July 28, 2012

Hey Family!!!!

So there is lots to write and not very much time sohere it goes.

Jake thanks for writing me !! Yours was the only letter I got this week so thanks.

Okay so funny story this last Sunday I got called up to give a talk in sacrament meeting. So every week all the missionaries are suppose to write a talk about a topic and be ready to give it cause they call up like three to five missionaries each week to give talks, my turn was last week and the topic was the apostasy. What do you talk about for the apostasy? Well it went fine, I always cry so atthe end I cried a little. I hate that, I will work on that on the mission... but other than that it was fine and I did it all inSpanish! Wooot!!!

Ok next topic. We went out on the streets preaching on Monday. It was so much fun we talked to so many people about the gospel. We met one man and he invited us into his home/work. He invited us in and he was saying how he was looking around at a lot ofdifferent churches and meeting with a lot of missionaries. We talked with him about the example Christ is to us and took down his info to have the missionaries come talk to him. He asked us to pray with him and we started to pray and the spirit came in to the room so fast and so strong it was so cool!!

After him we came a cross an older woman with a two year old. She was buying food and we stopped and talked to her for a minute her grandson was so cute he had the biggest head of hair and all of it was curly. He was so cute! She told us very strongly that she was catholic but that her God and our God were the same and that she was so amazed that we would come all the way to do the Lords work. She said God bless and she gave us a hug and she told her grandson to give us a kiss. We all kneeled down and he gave each of us a kiss. It was the cutest thing and it made my day. It was awesome!!!

Well the cool story is we got 12 referrals and that is pretty good for a day so that made us happy. So every day this week we have been practicing with Mateo, another district, to sing for our last Sunday here. We are going to sing the EFY medley in Spanish. It reminds me of the times we sang it all the time at home and I got just a little home sick. I think of Maren on the piano and everyone just coming in on the parts wherever they are in the house, its great, I miss that.

Anyway here the Latinos... well they cant sing very well, or like at all, so its wierd to go from an okay voice in the U.S. to a ‘you sound like and angel’ down here. Haha, its really weird. There are only 4 Hermanas that are singing the girls part, Kinda scary so keep me in your prayers...

Okay so last funny story. Yesterday in field orientation we had a lot of workshops and talks it was really good. We had them all day and the very last hour of the day we had a little free time me and my district when to our room and we help our own district Olympics. It was awesome! We played Bachy ball and left handed
target practice and basketball with the garbage can with paper balls, it
was so fun. Elder Neson (reminds me of Nathan so much, a big goof ha love
ya Nate) and Elder Gates and Elder Rowch all won. We had a closing
ceremony and presented them with their metals (ties). It was awesome!!!
So much fun....... don’t you worry, we are working hard here too.

I can’t believe I am leaving for the field on Monday!! They changed the time, we leave at 7:00 in the morning our mission president called and they want us there earlier. So please be praying for me, I will be needing it, especially these next few weeks where everything will change. I have to say that I am scared but not as much as I thought I would be. I am also really excited. Knock on wood. I want it to stay that way. But I am realizing more and more how much our message can change a person’s life. It is so powerful and I love teaching about it. It brings so much hope to people. I am so exited to start teaching and meeting real people and helping them start to come to Christ. Jake wrote me a letter and said that I am fulfilling prophecy. The cool part of it is I get to tell people the Book of Mormon is a story of your people and it tells of all the blessing your people can and do have. It’s so powerful! It shows that God has not forgotten them.

Family I know that Christ lives, that he suffered for us and that it is through him we find all joy and all peace and I have come to know that a mission is not easy, it is as the rode of a disciple is, hard because we have to walk where Christ walked
and its not always an easy road but there is so much love and joy that comes from walking that road so never give up. Nothing will bring you more happiness. I love you all please keep me in your prayers. I love you!!! Miss you tons love you more....

Your Missionary Hermana Hale