued with me this week about them helping us as missionaries i told them i was grateful for all they did for us washing our clothes and feeding us but that i only wanted them to come out with us for 30 min to a lesson they began to tell me i was not humble and not a good missionary and other awful things i tried to stand up for myself but they cut me off so i raised my voice and felt so bad after. things have since gotten a little better. alot of other members are still not happy with me but a lot are because we had the change of 2 coming out with us and they saw that in rain and with people horrible to us we still knock doors and try to contact people they were really humbiled by the experience and have been sharing that with other members (:

Spirutally part of this week has been my scripture study. i read in Alma 44:4. This chapter really does have a lot of spiritually things mixed in with the wars and blood shed. When i read verse 4 i really used it to our time when people try to start a ¨war¨ with us about our religion and values. Its not just non members but members as well as missionaries. I used it that if we truly have faith in christ and follow his commandments we have the promise that he will help us and perserve us and keep us protected from all the bad in this world. Because i am a straight forward person and have such high values for the members, inv, and less actives here i recieve a lot of critism. they make fun of my spanish, make fun of the fact i am from utah the factory of the righteous un humble missionaries and that i am a youngin that doesnt know here bible stories or know what live is. i hav realized that with religion age does not matter. we all ahve things that are difficult for us we all have our personal challenges and spiritually experiences that possiblly a person with 80 years has not gone through but we are here to testify of chirst and move along with faith in him. i for the first time in my mission this week fell to my knees after a lunch of listening to such awful things from members that i loved. i fell down to my knees in my bedroom and prayed. i cried and cired sobbed and sobbed i wanted to go home. i want to be done. i promised myself before my mission i would never feel that way and here it was the breaking point. i didnt want to continue with this mission but as i prayed i can truly testify that i felt the saviors love for me. i remembered the talk from elder holland when he said that we are to taste not even a token of what the savior drank but that it was necessary to ahve a little to testify of him. i felt my heart being healed. i felt that i was truly loved and that he was there with me after i read my p blessing and things that didnt really get my attention did and i then wnated nothing more than to stay hre for ever to testiy of my savior and help those around me. i love this quote and see it everday 

¨Just think of it: You´re known and remembered by the most majestic, powerful and glorious being in the universe!! You are LOVED by the king of INFINITE SPACE AND EVER LASTING TIME!!¨ pres. dieter f uchtdorf

we are loved by the most perfect being and he is here for us i can truly testify. my dear loved ones in missions or at home dont give up  and dont allow satan to make you feel like you need ot go home or give up on standing up for whats right. the world is changing we cant have one foot in the world an one foot in the gospel we need to choose what side we want and i can say after this week i want the winning side that has the blessings more glorious then i can imagine because my savior is shaping me to more glorious ends then i can imagine in the name of jesus christ amen

my favorite member family here has a pet bird that loves me he climbs my skirt then my shirt to sit on my shoulder and he talks and then when i knod my head he knods his

this is pichangas!! for thanksgiving!!



the sign says we have food colder then the heart of your ex!

 

 

Madisyn's 1st Birthday away from home

November 16, 2015

Well i dont know where to even start with this last week.. the most ridiculous things happened and i am still amazed that i didnt lose my temper.

I guess i will start it all off witht he big BANG of the week yall ready? 

 

So once upon a time a man contacted us in the street. His name was Juan. Juan was really interested in the church and said he has assisted the church one time and really liked it and even asked us if we still had a bautsimal font. so we wrote down his name and his number and planned to visit him. Tuesday night at 8 we were supposed to visit him but we couldnt make it because we had exchanges this day and it put us behind schedule and the appointment with a less active was going longer than expected so i called him and asked if we could move the visit to the next day at the same time and he said yes of course because i just recently got home from my farm and it works out better or me. Well after a long day of contacting we got back to the house an i planned as my hermana leader was going through our area book reviewing everything. I finsihed planning and wanted to go straight to bed... well as we were going sawing logs the phone rang at 1 IN THE MORNING and as all of you know i could sleep through anything so naturally i thought it was a dream but the hermana leader wakes up to everything so she answered the phone and later told me the next morning that a crazy lady called cussing us out saying we were making moves on her husband but that he is angelic well the hermana leader tried to calm this lady down and tell her not to worry that we would call later that day click.. well she called back again 2 times so we had to turn the phone off well the next morning during our district meeting this same lady called 3 times and each time it was a diferent number and each time she cussed us out sayig wierd things but finally the district leader took the phone and said to stop calling and not worry we couldnt do anything to them or visit there house welll after that she called again but we didnt answer.

I honestly could not believe it along with the fact on friday we had a really awesome lesson with the family oparto yarzo (victor javier, renata, carla, and victoria) we talked about the restoration and they loved it asked questions and were really receptive but then all went to the toilet because they had a question so i said yeah what? are you a virgen? umm what? we want to know if you have to be virgens to go on missions. my comp was dying because she doenst talk about anything like that ever she doesnt like saying she needs to use the bathroom. so i just laughed and basically taught the law of chastiy. they were really happy and said its always good to have gringa missionaries because they are open about everything and will teach all the stuff. i was laughing so hard after because to this day my comp is freaked out.

So a thing to share with my friends and my littke brother because im sure you guys will find it funny my comp is learning english and asked for my help so when we were out contacting a lot of people rejected us so i asked my comp so say something in english so we could practice and she could cheer up. and she says YA´LL NEED JESUS! i busted out laughing because she has the best accent. she also has determined that i need to marry into her family because she has a brother that is 21 and she cant live without me she says.

Okay enough with that on to the spirit experiences this week

Miguel Angel had a rough experence with church yesterday and was bulled a little by the other kids in the primary so him and his mom left church early but everything is okay right now and i think he is still okay for baptism. during our lesson before he stopped and said i need to pray then knelt down and began to pray it was such an amazing experience.

This week i have spent a lot of time studying the examples of Ammon, Alma and Amulek in the mission. they were such powerful missionaries and full of the spirit. They always wanted to follow the lord even when others were suffering. in Chapter 14 they are watching the wrath of god upon the people by fire. The fire is comsuming all and amulek turns to alma when he sees the innocent woman and chilren crying and perishing. ¨how can we witness this? cant we reach out our hand to them and rescue them? and Alma says no this needs to happen but those that are innocent are in the pressence of our god and they are happy. I was so amazed at this because many times in the mission we have to leave non profressing inv or less actives and my heart mourns for them but in the end i know we can stil give them littel notes at there door and pray for them. 

The lords work. This week was a week full of trials and yesterday i recieved another answer i have been searching for. our brake president of the ward had lunch with us and shared a story that President Gordan B Hinckley was feeling sad and down that a lot of things were working the way he had wanted that he felt unworthy and inadequate for this work and that in that moment he heard very clearly the voice of our loving father in heaven saying Gordan Gordan this is my work not your work. This literally pierced my soul. When we as missionaries or members or leaders in the chruch take pity on ourselfs or feel down that something didnt turn out the way we wanted or that we are not doing enough we need ot remember its not our work ITS THE LORDS WORK and in his time and way he will have things happen. My compy and I really studied that this morning to foucs on the fact that we cant control the work and we arent ment to we are ment to simply live our lives in harmony with the commandments and teaching of our savior and he does the rest. i love you all remember to always be ready to share the gospel an when things dont go as you wish remember its not our work but the lords (: