Hey family!!!
Wow this week was crazy! Lots to share. I feel bad but I
have to read your letter later again. This week my letter to the president I
wrote it all out and just when I was about to send it the computer shutdown....I
hate computers ha. So I had to write him all over again and that took up a lot
of my time I am sorry.
But so yeah, I got a new comp this week her name is
Hermana Sanchez, she is amazing!! I absolutely love her. I have to say, my
brain hurts many times throughout the day because she speaks very little English
but we talk in Spanish all the time so my Spanish is getting so much better!!
Sometimes there is a time that I can speak English and I try and my mind is
still in Spanish mode and its hard to go back to English. I am realizing how
hard it will be after a year and half to go back to English. Ha I am excited
for that and you all will make fun of me and everything.
But I learned my comps name once and I can’t remember it
so I’ll get back to you on that. But what I can tell you is that I am going to
work and work hard and I am so excited!! With Hermana Baird we worked but
not as hard as I wanted to and being new I didn’t know how to work hard or what
we could do but Hermana Sanchez wow is great! We walk everywhere and every minute
of everyday is planned and we are doing something and its nonstop. I love it because
at night you get home are so so tired but so happy you heart is so light and
you find yourself smiling without a reason. It’s the greatest feeling.
We are working really hard with Magdalena right now thank
you mom for putting her name in the temple. I have seen miracles because of it.
We taught her last about the gospel of Christ. We talked about answers and she
said that she thinks she got an answer from God and that this is what he wants
for her!!!! We are so exited! She came to church yesterday and she walked the
whole way!!! She just got her cast off her foot last week and she walked all
the way to church. She said they left really early to get there in time. She
was there 10-minutes early and my heart lit up when I saw her there.
Carlos, the man we have been teaching who can’t walk very
well said he was going to come to church with us this week so we went to pick
him up and he said that he couldn’t because his sister got in a car accident and
was in the hospital and he was going to see her. Family, I have to testify real
fast that I have seen Satan working against us while being here. Every
time that we are sharing the first vision something happens, the phone rings or
dogs or kids run in something always distracts the spirit and now when an
investigator has decided to come to church something happened to make it so he
can’t. It makes me realize how much harder we have to work to overcome these obstacles.
Pray for him.
Oh I am sorry, I didn’t tell you where Hermana Sanchez is
from, she is from Mexico. She is amazing! We have been talking lots last night
we were talking until 12. I know I know, bad but we were following the rules we
were in bed talking we just couldn’t fall asleep until 12 hah. Any who she
comes from a family of 5 she had 2 other sisters and one of them served a
mission too. She is amazing because growing up her family was inactive and she
came back to church and decided to go on a mission. Her parents are inactive
still but she has such faith that I am striving to be like her, to have her
faith.
I have to tell you, the man that I wrote to you last week,
about watching the John Tanner movie, he came up to me again in church this Sunday
and he said the last time we talked he went home and wrote in his journal that
he had met a descendant of John Tanner and he told me he wrote his side of the story but
he wanted to hear how I felt about being a descendant from John Tanner. It
was kind of on the spot and I tried my best in Spanish to express my feelings. I
hope my answer was something of what he expected. He admires John Tanner so
much and I wanted to give him a strong testimony of faith to strengthen his but
I don’t know, my weaknesses in Spanish and in general expressing my feelings. I
felt I came up short of what I was trying to express to him but I have learned it’s
not what you say or how you say it, if you have the spirit it doesn’t matter
because he is the one that will talk to the persons heat so I just hope that
the spirit took up where I fell short.
Family, I want you to know how extremely blessed we are. I
can’t express my feelings of how many people hear do beg for food, it’s a way
of life and to have the blessing from a prophet of the lord that we will never
have to do that .......to these people down here that is an amazing blessing.
Jacob, be prepared to answer such questions on your mission about how you feel
about being a descendant of such a faith filled man who literally gave his all
to the Lord. Remember he gave his all to the lord and we are asked to do the
same for two years or a year and a half. Literally give your all Jacob, don’t
hold any part back from the Lord ,we need to live like those that went before
and continue what they started and did. I love this gospel it is true there is
no better work than to try and bring this great blessing to others. If you
truly think about what you are giving to people when you offer them the gospel....
wow the worth of it is above price. It is hard work because like Elder Holland
said salvation is not a cheep experience but it is valle el pena... here that
means it is worth it.
Family I love you and am do grateful I have a
family that is so strong in the gospel and that support me in this work and
understand why I am here. The gospel is true.
I am super exited to read your letters. Sara emailed
me, tell her thanks and that I will write her again soon. Thanks
mom for giving me what you learned this summer, I appreciate it.
I hope you all are doing great I haven’t hear from Maren
in a while but it’s probably because she started school and is busy with
homework and boys ha and such, man! that seems like such another world
away. It’s going to be hard to come back.
How is Jake doing at collage? does he like UVU?
I loved how small the classes were. Did he change any of the
classes he is taking? Is he taking the one we talked about?
Nathan how’s life? How’s basketball? I have a feeling I
will come back and watch you play and you will be this superstar basketball
player and you'll have too many girls after you. You won’t know what to do ha
hah.
Caleb how’s school and everything? I hear you are
going to be in a play!! That’s exciting! Which play?
Zac how’s life what’s new?
Simeon, tell me all about how you’re liking
school.
Tania is working tons and doing great at it. I am so
proud of her. Ha I was thinking about it, I remember what her patriarchal
blessing says and it’s so cool to see the promises of the lord being fulfilled.
Thank You Mom and Dad for writing me each week. You
have no idea how much missionaries like to get emails and letters. Thank you
so much for the time you take to write me. I love you all.
I have to go but know that I am doing
great. The bugs love me so much down her pray that they will stop biting
me......I don’t know if I should tell you this hah but guess what? I have lice.
My head itches so bad but no worries, I got medicine and everything, just
pray that they will all die!!! Hah cause I don’t want to cut off all my hair, I
would be so sad......truly so ha pray really hard ha.... I love you all don’t
worry about me; I am the happiest missionary out here and loving
everything.
Until next week love you all!
Hermama Hale
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